Seeing this, Liu Xing's heart stopped pumping blood for a moment, and his face turned pale. He desperately summoned his shield, but before he could kick it, he was already in front of the spirit beast. It executed a simple blow with its right limb, aiming at his face.
He gritted his teeth and sent a surge of stable qi into his face, making it decorated with spiraling yellow lines. When the snake arm hit his cheek, it felt like the world suddenly went dark. Sound ceased to exist, and he felt like he was suddenly submerged in the depths of a lake in the middle of the night. And yet, he knew this darkness was not normal.
He tried to open his eyes, and when he did, the sound of rushing wind filled his ears. He tried to check his surroundings and realized that he was in the sky. Looking down, he could see several clouds below him and the ground was so far away, like he was a rocket trying to reach outer space. When gravity pulled him, there was a moment of weightlessness, and at this time, he could see a mark on the ground in the form of a tiger's face. He realized that this was the mark of the attack that spirit beast had unleashed.
Soon, intense pain radiated from his face. He touched his right cheek and realized that perhaps his cheekbone was now destroyed. It was hard to move his mouth, but luckily, his left eye was okay. His skin was still red now, the Diamond Pills had not finished transforming his body further, and the wound on his right cheek seemed to be mending.
That attack was so strong, too strong. He suspected that if he hadn't eaten the remaining Diamond Pills and hadn't enhanced his face with stable qi, his head would have exploded like a watermelon hit by a hammer. Fortunately, it seemed the spirit beast was toying with him. If it were to use the Tiger Punch instead, no matter how much stable qi he sent to his face, he would still die.
He summoned his shield and kicked it, moving high in the sky. Suddenly, a glowing ball shone on the ground. It looked tiny from above, but he knew it was gigantic when seen up close. Adrenaline coursed through his body and his brain screamed, warning him that this was not over. Then, the sound of a tiger's roar could be heard. It reverberated in all directions, even making the air around him tremble. That giant golden ball suddenly transformed into a gigantic golden tiger, and it leaped toward him in the sky.
Liu Xing's eyes widened like saucers. He kicked the shield repeatedly, trying to accelerate faster and run away from that golden tiger. But as he started to move, the golden tiger took another leap in the air as if using the air as a stepping stone. On its forehead, he could see that the ink-black spirit beast laughing maniacally, stance wide, and its two snake arms started to repeatedly punch the air, sending many golden orbs at him. Each of the golden orbs was in the shape of a tiger's head with open mouths, and feeling the qi from them, he knew he would die if even one of them grazed him.
With his heart still beating so fast, he decided to rotate his body so his head pointed downwards. He summoned his shield and kicked it, making him fall like a meteor. The sky was a bad place for him. It was too open, and nothing could hide him.
Liu Xing spread his body and tried to glide in the sky, finding a nice clearing that was untouched as a place to land. Suddenly, he saw a pink worm with the face of an old lady with jutting fangs as if made from sharp glass emerge from the ground in the middle of the clearing and shoot right at him like a guided missile. It flew so fast that in a mere fraction of a second, it was already in front of him. Its mouth opened wide as if it were a fish jumping to eat a fly.
Seeing this, he gritted his teeth and summoned his shield, kicking it so he moved the side. The pink worm passed by his side as if he had successfully dodged a runaway truck.
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Liu Xing turned his body, aimed his gun, and shot the worm's back repeatedly with exploding bullets. When six bullets hit the worm's back, six explosions blossomed and merged into one explosion, but even though it was strong, he knew that this attack probably wouldn't hurt it. Suddenly, the worm curled into a ball, and whether by coincidence or not, a golden orb shaped like a tiger's head struck it. The worm plummeted like a meteor, falling even faster than him, before diving back into the ground.
As the ground drew closer, just a few dozen meters away, he rotated his body in the air and successfully landed while rolling. Shortly after, he stopped and looked up to see the golden tiger in the sky descending headfirst toward him accompanied by thousands of golden orbs around it. The ink-black spirit beast cackled while falling from the sky, the chain tied around its neck fluttering in the air
Seeing this, Liu Xing's heart filled with despair. He kicked the ground and moved as fast as possible amidst the white bone trees.
"Is there anything I can do?" he shouted. "Come on, think! Think!"
As he shouted, the golden tiger hit the ground, and as he turned his head, he saw the ground rise and create a black tsunami that tried to swallow everything around him. Suddenly, a pink worm dozens of meters long emerged from the ground in front of him. It moved above the ground like a train, its mouth open wide.
With a worm ready to devour him from the front and a tsunami of earth closing in from behind, a sudden idea struck him. He didn't have much time to think about it, so he just executed it.
Instead of summoning a shield, he summoned the woman statue. As the statue materialized before him, Liu Xing kicked it toward the worm’s mouth, sending it barreling forward while propelling himself backward.
As the world around him became blurred, he tried to hold his breath and thin out his presence even more. He was soon engulfed by the earth tsunami behind him, and before he was completely consumed by the tsunami, he could see the worm chomping on his statue before his vision went dark.
He didn’t try to escape the earth tsunami; instead, he allowed his body to roll and spin, carried by the shifting earth. Several times he felt his face hit something hard, and he felt his arms, feet, and body being crushed by something big. But he endured and endured, until everything slowly came to a stop.
He didn't know how deep he was inside the ground. Everything around him was pitch black, and he didn't dare to move. It was hard to breathe here, and he cupped his hands around his mouth, thinking it would make it easier to breathe, as well as make his breath less loud.
He waited, feeling his body hugged by earth as if he were a buried corpse. There was no difference between keeping his eyes open or closed, so he shut them and focused on minimizing his qi, breath, heartbeat—everything. He was thankful that he had so much practice when he was being bullied daily by his seniors in the sect.
His body felt no pain now, a sign that he had been successfully transformed by the Diamond Pills. However, he was still inferior to those two spirit beasts and didn't dare to fight them.
As he tried to minimize his presence, he thought the worm must have some way of detecting enemies. He suspected it used vibrations in the ground and also in the air. But since he had used his statue as bait, hopefully the worm thought it had successfully killed him, would tell that spirit beast with snake limbs, and go away. Although they seemed to be intelligent spirit beasts, hopefully they were not too intelligent.
He waited and waited. Each second felt like an eternity, especially when he felt vibrations on his skin, and he feared that the worm would appear and eat him, turning him into a meatball to be eaten by that spirit beast with snake limbs. Luckily, the vibration subsided, and he felt a little relief, but he didn't dare to go out.
From here, Liu Xing waited as long as he was capable. Then, when he felt hours had already passed, he finally decided to move. He wriggled his body around, trying to decide where was up and where was down. Then, after knowing where to go, he used his lightning blade to cut his way out.
Several moments later, he emerged from the ground. He inhaled deeply, then checked his surroundings. The sky was dark, with only the moon hanging overhead. Around him, there was nothing—no trees, no boulders, no greenery. However, he noticed a crater several dozen meters away. He suspected that if he saw this crater from above, it would resemble the shape of a tiger's face.