Blue Phoenix Chapter 25 – Entrance Fee

The reunion with Sha Yun and Little Poppy was rushed as the snake-woman wished to get out of the humid tunnels as quickly as possible. Neither Wang Ju Long nor Deng Wu disagreed as they remembered the many days spent waiting for the Dragon Corps to arrive. By now they were sick of looking at their dark surroundings, hearing the sound of growling demon beasts and breathing in the stale air.

The tunnels were similar to the maze they first encountered upon entering the dungeons. Unlike the maze, this place was packed with magical beasts and the further in they went, the stronger the beasts became. That was except the wolves they met the first day they entered the tunnels. No beasts seemed to provide even a fraction of their resistance.

Sha Yun once more insisted on carving her own path through the walls, but Hui Yue stopped her. Fortunately, both Hui Yue and Sha Yun were now capable of using their affinity with earth to find the most used way, the way leading towards the next gate.

During their trip, Hui Yue started by stubbornly keeping all the beast cores, the beast blood, the bones, and meat. However, after a few days, even Hui Yue was tired of the constant amount of materials which were coming his way, causing him to leave them to Little Poppy, allowing the flower to devour all it wished for.

Although Little Poppy ate hundreds of magical beasts, all these beasts did not seem to do much for its evolution. Hui Yue assumed that it was at a bottleneck in its own cultivation.

Although it seemed as though it would not require much effort, Little Poppy was a flower that was normally very weak. It was incredibly rare to see them grow to the size that this one had grown to. Only by relying on cultivators to kill an immense amount of beasts, which it was allowed to devour, could it have a chance to turn this large and this ferocious.

Having grown up within the tunnels in an environment where the strongest survive, rather than being raised by a cultivator in a kennel, this flower had managed to grow to a size unimagin

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