Chapter 354: The Incredibly Lucky Chick

With the blood feud avenged and being accepted as a disciple by the great man before her, You Jiuling revealed a genuine smile, her lively eyes curving into crescent moons.

"Boss, where should we go now?" Sha Dulong asked, feeling extremely envious of the little girl. How easily she had become the boss's disciple—if only they could be so lucky.

But they had already come to understand that it was absolutely impossible for them. Although the boss hadn't stated his requirements for taking disciples, they had figured out one thing.

She had to be a loli, and also pretty and cute.

Beastly...

Lin Fan fell silent for a moment. Within three years, the Beast Spirit Realm would invade this place. He had to improve his strength as quickly as possible. It was time to seek out the Seven Saint Treasure Map he had set aside and confiscate everything belonging to those seven old dogs.

Moreover, he now had four fragments of the Supreme Token. He had no idea where the remaining two were. Instead of searching aimlessly, it was better to go after what he already knew.

"Take her back to the Mystic Sword Pavilion first. I'll return to find you in a few days," Lin Fan said. He didn't want to bring them along, as their cultivation wasn't very high. If they ran into big trouble, he feared he wouldn't be able to protect them all.

Sha Dulong and the others exchanged glances and finally nodded.

After Sha Dulong and the others left with You Jiuling, Lin Fan continued on his way.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..."

At that moment, the chick on Lin Fan's shoulder suddenly stood up, crowing loudly and flapping its wings.

"What's wrong, Chick?" Lin Fan asked curiously, noticing the chick's strange behavior.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..."

The chick waved its wings, pointing toward the mountains ahead, as if something there had caught its attention.

Lin Fan frowned slightly. "You're saying there's something over there?"

"Cock-a-doodle..." The chick nodded, looking very excited.

"Alright, let's go take a look." Lin Fan flew toward the mountains.

But when he landed among the peaks, the surroundings were very different from before.

Blazing heat filled the air; the temperature was extremely high. The mountains were covered in bones, mostly the remains of fierce beasts.

"Huh, what is this place?" Lin Fan was puzzled. There was no record of such a place in the sect's archives.

Moreover, if the chick hadn't alerted him, Lin Fan would never have been drawn to these mountains.

Now the chick hopped off Lin Fan's shoulder, spread its wings, lowered its silly little head, sniffed the ground, then chirped as if it had found something good and ran deeper inside.

Seeing this, Lin Fan followed closely, telling the chick to slow down.

He still didn't know what this place was or if there was any danger. The dumb chick wasn't worried at all about potential threats, which left Lin Fan speechless.

On these mountains, everything was withered, with only bare rocks. But the rocks were dotted with sparks of fire, as if flames were flowing within them.

Following behind the chick, he passed through an inconspicuous crevice and kept going downward.

Lin Fan was a bit puzzled; it seemed the chick was very familiar with this place. But he didn't dwell on it and just kept following.

The crevice seemed to extend downward continuously.

The surrounding temperature was getting higher and higher.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..."

From the dark depths came the chick's voice.

Lin Fan sped up.

When he saw the chick stopping in front of a pool of blazing fire, Lin Fan was stunned.

"What the hell is this place?"

The cave was not large, with bare walls and nothing noteworthy, but in the middle of the cave was a fiery pool.

The fiery pool was circular, with a radius of about two or three zhang.

The liquid in the pool looked like flames and also like blood, with waves of heat rising continuously.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..." The chick seemed very happy, spinning around on the spot, its cute eyes shining with divine light, as if it had discovered a treasure.

"Chick, take it easy. We don't know what this stuff is yet..." Before Lin Fan could finish, the chick jumped straight into the fiery pool.

"Geez, Chick, if you keep this up, you're going to end up in trouble someday." Lin Fan was utterly speechless seeing the chick jump in without even checking.

"Cock-a-doodle-doo..."

In the fiery pool, the chick was like a fish in water, folding its wings and swimming happily inside.

Lin Fan carefully examined the rocks. They seemed to have been worn down by time, full of a sense of weight and vicissitude.

Looking at the liquid in the pool, Lin Fan extended a finger and touched it.

The moment he touched it, a scorching force suddenly surged toward Lin Fan.

"Ding, congratulations on discovering Earth Core Flame."

"Earth Core Flame: Essence of the earth's core, violent, fierce, scorching; touching it means death."

Lin Fan dispelled the heat. Now he understood why the chick was so excited.

This was simply the most suitable environment for the chick. The Earth Core Flame was a great tonic for it.

At that moment, the chick began to change. The Earth Core Flame slowly merged into its body, and the amount of Earth Core Flame steadily decreased.

Then, a red hard shell enveloped the chick.

"Damn it." Lin Fan rolled his eyes at the chick's current state, feeling speechless. Wasn't this just another evolution?

The phoenix's nirvana and rebirth.

But for the chick, if there was enough power, it could directly advance.

Lin Fan had nothing to say about the chick's luck. An ordinary-looking mountain actually held such a treasure.

"Ding, congratulations on condensing the Water Rule."

At that moment, the completion of the Water Rule reached one hundred percent.

A slight smile appeared on Lin Fan's face. He summoned the Water Rule. He hadn't expected to condense his first rule chain.

Lin Fan could even feel that his combat power had increased a bit.

Lin Fan condensed the Water Rule into his left arm, and the strength of his left arm immediately increased a little.

Lin Fan sat cross-legged. Since the chick was absorbing the Earth Core Flame and he had nothing else to do, he began to condense his second rule chain.

"Condense the Fire Rule."

"Ding, Fire Rule completion: 1%."

The moment Lin Fan began to concentrate, he found that the condensation speed suddenly increased.

This should be because he had absorbed a wisp of will, and also because this place was full of Earth Core Flame.

The Fire Rule floating in the void was much denser than anywhere else.

The wild and scorching fire particles crazily surged into Lin Fan's body.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have been burned into a human torch by the fire particles.

But with the help of the system, as soon as these fire particles entered his body, they were immediately suppressed and then slowly condensed.