After entering the Thorn Forest, Chen Zhou no longer conserved the horse's strength and walked slowly as before. Instead, he used his long whip to spur the white horse to speed up its journey. In order to leave the Thorn Forest as soon as possible, Chen Zhou used some of his true energy to wrap around the horse's legs, thus increasing the white horse's speed.

The Thorn Forest was extremely dangerous, and Chen Zhou did not want to linger there. Moreover, there were spirit beasts he had never seen before, so he naturally had to remain highly vigilant.

Although this road has been built for a long time, it is still relatively intact and has not been damaged too much.

What's ahead?

Just as Chen Zhou sped up, the road ahead turned fiery red.

The roads before were just ordinary dirt roads, brown in color, but the road ahead had turned fiery red. This was the first time Chen Zhou had ever seen such a strange thing.

Chen Zhou quickly slowed down and used his pupil technique to observe the red road ahead.

Using his pupil technique, Chen Zhou's eyesight increased dramatically, allowing him to immediately see what the red thing in front of him was.

It was a pool of red liquid, spreading outwards from the center, and covered with layers of red mist. Chen Zhou could sense the flow of true energy within the red mist; it was a kind of red true energy.

"Wait! That's a trap set by a spirit beast!"

Ren Lao hurriedly said that as a sword spirit, he had naturally lived for a long time and his experience was far richer than Chen Zhou's.

"trap?"

Chen Zhou murmured, then immediately pulled on the reins, bringing the white horse to a stop.

Upon entering the Thorn Forest, Chen Zhou least wanted to encounter spirit beasts, as he had no experience fighting them.

The most important thing right now is to ensure your own safety; it's best to avoid encountering such uncertain factors.

And that's exactly what happened.

"This seems to be a low-level social spirit beast. It's so low-level that I don't think I've ever seen one before," Elder Ren continued.

Chen Zhou originally thought that if Elder Ren knew about this kind of spirit beast, he would know some way to deal with it. Now he said, "Because it is too strong, I have never encountered such a trash thing before," which is probably what he meant.

Chen Zhou had an urge to take a picture of the old man, but he restrained himself because the old man knew exactly what he was thinking.

"Kid, watch your scheming. This spirit beast is so low-level. If you can't handle it, how will you restore the Heavy Edge Sword? I trust you completely."

Elder Ren didn't hold it against Chen Zhou. This young upstart was afraid of even such a low-level spirit beast; how could he be entrusted with important tasks?

As the two were talking, the red mist above the pool of red liquid grew thicker and thicker until it emitted a pungent odor. Chen Zhou immediately covered his nose with his hand when he smelled it.

"What is this smell? It smells awful!" Chen Zhou exclaimed inwardly.

"Don't smell it! Most of the scents emitted by spirit beasts are aggressive. Immediately use your true energy to expel the scent you just inhaled!" Elder Ren hurriedly said.

Chen Zhou immediately followed Ren Lao's instructions and used his true energy to slowly expel the pungent smell he had just inhaled.

Having grasped this principle, Chen Zhou immediately used his internal energy to create a barrier in his trachea, preventing the pungent odors from entering his body.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle..."

As soon as Chen Zhou finished this action, a rustling sound came from the surrounding thorns.

Immediately afterwards, a huge red mist slowly rose from the thorns on both sides, and Chen Zhou only felt two powerful true energies appearing from both sides.

"What on earth is this thing? It's all nonsense." Chen Zhou said, and immediately used his true energy to transform into a silver needle, which he then shot to the side.

"Bang...."

The silver needle exploded immediately upon entering the thorns, and a huge, fiery red fox slowly emerged from the thorns.

"Fire Spirit Fox?" Elder Ren murmured.

Before Chen Zhou could ask Ren Lao any more questions, a row of fiery red foxes leaped out of the thorns. They were not as big as the first one, but they were as tall as Chen Zhou.

Chen Zhou is only 1.75 meters tall, while those fiery red foxes are all over 1.75 meters tall.

The first enormous fiery red fox to appear was over two meters tall, with fiery red fur and crimson eyes, staring coldly at Chen Zhou.

This was only the row to Chen Zhou's left; the other row had already appeared.

The number and size were similar to the row on the left, with only one large, fiery red fox. However, this fox had a crimson crown on its head, and if you looked closely, there were flames burning on it.

This fiery red fox has a natural regal air about it. As soon as it appeared, the foxes on the left all bowed their heads, as if submitting to it.

"That's a pack of Fire Spirit Foxes, and that's the Fire Spirit Fox King! I never imagined there were such creatures in this Thorn Forest!" Old Ren's voice rose several decibels.

"I was blind to their true worth. Almost all the Fire Spirit Foxes in this pack are at least Level 1 Spirit Beasts, and the Fire Spirit Fox King has already reached Level 4! The one on the left that is slightly larger is its mate, and its strength is also at Level 3! This is a huge pack of Fire Spirit Foxes!"

"I've been asleep for so long, and this is the first time I've ever seen a pack of Fire Spirit Foxes," said Elder Ren excitedly. "Although these spirit beasts aren't high-level, they are rare. The fur of a single Fire Spirit Fox is extremely valuable, and the entire Fire Spirit Fox King is a treasure!"

Many kings of various kingdoms used the crown of the Fire Fox King as a material for their crowns. Therefore, the crown of the Fire Fox King symbolized power, which led to them being hunted down by many royal families. It is now extremely rare.

Unexpectedly, there was such a large group of fire spirit foxes in this thorny forest.

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