"Beast, if you seek death, I'll grant your wish!"
Ling Jinyu stopped, summoned a Vermilion Black Bird Soul Spirit to carry Mu Bai, and gave a deep shout. With her Soul Sword held across her chest, she displayed all the bearing of an army commander. The Earth-Eating Lizard charged on unabated. Ling Jinyu immediately lunged at it with her sword, striking its face and sending sparks flying.
The Earth-Eating Lizard's flesh was rough and thick. Not only did Ling Jinyu's strike fail, but she also failed to dodge in time. Its long tail struck her arm, sending her crashing heavily to the ground. The Earth-Eating Lizard opened its mouth and hissed, trampling toward her like a small mountain. Fortunately, the Pearl-Starred Finch shifted through space just in time and viciously pecked at its blood-red eye again, sending blood spurting in a column. The Earth-Eating Lizard's enormous body curled up in pain.
"Die!"
Seizing the opening, Ling Jinyu endured the intense pain in her left arm and flew forward, thrusting her sword straight into the Earth-Eating Lizard's other eye. That eye, like a blue ghost flame, instantly became another blood-red lantern.
"Hiss... screech..."
As though by reflex, the Earth-Eating Lizard shot out its long tongue, piercing Ling Jinyu squarely in the chest. Blood instantly soaked the front of her robes. Ling Jinyu was decisive. Enduring the searing pain in her chest, she pulled a hairpin from her hair and drove it viciously into the lizard's tongue before retreating sharply. Blood spurted from her chest in a column, while the Earth-Eating Lizard's tongue was split in two.
This was fighting with her life on the line, willing to suffer eight hundred wounds to inflict a thousand on her enemy. Otherwise, both she and Mu Bai would die here.
Ling Jinyu staggered backward,