Fierce Battle

BOOM!!

The elemental storm struck the charging Dark Gold Baboon with pinpoint accuracy, instantly engulfing its massive body.

The dual assault of ice and fire scorched and froze its outer armor, while rock and earth battered and ground against it. Gale-force winds locked down its movements, relentlessly tearing at its flesh.

The winds howled as explosions erupted one after another.

Yet the defense of this fully equipped thousand-year baboon was terrifyingly absurd.

After the rampaging elements finally subsided and the thick smoke dispersed, the Dark Gold Baboon's dark golden armor remained completely intact. Only its fur had been scorched, while patches of skin had been reddened by frost.

It had suffered no substantial damage at all.

But the effect was still obvious!

The violent elemental tearing greatly slowed its movements. Its muscles tensed and stiffened, its charge was forcibly interrupted, and its berserk offensive briefly stalled.

It had forcefully created a fatal opening and a window to deal damage against this seemingly unbeatable beast.

"Not bad, Gu Yue. You've got some skills!"

Lin Xun's eyes lit up as he immediately seized this fleeting opportunity.

Without the slightest hesitation, he crushed a black capsule in his palm.

A faint mist of Nether black fog instantly enveloped his body as the Nether Spirit Cat capsule activated.

His speed surged severalfold in an instant. Afterimages remained where he stood, and he moved so fast that he was nearly impossible to track with the naked eye.

At that moment, Lin Xun had completely transformed into an assassin weaving through close quarters.

When other people fought monsters, they bombarded them from every direction, relying on area damage to chip away at their health.

But Lin Xun refused to do that.

From start to finish, he had only one target: the tiny wound on the Dark Gold Baboon's shoulder blade, left behind by his first sneak attack.

That was the only crack in the baboon's armor—the weakness in its defenses.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Sharp, rapid sounds of air being torn rang out in succession.

Lin Xun gripped a longsword forged from soul power, using the Nether Spirit Cat's extreme speed to constantly dart around at close range.

Every sword strike landed with impeccable precision, driving relentlessly into the same damaged wound.

In less than two seconds, dozens of lightning-fast slashes landed wildly on the same spot!

Piercing cracks rang out without pause as sparks flew everywhere.

The Dark Gold Baboon's armor was ridiculously tough. Ordinary attacks would only scatter sparks against it without leaving even a mark.

Yet this extreme, repeated pinpoint assault steadily deepened and tore open the wound at its sole weak point.

"Your fighting style is way too shameless!"

Gu Yue stared in astonishment. While continuously raising her hand to fire small ice and fireballs that disrupted the baboon's vision, she could not help but complain.

Others fought monsters with bold, open attacks and head-on clashes.

Only Lin Xun specifically targeted the spot where its skin had been broken, stubbornly biting down on that one point without letting go—sneaky, yet precise.

As Lin Xun rapidly circled around to launch surprise attacks, he casually replied without looking back:

"As long as I win! What do you know? This is called precision striking—maximum efficiency!"

"You're talking big, but you still need to look for a weakness to fight a thousand-year soul beast. Aren't you embarrassed?" Gu Yue raised a brow, her tone full of disdain.

Lin Xun chuckled, his attacks not slowing in the slightest.

"When you took that palm strike head-on and nearly got sent flying, why weren't you embarrassed then?"

That single sentence left Gu Yue speechless, and her little face instantly flushed red.

Meanwhile, the Dark Gold Baboon, whose weak point had been attacked again and again, had completely descended into a frenzied rage.

Agonizing pain continuously surged through its body. The piercing pain of having its wound repeatedly torn open was far more tormenting than a heavy blow.

It wildly swung its massive body and flailed its arms about, trying to crush the clingy boy before it like an annoying fly.

But Lin Xun had pushed his speed to the limit, his movements incredibly agile. Each time, he narrowly evaded every fierce attack.

No matter how it roared or swept its arms, it could not touch Lin Xun in the slightest. It could only let him continue wearing away at the wound in its weak point.

Seeing this, Gu Yue stopped joking around and began to cooperate seriously.

Her hands moved in rapid motions. At times, wind element pulled at the baboon's center of gravity; at times, earth element condensed small stones to strike its eyes and disrupt its sight; at times, ice and fire alternated between burning and freezing its wound.

One controlled the battlefield and held it back, while the other broke through its defenses at a single point.

Their teamwork could not be called seamless or perfect. It even carried a touch of awkwardness born from their mutual dislike. Yet the tactical results were surprisingly effective.

In just a short while, the tiny wound on the Dark Gold Baboon's shoulder blade had been forcibly ripped into a small bloody gash.

The pain completely shattered the thousand-year soul beast's reason. It threw back its head and let out a grief-stricken, furious roar, plunging completely into a madness that would not end until one side died.

"Now's the time!"

Lin Xun flipped his fingertips and crushed the second capsule. The Evil Fire Phoenix's dark red flames instantly engulfed the blade, scorching tongues of fire climbing upward along its edge.

The afterimage of the Nether Spirit Cat beneath his feet had yet to fade when he used the momentum of his speed to launch himself into the air. Gripping his sword with both hands, he viciously chopped down at the bloody gash on the baboon's shoulder blade.

Sensing the heat above, the Dark Gold Baboon instinctively raised its right arm to block. But Gu Yue's wind blades were faster. Two wind blades sliced in from the side, striking its elbow joint with pinpoint precision.

The force was not great, but the angle was vicious, shifting its arm by half an inch.

That half-inch exposed the wound on its shoulder blade, which had already been repeatedly torn to its limit.

The sword fell.

Wrapped in the Evil Fire Phoenix's dark red flames, the sword edge savagely cut into the rim of the bloody wound. The fur around it instantly charred black under the intense heat, and then flames poured inward through the gash.

The baboon let out a miserable howl, its right arm smashing toward Lin Xun. He pulled out his sword and retreated, the tip dragging out a trail of blood droplets from the wound. They hit the ground with a sizzling hiss.

After landing, he staggered back several steps before steadying himself. Shaking the blood from his sword, he looked up at the baboon as it howled in agony.

The bloody gash on its shoulder blade had been completely torn open by that strike. What had been a narrow crack was now a savage rent, its dark golden fur peeled back to reveal the vivid red muscle beneath.

The baboon clutched its wound and panted heavily. Clear fear finally surfaced in its scarlet beast eyes. It did not charge again, merely staring fixedly at the still-burning longsword in Lin Xun's hand as a low whimper rumbled from its throat.

Fear was often the precursor to fury.

After that brief whimper, the last shred of reason in the Dark Gold Baboon's eyes shattered completely.

Excruciating pain bored into its bones from the grotesque, flesh-exposing wound on its shoulder blade. The searing pain of the flames spread ever deeper into its flesh and blood, driving it utterly mad.

It no longer lunged in for a reckless kill. Instead, it abruptly rose upright and fiercely pounded its broad chest, which was covered in dark golden hard armor, with its thick arms.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dull impacts echoed through the forest.

Pale golden streams of light surged madly from deep within its bones, instantly spreading across the hard armor plates covering its body. Even the split wound on its shoulder blade was rapidly covered by a layer of hardened keratinous shell, forcibly sealing most of the bleeding gash.

The beast's already violent pressure abruptly surged again!

At that moment, the wind throughout the dense forest fell completely still.

"Something's wrong!"

Lin Xun's gaze sharpened as he instantly sensed the danger.

The next second, the Dark Gold Baboon's enormous scarlet eyes flew wide open. Clasping its fists together, it smashed them into the ground with crushing force.

Golden Bone Shattering Quake!

A world-destroying shockwave erupted outward from its body as the center.

A ring-shaped wave of earth swept across the battlefield. The ground split apart layer by layer, while countless sharp stone spikes burst from the soil and shot wildly in every direction.

That was not all. An immensely powerful wave of soul power vibrations tore through the air, forming visible transparent ripples that mercilessly crushed everything within its range.

Gu Yue, who was preparing another round of elemental suppression, bore the brunt of it.

The ice, fire, and wind elements she had just gathered scattered into chaos the instant they touched the shockwave.

The level twenty-one soul power within her instantly seized up. Her meridians went numb in waves, and her footing turned light as she was jolted into a stagger, unable to remain standing.

"Oh no!"

Gu Yue's heart clenched.

This was not an ordinary attack at all.

It was an unavoidable, full-field shockwave ultimate—death was guaranteed at close range!

Falling rocks, stone spikes, and crushing shockwave pressure formed a deadly trinity, completely sealing off every avenue of escape in every direction.

In that brief instant, several sharp stone spikes had already closed in before Gu Yue, less than a few feet from her slender body.

If they struck her head-on, even in a virtual trial, she would definitely be eliminated immediately.

At the same time, Lin Xun was also violently thrown half a step back by the shockwave. His blood and qi churned throughout his body, his wrist went numb, and even his grip on the sword weakened somewhat.

Both of them had suffered a hidden loss.

"What are you standing around for? Run!"