Chapter 2329

Tang Ruan's figure flashed, instantly appearing to the side, dodging the path of the dog's claw attack.

And at the Hellhound's throat, a patch of jade-like skin had appeared.

Immediately after, the giant claw came striking.

Whoosh~

The giant claw swept past beneath Tang Ruan's high heels, the fierce wind it brought flipping her little skirt straight up, pressing against her waist.

Tang Ruan was secretly surprised.

This ordinary swipe from the Hellhound carried tremendous force.

Of course it wouldn't kill Tang Ruan in one hit, but it would absolutely cost over a thousand or even several thousand HP.

As expected, one mustn't let these giant beasts land a hit carelessly.

This move of Tang Ruan's could have dodged farther, but Tang Ruan's current goal was to kill it, so merely dodging the dog's claw was enough.

Boom!

The Hellhound's one claw shredded Tang Ruan's jade armor, and at the same time tore a massive gash in its own throat.

The power of this swipe was truly vicious...

It had already been pierced through, and now with another vicious claw strike, the Hellhound's left head's throat injury was severe.

Tang Ruan seized the timing, immediately her whole body glowing.

The red light concentrated at the spear tip.

"Fly! Pierce!"

Whoosh!

The skin had already been torn open; this time Tang Ruan met no obstruction, plunging straight into the muscle, piercing through the windpipe.

In an instant she followed up with several more rapid thrusts, and the Hellhound's left head drooped limply.

Very good.

Now only the right head remained.

The Hellhound seemed to be in agony, its whole body convulsing; the right head turned viciously, wanting to bite Tang Ruan.

But Qi Yue had already arrived.

A slender white figure descended from the sky.

Six giant blades slashed down simultaneously.

"Wild Dance!"

Puff puff puff puff puff puff!

The right head exploded.

The first Hell Cerberus died.

This was still the first time these people had fought a giant magical beast.

Easier than imagined, but also harder than imagined.

This Hell Cerberus really was like a super-enlarged dog.

HP, defense, both very strong.

The middle mouth had eaten a full barrage of Qi Yue's six Full Moon Slashes.

The left head was struck by Tang Ruan's flying pierce, then savagely split open by its own giant claw, and only finished off after more flying pierces and normal attacks from Tang Ruan.

Although the right head was dealt with by Qi Yue's Chain Dance, that was only possible thanks to the massive attack bonus accumulated by Qi Yue's Full Moon Slash.

Just one Hell Cerberus, and it took two such strong female heroes this long to beat it.

Truly formidable.

But the entire kill process was clean and crisp, extremely fast.

It really was a bit easier than Zhao Chi had imagined.

He had originally planned to have Zhuang Ya and two thousand Warm Clan members deal with these Hellhounds.

Equivalent to over a hundred Warm Clan female mages fighting one Hell Cerberus.

After all, they had never fought one before.

So for the first battle, Zhao Chi still wanted to be cautious.

Moreover, at the time the plan was to emerge from the rift without consuming the formation's energy, so a saturation strike was possible.

But things didn't go as wished.

Now it seemed, Tang Ruan plus Qi Yue could handle the Hellhounds.

But them dealing with fifteen Hellhounds should still be quite strenuous.

Looks like it would drain all of their status completely.

At this moment.

Another four Hellhounds turned their heads, fixing their gaze on the three people.

Zhao Chi said: "I'm going to the giant tree side, you two be careful and coordinate closely! These Hellhounds are too strong—if surrounded you might have a very hard time. If things look bad, you can withdraw! Don't worry about me, I can withdraw at any time too!"

"Don't worry, my lord."

In Qi Yue's hand, the cold moonlight of the Full Moon Slash glowed once more.

"You be careful too."

Tang Ruan's body had once again condensed a pure white jade armor.

Zhao Chi circled around the dog corpses, dodged the four charging Hellhounds, and accelerated toward the giant tree.

Burning branches were everywhere.

The entire ground was covered in ashes from the burning.

Steam rose in billowing waves.

Smoke and fire scorched everything.

But Zhao Chi was completely unaffected as he passed through the sea of flames.

He nimbly vaulted over burning fallen logs.

The flames scorched crack after crack into the ground, and in some spots the earth had already been burned red-hot.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Zhao Chi shot straight through at high speed between two fire-breathing Hell Hounds.

Both three-headed Hell Hounds spotted Zhao Chi at the same time.

The next instant, two walls of flame dipped low and surged in a crossfire toward Zhao Chi.

Whoosh~

Zhao Chi felt the temperature climb once again.

His ears were filled with the roaring of raging wind and fierce flames.

The massive flames truly were like a gale, slamming hard against Zhao Chi's back.

An ordinary person would have been cremated by now.

Even a soldier would have had a layer of skin burned off and half their life destroyed.

But Zhao Chi was completely fine.

Not only was he fine, he used the push of the fire-wind to boost his speed once more.

Never expected there'd be a day I'd accelerate by riding a fire-wind.

The Hell Hounds hadn't expected Zhao Chi to be immune to fire either.

After a burst of flame-breath, Zhao Chi already was very close to the ancient giant tree.

The temperature here had risen another notch.

The ground could no longer be seen.

The ground was already carpeted with burning trees, and every step kicked up great swarms of sparks and fire.

Right after that, Zhao Chi felt his throat ache sharply, but it was healed again almost immediately.

His eyebrows and eyelashes kept falling out, some of them dropping into his eyes.

What's going on?

Burned off by the fire?

That can't be right…

Right now he's in an equipment-fused state — his body only registers sensation, but takes no actual damage.

It only keeps draining the armor's durability, but the armor's durability in turn gets rapidly healed back up.