C32 Meat Patty or Fish Food?

Swish!

The wind whistling past his ears was as fast as lightning.

While Zhan Tianming was busy feeling dissatisfied with the gorilla, an enormous python as thick as a bucket shot towards him like an arrow.

Nine Dragons Step!

Thanks to Little Purple's reminder, he was able to dodge the python easily.

"Get the hell out of my face!"

Swish!

A stone flew towards the python.

With a bang, the stone hit the python. Sadly, it wasn't even able to scrape the python's skin.

However, before the python could make any more moves, it was grabbed by the Crimson Flame Ape and torn into pieces.

"Roar!"

The ape threw the dead python aside and continued to chase after Zhan Tianming.

Zhan Tianming shook his head.

Not only was he annoyed by the python, but he didn't even get any experience points out of it.

His experience points still looked the same; it was a pitiful sight for Zhan Tianming.

It seemed like he really had to go out of his way to hunt if he wanted to get some experience points.

"Damn! That Grade One Demonic Beast was killed instantly by that ape... He stole my experience points!"

"Ah! My lovely experience points!"

"Stinking gorilla, just you wait!"

Zhan Tianming's eyes were completely red.

From his point of view, that python was a sea of experience points.

However, some monster stole the entire sea from him.

All that experience points... gone, reduced to ashes.

"Master, this Crimson Flame Ape can be tamed. There is also a trace amount of Crimson Ape Bloodline in its body." Little Purple transmitted.

"Crimson Ape Bloodline?" Zhan Tianming was startled.

Although he had never heard of this bloodline; just from the name alone, he could feel it was something impressive.

"A bloodline, you say? Well, isn't that appetizing."

Motivated by the apparent gains, Zhan Tianming decided to give it a try.

Now, the ape was game.

And Zhan Tianming was ready to play.

A pair of indifferent eyes looked at the approaching ape.

"Beast Contro—"

Bang!

"Ah!!"

Before Zhan Tianming could even complete saying Beast Control, a black king ant scared out of its wits by the Flame Red Ape crashed onto him.

Zhan Tianming staggered and fell down.

"Ding dong!"

"Beast Control success. Proficiency increased by 2 points."

Before Zhan Tianming could get up, he was stunned by the system notification. Before he could cry out in frustration, another notification informed him that the 100% success rate of beast taming had disappeared.

"The hell..."

"Damn it all!!!"

Zhan Tianming was dumbstruck and could not help but yell in frustration.

His Beast Control skill did work but what it tamed wasn't the Crimson Flame Ape, but the Black King Ant. The Black King Ant, true to its name, was an ant and didn't even reach his knees.

"Damn it! This is cheating!"

Looking down, he saw the Black King Ant stand beside his feet, nudging his pant with its head. Zhan Tianming wanted to cry, but no tears came out.

"Heavens! You don't have to play like this!"

He wanted nothing more than to squash the Black King Ant at his feet.

"Master, what are you waiting for? Run!" Little Purple shouted anxiously.

Zhan Tianming came back to his sense and started running.

Without holding anything back, he ran as fast as he could.

Had he not ran, that Crimson Flame Ape would've turned him into a meat patty.

Fight it out with the ape, you say?

Are you an idiot, I say.

With a gigantic ape in tow, Zhan Tianming ran, scaring away all the beats that stood in his way.

Soon, Zhan Tianming was forced onto a cliff.

Below the cliff was a seemingly bottomless stream.

Not far away from the cliff was a magnificent waterfall. The water flowed down about 3,000 ft and met the stream creating a Milky Way like junction.

Dense fog surrounded the area where the waterfall and stream met.

Below the cliff and in the stream, he could see fishes—strange fishes—with absurdly long fangs, and they seemed fast, again in an unexplainable weird way.

'Damn! What am I supposed to do now?'

'Jump in and become fish food.'

'Stay put and become a meat patty.'

"Heavens, this is so unfair! Isn't this like using 50:50 in 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' and the computer leaves behind only the wrong answers?"

Zhan Tianming asked with a sullen face.

Regardless of what he chose, the outcome... let's just say it was less than desirable.

"Bajie, aren't you a divine beast? Quickly suppress that bastard!" Zhan Tianming shouted to Little Purple in the War Pet space.

"Master, I'm not that strong yet."

"If I can drink this Crimson Flame Ape's blood, I'll probably be able to breakthrough,"

Little Purple said, looking very pleased with what it had just said.

Zhan Tianming's mouth twitched.

'Is... Is that pride I see on this walking-talking pork's face?'

'What the hell is it proud of?'

He was about to die, and here it was feeling all proud.

'It's too damn unreliable!!!'

'Meat patty or...'

'Fish food.'

Zhan Tianming was in a dilemma.

'This isn't the end I wanted, but it's the only exit for the both of us~'

In his last moments, Zhan Tianming was reminded of the lyrics of a love song.

"Sigh..."

"This... this really wasn't the end I wanted."

Blocking all unnecessary thoughts, Zhan Tianming closed his eyes and just jumped.

In the end, he chose fish over fist.

Below the cliff, even though the fishes looked ferocious and were in a buttload quantity, they were at least vicious beasts and not demonic beasts. He could still fight vicious beats, but now even ten of him could fight that Grade Two Crimson Flame Ape.

"Roar!"

The Flame Red Ape came to the edge of the cliff and bellowed. It stared at Zhan Tianming, who had jumped down, with its blood-red eyes.

Below, in the deep pool:

All those fishes were at least two to three meters long. The moment he jumped, all those fishes dived out of the water and stared, in a really perverted way (like it would make Master Roshi feel shy), at the descending Zhan Tianming.

That expression was so intense that even on their fish faces, it looked lewd and excited.

As they looked at Zhan Tianming, their fangs began coming out.

Zhan Tianming, who was still mid-air, was in no mood to die like this. So, he suddenly raised his hand and struck out.

"Proud Dragon Repents!"

"Ding dong! You've triggered both the doubling effect and the garroting effect!"

"Roar!"

The true qi dragon roared like thunder and pounced forward.

Rumble!

Rumble!!

The waters of the stream surged.

Several strange fish were instantly killed.

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations! Host Zhan Tianming, you have killed a school of Arrowtooth Piranhas. You have gained 1,050 experience points."

"Ding dong …"

'Arrowtooth Piranha?!'

Hearing this name, Zhan Tianming loudly cursed.

Without any time to think, he once again struck out with his palm.

"Proud Dragon Repents!"

Rumble!

Rumble!!

Another palm force surged out, slamming into the deep stream with a loud bang. The water, once again, rose from the stream.

"Ding dong!"

"Ding dong!"

He had killed some Arrowtooth Piranhas again.

After releasing two powerful strikes, the speed of his descent had decreased by a lot. Moreover, he had killed the Arrowtooth Piranhas below and cleared the area he was about to fall off. So, he stepped in his right leg and activated Nine Dragons Step.

"Ding dong!"

"Congratulations! Host Zhan Tianming's Nine Dragons Step had been upgraded. It's now a Level-6 skill."

Although the Nine Dragons Step had been upgraded, the size of the stream was not small, so Zhan Tianming was still unable to get out.

Plop!

He fell into the stream.

Hualalai...

Hualalai!

Numerous Arrowtooth Piranha pounced towards the place where Zhan Tianming had fallen.

Suddenly, Zhan Tianming resurfaced on the stream and swam towards the shore at a supersonic speed.

Zhan Tianming was like a stick, cutting through the water and making the waves spread out onto the sides.

It was as if a Aircraft Carrier was making its way towards the shore.

'Damn, this is so...:

'COOL!'

'This feels great.'

'If my crushes from earth saw me like this, wouldn't they just jump into my bed?'

'And if I did it in the public pool, wouldn't the hook-up percentage be over 200%?'

'But... what is this?'

Honestly, Zhan Tianming knew shit about swimming. He was actually drowning while flapping his limbs like a helpless duck. Well, it was indeed eye-catching, in its own ways.

Soon, Little Purple dragged Zhan Tianming to the shore.

Splash, splash, splash...

Little Purple shook the water off its body by shaking vigorously.

Zhan Tianming laid on the floor and looked as if his soul had left his body. Little Purple couldn't help but shake its head at his plight.

"Master, why did you jump if you didn't know how to swim?"

"I really don't know what to say."

"Humans are strange animals."

Just as the Little Purple was muttering to itself, a pair of cold and gigantic eyes suddenly opened up at the bottom of the deep stream.