69novels Chapter 217 - 136: Who’s the Real BOSS?
Chapter 217 - 136: Who’s the Real BOSS?
’A one-on-one fight?’
Lin Ye scoffed inwardly.
The so-called duel was nothing more than a way for Galasha to display its martial prowess and authority in front of its own kind.
It was using him to solidify its rule and intimidate its subordinates.
Lin Ye didn’t believe a single promise that came from the mouth of an alien creature.
Humans and the Celestial Abyss.
There was no fairness, no justice.
More words were useless. It was a fight to the death!
Galasha clearly wanted to say more, but before the words could leave its mouth...
...without any warning, Lin Ye suddenly attacked!
BOOM!
The ground beneath Lin Ye’s feet instantly exploded, leaving a deep crater!
The frenzied Qi and Blood in his body erupted, and he transformed into a black streak of lightning—completely imperceptible to the naked eye—crossing a distance of seven or eight meters in an instant!
Galasha’s vertical golden pupils abruptly contracted to the size of a pinprick!
’So fast!’
Lin Ye had unleashed a speed that completely surpassed its expectations!
In its perception, one moment the enemy was far away; the next, the deadly tip of his weapon had already reached its chest!
The muscles in Lin Ye’s arm bulged. A glint of cold light condensed to its absolute limit on the tip of the Star-Piercing Spear.
’Soul-Chasing Strike!’
PSHH—!
A dull sound of a sharp blade sinking into flesh.
Before this glint of cold light, Galasha’s seemingly indestructible, jet-black Scale Armor was instantly pierced and torn apart like paper!
Dark green blood flowed down!
But at the same time, Lin Ye’s brows furrowed sharply.
He felt his spear tip meet an unprecedented and terrifying resistance after piercing about an inch into Galasha’s chest.
It was the resistance of muscle fibers as solid as granite and bones even harder than alloy steel!
Galasha cried out in pain. It had never imagined this human could injure it. The next moment, it let out a furious roar that shook the entire valley!
Its voice was filled with the humiliation of being ambushed and the fury of being wounded by weaker prey!
As it swiped its right claw, three bolts of jet-black energy that seemed to devour light itself instantly formed, shrieking as they tore through the air toward Lin Ye’s head!
Lin Ye’s figure drifted backward. At the last possible second, he narrowly dodged the three deadly black lights.
Galasha also staggered back a step, its massive body trembling slightly from the intense pain.
It reached out with its right claw to cover the bowl-sized bloody hole in its chest, dark green blood gushing madly from between its digits.
Lin Ye’s spear had precisely struck the vitals near its heart.
But its powerful physical body had managed to reduce the force of the blow layer by layer, ultimately preventing a fatal wound.
It was only a serious injury.
The battle had reached a fever pitch from the very first moment.
And the first to suffer a loss was Galasha.
Lin Ye stabilized himself, his mind racing.
’Even my full-power burst, combined with the vital-point attack of the Soul-Chasing Strike, wasn’t enough for a one-hit kill.’
’This lord-level creature’s Defense Power and vitality are even more terrifying than I expected!’
BOOM!
A dull roar sounded by his ear.
It was the sound of Galasha’s powerful hind leg smashing the ground!
The next moment, the three jet-black bolts reappeared in Lin Ye’s vision. They were faster and came from a more cunning angle, almost sealing off all his escape routes!
SHRRRIP—!
His combat suit was fragile before the black light and tore apart on contact.
Lin Ye felt a searing pain across his chest.
He looked down.
Three claw marks, so deep the bone was visible, stretched from his left shoulder down to the right side of his abdomen. It was a shocking sight, and blood slowly seeped from the wounds.
He shifted again, his body twisting at an incredible angle, narrowly avoiding the subsequent black lights aimed at his eyes and throat.
Only then did Lin Ye finally see clearly.
The so-called black light wasn’t some kind of energy attack.
It was the wind from its claws, condensed to the absolute limit, that it generated when it swiped!
It seemed to possess an innate ability to control wind. Combined with its terrifying strength, every casual swipe of its claw was comparable to a high-level martial arts technique!
However, a shock even deeper than Lin Ye’s flashed in Galasha’s eyes.
"This... is impossible!"
As the king of this region, Galasha had fought human Martial Artists more than once or twice.
It could clearly sense the fluctuations of Qi and Blood radiating from Lin Ye; they were at the level of the Vein Opening Realm.
In its experience, there was only one outcome for a Martial Artist of this level who took a direct hit from its claw—being torn in two at the waist!
But this human before it...
...had only suffered a superficial wound!
Those three claw marks looked gruesome and terrifying, but Galasha knew the wounds were extremely shallow. The amount of blood was pitifully small!
Its full-power strike hadn’t even managed to completely tear through his muscle layer!
Galasha’s thoughts at this moment were exactly the same as Lin Ye’s had been earlier.
’Even if that strike didn’t kill him, it should have critically injured him and taken away most of his combat ability!’
But reality had dealt it a resounding slap in the face.
VMMM—
A layer of bizarre, glass-like purple crystals instantly spread from his palm, covering the entire Star-Piercing Spear!
The crystals filled in from the inside, making the originally hollow shaft incredibly solid!
Power and speed, unleashed without reservation!
The tip of the spear radiated an unconcealed sharpness, an edge so keen that even the distant Galasha felt a palpitation of fear.
For that previous sneak attack, Lin Ye had pursued the ultimate in speed and surprise, so he hadn’t used Crystalization.
But now, this was his true, strongest offensive stance!
For the first time, a grave expression appeared in Galasha’s vertical golden pupils.
It felt a mortal threat!
But...
...it was unavoidable!