Liu Xing stared in horror at the gigantic yellow eye looking down at them, realizing they were in a dangerous situation. Truth be told, while the presence of the pale white giant was constantly felt, since it was so slow and had never done anything to threaten him directly, he had almost dismissed it as a non-immediate concern. Sure, he needed to prevent it from becoming perfect, but not because of the threat of the giant itself. Rather, he needed to do that to stop Wei Yi. Technically, that way of thinking was still correct, since the eye was being controlled by Wei Yi, but the fact that he had dismissed the giant as a non-immediate threat was wrong, and he needed to reassess the situation.

The gigantic eye stared down at them with mockery, as if Wei Yi thought he had already won. But while his hands and feet trembled, Liu Xing gritted his teeth and stared right into the yellow eye. He wouldn't back down! While it was strong, that thing was still a Lock Opening abomination, and hence, even if it was just a little, there was still a chance to win!

"Yang Suyin, remember what I told you. There's a chance that we won't be able to stay together. At that time, I expect you to make the right moves."

"I understand. I'll probably die before making a difference, but I will take an opportunity if it presents itself."

As they both fell through the air, their fall had slowed since the air around them was somehow denser than before. They steeled their hearts. Liu Xing himself thought there was actually a high chance that he would die. But right now, what he needed to fight was a mere eye, so at least there was that.

The mouth below the eye suddenly opened widely as if screaming, though no sound came out. Instead, several hundred red balls formed in front of it. Each of the red balls was made from simply gathering the qi around and condensing it into a point, but the sheer amount of qi made the air around the mouth become chaotic, as if those red balls were actually black holes with their own gravity.

He could hear Yang Suyin gulp audibly beside him, and Liu Xing himself gripped his gun and stone blade tightly.

The red balls became brighter and brighter, then, as if Wei Yi had pushed a switch, each of the red balls turned into a red condensed pillar of qi that shot toward them like lasers. While each of the lasers was only as big as his thigh, from the outside, it looked like a current of red thread gathering into one, creating a huge attack intended to shred Liu Xing and Yang Suyin to pieces.

"Incoming!" Yang Suyin shouted, turning his body into yellow light and zipping away.

Liu Xing cycled more qi into the Lightning Cloak Technique and tried to move to the side, but the attacks were really fast. While he successfully moved, he was still in the path of the attacks.

Gritting his teeth, Liu Xing dismissed his shield and looked up. The red lasers descending on him almost looked like falling stars, and Liu Xing had no doubt that if the attacks hit him, he would be dead or grievously injured.

As adrenaline coursed through his body, pushing his body to the limit, the world slowed down a little, and he suddenly realized that there was one point in the middle of those attacks that was devoid of lasers. Instantly, he realized that this hole was intentional. After all, Lihuo was still below, and Wei Yi probably didn't want to kill him, or at least shred him to bits. Liu Xing resummoned his shield and jumped toward that point. While his left shoulder was grazed by some of the lasers, he successfully arrived at the hole in the attacks.

Standing atop his shield, Liu Xing's heart was beating fast as the attacks passed around him, as if he were in a train passing through a red and bright tunnel. The air current that hit him was quite strong, and while he believed there was no way in hell he would be blown away, there was a little shred of doubt that made him plant his feet firmly on his shield.

For several moments, Liu Xing stood there, with the wind rushing around him and the color red flashing. His brain was trying to process the information he had, reminding him of his current situation, where Wei Yi purposefully created a hole in his attack to accommodate Lihuo, and he could use this fact. While what he wanted right now was a chance to finish this fight in one swoop, there was no such solution. So instead, he needed to take one step at a time, and the first thing he needed to do was get closer to Lihuo.

Nodding, Liu Xing took a deep breath and dismissed his shield. His heart quickened the moment it vanished, even though he'd known it would. Still, he successfully spun his body without any of his body parts touching the red condensed energy around him, and he fell like a man falling into a deep and bright red well.

A moment later, the red light around him suddenly vanished, and he could see the world around him again. His eyes focused down, right toward Lihuo, who lay on a small island in the middle of a quite large hole between the giant's feet. Realizing that Wei Yi's attack had receded, Liu Xing resummoned his shield and kicked it, making him fall faster. Right now, he was exposed, and he knew for certain that Wei Yi would try to stop him.

Gripping his stone blade tightly, Liu Xing decided to send it a significant amount of potent qi until his stone blade shone with a purple light. The qi inside his Ethereal Pearl was now less than half of its capacity, and while the amount was still a lot, he realized that it had been quite a while since he had successfully killed an abomination.

Shouting, Liu Xing swung his blade down, intending to send a crescent of purple qi toward Lihuo and cut him up. But, before he could unleash it, a yellow thing entered his peripheral vision.

Instantly, Liu Xing looked to the left and came eye to eye with a giant yellow eye, which was moving along the pale white giant's skin as if it were a lift coming down toward Lihuo. Seeing the eye moving along the outer side of the giant's right foot, Liu Xing's eyes widened. The eye, as well as the mouth below it, could move, and it was actually moving faster than him!

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As the eye passed him, he could see a mockery gleaming from Wei Yi. Then it looked down and began to open its mouth, extending a long tentacle tongue down toward Lihuo, trying to fish him up. Seeing this, Liu Xing gritted his teeth and kicked his shield faster and faster, trying to catch up to the eye and tentacle that wanted to grab Lihuo. But while he could catch up to the eye if given a bit more time, the fact was that the eye was now below the knee, and it had a long reach with its tentacle tongue!

"Shit, he is faster than me!"

His brain tried to conjure up an idea, and it did. Before he could even process the idea, his body had already moved. He swung his stone blade, but instead of aiming at Lihuo, he changed his target to the eye. More accurately, he tried to predict where the eye would be later and swung his quite heavy blade toward that position. The crescent purple qi flew horizontally like a bird, the air whistling behind it, and it flew toward its target almost like a jet plane. The giant yellow eye, seeing the crescent of purple qi, suddenly came to a stop. It was the correct move because right after it stopped, the crescent of purple qi hit the foot of the giant several meters from the eye's position. The purple energy exploded, dyeing the world with purple light.

While it missed the main target, it actually served its purpose well. After all, it stopped Wei Yi's descent for a moment. A moment where Liu Xing didn't even consider the explosion and accelerated down so fast right toward Lihuo, where a giant tentacle was conveniently right in his path. Less than a fraction of a second later, Liu Xing swung his blade again, cutting the tentacle tongue as if he were cutting an annoying giant branch. Before the cutted tentacle could fall from gravity, he accelerated faster and landed his feet a mere centimeters from the worm that had swallowed Lihuo.

Liu Xing then spread his feet a little wide, planting them, lowering his center of gravity, and brandishing his stone blade while looking up toward the giant yellow eye that had positioned itself on the giant's foot. He pressed his lips tightly, forming a thin line, while his eyes were painted with determination, as if he were challenging Wei Yi.

Seeing Liu Xing, the yellow eye pulsed as if angry, and the mouth below it let out an angry roar. Then, opening its mouth as wide as possible, it launched hundreds of tentacles that descending toward Liu Xing. The tentacles together covered the sky, their shadows blanketing hundreds of meters around him.

If an unrelated party were watching, they would assume that Liu Xing was actually trying to protect the worm that had swallowed Lihuo, while the tentacles were trying to kill him. But in reality, it was the opposite.

"Come at me!"

As he shouted, Liu Xing cycled his qi even more, flaring the lightning that surrounded him, making him shine brightly like a blue star in the middle of the night. Then, the first tentacle came, and the fight began anew.

Liu Xing slashed his stone blade, splitting the tentacle that came at him in two. Then he threw his gun into the air, where it settled itself and began blasting Exploding Fist bullets around, destroying and severing the tentacles, making it rain red blood and tiny pieces of flesh everywhere. With his stone blade, he threw around crescents purple qi, severing dozens of giant tentacles in one swoop, but the tentacles—some red, some black—came unrelentingly toward him. Each of the tentacles was trying to bypass him and reach Lihuo, but Liu Xing wouldn't allow it.

For a minute straight, Liu Xing unleashed all he had. Crescents of purple qi flew around, cutting the tentacles and his gun rapidly shot bullets. Only Liu Xing could see his gun, but even a mortal could see the point where those shining blue bolts came from, as if space itself were spitting out attacks. The tentacle bits and parts began piling around him, creating a crater as if he were at the mouth of a volcanic mountain surrounded by tentacles and blood.

At this point in the fight, Liu Xing began to see the pattern of these attacks. Wei Yi couldn't risk Lihuo, so he didn't pull anything too dangerous. Wei Yi's one giant eye became increasingly frustrated, and he screeched time and time again, but he did nothing different. He had no doubt Wei Yi would try something, so he himself needed to come up with something.

With his hands that couldn't stop swinging even for a moment, his eyes always needing to be alert to see oncoming attacks, and his full concentration needed to make sure his gun was always firing, he couldn't spare even a second to stop and do something to Lihuo. But luckily, he wasn't the only one who thought like that, and so, reinforcement came to do the thing that was impossible for Liu Xing to do.

Yang Suyin, as a streak of yellow light, came and arrived right behind him.

Seeing this, a ferocious smile blossomed on Liu Xing's lips, and his eyes glanced toward the giant yellow eye, seeing it narrow a little bit more and undisguised frustration could be felt in the air.

"Destroy it!" Liu Xing said to Yang Suyin.

Yang Suyin nodded.

While Liu Xing relentlessly parried and destroyed the tentacles that came toward them, Yang Suyin stood in front of the worm sack and extended both hands. Liu Xing could feel the qi accumulating not in front of Yang Suyin's palms, but rather right atop the worm. It swirled, and then a fire lit up in the shape of a fireball that swallowed the body of the worm and Lihuo. The ball of fire rotated, and the heat coming from it was actually so hot that even Liu Xing's skin felt like he was too close to a giant bonfire. Liu Xing instinctively knew that this fireball was not the type that exploded, but rather the type that burned hot and could consume anything. Hopefully, the body of a Sun Refining abomination could be turned into ash with this fire.

Wei Yi screeched again and again, the tentacles raining down toward them doubled, and Liu Xing's hands blurred faster, trying to match the intensity of these tentacle attacks.

The fire that swallowed up the worm and Lihuo then began to recede, and while the worm had turned into fine dust that flew into the air, Lihuo himself, while charred a little, was still intact.

"Dammit, his body is too tough!" Yang Suyin exclaimed. "Let's see if you can handle this!"

Yang Suyin lit Lihuo's body on fire. This time, it wasn't in the form of a ball. Instead, it was in the natural shape of a bonfire, though the color was blue, and it burned so bright that Liu Xing needed to squint his eyes a little. But once again, while the attack charred Lihuo a little bit, he was still intact. The threads of open muscles around him could even be distinguished.

"Try something else!" Liu Xing shouted.

Yang Suyin tried to burn Lihuo once again, but again, it was futile. Right now, Liu Xing and Yang Suyin knew that Lihuo's body was either so strong that every attack from a Core Splitting cultivator was futile, or he had a high fire resistance. For the sake of his sanity, Liu Xing decided that the truth was the latter, which made him order Yang Suyin to cut Lihuo.

Yang Suyin nodded once again, and with his blade, he slashed at Lihuo's neck as hard as he could.

When the blade hit the neck, a "ping" sound could be heard, and no slash mark appeared.

"Dammit! I'm not going to give up!" Yang Suyin said. "You're a piece of trash, Lihuo. I'll channel all my hatred and destroy your body!"

"Hurry!" Liu Xing shouted.