Chapter 575: The Man Like the Wind (First Update, requesting everything)

Just as Li Zhangsheng was thinking of striking while the iron was hot and preparing to extract the Spirit Essence, his expression suddenly flickered as he sensed something abnormal.

Relying on his connection to the Doushuai Yuan Magnetic True Seed, Li Zhangsheng's Mental Power projected an image, much like a radar, on which there were light dots representing his 16 teammates.

Among them, one light dot was flickering violently, then suddenly dimmed and vanished.

Near this light dot, there were three other light dots.

After the first light dot disappeared, the second light dot also began to flicker violently, giving the impression that it was calling for help.

They were indeed calling for help, and the object of their plea was naturally Li Zhangsheng; only when encountering life-threatening danger would they do such a thing.

With the strength of a four-person squad, they would basically not encounter danger in the Fire Flame Secret Realm, but it was not absolute. If they encountered Leader-level wild Spirit Beasts or a large wild Spirit Beast tribe, they would likewise be in mortal danger.

Under these circumstances, Li Zhangsheng had no choice but to temporarily abandon the idea of extracting the Spirit Essence and hurriedly summoned the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast.

Due to the distance being somewhat far, about two hundred miles, Li Zhangsheng had to rely on the cooperation of the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast, Datou, and Aixi to reach the scene in the shortest possible time.

"Thunder Escape!"

Li Zhangsheng mounted the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast, and under his command, the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast leaped high into the air.

Crackle, pop—

Countless currents of gold mixed with purple crazily drilled out from its body, darting wildly across its skin.

In an instant, the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast transformed into a brilliant, eye-catching bolt of electricity, charging toward the east at an unimaginable speed.

In the Thunder Escape state, the speed of the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast surged countless times over. Of course, like other explosive skills, Thunder Escape could not turn midway and placed great pressure on the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast, making it difficult to sustain.

In less than half a minute, the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast could no longer maintain it, its speed plummeted, and it looked as if it were about to fall from the sky.

"You've worked hard, Datou, it's your turn!"

Li Zhangsheng retracted the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast and instead summoned Datou, who was still in his Giant Whale Kun state.

As soon as Datou appeared, he fell from the sky; he hurriedly rolled in mid-air, transformed into a Silver-Backed Golden-Eyed Roc, and flew before Li Zhangsheng.

Without any superfluous nonsense, under Li Zhangsheng's command, the Golden-Eyed Roc flapped its wings, then immediately folded them, turning into a streak of silver light to execute Instant Thousand Miles.

Due to the 'Roc Spreads Ten Thousand Miles' trait, the Golden-Eyed Roc's straight-line speed was doubled, making the Golden-Eyed Roc's speed clearly superior to that of the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast.

However, the Golden-Eyed Roc could not maintain it as long as the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast.

In just a few breaths' time, the Golden-Eyed Roc had to stop and began to pant heavily; executing a Bloodline Inheritance Skill like Instant Thousand Miles placed a heavy burden on him.

Yet in just this short amount of time, the Golden-Eyed Roc had flown a full seventy to eighty miles.

Without hesitation, Li Zhangsheng retracted Datou and instead summoned Aixi.

White Tiger Transformation Rainbow Technique!

In an instant, Aixi's entire body shimmered with a rich golden glow, then she transformed into a long golden rainbow, flying toward the destination at an unimaginable speed.

Compared to the Golden-Eyed Roc's Instant Thousand Miles, the White Tiger Transformation Rainbow Technique was ultimately slightly inferior in explosive power.

Half a minute later, Aixi exited the White Tiger Transformation Rainbow Technique state and began to pant slightly; although the White Tiger Transformation Rainbow Technique also placed a heavy burden on her, her state was much better than Datou's and the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast's.

This was mainly related to Aixi's strength; Datou and the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast were ultimately slightly inferior to her.

With the help of the three Demon Pets, it took Li Zhangsheng only a little over a minute to cover the two-hundred-mile distance and approach the destination.

At this moment, the second light dot had already extinguished, and the third light dot began to flicker violently.

Relying on the positioning of the light dots, Li Zhangsheng soon found this squad.

This was Zhang Yi's squad; in the competition with Yuan Yongyan, Zhang Yi had the last laugh and became the captain of this squad.

Their luck had been quite good at the start, and they had made some gains, but unfortunately, such good luck did not last long before they encountered a crisis.

At this time, the four of them, Zhang Yi included, were riding different mounts; most of them wore panicked expressions, using every ounce of their strength to try and escape.

Not far behind them, a group of twenty or thirty Fire Spirit Rats was in hot pursuit.

Fire Spirit Rats possessed a pair of fiery red wings; they were petite in size and extremely fast, belonging to the omnivorous type of Spirit Beast. It was unknown how Zhang Yi's squad had offended them, causing them to pursue relentlessly.

Zhang Yi and Yuan Yongyan had the greatest strength; they each held a petite Demon Pet in their arms, releasing attacks at the Fire Spirit Rat group from time to time.

Unfortunately, this group of Fire Spirit Rats had quite impressive strength; they were Upper Rank Exotic Beasts by nature, capable of reaching the Upper Realm once they reached adulthood, and the two running at the very front were Elite-level Fire Spirit Rats.

The Fire Spirit Rats reacted extremely quickly and coordinated tacitly. Several of them released long-range attacks to easily block these offensives, while others took the opportunity to launch counterattacks, releasing fire snakes and fireballs that swarmed toward Zhang Yi and the others.

Zhang Yi and the four others scrambled to block the Fire Spirit Rats' attacks, and they had already sustained some injuries. The Fire Spirit Rats were simply too fast; unless Zhang Yi and Yuan Yongyan abandoned the two first-year freshmen who were dragging them down, it would be very difficult to escape danger.

At this moment, Yuan Yongyan suddenly shouted: "This won't work! You run first, I'll help you buy some time!"

As she spoke, the Demon Pet beneath Yuan Yongyan turned rapidly, leaped onto a tree trunk, and took the initiative to crash toward the Fire Spirit Rat group.

At the same time, a brilliant hexagram appeared, and Yuan Yongyan summoned several Demon Pets in one breath, all of which pounced toward the Fire Spirit Rats.

For a moment, the rhythm of the Fire Spirit Rat group was disrupted by Yuan Yongyan.

However, they reacted quickly and did not give Yuan Yongyan any chance to escape; a group of Fire Spirit Rats surrounded her.

Suddenly, several energy beams came crashing over, exploding upon collision. Utilizing the shockwave generated by the explosion, they instantly blew away a dozen Fire Spirit Rats, forming a large gap.

It turned out that Zhang Yi had not abandoned Yuan Yongyan to leave; he had also turned his mount around, which was how he opened the gap for Yuan Yongyan.

Before the Fire Spirit Rat group could close in, Yuan Yongyan rushed out in a disheveled state with her few Demon Pets.

It was just that the distance between them and the rats was far too close.

Some Fire Spirit Rats pounced directly over, striving to entangle Yuan Yongyan and Zhang Yi, while the remaining Fire Spirit Rats spat flames from their mouths, launching attacks regardless of friend or foe.

Fire Spirit Rats did not fear fire and were completely unafraid of friendly fire.

In the blink of an eye, countless fireballs, fire beams, and fire snakes swarmed toward the two, submerging them in an instant.

Rumble—

A violent explosion sounded, and intense high temperatures spread in all directions.

When the explosion faded, Zhang Yi, Yuan Yongyan, and their Demon Pets were unscathed, because Aixi's massive tiger body was standing right in front of them.

It turned out that at the critical moment, Li Zhangsheng had arrived at the scene in time; he quickly activated the Prohibition Hub, using the red, yellow, and blue three-colored Restriction to easily neutralize the Fire Spirit Rat group's offensive.

Li Zhangsheng retracted the red, yellow, and blue three-colored Restriction and couldn't help but ask with concern: "Are you all alright?"

Zhang Yi and Yuan Yongyan finally came to their senses, hurriedly shook their heads, and kept saying they were fine.

Roar—!

At this very moment, Aixi let out a loud roar at the Fire Spirit Rat colony; the sound was like a Thunder clap, and an invisible, powerful Pressure rapidly spread out.

Squeak, squeak—!

Under this Pressure, the Fire Spirit Rat colony was clearly terrified, looks of fear appearing in their eyes; many were scared out of their wits and collapsed limply onto the ground, while the rest fared no better, their legs trembling as they were on the verge of fleeing.

The gap in cultivation realms between the two sides was too great; this is why Spirit Sea Tactics are difficult to use effectively against high-realm Demon Pets—the Pressure of a high-realm Demon Pet alone is enough to cause them to lose their combat effectiveness.

Li Changsheng landed lightly from Aixi's back and said, "Aixi, finish them all off!"

Following Li Changsheng's order, Aixi charged forward fiercely, pursuing the fleeing Fire Spirit Rats.

Aixi's speed was like a phantom, and every part of her body could serve as a weapon; with every attack, she could finish off a fleeing Fire Spirit Rat.

It took a total of several dozen breaths of time for all the fleeing Fire Spirit Rats to be killed by Aixi; the Fire Spirit Rat that ran the furthest only made it a few hundred meters before being easily caught and killed by Aixi.

Under the pained gazes of Zhang Yi and Yuan Yongyan, Li Changsheng did not spare the Fire Spirit Rats that had collapsed on the ground, having Aixi finish them all off.

Fire Spirit Rats are Upper Rank Exotic Beasts and, logically speaking, possess considerable value, but Li Changsheng had no intention of capturing them at all; it was not that he looked down on the value of the Fire Spirit Rats, but mainly because the Fire Spirit Rats possessed a Pure Grade Heaven-Devouring Rat Bloodline.

With the number of these Fire Spirit Rats, it was enough to refine a jar of Heaven-Devouring Rat Spirit Essence to allow the Xi Rat to evolve once more.

At this time, the two first-year freshmen ran back.

Li Changsheng glanced at them, then led the four of them to find the Fire Spirit Rat nest, sweeping up everything inside in one go.

Among the spoils of war this time, besides a few Fire Spirit Rat cubs, there was also a Fire Essence Jujube tree and some Fire Crystals.

Li Changsheng discussed it with them, and in the end, Zhang Yi's team took a few Fire Spirit Rat cubs, while the rest all became Li Changsheng's harvest.

There was no helping it; Li Changsheng had contributed the most this time, and crucially, he had also saved them, so even if Li Changsheng had taken all the spoils, they would have had nothing to say.

"Zhang Yi, as a captain, you must be responsible for your teammates. Remember to be more cautious next time; I was able to save you this time, but next time it might not be so timely."

After learning the truth of the matter, Li Changsheng could not help but lecture Zhang Yi.

An incompetent general exhausts the whole army; that is exactly the situation now.

"Yes, it won't happen next time!"

Zhang Yi felt somewhat ashamed; if it hadn't been for his negligence this time, such danger would not have occurred.

Li Changsheng did not stay here long; he mounted Aixi and returned to the Twin Volcanoes to begin extracting the Spirit Essence.

Today's goal: Three, Pigs, Proof!

(End of this chapter)