8: White wine and matches, ignite the humus

"You monster, taste my axe!"

Wang Dayong focused entirely, mobilizing all the Qi and blood within his body.

Thunderbolt Slash traced a dazzling blue light, striking the Corroder's shoulder.

Sizzle!

Although the Corroder had astonishing defensive capabilities, it was still wounded by this strike.

From the massive, hideous wound, foul-smelling blood dripped continuously.

The Corroder slapped Wang Dayong's chest with one claw, sending him flying seven or eight meters away, smashing through a wall!

Broken stones buried Wang Dayong in the middle, his fate unknown.

"Uncle Dayong!"

Zhang Ganchao's gaze was fierce as he seized the opportunity to stab his rod into the Corroder's wound.

The Corroder did not feel pain; it swiped a palm toward Zhang Ganchao.

But Zhang Ganchao narrowly avoided it with a roll.

At a time like this, looking cool didn't matter; what mattered most was practicality!

This was only because the Corroder's strength hadn't reached the true level of a Martial Artist.

Otherwise, even if Zhang Ganchao rolled, he wouldn't have been able to dodge it.

On the other side, Li Canglan had already broken into a grocery store, rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

"Although the Corroder is stronger than the Crawler, there isn't much difference in their body structure."

Li Canglan frantically recalled the content he had learned in class.

"This kind of monster is most afraid of fire."

Although neither he nor Wang Dayong had learned any fire-type Martial Skills.

But in the grocery store, there would be something to counter the Corroder!

"Found it!"

Because the grocery store was too cluttered, it took a full dozen seconds for Li Canglan to find what he needed.

White liquor, and matches!

He stuffed the matches into his pocket, grabbed two large boxes of white liquor, kicked open the grocery store door, and rushed out.

Seeing the scene before him, Li Canglan's eyes instantly split in anger.

"Ganchao!"

After a brief distraction, Zhang Ganchao was accidentally grabbed by the Corroder.

If he were stuffed into the Corroder's mouth, even if Li Canglan could kill the Corroder, Zhang Ganchao would die!

Bang!

Just then, Wang Dayong, who had snuck behind the Corroder, lifted a huge rock and smashed it onto the Corroder's head.

It knocked its head violently to the side, failing to bite Zhang Ganchao.

The powerful force even shattered the rock into pieces.

Covered in blood, Zhang Ganchao seized the opportunity to break free from the Corroder's restraint and quickly put some distance between them.

However, the Corroder quickly turned back and chased after them again.

Zhang Ganchao and Wang Dayong were both severely injured and couldn't outrun the Corroder at all.

Just then, a loud shout suddenly erupted.

"Go to hell!"

Following closely behind were two boxes of white liquor flying through the air.

The Corroder didn't dodge or evade; its head directly knocked the white liquor flying away.

The white liquor spilled everywhere, drenching half of the Corroder's massive body.

This didn't stop the Corroder in the slightest.

What Li Canglan was waiting for was the Corroder to keep pouncing.

Otherwise, his matches might not have been able to ignite the white liquor on the Corroder!

"If I win, I get to live the high life; if I lose... then I'll just start over!"

Li Canglan lit a match and threw it at the pouncing Corroder.

Sizzle!

Sparks swept through, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a sea of fire, engulfing the Corroder's entire body.

The surging flames shot up into the sky, scaring the surrounding Crawlers so much that they didn't dare to approach.

They had no intelligence; all they had was an instinctive fear of fire.

Li Canglan had already pulled back, quietly waiting for the Corroder to die.

"Canglan, I didn't expect you to have this plan in mind."

Zhang Ganchao limped back, his face full of admiration.

"Fire counters the Corroder and the Crawler."

Wang Dayong also praised, "Thinking back to when I was in school, I also learned this knowledge about dealing with monsters."

"But when truly facing the enemy, I had long since thrown all of that to the back of my mind."

Li Canglan smiled, "This was only possible because you guys held the Corroder off."

"Otherwise, before I could find the white liquor and matches, I would have probably been caught by the Corroder."

Hearing this, Zhang Ganchao immediately began to brag, "How was it? My heroic fighting stance just now, very cool, right?"

This was an experience of fighting a Corroder.

Unless one is a Martial Artist, the vast majority of Martial Apprentices in the Body Tempering Realm wouldn't even dare to imagine it.

Roar!

A low roar came from within the sea of fire.

A figure covered in flames charged toward the three of them like a chariot.

The alcohol evaporated quickly, and the flames on the Corroder were much smaller than before.

"Damn, this guy still isn't dead?"

Zhang Ganchao cursed, turning around to run.

However, a breeze blew by, and Li Canglan advanced instead of retreating.

Intuition told Li Canglan that the Corroder was at the end of its rope.

A blade flash appeared.

No Martial Skill, just Li Canglan's all-out strike, hacking into the center of the Corroder's head.

And Li Canglan himself was grabbed by the Corroder and stuffed toward its mouth.

"The one who will die is you!"

The terrifying force made Li Canglan feel like his bones were about to shatter.

But he endured the pain, grabbed the knife with his right hand, and stabbed it fiercely into the Corroder's mouth.

Splat!

The Corroder's arm suddenly loosened, and Li Canglan quickly took the opportunity to dodge, avoiding being touched by the residual flames.

Not far away, the Martial Artist who had just arrived to provide rescue was stunned.

What did he see?

A high school student in a school uniform killed a Corroder?

Although there was help from the flames, the merit was absolutely real!

This Martial Artist only felt that he probably didn't sleep well last night and was hallucinating.

The vast majority of high school students were still tempering their Qi and blood at this moment.

With strength that hadn't even reached the Body Tempering Realm, even with official equipment, killing a Crawler was indeed possible.

But wanting to kill a Corroder was completely a fantasy!

It was just a pity that this scene actually appeared before him; he had no choice but to believe it.

And at this moment, Li Canglan didn't realize what a shocking thing he had done.

He only felt a wave of lingering fear.

Charging up just now was entirely supported by a surge of adrenaline that kept him from retreating.

Now that he thought about it, he realized he had been a bit reckless just now.

However, seeing the fingernail-sized crystal core inside the Corroder, Li Canglan felt it was worth it!

"How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?"

【Corroder Crystal Core: Contains manic energy, can be absorbed.】

Li Canglan didn't rashly absorb it, but instead put it away.

At the same time, not only the Demon Suppression Division, but also many military Martial Artists had arrived.

After the Demon Suppression Envoy Chen Anmin successfully killed the wormhole matriarch.

Luofeng City sounded the horn of counterattack.

The whole process lasted over three hours before the wormhole riot was suppressed.

Li Canglan and the others, under the rescue of the military, temporarily arrived at a shelter.

In the shelter, there were already tens of thousands of citizens hiding here, and it was overcrowded.

Li Canglan understood that before the outside world was completely cleared, they probably wouldn't be able to leave the shelter.

He immediately prepared to start refining the Corroder's crystal core and the Crawler crystal core he had obtained later.