Indescribable

"Die!"

Li Qi's gaze was icy.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...

Yakesi's ancestral spear flew ahead, with twelve Bone Spikes following behind, shooting toward the Drill Beast's gaping maw!

The Drill Beast snapped its blood-filled jaws shut. It failed to bite Li Qi, but swallowed the spear and Bone Spikes whole instead.

The moment it swallowed them, the Drill Beast's wrinkled body twisted in agony.

Squelch!

The next instant, flesh was pierced open as the spear and twelve Bone Spikes burst out from the Drill Beast's body.

The tough hide that could withstand the Bone Spikes was utterly useless against the ancestral spear, punctured as easily as paper!

The spear curved through the air with the Bone Spikes and plunged back into the Drill Beast's body.

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

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

Its internal organs were punctured, bloody holes appearing across them as blood poured out!

Roar!

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

Easy! This is far too easy! Li Qi thought delightedly.

Whether it had been the Planetary Level Dark Night Bird last time or the Planetary Level Drill Beast before him, he had only been able to suppress them briefly, unable to inflict much damage.

But now was different. Yakesi's ancestral spear was simply too formidable, effortlessly piercing the Drill Beast's body.

Roar!

Roaring in agony, the Drill Beast could no longer endure the torment of the attacks inside its body!

It knew that if this continued, it would die!

Driven by its survival instinct, it suddenly lowered its head and burrowed toward the ground, intending to flee underground.

"Hmph! Trying to run? Dream on!"

Seeing the Drill Beast attempt to escape 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 frantically, repeatedly slamming its tail against the grassland.

Every strike caused the ground to collapse and sink, 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 and smoke had already blanketed that stretch of land.

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

When he saw the ground stop shaking and the thunderous noise cease, he could not help muttering, "Is that Drill Beast dead?"

Once the dust settled, Li Qi clearly saw the state of that patch of ground.

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 pounded solid, lying several meters lower than the untouched ground!

Since Planetary Level monsters possessed tremendous vitality, Li Qi controlled the spearhead and Bone Spikes to rampage through the Drill Beast's body again, just in case it was playing dead.

When the Drill Beast did not react even to such an 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 this spearhead was a fragment of a second-tier weapon once wielded 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 resolved to die. When he had been engulfed by that strange black-gray substance, Li Qi had arrived in the nick of time and saved him.

And now, Li Qi had slain a Planetary Level Drill Beast as a ninth-tier Apprentice Level fighter, directly saving the entire migration party. How could the feeling of surviving such a disaster not leave him overwhelmed?

"I'm a patrol inspector. It's what I should do."

Since becoming a patrol inspector several days ago, Li Qi had come to understand the hardships faced by the weak tribes of the grasslands. He understood Yakesi's feelings at that moment.

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

Li Qi smiled and reached out to catch the slowly descending spearhead, handing 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 from a weapon used by a Stellar Level expert. I relied on it to kill that Planetary Level Drill Beast.

"From now on, you'd better not mention this fragment's origins to anyone. If someone asks, just say it's a fragment of a first-tier weapon used by a Planetary Level fighter."

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

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

Yet unexpectedly, the fragment was truly as formidable as the elders had claimed!

"I understand."

Yakesi nodded solemnly.

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

Controlling the Bone Shield as it rose into the air, Li Qi prepared to help the migration party's warriors, only to see a golden streak flying toward him in the distance.

"A 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 in black armor, carrying a silver greatsword over his shoulder, his body covered in a layer of golden light.

The middle-aged man lowered his head to look at the Drill Beast's corpse below. Sensing the aura it emitted, he murmured, "A second-tier Planetary Level Drill Beast."

"Who sent the distress signal?"

the middle-aged man asked.

"I did. I'm also a patrol inspector now."

Li Qi raised his left hand, revealing the watch-like black communicator on his wrist.

"A ninth-tier Apprentice Level Spirit Reader?" The middle-aged man frowned slightly before asking, "Who killed this second-tier Planetary Level Drill Beast? Did another Planetary Level fighter come here?"

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

"What?" The middle-aged man looked stunned. Then he asked, "You killed it? How did you kill it?"

"I got lucky." Li Qi shrugged. "This Drill Beast was too careless. I killed it from inside its body using a first-tier weapon fragment together with Bone Spikes made from the teeth of a Planetary Level monster."

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 Level Spirit Reader with a communicator and appoint him as a patrol 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 before turning into a golden streak and flying 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 keep migrating as quickly as possible, so just leave it here."

Li Qi did not care much about the corpse of a Planetary Level Drill Beast. The Royce Family did not lack such things.

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

Thinking of the two tribes in the migration party, neither of which had much strength or equipment, Li Qi agreed. "All right."

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

Yakesi was visibly excited. As long as they could receive some armor made from Planetary Level monster hide, the survival chances of his tribe's elite warriors would greatly increase.

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