A Pyrrhic Victory
But the Flame Demon Lion's combat power has never relied solely on its strong physique.
The next second, the flames clinging to the Lion's fur erupted instantly, the scalding flames spreading wildly along the contact surface of its fists and claws, instantly engulfing Bai Yushan's entire right arm. The high temperature instantly scorched the flesh, and a piercing pain shot through the nerves in the arm straight to the brain. Bai Yushan's right sleeve was instantly burned away, and large patches of bright red burn marks appeared on his fair skin.
A sharp pain swept through his body, Bai Yushan remained expressionless. He exerted force with his feet and kicked high, his leg blade, crackling with electricity, slashing fiercely at the Lion's neck. The powerful force swept the thousand-year-old Lion in front of him back, temporarily creating close distance.
But crises followed one after another.
On the other side, the second thousand-year-old Lion, which had been waiting for a long time, seized this fleeting opportunity, lowered its massive body and sprinted at full speed. Its hard lion head, carrying the Impact of its entire body, slammed hard into Bai Yushan's back.
Bai Yushan lost his balance instantly, staggering forward several steps. The lion's head horn grazed his back, leaving several deep wounds that instantly soaked his clothes with blood. These two consecutive injuries completely shattered his calm exterior, forcing out the mad and ferocious energy hidden deep within him.
Bai Yushan's eyes were completely filled with dark blue lightning, and the electricity around his body surged violently. He no longer deliberately held back his combat power.
Since the wide-range area-of-effect attacks of the Light Speed Fist are not suitable for dealing with the pincer attack of two ancient Lion, let's switch to the ultimate piercing-type killing move.
He brought his five fingers together, with the tips of the four fingers except his thumb straight and taut. A massive amount of high-voltage current instantly converged at his fingertips, and the lightning was highly compressed and condensed into an extremely sharp lightning blade. The air was cut by the lightning at his fingertips, creating a subtle buzzing sound.
"Hell Stab - Four-Finger Nukite!"
A low shout echoed through the forest. Bai Yushan, relying on his Electromagnetic Clarity, locked onto the Lion's weakness in front of him and transformed into a streak of blue lightning, rushing forward at lightning speed. There were no superfluous moves, only the simplest and most deadly straight thrust. His four lightning-covered fingertips, carrying unstoppable piercing power, instantly pierced through the Lion's outer layer of flame defense and precisely penetrated the Lion's left shoulder flesh.
The violent lightning surged into the Lion's body through the wound, directly paralyzing the nerves and blood vessels of half of its body.
The severe trauma caused the thousand-year-old Lion to let out a heart-wrenching roar of pain. Its massive body trembled violently, and the intense pain completely awakened its wild nature. Ignoring the penetrating wound in its shoulder, the Lion suddenly lowered its head and opened its blood-red maw. The huge mouth, filled with sharp fangs, went straight for Bai Yushan's neck and bit down hard, wanting to tear the human boy in front of it to pieces.
Bai Yushan used his Electromagnetic Clarity to anticipate the bite trajectory, tilting his neck to the side at the limit to narrowly avoid the fatal bite. However, the fangs still grazed the side of his neck, leaving a shallow bloodstain, and the smell of blood instantly filled the air.
The battlefield situation has completely devolved into a fierce and brutal struggle.
Eight hundred-year-old female lions constantly roamed and launched sneak attacks, their fiery claw strikes providing continuous harassment, and their incessant small fireballs scorching Bai Yushan's skin from afar. Two thousand-year-old Lion, one on the left and one on the right, locked down all of Bai Yushan's evasive routes, launching a relentless frontal assault. Their fiery Impact, close-range claw strikes, and savage charges took turns attacking, their coordinated attacks leaving no room for error.
No matter how strong Bai Yushan's perception or how fast his speed, he was ultimately just a body.
He constantly relied on his Electromagnetic Clarity to anticipate and dodge fatal attacks, but he couldn't escape the aftershocks of the flames and sporadic sneak attacks coming from all directions.
Within half a minute, he had more than a dozen new wounds of varying sizes on his body. The Collision on his back continued to bleed, his right arm was burned extensively and was in excruciating pain, and his neck, waist, abdomen, and calves were covered with scratches left by lion claws. His clothes were tattered, and cold sweat mixed with blood kept sliding down his skin.
The extreme pain kept Impact his nerves, but instead of making Bai Yushan back down, it accelerated the friction between his cells, made the electrical currents run even more violently, and raised his fighting spirit to its peak.
He knew very well that if he continued to passively dodge and wear down his opponent, he would only be slowly whittled down by the flames. To win this battle, he had to trade blows and fight to the death in close combat.
Bai Yushan stopped dodging the flame attacks coming from both sides, letting the small fireballs hit his shoulders, his flesh being scorched by the high temperature once again. He charged forward at full speed despite the damage, facing the injured Thousand-Year Lion on his left. His fists crackled with electricity, and he unleashed his Lightning Plasma Fist with all his might.
A barrage of lightning and fist strikes covered the Lion's entire body, relentlessly bombarding Lion wounds. The lightning repeatedly tore through its flesh, eroding its physical resistance.
The Lion roared furiously, ignoring its injuries, and slammed its paw down hard on Bai Yushan's chest. The massive force of the blow caused Bai Yushan a dull pain in his chest, and a mouthful of blood welled up in his throat, which he forcibly swallowed back down.
Taking advantage of the Lion's exposed weakness as it threw a punch, Bai Yushan raised his hand again, his four lightning-fast fingertips gathering even stronger piercing power. He unleashed the Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite for the second time, piercing straight through the Lion's vital chest.
The violent lightning completely destroyed the Lion's heart and blood vessels. The massive body of this thousand-year-old Lion suddenly stiffened, fell heavily to the ground, and completely lost its life.
The last remaining thousand-year-old Lion was enraged upon seeing this. All the flames around its body gathered, and it spewed out a giant Lie Yan Impact far more powerful than before, covering the entire battlefield and sealing off all of Bai Yushan's escape space.
With nowhere to hide, Bai Yushan could only mobilize the electricity in his body to create a thin lightning shield. The Lie Yan Impact engulfed his body head-on, and the lightning shield shattered completely in just two seconds. The raging flames swept over his entire body, and his old wounds were burned a second time by the high temperature. Excruciating pain swept over his entire body, and Bai Yushan lost his footing and knelt heavily on one knee on the scorched mud.
The last ancient Lion seized the opportunity, strode forward, raised its giant paw covered in bright flames, and slammed it down on the top of Bai Yushan's head, wanting to finish off its opponent.
In the critical moment, Bai Yushan looked up, his eyes filled with nothing but pure, frenzied fighting spirit.
He abandoned all defense, focusing all the remaining electricity in his body on the fingertips of his right hand. Ignoring the stinging pain in his meridians caused by the overload, he activated the Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite for the third time, risking all his fighting power, and thrusting straight upwards to meet the lion's claw.
The lightning-infused fingertips collided violently with the lion's claws, piercing and shattering the hard bones of the lion's claws. The four fingertips then pierced through the Lion's paw, continuing upwards to reach the forelimb bones.
The Lion stopped moving abruptly due to the excruciating pain. Bai Yushan, enduring the pain all over his body, suddenly stood up and, after closing in, launched Lightning Plasma with extreme speed. Countless electrified punches rained down on the Lion's head.
One punch, two punches, a hundred punches, a thousand punches.
The lightning flashed incessantly, and the punches never stopped.
The Lion's outer layer of flame defense shattered completely, and its skull cracked under the relentless blows until it finally lost all life and collapsed to the ground.
The last eight lionesses, now leaderless, fled in panic. Bai Yushan, dragging his wounded body, mustered his strength and raised his fingertips to unleash a series of precise bolts of lightning, eliminating the fleeing lionesses one by one.
When the last lioness fell and disappeared, the entire battlefield finally fell completely silent.