Chapter 92: Black Fire Lotus

  Having made sufficient preparations, Hu Gao took out a fine steel sword from the spatial ring. This was something he had snatched from those warriors when he was looting them. Holding the sword's tip, Hu Gao flung the fine steel sword onto the ground and into the pool.

  Accompanied by a roar filled with anger and murderous intent, a slender beast-like figure leapt into the air, bringing with it a wave of molten-like **, as a flying steel sword spun through the empty sky.

  The fine steel sword collided with the fire poison in mid-air, and was inevitably corroded into a pool of black water. After swallowing the fire toad, it immediately locked onto its target and charged towards Hu Gao, who had not hidden his breath.

  "Be careful, old man!" Xiao Wu reminded him in a timely manner. After upgrading to the first stage of the peak, he seemed to have regained some memories about the demonic beasts. "This is a Fire Swallowing Toad!"

  Swallowing Fire Toad, swallowing fire and spitting fire, this is a second-order initial demon beast.

  "Good timing!" Hu Gao's eyes were filled with a fighting spirit, but he turned around and jumped into the passageway behind him. After confirming the identity of this demon beast, his worries decreased somewhat.

  The salamander wriggled its body, stuck close to the ground, and quickly swam near, also quickly chasing into the tunnel.

  Hú Gāo retreated hastily, and the fire toad quickly approached within ten meters of Hú Gāo, its mouth brewing a purple fireball.

  "It's you, after all!" A smile played on the corner of his mouth as flames erupted from Hu Gao's hands, burning with yuan energy and absorbing the scorching heat in the air. In an instant, it transformed into a massive fire dragon, illuminating the entire corridor even brighter.

  A basketball-sized purple fireball flew out of the mouth of the Fire-breathing Toad, smashing towards Hu Gao. Meanwhile, the fire dragon in Hu Gao's hand also roared and crashed into the Fire-breathing Toad at an even faster speed.

  The red and purple flames intertwined to create fireworks, scorching the air and rock walls, performing a dazzling dragon dance, making this originally sweltering environment even more turbulent.

  The fire toad's footsteps didn't stop, it could soak in the scorching hot pool, and wasn't worried about this bit of heat at all. Its eyes were fiercely sinister as it pounced on the enemies eyeing its treasure.

  Hu Gao retreated, the swordless sword condensed its momentum, tempering an increasingly sharp sword intent in the heat, accumulating momentum and waiting for a hidden strike.

  A fire toad leaped through the interwoven flames, a golden light shot down rapidly from the rocky wall behind its head, drawing a dazzling golden line in the air, and it was stabbing straight at the fire toad's eyes.

  The small dragon with a palm-sized body has sharp claws, and it's not difficult to hide on the rock wall for a short time. With Hu Gao's spiritual connection, they can work together seamlessly.

  The only worry was that the mutated fire lizard would unleash its powerful strength, but it didn't happen, and the previous preparations seemed more than sufficient and effective.

  Swallowing Fire Toad couldn't dodge Xiao Wu's attack. After all, the young divine beast said it could deal with a second-tier early-stage demon beast, and that was exactly what happened - an extremely fast sneak attack, perfectly timed and flawless.

  Exploding one eyeball, the pain and blindness caused the firebelly toad's advance to be halted, its head thrown back, selling its neck to its most deadly enemy.

  In the midst of battle, he grasped the intent of his sword, tempered by Qi Hong's body, and with a powerful stroke from Yun Feng, from top to bottom, accurately and without error, sliced into the throat of the giant toad, the sword light bursting forth, almost cutting off the ugly head of the beast.

  "Damn it! This guy's scales are really hard!" Hu Gao cursed, borrowing the momentum to press down the sword body. The clear and shadowless sword rotated and completely ended the life of the demon beast.

  He let out a breath of relief, Hu Gao plopped down on the ground with a thud, pulled back the Shadowless Sword, and wiped off the azure blood on its surface.

  This second-order initial fire toad didn't have the expected strength, making Hu Gao feel like he was using a sledgehammer to crack an egg, exerting all his milk-drinking energy for nothing.

  Sit down and adjust your breath for a moment, Hu Gao looked at the stone head of the demon beast that had been separated, hoping to find something valuable.

  The little fifth wrapped in golden light separated the polluted blood, and skillfully drilled into the brain of the fire-swallowing toad, rummaging through it. However, soon he crawled out empty-handed, cursing: "What a broken demon beast, actually no inner elixir!" After finishing speaking, he vented his anger by smashing the other eye of the dead fire-swallowing toad that refused to close.

  "Alright, just one demon pellet, although it's the first second-tier demon beast we've hunted down, but there's still the Black Fire Lotus waiting for us inside."

  After adjusting his breath, Hu Gao comforted Xiao Wu and once again raised the clean Shadowless Sword. He skinned and dismembered the corpse of the Fire Toad, putting the materials into his spatial ring.

  "Older brother, why did you take down that thing? To keep as a memento?" asked Little Five, who was lying on Hu Gao's head.

  "No, I just suddenly thought of Grandpa Pipe. Hu Gao's tone had a few points of teasing, "I have a premonition that I will meet this old man again in the Fire Beast Forest, and at that time, I will publicly put this thing into his arms like a treasure! By the way, where is the first second-level demon beast? Take something as a souvenir, just pull out a tooth."

  Hú Gāo reached out and touched the discarded head of the fire-breathing toad. "Hmm, this guy's teeth are purple, and they look pretty good."

  This toad has a mouthful of fine teeth, in the dark red light, each purple and translucent, with a hint of blue texture, it's really good-looking, completely different from the ordinary toad's bright red teeth.

  "Could it be a mutation?" Hu Gao recalled that the fireball spat out by this fire toad was also purple, and he had previously speculated that this fire toad might have undergone a mutation. It seemed that his speculation had been confirmed, and it should be an incomplete mutation, so it hadn't shown its powerful strength yet. Otherwise, he might have had to use the Wind and Thunder Beads to deal with it.

  "Whatever, let's just get it down first and study it later. We can ask Old Master Yandou about it, he seems to know a lot of things. If it's useless, we can make some small accessories to coax the girls." Hu Gao carefully probed and tested, making sure it wasn't poisonous, then took down the two rows of teeth from the Fire Toad...

  "Xiao Wu, it's your turn next!"

  Back in the abdominal cave, facing the vast fire poison, Hu Gao used the cut-up Fire Toad as a milestone, and after confirming that there were no more monsters in the pool, he wiped the blood stains on his hands and solemnly said to Xiao Wu.

  The black lotus is right in front of you.

  "No problem! Leave it to me!" Xiao Wu puffed out his chest, and with a flick of his hand, he summoned something. Then, he floated down to the ground, lifted a paw, and took a small step towards the pool.

  As Xiao Wu approached the pool, he transformed into a golden light and rolled down that black fire lotus, safely delivering it to his own hands. Hu Gao's suspended heart finally put down.

  "Sweeping is done, ready to open the meal!" After easily picking a few black fire lotus, Xiao Wu couldn't wait to land on the black fire lotus and lift his paws, but for a moment he didn't know which one to grab first.

  "What's there to hesitate about? It's all yours!" Hu Gao plucked a lotus seed and stuffed it into Xiao Wu's mouth.

  "Alright, I'm starting!"

  Xiao Wu was delighted with this good thing, and he took out all the black fire lotus seeds, swallowed them one by one, and told Hu Gao that he would probably need to cultivate for half an hour before turning into a stream of light and wrapping himself around Hu Gao's wrist to start cultivating.

  Hugao observed for a while and found that there was no change around him. He found a place to sit cross-legged and began to cultivate the dragon energy of Xiao Wu.

  For the next half an hour, Hu Gao used his cultivation resources to enhance his yuan power while absorbing dragon energy to temper his body.

  As Xiao Wu absorbed the energy for a longer period, the dragon aura emitted became even more intense. Hu Gao's cultivation was boosted beyond his expectations, and he actually broke through to the mid-Ninth Order.

  "Wow, boss, the energy of this Black Fire Lotus is indeed extraordinary! One lotus seed is at least three times that of a Black Fire Lotus flower. Boss, we must go to the Fire Beast Forest and get more Black Fire Lotuses! It's best if we can snatch all of them!"

  Xiao Wu finished his cultivation, jumped onto Hu Gao's shoulder, extremely excited. The golden light on his body was even brighter, and his aura was even stronger, with a sign that he could break through at any time.

  "Boss, with my current strength, if I were to launch a surprise attack, I could take down that Fire Toad from earlier with just one strike!"

  "Is it that fierce?"

  Hu Gao took in a deep breath of cold air, his heart shaken.

  If Xiao Wu were to launch a sneak attack, then even a first-stage Body Cultivation Realm martial artist would be unable to withstand it. Even second and third stage Body Cultivation Realm martial artists would be in danger.

  "Wow, so as I said, we must get our hands on all of the Black Fire Lotus in Huoyao Forest."

  Xiao Wu said urgently: "Boss, it's about time now, let's hurry to the Huoshou Forest!"

  "Alright, let's try to get as many Black Fire Lotus as possible later. For now, let's focus on condensing some fire poison pellets first."

  Hú Gāo nodded slightly and said.

  The quality of the black fire lotus in Huo Shou Lin may not be as good as here, but it has an advantage in quantity. If they can get a few more, Xiao Wu's strength will definitely continue to increase significantly.

  "It's still up to you, Xiaowu."

  "It's still wrapped around this body!"

  After finishing speaking, it emitted golden light and began to condense the fire poison in the air with its big mouth.

  Hu Gao pulled out a handful of treasures containing powerful yuan force from the spatial ring, and absorbed them all at once. Although the speed was not as fast as that of the Supplementing Yuan Pill, it was enough for him to condense some fire poison pellets.

  For the next three hours, Hu Gao didn't stop for a single moment and managed to condense nine fire poison pellets. If he hadn't consumed all his cultivation resources and had to save some Replenishment Pills for emergencies, and wasn't worried that other warriors would enter the Fire Beast Forest first and snatch the treasure away, he really wanted to condense more.

  "There are now a total of nine fire poison balls. I believe that with these in the Flame Valley, I can definitely walk sideways..."

  Nine fire poison bombs, which is equivalent to him being able to instantly kill nine ordinary Tongti realm warriors. As for the Tongti realm warriors in Huoyan Valley, I believe there won't be too many of them either.

  And in these three hours, he not only condensed nine fire poison pellets, but also absorbed too many cultivation resources, although condensing the fire poison pellets consumed 90%, the remaining 1% also raised his yuan force cultivation to the peak of the mid-9th stage, just one step away from entering the late 9th stage.

  "Next, we should head directly to Huoshou Forest. Xiao Wu, sense the direction, let's set off."