Chapter 37 (Part A) – The Nefarious Chimera

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He ran as fast as he could, as he was afraid that the demon might wander away and he’d miss his chance.

Suddenly, he felt arms moving around his chest, like those of a little guy. The Long Diao was finally awake.

Bi Fan was a lot more worried about Greedy’s wellbeing, when compared to finding a suitable demon to train on.

Bi Fan held up the Long Diao and looked at him carefully, almost as if studying him. He found very little change in his friend, his head was still very small, only his white hair had become even whiter, almost to the point where they seemed to be glistening and his eyes, his big bright eyes, looked even more quick-witted now.

“Greedy, are you hungry? Here, take this, eat up.” Bi Fan took out two herbs from the Tian Yuan ring and gave them to the Diao (I finally figured, its English equivalent, A Marten).

The Marten took the two herbs in his hands and gobbled them up quickly. Even after eating his regular meal, he was looking at Bi Fan pitifully, like he was trying to say that he hadn’t had enough yet.

“Greedy, I never thought that after your evolution, you would become even greedier. Ah” Bi Fan said, laughing meanwhile.

The Marten ate up two more herbs before looking satisfied and then, even managed a burp or two.

“Greedy, if you keep eating like this, one day, I’ll go bankrupt feeding you.” Bi Fan laughed as he patted his pet’s head.

“Creek….” The Marten creaked, expressing dissatisfaction, as if he was saying ‘I don’t eat that much’.

The Marten looked so adorable, that Bi Fan couldn’t help a smile: “Greedy, you need to find a place to hide, I’ve located a very powerful demon and I’m on my way to fight it now.”

Another huge roar from the beast ringed in the forest and Bi Fan accelerated his pace once again.

After a while, Bi Fan was able to finally get a look at the beast.

His fair were blazing red, his body formation like a lion, almost twenty feet in height, and thirty feet in length, which extended to almost forty feet owing to the serpent like tail that it had on its rear. The beast looked awfully terrible and scary.

“A Chimera! ” Bi Fan was taken by surprise.

Chimeras were very powerful, awfully nefarious demons, they had very powerful bodies and their tails were exceedingly toxic in nature. A magical powers level Chimera was capable of breathing fire as well, which made them a very lethal opponent.

Bi Fan recovered from the shock once he realized that this one was only in the ‘spiritual intelligence’ layer.

The fighting capabilities of this breed far exceeded those of the other demons in the same layer, and if this Chimera was even one layer higher than its present stage, Bi Fan would have surely fled by now.

The Chimera had clearly come out to hunt for food, an obvious fact, considering that it had its paws and all of its fifty-six teeth deep inside the flesh of a rhino, which was gasping for its last breaths.

Bi Fan didn’t react immediately, because he wanted to follow this demon around for a while, so that he could locate its cave, which he suspected must be somewhere nearby.

Usually a demon as strong as this one, were often known to be find accommodation around some sort of a treasure which they guarded with their lives, like a bunch of rare herbs or a crystal mine.

As long as Bi Fan was able to follow the Chimera back to its residence, he could get his hands on that treasure as well.

When the fighting would begin, the Marten could use the opportunity and sneak into the cave and steal the treasure. Now, obviously, the treasure would have to be fairly small in size for the Marten to be able to seize it by himself.

The Chimera picked up the rhinoceros in its mouth, with his teeth firmly dug into the dead animal, and made its way through the forest at a very quick pace and with exceptional ease, considering he had a rhino dangling from its mouth.

Bi Fan followed the Chimera from a distance, while being extremely careful, as he didn’t want his presence known to the demon.

He followed the Chimera for roughly an hour, and finally they arrived at a very deep lying valley. The Chimera put down its prey on a flat stone tablet and began enjoying his meal.

Right about now, when the Chimera was hungry, would be the best time to fight it, as it meant that he was low on energy.

Soon after arriving here, the Marten had been finding it hard to conceal his excitement, which meant that there was obviously something very nice here.

Bi Fan put the Marten down, and then marched out of his hiding spot.

“Roar!!!” The Chimera opened its bloodied mouth and let out a bellow of rage when he spotted Bi Fan.

While a nefarious Chimera is enjoying its meal, one should abstain from interrupting it. But since that didn’t stop Bi Fan, the Chimera went wild with anger, and its eyes, red with rage.

Bi Fan hadn’t even made a move yet, and the Chimera’s tail had already sweeping left and right.

Its dark tail was thick and strong, and in addition to this, it also was acutely poisonous and spiked at the end with barbs.

If these barbs managed to penetrate one’s skin, then they would inject a very dangerous poison into the body of the victim.

Even though Bi Fan had already taken a Sunset Jade Purifier, he was still afraid of that sweeping tail. He was afraid that the Sunset Jade purifier might not be enough to nullify the toxin that this beast could inject into his body.

Even without factoring in the toxins, the Chimera’s tail was fairly dangerous. He swept it around with such enormous force that taking a hit of that would be very unpleasant.

Bi Fan was very concentrated at the moment, mentally. He brandished the ‘dance of mist’ footwork and managed to dodge.

The Chimera’s tail had a sweeping radius of about one meter, and he had swept it at a decent height. The tops of all the boulders in that vicinity broke, and sprinkled to the ground.

Bi Fan inwardly smacked his lips; he needed to be more careful, if he wanted to get out of this in one piece.

Bi Fan sped up his movement, as he would need to get closer to the Chimera before he could launch any sort of an attack, something the Chimera’s tail would make a difficult task out of.

“Bang! Bang!….” The Chimera kept sweeping its tail wildly, and the trees and boulders in the vicinity were paying the price. Its tail had managed to sweep off chunks of moss from the tree trunks while the boulders were much worse off.

Bi Fan was awfully fast, and was managing to avoid that sweeping tail consistently, but it required a great deal of concentration on his part to do so.

Presently, Bi Fan was only about two meters away from the Chimera, so he took out his light-ray sword and cast out the ‘Fufeng double-edged sword’ attack.

‘Spiritual intelligence’ layer demon such as this one, are gifted with extremely hard skins which made it very hard to hurt them. On top of that, they also had a lot of inner energy which meant that they could continue fighting for a long duration.

Bi Fan’s light-ray sword was a top grade weapon, but when attacking a demon such as this Chimera, it was only capable of shaving off a few strands of hair from the target’s body.

But Bi Fan didn’t care much, he needed the Chimera to hone his martial art skill and wasn’t really interested in killing the beast.

So, one human against one Chimera in a fight, well, this was turning out to be a very fierce battle.