C22 [the Real Use of the Fire-eater]

Outside the city, on the rocky beach.

This was the first time Zhang Ping had left the city. The biggest feeling he had was that he was safe.

He originally thought that after leaving the city, he would face endless dangers. Who knew that along the way, he didn't even encounter a single catabolic beast.

"Sisi, what are we doing here? Didn't we say that we were going to train in combat?" Zhang Ping picked up a pebble and asked as he played with it.

Liu Sishan's back was facing Zhang Ping. At this moment, a stream of water suddenly swept out from her side.

Whoosh!

The pebble that Zhang Ping was playing with was instantly split into two. Only then did he react and quickly threw the stone away and quickly retreated.

"In order to ensure that my special training is effective for you, you can attack me with all your strength, and I will also attack you at the right time to test your limits." Liu Sishan turned around and looked at Zhang Ping, who was on guard, and said slowly.

Zhang Ping frowned and said, "Sisi, are you sure you won't cut me in half?"

"It's hard to say. You better pray that I won't make a mistake." Liu Sishan said lightly.

As she spoke, four floating water balls had already appeared around her. These water balls were spinning around her, and they could turn into Flow Whips and cut everything in their way at any time.

"Come on."

Liu Sishan waved at Zhang Ping.

She was dressed in white and stood still.

Gradually, the surrounding water vapor filled the air. Under the refraction of the light, she looked like a goddess.

Zhang Ping felt helpless. After thinking for a moment, he bent down and picked up a few pebbles. He decided to use the pebbles as a hidden weapon and test Liu Sishan's methods.

He raised his hand and threw the pebbles.

The water balls around Liu Sishan immediately turned into a flat shield to block the pebbles. Then, many small water balls separated from the big water ball and shot towards Zhang Ping like bullets.

"Not good!"

Zhang Ping quickly dodged backwards. The pebbles in front of him were all shot through by the water bullets.

If the water bullets hit a person, the consequences would be unimaginable.

At this moment, Zhang Ping realized that Liu Sishan was serious.

He took a deep breath and pulled out the beauty's tear dagger. He quickly approached Liu Sishan with the Ape King Style.

The essence of the Ape King Style was the footwork.

This footwork had endless changes. It was extremely free and easy. When it was mastered, unless one had a mental lock-on ability, it would be very difficult to be aimed at.

Zhang Ping's Ape King Style had not reached the mastery level. It was only at the entry level.

However, Liu Sishan did not attack with all his strength. Otherwise, the speed of the water bullets would be even faster. Furthermore, it would have a tracking effect. With Zhang Ping's current strength, there was no way for him to play around with it.

Under Liu Sishan's watering, Zhang Ping relied on the Ape King Style to dodge the water bullets. However, when he was close to Liu Sishan, before he could even attack, a huge palm made of water swept out five meters away.

"Ouch!"

Zhang Ping sat on the pebbles and immediately grimaced in pain. He couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

However, Liu Sishan did not plan to give him any time to catch his breath. A series of Water Bullets swept towards him again, and he hurriedly rolled and dodged.

After that, he got up and tried to get close to Liu Sishan again, but the result was the same as before.

After a few times, Zhang Ping was already panting and sweating.

"Is that all you have?" Liu Sishan stopped attacking and asked Zhang Ping.

Zhang Ping was panting heavily. He couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard that and said angrily, "Sisi, what do you want from a rookie Third Level rookie like me?"

"But the strength you are displaying now is not as strong as when you were attacked by the Sky Fox. It seems that... I might have... not forced you enough." Liu Sishan narrowed her eyes and said slowly.

The moment she said that, Zhang Ping's eyes couldn't help but widen. He had a bad feeling in his heart.

As expected.

In the next moment, dozens of fine Flow Whips instantly formed.

However, these Flow Whips did not flow at high speed or vibrate at high speed. They were purely made of water.

Zhang Ping was caught off guard and was hit by a whip. His hair immediately stood up, and he squinted his eyes in pain. He even took a deep breath and his entire body trembled.

It was so painful!

He felt a burning sensation on his back. When he saw more Flow Whips coming, he quickly stretched out his hand. Fire element energy immediately surged out and formed a huge flame palm, blocking all of the Flow Whips.

Following that, the Flow Whip was like an octopus's tentacles, attacking from all kinds of angles.

Zhang Ping waved his hands and jumped up and down, rolling left and right. However, he still received a few whips, and his teeth were in pain.

During the process of fighting, he had no choice but to abandon his unnecessary thoughts and focus on fighting Liu Sishan's attacks.

Gradually, he entered a state of mind without any distractions and began to feel the rhythm of the wind.

No matter which angle the Flow Whip attacked from, he would be able to react to it first. Every time, he would use the flames to block the attack.

Liu Sishan looked at Zhang Ping, and the corner of her mouth slightly raised. The speed of the Flow Whip's attacks gradually increased, and its angle became more and more cunning.

One minute later.

The fire element energy in Zhang Ping's body was completely used up, and he immediately fell powerlessly.

"I can't take it anymore. I'm so tired."

He looked at the Flow Whip around him and said helplessly with his eyes closed.

However, the Flow Whip did not fall. Instead, it gradually contracted to Liu Sishan's side and turned back into a water ball.

Liu Sishan walked in front of Zhang Ping and said, "You are actually very strong, at least very strong among the elementary Awakened."

Whether it was his ability to react or his control over his ability, Zhang Ping's performance was actually quite good. The only weakness was that he did not have any long-range attacks, but this weakness could be slowly made up for in the future.

"Of course I know that I'm very strong among my peers. Sisi, if you are at the same level as me, can you beat me?" Zhang Ping raised his head and asked Liu Sishan.

Liu Sishan answered truthfully, "I can't beat him. Before I reached intermediate, I only had defensive methods. After reaching intermediate, I gradually formed my combat strength."

"How long did it take?" Zhang Ping asked.

Liu Sishan replied, "One year."

"How is that possible!" Zhang Ping said in shock.

In just one year, she advanced from elementary to intermediate?

Liu Sishan said, "There is nothing impossible. The difference in the speed of advancement for different abilities is extremely large."

Her ability was to store water element energy through drinking water. Therefore, she was different from ordinary people. Ordinary people would be poisoned from drinking too much water, but she would only increase the water element energy from drinking water. As long as she released the water element energy in time, she could use it to train her ability.

The more she used her ability, the stronger she became.

Compared to some abilities that had strict requirements, her ability had relatively loose requirements. As long as she was willing to train, her advancement speed would be extremely fast.

Of course, this was also related to her astonishing potential.

If her potential was not enough, it would be impossible for her to advance so quickly.

...

They rested for ten minutes.

Liu Sishan told Zhang Ping to get up and continued to move forward with Zhang Ping.

"Sisi, where are we going now?" Zhang Ping asked as he ate the compressed energy bar.

Liu Sishan said, "Do you know why Pearl City was built here?"

"Why?" Zhang Ping really didn't know the answer.

Liu Sishan replied, "Because the eastern side of Pearl City is the Changsha River, the southern side is the salt mountain, and ten kilometers away from the west is a large number of iron mines. The northern side is the endless Dashan. There is no need to worry about water, salt, and iron here. There is no need to worry about food and other resources."

"Then are we in the south now?" Zhang Ping raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky, then he made a judgment.

Liu Sishan nodded and said, "The patrol party and the investigation team will periodically clean up the catabolic beasts on the road leading to the salt mountain. Therefore, the level of the catabolic beasts is generally low, which is perfect for you to practice."

"Now?" Zhang Ping opened his eyes wide and said.

Liu Sishan replied, "Let's go to the camp and rest for half a day, then we'll start at night."

"That's good, that's good." Zhang Ping heaved a sigh of relief.

His current condition was very bad. Not only was the fire element energy in his body completely depleted, but his physical strength was also almost depleted. Not to mention the catabolic beasts, even ordinary wild beasts might not be able to beat him.

...

The salt mountain was a place with a large amount of salt.

In fact, it was a valley that contained a large amount of salt.

From Pearl City to the salt mountain, it would take about two hours.

Sometimes, the salt transporters would not have time to return to Pearl City, so they would just rest near the salt mountain and gradually form camps.

The problem was that it was not safe to spend the night in the wild.

In the middle of the night, they would often be attacked by wild beasts and catabolic beasts. The casualties and injuries of the salt transporters were mostly related to this.

Later on, some adventurers saw a business opportunity, so they set up camp near the salt mountain.

Guests only needed to pay a small amount of Pearl Coins to stay for a night, and there would be a specialized Awakened responsible for guarding and driving away the wild beasts and catabolic beasts at night.

The price of accommodation was not expensive, and it was also relatively safer.

Gradually, the salt transporters got used to spending the night in this kind of camp.

In the salt mountain, the camp slowly became a decent business.

...

Two hours later.

Zhang Ping and Liu Sishan arrived at a camp.

This camp was built on a small hill. In the middle of the camp, there was a large pit, and the pit was burning with raging flames. It looked a little like a small volcano.

Around the bonfire, there were many tents set up. With a corresponding number plate, one could stay in and rest.

Zhang Ping and Liu Sishan's tents were very close to the bonfire. Zhang Ping simply sat beside the bonfire to absorb the flames and quickly recover his strength.

"Let me ask you a question. Can you eat the flames that you release?" Liu Sishan asked thoughtfully when she saw this scene.

Zhang Ping was stunned for a moment, then he tried it out and replied, "Yes, I can, but there is still some consumption. However, this is a new idea!"

The main ability of the Fire-Eater was to consume flames to recover his strength.

After his physical strength was full, he would turn into fire element energy that would be stored in his body. Therefore, when his physical strength was exhausted, he could completely use the fire element energy to recover his strength.

Could it be that this was actually the real use of the Fire-Eater?

Zhang Ping muttered in his heart.

In fact, many Awakened did not know the true use of their abilities.

They trained and used their abilities according to their own understanding. Even if their understanding was wrong, their abilities would slowly change into the shape of an Awakened's habit.

Therefore, most of the Awakened would not think about whether their abilities were different from what they had imagined.

"Since you can recover your strength by absorbing flames, then don't be idle. Do five hundred push-ups first."

While Zhang Ping was muttering in his heart, Liu Sishan immediately realized the true use of the Fire-Eater.

Possessing the Fire-Eater.

Zhang Ping could completely walk the path of strengthening his physical body.

He did not need to worry about the problem of exhaustion. As long as there was a flame, he could continue to train.

"Sisi, five hundred is too little. I will do five thousand first."

Zhang Ping said with a smile. Then, he gave the order in his heart and began to train.

He could train beside the bonfire while absorbing the flames and doing push-ups. There was no feeling of exhaustion at all.

After completing five thousand push-ups, Zhang Ping simply circled around the bonfire and began to jump.

It was daytime now.

The salt merchant had gone out to look for salt ore, and no one was around to disturb him.

Other than the crackling sound of the bonfire, there was only Zhang Ping's breathing in the camp.