The Gale Sparrow had already found the location of the Blaze Salamander nest, so there was no need for Lin Fan to waste his time looking for it.
However, because he did take this detour to Xiao Bai’s nest, he was quite far from the Blaze Salamander’s nest now.
Xiao Bai, that was what he chose to name the White Tiger cub.
Still, that was nothing when it came to Hi’s speed, so Lin Fan was able to reach it after half an hour.
When he came up on the Blaze Salamander’s nest, the first thing that he did was start looking around the area. He knew where the Blaze Salamander was, but that didn’t mean that he wanted to directly attack it even if he could win since the Blaze Salamander was only in the Third Qi Gathering Realm.
Instead of wasting his energy, it was better to see if there was a good place to trap the Blaze Salamander in the surrounding area and then take it out in a single blow.
Luckily for him, there was such a place and it was quite near the Blaze Salamander’s nest.
So he quickly set up the trap before bringing out the bait.
He didn’t know why, but for some reason, the spirit beasts out in the wild really liked chasing the Gale Sparrow. It had been the case of the Inferno Swans and many other spirit beasts. This Blaze Salamander wasn’t an exception.
So Lin Fan released the Gale Sparrow to draw out the Blaze Salamander while he waited behind a bush for it to come out.
It didn’t take long before he felt the thudding on the ground that came from the heavy steps of the Blaze Salamander. He looked over at Hayase who was on the other side and received a nod to show that he was also ready.
The Gale Sparrow came into the clearing first, but it was closely followed behind by the Blaze Salamander.
But the moment that the Gale Sparrow flew into the clearing, it immediately flew up into the sky, out of the reach of the Blaze Salamander.
Of course, the Blaze Salamander didn’t give up as it looked up at the sky at the Gale Sparrow. It threw its head back as its throat suddenly started to swell and as it swelled, there was a red colour that appeared on the skin around the neck.
It was clear that it was gathering flames to shoot the Gale Sparrow down.
However, this was exactly what Lin Fan was waiting for.
He raised his hand that had a blue light around it and after a few seconds, there was an ice wall that suddenly appeared in the air above the Blaze Salamander. It appeared right in between the Blaze Salamander and the Gale Sparrow.
The Blaze Salamander didn’t have a chance to stop itself from releasing its flame breath, so it shot it right at the ice wall.
However, when it touched the ice wall, it was completely absorbed.
Then after a few seconds, with a blue glow, there were blue flames that rained down on the Blaze Salamander.
The Blaze Salamander was shocked by this and quickly released another breath of flames to counter these flames, but it found that these blue flames were actually stronger than its flame breath. So it released even more flames from its mouth to counter the blue flames.
It was at this moment that Hayase suddenly released the blade of water that he had been condensing the entire time.
With the Blaze Salamander distracted by the blue flames that were raining down on it, it wasn’t able to react in time to the blade of water that suddenly flew out.
The blade of water was unimpeded as it flew through the air, flying right through the Blaze Salamander’s neck, bringing a streak of blood that flew through the air.
Then without any pause, there was a line of blood that formed on the Blaze Salamander’s neck before its head suddenly separated itself from the rest of its body. It slid off the neck before dropping to the ground with a splash of blood.
The blue flames that had been above it suddenly landed on the Blaze Salamander’s corpse, but Lin Fan quickly extinguished those flames to not hurt the corpse and damage its value.
Still, with both him and Hayase working together, this was almost too easy for them.
Lin Fan didn’t waste any time as he put the Blaze Salamander’s corpse into the Pet Storage Space before quickly clearing out of this area.
Even if he had finished off the Blaze Salamander in a single blow, all the flames that it had shot out had made quite a bit of noise and put on quite the attraction, so it was better to get out of here as soon as possible before other things showed up.
But Lin Fan didn’t head back to the city right away, instead he went to the Blaze Salamander’s nest. After all, this was the nest of a Third Qi Gathering Realm spirit beast, there should be some valuable things in there.
As it turned out, Lin Fan wasn’t disappointed by what he found.
At first it seemed like there was nothing, but then he saw that there were some mushrooms that were growing on the walls.
They seemed to like normal mushrooms to him at first, but then he used his Appraisal Eyes to find that these were mushrooms that contained a strong concentration of elemental fire energy. These were mushrooms that could be used to refine pills or help with the cultivation of fire attributed cultivation techniques, so they would be worth quite a bit.
Lin Fan didn’t hesitate at all as he harvested all these mushrooms and threw them all into the Pet Storage Space.
Then he swept through the entire cave to see if there was anything else, but he wasn’t able to find anything at all.
That was until the very end when he finally found a strange corner.
It wasn’t strange because of the cave itself, but rather it was strange because there was a strange rock formation there. It was a kind of rock formation that didn’t seem like it belonged there, it was a kind of rock formation that seemed like it was man made.
Lin Fan couldn’t help being curious about this, so he started poking around with the rock formation. He slowly pulled out one rock after another from the formation until he revealed what was behind it.
As soon as the treasure that he found was revealed, his eyes popped out and his mouth couldn’t close.
What had been revealed was a very simple and smooth stone, but it was something that Lin Fan recognized because he had already seen a picture of this before.
While it looked like a stone, it was anything but a stone…
It was an egg…It was the egg that was supposed to be the final item in the One Martial Chamber of Commerce’s auction.
This egg should be the most precious thing that was sold there and it should have been heavily guarded by whoever won it, so what was it doing here?
Lin Fan was about to reach his hand towards the egg, but then he quickly pulled it back as he looked around his surroundings.
After thinking about it for a bit, he still reached out and grabbed the egg.
He had already disturbed the rock formation, so it was already too late for him to back out now.
Without even thinking about it, he quickly put the egg into his Pet Storage Space and ran out of the Blaze Salamander’s nest. He didn’t even think as he chose a random direction and started running into the forest.
It was already too late, he had disturbed that formation and there should be people who would be coming to check it. He had to get out of here as quickly as possible.
Only when he finally felt that he had gotten far enough away did he finally stop to process what had just happened.
But no matter how he thought about it, the only thought that he had was that he was screwed.
There was no other way around it, he was unlucky enough to get caught in this mess and now there was nothing that he could do about it. Even if he wanted to hide this fact, it wasn’t something that could be hidden forever…
Even if he kept the pet egg inside of the Pet Storage Space, the pet egg would eventually hatch and it would be wrong just to force the pet to stay inside the Pet Storage Space forever. Even if there weren’t any animal cruelty laws here, it went against Lin Fan’s conscience to do something like this.
So the first thing that he had to figure out was just what to do with this egg…
No, after thinking about it, he realized that there was something else that took priority.
After hiding himself, Lin Fan called out the Gale Sparrow and released it to start checking the surrounding area.
He didn’t know who would be coming after him, but it was better than getting caught off guard, so it was best to send out the Gale Sparrow to scout the surrounding area along with the Blaze Salamander’s nest from earlier.
However, not long after the Gale Sparrow left, it had quickly returned with information.
It had found a group of people not far away, but half of this group was already dead.
As for the other half that wasn’t dead, they were people that Lin Fan recognized. Well, there was only one person in that group that Lin Fan recognized from the Gale Sparrow’s description.
It was Ye Tian Xie, the young master that Lin Fan had seen at the auction.