Although Wang Zheng felt that the sentient candle flame disliked him and did not want him to touch it, after all, when he first released it, he was completely enveloped in flames and did not suffer any harm.

Does that mean I'll get hurt if I go into the flames now?

That's obviously impossible!

However, in the eyes of everyone in the Yunnan Military Region, Wang Zheng's move was truly incredibly cool.

It's like a heifer entering a bull pen—absolutely awesome!

However, in order to avoid the fiery corridor created by the candle flames, they took a rather long detour. Apart from a few words of "Don't approach the black flames" drifting over from afar, Wang Zheng did not notice their admiring gazes.

Otherwise, he would strike a few cool poses before landing.

Wang Zheng, who had already fallen into the flames, was very curious about the spiritual energy crystals on the ground that were engulfed by the candle flames but had not exploded. So he reached out and picked one up and held it tightly in his hand.

However, the moment his fingertips touched the spiritual crystal...

The burning candle flames that were originally attached to the surface of the crystal suddenly disappeared without a trace, and voluntarily shrank back into the spiritual crystal whose color and structure had been changed.

Seeing this scene, Wang Zheng was so angry that he kept clicking his tongue.

He casually tossed the spiritual crystal in his hand and found that it was no different from an ordinary spiritual crystal.

However, when he tried to absorb it, his data panel did not react at all.

Wang Zheng guessed that after these elemental scarabs absorbed the candle flames, the domineering flames had already transformed the spiritual energy crystals within their bodies, and the spiritual energy within them had probably all been converted into these explosive flames by now.

Regardless of how these insects changed, he wasn't a professional researcher anyway. He would just catch a few alive, report the relevant information and conjectures, and someone would naturally study them.

Wang Zheng only needs to casually mention it when the time comes. He knows that Xu Zhihong has already seen the special nature of the spirit crystal and the candle flame, and someone will naturally come looking for him then.

All he needs to do now is be patient and wait.

Wang Zheng then put aside these chaotic thoughts and tried to put the seemingly harmless and ordinary spiritual crystal back into his storage space.

Wang Zheng had a sudden thought, and then he felt his hand go empty.

As expected, his guess was correct. The spiritual energy crystals that were not covered by the candle flames easily and quietly appeared in the corner of his storage space, completely unlike their previous appearance that seemed ready to explode at any moment.

Then Wang Zheng took out the spiritual crystal again and held it firmly in place with his thumb, index finger and middle finger.

He squinted one eye and carefully observed the horde of strange beasts fleeing in panic and disarray in the distance.

He then stretched out his body, raised his arm high, and threw the aura crystal with a very standard Carter shot.

"Whoosh—"

A sharp whistling sound suddenly rang out as the spiritual crystal flew out at an astonishing speed.

However, just as it left Wang Zheng's palm, the black and red flames instantly erupted, leaving a long black and red tail trail as Wang Zheng threw it with tremendous force, attracting everyone's attention.

However, the spiritual energy crystal was still very unstable. It flew for less than 500 meters in mid-air before it suddenly exploded and rapidly expanded into a dazzling red light.

Then it collapsed back down and vanished without a trace.

Looking at the spiritual energy crystals exploding in the air in the distance, Wang Zheng helplessly pursed his lips.

"It's rare for me to throw such a good fastball."

...

Seeing that the alien beast defense line had been completely destroyed, Wang Zheng did not chase after them anymore, but instead focused on collecting the psionic grenades that had fallen to the ground.

Although the spiritual energy crystal was not very stable and far from being a grenade, Wang Zheng decided to shout it that way.

If the project truly yields results later on, as the first witness to discover the concept of this new weapon and an indispensable creator, he is fully qualified to be named.

He could call for grenades if he wanted to.

By the time the top leaders of the army group headquarters in the distance slowly walked up to Wang Zheng, he had already collected all the spiritual energy crystals that had fallen from the dead elemental scarabs on the ground.

Although these insects are of the third rank, they are still insect-type beasts with limited spiritual energy. They rely on their unique racial advantages to survive, so the amount of spiritual energy crystals they drop is not much.

To his shame, because Wang Zheng had to personally force Zhu Yan back each psionic grenade before he could retrieve it into his storage space, he counted them very clearly: a total of 983, which was about a one-fifth drop rate.

It is much lower than a typical third-grade exotic beast.

What surprised Wang Zheng even more was that his strike, which unleashed 50,000 units of spiritual energy, eliminated approximately 5,000 scarabs.

As a result, burning all the insects to death actually increased his spiritual energy limit by more than 90,000.

The business deal, which was originally intended to be a loss, didn't go through. Instead, it resulted in a small profit of over 40,000 yuan and an unexpected gain, which made Wang Zheng feel a little better.

After all, a kind-hearted boy is bound to have good luck!