Chapter 38 (Part A) – Death of an Enemy

Due to Bi Fan’s strength, looking inside his body wasn’t going to an issue for him, but it was the first time ever that he was peeping into his body.

Flesh, blood, arteries and organs were all very strong, but nothing out of the ordinary.

He started looking into his pubic region. The public region inside his body was covered in a drizzling white mist, which obviously, was his inner energy and aura.

“How? How’s that even possible?! There’s a lotus inside my pubic region! I haven’t seen a lotus like that one since…. the one I saw inside the Wan Snake Cave!” Bi Fan was left awestruck in that moment of discovery.

There was a lotus inside his pubic region, petals, eighteen in count, color, black and white. Its huge petals hovered above the white fog, like they were being supported by his inner energy.

The lotus looked somewhat dispirited, like it was low on moisture.

The black petals were marginally better off, and slightly more flamboyant than the white ones.

Bi Fan was certain that this was the same lotus that he had spotted inside the Wan Snake Cave, that same strangely wonderful Yin Yang lotus.

But he was completely clueless as to how the lotus entered his body.

There had been many doubts in Bi Fan’s mind about the cave and that incident, but things were become clearer now.

His body had been completely altered after the incident inside the Wan Snake Cave; he was beginning to realize that the Yin Yang lotus was the reason for this sudden change in his physique and not the Wannian Spirit milk.

Bi Fan tried to sense the Yin Yang lotus, he even tried interacting with it, but the communication failed as the lotus did not respond. It appeared that he would have to try a second time a little later and for the time being, he would have to suffice by slowly studying the lotus.

Bi Fan decided to stop looking inside his body, and opened his eyes, only to see that the Marten was still carrying an angry look on his face, which instantly made Bi Fan laugh.

“Greedy Marten, well, come on, I’ll fix you the best quality herbs” Bi Fan smiled and said: “Come on to my shoulder now, I would like to find a private spot to practice.”

“Creek….” The Marten shook his head, still too afraid to come close to Bi Fan.

Bi Fan knew that the Marten was a little frightened at the moment, so he did not insist on it: “Alright, why don’t you follow me. But don’t get lost.”

Bi Fan didn’t venture out very far away from the Chimera’s lair and found a suitable place nearby so he could practice and restore his energy in peace.

Just a while ago, the Yin Yang lotus inside his body had swallowed that poisonous black lotus that the Marten had obtained from the Chimera’s lair. As a result of this, it seemed that his body’s inner energy had gone up to some extent, and had broken into the next layer. Now, his inner energy was almost in the ‘brave’ layer, on its own accord.

Once he was done restoring his inner energy, Bi Fan took some time out to practice as well. He began thinking about his fighting, the lessons he had learnt, the most suitable moves, and how to make those moves even better and more efficient, and how to make his attacks even more dangerous and powerful.

It took Bi Fan another five hours of rigorous training before he was satisfied with the results, which was followed by another restoring session.

He stretched out his arms and legs a bit; his bones issued a flurry of crackling sounds loud enough to attract attention from people, if any had been standing near him.

“Ah, that feels good!” Bi Fan said out loud.

The Marten had been standing cautiously at a distance the whole time, and wouldn’t squeeze himself into Bi Fan’s arms for a nap like he used to earlier.

Bi Fan beckoned to the Marten: “Greedy, come here, don’t be scared. The black silk threads won’t come out to kill you, if that was the case, then they could have done it long ago..”

The Marten listened to what Bi Fan was trying to explain, hesitated for a bit and then finally chose to trust Bi Fan and jumped onto his shoulder.

The Marten kept looking left and right, still terrified of the black silk threads, ready to flee at a moment’s notice. The serious look on his face was rather hilarious.

When the black silk threads did not emerge for a while, the Marten’s taut nerves finally loosened up a bit and eventually, he fell asleep on Bi Fan’s shoulder.

Bi Fan pacified the Marten; just to make sure that it had fallen asleep, and then started preparing himself to go a few more rounds with the Chimera.

After being unable to chase Bi Fan down, the Chimera had returned to its food and had decided to vent its anger out on the dead rhino by gobbling the whole of it.

Soon after, it had returned to its cave of residence, only to find that the precious black lotus that it had been guarding, was now gone.

The Chimera was quick to realize that Bi Fan had a part to play in the disappearance of the lotus, igniting new flames of hatred for Bi Fan in his heart.

When Bi Fan approached its cave, the Chimera was taking a nap but woke up as soon as he realized that there’s movement nearby.

The Chimera rushed out of its cave and furiously roared at the unknown passerby. But once he realized that the trespasser was Bi Fan, his rage touched new heights.

Without any explanations or delays, the Chimera charged for Bi Fan, and launched a ferocious attack.

It’s a good thing that the Marten was away from the fight, as the force of Bi Fan’s attacks was much greater now.

Although, his attacks still weren’t good enough to seriously injure the Chimera, but since he could attack with much more force than before and at a higher frequency as well, the Chimera was obviously in greater pain.

“Boom!” The Chimera in lieu of its anger, cast out a direct attack at Bi Fan.

Bi Fan side stepped and managed to dodge the attack, and the Chimera ended up hitting a tree, which broke.

“Wow! What amazing strength!” Bi Fan exclaimed.

Even though at a physical level, Bi Fan was no match for the Chimera, and was nowhere near as tough as the beast, his agility and flexibility far exceeded that of the Chimera’s, and this particular environment favored those traits in a fight, especially when fighting up close.

Bi Fan made sure that he was always close to the Chimera while they were entangled in their duel. This way, the Chimera’s tail goes out of the equation, in fact, as opposed to being its most vicious weapon, it kind of got in its way, making things even harder for the monster.

Generally speaking, a Chimera such as this one, uses its tail in a fight to cause the maximum damage to the enemy, but since the tail was being used to a negative effect in this fight, the Chimera had no option but fight with very limited resources and, to barely half of its maximal capacity.

On the other hand, if the Chimera was capable of breathing fire, then Bi Fan would have been rendered helpless.

Bi Fan’s strength had seen a decent increase and he was casting out various moves with higher efficiency and a lot smoothly than before, while his body was dripping wet with sweat.