Chapter 8: Giant Beast

　　Ling Hao instantly drew his sword,while Leng Yunchuan took a step back and stared sharply at the giant beast.

　　The behemoth's tail was as thick as a giant dragon,but a circle of sharp scale feathers grew at the end of its tail,emitting ear-piercing air-breaking noises as it twisted,as if it could shatter everything in front of it with a single sweep.

　　"Damn it,what is this guy?"Ling Hao cursed in a low voice,his eyes staring at the huge beast.He gripped the hilt of his sword tightly,his entire body tensing up.

　　Leng Yunchuan calmly analyzed,"It looks like some sort of monster that was forgotten in the river of time."Her voice was calm,but a hint of caution flickered in her gaze.

　　The giant beast opened its huge mouth,a terrifying low roar emanating from the depths of its throat,and the entire heaven and earth seemed to tremble at its roar.Suddenly,it leapt violently,its huge body rising up from the water and pouncing straight at the two.

　　"Duck!"Ling Hao shouted,while drawing his sword to meet the attack.His sword sliced through the air,bringing an ear-piercing wind sound straight at the monster's scale armor.

　　At the same time,Leng Yunchuan tapped his toes,and his figure was like a ghostly shadow,instantly avoiding the monster's attack and deftly landing on the back of the giant turtle in the distance.

　　Ling Hao's sword collided with the giant beast's scale armor,sparks flying everywhere.

　　Even though his strength was enough to cut through steel,the scales of the giant beast were indestructible,leaving only a shallow scratch.The behemoth didn't care,still roaring and opening its huge mouth,tearing at Ling Hao.

　　"Too hard!"Ling Hao cursed in a low voice and quickly jumped away.The behemoth's tail swept violently,bringing up a gust of wind that knocked the wings of the giant turtle slightly shaking.

　　Just as the two of them were tensing up to deal with it,suddenly,a loud and long whistle came from the distance,and a figure descended from the sky,as fast as lightning,landing directly on top of the behemoth's head.

　　"Are you guys alright?"A clear voice came out.

　　Ling Hao and Leng Yunchuan looked up,and that newly appeared figure was dressed in a green colored robe,with an upright posture,holding a spear with a ghostly blue glow in his hand.This person was none other than Fang Xingzhu.

　　Fang Xingzhu leapt up in the air,the spear in his hand fiercely pierced into the beast's head,the spear made a piercing friction sound in the beast's scaly armor,but the blow clearly caused great damage,and the beast let out a heart-rending roar.

　　"What are you still waiting for?Attack together!"Fang Xingzhu turned around and shouted at the two of them,with a few hints of urgency and impatience in his tone.

　　Ling Hao didn't hesitate and readjusted his stance,the tip of his sword pointing straight at the giant beast.His gaze was stern,and he whispered under his breath,"Finally,a decent helper has come."He nodded at Leng Yunchuan,and the two of them rushed towards the giant beast once again,the roar of the beast and the sound of the three of them attacking intertwined between heaven and earth.

　　Ling Hao quickly adjusted his stance,his gaze fixed dead center on the giant beast in front of him.Its movements were swift and ferocious,and every time it swung its tail,it would bring up a gust of wind,as if the entire sky was trembling with it.Leng Yunchuan's figure leapt nimbly on the giant turtle's back,her movements were elegant and precise,every dodge seemed to have been carefully calculated.

　　Fang Xingzhu's joining in made the situation slightly better,but the monster in front of them was far more difficult to deal with than they had imagined.Each of the beast's attacks carried destructive power,seemingly ready to crush the three of them under its giant claws.

　　The beast's roar shook the heavens and the earth,and the sound seemed to penetrate every particle in the air,hitting the three people's eardrums directly.Its eyes burned with green ghost fire,and that eerie glow was chilling.Ling Hao's sword chopped at the giant beast once again,but each attack only left shallow marks on the scales,which made his face more and more gloomy.

　　"Its defense is too strong!"Ling Hao clenched his teeth and gripped the hilt of his sword hard with both hands,feeling that his palms had begun to sweat slightly.

　　Fang Xingzhu quickly swooped down from the air,the spear in his hand flashing like an electric light as he aimed at the eyes of the giant beast,ready to deliver a fatal blow.The spear stabbed at the behemoth's head at an astonishing speed,but just as it was about to hit,the behemoth's head threw itself violently,Fang Xingzhu's attack missed its target,and the spear pierced deep into its shoulder blade.

　　The behemoth roared and flung its huge tail,Fang Xingzhu hastily leapt back and narrowly avoided the blow,but still felt a huge air current coming over him,shaking his chest.

　　Leng Yunchuan,on the other hand,was looking for an opportunity from afar,her eyes as sharp as a falcon's,observing every movement of the giant beast.She knew that it was impossible for a monster of this size to not have a weakness,it was just that they hadn't found that crucial breakthrough yet.

　　"This guy's scales are too hard to be touched!"Leng Yunchuan said calmly,a hint of contemplation in his gaze,"Perhaps,its stomach and joints will be relatively weak."

　　Ling Hao nodded,he also realized this,but the huge size of the giant beast,trying to get close to its belly was tantamount to fighting it head on.And the monster's power was enough to tear them apart instantly.

　　Just then,the behemoth suddenly let out a deafening roar,its body leaning forward violently,its sharp claws grabbing at Leng Yunchuan like hooks.She quickly took a sideways leap,nimbly avoiding that fatal blow.

　　But the movement of the giant beast didn't stop,its tail swung violently,bringing up a black whirlwind to pounce straight at Ling Hao.A cold light flashed in Ling Hao's eyes,his body crouched down sharply,and his sword blade drew an arc in the air,narrowly avoiding the tail's attack.However,the strong air current still shook him back a few steps,and the scale armor on the back of the giant turtle under his feet shook a little.

　　Fang Xingzhu seized the opportunity and stabbed his spear again like lightning,this time aiming at the belly of the giant beast.The spear accurately pierced into the soft abdomen of the beast,finally breaking through its hard scale armor and piercing into the flesh.

　　The Behemoth let out a miserable roar,its body twisting wildly in the air in an attempt to fling the spear out of its body.Blood gushed out from the behemoth's wounds,staining the water of the River of Forgetfulness red.The river began to become more and more turbid,as if it was tumbling with some kind of bizarre power.

　　The behemoth's rage was completely aroused,and it no longer defended itself,but instead pounced madly on the three.Its huge claws slapped down,the ground seemed to be cracked by its power,and the back of the giant turtle began to shake.Ling Hao and Leng Yunchuan leaped up at the same time,avoiding the attack of the giant claw.

　　Right at this moment,the giant beast suddenly opened its bloody mouth,and a poisonous mist as black as ink gushed out from its mouth,straight at the three of them.Wherever the poisonous mist passed,a putrid odor filled the air,as if even time had been swallowed by it.

　　Leng Yunchuan frowned and quickly retreated,but the speed of the poisonous mist was too fast,approaching almost instantly.Seeing this,Ling Hao immediately swung his sword and chopped out a sword qi in an attempt to block the poisonous mist out,but the poisonous mist,as if it had a spirit,even bypassed the sword qi and continued to lunge at them.

　　At the moment when the three of them were about to be swallowed by the poisonous mist,Fang Xingzhu violently threw out the spear in his hand,which cut through the air in a stream of light and accurately struck the behemoth's mouth,which let out a miserable cry,and the poisonous mist collapsed with it.

　　"Beautiful!"Ling Hao couldn't help but praise,Fang Xingzhu's strike was perfect,successfully stopping the behemoth's attack.

　　However,the behemoth was not completely defeated.Its body once again leapt up from the water,and this time,a layer of bizarre purple light actually surfaced on its back.That glow was like some sort of mysterious rune pulsing,as if it was summoning an even greater power.

　　"Its power is increasing!"Leng Yunchuan's complexion was grave,and there was a trace of anxiety in his eyes.

　　The behemoth's attacks became more and more ferocious as its tail swept across,bringing up a storm that directly shattered the surrounding stone statues.Fang Xingzhu copied his spear once again,preparing for the next round of the behemoth's attack.

　　"We have to find a way to finish it off completely,otherwise we won't be able to hold out for long."Ling Hao gripped his sword tightly,his voice low,and a vicious killing intent ignited in his eyes.

　　Right at this moment,Leng Yunchuan's eyes flashed and said coldly,"Its eyes!Attack its eyes!"She keenly captured the faint flickering light in the behemoth's eyes,which was the only place it didn't have scales covering it,and also its most vulnerable place.

　　Ling Hao instantly understood Leng Yunchuan's meaning and immediately flew up,the sword in his hand flashing a harsh cold light,stabbing straight towards the behemoth's eyes.

　　The behemoth sensed the danger and violently threw its head,trying to avoid Ling Hao's attack.However,Ling Hao's movement was as fast as lightning,and his sword blade accurately pierced into the behemoth's eye socket,deeply piercing into its eyeball.

　　The behemoth let out a heartbreaking scream,and its whole body twisted violently,as if it was suffering from extreme pain.Blood gushed out from its eye socket,coloring the sky red.

　　Fang Xingzhu and Leng Yunchuan immediately took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.Fang Xingzhu's spear once again stabbed at the beast's abdomen,while Leng Yunchuan nimbly leapt onto the beast's back,the short blade in his hand viciously slashing across its spine,leaving a deep wound.

　　The behemoth's body was getting weaker and weaker,and finally,after a last miserable cry,its huge body collapsed,and heavily smashed onto the surface of the Forgotten River.The river water was stirred up by its body into huge waves,as if the heavens and earth shook with it.

　　"It's finally resolved."Ling Hao collected his sword and stood,gasping for air,his face filled with exhaustion.

　　Leng Yunchuan,on the other hand,calmly jumped down from the behemoth's corpse and wiped the blood on his blade,his gaze still cold,"It's not the only enemy."