Black Snake Exotic Beast had never expected that the prey it was hunting this time would be so powerful. One strike had already left it badly wounded.
Seeing that his fireball attack, though it had missed the spot he had initially aimed for, had still inflicted considerable damage on his opponent, Lin Li decisively launched another attack.
As the saying went, when your enemy was sick, you struck to kill. If not now, then when?
Mobilizing the Spiritual Energy within his body, Lin Li spread open his left palm.
"Bang, bang, bang."
Three Small Fireballs the size of apples instantly appeared above Lin Li's palm.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."
With a wave of his hand, the three apple-sized Small Fireballs hovering above his palm shot out simultaneously. They formed a triangular formation in midair and flew toward the Black Snake Exotic Beast, which had yet to recover its senses.
"Hiss..."
Sensing danger approaching once again, the Black Snake Exotic Beast came to its senses. Seeing that Lin Li had so decisively used his supernatural ability to attack it again, it was utterly terrified.
Facing the three Small Fireballs rushing toward it once more, it immediately twisted its body to dodge.
"Bang, bang, bang."
Of the three Small Fireballs flying toward the Black Snake Exotic Beast in a triangular formation, two struck its body, while one missed and hit the grass.
The two Small Fireballs that struck the Black Snake Exotic Beast once again blasted two enormous wounds into its thick body.
The scales around the injured areas had been blown off, and blood gushed out in torrents. Moreover, the intense heat produced by the exploding Small Fireballs had burned the scales around the wounds white.
"Hiss..."
The pain caused by this attack was several times more intense than that from its earlier injuries.
They said that when your enemy was sick, you struck to kill. As long as it was still alive, the attacks would not stop.
After launching his second wave of fireballs, Lin Li immediately charged forward with his sword, following closely behind the Small Fireballs as they shot out.
As the waves of heat from the exploding Small Fireballs dispersed, Lin Li, holding the Spirit Artifact Longsword radiating pale golden Spiritual Light, closed in and swung the weapon in his hand. He stabbed toward the Black Snake Exotic Beast's wounded areas.
"Squish, squish, squish..."
They said sprinkling salt into a wound could make an injured person wish for death. Then, if someone stabbed a wound several times in succession, what kind of agony would the injured person suffer?
Er... Only someone who had personally experienced such a thing could answer that question—and the Black Snake Exotic Beast before him could not speak human language.
After personally experiencing such agony, it could not tell anyone about it, either.
Still, one could probably get a rough sense of its feelings from the earth-shaking, heart-rending screams that came from its mouth!
"Hiss..."
After Lin Li stabbed its wounds several times in succession, the Black Snake Exotic Beast let out a shrill hiss that shook the heavens and earth. It then hurriedly whipped its body toward Lin Li.
"Whoosh..."
A fierce wind howled.
Lin Li reacted swiftly, immediately crouching down and narrowly dodging the Black Snake Exotic Beast's strike.
After evading the attack, he immediately stabbed two more times into the wounds on its body, then pushed off the ground with both feet and leaped backward.
"Tap, tap, tap."
After two or three consecutive leaps, he instantly widened the distance between himself and the Black Snake Exotic Beast.
"Refreshing!!!"
Having escaped the Black Snake Exotic Beast's effective attack range, Lin Li was delighted by the smooth, flowing series of attacks he had just unleashed.
"Hahaha... This black fellow only looks fierce. Once it actually starts fighting, it's nowhere near my match. With a little more effort, the exotic beast flesh the Miracle Small Tree needs will be mine!"
The Black Snake Exotic Beast no longer had the smugness it had shown at the beginning, nor did it retain that ferocious appearance.
Four or five meters below its head was a terrifying wound. First, Lin Li had blasted it with a Small Fireball, and then he had stabbed it more than ten times in succession.
Lin Li had put tremendous force into each of those dozen or so thrusts. The wounds were all deep, and several of the stabs had even pierced straight through the Black Snake Exotic Beast's body.
Blood gushed from the wounds in torrents, instantly dyeing the patch of lush green grass beneath the Black Snake Exotic Beast bright red.
"Bang."
Another orange-red Small Fireball appeared in Lin Li's hand.
When the Black Snake Exotic Beast saw the Small Fireball appear in Lin Li's hand again, its pupils contracted in terror, shrinking instantly to pinpoints.
"Hiss..."
Already terrified out of its wits by Lin Li's fireball attacks, the Black Snake Exotic Beast kept emitting fierce yet cowardly hisses, hoping to frighten away the terrifying enemy before it.
But it had clearly underestimated this enemy's determination to hunt it down.
"Hahaha... Look at how cowardly you are now. You know fear now? Too late.
If you hadn't charged out of the grass at the beginning to attack me, you wouldn't have ended up like this. Now, obediently accept your fate!"
Seeing the Black Snake Exotic Beast's threatening yet cowardly appearance, Lin Li laughed and taunted it a few times. Then he casually tossed the Small Fireball in his hand at it before charging forward again with the Spirit Artifact Longsword.
"Bang."
Struck by the Small Fireball once more, the Black Snake Exotic Beast let out a roar. The agony from the new wound piled atop the pain of its earlier injuries, hurting so badly that it nearly fainted.
But in its current state, it could no longer afford to pass out.
The Black Snake Exotic Beast clearly sensed that Lin Li was determined to kill it.
It had to escape—quickly. Several wounds on its body were constantly bleeding. If it continued entangling itself with its opponent, the bleeding would never stop. Once all its blood had run out, it could only wait to be slaughtered.
"Squish."
The Spirit Artifact Longsword, radiating pale golden Spiritual Light, stabbed into the Black Snake Exotic Beast's wound once more, its tip emerging from the other side of its body.
That thrust pierced straight through the Black Snake Exotic Beast's body, creating another opening that continuously spurted blood.
"Hiss..."
The Black Snake Exotic Beast twisted its body, and its enormous jaws ferociously lunged toward Lin Li.
Although Lin Li had gained an absolute advantage, his opponent was still an incomparably ferocious exotic beast.
Facing its all-out counterattack, he had no choice but to temporarily avoid its edge. He swiftly pulled the Spirit Artifact Longsword from its body and retreated several steps.
Judging from the Black Snake Exotic Beast's exceptionally fierce counterattack, Lin Li felt that it would launch attack after attack at him next. Thus, this time he retreated more than ten meters in one go.
"What...? Damn it, I fell for it. That Black Snake Exotic Beast's fierce attack just now was only an act."
After retreating more than ten meters, Lin Li saw the heavily wounded Black Snake Exotic Beast immediately turn and flee after forcing him back, rapidly crawling toward the dense grass nearby.
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