Chapter 25: A close call
Long Chen used his hands to hold onto the snake's fangs.
His hands were bleeding profusely, with all his veins popping.
He was trying to compete in strength with the snake.
Its fangs dig one inch in Long Chen's bones. Long Chen's forehead was covered with sweat, but he did not release so much as a whimper.
As his feet started sinking in the ground, Long Chen used his mouth to shove the saber in the snake's mouth.
It started rattling and decreasing its strength, but Long Chen refused to give it way.
The snake used his tail to attack from behind.
Long Chen quickly pulled out the saber and used his arms to defend. himself.
'Slam'
Crash
Long Chen fell 50 meters sideways with his arm almost broken.
Long Chen quickly got up, but there was no hint of fear on his face rather there was a smile plastered on his face.
'That's the kind of fight I am looking for'
Without batting an eye Long Chen pounced on the snake, with killing intent oozing out of every clavicle of his body.
This time the snake got terrified for real.
Long Chen covered in blood, with a saber in one arm appeared to be an asura from hell.
Before the snake could choose its next move, Long Chen climbed aboard and shoved his saber in the direction of its brain.
The saber landed right on its eyes and started digging towards its brain, albeit slowly.
The snake lost its shit and attack Long Chen with its tail, but Long Chen refused to budge an inch.
'Crash'
'Crash'
'Crash'
It repeatedly smacked Long Chen's back with its spiked tail.
Very soon his back was riddled with holes, while his bones being long visible, but now some cracks started appearing in his skeletal structure, but he refused to give in.
After 10 breaths of time, the snake fell.
Despite being brain dead, it was not completely still so Long Chen shoved his sabers in its mouth and constantly pressed forward with it Before the surrounding went black.
Long Chen had lost too much blood and even his muscles and skin were all torn apart.
By this time Bei Youer and the gang were also done with snakes and had collected all the spoils of battle.
Seeing Long Chen's condition Fang Qingmei and Bei Youer eyes turned red and they rushed over to support him.
"Let's go for a cave to rest in all clean the battlefield before burning the field hide the cave well"
Long Chen instructed before the last sliver of his conscious fell and he fainted.
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"Aghh"
Long Chen moaned in pain before waking up. He was wrapped up in bandages and his head was hurting a lot.
"Boss you are awake"
"How long was I ought for"
"Around 2 days boss don't worry we are in a safe-"
Bei Youer rushed over and interrupted him by tightly embracing Long Chen.
Tears started flowing out of her eyes.
" Blockhead don't be so reckless next time no treasure can be compared to your life"
Long Chen felt his nose tingling and he also embraced her.
They stayed in the posture for a while.
"Oh Miss youer is so worried for me, to be honest, there is something I want more than any treasure "
Long Chen said while lewdly smiling.
"Hmph blockhead all you know is how to bully me"
"Cough Long Chen here is a tub of blood essence, I think it would be helpful for your injuries"
Fang Qingmei interrupted them, She couldn't stand these 2 flirting in front of her.
Bei Youer had a face so sour, it looked like she had 100 lemons, and she ran to the back of the cave and pretended to meditate.
Long Chen shook his head and dived into the tub and started circulating the primordial dragon transformation art.
Very soon all his injuries started healing at a rapid pace.
In about 2 hours Long Chen was as good as new.
Just Kidding….
His bones were a little weak but he had no problem moving around normally.
Long Chen went to the corpse of the large dark rake snake and took out its core.
And Started directly absorbing it.
Its energy started madly rampaging through his meridians and veins and only a part of it was actually getting absorbed and that was just because snakes were somewhat related to dragons, and his body radiated a small amount of draconic might.
Long Chen had to take breaks in between, to spit out the chaotic energy along with his blood, as time passed his face got paler and paler before.
As soon as Long Chen got done, he dived into the blood essence pool and recovered his vitality.
Long Chen started cultivating the 4th part of building his foundation which was enriching his vitality.
Long Chen started feeling a lot of vigor and pure strength in his body.
His broken frame started slowly healing.
The amount of lifeforce and vitality his blood carried started surging.
When he got done externally he looked almost the same, but internally he packed a lot more power.
After he got done he observed his body and was pleasantly surprised to see his veins have almost doubled in both signs and thickness and his meridians have solidified becoming as hard as iron.
Long Chen tried cultivating and he was extremely satisfied with the results.
'Haaaiyaa it's done now I could be considered as a topmost talent of sky dawn continent even if you include those damn sects.
The reason Long Chen could cultivate so quickly was because of his amazing methods, as well his experience, but now his talent has been pushed to the max of this continent as well'
Putting aside his thoughts Long Chen came out of the cave, to see it was dark outside.
"Alright everyone let's celebrate today" Long Chen announced with a big smile plastered on his face.
Long Chen took out cutlery with some ingredients, before starting a bonfire and cooking delicious snake meat with tons of wine.
This night everyone drank and ate a lot. For the 3 of them, they felt that this was proper a battle to the death. Although they had been in many battles this was the first time they felt close to actual death.
During the bonfire Long Chen shamelessly made Bei Youer sat on his lap.
"We are gonna sleep together tonight"
"You- you wish Long Chen it's not happening"
Bei Youer face turned so red it looked like It would start bleeding
But under Long Chen's shameless pursuit Bei Youer could only 'Helplessly' Relent and they slept huddling together.
Long Chen was obviously experienced with women, so he knew while Bei Youer might act like a brat on the outside she really wanted to be pampered and cared for.
Ever since her mother passed away, she had always craved that emotional intimacy. That night she slept soundly under Long Chen's arms.
The next morning the group consumed one profounder fruit each, they had 25 of them in total so they had to use them sparingly.
All of them were In the peak of their respective realms after their last battle so that day all of them broke through a layer except for Long Chen.
Finally the next day they took off for their next adventure.
For 3 days they walked along the forest killing many demonic beasts that came their way.
When Long Chen sniffed some things.
"I smell herbs I think there is a herb garden nearby"
"Boss why would someone plant herbs here"
"I don't know maybe back then someone tried experimenting by planting different herbs and wanting to see the results unfortunately they failed to see the results."
This seemed like the most rational reason but Long Chen personally did not believe it.
'I smell chrysin flower, linglong roots and especially Blue Cao Flowers, perfect! all-black grade herbs'
They split up to look for a building-like or garden-like structure after half an hour, they finally found their way and started moving towards it.
Half an hour later they came across a broken estate.
'Is this really something done by someone from the outside, it looks more like something done by a native.
The nether realm is not as simple as it seems'
Without wasting any time they entered the estate and made their way toward the garden, along the way, surprisingly they did not encounter any traps of sorts and made their way.
After reaching the end of the estate they came across a huge garden with dimensions of at least 100*100 meters.
Seeing some red-colored flowers Long Chen started loudly laughing.
"Blockhead, did you get a screw lose"
"You have a screw loose, your whole family has a screw loose.
These Cao flowers are the essential ingredients in making the origin spirit pill which is probably the best pill for accumulation in the essence gathering realm."
"Hmph you have to make origin spirit pill this missus wants to breakthrough as soon as possible"
After saying that she started clinging to Long Chen acting all spoiled.
Bei Youer acted as if Long Chen was gonna concoct the pill right there and then.
"Boss you can't forget about this little brother"
Seeing Bei youer Fang Qian also clung to one Long Chen's arm.
Seeing this Long Chen kicked him in disgust.
"STOP"
A harsh-sounding voice broke their banter.
Before they even got the chance a team of 20 people barged in.
"This is now the property of Wang Clan please leave"
Said the man in the lead indifferently he had a stiff face but his tone left no room for doubt.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone