The mountains don't know the years, and time flies very fast. In a few days, Huo Chen will be sixteen years old.

In the past few years, Huo Chen has never stopped his pursuit of strength and worked hard to cultivate. Now, he has reached the level of a one-star Glory Warrior, mainly because he does not have a good Dou Qi cultivation technique, but his physical fitness has soared. With a height of one meter seven or eight, although he does not have strong muscles, his explosive power is amazing after cultivating Collapse Fist and Stacking Palm. Basic physical qualities such as physical flexibility and patience are also extremely strong.

Reach the level of a one-star magician. Although he knows less magic spells, most of them are some magic within level six, but after studying "Elements and Elemental Arrays", he can now form a magic array of two identical low-level spells and release them together, achieving a better effect than releasing multiple spells alone.

In the case of forging the Earth Flame Demon Iron Set for a long time, Huo Chen's forging master level has also reached a high level, coupled with his status as a low-level magic pattern master, the equipment created is the favorite of the villagers.

With the unlimited supply of Huo Chen's Heaven and Earth Spirit Fruit and Demon Crystal, Luna's current level has reached the peak of the Light Warrior and the peak of the Great Mage, and her height has also reached one meter six, which is about the same height as ordinary people. In addition, several attack and defense skills have been awakened.

Xiao Hei has also steadily reached the peak of the eighth-level demonic beast, the same as Xiao Zi. Without using natural skills, Xiao Zi is no longer Xiao Hei's opponent. The main reason is that under the transformation of the nameless spring, Xiao Hei has become a four-system talent of wind, fire, earth, and wood! It's just that because Xiao Hei is still too young, although he has the ripening effect of the nameless spring water, he is still not an adult and has no awakening talent skills.

In recent years, Lan Lan has not often entered the barren forest with Huo Chen, mainly because she is also cultivating hard, and now in addition to being a high-level alchemist, she is also at the peak level of a three-star great magician.

It is Xiao Hei and Luna who often accompany Huo Chen on expeditions into the barren forest. After releasing the rapid speed, Xiao Hei's speed was already extremely fast, and ordinary flying demonic beasts couldn't catch up. During the expedition, if he encountered a very powerful demonic beast, Huo Chen let Xiao Hei escape quickly.

And Luna is the best Heaven and Earth Spirit Fruit and all kinds of medicinal herb seeker, her innate elemental affinity is stronger than Lan Lan, as long as there are any medicinal herbs within a radius of a thousand meters, she can smell it, and know exactly where it is.

This time, Huo Chen, Luna, and Xiao Hei came out for almost ten days, and they also found some high-grade medicinal materials and ores in the middle, and also got a few seventh-level magic crystals, and the largest piece was taken away by Luna.

"It's been a long time since we came out this time, and this barren forest has gone a lot deeper, so we should go back too!" Huo Chen said to Luna and Xiao Hei.

Xiao Hei didn't have any opinions, although Xiao Hei looked fierce, but in front of Huo Chen, he was still very docile. Luna, on the other hand, is a little unhappy, she has a fun-loving nature and doesn't want to go back as soon as she comes out. As soon as he heard Huo Chen say that he wanted to go back, he muttered a lot of words, and ran to the side to sulk.

Huo Chen didn't pay attention to it, because this is the norm, as long as he is unhappy, he will run to the side, but the time is definitely not long, and he will forget the unpleasantness just now in five minutes at most.

This time too, after a few minutes, Luna returned, looking light, as if nothing unpleasant had happened at all.

And just like that, they set out on their way home.

"Wait a minute! Luna, Blackie, did you hear anything? Huo Chen suddenly stopped and asked Luna and Hei.

After listening carefully for a while, Xiao Hei shook his head, indicating that he didn't hear any strange sounds. Luna blinked her big beautiful eyes, her long eyelashes smiling, and pointed to a small mine ten meters ahead. This was left by Huo Chen's excavation of the red steelmaking ore just now, because this was only a low-grade ore, not a rich ore, Huo Chen did not continue to dig deeper, only dug out the ore on the surface and left.

Huo Chen looked in the direction indicated by Luna, and sure enough, there was a gold devouring rat! It's "creaking" and gnawing on ore! The gold-eating rat's fur is gray and black, and it has not yet completed its first evolution.

The little gold eater seemed to have heard Huo Chen's voice, stopped gnawing on the ore, his pointed nose shook twice, and he ran quickly after dropping the ore, but instead of running away, he ran towards Huo Chen and them, and instantly came to Huo Chen's feet, screaming.

Huo Chen squatted down and looked at the little gold-devouring rat carefully. "Could it be that you're the gold-eating rat I found all those years ago?" Huo Chen was also a little unsure, "But, after so many years, why haven't you completed your first evolution yet?" ”

Luna looked at the poor gold-eater rat with curiosity, and noticed that it had multiple scars, some of which were still freshly formed, and the scars had not yet faded.

Huo Chen also saw the scars on its body, "It seems that your little guy's luck is really not very good!" After speaking, Huo Chen took out a small piece of high-grade ore Earth Flame Demon Iron, which was found in the underground cave at that time, because it was too small, it was ignored by Huo Chen, and he searched carefully today and found it.

"Come, little one, come and eat! You haven't tasted any high-grade ore in the past few years. Look at the scars on your body, you should have been hurt by high-level magical beasts! ”

Actually, this can't be blamed on the little gold eater. Under normal circumstances, after the little gold eater rat is born, it first eats some low-grade ores, and then gnaws on intermediate or even high-grade ores as its own strength increases. But this little gold-devouring rat is different, not long after it was born, it gnawed on the high-grade ore Earth Flame Demon Iron, and it tasted very fragrant.

But it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, after eating high-grade ores, some low-grade ores will not be able to meet the requirements of the little gold-eating rat. I have been looking for high-grade ores all these years, and low-grade ores are not eye-catching at all, but the formation of high-grade ores has specific conditions, either the environment is special, or there are powerful demonic beasts to spawn, but in either case, it is a disaster for the weak gold-eating rats!

So, all these years have passed, there are a lot of scars on the body, and I haven't eaten many good things, only the hungry can't hold on, so they will eat a little low-grade ore to satisfy their hunger, so even the first evolution has not been completed until now.

And this sudden encounter with Huo Chen was really a big surprise, because the little gold devouring rat knew that Huo Chen must have high-grade ores on his body for him to eat! That's why I just ran over to eat.

While the little gold eater was eating, Huo Chen introduced to Luna and Xiao Hei how he discovered the little gold eater, and told them his guess, which made Luna and Xiao Hei laugh.

Huo Chen, Luna, and Xiao Hei waited for the little gold devouring rat to finish the fist-sized Earth Flame Demon Iron Ore, this little guy seemed to be really hungry, and it took less than ten minutes to finish eating.

"Little one, have you eaten enough?" Huo Chen also teased the little gold eater, "Do you want another piece, I still have it here?" ”

The little gold eater shook his head, indicating that this high-grade ore was enough for it to digest for a while, and it didn't need to eat it for the time being.

"Would you like to come with me? It's the same as before, follow me, I promise you'll get more high-grade ores! Huo Chen continued to lure the little gold eater.