Lizardman Leader

The dust had yet to settle, and the stench of blood billowed through the air.

Jin Chang'en and the other two collapsed among the pool of blood and corpses, their chests heaving violently, lingering terror in their eyes.

They stared at the scarlet figure before them in disbelief.

They looked at one another, yet had nothing to say.

Dark-red radiance flowed across the savage biological armor, while golden-red pupils swept over the battlefield through the carapace visor.

It was as though a terrifying Monarch were inspecting his own territory.

At that moment, Xu Feng's attention beneath the mask was focused on the Attribute Panel only he could see:

[Name: Xu Feng]

[Breakthrough Points: 80]

[Qi Realm: Late Blood Replacement Realm]

[Body Realm: Fourfold Tempering]

He quickly calculated in his mind.

The slaughter earlier had wiped out at least five hundred Lizardmen, but his Breakthrough Points had increased by only 90 in total.

Toward the end, killing five Lizardmen only gave him 1 Breakthrough Point.

After spending 70 points to raise his Qi Realm to the late Blood Replacement Realm, the panel indicated that he could not advance any further for the time being.

However, his qi and blood had condensed into seven strands, and the energy surging within his dantian had become even thicker and more powerful.

Xu Feng raised his head, his gaze locking onto the hill ahead, where magic was churning violently.

Although his naked eyes could not pinpoint the invisible killer's exact location, his enhanced physical senses had long surpassed those of ordinary people.

His skin could sense the slightest changes in the airflow, while his ears could distinguish the sound of fallen leaves landing dozens of meters away.

Just as Jin Chang'en and the other two were about to warn him, Xu Feng moved.

He did not attack forward. Instead, he shifted slightly to the side.

Three nearly imperceptible streaks of icy blue light skimmed past his visor, the resulting gusts even stirring the blood vapor steaming through the gaps in his armor.

The instant the attack missed, Xu Feng's right hand shot out like lightning. His five fingers suddenly clenched in midair—

"I've got you."

A deep voice came from beneath the carapace mask.

The air twisted violently, forcing a Lizardman leader into view. It stood less than 1.5 meters tall, its entire body covered in fine, dark-blue scales, and it wielded two bone daggers!

Its vertical pupils were filled with incredulous horror.

How was this possible?

This human, his entire body spewing blood vapor, had actually caught it...

The pupils of Jin Chang'en and the other two contracted sharply.

It was him!

This was the monster that had appeared and vanished like a ghost, taking the lives of five of their teammates in less than a minute!

They had given it everything, yet still could not track it. All they could do was watch helplessly as their companions fell one after another.

Yet now, the monster that had driven them into a desperate situation had been seized by the neck with one hand by this suddenly appearing man in scarlet armor.

Like a Kun waiting to be slaughtered!

The Lizardman leader struggled frantically. Blinding magical radiance erupted across its dark-blue scales, and the daggers transformed into two afterimages stabbing toward Xu Feng's arm joints.

Those were the weak points where the armor connected!

Clang! Clang!

The instant the daggers struck the armor, they rang with the crisp sound of metal clashing against metal. They left only two pale scratches on the dark-red carapace before rapidly fading away.

Xu Feng's arm did not even tremble.

"Too weak."

His indifferent voice rang out.

The next moment, under the three people's stunned and slack-jawed gazes, Xu Feng began swinging the Lizardman leader left and right, smashing it into the ground!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom—!

Every impact made the ground tremble and the rocks split apart.

The Lizardman leader's dark-blue scales shattered over a wide area upon the first impact, and blood gushed from its mouth and nose.

It tried to cast some kind of life-saving magic, but the magical fluctuations that had just gathered around its body were violently dispersed by Xu Feng's next, even more brutal slam!

Left, right, left again, right again...

It was simple and savage, yet carried a breathtaking beauty of power.

The Lizardman leader was like a human-shaped sandbag, utterly helpless in Xu Feng's grasp. Every impact left a cracked crater in the ground.

Ten seconds.

It took only ten seconds.

When Xu Feng stopped and released his grip, the Lizardman leader that had once driven an entire adventuring party into despair was already sprawled on the ground like a pile of mud.

The faint rise and fall of its chest proved that it was still alive, but the light in its vertical pupils had faded. Every bone in its body was shattered, its organs ruptured, and it stood only one step from death.

Xu Feng raised his armored right foot and, under the three people's complicated gazes, gently brought it down.

Squelch—

The sound of its skull shattering rang out clearly.

[Breakthrough Points +100]

The rewards from killing a dungeon leader were indeed substantial.

With his previous accumulation added in, his Breakthrough Points had risen to 180 once more.

Although he still could not touch an advancement in his Body Realm, his Qi Realm... could break through.

Xu Feng bent down and stuffed the Lizardman leader's corpse into the pack on his back.

Just as he straightened, his gaze swept across the magic stone ore glinting in the magical halo atop the hill.

A glimmer immediately flashed through his eyes.

He then began walking toward the hill, the Blood Dragon State armor making faint scraping sounds with each step.

But this action caused the expressions of Jin Chang'en and the other two, who had only just recovered from their shock, to change dramatically.