I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, So I’ll Max Out My Defense - Chapter 363

Chapter 363: Chapter 364 This Flame is Quite Safe

Ling Feng’s eyes shone sharply, “I’ll go and chop them down!”

“Senior brother, there’s no need for such measures, just remember what your junior brother said earlier.”

Li Xiaobai held back the two, both his senior brothers were hotheads, and quite arrogant at that. If they really started fighting, his own plans would be ruined.

“Junior brother, are you truly confident about this? This flame is not something to be trifled with; even your senior brothers wouldn’t dare to touch it.” Yang Chen asked.

“No worries.”

Li Xiaobai shook his head and stepped forward slowly.

Cai Kunxu’s eyes brightened, these youngsters under his command knew what he wanted—to kill Li Xiaobai.

This assist was very powerful.

“Young Master Li, would you be willing to enter the flames to search for its weakness? Rest assured, if there are any problems or danger, Xiong Da and I will assist you at the first moment!” Cai Kunxu asked with a pleasing tone.

“Such a trivial matter is not worth mentioning. These incompetents are indeed incapable of achieving anything significant. At critical moments, they fail, so it’s up to me.”

“Lord Cai, rest assured, I will definitely find the weakness within this flame!”

Li Xiaobai stood with his hands behind his back, his expression indifferent.

“Giggle, a bunch of useless fools, just watch how I operate!” Ji Wuqing shouted excitedly.

“Heh, of course. We can’t compare to Young Master Li’s means. Delving deep into the battlefield’s heart, an entire guard squadron lost their lives, yet Young Master Li managed to escape safely. Just for that alone, we are no match!”

The young man spoke again, his words still dripping with sarcasm.

Li Xiaobai had already memorized this person. Today, this person must die.

“Cease your nonsensical chatter, it was their mission to protect Young Master Li and ensure his safe return. Now that Young Master Li is willing to scout ahead, it proves that he is not one who fears death and craves life. My personal guard did not die in vain!” Cai Kunxu said gravely, but in his heart, he was overjoyed.

He and Xiong Da had long understood the properties of the flame—it had only one purpose: devour.

The flame could devour spiritual power, and if it devoured beyond its limit, it would extinguish. However, before, they had only experimented with a small piece of flame. Now, with the flames covering the entire mountain, it was undoubtedly more difficult than ascension to exceed this limit.

Therefore, he wanted to know the speed at which the flame devoured spiritual power, how long a cultivator could last inside it, and from this, assess whether it was safe for him to enter.

It was just very unfortunate that he had picked the wrong person.

“Heh, just watch how I do it!”

Li Xiaobai, fearless of the flames, swaggered to the edge of the black flames, and with one step, he stepped directly into them.

In an instant, the flames surged, engulfing him, disappearing from sight.

Yang Chen and Ling Feng exchanged glances behind him, nodded, and pulled Yang Huan aside to use a secret technique, turning into a wisp of blue smoke that vanished without a trace. When they reappeared, they were still high in the sky, hundreds of yards away.

“These flames are very strange; there won’t be any problems, right?” Ling Feng asked, somewhat worried. Even he didn’t dare touch the flames much, but Li Xiaobai had walked right into them.

“Don’t worry, junior brother is very cunning; he won’t run into trouble,” Yang Chen said calmly, leading Ling Feng and Yang Huan away to a distant escape.

Inside the flames, Li Xiaobai took Ji Wuqing, who had tumbled to the ground, into his arms. This damned chicken never learns its lesson and had actually followed him inside.

Now, it had turned into a charcoal-roasted Ji Wuqing.

Meanwhile, values fluctuated on the System panel.

[Pet: Pudong Rooster (Current Death Count: 10 times)]

[Phoenix Bloodline Activation (0.01/100)]

This damned chicken died ten times, activated the Phoenix Bloodline, and died ten times just to activate a measly 0.01%. Does it mean it has to die a thousand times to activate a mere one percent?

What a long and arduous journey ahead!

However, if one truly has the heart to do it, repeatedly roasting it in the Hellfire might not be a bad way to let it die over and over again, leveling up on the spot.

That’s all for later. For now, if this damned chicken can play the role of a lucky charm, it might just, like Ergouzi, encounter some fortune that strengthens its Bloodline Power!

[Hellfire (Divine Level Skill): Current coverage range 130 meters…]

[Current coverage range 140 meters…]

[Current coverage range 150 meters…]

[…]

[Current coverage range 200 meters…]

After reconnecting with the Hellfire and getting a return wave of experience points from the fire leveling up on standby, the initial coverage range has jumped up to 200 meters.

This is definitely a huge fortune. It must be known that previously, it cost tens of millions of top-grade Spirit Stones to increase the flame from one meter to a hundred meters, but now Hellfire has reached this stage after just a few days on standby.

Truly terrifying indeed. As expected, training on standby is the most suitable method for Hellfire.

Outside the flames, the cultivators watched intently, waiting for any sign of activity inside. The anticipated screams had yet to occur, which left them uncertain about what to do next.

Had the person inside been instantly killed or was he still persevering within the flames?

The young cultivators were brimming with pride, thinking that this arrogant fellow had finally paid the price.

“Heh, if you ask me, that guy was probably burnt to ash.”

“Right, just a flower from a greenhouse, really thought he was something. Serves him right if he’s dead!”

“But if Li Xiaobai is dead, doesn’t that mean it’s our turn to scout ahead next?”

The cultivators fell silent. They understood the sentiment of ‘one man’s misfortune is another’s warning’. Although Li Xiaobai was quite arrogant, his cultivation level should be at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage. To enter the flames and disappear without a peep meant that if they went in, the odds would be much against them.

“Cough, Young Master Li, how are things inside?”

Seeing no response from the flames, Cai Kunxu grew a bit impatient and asked tentatively.

But in the next moment, he was dumbfounded.

A head suddenly popped out from the pitch-black flames, grinning and saying, “No problem, the fire is warm and quite comfortable!”

The whole place went dead silent, with all the cultivators staring dumbly at the grinning head in front of them.

It seemed as though he wasn’t even affected by the flames at all.

what the .... are you, human or ghost? How did you manage to do that?

The young man from before was also stunned, tongue-tied and at a loss for words.

Perhaps the most shocked of them all was Cai Kunxu himself. He was well aware of the fire’s traits. To be able to remain so at ease inside the flames, one must possess a vast amount of Spiritual Power. How could someone like Li Xiaobai possibly achieve that?

Maybe whatever treasures were in the fire had taken the form of a cultivator, and actually, Li Xiaobai had died long ago?

“Why are you all silent, just staring at me? Could it be you think I’m lying?”

Li Xiaobai, feeling somewhat puzzled, looked at everyone and slowly walked out of the flames.

“Look, I came out, and nothing happened.”

Seeing the crowd still wearing stunned expressions, he jumped back into the flames again.

“Look, I went back in, and really, nothing’s wrong.”

“This fire is quite safe!”