sinovels Chapter 985 Wolves in front, tigers behind
Chapter 985 Wolves in front, tigers behind
Lin Qiye's gaze never left that bulge.
The enormous "path" was chasing him. The creature from the ground was incredibly fast, getting closer and closer to where he had just stood, turning up the ground along its path as if it had been plowed, leaving a deep trench.
After landing, Lin Qiye retreated rapidly again, changing his footing several times. But the bulge clung to him like a persistent leech, its speed increasing. He could sense the aura emanating from the thing underground, which was essentially very similar to the resonant power deep within the Bone Tower, yet far more violent and primal.
A fine layer of cold sweat beaded on his forehead, but his eyes remained calm. He quickly scanned his surroundings—to his left were steep rock walls, to his right a bottomless crevice, ahead was blocked by the underground ridge, and behind him lay the direction of the Bone Tower. The roar of the giant rock-armored rhinoceros had just subsided, but its terrifying pressure still lingered in the air, like an invisible cage.
There are wolves in front and tigers behind.
At this moment, Lin Qiye suddenly retreated again!
The ground where he had just stood suddenly exploded. A huge black shadow burst forth from the ground, carrying a shower of rubble and fluorescent blue crystal fragments, heading straight for his spot—if he hadn't climbed up in time, he would have been struck head-on by that shadow.
Lin Qiye steadied himself on the rock face, looked down, and his pupils contracted again.
The silhouette of that dark figure was hardly that of a living being.
Its body resembles an earthworm magnified countless times, but its surface is covered with a layer of dark gray bony rings, the edges of which are inlaid with densely packed fluorescent blue crystals, making it look like a giant worm encased in bony armor. Its front end has no obvious head, only a huge circular opening, the edges of which are covered with spirally arranged sharp teeth that are constantly wriggling, emitting a teeth-grinding clicking sound.
Its rear half is still buried underground, and it is unknown how long it extends.
The aura gushed out from its black, round mouth, carrying a strong, rotten, and fishy smell that almost suffocated Lin Qiye.
The monster missed its first attack, but its round mouthparts turned slightly, precisely locking onto Lin Qiye, who was retreating at top speed. Although it had no eyes, Lin Qiye could feel that it "saw" him.
Immediately afterward, the monster's entire body shrank dramatically—then it sprang into the air. Its massive, bony, armored form shot forth like a giant, rock-gray arrow, hurtling straight at Lin Qiye on the rock face. Its speed was so great that it left a trail of afterimages in the air.
Lin Qiye's pupils contracted, but he did not panic. He gripped his spear tightly, pushed off the rock wall, and leaped diagonally upwards, while simultaneously thrusting his spear downwards like a venomous snake.
Ding--
A crisp sound.
A crack appeared where the tip of his spear struck the armor plate. But that was all. His full-force strike only left a shallow crack on the bone-like ring armor.
The monster's momentum was not hindered in any way. Its massive body grazed past Lin Qiye and smashed a huge gash in the rock wall beneath his feet.
Lin Qiye's body flipped rapidly on the rock face, his spear held horizontally in his hand, the shaft bracing against a protrusion in the rock, forcefully stopping his backward fall. His feet stomped continuously on the vertical rock face, his whole body moving laterally along the rock face like a gecko, trying to bypass the attack range of the giant bone-armored worm.
But the giant insect reacted faster than he expected.
Its body twisted violently in mid-air, its bony, ring-armored torso sweeping towards Lin Qiye like a giant whip. The speed was too fast, the range too wide, almost completely blocking any angle for him to dodge. Lin Qiye's pupils contracted slightly; he gripped his spear with both hands, holding it upright at his sides, and took the blow head-on.
"clang--!!!"
A dull thud resounded. Lin Qiye felt an overwhelming force surge from the gun barrel, numbing his arms and causing his tiger's mouth to split open again. He was sent flying by the force, like a pebble being struck, crashing into the rock wall several times, creating shallow craters, before finally slamming heavily onto the black rock below, tumbling several times before barely managing to regain his footing.
He knelt on one knee, a trace of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, his hand gripping the spear trembling slightly.
The power of that giant bone-armored worm was terrifying. His strength after breaking through was enough to kill Lei Sha head-on, but in front of this giant worm, it was like a child wrestling with a strong man.
But he had no time to catch his breath.
Because the next moment, an even more terrifying aura suddenly surged from the front.
The aura, like a tangible tide, swept in from the depths of the mountains with an ancient and savage pressure. The air thickened under the pressure, making it difficult to breathe. The ashes and broken rocks on the ground trembled under the weight of the aura, as if the entire world was shaking under its power.
The giant rock rhinoceros has arrived.
Lin Qiye suddenly raised his head, his pupils shrinking sharply.
He saw a massive silhouette slowly emerging from the shadow of the mountain ridge ahead. The silhouette was even larger than he had glimpsed from afar—almost like a moving mountain, its four legs treading on black rock, each step causing a muffled rumble. Its entire body was covered in dark gray, keratinous carapaces, studded with numerous large and small fluorescent blue crystals that shimmered with a cold light in the dim light. Its head was lowered, and its pair of dark red eyes, like two burning blood moons, looked down upon the tiny Lin Qiye and the giant bone-armored worm below.
A trace of undried blood and a tattered piece of cloth—the color of Yunyin's clothes—still clung to the corner of its mouth.
Lin Qiye's heart sank.
A pincer attack from both sides.
Ahead stood the mutated rock-armored rhinoceros that had killed four high-ranking deacons; behind him was the giant bone-armored worm that had emerged from the ground; on either side were steep rock walls and bottomless chasms. He felt as if he were trapped in an invisible cage, with the only exit above—but who knew what lurked deep within the gray-white mist in the sky?
He didn't have time to think it through.
The giant bone-armored worm clearly sensed the presence of the rock-armored rhinoceros. Its round mouthparts, filled with sharp teeth, contracted slightly, emitting a low hiss. Its body slowly curled up, as if assessing the new threat. The rock-armored rhinoceros also stopped, its dark red eyes scanning back and forth between the giant bone-armored worm and Lin Qiye, exhaling two streams of scorching white breath from its nostrils.
Lin Qiye is gambling.
He bet the animosity between those two monsters was greater than that between him, a human.
The giant bone-armored worm emerged from the depths of the earth, its aura remarkably similar to the power emanating from the depths of the Bone Tower. This suggests it was likely a creature that had long lived near the Bone Tower, or even a product of the Bone Tower's mutation. The giant rock-armored rhinoceros, on the other hand, was clearly a mutant influenced by the Bone Tower's harmonics; its presence here was likely also an attempt to trace the source of that mutation.