Chapter 109 - Python

Just as Ye Chenfeng was about to pluck the king of the Yun Teng mushrooms, he felt as if a pair of icy pupils had locked onto him from behind, and a faint rustling noise occasionally reached his ears.Ye Chenfeng had no time to think further, and suddenly dashed forward ten meters before turning around to see a giant yellow python at least twenty meters long, with a body as thick as a huge barrel and covered in yellow patterns, a terrifying sight to behold.

From the mouth of the giant yellow python flickered its forked tongue, and it occasionally exhaled a kind of mist, which must be the source of the poisonous gas in the valley.

It seemed this was no ordinary python!

Even in the world five hundred years later, Ye Chenfeng had never seen such a species.

The giant yellow python slowly raised its body upright, a signal that it was sensing danger.

It seemed to feel that Ye Chenfeng was not ordinary and wanted Ye Chenfeng to back off, considering the Yun Teng mushrooms in this valley its private property.

Of course, Ye Chenfeng couldn’t just give up on the king of the Yun Teng mushrooms.

Now he roughly understood that the giant yellow python in front of him might be a mutant species that had grown so much larger than normal pythons by feeding on the Yun Teng mushrooms in the valley, even able to spit out the strongly poisonous gas from its mouth.

Ye Chenfeng subtly moved his feet, the Fourth Level Soul Force within his body constantly surging.

Facing the giant yellow python that was at least twenty meters long, he felt a strong sense of danger.

Seeing that its threats were ineffective, the giant yellow python slowly coiled its body and then suddenly lunged at Ye Chenfeng with its mouth wide open, continuously spraying out poisonous gas.

Ye Chenfeng dared not face the python head-on and used his extreme speed to dodge around the valley, luckily his speed was slightly better than the giant yellow python’s. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ NovᴇlFirᴇ(.)nᴇt

The giant yellow python struggled to keep up with Ye Chenfeng’s speed.

It seemed to lose patience, thrashing its body around, and its huge tail swept toward Ye Chenfeng, who was not far away.

Ye Chenfeng rolled away just in time to evade the attack.

The python’s tail struck a hard rock, shattering it and revealing the immense power contained in its sweep.

Ye Chenfeng was alarmed.

He knew that the chance of killing the giant python with his current Fourth Level Soul Force was one in ten thousand, but he did not want to give up on the king of the Yun Teng mushrooms.

In the midst of his escape, he suddenly spotted a cave in the rock wall not far away, with a boulder about the same size as the cave entrance about ten meters in front of it.

This cave must be the giant yellow python’s lair.

Ye Chenfeng immediately hatched a plan, his Fourth Level Soul Force churning within him.

He charged toward the king of the Yun Teng mushrooms without hesitation, plucked it swiftly, and continued running toward the cave without pausing.

The giant yellow python, likely not expecting Ye Chenfeng to suddenly pluck the king of the Yun Teng mushrooms, instantly became frantic, speeding up two or threefold.

It seemed utterly enraged by Ye Chenfeng’s action.

As Ye Chenfeng passed the large boulder ten meters in front of the cave, he forcefully kicked the sizable stone toward the cave with the intention of blocking the entrance.

Ye Chenfeng’s speed, maximized by the Fourth Level Soul Force, allowed him to dart into the cave just in time before the entrance was blocked by the boulder.

“Boom,” a loud noise echoed, possibly the body of the giant yellow python striking against the rocks outside the cave.

In an instant, the entire entrance collapsed, and now the yellow python couldn’t break in no matter what.

Ye Chenfeng panted heavily, realizing that this was the first time he had to flee in such a disheveled manner since his rebirth.

Muttering discontentedly, he said, “This damn beast, once I’ve increased my strength, I’ll taste what python snake is like.”

Since the cave entrance was blocked, the inside was pitch-dark.

Ye Chenfeng took out a lighter from his pocket and, using its faint light, he saw that the entrance was tightly sealed by fallen rocks.

The ground occasionally shook violently; it must have been the yellow python outside, still ramming into the entrance.

After five or six minutes, the trembling of the ground slowly dissipated, probably because the python realized it couldn’t break in and gave up.

Ye Chenfeng held a one-meter-tall Yun Teng Mushroom king in his arms and sighed, “Now that the cave entrance has completely collapsed, it seems leaving here after I increase my strength will be quite a task.”

Guided by the weak flame of the lighter, Ye Chenfeng walked deeper into the cave; the further he went, the murkier the air became, even carrying the putrid scent of rotting corpses around him.

The cave stretched fifty to sixty meters in length and was fifteen to sixteen meters wide.

Reaching the deepest part, Ye Chenfeng saw many animal carcasses littering the ground, including the remains of tigers and lions.

It seemed that the source of the foul smell in the air was indeed this.

After determining that there was no danger inside the cave, Ye Chenfeng retreated to the center and sat down.

Without the ability to concoct a potion from the Yun Teng Mushroom now, he wondered if eating it directly would have any effect.

Ye Chenfeng’s reckless dash into the cave with the Yun Teng Mushroom king was a gamble; if he could break through in strength, then there would be no need to fear the yellow python once he left the cave.

He hadn’t considered the possibility that consuming the mushroom might not contribute at all to the enhancement of his Soul Force.

As a power seeker, one must often push forward without ever contemplating a retreat strategically; if you mentally give yourself an escape route, you’ll never reach the peak of the strong.

Ye Chenfeng was not willing to give up the chance to enhance his strength; for him, increasing his power was of utmost importance.

Now, he only had two options: either increase his strength to kill the yellow python or, failing to enhance his abilities, become a meal for his adversary.

“Never mind all that, let’s give this a try first,” Ye Chenfeng twisted off a small corner of the Yun Teng Mushroom king and shoved it into his mouth without hesitation, chewing it roughlynand when the slightly bitter taste spread across his taste buds, he swallowed the chewed mushroom, though he didn’t feel anything unusual in his body.

After waiting for half an hour and still feeling nothing, Ye Chenfeng wondered if he had eaten too little.

So, he twisted off another corner of the Yun Teng Mushroom king and stuffed it into his mouth.

Now he was really fretting; he did fear that consuming Yun Teng Mushroom directly might not help his Soul Force in the slightest.