Slaying

Deep in the Back Mountain, the usual silence was suddenly shattered. The Scorpion Tiger King's furious roar sent many weaker beasts fleeing in panic.

At that moment, facing the Scorpion Tiger King's relentless pursuit, a chill flashed through Lin Yan's eyes, and his fleeing steps came to a stop.

To outsiders, trying to deal with and kill the Scorpion Tiger King with the strength of the Body Tempering Fifth Level was pure suicide. But Lin Yan knew very well that with a strange fire in his body, challenging someone above his level was nothing at all. If Xiao Yan could do it, so could he!

Seeing the weak human before it suddenly stop, the Scorpion Tiger King that had been chasing close behind revealed a ferocious look in its scarlet eyes. It roared angrily a few times, then circled its massive body around Lin Yan several times, as if treating him as prey making its final struggle.

After prowling around him for several circles, a savage gleam suddenly flashed through the Scorpion Tiger King's eyes. With a thunderous roar, its hind hooves kicked off the ground, and it pounced toward Lin Yan at high speed.

"So fast!"

Lin Yan, who had been watching the Scorpion Tiger King's movements the entire time, narrowed his eyes the instant he saw it attack, and his vigilance surged.

If the attacks of beasts like Scorpion Leopards and scorpion tigers still had traces to follow, then the Scorpion Tiger King's strike was as swift as thunder, giving a person no chance to react at all.

Fortunately, Lin Yan's combat skills had also improved rapidly over the past few months, so he did not appear overly flustered in the face of the Scorpion Tiger King's lethal pounce.

Bang!

Lin Yan spread his legs apart, bent his right arm like a drawn bow, clenched his fist, and mobilized the muscles throughout his body. Surges of scorching, violent force gathered from all over his body into his fist, pushing out layer after layer of power. Finally, Lin Yan stomped with his right foot and faced the tiger hoof that came pouncing at him head-on.

"Stone Crushing Fist!"

Fist and hoof collided like sparks striking the earth, bursting with scorching sparks. The two figures, one large and one small, actually ended up locked in a stalemate.

But as the king among scorpion tigers, the Scorpion Tiger King was clearly unwilling to be suppressed by the weak human before it. It let out a frenzied roar, and just as the stench from its mouth nearly knocked Lin Yan over, its tiger hoof exerted force again. A tremendous power even greater than before attacked Lin Yan once more.

Feeling this immense pressure, Lin Yan naturally refused to show weakness. His expression darkened, and the power of the strange fire rapidly circulated within his body. The fist-sized Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire condensed into a continuous stream of Fire Force to resist the pressure brought by the Scorpion Tiger King.

Just as Lin Yan thought they would remain locked in this stalemate for a while, he did not expect the Scorpion Tiger King before him to suddenly change its move.

Its tiger hoof pressed Lin Yan down firmly, keeping him from moving, while a crafty look flashed through the Scorpion Tiger King's eyes.

The tip of the scorpion tail behind it suddenly flashed with silver light, revealing an incomparably sharp gleam. Like a deadly hidden weapon, it stabbed straight toward Lin Yan.

If nothing unexpected happened, in the next instant, that sharp scorpion tail would pierce straight through his body and kill him, just like the Scorpion Tiger King's previous prey.

Faced with such a situation, even Lin Yan was caught somewhat off guard. But in the next second, he quickly calmed down and began to counterattack.

His arm trembled, and his clenched fist instantly opened, turning into both palms as they swept out abruptly. A fierce gust of force, like knives, cut painfully against the skin.

Beneath that sharp palm wind, a whistling sound actually rose. If an outsider had been present, they would surely have been moved.

The palm wind, fierce and blade-like, suddenly changed, unexpectedly gaining traces of softness. If one looked closely, they would discover that within that softness was also a terrifying, scorching, violent aura.

The next moment, Lin Yan's arm gave a strange tremor. That extremely fierce power, containing threads of terrifying, scorching, violent force, surged out like a tide in an instant, rushing violently toward the tiger hoof.

"Eight Desolations Palm!"

Between Lin Yan's arms, an extremely fierce and scorching force immediately struck the Scorpion Tiger King, forcing even this originally brawny and massive beast to retreat several steps.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Yan also hurriedly retreated. In the very next second, that sharp scorpion tail nailed itself into the spot where Lin Yan had just been standing.

Seeing this, Lin Yan's expression instantly turned cold. "What a cunning beast. You actually know how to make a feint. I almost fell for your trick!"

At the same time, Lin Yan also took this lesson of carelessness to heart. The beasts he had encountered in the past had all fought by instinct, only knowing how to charge straight ahead. But the Scorpion Tiger King before him actually knew some combat techniques, and it had nearly made Lin Yan fall into its trap.

Looking at the savage and cunning Scorpion Tiger King before him, Lin Yan's expression chilled as he said coldly, "Looks like I can't deal with a beast like you without using the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire. In that case, die!"

As soon as his words fell, a fist-sized flame immediately appeared in his palm.

The flame was scarlet, slowly rising in Lin Yan's hand. Although it was not large, the violent and terrifying aura within it shook the heart and soul. Facing the fierce wind howling in from all around, that ball of red flame swayed with the wind, yet did not weaken in the slightest.

When Lin Yan brought out the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire, the Scorpion Tiger King sensed the pressure of ten thousand beasts within it and immediately acted as if it were facing a great enemy, involuntarily retreating several steps.

But soon, greed appeared in those scarlet eyes. The Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire was condensed from the souls and bloodlines of ten thousand beasts. Although it held a deterrent power over all beasts, those bloodlines also carried an enormous attraction for wild beasts and demonic beasts.

The Scorpion Tiger King could feel that if it swallowed that strange fire, it would definitely gain tremendous benefits.

If the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire had been at its peak, this Scorpion Tiger King naturally would not have dared to covet it. But looking at the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire, which was only the size of a fist, this beast actually became greedy.

Lin Yan also noticed the look in the Scorpion Tiger King's eyes, and the killing intent in his heart surged even higher. A mere beast dared to covet his strange fire? It truly did not know whether it lived or died!

His right hand spun upward, and flames coiled around his five fingers. Along with the fierce palm wind, a terrifying flame rose up. The might of ten thousand beasts shot straight into the clouds!

"Eight Desolations Fire Palm!"

When Eight Desolations Palm was combined with the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire, its grade approached that of a third-grade martial technique. That fierce power, together with the terrifying, violent force of the strange fire, actually made Lin Yan, at the Body Tempering Fifth Level, seem even more imposing than a Body Tempering Sixth Level martial artist who had condensed an Origin Power Seed!

Seeing such terrifying pressure, even the Scorpion Tiger King at the side actually felt the urge to retreat.

However, the pride of a tiger king and its greed for the Ten Thousand Beast Spirit Fire still made it give up on fleeing in panic. It immediately opened its bloody maw and let out a low roar. Its two hooves stomped, the reddish-brown color of its body becoming even more scarlet, and then it pounced at Lin Yan like an arrow leaving the bowstring. With this kind of massive collision, even someone at the Body Tempering Sixth Level would have to dodge and would not dare take it head-on.

But Lin Yan was not afraid in the slightest. Killing intent flashed through his eyes, and he lightly shifted one step sideways, dodging the Scorpion Tiger King's pounce by a hair's breadth. Immediately after, his Eight Desolations Fire Palm tilted upright, scorching light flashing across his palm. Then that palm of his chopped heavily down toward the Scorpion Tiger King's head!

Hiss!

A deep sound rang out, and scalding blood sprayed through the air. Lin Yan's scorching palm had actually pierced straight through the Scorpion Tiger King's tough hide and fur, stabbing through its throat with one palm!

The Scorpion Tiger King's body stiffened at that moment, then crashed to the ground. Blood rapidly spread out, staining a large stretch of the ground red.

The Scorpion Tiger King was dead!