98: Chapter 98 Ironclad Earth Dragon Beast

His mind raced, and he immediately shouted loudly, his voice clearly reaching the entire convoy: "The smell of Yao Beast blood and human blood here is too strong! In just a few minutes, it will attract powerful Yao Beasts from several miles around, and might even draw in Flying Star Realm Yao Beasts! Everyone, get in the vehicles immediately! Retreat to Qing Shi City at full speed, not a moment's delay!"

Upon hearing this, the Li clan members, who had narrowly escaped death, showed no hesitation. The fear brought by the two wolf Yao Beasts had not yet dissipated, and the terrifying legends of Intermediate Yao Beasts and even Flying Star Realm great Yao Beasts made them tremble with terror.

"Quick, quick, quick! Get in the vehicles!"

"Listen to Xiao Wen! Hurry!" Amidst the panicked shouts, everyone scrambled into their respective vehicles.

Li Wen's parents were also pale, Mother Li tightly gripping her son's arm: "Xiao Wen, you come with us."

Father Li was also extremely anxious: "It's too dangerous!"

"Mom and Dad, you go first. I have to stay behind to cover our retreat and ensure no Yao Beasts pursue the convoy.

Li Wen's tone was resolute, containing an undeniable power, "Trust me!"

He turned his head, his gaze falling upon the driver of the exclusive limousine—a dedicated staff member dispatched by Kindling Hall.

The driver clearly understood the weight of Li Wen, an A-grade contracted member, and felt the invisible pressure. He nodded heavily with a solemn expression: "Mr. Li, please rest assured!"

Watching his parents practically shoved into the back seat of the limousine, which then sped away like a streak of light, Li Wen's taut nerves finally relaxed slightly.

He stood with his back to the sweep team, who had just begun rescue operations, his gaze sharp as a blade, fixed on the direction of the cave in the mountain wall.

Almost the instant the taillights of the last Li family vehicle disappeared around the corner, "ROAR!!!"

A deafening roar, filled with greed and savagery, tore through the silence of the valley.

Along with the roar, aBlood Wind, several times more intense than that of the previous wolf Yao Beasts, suddenly swept up, sending sand and stones flying.

A much larger black shadow, carrying a suffocating sense of oppression, burst out of the mountain cave, transforming into a yellowish-brown hurricane. Its target was directly the two wolf Yao Beast corpses still on the ground, as well as the living people nearby emitting vigorous Qi and blood.

An Intermediate Super Martial Artist Peak Yao Beast — the Iron-Armored Earth Dragon Beast.

This Yao Beast resembled a giant pangolin, but its size was comparable to a small truck.

Its entire body was covered in layers of thick, angular, earthy-yellow armor plates, as if it were naturally clad in heavy plate armor.

A glistening, metallic-black ramming horn grew from the front of its massive head, and its four stout short legs made the ground rumble as it ran.

Its crimson eyes gleamed with savage hunger, clearly having been completely provoked by the scent of blood.

The powerful Qi and blood fluctuations of an Intermediate Super Martial Artist Peak were unleashed without reservation, forming a pressure field as heavy as a mountain, far exceeding that of the two Swift Wind Demonic Wolves from before.

"Good timing!" Li Wen's eyes burst with sharp light, advancing instead of retreating.

He grabbed another intact long saber from a distance, pulling it into his hand.

Facing this colossal beast known for its defense, Li Wen did not immediately use all his trump cards. His figure flickered, and the Flowing Rainbow Movement Technique left trails of afterimages as he rapidly approached.

His saber moved with his body, and his opening move was the lightning-fast, incomparably sharp killing technique—the Lueying Style.

"Whoosh whoosh—whoosh!"

Continuous piercing shrieks filled the air. The first strike precisely targeted its relatively vulnerable eye.

"Clang!!!"

Sparks flew! An extremely harsh metallic clang echoed through the valley.

The Iron-Armored Beast's eyelids were actually covered with small, sturdy scales, like natural goggles.

The saber tip only left a blinding white mark upon impact. A huge rebound force traveled up the saber, numbing Li Wen's tiger's mouth and slightly pausing his movement.

The Iron-Armored Beast roared in pain and fury, its massive ramming horn sweeping across with a piercing shriek, like a giant battering ram.

Li Wen, relying on a Momentum Realm expert's exquisite control over his body and the strange profundity of the Flowing Rainbow Movement Technique, narrowly twisted and dodged.

The strong wind scraped his face like a knife, carving a deep gash in the ground behind him.

The moment he stabilized his figure, Li Wen's Saber Intent expanded again.

The Lueying Style was activated a second time.

This time, he aimed at the gap where the armor plates on the Iron-Armored Beast's neck connected. The saber light, like a streak of flowing rainbow, carried a sharp cutting Concept and slashed down fiercely!

"Clang!!!" Another intense clang of impact.

That seemingly connected gap was actually covered by thick skin and fine secondary scales. The saber light only left a slightly deeper scratch, without even a trace of blood seeping out.

Li Wen felt as if his blade had struck a thousand layers of old cowhide. The sharp Lueying Style felt somewhat powerless.

"Roar!" The Iron-Armored Beast roared, its massive claw suddenly slamming the ground. A yellowish-brown demonic power instantly condensed into a thick halo on its body surface, further boosting its defense.

At the same time, that terrifying black ramming horn lunged towards Li Wen's heart like lightning.

"Such strong defense." Li Wen's heart sank.

Relying on the extreme speed of the Lueying Style, he once again dodged this fatal blow, yet remained undeterred, moving around the giant beast like a ghost.

He tried to find flaws in its movements, unleashing the third and fourth Lueying Style attacks.

One strike sliced at the inside of its joint, another jabbed at a weak point where the armor plates overlapped on its waist and abdomen.

"Clang! Clang! Hiss..." Sparks and shattered stones flew simultaneously.

The skin on the inside of the joint was indeed slightly softer, cut open by the blade to a depth of about an inch, with blood seeping out. However, compared to the beast's massive body, this was not even a minor injury.

The weak point at the overlap, however, had most of the force easily dissipated by the thick halo and wriggling flesh, yielding similarly minimal results.

Such heavy armor, coupled with the demonic power specifically condensed for protection, made Li Wen's ordinary standard long saber and his already deeply Cultivated Lueying Style appear exceptionally powerless against this iron-armored wall.

Though his attacks were fast and sharp, they consistently failed to inflict truly effective damage, only managing to graze the surface here and there, let alone severely injure or kill it.

Seeing the Iron-Armored Beast growing increasingly frenzied, its impact strength intensifying with each strike, the situation became more perilous. Li Wen knew he couldn't drag this out any longer.

The Lueying Style, which excelled in speed, simply couldn't break through this beast's turtle shell.

"Whoosh—" Li Wen's eyes suddenly became sharp as a blade, as if containing a swirling sea of stars.

"I can only try this. I must find a weakness and kill it with one blow."

Absolute Focus activated instantly!

A mysterious power instantly enveloped his Sea of Consciousness. The 80% Comprehension Ability amplification made the world in Li Wen's perception suddenly become clear and slow.

Every detail was infinitely magnified; the chaotic roars of the beast, the flying dust, the trajectory of air currents, and even the surging Qi and blood within the Yao Beast's body all seemed to appear before his eyes.

Primordial Spirit Power simultaneously surged in, perfectly fusing with the Absolute Focus state.

This probing ability, originating from the Divine Soul Origin, acted like the most precise scanner, instantly penetrating the Iron-Armored Beast's thick scales and demonic power halo, meticulously examining every trace of Qi and blood circulation, every muscle and fascia, and every bone and joint connection within its massive body.

The Iron-Armored Beast attacked furiously again, its massive ramming horn charging directly at Li Wen with an ear-splitting whoosh.

Time in Li Wen's highly concentrated consciousness was like thick syrup.

The trajectory of the ramming horn was clearly visible, and the terrifying power it contained was heart-stopping.

But under the Primordial Spirit's detection, beneath the seemingly impregnable thick Qi and blood protection, when it charged low, at the junction of its lower jaw and neck, a bone seam stretched, and the circulation of Qi and blood showed an extremely brief, subtle stagnation and gap.

Target locked! The lower jaw bone seam connection! Now! This is the best timing!

A direct confrontation would be certain defeat! In a flash, Li Wen's body twisted and deflected in a bizarre, fluid, zigzagging motion, exceeding human limits, narrowly avoiding the direct impact of the ramming horn. The violent gust of wind ripped half of his sleeve to shreds.

The moment he completed the dodge, he used the momentum to spin, his left foot stomping the ground fiercely. The powerful reactive force propelled him to the optimal position.

"Now! Overlapping Waves!"

His mind instantly unified, and his Saber Intent abruptly shifted from the supremely fast Lueying Style to one of extreme weight and internalization.

Within his Dantian and Qi Sea, the Qi and blood Cultivated by the Splitting Edge Golden Fiend Method were squeezed to their limit. In his Sea of Consciousness, the Overlapping Waves Style's profound secret, which he had only scratched the surface of and found incredibly difficult, surged wildly.

This was not a single strike!

Under the unparalleled precise guidance of Primordial Spirit Power, and after his body control surpassed the 100% limit.

Amidst the roar of Qi and blood wildly stacking and erupting, several Saber Qi, condensed to the extreme and containing the power to cleave metal and shatter rocks, like layers of surging tides, were compressed, fused, and finally gathered at the tip of that standard long saber.

Buzz—!

The saber body bore terrifying force, emitting a low hum that vibrated the Soul, unable to bear the strain.

The air around the saber tip violently twisted, light itself seemed to be absorbed and bent, and a destructive power was poised to erupt at that single point.

"Break————for me!!!"

A roar, imbued with his entire will, burst from Li Wen's chest.

He gripped the saber hilt, which was on the verge of shattering, with both hands, pouring out the power of his Saber Intent Realm, condensed through arduous Cultivation, and drawing upon the power of heaven and earth for augmentation.

He precisely and,

cunningly and strangely stabbed this Overlapping Waves Style, which condensed all his essence, Qi, and spirit, like detonating a miniature nuclear bomb, into the only node he saw—the newly exposed Qi and blood gap in the lower jaw bone.

Pfft—!!!

This time, the sound was muffled and fatal, no longer a futile collision.

The tough skin and armor plates, which multiple attacks from the Lueying Style had only managed to leave white marks on, were instantly pierced and torn apart by the Overlapping Waves Style's terrifying power, concentrated at a single point and exploding in layers like a super high-energy drill.

Blood burst forth, gushing like a spring.

The violent Overlapping Waves Style Saber Qi, like a breached dam or a volcanic eruption, frantically poured into the Iron-Armored Beast's incredibly tough interior through the small bone seam that had been broken open.

The Saber Qi exploded in layers, instantly destroying nearby muscles and blood vessels, penetrating directly to the thick cervical spine bone seam.

"Awoo!!!"

The Iron-Armored Earth Dragon Beast let out an earth-shattering, agonizing howl filled with disbelief and a tragic wail of its life about to be extinguished.