Lu Lin let out a shout and moved directly into the path of the White-headed Wolf's pounce.
He swung his saber.
A cold glint flashed in the White-headed Wolf's eyes. It was just about to change its move and attack Lu Lin when a sudden pain shot through its neck.
Lu Lin's saber had struck its neck without making a sound.
Ren Tian had specially added Black Carbon Steel to the E-rank Battle Saber for just this moment.
The White-headed Wolf had thought Lu Lin came empty-handed and hadn't guarded against his saber. That was how Lu Lin had landed a successful strike.
The White-headed Wolf dropped from the air and hit the ground. A gash had opened in its neck, and blood dripped steadily from the wound.
Yet it seemed unable to feel pain. Its wolf eyes narrowed slightly, as if trying to memorize Lu Lin's face.
"Pfft!"
Just then, Li Mo, who had been rolling across the ground to dodge, dropped to one knee and fired a Crossbow Bolt from the Small Crossbow in his left hand.
The bolt pierced straight into the White-headed Wolf's eye.
"Awooo—"
This time, the White-headed Wolf could no longer hold back its cry of pain.
"Lu Lin, be careful. That wolf pup holds a grudge like no other. If it gets away, we'll never know peace again."
Li Mo explained. Lu Lin gave a slight nod.
While the White-headed Wolf was howling in pain, Lu Lin activated the Third Layer's amplification again and brought down a saber strike weighing nearly thirty thousand kilograms onto its mouth.
This time, the White-headed Wolf, caught completely off guard, could no longer endure it.
Its entire lower jaw was cut off by Lu Lin's strike. The sight was both bloody and revolting, and a thick stench of blood spread through the air.
"Pfft!"
Seizing the opportunity, Li Mo fired another Crossbow Bolt.
The White-headed Wolf, howling in pain, could no longer hold on. It whimpered and closed its eyes, the wound beneath its jaw the only thing speaking of its pain and unwillingness.
If only it had retreated from the fight just now.
"Thanks, brother!"
Li Mo got up from the ground, panting hard. Of everyone there, aside from Lu Lin, whom Huang Li had been looking after, he had been in the most danger.
When it came down to it, he still wasn't suited to fighting Monster Beasts head-on.
If he could sneak up on them and assassinate them, even Zhou Shenming might not be his match.
"Don't mention it, Brother Li Mo. I'm going to help Brother Ren!"
Lu Lin checked his condition. He hadn't used up much Vitality Power, but repeatedly activating Sky Breaking Thirteen Slashes had left his right arm struggling to bear the strain.
Even so, it was enough for him to help Ren Tian by keeping the wolf occupied.
"All right. I'll go help the captain."
Li Mo said this, then turned and disappeared into the darkness.
His greatest strength was hiding in the dark and dealing an enemy a fatal blow.
By the time Lu Lin reached Ren Tian, Ren Tian was also running low on strength.
Though he was at the peak of the High-level Martial Artist realm and on the verge of advancing to Martial Master, his fighting style made it impossible for him to keep going for long.
At that moment, if the White-headed Wolf hadn't suspected Ren Tian was deliberately feigning weakness, Ren Tian would probably have been injured too.
The Beast General level White-headed Wolf already had intelligence no less than that of a nine- or ten-year-old human child. But its intelligence had also made it hesitate for several moves, giving Lu Lin time to arrive.
"Brother Ren, I'll help keep it occupied."
"Good!"
Ren Tian let out an excited shout.
"Brother, today I'll show you Ren's signature move!"
"Mighty Tiger Fist!"
Seeing Lu Lin come to help, Ren Tian was thrilled. He hadn't had time to check on everyone else, but since Lu Lin had come to his aid, he figured the others were probably doing no worse.
"Boom—"
"Boom—"
In three seconds, Ren Tian threw more than twenty punches in a row, each weighing over twenty thousand kilograms.
The key was that Lu Lin watched with his own eyes as every one of those punches landed around the White-headed Wolf's left eye.
After that barrage of punches, the flesh around the White-headed Wolf's left eye became a bloody mess, and its head seemed to have stopped working properly.
Even then, it was secretly congratulating itself. Those crafty humans had another trick up their sleeves after all. Good thing it hadn't rushed in recklessly just now.
The White-headed Wolf was too clever for its own good.
If Lu Lin hadn't suddenly appeared and distracted it, Ren Tian wouldn't have dared push himself to his limits and use a life-or-death move.
After that flurry of blows, Ren Tian didn't even need the White-headed Wolf to attack him. His face flushed red, and he plopped down onto the ground, which was littered with White-headed Wolf corpses.
"Lu Lin, I'm counting on you now."
Seeing Ren Tian looking utterly spent, Lu Lin was speechless.
He had only come to help keep the wolf occupied. How had he become the main fighter?
But now that things had come to this, Lu Lin had no other choice. He could only take up his saber and charge in.
He aimed at the White-headed Wolf's badly injured left eye and swung in a horizontal slash.
"Die!"
Lu Lin used his Fourth Layer combat amplification for this strike.
The White-headed Wolf was already dazed. It sensed Lu Lin's killing intent and tried to dodge, but it couldn't move out of the way.
Under this fifty-thousand-kilogram strike, Lu Lin swept its skull cap clean off.
The White-headed Wolf couldn't even scream. With a thud, it crashed heavily to the ground.
"I can't go on. I'm going to die!"
Lu Lin felt as if his right arm had snapped. The saber in his hand clattered to the ground.
At this rate, he'd probably have trouble holding chopsticks at dinner tomorrow.
"Now that's badass, brother!"
Ren Tian, seated behind him, shouted his approval, then saw the saber fall from Lu Lin's hand.
"Lu Lin, how are you? Are you all right?"
"Mm, I'm not dead yet!"
Lu Lin replied weakly. He didn't even care that he was sitting on the White-headed Wolf's corpse. He simply plopped down and kneaded his right arm over and over with his left hand.
Now he had time to check on everyone else.
With Huang Li's support, the Yang brothers, Yang Dawei and Yang Xiaowei, had also managed to kill two Beast General level White-headed Wolves. They were now joining Zhou Shenming in surrounding the Wolf King.
The Wolf King hadn't expected an attack it had been certain would succeed to end with all five of its Beast General subordinates dead.
Even now, as it faced the three of them, it wasn't at a disadvantage in the slightest. It tossed its head and tail, swiped with its claws, snapped with its sharp teeth, and lashed its iron-whip-like tail back and forth, blocking Huang Li's line of sight.
In fact, Huang Li had no way to shoot arrows to keep the Wolf King occupied now.
At this level of combat, he couldn't get involved at all. If Ren Tian had been at full strength, he might have been able to help keep it occupied, but Huang Li was too far away, and the Wolf King and his three teammates were moving too quickly. Huang Li couldn't keep up with them. If he risked shooting an arrow, he might hit a teammate.
But... where was Li Mo?
Ever since Lu Lin had helped kill a White-headed Wolf, Li Mo had vanished. By now, Lu Lin had even helped Ren Tian kill another White-headed Wolf, and there was still no sign of him.
Li Mo had been with the team for a long time. Surely he hadn't taken this opportunity to run away.
Seeing everyone struggling, Ren Tian had just recovered some Vitality Power. He immediately leapt to his feet and charged at the Wolf King.
"Captain, don't be afraid! Ren the Cannon is here!"
Ren Tian shouted. The Wolf King followed the sound and spotted him.
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