Lynn looked at his continuously growing neck with a pained expression. How was he supposed to fight this? Did he have to cut off all nine heads at once like in those movies he'd seen before?

While this head hadn't fully grown yet, he should continue attacking the remaining heads.

Tianzhu initiated. A massive sword of light appeared above the Hydra and descended.

To Lynn's surprise, the Hydra used the breath attacks of two of its heads to stalemate Tianzhu. The remaining six heads spewed their breath at him.

Good grief, let's see who has more—your heads or my swords. Another Tianzhu light sword appeared and fell. Lynn watched as the Hydra lost two more attacking heads. Hey, here comes another one.

Soon, eight of the Hydra's heads were using their breath attacks to counter the Tianzhu light swords, leaving only one head still regenerating.

Lynn unleashed Tianzhu again. Just as the final Tianzhu light sword was about to reap the Hydra's life, the first Tianzhu light sword finally exhausted its energy and shattered.

Before the two Hydra heads could rest, they saw another light sword falling. Wearily, their breath attacks spewed upwards, but this time they were clearly weakening. The Tianzhu light sword was slowly descending.

Seeing that the Hydra was starting to run out of energy, Lynn stepped up his efforts and used Tianzhu again. Then, with Moonlight infused with demonic flames, he quickly charged forward, attacking all nine necks. The demonic flames immediately ignited, and the Tianzhu light sword directly pierced the Hydra's body.

Its body pierced and its necks burning, the Hydra finally couldn't help but roar. The intense pain caused all nine heads to wail.

Without breath attacks to resist them, the Tianzhu light swords fell one after another, directly shattering the Hydra's remaining heads.

The Hydra began to writhe wildly before finally falling silent after a long while, completely motionless.

After about a minute, the Tianzhu light swords disappeared, and the Hydra, without support, collapsed with a loud thud, its massive corpse sprawled across the swamp.

Watching the fallen Hydra corpse, Lynn descended from the sky and stood on it, immediately breaking it down.

[System: Hydra Core *1]

[System: Hydra Venom *9]

[System: Hydra Hide *1]

[System: Hydra Blood *10]

All materials. The best was the Hydra Core, which could be used to create potions or elixirs that increased elemental attributes, and it increased all nine elemental attributes.

The decomposed Hydra corpse dissipated. Lynn had no choice but to fly into the air and look around. The Hydra was dead, so where was the treasure chest?

Hmm, Hydra Lair? It seemed there should be other Hydras. Where could they be? Lynn began to search.

He flew around, but Lynn didn't see a single Hydra, not even a scale.

Stopping, Lynn looked at the swamp. If it wasn't on the surface, it must be below the swamp.

Lynn was wondering how to force the Hydras below to come out when he noticed the swamp starting to tremble violently before he could come up with a method.

A massive snake head emerged from the swamp, even larger than the previous Hydra. Then, eight more heads emerged in succession, and all nine heads began to look around.

Lynn had already hidden when the first head emerged.

He secretly used Appraisal.

Name: Ancient Hydra (Tier 8)

Category: Ancient Ferocious Beast

Constitution: 9999

Strength: 9999

Agility: 7460

Spirit: 9999

Skills: Ancient Breath, Nine Lives Rebirth, Ancient Power...

{The Ancient Hydra and the Hydra are completely different species. You can tell just by looking at their size. The Ancient Hydra is ten times larger than the Hydra.}

...How am I supposed to fight this! Its stats completely overwhelm me.

He took out his pickaxe and gently tapped downwards. Lynn immediately jumped down and ran away as quickly as possible.

...

Not long after Lynn ran into the underground cave, one of the Ancient Hydra's heads directly used Ancient Breath. All the plants and rocks in the entire cave were immediately corroded, and even the ground was corroded by a layer.

Seeing that everything had been completely corroded and nothing unusual was found, the Ancient Hydra slowly retreated back into the swamp and disappeared.

The swamp bubbled slightly before returning to calm.

...

Arriving in the new cave, Lynn finally breathed a sigh of relief. This was way too challenging, wasn't it? Who could beat that?

After calming down for a while, Lynn began to survey the cave. "Hmm? Is this a case of good fortune after surviving a great disaster?"

Lynn muttered, looking at the Legendary Treasure Chest below.

He flew down and looked around. It was actually a Legendary Treasure Chest without a guardian beast.

Without thinking further, he directly opened it, hoping for some good items to comfort his little heart, which was beating a bit fast right now.

[System: Star Acorn *2]

[System: Nether Arrow *2]

[System: Double Training Room *2]

[System: Energy Core *2]

Wuhu! It actually triggered a blessing! As expected, good fortune comes after surviving a great disaster. The Legendary Treasure Chest even triggered a blessing.

Excited, Lynn began to check the item attributes.

Name: Star Acorn

Category: Extraordinary Fruit

Effect: Increases all attributes by 1000~2000

{The fruit that grows on the Star Acorn tree outside the heavens. Only the first fruit has an effect.}

Good stuff. Without thinking further, Lynn directly ate it. Mmm~ the taste wasn't bad. The skin was a bit hard, but it was very chewy, while the flesh was very tender, like eating jelly.

Satisfied after eating the Star Acorn, Lynn opened his character panel and looked at it. Not bad, all his attributes had increased by between 1500~1600. Not bad at all.

Now, with his own attributes plus the Duel Set, he had more than 7600 points.

Looking at the remaining Star Acorn, Lynn exclaimed, "If I could eat another one, my attributes would almost catch up to the Ancient Hydra."

Looking at the fruit, Lynn thought for a moment and then directly used the Cave System to send the fruit to Lina.

Name: Nether Arrow

Category: Special Item

Effect: After being shot, it will definitely hit the person destined for the Nether Arrow.

{The Nether Arrow among the Upper, Middle, and Nether Arrows. It is said that when the three arrows are combined, even gods can be shot down.}

(o_o)??

So, without collecting all three arrows, the Nether Arrow is useless right now? Although he really wanted to try it out, what did "the person destined for the Nether Arrow" mean? Not understanding, Lynn gave up.

Name: Double Training Room

Category: Special Building

Effect: Increases training effect by two times.

{A training room for cultivation. It is said that there are training rooms with even higher multipliers.}

This thing… well, it doesn't seem to have much use for me, but it would be great for my monster girls to use. Hmm, it can speed up their cultivation of magic and divine arts.