Chapter 235: Capturing the High-Crowned Spirit Chief Alive

"So that's how it is. I never expected you to be so amazing, Mom!"

"That goes without saying! Only someone as excellent as me could create you all!"

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Listening to Zhao Yuxin's boastful tales, Xuebao could only hold the swing in frustration and hide beside the Guardian Goddess Statue, its eyes filled with disdain for Zhao Yuxin.

If Xuebao could speak, it might have immediately sought out Zhu Zhiquan outside to confront him.

At this moment, Zhu Zhiquan outside the vehicle slowly approached the High-Crowned Spirit Chief and said in a relatively calm voice, "Are you rested? It's about time we started."

The High-Crowned Spirit Chief's face was expressionless, but in reality, it was panicking; it couldn't beat the opponent in a fight, it couldn't outrun their vehicle, and with its underlings watching and cheering it on, how could it ever show its face again if it just ran away like this!

Thus, the High-Crowned Spirit Chief struck first, transforming into a thick fog and charging toward Zhu Zhiquan.

The fog covered a wide area, and after noticing this, Xuebao immediately went to the driver's seat to drive away.

Zhao Yuxin quickly retracted the surrounding Combat Plants and cheered for Zhu Zhiquan from inside the carriage.

Gelina stood to the side, holding a banner to cover her little mouth, appearing somewhat embarrassed.

Zhu Zhiquan stepped on the Five-Star Sword to fly, keeping his distance from the opponent, and then successively released the Phoenix Cloud Fire, Energy-Storage Slash, and Nether Cold Ice Spike skills, but they all passed through the fog the High-Crowned Spirit Chief had transformed into.

Afterward, Zhu Zhiquan tried releasing the Hell Lament skill; the soul strike caused the High-Crowned Spirit Chief great pain, and it was ultimately unable to maintain its fog state, forced to revert to its true form.

Seeing the opponent revert to its original form due to the soul strike, Zhu Zhiquan finally understood what the greatest weakness of this type of magic creature was.

The reason he was still testing it now was because when Zhu Zhiquan fought the previous High-Crowned Spirit Chief, he hadn't managed to test their weaknesses.

The reason for this was that the previous High-Crowned Spirit Chief, aside from the initial pursuit and escaping into the fog state, had mainly engaged in close-quarters combat while fighting Zhu Zhiquan, and it hadn't used many skills, so Zhu Zhiquan had assumed the cooldown for this fog state was very long.

But after watching Gelina fight this High-Crowned Spirit Chief, he understood that the cooldown for them to enter the fog state was actually very short, or even non-existent.

This meant the previous one had likely exhausted its Magic Power, and as long as he pursued it, he could very likely have killed it.

As for now, since he had given the opponent such a long time to rest, he believed the Magic Power within its body had recovered quite a bit, and it would very likely enter the fog state again for defense or offense.

So this time, Zhu Zhiquan did not intend to rush into melee combat with the opponent; he kept his distance at all times and controlled the Clone skill of the Five-Star Sword to attack the High-Crowned Spirit Chief.

Under Zhu Zhiquan's control, the four long swords attacked the High-Crowned Spirit Chief from different angles.

The High-Crowned Spirit Chief shook its body, and the leaves on its crown flew out like machine-gun fire; some knocked away the four flying swords, while others flew toward Zhu Zhiquan.

Zhu Zhiquan immediately controlled the Five-Star Sword to turn, and at this moment, the High-Crowned Spirit Chief entered the fog state again and flew to Zhu Zhiquan's side; Zhu Zhiquan urgently used Hell Lament.

Having suffered a soul strike once again, the High-Crowned Spirit Chief was forced to revert to its original form, and Zhu Zhiquan stabbed a spear into its body, immediately triggering the effect of the Xuangang Spear.

The High-Crowned Spirit Chief immediately felt a wave of dizziness, and before it could recover, the Five-Star Sword under Zhu Zhiquan's feet, carrying the Ghost Fire Attachment, stabbed into it; a scorching sensation became unbearable for the High-Crowned Spirit Chief, and the area pierced by the Five-Star Sword began to catch fire.

The High-Crowned Spirit Chief rolled continuously, trying to extinguish the flames, but the Five-Star Sword with the Ghost Fire Attachment was still on it, and the fire continued to spread, showing signs of covering its entire body.

Red flames continuously extended from the blue Ghost Fire; the red flames were ordinary fires caused by the high temperature, and the source was Zhu Zhiquan's Ghost Fire Attachment skill.

Even if the High-Crowned Spirit Chief luckily extinguished the ordinary flames, as long as the Ghost Fire was not extinguished, or Zhu Zhiquan did not pull out the Five-Star Sword, the High-Crowned Spirit Chief would very likely be burned to death!

The surrounding magic creatures saw their boss getting beaten and scattered in all directions.

Zhao Yuxin also walked out from the vehicle and asked, "Ajiu, can you put out this fire?"

Zhu Zhiquan nodded, controlled the Five-Star Sword to fly back into its scabbard, and waited on the side.

Without the Ghost Fire continuously providing high heat, the High-Crowned Spirit Chief soon extinguished the flames on its body, though at this point it could only linger on the ground, having lost the ability to resist.

Gelina flew out from within her body, and several Thorns wrapped around the dying High-Crowned Spirit Chief on the ground, bringing it to the carriage to wait for Zhao Yuxin to study it.

When Zhao Yuxin saw the large-scale burns on the High-Crowned Spirit Chief's body, she was so angry that she ran up to Zhu Zhiquan and kept hitting his chest with her little fists.

Zhu Zhiquan was also completely bewildered; hadn't he given her a live one just as she asked? Why was she still hitting him? But looking at her angry expression, Zhu Zhiquan didn't know how to coax her.

After beating Zhu Zhiquan for a while, Zhao Yuxin huffed and turned to leave, which left Zhu Zhiquan completely unable to figure out what had happened.

Before he could figure it out, Zhao Yuxin had already returned to the carriage to continue her research, and later Gelina flew out of the carriage to notify Zhu Zhiquan and Xuebao to try their best not to drive.

Zhu Zhiquan didn't say anything, but he suddenly remembered that the Primary Talent Upgrade Card he had opened earlier seemed to still be in Zhao Yuxin's hands, so Zhu Zhiquan quickly entered the carriage.

Inside the carriage, Zhao Yuxin was slicing open the High-Crowned Spirit Chief's belly, and transparent sap was overflowing from the wound onto the floor.

Seeing Zhao Yuxin dissecting the High-Crowned Spirit Chief, Zhu Zhiquan worried about disturbing her, and the words on the tip of his tongue just wouldn't come out.

Zhao Yuxin noticed Zhu Zhiquan staring at her after he entered and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Zhu Zhiquan stammered for a long time without being able to speak, and in the end, he didn't bring up the Talent Upgrade Card, so he silently left the carriage.

But as soon as he stepped out of the carriage, Zhu Zhiquan felt regret; he wanted to go back in, but he felt embarrassed, as he had just been in there, and going back in felt impolite.

"Wu wu~" At this moment, Xuebao also came out of the carriage and kept rubbing its head against Zhu Zhiquan, seemingly issuing a play invitation to him.

Zhu Zhiquan stroked its head, not knowing what game to play; after thinking for a moment, Zhu Zhiquan asked Xuebao to go back into the carriage and get some wood and rope.

Xuebao immediately followed suit, taking out a pile of wood and rope and placing them before Zhu Zhiquan.

Zhu Zhiquan sat on the ground with it and asked, "How about we make a small box together?"

"Wu~" Xuebao howled, clearly agreeing to the proposal.

Zhu Zhiquan smiled and stroked its head, but then Gelina flew out in her tiny sprite form and said in a shy tone, "Um... Mom says, could you two please not talk? She thinks you're too noisy and it's affecting her research."

After hearing this, Zhu Zhiquan nodded immediately and then made a zipping motion across his mouth to Xuebao.

Xuebao also nodded, and then the two began to build a small box. Their actions also attracted Gelina, so she couldn't help but fly to their side to observe out of curiosity.