A desperate plight!

Having put some distance between them, Xiao Yu hurriedly took a Spring-Rejuvenating Pill from his Storage Ring and swallowed it.

With Dou Qi surging throughout his body, the pill's potency was brought into full play. Flecks of green light shimmered around the wound in his abdomen, stopping the bleeding and beginning to repair it.

The magical beasts would not give him even a moment to catch his breath. They would strike while he was weak and take his life.

"Squeee! Squeee! Squeee!"

Before they could attack, agonized, piercing squeals interrupted their movements.

Their gazes converged on the Fanged Tusk Boar's head, where a dark gray flame blazed fiercely. Dark gray baleful energy flowed through the burning wound, rapidly entering its body.

The Fanged Tusk Boar felt its flesh, blood, and Dou Qi being devoured and corroded little by little, dissipating at an alarming rate!

The pain gnawing at its bones and eating away its marrow made it squeal incessantly as it rolled back and forth across the ground.

The other four magical beasts stared in horror. It had been perfectly fine a moment ago, so why did it suddenly look as though it were dying?

While the beasts were distracted, Xiao Yu ignored the pain in his abdomen and immediately ran into the distance.

The four beasts snapped out of their daze and hurried after Xiao Yu, leaving only the Fanged Tusk Boar rolling on the spot.

"Pfft!"

As he ran, Xiao Yu inadvertently pulled at his abdominal wound. A stabbing pain shot straight to his heart, his blood surged, and he could not help spitting out a mouthful of crimson blood.

His left hand hurriedly covered the wound. Now, every beat of his heart sent another stab of pain through the hole piercing his abdomen, leaving him in unbearable agony.

His injuries slowed him down. Before he had covered a hundred meters, the four magical beasts caught up, forcing Xiao Yu to face them once more.

He raised his sword in his right hand, lightning and flame flickering over it, and swung hard at the Wind-Piercing Eagle, the first to reach him.

Remembering the Fanged Tusk Boar's miserable state, the Wind-Piercing Eagle dared not touch Xiao Yu. It could only beat its wings and soar upward, dodging the greatsword before sweeping its broad wings and sending a multitude of wind blades shooting toward him.

Xiao Yu drew his sword back to block. His left hand, wreathed in purple extreme astral thunder, punched toward the Howling Moon Wolf King closing in on him.

The Howling Moon Wolf King dared not meet Xiao Yu head-on either. It could only spit out a moon-colored beam of light that collided with his fist.

Boom!

Purple lightning and moon-colored radiance exploded. The powerful impact forced the Wolf King back dozens of meters, while Xiao Yu forcibly endured the shock wave.

That was because the Spineburst Mad Ape had already reached a point ten meters behind him.

With dark cinder baleflame coating his left foot, Xiao Yu used its thrust to appear instantly before the Spineburst Mad Ape and lashed out with a sweeping kick.

Frightened, the Spineburst Mad Ape tried to retreat, but it was already too late. It could only rely on the sharp spines on its arm to resist him.

Crack!

Under the burning corrosion of the dark cinder baleflame, the sharp spines turned directly to ash without injuring Xiao Yu's left leg.

Instead, a tuft of dark gray flame clung to the Spineburst Mad Ape's arm.

Feeling the scorching heat and corrosion spreading across its fur, the Spineburst Mad Ape acted decisively, using its other hand to tear off the entire patch of hide contaminated by the dark cinder baleflame.

"Aaaooow!"

The pain of tearing away its own flesh and skin made the Spineburst Mad Ape howl in agony.

The Silver Spirit Snake King waited nearby for an opening. Seeing Xiao Yu struggling to fend off the three beasts' attacks, it immediately darted out and lunged at his neck, intending to finish him off with its venomous fangs.

"Hmph!"

Xiao Yu snorted coldly. With his formidable soul power, how could he fail to notice the Silver Spirit Snake King's movements? But he truly had no time to respond now.

Crack!

To avoid dying in the snake's jaws, Xiao Yu forcibly twisted his body, breaking several ribs in the process.

Purple lightning gathered in his left hand, forming a purple lightning javelin, which Xiao Yu hurled forcefully at the Snake King.

"Die!"

With that furious shout, the purple lightning javelin tore through the air, swiftly piercing toward the Snake King launching its sneak attack.

Crackle!

The instant the purple lightning javelin touched the Snake King, it transformed into countless bolts of lightning that pierced through its body.

"Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

Overwhelming destructive power and numbness, bearing the rolling might of heaven, instantly made the Snake King's entire body curl and writhe. Wisps of black smoke rose from it. It felt its soul being shattered, piece by piece, beneath this vast heavenly lightning!

The agony of its soul being torn apart left it with no strength to attack Xiao Yu. All its power went into resisting the heavenly lightning that could crush its soul.

With the Snake King's threat removed, Xiao Yu immediately breathed a sigh of relief and turned his full attention to the other three magical beasts.

By now, thoughts of retreat had begun to stir in the other three beasts. They had never imagined that a human Dou Ling could possess such terrifying combat strength. Facing five Fifth-Order Magical Beasts, he had held out until now and even severely injured two of them.

Thus, the three beasts and one human stood locked in a stalemate.

Xiao Yu did not move either. He merely stood there with an icy gaze, frantically circulating his Dou Qi to accelerate the Spring-Rejuvenating Pill's effects and heal his injuries.

Conflict gradually appeared in the eyes of the Wind-Piercing Eagle overhead. It was hesitating over whether to continue the fight.

It feared death too. Facing a human with such terrifying combat strength, it genuinely feared that he might be driven mad and drag it into the grave with him, heedless of his own life.

But on second thought, if this human advanced to a higher realm in the future, it would probably be unable to escape death even under the Amethyst Winged Lion King's protection.

Better to pay a price now, while he was severely injured, and make him remain in the Magical Beast Mountain Range forever, eliminating any future trouble!

Then killing intent welled up in the Wind-Piercing Eagle's eyes, and it let out a cry:

"Kree!"

The Howling Moon Wolf King and the Spineburst Mad Ape understood what the Wind-Piercing Eagle meant. They too imagined how, if they let the tiger return to the mountain today, they would be left without even bones tomorrow. Both shuddered.

They also made up their minds. Even if they had to pay a terrible price, they would keep Xiao Yu in the Magical Beast Mountain Range forever.

Xiao Yu keenly sensed the killing intent radiating from the three magical beasts. Clearly, they intended to kill him here once and for all.

Although Xiao Yu seemed to be trading blows evenly with them, that was only because they feared his Origin Flame Divine Thunder. If they disregarded the consequences and sought his death at all costs, killing him was by no means impossible.

Now I really can only leave my fate to heaven.

Xiao Yu sighed as the thought crossed his mind.

He had already exhausted every means at his disposal, yet he still could not escape these Fifth-Order Magical Beasts' encirclement. Besides, they probably all had powerful finishing moves they had yet to unleash.

He could already picture the final outcome: he would perish here, his cultivation extinguished, while the five Fifth-Order Magical Beasts would leave safely despite suffering severe injuries.

Yet the closer he came to this life-and-death crisis, the calmer Xiao Yu found himself. The fear he had felt at the very beginning was gone.

At this moment, perhaps life and death no longer mattered, because neither was within his control anymore.

The only thing he could do now was try his best to drag a few of them into the grave with him, so he would at least not be lonely in death.

I'm a hot-blooded son of China! Even if I die, I'm damn well taking a few of you down with me!

Just as Xiao Yu prepared for his final, desperate struggle, inspiration flashed through his mind. He suddenly remembered the scenes in the original story where Xiao Yan fused heavenly flames to kill enemies above his level.

Heavenly flames can fuse with other heavenly flames to form the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus. What about divine thunder and origin flames? Could they fuse too, forming something even more lethal?

The idea appeared in his mind in an instant. Relying on his formidable soul power and practiced control over flames, Xiao Yan had fused heavenly flames and created the Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus, a devastating trump card comparable to a Heaven-tier Dou Technique.

Why couldn't I do it? Although I don't have heavenly flames, my origin flames and divine thunder are no weaker than them, and my soul power isn't much inferior to Xiao Yan's either.

Moreover, in terms of familiarity and control, his Origin Flame Divine Thunder had been born within his own body. With all the understanding he had gained over this long period, Xiao Yu believed his control over it would be no worse than Xiao Yan's control over heavenly flames.

Perhaps it could work?

Anyway, whether I'll live through this battle is still uncertain. I might as well throw caution to the wind and take a gamble. Who knows? Maybe I can turn a bicycle into a motorcycle.

Xiao Yu had always been one to act as soon as he decided. He immediately drew his other Origin Flame Divine Thunder into his dantian, then circulated his Dou Qi at full force to generate blue-silver cold lightning and extreme-breaking ice flame.

Why had he chosen these two kinds of Divine Thunder Origin Flame?

Because they had been the first to emerge within Xiao Yu's body and had previously been his main weapons against his enemies. When it came to familiarity and mastery, nothing could surpass them.

They were also the Divine Thunder Origin Flames that Xiao Yu felt most confident about fusing.

He did not want insufficient control over his other Divine Thunder Origin Flames to result in two berserk, uncontrollable energies blowing him to pieces.

Planting his greatsword in the ground, Xiao Yu made blue-silver cold lightning shine in his left hand while extreme-breaking ice flame swayed in his right. Dou Qi surged madly into both hands as he drove them to the greatest intensity he could currently control.

Then Xiao Yu brought his hands together before his chest, intending to merge the Divine Thunder Origin Flames in his palms!

Violent energy spread from Xiao Yu's hands. The temperature within a hundred-meter radius plunged sharply as extreme cold collided with extreme frost. Blue, icy radiance framed Xiao Yu, making him look like a god who had stepped out of a world of ice and snow!