Chapter 53

Whoosh whoosh!

Having devoured the Spirit Fire, Ye Bei took a deep breath.

The dazzling ball of fire turned into an extremely terrifying energy that spread indiscriminately throughout his body.

At that moment, Ye Bei felt as if every single cell in his body was on fire…

However, he didn’t feel any pain.

On the contrary, it felt like he was being submerged in a hot spring.

In the meanwhile, the eight Blood Pythons and the mutated Reticulated Pythons saw an entirely different picture.

They sensed the air surrounding Ye Bei, who’d originally been hunkered down on the ground, abruptly surge in temperature for no apparent reason.

And then… fire seemed to hop across Ye Bei’s bright-red-colored body!

The red flames fluttered incessantly.

Then, the flames merged with Ye Bei’s crimson body. The sight was incredibly eerie.

Under the influence of such tremendous temperatures, the fallen trees closest to Ye Bei instantly turned to ashes.

“Is the king… evolving again?”

“How brilliant!”

“There’s even flames on his body! This is…”

The eight Blood Pythons were stupefied.

For wild beasts, fire had always been their natural enemy, and it was one of the things they feared most.

For most humans, after entering a jungle, it was precisely fire that they would take advantage of. They would light up bonfires to guard against surprise attacks by wild animals.

But what about now?

With their very own eyes, the pythons saw abundant flames jumping across Ye Bei’s body.

But under these circumstances, not only was Ye Bei’s life force not diminishing in the slightest, but it was becoming even more powerful instead!

When the mutated reticulated python king saw this, he especially felt incredibly fortunate.

Luckily, he hadn’t gone forward to seek death like the King of Crocodiles had.

Even though the python wasn’t much longer than him…

Just these flames alone made him more powerful.

He couldn’t imagine… what he would do if he and Ye Bei were entangled together and such searing flames abruptly appeared on Ye Bei’s body? If that happened, he would probably turn into roasted snake meat in an instant!

Ye Bei paid no attention to the python’s astonishment.

Devouring the Spirit Fire.

With the Spirt Fire completely fused with his body… Ye Bei felt that the flames had truly merged with the very depths of his soul.

As long as he, Ye Bei, wanted to, he could breathe out tremendous amounts of flames any time he desired to.

What’s more, he could even cover his entire body in sweltering flames with ease.

“How incredibly awesome this is! Let me try out the power of these flames…” Ye Bei muttered to himself.

He slowly straightened up the upper half of his body. And, with just a mere thought, the searing flames on his body instantly vanished.

The pythons could only see Ye Bei forcefully opening his mouth.

And then…

Roar!

A deafening roar echoed throughout the jungle.

Don’t even mention how weird it was for a snake to make such a sound.

Immediately after…

Something even more astonishing happened. After Ye Bei opened his mouth, a fiery ball the size of a fist rapidly came into being inside his mouth. The ball of fire slowly expanded, harboring a sphere of immensely terrifying energy inside it.

Crackle!

In less than three seconds, the ball of fire became as dazzling as a tiny sun.

Roar!

After Ye Bei made another loud roar, the flames maniacally spewed out of his mouth.

The flames that he spewed out were at least ten meters in diameter…

But their destructive power was far more terrifying.

The mutated reticulated python king could see all this clearly… In an instant, the turbulent flames incinerated the large trees over 1000 meters away from Ye Bei, turning them into ash.

The fire burned intensely.

After the mutated beasts, who had gathered in the distance and were about to rush over, saw the flames that had lit up inside the jungle and Ye Bei’s scorching breath, they immediately stopped in their tracks, their eyes widening. They had absolutely no idea what had taken place here, but their instincts told them to retreat.

The mutated reticulated python king watched the appalling force of destruction and the remnants of flames that were still burning. He didn’t say or do anything for a long time. Then, he stuck out his forked tongue and uttered in Snake Tongue, “Fire! A python that can breathe fire?”

“Is this the power of our king?”

“T-that was awesome!”

“That was unbelievable!”

The eight Blood Pythons were also taken aback. However, although they were shocked, because they had just devoured some food, their bodies were also quickly evolving and growing little by little! Under normal circumstances, this kind of growth rate would have left the mutated reticulated python king absolutely astoundment, but Ye Bei had drawn all his attention.

Aside from the shock over here…

At the mercenary base, the eyes of the personnel in charge of watching the computer abruptly widened in shock.

Then, he yelled in a way that made him seem like he had gone insane.

“Alert! Something big has happened… There’s a huge fire on Research Island, and I even saw a terrifying fire dragon just now in the forest! It’s really scary! From just watching it on the computer screen, I felt like my body was burning!”

It was late, and most of the people at the base had already fallen asleep.

But the mercenary’s shouts quickly woke all the higher officials of the mercenary organization.

Then everyone went straight to the conference room.

After all, they were the ones who’d listed Research Island as the key point among key points. In any event, they had to give immediate attention to what was happening there.

All of them were dumbfounded when they saw the flames on Research Island on the video footage. Their responses were no better than the response of the person who was in charge of watching the computer. To some extent, they were even more shocked than the mutated reticulated python king.

Before he performed the experiment with his fire-breathing ability, Ye Bei had no idea what kind of impact his ability would have.

However, now, looking at the destroyed forest in front of him and seeing all the destruction he had caused, Ye Bei nodded in satisfaction.

This feeling of power made him incredibly excited.

“The flames’ power is pretty great. Now, let’s continue with the treasure chests! I still have another Golden Treasure Chest…” he muttered to himself as he breathed out a ball of remnant flames from his mouth. Immediately after, without delay, Ye Bei shouted at the system, “Open the next Golden Treasure Chest!”

“Yes, Host!”

As soon as the system said this, the second Golden Treasure Chest in front of Ye Bei slowly opened. The golden light it gave off was even more dazzling than the light from the previous Golden Treasure Chest.

When he saw this dazzling light, Ye Bei’s eyes immediately brightened.

“Looks like it’s something good again!”

His forked tongue sticking out of his mouth, Ye Bei extended his neck and directly stuck his head inside the second Golden Treasure Chest.

Psss!

When he got a clear look at the item inside the second Golden Treasure Chest, Ye Bei immediately let out a harsh gasp!