Fighting Against the Wind begins with the Dragon Flame

Chapter 4 Desert Trip
The next day, early in the morning.

As the night passed, the blazing sun once again enveloped the desert in heat.

At the city gate, many mercenaries, carrying weapons and packages, took advantage of the remaining coolness of the night and entered the Tagor Desert.

From time to time, there would be mercenary teams returning from the desert, escorting some female snake people, and entering the Stone Desert City to rest.

Snake slaves are extremely popular within the Gama Empire and are very expensive.

The huge profits attracted many professional mercenary groups to the Tagor Desert.

Thanks to its location very close to the Tagor Desert, Shimo City has gradually prospered, and the entrance fees alone have brought in a lot of revenue.

If the benefits were not considerable, the Jia Ma royal family would not have arranged Zhou Cheng, the Dou Ling, to guard the place.

Lin Yangmai walked out of the city gate, waved to Zhou Xuan on the city wall, turned around and walked west towards Shimo City.

A few days later.

at dusk.

As the sun sets, the temperature in the desert drops rapidly.

A strong wind blew through, yellow sand flew all over the sky, and gusts of yellow whirlwinds galloped across the sand.

Beneath a towering sand dune.

"cough cough"

After a day's journey, Lin Yang took out a large pot of water from his ring, tilted his head back and poured it into his mouth. The water dripped down his cheeks onto the sand and evaporated in an instant.

"Luckily I have a storage ring, otherwise it would be too cumbersome to carry so many supplies with me."

Putting the kettle back into the ring, Lin Yang looked at the abundant daily necessities in the ring and couldn't help feeling relieved.

These two storage rings were like timely help, otherwise how could I have come to the depths of the Tagor Desert alone.

Looking at the increasingly dark sky, Lin Yang took out a shovel and dug a hole in the sand. He planned to spend the night here.

The Tagor Desert is extremely dangerous at night.

The one-horned viper, yellow sand scorpion, desert monitor lizard and other magical beasts hiding in the sand sea basically hunt at night.

And because of the harsh living environment, desert beasts are generally more difficult to deal with than forest beasts.

When walking in the desert at night, you will encounter at least a dozen attacks from monsters, and because the wind and sand at night block your perception, it is almost impossible to guard against them.

So even though the desert is extremely hot during the day, no humans or snake people would choose to travel at night.

Lin Yang went deep into the Tagor Desert. If it were not for the powerful perception ability brought by his soul, which allowed him to avoid many ambushes, he would have been torn to pieces by the monsters hiding under the sand.

"Thump~thump~"

Lin Yang wiped his sweat after digging the hole. Just as he was about to take out his supplies for the overnight, a very subtle friction sound suddenly reached his ears.

"Here we go again. How annoying."

With a sigh, he slowly took out a heavy hammer from his ring and stared at the sand in front of him.

As Lin Yang stopped moving, the owner of the voice seemed to know that he had been discovered by his prey.

There was a sound of sand and scales rubbing against each other. The creature under the sand came directly to the top of the sand layer, causing a small bulge in the sand. After reducing the burden of the sand, it moved quickly towards Lin Yang.

"boom-"

"hiss!"

The heavy hammer fell to the ground violently, yellow sand flew, the sound of fine iron colliding was heard, and shrill screams followed. The creatures hidden in the sand were directly knocked away.

As his eyes swept over the creature that was knocked flying, Lin Yang's face turned dark and his brows furrowed.

"The unicorn viper is a first-level magical beast that kills with its venom. It is extremely persistent with its chosen prey and rarely gives up unless it is dead."

"It seems I have to deal with you. I don't want to be watched all the time."

With a sigh, he turned his palm, put away the sledgehammer, replaced it with a long sword, and walked slowly towards the unicorn viper.

In order to maintain the best physical condition along the way, he simply scared away any monsters that attacked him.

These desert monsters would basically give up on difficult prey, but they didn't expect to encounter this notorious monster this time.

The one-horned viper's physical strength is not strong, and even a fighter can easily suppress it in terms of strength.

Its main hunting method is to hide in the sand and suddenly attack, inject venom into the prey, and then wait for the prey to be killed by the poison. If it bites you, even a fighter will not survive for more than half an hour without an antidote pill!
"Fortunately, I happen to have an antidote. If you mess with me, you'll be in big trouble."

"Hi~his~"

"Clang—"

There was a sound of breaking wind, followed by the sound of scales colliding with metal.

The horned viper suddenly jumped up, but was blocked by Lin Yang's sword. Its mouth full of sharp teeth bit the blade tightly.

Seeing that the most dangerous head of the unicorn viper was controlled, Lin Yang hurriedly used his fighting skills. His five fingers with light red fighting spirit bent into claws and went straight to the unicorn viper by three inches.

"Fiery Claw"

The city guards must learn the yellow-level intermediate fighting skills, specializing in the scale armor protection of desert monsters!

"hiss!"

The fingertips slid across the snake's body, breaking the scales. The horned viper, which had suffered a heavy blow, loosened its mouth that was tightly biting the long knife, and leaped forward to bite.

Lin Yang quickly turned around to avoid it, and slashed the exposed flesh on his wound with a knife. The wound expanded again, and blood splattered out. Then he quickly retreated.

He retreated until he was ten meters away before stopping. He looked at the one-horned viper covered in blood lying on the sand, writhing and screaming miserably.

Lin Yang waited until the unicorn viper was completely silent before he put away his sword and let out a breath, but he did not rush forward to check whether a magic core was produced.

Snakes are cunning, and no one knows whether the one holding the grudge is really dead or just faking his death to lure the enemy. Although I have detoxification pills, they are not cheap. It would be best if I can solve the problem without getting hurt and not using pills.

"Don't worry about it for now. With such heavy bleeding, he will die tomorrow. We can deal with it then."

He returned to the sand pit he had just dug, took out the supplies for the overnight stay from the ring, closed his eyes and began to rest.

The sky gradually darkened, and the strong wind was still howling with the yellow sand. Countless desert beasts also became active, hiding in the flying yellow sand, looking for prey.

I wonder how many unscrupulous passers-by will be torn to pieces in the Tagor Desert late at night.

The night passed quickly.

When the scorching sun rose again, Lin Yang, who was sitting cross-legged in the sand pit, also opened his eyes.

Call ~
"The fire-attributed energy in the depths of the desert is so abundant that I will soon become a two-star fighter."

Lin Yang let out a long breath and stopped practicing his internal skills. The wisps of white mist that originally surrounded his body quickly dissipated.

His cultivation speed in the depths of the Tagor Desert was nearly 30% faster than in Stone Desert City.

He exerted force with his legs, jumped out of the sand pit, stood firmly on the sand, and looked into the distance.

At the same time, he began to look inward, his mind touching the illusory wind-raging dragon flame in his body, and the image of the fire tornado reappeared in his mind.

"It's tomorrow, I hope it works."

Muttering softly, Lin Yang's body couldn't help but tremble.

Fear, excitement, anxiety and other emotions mixed together, making it difficult for him to figure out what he was thinking.

"I don't want to stop at Douhuang, and I don't want to be as sad as Yunshan. The opportunity is right in front of me, so why hesitate?"

He shook his head, without thinking any more, and walked straight to the body of the horned viper and tapped the snake's head with a knife.

"There is actually a magic core. This is a good sign. I hope the journey goes smoothly."

Sensing the foreign sensation coming from the blade, Lin Yang grinned, picked up the long knife again, and chopped at the snake's head.

With the sound of iron and scales rubbing against each other, the snake's head was split in half, revealing a black single-sided crystal in the center, emitting a faint light.

This is the magic core of the one-horned viper, and it is also the first magic core that Lin Yang has obtained since entering the Tagor Desert.

Although he was forced to kill several first-level monsters before, they were all loss-making beasts that had not formed magic cores. Killing them would have been too energy-consuming. Fortunately, he had a storage ring that could carry a large amount of supplies.

If it were an ordinary fighter mercenary, with the small amount of supplies he could carry in his package, he would never dare to go deep into the Tagor Desert alone.

Thinking of this, Lin Yang stroked the two storage rings on his belt. These two storage rings were of extraordinary quality and were gifts from Zhou Cheng and the royal family.

Otherwise, how could I afford such a luxury item worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins? Now it has been of great help.

He took out a bottle of water, rinsed the dirt off the magic core, put it into the ring, and continued walking towards the west.

(End of this chapter)