"Today, either you die, or the three of us siblings die. The situation has come to this, so why waste any more words!"
Lian Zishang stopped talking and struck first. He sprang up and hurled a savage punch at the one-horned demon beast!
In an instant, Lian Zishang's preemptive blow struck the one-horned demon beast squarely on the jaw, sending it flying into the air!
Yet that punch had not truly harmed the one-horned demon beast. Though it was launched into the air, it came crashing back down. Lian Zishang, meanwhile, rolled several times after throwing the punch before finally bleeding off the residual force rebounding through his arm.
"You don't know life from death!"
The one-horned demon beast, clearly under Lian Chatou's control, charged straight at Lian Zishang. Its massive body moved as lightly as an arrow loosed from the string, its speed no slower than Lian Zishang's earlier punch!
The sole sharp horn atop its head carved a streak of white through the air. In the flash between sparks and flint, it stabbed toward Lian Zishang's heart!
Lian Zishang instinctively twisted aside and leaped into the air. Fortunately, he narrowly evaded the whistling horn.
He had barely dodged it, but for the one-horned demon beast, the warm-up had only just begun!
For someone barely over ten years old, Lian Zishang's strength was already quite impressive. But what he faced was, after all, a demon beast branded with a pet seal. In a real battle, Lian Zishang could only barely preserve his own life. As for winning, that was nothing but a fool's dream.
Lian Zishang's only hope now was to find an opportunity to hold back the one-horned demon beast long enough for Lian Hongshang and Lian Zongxia to escape back to the Lian family.
Though Lian Chatou