46: Chapter 46 Head-on confrontation with the mountain beast

A prompt popped up on the light screen in Lin Ye's right eye.

[Mountain Beast]

Last time, it smashed his wooden spear into smithereens with a single claw.

The time before that, a single roar forced him to turn and run.

This was the third time.

The Great Xia Live Stream chat was flooded with messages.

[It's over, it's over! It's that big guy again!]

[Is Brother Eye cursed by this beast? Why does it follow him everywhere?]

[The wooden spear couldn't even pierce its skin last time; will a fire axe work?]

[Run! Don't just stand there! There's no flood behind you this time!]

[Is Brother Eye being targeted?]

The overseas audience had been waiting for this moment.

[USA: This is nature's judgment! The one-eyed man's luck has run out!]

[Japan: Yoshi! The sanction of Amaterasu has arrived! This is retribution!]

[South Korea: Starting the countdown! He won't last three minutes, simida!]

[India: I bet ten pieces of curry that the Great Xia person won't make it fifty meters!]

On the hilly slope, Lin Ye stood his ground and weighed the fire axe in his hand.

The axe head reflected a cold gleam in the sunlight. The corners of his mouth slowly curled upward.

"Just in time to settle old scores before leaving the island."

Great Xia Live Stream.

[Holy crap! Did you hear that? Is that even human language?]

[He's not going to... charge at it, is he? No way, right? No way?]

[I don't think he's joking based on that expression! Holy crap, impulse is the devil!]

Lin Ye exerted force with his legs and charged straight toward the Mountain Beast!

The Mountain Beast was a bit slow on the uptake and didn't expect this biped to not only not run but actively deliver itself as a meal.

"Roar—!!" It roared madly, opened its bloody maw, and lunged forward to kill!

Thirty meters. Twenty meters. Ten meters!

Just as the man and the beast were about to collide head-on...

Lin Ye stomped his right foot on the ground and leaped into the air.

He stepped on the Mountain Beast's shoulder with his toes, using the force to jump even higher into the air!

The Mountain Beast swiped at nothing, the wind pressure it created kicking up a cloud of dust.

And Lin Ye's body had already soared over its head!

Mid-air, he raised his right arm. The Wind-Chasing Claw shot out.

The three-pronged hook bit into the high trunk of a giant tree.

Lin Ye pressed the switch, and his body was rapidly hoisted up, landing steadily on a tree branch.

He quickly took off his backpack and fastened it securely to the branch.

He moved his shoulders a bit; without the weight, he felt much lighter.

He immediately grabbed the cable and landed lightly from the tree.

The Mountain Beast immediately turned toward him, growling continuously.

Facing this enraged behemoth, Lin Ye unceremoniously raised his right hand. He stuck up his middle finger.

"Come on, we didn't finish last time. Today, buddy will teach you why flowers are so red."

Great Xia Live Stream.

[Giving the middle finger to a giant beast! Which one of you is teaching who!]

[Someone go pull this madman back!]

[It's getting heated! F*** him up! Beat him to death!]

"Roar—!!!" The Mountain Beast was completely enraged.

It frantically clawed at the ground with all four limbs and charged straight forward.

Lin Ye did not retreat. He calculated the Mountain Beast's charging distance and dodged to the side at the very last moment!

The beast's fangs grazed his left shoulder.

While dodging the bite, he gripped the axe handle with both hands and aimed at the Mountain Beast's left forelimb!

"Splat—!" Blood splattered.

The skin that the wooden spear couldn't pierce was slashed open by the fire axe, creating a bloody wound over twenty centimeters long!

"Awoo!" The Mountain Beast hissed in pain.

Even Lin Ye was slightly stunned by this strike.

Last time, stabbing it with the wooden spear was like tickling it. This axe strike had genuinely broken its defense.

The strength boost from assimilating that pollution was even more potent than he had estimated.

The thought flashed by. The Mountain Beast had already turned around and lunged.

Lin Ye shot out his grappling claw, hooking onto another giant tree to the side, and soared into the air.

As he swept over the Mountain Beast's head, he brought the fire axe down. "Splat!" Another bloody wound.

The Mountain Beast swiped at the air repeatedly with its front claws, all missing.

"Buddy, your speed is not up to par!"

Lin Ye swung to the tree trunk and immediately leaped down again. He swept past once more, and the fire axe swung out. "Splat!"

"Use some strength! Didn't you eat?" Third time, fourth time...

He used the Wind-Chasing Claw to pull himself back and forth between the dense tree canopies and the ground.

Luring on the ground, attacking from the air. Every silky-smooth combo opened a new wound on the Mountain Beast.

"Come on, keep chasing! Why are you panting so hard after running two steps?"

The Mountain Beast was dizzy from being toyed with. It was covered in blood, yet it couldn't touch a single piece of this biped's clothing.

However... just as Lin Ye was preparing to launch the next attack... a fierce glint flashed in the Mountain Beast's eyes.

It suddenly changed direction and charged toward the giant tree that Lin Ye was using as an anchor for his grappling claw!

"Damn! That's cheating!" Lin Ye cursed inwardly. "Crack—!"

The half-meter diameter giant tree snapped from the roots! The entire tree shook violently and toppled to one side.

The Wind-Chasing Claw suddenly lost its anchor point. Lin Ye, who was swinging in mid-air, plummeted toward the ground.

Below. The Mountain Beast tilted its head back and opened its bloody maw. Now, it just had to wait for this piece of meat to fall into its mouth.

Desperate situation. The intense sensation of weightlessness made Lin Ye's blood rush backward, and his adrenaline surged.

His left eye instinctively opened. Eye of Destiny, activate!

In his vision, the Mountain Beast was shrouded in a layer of red halo. But... near its spine on its back armor, there was a thin, long red line.

Lin Ye didn't even have time to think about what that was! "Gamble on it!"

He forcibly twisted his waist in mid-air, pulling off a high-difficulty aerial flip.

He gripped the axe handle with both hands and raised it high above his head. Using the potential energy of his body's freefall, he aimed at the red line and slashed down with all his might!

"Slash—!" The fire axe hacked into the Mountain Beast's right shoulder blade and followed that red line, carving out a bloody wound nearly a meter long from its shoulder to its back.

Blood gushed out like a geyser. Lin Ye was also sent flying by the massive recoil. He slammed into the muddy ground, rolling four or five times before stopping.

"Cough, cough..." Mud and blood were mixed all over his body, and his bones were creaking. But Lin Ye couldn't care about the pain at all.

Only one thought filled his mind: Is it dead?

He gritted his teeth and forced himself to stand up. He drew his dagger with his left hand, assuming a defensive stance.

Not far away. The Mountain Beast rushed forward four or five steps due to momentum. Then, its entire body suddenly went limp, crashing to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.

On the open ground, only the sound of Lin Ye's heavy breathing remained. Ten seconds. Twenty seconds.

The Mountain Beast lay in a pool of blood, motionless. Lin Ye waited for a full minute before carefully moving over.

He kicked its hind leg with the tip of his toe. No response. He walked to the side to check.

That axe strike earlier had directly severed its spine into two pieces.

"...Damn your bad luck." Lin Ye sat on his butt next to the Mountain Beast's corpse, looked up at the sky, and panted heavily.

Great Xia Live Stream. [Ahhhh!!!!] [Type 'Brother Eye is awesome' on the screen for me!]

[Solo kill! Head-on solo kill!] [Aerial flip slash, that was so cool!]

[Severing a spine with one axe strike! Is that something a human can do???] [Who said impulse is the devil just now?] [You tell me if he isn't a devil!]

...After resting for a few minutes. Lin Ye got up and squatted beside the Mountain Beast's corpse.

"With such a big guy, if I don't get some compensation, it wouldn't be worth the sweat I just shed."

He followed the wound he had just slashed to make his cuts. He sliced through the armor layer and peeled back the fat and fascia.

His dagger precisely carved out the thickest tenderloin parts on both sides of the spine. He got four big chunks and skewered them with a thick branch.

He returned to the tree where he had hung his backpack, used the grappling claw to fly up, and retrieved it.

He hoisted the meat skewers onto his shoulder and glanced back at the corpse on the ground.

"Buddy, we're even. Let's never meet again!" Lin Ye turned and left without looking back.

He needed to find a place with clean water quickly. "First, I'll take a bath, then I'll eat some roasted meat to replenish my strength."

Lin Ye wiped the blood and mud off his face. "After I'm full and satisfied, it's time to leave this lousy place and go up to see the scenery from above."