Chapter 101 - 78: Monster Civilization
It bent down, picking up the massive Wolf Fang Club covered in menacing spikes. It took heavy, thundering steps as it closed in on Lin Yi and Luo Qian once more.
Luo Qian felt a chill freeze the very blood in his veins, his face turning as white as a sheet.
’A peerless Great Demon, beyond the Ninth Grade?’
’This is a terrifying existence beyond our wildest imagination!’
’How could we possibly fight something like this?!’
Despair washed over him like a tidal wave.
"Don’t panic!"
Lin Yi’s voice was low yet exceptionally steady, like a Stabilizing Needle.
His sharp gaze locked onto the Pigman.
"This thing’s Qi and Blood fluctuations are only at the First Grade level! It’s definitely not one of those legendary Great Demons!"
"First Grade?" Luo Qian was stunned, almost thinking he had misheard. His voice rose. "How is that possible?! A mere First-Grade Demon Beast, how could it take human form?!"
Just then.
The approaching Pigman suddenly halted.
Its massive pig head tilted slightly, its scarlet, beast-like eyes staring intently at Lin Yi and Luo Qian.
Its massive, tusk-filled mouth opened and closed, and it actually produced a series of bizarre, harsh, guttural syllables:
"Ahmotokassasti..."
Lin Yi’s pupils contracted sharply.
’This monster isn’t just humanoid, it can actually speak?!’
What shocked him even more was that he couldn’t understand the language at all. The syllables were ancient and strange, certainly not from any modern tongue.
However.
Luo Qian, beside him, after a brief moment of stunned silence, blanched even further and blurted out, "Samoyei!"
After spitting out the equally harsh-sounding word, he immediately lowered his voice and whispered urgently into Lin Yi’s ear:
"Lin! This is messed up! The thing is speaking... the ancient tongue of the Pre-Qin era! It was ordering us to hand over the women and surrender on our knees! I told it to get lost!"
Lin Yi’s heart sank instantly.
’First-Grade Qi and Blood, a humanoid pig’s head, and it can speak the ancient tongue from the age of the Pre-Qin Qi Cultivators?’
’This is too bizarre; it’s beyond my comprehension!’
The Pigman was clearly taken aback by Luo Qian’s rebuke. Its massive body paused for a moment, and a flicker of human-like astonishment and rage flashed in its scarlet, bestial eyes.
In the instant it was distracted.
Lin Yi moved!
Fast as a phantom!
He didn’t use his Mosquito Avatar.
The monster’s Qi and Blood was exceptionally rich. ’If I could absorb it, my Bone Tempering progress would soar. But with Luo Qian right here, there’d be no time to deal with the desiccated corpse afterward.’
’I’ll have to pass.’
He stomped his feet, and the ground cracked!
Like a tiger bursting from its cage, Lin Yi instantly closed the distance!
He channeled his Qi and Blood into his arms. The Owl Dragon Spear let out a heavy whine, swinging like a siege hammer meant to crush a thousand soldiers, as he smashed it viciously toward the Pigman’s thick thigh bone!
The Pigman was over three meters tall. For Lin Yi, at one-point-ninety-two meters, the apex of his horizontal swing would perfectly strike the crucial leg bone that supported the creature’s entire weight.
"ROAR!"
The Pigman reacted with incredible speed. It let out a furious roar as its massive Wolf Fang Club tore through the air, smashing down with immense force to intercept Lin Yi’s spear!
"CLANG!!!"
The deafening clang of metal on metal was enough to make one’s eardrums ache.
Sparks flew!
In that instant of a head-on clash, Lin Yi felt a tremendous force surge through the spear’s shaft. His arms shuddered, and the webbing of his hands went numb.
Although the Pigman only had First-Grade Qi and Blood, the brute strength granted by its naturally superior physique far exceeded that of a normal human First-Grade Martial Artist!
In a pure contest of strength, Lin Yi was actually at a slight disadvantage!
However.
Yet, there wasn’t a hint of panic in Lin Yi’s eyes. Instead, a glint of cold, sharp light flashed within them.
’Burst!’
He roared inwardly as the layered, condensed Qi and Blood within his right arm suddenly erupted!
Sixth Layer!
Six times the force!
"VMMM! BOOM!"
A violent force, several times stronger than before, erupted from Lin Yi’s arm in an instant!
This sudden, exponential surge in power was completely beyond the Pigman’s expectations.
"AWOO?!"
The Pigman’s ugly face was instantly filled with horror. It felt an irresistible force surging toward it through the Wolf Fang Club.
"CLANG!"
Its massive, fan-like hands could no longer keep their grip. The heavy Wolf Fang Club flew from its grasp, spinning as it crashed into the distant grass.
The incredible force even caused its massive body to stagger, leaving its chest wide open!
The opening was fleeting.
How could Lin Yi possibly miss it?!
Thrust!
This simple, unremarkable, basic spear thrust seemed to come alive in Lin Yi’s hands.
Like a venomous dragon emerging from its cave, or a sudden clap of thunder!
The tip of the Owl Dragon Spear drew a blinding, cold glint through the air. Watched by the Pigman’s terrified and despairing eyes, it pierced with unerring accuracy and no resistance into its thick-skinned, slightly bulging abdomen.
"SQUELCH!"
The sound of the spear tip entering flesh was dull and clear.
"BANG!!!"
Immediately after, a strange, muffled explosion erupted from within the Pigman’s body.
The Wave Intent Lin Yi had infused into the spear tip instantly erupted!
It was like the ripples from a stone thrown into a pond, except these ripples were a deadly shockwave!
The invisible force spread out from the spear tip, rapidly expanding, vibrating, and amplifying within the Pigman’s thick abdominal cavity.
"GURGLE... SQUIRT...!"
The Pigman’s massive body stiffened abruptly. Its scarlet, beast-like eyes bulged to their absolute limit, filled with incomprehensible pain and terror.
From the outside, its thick hide appeared completely unharmed.
But inside, its organs, its intestines, even its fragile blood vessels, had been instantly shattered and liquefied into a pulp by the terrifying shockwave.
Massive internal hemorrhaging instantly extinguished the last of its life force.
"Urgh... ghhk..."
The Pigman let out a few incomprehensible, blood-flecked gurgles. Its massive body, as if boneless, collapsed forward with a thunderous crash, kicking up a thick cloud of dust.