175: Dragon Fruit

Seeing the Shadow Clone collect the longyang fruit, the Lava Giant Dragon roared in fury, its long tail savagely striking the lava lake.

“Whoosh!”

The boiling lava splashed up in giant waves tens of meters high, carrying terrifying high temperatures, and crashed towards the Shadow Clone.

More than a dozen Shadow Clones instantly vanished, reappearing behind the Lava Giant Dragon, releasing a large amount of Nine Netherworld Fire.

Black flames engulfed the Lava Giant Dragon, burning madly.

“Awooo!!!”

The Lava Giant Dragon cried out in pain, turning its head to roar angrily, its rolling dragon roar like a clap of thunder, sweeping through the entire cavern.

The Shadow Clones were affected, collapsing one after another and disappearing without a trace.

But the Nine Netherworld Fire they released did not disappear, burning the Lava Giant Dragon like maggots on a bone.

The Lava Giant Dragon let out a painful roar, plunging into the boiling lava, attempting to extinguish the Nine Netherworld Fire on its body with the lava.

But it failed!

Nine Netherworld Fire burns the soul and cannot be extinguished by any substance.

No matter how the Lava Giant Dragon swam and struggled under the lava, no matter how big the lava waves it stirred up, it was useless!

Finally.

The Lava Giant Dragon rushed out of the lava lake again, staring furiously at Zhang Fan.

“Roar!”

The Lava Giant Dragon let out two low roars, its killing intent in its eyes almost tangible.

It seemed to be threatening Zhang Fan, telling him to quickly extinguish this damned fire!

“As expected of the King of Monsters, its intelligence is high; it knows it can’t extinguish the Nine Netherworld Fire itself, so it came to me!”

“Too bad…”

Zhang Fan’s figure flickered, instantly appearing above the Lava Giant Dragon’s head, his right hand clenched into a fist, smashing down like a cannonball.

“Crack!”

The scales on the Lava Giant Dragon’s head were directly shattered, and the fist smoothly plunged into it, piercing its brain.

“Lightning, come!”

Zhang Fan let out a low shout, dazzling silver lightning erupted from his body, flowing down his right hand and into the Lava Giant Dragon’s brain.

“Awoo!”

The violent lightning exploded inside the Lava Giant Dragon’s brain, destroying its nerves, its brain matter…

The Lava Giant Dragon roared in agony, its body twitching, spasming, and tensing.

Lightning raged all around its body, covered with countless tiny silver electric arcs.

After more than ten seconds.

The Lava Giant Dragon’s screams gradually weakened, its body stopped twitching, and the light in its eyes completely dimmed.

“Boom!”

The Lava Giant Dragon plunged headfirst into the lava lake, splashing a surge of lava.

It stopped moving!

Teacher Jiang quickly flew down, looking at the motionless Lava Giant Dragon, and excitedly asked, “Is it dead?”

“It’s dead!”

Zhang Fan smiled and nodded.

“It’s dead just like that?”

Teacher Jiang was stunned. For the past two years, she had dreamed of killing this beast to avenge her teammates!

But she had never been able to fulfill her wish!

Unexpectedly, Zhang Fan took down the Lava Giant Dragon with just a few punches and kicks!

This made Teacher Jiang feel very unreal, as if she was dreaming.

This was the King of Monsters, and it just died like that?

However, Teacher Jiang didn’t know.

Only two months had passed since Zhang Fan killed Ge Chun, but he had cultivated for a full 6 years on the second floor of the Fuxi Shrine!

6 years!

Zhang Fan’s infant core still hadn’t transformed into an infant, but Zhang Fan’s strength had undergone earth-shattering changes.

From initially finding 20G of gravity very difficult, he had now easily adapted to 100 times gravity!

It could be said that.

Although Zhang Fan hadn’t broken through to the Nascent Soul stage, his combat power had increased several times over.

No way!

The conditions were just too good!

100 times time acceleration!

A powerful gravitational environment!

Dense Congenital One Qi!

And top-tier cultivation methods like the Saiya Golden Ape Body and the Chaotic Green Lotus Visualization!

Of course.

There was also a more important point: Zhang Fan’s years of diligent cultivation, day in and day out!

All these factors combined have forged the current Zhang Fan!

At this moment, Teacher Jiang snapped back to reality and suddenly pounced on the Lava Giant Dragon’s corpse, punching and kicking it, venting her emotions madly.

Zhang Fan didn’t stop her. Teacher Jiang had suppressed herself too much these past two years, so it was good to let her vent!

Zhang Fan came to the rock in the center of the lava lake, in front of the dragon yang tree.

Most of the longyang fruits had been picked by the Shadow Clones, leaving 3 remaining.

Zhang Fan casually picked one. It was red and soft, like a ripe crystal persimmon, looking very appetizing.

Zhang Fan held it to his nose and sniffed, detecting a unique fruity fragrance.

“Looks delicious!”

Zhang Fan mumbled, then directly put the longyang fruit into his mouth.

Biting through the flesh, the juice burst in his mouth, an exceptionally sweet sensation stimulating his taste buds, and Zhang Fan’s eyes lit up.

“Delicious!”

Zhang Fan chewed a couple of times, ate the longyang fruit in his mouth, then picked the other two, putting them into his mouth one after another.

“Not bad, not bad!”

“The taste is excellent!”

Zhang Fan smacked his lips twice, still wanting more, but there were no more longyang fruits on the dragon yang tree.

Zhang Fan had no choice but to give up. He decided to save the longyang fruits stored in the storage bottle for Teacher Jiang, Guo Mi, and Hua Xia.

Teacher Jiang had almost finished venting by now, kneeling on the Lava Giant Dragon’s corpse, crying bitterly.

“Teacher Jiang has very deep feelings for her teammates!”

Zhang Fan couldn’t help but murmur.

Generally, Monster Hunter teams often go through life and death together.

After countless battles, deep friendships are naturally forged.

Many male and female teammates even become husband and wife or partners because of this.

It was understandable that Teacher Jiang had deep feelings for her teammates.

Zhang Fan sighed, then instantly moved in front of Teacher Jiang, comforting her:

“Teacher Jiang, the dead cannot be brought back to life. Please control your grief!”

Teacher Jiang knelt on the ground, seemingly sobbing and complaining:

“The year my sister left, Mimi was 3 years old, and I was only 13!”

“It’s been very hard, truly very hard…”

“It wasn’t until I awakened and joined the Zhang’s Group that Mimi’s and my life gradually improved!”

“Later!”

“I joined the Scarlet Sun Squad and met Captain Hu, Fatty, Sister Xue, Grandpa Jin, Old Chen, and Uncle Ming!”

“They were all very good people, very kind to me, making me feel warmth. I also treated them as family!”

The more Teacher Jiang spoke, the sadder she became, tears streaming down like a broken kite string:

“I originally thought we could keep going, who knew…”

Teacher Jiang’s eyes were filled with hatred: “It was this damned beast that took their lives and destroyed everything!”

“From that moment on, I swore that one day, I would kill this beast and avenge them!”

“Today, I did it!”

“But I can’t be happy, not at all!”

“Captain Hu, Sister Xue, Fatty, they’re never coming back!”

“Never coming back!”

After Teacher Jiang finished speaking, she started crying again. Zhang Fan didn’t know how to comfort her, because he couldn’t empathize.

But thinking about it carefully, Teacher Jiang and Guo Mi had depended on each other all these years, experiencing the coldness and warmth of human relationships.

Suddenly joining the Scarlet Sun Squad, her teammates were all very kind to her.

It was completely understandable that Teacher Jiang had deep feelings for her teammates!

Zhang Fan watched silently, not disturbing her, letting her vent on her own.

After an unknown amount of time, Teacher Jiang stood up. She wiped away her tears, returning to her taciturn self.

But her swollen eyes silently revealed her recent sadness.

“You’ve seen me at my worst!”

Teacher Jiang said in a low voice.

“It’s okay! It’s okay!”

Zhang Fan waved his hands repeatedly: “Who doesn’t have a sad time?”

“Mmm!”

Teacher Jiang said no more.

Zhang Fan also said nothing more. He grabbed the Lava Giant Dragon’s horn, pulled its head onto the rock, and set it down.

Then he took off the necklace that seemed to be strung with divine sparks.

This necklace was worn around the Lava Giant Dragon’s neck, so one could imagine how big it was.

It was twenty to thirty meters long, seemingly strung with the sinews of some animal, with over a dozen colorful objects strung on it.

Zhang Fan examined them one by one, the shock on his face growing stronger.

“What’s wrong?”

Teacher Jiang noticed Zhang Fan’s unusual behavior and couldn’t help but ask.

Zhang Fan took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, and said, “Teacher Jiang, do you know what these are?”

“Gems?”

Teacher Jiang was puzzled.

“No! These are divine sparks!” Zhang Fan said solemnly: “These are all divine sparks! Complete Divine Spark!”

“What?”

Teacher Jiang’s delicate body trembled, and she gasped, “Are you sure you’re not mistaken?”

“Of course!”

Zhang Fan nodded confidently, then flipped his hand, and five divine sparks appeared in his hand, placing them next to the necklace for comparison.

“Teacher Jiang, look again!”

Teacher Jiang observed carefully and found that the two types of objects were identical!

Even the aura was the same!

“It really is a divine spark!”

Teacher Jiang was incredulous: “How can there be so many divine sparks?”

A single divine spark can create a demigod!

A single Complete Divine Spark can allow a demigod to break through to a god!

These dozen or so divine sparks are all Complete Divine Spark, their value immeasurable!

Teacher Jiang couldn’t imagine what would happen when those high and mighty demigods learned about these divine sparks—a mad scramble?

“So it’s very strange!”

Zhang Fan looked at the boiling lava lake: “I have a hunch that this place might not be ordinary!”

“Not ordinary?”

Teacher Jiang asked in surprise, “Xiao Fan, do you mean…”

“I can’t say for sure yet, let’s just wait and see!”

As Zhang Fan spoke, he split into a dozen Shadow Clones and said, “You all go look around, especially the bottom of the lava, focus on investigating there!”

Zhang Fan allocated a good amount of Congenital One Qi to these dozen Shadow Clones, allowing them to last for a considerable amount of time.

“Yes, my true body!”

The Shadow Clones immediately dispersed and went to investigate everywhere.

“Let’s wait!”

Zhang Fan was somewhat expectant: “I believe there will be results very soon!”

“Mmm hmm!”

Teacher Jiang also looked forward to it.

Time passed bit by bit, and more than ten minutes quickly went by.

“Teacher Jiang, do you feel it’s very hot here?”

Zhang Fan suddenly asked.

“This is underground lava, it’s supposed to be very hot!”

Teacher Jiang looked at Zhang Fan strangely, then froze: “Xiao Fan, what’s wrong with your face?”

“Face?”

Zhang Fan was startled.

“See for yourself!”

Teacher Jiang pulled out a compact mirror and handed it to Zhang Fan.

Zhang Fan looked in the mirror and found that his face was very red, extremely red, like a cooked lobster, completely crimson.

“What… what happened to me?”

Zhang Fan was a little flustered.

Teacher Jiang pondered for a moment, her expression suddenly changing: “Xiao Fan, did you… did you eat the longyang fruit?”

Zhang Fan nodded repeatedly: “I did! I even ate 3 of them! Teacher Jiang, is it related to the longyang fruit?”

“Three?”

Teacher Jiang’s face changed dramatically: “Why did you eat things so carelessly?!”

“That’s longyang fruit! longyang fruit that’s effective even for demigods!”

Although Teacher Jiang was cold, she was very gentle with Zhang Fan.

Especially after Zhang Fan and Guo Mi got together, she practically treated him as family.

This was the first time she had been so angry and critical.

Zhang Fan couldn’t help but feel a little panicked: “Teacher Jiang, is there something wrong with eating longyang fruit? Am I not going to die?”

Teacher Jiang let out a low hmph, her face flushed as she scolded, “longyang fruit, also known as the fruit of extreme yang, the fruit of dragon lust!”

“Besides purifying the bloodline and enhancing Talent Divine Power!”

“It also has a very strong side effect: it’s an aphrodisiac, increasing sexual desire!”

“So when taking longyang fruit, it’s best to have a partner present, and at most, only one can be taken at a time!”

“But you!”

Teacher Jiang was so angry she stomped her foot: “You took three at once, you…”