Li Xian deliberately positioned himself in the monster's blind spot. Just as the sphere was about to reach its palm, he aimed the tip of his knife at its eye and thrust!
Yet the instant he moved, the monster in front of him swiftly leaned to the left, as though it had seen what he was doing!
Li Xian was startled. He was already standing almost directly behind the fish head, yet it had still seen him move. Was the monster's field of vision really that wide?
He quickly adjusted the knife's point in the direction it had dodged. Instead of plunging straight into the center of the eyeball as he had intended, the weapon veered a few degrees off course and pierced shallowly into the white of its eye.
The monster seemed to feel the pain. It let out a piercing roar, then completely ignored the eyeball on the floor and began attacking Li Xian!
When he saw its palm reaching straight for him, Li Xian did not retreat. He knew that strike might have been his only chance, so he instead lunged forward, drove the blade deeper, then yanked it outward with all his strength!
The tip of the blade had a curved barb, so the movement hooked the monster's eyeball directly. As Li Xian jerked his arm, he felt a powerful resistance, then, once it reached a certain breaking point, that resistance vanished.
The monster's eyeball was pulled out like a cork from a wine bottle. The recoil sent Li Xian stumbling back several steps, letting him dodge the monster's attack.
Red liquid instantly gushed from the socket. The hooked eyeball was flung through the air and fell into the sea, trailing several torn blood vessels.
Still shaken despite his success, Li Xian stood rooted to the