People make mistakes

"Hey, this isn't something we should participate in." Zheng Wei said as he backed up.

Hao Ran kept walking further in and said, "Don't worry, I'll handle this."

As the fire lizards started surrounding Hao Ran, he looked at them and smirked. He took out a sword and sent a wave of fire at the ones in front of him. It did nothing to them as expected.

Hao Ran put away his sword and cracked his knuckles, "Guess we'll do this the hard way, huh?"

Hao Ran ran to the nearest one and punched it, breaking its head into parts. The other fire lizards saw this and got mad, they spat fire and launched fire attacks at him to the point where he couldn't be seen anymore.

Hao Ran walked out the fire without a scratch, not even his clothes burned and said, "Just like you, in resistant to fire."

After that, it was a total beat down for the fire lizards, with their heads exploding one after the other from Hao Ran's punches. They fought back with physical attacks which only hurt them since Hao Ran had a strong body.

After a while, Hao Ran finished the last one and looked around for any more. While looking for more, Hao Ran noticed a couple bushes with berries growing on them. Hao Ran walked up to the bushes and looked at the berries which gave off a fire element.

Hao Ran took one and ate it. Automatically, he could feel his organs on fire, Hao Ran circulated his energy to cool it down which worked. Although Hao Ran was resistant to fire on the outside, but he wasn't on the inside, he was also only resistant to weak flames, he could still get burned if a flame was strong enough. After a while Hao Ran felt that his fire technique got stronger by a little bit, it was such a small improvement that it was barely noticeable. It was a little bit better then a fire boosting pill, but still wasn't overpowered. What made them great was that there was a lot of bushes and berries.

Hao Ran looked at Zheng Wei and asked politely, "Hey, do you want to split this evenly?"

Zheng Wei was in a daze and snapped out, "Ah, there's no need. I practice the water element, it'll hurt me instead of benefit me." Zheng Wei said while scratching his head and giving an awkward laugh. He hadn't expected Hao Ran to be so kind, usually someone would be greedy and try to keep something good to themselves.

Hao Ran thanked Zheng Wei by giving him all the cores of the beast he killed which can be sold for a very high price.

"Here, you can take all these beast cores. I have no need for them since I'm already rich and I'm not an alchemist." Hao Ran said to Zheng Wei and then turned around to collect all the berries for himself, leaving Zheng Wei to collect the beast cores by himself.

Zheng Wei went to collect all the beast cores which required him to cut all of the beasts stomach open and search for it. It was a gross job and it was why Hao Ran didn't help Zheng Wei with it. It could also be another reason why Lin Kai and Hao Ran never collected them and just let them be.

While Zheng Wei was collecting beast cores, Hao Ran used his heaven energy and collected all the berries he could find. After a while, a small hill was formed by berries in front of Hao Ran.

Hao Ran sat crossed leg and started to eat the berries one by one and refine them inside his body. He started to get stronger, little by little.

In a few minutes, Hao Ran finally finished and he could see Zheng Wei waiting for him to finish so they can leave. Before they left Hao Ran dipped his fingers in the lava and felt a burning sensation. He smiled and took out an iron bucket. This was something he learned from Lin Kai and realized that it was very helpful. Hao Ran scooped up the lava and put it back into his storage ring.

Hao Ran and Zheng Wei ran out of the cave and headed for Heavens Mountain sect. They ran through a forest and zoomed past any beast that came after them since they wanted to head back to the sect as fast as they can.

Zheng Wei was kind of sad when he passed a beast since he wanted to collect all their cores. But he quickly shook it off his mind since Hao Ran seemed to want to get to the sect as fast as possible. After two days, the finally reached the sect.

"Hey, I'll go back and see if our group finished with their quests. I'll also turn in our quest. Is that alright?" Zheng Wei asked Hao Ran.

"Of course. Just do whatever you want. I'll go talk to my master real quick and then meet up with Cheng Li. Who knows, maybe we'll come down from the mountain to talk to you guys." Hao Ran said and waved goodbye to Zheng Wei and ran up the mountain.

"Greetings, Elder Fan." Hao Ran said and bowed to the elder.

"Hm, I heard you want on a mission. Did you complete it?" Elder Fan asked Hao Ran.

"Yes. I completed it and I also earned something's out of it." Hao Ran said as he sat down on a chair across the table his master was sitting at.

"I found some berries that could help me improve my fire techniques which I already ate, I also took a bucket of lava from there so I can temper my body with it." Hao Ran said and took out the bucket of lava, returning it to his storage ring after his master had a good look.

Elder Fan didn't say anything for a while. He suddenly got up and walked up to Hao Ran. Suddenly, he slapped the shit out of Hao Ran!

"You stupid bastard! Don't you know that only one type of berry grows at the 'fire rock cave'! It's the 'lava-fire prominence' berry! If it was refined into a pill, it would have increased its efficacy by a thousand times!!!" Elder Fan was so angry his face got red and fume could be seen coming out his mouth.

"And don't get me started on the lava! You could've just asked me and I'd give you a flame a thousand times stronger to temper your body with!" Elder Fan continued screaming until he was confused with himself and just walked out angry from the pagoda they were in.

"Damn." That was the only word Hao Ran could say.