Pillars of fire hit his face.
Qin Tiexin did not return.
He raised the shield diagonally with his left arm, and the shield surface was slightly tilted in the direction of the impact of the pillar of fire. This was a force-relieving technique he learned during military training - it is better to deflect than to resist.
The stream of red fire hit the shield, making a harsh tearing sound. The flames spattered, and the shield was instantly burned dark red, and the spiritual patterns flashed crazily. Qin Tiexin pressed his feet firmly against the ground, and the soles plowed two deep marks on the bluestone. The heat wave came through the shield, and the skin of his left arm was in pain, but his hand holding the shield was as steady as a rock.
Three breaths.
The pillar of fire stopped and the ground lizard took a breath.
Qin Tiexin took advantage of the gap and took three steps back to distance himself from the ground lizard. The surface of the shield on his left arm had cracks and fine lines, and the center was even slightly dented. This low-grade Law Artifact was almost stretched to its limit.
Li Yun's voice came from behind. "Junior Brother Qin!"
"Let's go." Qin Tiexin didn't look back, "Take Senior Brother Wang to retreat to the east crack."
"You can't stop--"
"I'm physically strong, so I have a chance." Qin Tiexin interrupted her, "The fire here is too strong, and your ice skills can't be used to 50%. Move quickly, this is the only way to survive."
He took off Storage Bag from his waist, which contained ten chalcedony mushrooms and blood-eating grass that had not yet been divided, as well as the fire jade and some scattered materials collected in the past few days, and then stuffed the bag into Li Yun.
Li Yun took it, her fingertips turning white. She stared at the back of Qin Tiexin, a junior brother with a lower cultivation level than her, and a body as tall as a mountain.
"Come back alive." She said hoarsely, took out two bottles of Qi Rejuvenation Pills from her Storage Bag, and threw them at Qin Tiexin's feet, "Definitely."
After saying that, she picked up Wang Zhong, turned around and ran towards the narrow crack on the east side. Wang Zhong wanted to say something, but there was severe pain in his ribs, so he could only grit his teeth and look back at Qin Tiexin for the last time.
When the ground lizard saw someone trying to escape, it roared low and dug its claws on the ground in an attempt to chase after him.
Qin Tiexin took a step forward and blocked its path.
The anger in the ground lizard's red and yellow vertical pupils became even stronger - this ant blocked it again and again. It no longer breathed fire, but instead used its limbs to exert force, and its huge body crashed in like a red hill!
Qin Tiexin took a deep breath, bent down to pick up two bottles of Qi-Returning Pills on the ground, pulled out the stoppers, and poured all the pills into his mouth.
Six Qi-Reviving Pills entered his abdomen, and the medicine's power dissolved. Spiritual power surged through his meridians like boiling water. He needed this power.
Then he pulled out Edgeless from behind with his backhand.
Taking the heavy knife into his hands, the weight of four thousand kilograms made his arms feel slightly heavy. Qin Tiexin held the handle with both hands, pointing the tip of the knife downward, pouring all the strength into his arms, and suddenly inserted Edgeless into the rocky ground beneath his feet!
"Chi--"
The blade broke through the bluestone until it reached the handle. The weight of four thousand kilograms plus the force of the fall made the blade stand firmly on the ground, like an iron pillar nailed into the earth.
Qin Tiexin Hold the handle of the knife with both hands and bend your legs slightly.
The mental method of "Mountain Shaking Step" is running in the body - this is a moving step, using the power of the ground to push back the body, achieving an instant burst. But when he was practicing in the outer courtyard, he once thought: What would happen if this power was not used to push himself, but was poured into the earth?
Now he wants to try.
The spiritual power and Qi and Blood rush to the legs crazily. The soles of the feet touch the ground, but not forward, but downward. Every time the soles of the feet come into contact with the ground, the power does not leak backward, but falls vertically like a heavy hammer!
"Boom!"
When the first foot stepped down, the ground within a three-foot radius shook.
As soon as the ground lizard took two steps, his feet were unsteady and his body swayed.
"Boom! Boom!"
The second and third feet stepped down one after another. Qin Tiexin's seven orifices began to ooze blood - this was a backlash from the shock, and his body could not withstand such a violent transmission of force. But his eyes were calm, and the veins in his arms were bulging like horned dragons. He firmly held the handle of the knife, using Edgeless as the fulcrum to maintain body stability.
The ground began to crack.
Centered on Qin Tiexin's feet, spiderweb-like cracks spread to all sides. The gravel jumped and smoke rose. This was not an ordinary vibration, but a continuous ground oscillation - like someone holding the earth and shaking it.
The ground lizard's short and thick legs were most afraid of this kind of terrain. It staggered, and its attacking movements were completely out of shape. It slapped a claw three feet to the left of Qin Tiexin, causing gravel to fly, but it could not touch anyone. It roared angrily and spat out a pillar of fire, but its body was unstable. The fire pillar also missed the target, grazing Qin Tiexin's right shoulder and scorching a piece of clothes.
Qin Tiexin was bleeding from the corner of his mouth, but his feet did not stop.
He started to back away.
He did not turn around and run, but maintained a shaking posture on the ground, moving back step by step. With each step back, the force under his feet became heavier, leaving shattered footprints on the ground. The shock wave continued to spread with him as the center, and the ground lizard felt like it was stuck in a quagmire, and its pursuit speed was greatly reduced.
Thirty breaths.
Qin Tiexin has retreated to the entrance of the mine. Behind him is the darkness leading to the depths, and in front of him is the furious but stumbling ground lizard.
He finally stepped hard.
"Boom!"
The ground collapsed into a shallow pit. The ground lizard stepped into the pit with its front paws, and its body tilted.
Qin Tiexin took the opportunity to draw his knife, turned around and rushed into the mine tunnel.
The mine tunnel is narrow, about two feet high and no more than one foot wide. The rock walls on both sides are rough, and the chisel marks can vaguely indicate that they were manually dug, but they have been abandoned for many years. Debris falls from the top from time to time, and the ground is covered with thick ash.
Qin Tiexin had just rushed ten feet away when a crashing sound came from behind.
The ground lizard came after him.
It was huge, so it was difficult to turn around in the mine tunnel, but its straight-line collision speed was still terrifying. The sound of its four claws digging into the ground was like muffled thunder, and it was approaching quickly.
Qin Tiexin no longer uses the Mountain Shaking Step - the mine tunnel is so narrow that if it collapses, everyone will have to be buried inside. He ran away with all his strength, Divine Sense unfolded backwards, locking every movement of the Earth Lizard.
Twenty feet.
The earth lizard opened its mouth and a pillar of fire spewed out!
Qin Tiexin rushed forward and rolled on the ground. The pillar of fire grazed his back and hit the rock wall in front, exploding into a piece of rubble. The heat wave scorched the clothes on his back and caused burning pain on his skin.
He got up and continued running.
Thirty feet.
The ground lizard approached within three feet, raised its giant claws, and took the photo!
Qin Tiexin dodged sharply to the left, and the claw wind swept past his right arm, leaving five deep grooves on the rock wall. The gravel splashed and hit his body painfully. He took the opportunity to turn around and slashed Edgeless on the side of the lizard's claw.
"Clang--!"
The explosion of gold and iron echoed in the mine tunnel. A white mark was left on the claws of the earth lizard, and Qin Tiexin's jaw cracked, and blood flowed out. The force of the shock was transmitted along the blade, making his right arm numb.
The gap is too big.
He didn't dare to fight any more and continued to escape.
Fifty feet.
The tail of the earth lizard swept across, and its tail as thick as a beam sealed the entire mine tunnel section. Qin Tiexin had nowhere to avoid it, so he could only block it with his shield.
"Bang!"
The arm shield was in the middle of the tail whip. The spiritual pattern on the shield surface dimmed instantly, and with a "click" sound, a crack completely opened in the central crack. Qin Tiexin's whole body was blown away and hit the side rock. His throat felt sweet and blood spurted out.
At least two ribs were broken.
He fell to the ground, coughed blood and got up. He glanced at the arm shield - it was useless. This low-grade Law Artifact, which had blocked fireballs and withstood claw attacks for him, had finally come to an end.
The ground lizard approaches again.
Qin Tiexin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes became colder. He put away the useless shield, held the knife in both hands, started fighting and then retreated.
No more just running away.
He began to take advantage of the terrain.
The mine tunnel was not straight, and sometimes had twists and turns. He deliberately led it to a narrow place. When the lizard rushed towards him, he stepped hard on the side wall, jumped into the air, and slashed the top rock with his knife.
"Boom--"
Falling rocks fell like rain on the ground lizard's back. Although it could not hurt it, it could obstruct its vision and delay pursuit.
Once, he deliberately let the earth lizard collapse the roof of a section of the mine tunnel that was already loose. Large rocks fell down, blocking most of the tunnel. The earth lizard roared and knocked it away, but it was a few breaths slower.
These gaps were obtained by his injuries.
His back was rubbed three times by the fire pillar, and the flesh was charred black. His left shoulder was hit by gravel, and the bones were slightly cracked. His right rib was hit by a claw blow, and the skin was torn. Every time he was injured, he just grunted, swallowed a Qi Restoration Pill, and continued to deal with it.
When Divine Sense is fully open, he can predict 90% of the ground lizard's attacks. But prediction does not mean that he can completely avoid it - speed, strength, defense, all disadvantages. All he can do is to use the smallest price in exchange for the longest delay.
One hundred feet.
The mine tunnel has come to an end.
Ahead is a cliff.
Qin Tiexin rushed to the edge of the cliff and stopped suddenly. At his feet was a bottomless crack in the ground, with dark red magma rolling at the bottom and steaming with heat. The opposite rock wall was about five feet away from here, and there was a narrow natural stone crevice on the wall, less than two feet wide, and unknown to how deep it was.
The only way to survive.
He looked back.
The ground lizard has chased him ten feet away, its red and yellow vertical pupils locked on him, and the fire loomed in its throat.
There is no time to hesitate.
Qin Tiexin held the scrap shield with his left hand, and his spiritual power was poured crazily into the remaining spiritual patterns on the shield - especially the intersection of the two main patterns of "anti-shock" and "solid". This is what he learned in the Waste Equipment Pavilion: when Law Artifact is on the verge of collapse, if the spiritual pattern nodes are stimulated in a specific way, a short but strong burst of spiritual power can be triggered.
It's equivalent to a one-time self-destruction.
The ground lizard pounced.
Qin Tiexin threw the useless shield with all his strength, hitting the earth lizard's face door. The spiritual pattern nodes on the shield body were activated at the same time--
"Boom!!!"
A dazzling white light exploded, mixed with the screams of shattered spiritual patterns. The Earth Lizard was caught off guard, and its head was thrown back by the explosion, and its movements were stagnant.
This stagnation only lasts for a moment.
But enough.
Qin Tiexin Turn around, take a running approach, step on the ground and jump up!
All the power of the "Mountain Shaking Step" was used to push the body forward, and the rocks under his feet were crushed to pieces. He shot towards the opposite rock wall like an arrow from a string.
Behind him, the Earth Lizard had come to his senses, opened his mouth angrily, and a pillar of red fire spurted out, chasing Qin Tiexin's back and sweeping towards him!
In mid-air, Qin Tiexin tried his best to twist around and hold Edgeless horizontally in front of him. The blade was broad and thick, like an iron wall.
The fire wave hit the blade.
"Boom--!"
The terrifying heat and impact slammed him hard against the rock wall. Edgeless Saber's body was hot, and the sound of burning flesh came from the handle. Qin Tiexin gritted his teeth, and with the push, his body curled up and crashed into the stone crevice.
Narrow.
Very narrow.
The entrance to the stone crevice was less than two feet wide. When his burly body squeezed in, his shoulders and back rubbed violently against the rock wall, his clothes were torn, and his skin was torn. But he finally got in.
The moment he landed, he rolled over in pain, held the knife in both hands, and turned around to slash at the rock formation above the entrance to the crevice.
"Zhongyue·Mountain Collapse!"
Edgeless slashed at the rock wall with all his strength. This knife did not seek to kill, only to destroy. The blade sank half a foot into the rock formation, and cracks spread crazily around the blade edge.
"Boom--"
The rock formation above the entrance collapsed, and rubble fell like a waterfall, instantly blocking the entrance to the crevice, and Qin Tiexin rushed forward quickly.
The sound of a ground lizard falling to the ground came from behind, followed by a crazy crashing sound. The rock wall shook and gravel fell, but the collapsed rock layer was thick enough that it could not be broken open for a while.
The impact continued for dozens of breaths and gradually weakened. Finally, there was an unwilling roar that gradually faded away.
Darkness fell into the stone crevices.
Qin Tiexin leaned against the rock wall, gasping for air. Every breath he took was filled with the smell of blood and burning. His left arm was completely numb, his chest was scorched black, and his back was bloody and bloody. At least three ribs were broken, and his internal organs were in shock.
He took out the healing pills in the dark and swallowed two pills. He also swallowed three Qi-restoring pills.
The medicine dissipated and barely suppressed the injury.
In the darkness, there was only the sound of his own breathing and the faint sound of underground fire flowing from the depths of the rock crevices from an unknown distance.
He slowly slid to the ground, leaned his back against the rock wall, and closed his eyes.
Still alive.
That's enough.