He deduced the entire course of events.
He had accurately grasped the point at which to intervene.
But he had still underestimated Mad Spider's counterattack.
Mad Spider's claws were like blades, nearly digging three feet into the ground. Whether blue stone or Black Ironwood, all of it crumbled before those claws like dead wood. Countless rocks flew up, nearly burying him and Li Xueyi alive.
His back endured three heavy blows, each from a boulder weighing close to a hundred jin, the heaviest exceeding a hundred!
Fortunately, his physical body had undergone immense improvement through the "Flesh Star."
Fortunately, his true qi was abundant.
Only then could he still breathe beneath seven or eight hundred jin of boulders.
The better news was that after its bout of venting, Mad Spider had already strayed from the correct direction.
The sensation of mountains collapsing and earth splitting gradually receded.
Lin Xiaosu took a deep breath, his gaze slowly shifting downward.
Below him was a beautiful, flawless face. It had been deathly pale moments ago, but now a faint flush had risen upon it.
The two of them were pinned beneath several hundred jin of boulders.
Lin Xiaosu had taken the impact of the boulders with his back.
But all the weight had ultimately been transferred onto Li Xueyi.
Because she lay face-up, having an intimate encounter with Lin Xiaosu, with not the slightest gap between their bodies.
Lin Xiaosu experienced a strange sensation.
Her body had none of the sharpness of bone, only an exquisitely mysterious softness of flesh.
Taut yet gentle.
Two entirely different sensations, yet they were perfectly united within her.
Less than a centimeter separated their lips.
"Young master..." Li Xueyi softly breathed out two words.
As those two words left her lips, Lin Xiaosu caught a trace of