Chapter 121

Chapter 121 Flame Salamander

Within the darkness of night, that light was a bright lantern . At the beginning Long Chen had thought it was starlight and hadn’t cared too much about it .

It was only at this critical moment that he realized it was light from a fire . Forea blazing fire to appear within the middle of an endless desert was definitely out of the ordinary . But Long Chen’s gut told him that that spot should offer some protection .

If he was facing off against the dozen second rank Huge Desert Scorpions alone, he wouldn’t be that afraid . As long as he used his Pill Flame to protect his body, even if he couldn’t win, he definitely would be able to escape alive .

But that wasn’t the same for Little Snow . Although Little Snow was a Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf, an extremely rare third rank Magical Beast with an innate ability for both wind and fire, he was currently still only a second rank Magical Beast since he hadn’t yet fully matured . Although he had an inherited Battle Skill that was the wind blades, his control over those wind blades was still too rough and so they weren’t powerful enough yet .

Only once a Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf reached the third rank would it be able to explode with its most powerful battle strength . That was when they would awaken their flame strength, and once flame and wind were combined, that would allow a third rank Scarlet Flame Snow Wolf to stand at the peak of all third rank Magical Beasts .

Before Little Snow reached the third rank, he would only be able to barely resist higher temperatures . But he would definitely not be able to resist something like Long Chen’s Pill Flame . And so Little Snow had become Long Chen’s fatal weakness at this moment .

“Little Snow, run towards that light . ” Long Chen turned to look back and saw that the Huge Desert Scorpions were already within three hundred meters of them .

On the soft sand, Little Snow’s speed was much lower, while this was the home territory of the Huge Desert Scorpions . This was simply an unfair playing field .

Long Chen reached out his hand . The Pill Flame in his body circulated and a ball of fire slowly appeared in Long Chen’s hand .

This wasn’t a Battle Skill, but a simple way of using fire . If other Pill Cultivators were to learn he could condense his flame to the point that it was similar to a Battle skill, that would definitely awe them .

Ordinary Pill Cultivators would be asking for death if they tried doing this . Even if they were using their Core Flame, they still wouldn’t use it like this .

Pill Flame was merciless . That was a warning every Pill Cultivator told their disciples .

An ordinary third level Pill Cultivator, in other words a Pill Master, would need to refine some kind of flame into their Life Flame .

That kind of flame was called a Core Flame . The flame would need to be refined into the physical body and even into the soul . Once it was perfectly merged, it would be time to advance into the Pill King realm .

Grandmaster Yun Qi, Wei Cang, and Wang Luyang had all been Pill Masters . But only grandmaster Yun Qi had had a Core Flame .

It wasn’t necessarily because grandmaster Yun Qi’s talent was that much greater than theirs, but because grandmaster Yun Qi had managed accept his future . He knew he wouldn’t be able to encounter any better Pill Flames and just straightforwardly refined his ordinary beast flame which wasn’t that strong into his Core Flame .

As for Wei Cang, Wang Luyang, and many other Pill Masters, they were unwilling to do so . That was because a Core Flame was extremely important to their future . Without finding a suitable Pill Flame, it was something they would never form .

That was because once they refined a Core Flame, it would never be able to change . In other words, their futures would be set .

The majority of Pill Cultivators chose to refine beast flames as their Pill Flames . The stronger a fire attribute Magical Beast was, the stronger their beast flame would be .

Some peak tier beast flames were able to grow stronger along with their master . Such peak grade beast flames formed a list called the beast flame rankings . But whether it was Yun Qi or Wei Cang, any beast flames they could obtain were far from being able to enter the beast flame rankings .

Wei Cang and Wang Luyang had been unwilling to use a beast flame that wasn’t on the rankings to refine into their Core Flame . If they did find such a powerful beast flame, their futures would be unlimited .

Unfortunately their grand dreams had been extinguished by grandmaster Yun Qi . Perhaps when the two had died they had been extremely sullen . If they had also refined a Core Flame, the one who would have died should have been Yun Qi .

But even grandmaster Yun Qi who had refined a Core Flame would definitely not dare compress his PIll Flame to such a level without the usage of a Battle Skill . That required the utmost peak control of the Pill Flame .

Flames were naturally berserk . Such a compression was no different than compressing explosives . The slightest error would cause it to explode you into nothingness .

But Long Chen had his Pill God memories and his Spiritual Strength was beyond others . Adding on the fact that the Spirit World expert had expanded his meridians, this extremely dangerous action that was like dancing on the tip of a blade for others was simple and nothing to him .

Long Chen flung out a fist-sized ball of flames back in the midst of the Huge Desert Scorpions . With a huge explosion like a firework, the flames swallowed the Huge Desert Scorpions .

Grotesque cries rang out from the Huge Desert Scorpions as they were burnt and fled from the flames’ range .

“This Pill Flame’s strength is really too weak . ” Long Chen sighed . The beast flame he possessed was still acceptable for refining pills, but when it came to offense it was obviously far from strong enough, especially against such crustacean Magical Beasts .

If he wanted to give those Huge Desert Scorpions a true injury, he would need to collect all his Pill Flame’s power .

But his Pill Flame was limited . At most he would be able to release his strongest attack one time . Furthermore, it was not a certainty that it would be enough to inflict serious damage .

Luckily, his goal wasn’t to defeat them at this moment . Due to his attack just now, the Huge Desert Scorpions were in a complete panic and so their speed had sharply dropped .

When they charged and began to once more encroach too close to them, Long Chen once more threw out a ball of flames, temporarily fo