Slaughter

Just as the Crab Monster was about to charge again, at the critical moment Liang Qu manipulated the water, swiftly using the muddy current to block the Crab Monster's vision and setting it spinning into a strangling vortex!

His five fingers clenched sharply, yet his sensory field brought no sign that the Crab Monster's eyeballs had been crushed.

But the Crab Monster's Dual Pincers suddenly flailed wildly, sending shattered stones flying and turning the entire riverbed murky.

Its eyeballs had not been crushed by the current, but it had felt intense pain.

Liang Qu leaped again to evade its attack range and caught sight of Fat Catfish pursuing it from behind.

A perfect chance! As the Crab Monster writhed madly in pain, Fat Catfish happened to swim to its side, opened its mouth wide, swallowed a mouthful of muddy water, and viciously bit down on one of the Crab Monster's compound eyes.

Fat Catfish tore off the eyestalk, bringing out pink flesh and nerves.

Blood flowed from the hollow eye socket. The even fiercer agony nearly drove the Crab Monster mad; its eyes, protruding from its body on eyestalks, were practically its greatest weakness.

Unfortunately, the Crab Monster's two eyes were too far apart. Even Fat Catfish's huge mouth could not swallow them both at once.

Having succeeded, Fat Catfish fled at the first touch, barely avoiding the Giant Pincer sweeping in to crush it. Then it swam away with nearly the greatest strength of its life.

The Crab Monster instantly flew into a frenzy. An ordinary person would have been seized by irresistible terror with a single glance at it. It no longer spared Liang Qu another thought and charged after Fat Catfish, blasting away every rock in its path as though the entire riverbed trembled.

The situation descended into chaos.

No one had expected the Crab Monster to be so terrifying.

Liang Qu's heart pounded wildly, but as he watched A Fei fleeing for its life, he did not hesitate in the slightest. He directed all the current's force onto his spear. The muscles across his body rippled like water waves, each strand twisting tightly together like iron wire before erupting with force.

He charged out like an ape leaping down from an ancient tree, thrusting with all his strength at the Crab Monster's lower jointed limbs.

The sharp, hard flint easily pierced through the joint membrane. With a twist and a lift, he tore open the entire crab leg joint.

The running Crab Monster staggered. One of the legs rooted in the silt suddenly went out of its control and, carried by momentum, snapped with ease.

The Crab Monster now had only six jointed limbs beneath it. Losing one so abruptly greatly affected its balance, and its speed in pursuing Fat Catfish plummeted.

A great mass of bubbles burst from the Crab Monster's mouth. The repeated torment had violently stimulated its nerves. It ignored the catfish and turned back to attack Liang Qu.

The Giant Pincer swung down, almost straight at his face. If it caught him, he would definitely be snapped in two! Terror gripped Liang Qu's heart. The muscles in his left leg tightened as he tried to tread on a loose rock and borrow its force to evade—but stepped on empty space! His foot sank into the silt. Though it also provided a reactive force, it was far inferior to rock! The instant his foot plunged into the mud, Liang Qu's heart nearly leaped from his chest. His adrenaline surged, cold sweat pouring out like floodwaters through an opened sluice. Caught off guard, he could only raise his spear crosswise to block once more, exhausting all his strength to manipulate the current and push himself sideways.

But this time, the Giant Pincer came from above at an angle, making it far harder to deflect its force than before.

Crack.

The spear snapped cleanly in two. The Giant Pincer lost none of its momentum, but fortunately, the current's push finally took effect and shifted Liang Qu a few inches aside. The Giant Pincer crashed down past his waist.

Mud swirled everywhere. The ruptured pig bladder floated like a deflated balloon, its air bubbles racing upward.

Liang Qu choked on a mouthful of water. His waist and abdomen burned with pain, as though someone had shaved away a layer of flesh with a knife. But he did not dare stop. He held his breath again, rolled to the side, seized a rock, and fled forward madly.

On the other side, the desperately fleeing Fat Catfish decisively turned around.

The situation had now reversed. Liang Qu was the one fleeing for his life, kicking off scattered rocks and riding the water onward.

The Crab Monster immediately pressed forward in pursuit. But when it reached a certain point, the mud and sand beneath its feet suddenly collapsed and erupted. Zhu Po Long, which had lain in ambush underground for a long time, opened its mouth wide and savagely bit down on another of the Crab Monster's jointed limbs.

Zhu Po Long's enormous bite force easily pierced the limb membrane. It spun and tore wildly, directly biting off one of the Crab Monster's legs.

With two of its six limbs gone, both from the same side, the Crab Monster was beside itself with rage. Its invincible Giant Pincer swung down again, about to smash Cannot Move into minced meat—when its vision suddenly went completely black, and agony spread through its body.

Another of its eyes had vanished!

Fat Catfish, having arrived again, repeated its old trick. It swallowed the Crab Monster's other eye, then turned and dived, pushing Zhu Po Long, which was moving too slowly to escape, swiftly away.

The Crab Monster could not scream, but judging from the vast number of bubbles pouring from the Corner of Mouth, Liang Qu guessed it was in terrible pain.

The man and two beasts avoided the frenzied Crab Monster and regrouped.

Elsewhere, Yang Martial Hall was also locked in a chaotic brawl.

The three men with Lu Tingcai grabbed Wooden Sticks at hand and charged at Li LiBo and Chen Jiechang.

Chen Jiechang pulled Li LiBo aside to dodge one blow, but they could not escape the others' attacks. The wooden sticks lashed their bodies as though they would break their bones.

"Fuck your mother!!"

Chen Jiechang was older and steadier than Li LiBo. He had always endured it, trying to conceal that tangled feeling of inferiority and helplessness. But as the shadows of those descending sticks fell over him, the rage born of humiliation surged straight to his head. After all, he was not even twenty yet.

Chen Jiechang endured the pain and fixed his teeth-gritted gaze on one Wooden Stick. The instant it came down, he reached out and seized it in a death grip, then threw his entire body forward with all his strength.

Xue Dingyi was greatly startled. Chen Jiechang slammed into him head-on, and the two tumbled to the ground, grappling with each other.

The remaining two wanted to step forward and pull them apart, but Li LiBo also seized the opportunity to tackle one of them down. The other stepped in to help, only to be kicked in the calf by someone amid the chaos and fall to the ground, dragged into the fray as well.

None of the five present had broken through the barrier. They were martial apprentices, not even worthy of being called Martial Artists. With their fury ignited, they had no technique whatsoever and were no different from street thugs in a fight.

They rolled together in a heap, using every ounce of strength to pinch, kick, bite, press with their elbows, and drive with their knees. All they relied on was sheer viciousness and their ability to endure pain.

Rage set every shred of fighting spirit in their blood ablaze.

Xue Dingyi swung his elbow and split Chen Jiechang's eye corner. Chen Jiechang's Palm clamped tightly around Xue Dingyi's throat, his fingernails nearly tearing open the skin and leaving raised bloody marks. Behind him, someone else was wildly swinging his Fist, striking his head and face, but He All paid it no heed! What was the best way to fight in a group? Grab one person and beat him half to death—beat him until he had to lie in bed for at least a month.

Lu Tingcai and Xue Dingyi—Chen Jiechang etched both of them firmly into his memory. No matter how the people behind and beside him beat him, he only beat Xue Dingyi half to death!