Indescribable

"Die!"

Li Qi's gaze turned icy.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Yakesi's ancestral spear flew ahead, followed by twelve bone spikes, all shooting toward the Drill Beast's gaping maw!

The Drill Beast snapped its bloody maw shut. Not only did it fail to bite Li Qi, it swallowed the spear and bone spikes whole.

The moment it swallowed them, its wrinkled body twisted in agony.

Squelch!

The next instant, the sound of flesh being pierced rang out as the spear, along with the twelve bone spikes, burst out from the Drill Beast's body.

The tough hide that could withstand the bone spikes was utterly useless before the ancestral spear, easily punctured like a sheet of paper!

The spear curved through the air with the bone spikes and plunged into the Drill Beast's body again.

This time, rather than merely piercing through the Drill Beast's body, the spear wreaked havoc inside it under Li Qi's control.

Although the Drill Beast's powerful muscles crushed the shaft of the ancestral spear, the sharp, sturdy spearhead continued tearing through its body with the bone spikes.

Its internal organs were punctured, bloody holes appearing across them as copious amounts of blood flowed out!

Roar!

The Drill Beast let out a pained roar, its body twisting wildly as blood sprayed from its mouth, nose, and wounds.

Easy! This was far too easy! Li Qi thought with delight.

Whether he had faced that planetary-level Dark Night Bird before or this planetary-level Drill Beast now, he had only been able to suppress them briefly, unable to inflict much damage.

But things were different now. Yakesi's ancestral spear was too powerful, effortlessly piercing the Drill Beast's body.

Roar!

With another agonized roar, the Drill Beast could no longer endure the torment from within!

It knew that if this continued, it would die!

Driven by its will to survive, it suddenly lowered its head and burrowed toward the ground, intending to escape underground.

"Hmph! Trying to run? Dream on!"

Seeing the Drill Beast attempt to flee underground, Li Qi snorted coldly.

With a thought, the spearhead stopped rampaging through the Drill Beast's body and instead charged toward its brain with the bone spikes!

Bang!

Bang!

The pain in its brain left the Drill Beast unable to burrow away. It struggled madly, repeatedly smashing its tail against the grassland.

Each blow caused the ground to collapse and cave in, sending violent tremors through the area as dirt and grass clippings flew everywhere!

The Drill Beast's frenzied death throes lasted nearly ten seconds, and dust had already blanketed that patch of ground.

In the distance, Yakesi, who had fled some distance away, had been watching the battle.

When he saw that the ground had stopped shaking and the thunderous noises had ceased, he could not help muttering, "Is that Drill Beast dead?"

After the dust settled, Li Qi clearly saw the state of the land.

The Drill Beast was no longer moving. Its head and most of its body were buried in the dirt, while its tail and a small portion of its body remained aboveground.

The soil around its tail had been packed down by its blows, lying several meters lower than the untouched ground!

Since planetary-level beasts possessed extremely strong vitality, Li Qi controlled the spearhead and bone spikes to rampage through its body once more, just in case the Drill Beast was playing dead.

When it showed no reaction even to that attack, he was finally at ease.

The Bone Shield slowly descended. Looking at the mess on the ground, Li Qi shook his head slightly. "Tsk! Its death throes were truly insane."

Squelch!

Amid the sound of flesh being pierced, the spearhead emerged from the Drill Beast's body with the bone spikes.

Li Qi looked at the spearhead flying back to his side, completely unstained by blood, and could not help finding it remarkable.

He was beginning to believe that the spearhead truly was a fragment from a second-tier weapon used by a stellar-level expert.

"Li Qi!"

Seeing that the battle had ended, Yakesi hurried over.

The moment he arrived, he excitedly hugged Li Qi. "Thank you, Li Qi! You killed that planetary-level Drill Beast! You saved me! You saved the Haheru Tribe! You're a hero!"

When he had decided to hold back the Drill Beast, Yakesi had already been prepared to die. When he had been swallowed by that unknown blackish-gray substance, Li Qi had also arrived in time to save him.

Now, Li Qi had even slain a planetary-level Drill Beast as a ninth-tier apprentice, directly saving the entire migration convoy. How could such relief after surviving a disaster not leave him emotional?

"I'm an inspector. It's what I should do."

Since becoming an inspector a few days ago, Li Qi had come to understand the hardships faced by weak tribes on the grasslands. He understood Yakesi's feelings at this moment.

Yakesi released Li Qi and said gratefully, "It's different! You may be an inspector, but you're only a ninth-tier apprentice."

Li Qi smiled, caught the slowly descending spearhead, and handed it to Yakesi. "Sorry, your ancestral spear was destroyed. Only this fragment remains."

"It's fine. As long as it killed that Drill Beast, it wouldn't matter even if this fragment were gone!"

After Yakesi put away the fragment, Li Qi reminded him, "This fragment is very likely part of a weapon used by a stellar-level expert. I relied on it to kill that planetary-level Drill Beast.

"From now on, it's best not to mention this fragment's origins to anyone else. If someone asks, just say it's a fragment of a first-tier weapon used by a planetary-level expert."

Seeing that Li Qi was not joking, Yakesi understood how precious the fragment in his hand was.

In the past, whenever his elders spoke of the fragment's origins, he had only thought they were passing along exaggerated rumors and had not taken them seriously. That was why he had bragged about it to Li Qi.

But he had never expected the fragment to truly be as formidable as his elders had claimed!

"I understand."

Yakesi nodded solemnly.

"That's good. Get some rest. I'll go help deal with the other beasts."

Controlling the Bone Shield to rise into the air, Li Qi was about to help the migration convoy's warriors when he saw a streak of golden light flying toward him from afar.

Planetary-level expert!

Remembering the distress signal he had sent earlier, Li Qi guessed, Has the rescue arrived?

Whoosh!

The golden streak flew over and abruptly stopped not far from Li Qi.

The newcomer was a middle-aged man wearing black armor, carrying a silver greatsword on his shoulder, with a layer of golden light covering his body.

The middle-aged man looked down at the Drill Beast's corpse below, sensing the aura it gave off, and murmured, "A second-tier planetary-level Drill Beast."

"Who sent the distress signal?" the middle-aged man asked.

"I did. I'm an inspector as well now."

Li Qi raised his left hand, revealing the black communicator resembling a watch on his wrist.

"A ninth-tier apprentice psychic?" The middle-aged man frowned slightly, then asked, "Who killed this second-tier planetary-level Drill Beast? Did another planetary-level expert come here?"

"No. I killed this beast," Li Qi answered.

"What!" The middle-aged man looked astonished, then asked, "You killed it? How did you do it?"

"Luck." Li Qi shrugged. "This Drill Beast was too careless. I used a first-tier weapon fragment together with bone spikes made from the teeth of a planetary-level beast to kill it from the inside."

Upon hearing Li Qi's answer, the middle-aged man could not help asking, "Which tribe are you from?"

"Li Qi Royce of the Royce Family."

The Royce Family! No wonder...

The middle-aged man understood. Only the wealthy Royce Family could equip a ninth-tier apprentice psychic with a communicator and appoint him as an inspector.

"Since you killed this Drill Beast, I won't take part in dividing the spoils."

After saying that, the middle-aged man glanced at the Drill Beast's corpse on the ground, transformed into a streak of golden light, and flew back in the direction he had come from.

Controlling the Bone Shield down to the ground, Li Qi came to Yakesi's side and reminded him, "Don't expose that fragment."

"Don't worry." Yakesi patted his chest, then asked, "What should we do with this Drill Beast's corpse?"

"The beast tide is approaching. We need to hurry and continue migrating, so just leave it here."

Li Qi did not care much about the corpse of a planetary-level Drill Beast. The Royce Family was not short on such things.

"Don't!" Yakesi grabbed Li Qi. "How about our two tribes help you transport it back? You can just give us some of the materials afterward!"

Thinking of how the two tribes in the migration convoy lacked both strength and equipment, Li Qi agreed. "All right."

"Great! I'll go deal with the other beasts first, then arrange for some people to come over!"

Yakesi was visibly excited. As long as they could receive some planetary-level beast hide to make armor, the survival chances of his tribe's elite warriors would increase greatly.

Watching Yakesi's excited expression, an indescribable emotion rose in Li Qi's heart...