Chapter 775: A Surprise Bonus! SS+ Rank Yellow-Stamen Flower!

「Hiss—roar!! 」

Once it figured this out, the originally fairly clear snake pupils of the Green-Scaled Giant Python instantly turned blood-red.

Buzz—

Violent spiritual force suddenly spread out, beginning to sweep the surroundings.

It had to find that damned human esper!

As a Rank-8 king-tier ferocious beast, the Green-Scaled Giant Python's spiritual force was indeed far stronger than that of beasts of the same rank.

But compared to a human esper, it was far too weak.

Not to mention Xu Jingming's spiritual force intensity was even stronger than some Rank-8 Grandmasters, and he had even deployed an SS-rank perception-type battle technique!

Xu Jingming's perception range reached as high as three thousand meters, while the Green-Scaled Giant Python's spiritual force perception range was less than a thousand meters.

Therefore, it was doomed never to find Xu Jingming's figure.

「Hiss—roar!! 」

A violent hiss-roar rang out; its originally coiled snake body suddenly unfurled.

It twisted rapidly toward one direction—it didn't know where Xu Jingming was, it had merely picked a direction at random.

Unfortunately, this direction was exactly opposite to where Xu Jingming was.

「Heavenly Thunder Art! 」

Crackle!!

Another bolt of Lei Ting lightning struck down, and the rapidly twisting Green-Scaled Giant Python instantly stiffened.

The blood seeping from its body became even more copious, flowing across the ground and pooling together like a small stream.

「Hiss!! 」

The immense pain made the Green-Scaled Giant Python lose its last shred of reason; its massive snake tail whipped about wildly.

Rumble rumble—

Wherever it passed, tall trees collapsed in swathes; it was desperate to find that human esper!

However, Xu Jingming simply gave it no chance at all.

Crackle, crackle, crackle......

Another several consecutive blasts of Heavenly Thunder Art rained down, and after the 8th Heavenly Thunder Art—

This king-tier ferocious beast finally could no longer hold on and crashed to the ground with a thunderous boom.

「This is the terrifying aspect of an Elementalist—never even seeing the enemy's face, yet directly blasted to death. 」

Three thousand meters away, Xu Jingming revealed a smile.

The Green-Scaled Giant Python did not master any elemental abilities; it simply had an extremely abnormal physique.

That suit of snake scales could shed a tremendous amount of damage for it; even a Rank-8 upper-tier esper encountering it would feel a headache.

But unfortunately, it ran into Xu Jingming, who simply gave it no chance to close in.

Although the Green-Scaled Giant Python had fallen, Xu Jingming still did not stop the bombardment.

Because he had not yet heard the system notification sound of a successful kill.

「Ding~~, killed one Rank-8 lower-tier Green-Scaled Giant Python, Ability Points +20,000. 」

Only after bombarding it another 7 times did Xu Jingming finally hear the system notification sound ring out.

「Worthy of a Rank-8 king-tier ferocious beast, truly cunning—actually playing dead to lure me in close. 」

Xu Jingming shook his head.

However, both being Rank-8 lower-tier ferocious beasts, killing the Lei Jiao Heihou King only earned 10,000 Ability Points.

Killing the Green-Scaled Giant Python, however, netted 20,000 Ability Points.

「As expected, even at the same rank, different strength yields different Ability Points. 」

Xu Jingming nodded inwardly.

This Green-Scaled Giant Python was clearly far more powerful than that Lei Jiao Heihou.

Even if the two were to meet, the Lei Jiao Heihou's lightning probably couldn't deal much damage to the Green-Scaled Giant Python.

「Next, time to go collect the corpse. 」

Whoosh—

Xu Jingming unfurled his Thunder Dragon Wings and flew toward the direction where the Green-Scaled Giant Python had fallen.

「S-rank, how about we bombard it a little more? I'm afraid it isn't completely dead. 」

Eva's voice came from the depths of his heart.

「It's fine, it's definitely dead. 」 Xu Jingming said with certainty.

When he arrived at the spot three thousand meters away where the Green-Scaled Giant Python had fallen—

The entire surface of the Green-Scaled Giant Python's snake body was already charred black, and the surrounding grass had been dyed red by fresh blood.

The blood of a Rank-8 ferocious beast—Xu Jingming didn't dare waste it, and hurriedly stored the entire corpse into his spatial ring.

「As expected, completely dead. 」

Eva's exclamation rang out, 「Never even saw your figure, died such a frustrating death. 」

A Rank-8 king-tier ferocious beast was powerful enough to destroy a large city.

Yet in Xu Jingming's hands, it couldn't even find the person before being blasted to death.

「Right, S-rank, I recall you seem to need to kill a Rank-8 ferocious beast within a year, right? 」

Eva suddenly said.

「Mm, next time I head back to Daxia I'll just hunt one down in the wilderness zone. 」 Xu Jingming nodded.

This was the decision made by the National Council back when he killed Wang Mang.

If he couldn't complete it, he would have to go to the front-line battlefield at Dayangzhou.

In reality, this punishment was basically useless against him — he'd already been to the front-line battlefield at Origin City four or five times.

Submitting a Rank-8 fierce beast was mainly meant to let the Wang family experience the feeling of being angry, yet unable to do anything about him.

"That must be quite a sight. Too bad I can't see it with my own eyes."

Composing himself, Xu Jingming changed direction and flew back toward the spot where he had first spotted the Green-Scaled Giant Python.

"S-Class, why are you flying back?" Eva asked, puzzled.

"Looking for treasure," Xu Jingming replied with a smile.

Beside a high-rank fierce beast, there was a certain probability of finding a natural treasure.

And just now, when the Thunder Strike Art had blasted down, the Green-Scaled Giant Python had seemed to glance instinctively toward a certain spot.

"Treasure! S-Class, did you discover something?!" Eva said excitedly.

Although she had spiritual sense, its range wasn't that wide.

She only knew that Xu Jingming had used the Thunder Strike Art to blast the fierce beast to death, but couldn't see the beast's reaction.

"I did find something, but it's not necessarily treasure — we'll have to get there to know for sure."

Whoosh—

The Green-Scaled Giant Python hadn't gotten far; Xu Jingming quickly returned to the very spot where he had first spotted it.

Before he had time to search carefully, the Thorn Sword Grass sent back a spiritual-sense response.

Following its guidance, Xu Jingming soon discovered two unusual plants in a patch of shrubs.

The flowers blooming at the tops of these two plants were small and exquisite, giving off a faint, delicate fragrance.

The petals were a deep purple, with fine pale-gold veining.

The center of the flower was a yellow stamen, like a resplendent pearl.

In the dim surroundings, they bloomed with a soft, bright-yellow glow.

"Are these rare flowers and herbs? Eva, can you identify them?"

There were far too many kinds of rare flowers and herbs; Xu Jingming couldn't recognize what these were either, so he had no choice but to ask Eva.

"It's an SS+ Rank Huang Ruihua!"

Eva's excited voice rang out in his mind, "Judging by how it's grown, this one's at least twenty years old!

S-Class, this is an even better healing holy medicine than the Celestial Spirit Spring — extremely rare!"

"Oh?" Xu Jingming's eyes couldn't help but light up.

He hadn't expected that on the way back, not only had he killed a Rank-8 King-class fierce beast, he'd also picked up two SS+ Rank healing-type rare flowers and herbs for free!

"Speaking of which, Sister Xi's father was wounded by a Martial Saint of the Tianming Sect.

I don't know if this will be of any use to him — I can ask when I get back."

Xu Jingming pondered to himself, then asked Eva, "Eva, how do I pick and preserve this Huang Ruihua?"

Different rare flowers and herbs required different preservation methods; if preserved improperly, their medicinal potency would easily dissipate.

"It's simple — you just need to use…"

Under Eva's guidance, Xu Jingming quickly picked both rare plants, placed them in his spatial ring, and only then left the area.

Because it was already completely dark, he didn't use the Thunder Dragon Wings, but chose to sprint instead.

Fortunately, his sprinting speed wasn't slow either.