Chapter 73: Creating a Sonic Boom with Bare Hands? Jiang Chuxuan Is Stunned

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!......

In the dense forest of towering trees, a slender, agile young girl's figure leapt between the branches.

The girl had a head of silver-white long hair, and with every leap she covered a distance of seven or eight meters.

Yet even so, she still kept turning her head to look back from time to time, her expression worried.

And behind her, some hundreds of meters away, some enormous creature seemed to be charging rapidly in this direction.

The surrounding trees were also knocked down in swathes by the charge of this enormous creature.

"This is trouble......"

The expression on Jiang Chuxuan's pretty face was utterly solemn.

That morning, she had been cooperating with her bodyguard squad to film the beast-slaying video she needed to post this week.

But she hadn't expected a fourth-tier fierce beast to suddenly burst out from the forest.

Causing her and her bodyguard squad to be scattered, though fortunately that fourth-tier fierce beast had not charged at her.

Which was why she had narrowly escaped with her life.

After that, she wanted to regroup with her bodyguard squad.

But she hadn't expected that merely passing by a cave would draw out a third-tier Burrowing Earth Dragon that had been lurking inside, chasing after her!

One must know,

Any fierce beast whose name had anything to do with 'dragon' was without exception vicious and extremely hard to deal with.

This Burrowing Earth Dragon was exactly such a case.

Although it was only a lower third-tier, its combat power was even stronger than an ordinary upper third-tier fierce beast!

More importantly, she herself was only at mid second-tier.

Even if she popped a Blood Burst Pill, her strength would just barely touch lower third-tier.

She simply couldn't beat this Burrowing Earth Dragon! Not only that, she couldn't even outrun it!

In other words, she had almost fallen into a certain-death situation!

"I can only hope some esper squad, upon seeing my distress signal, will lend a hand."

Jiang Chuxuan pinned her only hope of survival on the distress signal.

But she also knew the odds of being rescued were minuscule.

After all, very few adventurer squads dared to enter the mountain forest region of the Source Water Wilderness Zone in the first place.

And the distress signal only appeared within a two-kilometer radius around her, so the chance of being spotted by an adventurer squad was minuscule.

Besides, even if some adventurer squad did spot the distress signal and headed this way,

Upon facing a terrifying fierce beast like the Burrowing Earth Dragon, they would probably all be scared off and not dare show themselves.

Only a third-tier elite esper squad like her bodyguard squad would likely dare to act.

"If only I hadn't been in such a rush to enter the mountain forest region."

Jiang Chuxuan felt a twinge of regret.

On the video platform, her follower count had been growing fast.

So she had wanted to strike while the iron was hot and film a set of videos slaying a third-tier fierce beast to gain another wave of followers, which was why she had entered the mountain forest region.

She hadn't expected an accident to occur, and now even her own life couldn't be guaranteed.

"Roar—"

The Burrowing Earth Dragon's roar behind her grew closer and closer.

And Jiang Chuxuan, who had been leaping between the branches, turned pale upon spotting an open meadow ahead.

The Burrowing Earth Dragon was huge in stature; while weaving through the forest, it could still use the dense trees to slightly slow its charge.

But ahead lay a treeless meadow. If she kept going forward, the Burrowing Earth Dragon would have nothing blocking it and would soon catch up to her.

Yet at this point, hesitating and staying put would only mean dying faster!

So Jiang Chuxuan bit lightly on her red lips and leapt down from the towering tree.

"Ice Seal!"

Jiang Chuxuan landed lightly on her feet.

Then, a bone-chilling cold erupted outward with her at its center.

Freezing everything within a fifty-meter radius solid.

Glittering and translucent under the afternoon sunlight.

The B-rank combat skill 'Ice Seal' could freeze everything within a certain range around her.

Combined with her natural ice-type A-rank esper ability 'Frost Snow Soul', it produced this very effect.

"Hopefully this can buy a little more time and slow its steps."

Jiang Chuxuan's beautiful eyes hardened, and with her long, slender legs she began fleeing once more.

"Roar—"

Yet, only a few breaths later, the Burrowing Earth Dragon's roar rang out behind her once again!

"That fast?!"

Jiang Chuxuan instinctively turned her head.

And saw the Burrowing Earth Dragon—shaped like a pangolin but with a body as tall as a three- or four-story building—burst out of the forest!

"Crack—"

The area she had just frozen had not hindered this Burrowing Earth Dragon in the slightest.

With one charge, accompanied by a sound like shattering glass, the entire frozen zone was smashed apart, ice shards flying everywhere.

"It's over, I can't escape."

Seeing this, Jiang Chuxuan could not help but show a look of utter despair on her face.

However, just at this moment, a flash of lightning streaked by.

A tall, slender figure gripping a long spear suddenly appeared in front of the Burrowing Earth Dragon.

"It's him?"

Jiang Chuxuan was slightly stunned, recognizing the other party as the young man she had encountered a week ago.

But his level is only second-tier upper-rank!

So she could not help but have her pretty face change slightly, and she shouted in a high, delicate voice:

"Run! This is a third-tier lower-rank Burrowing Earth Dragon! You can't beat it."

However, the young man ahead acted as if he hadn't heard, still standing there.

"Sigh! Why won't he listen to advice!"

Jiang Chuxuan stamped her foot in annoyance.

If only she herself died, that would be fine, but she did not want to implicate innocent bystanders.

So the cold air around her surged outward, her A-rank ability 'Frost Snow Soul' erupting completely, as she charged toward Xu Jingming's direction.

At the same time, she flipped her right hand, and a second-grade Blood Burst Pill appeared on her jade-like palm.

"You leave quickly, I'll deal with it!"

Just as Jiang Chuxuan was about to swallow the Blood Burst Pill and launch her final struggle.

The figure ahead moved. She saw terrifying lightning coiling around his body as his right hand made a grasping motion in the void.

A voice majestic as a god's rang out: "Lei Mao!"

Immediately, the blue-purple Lei Ting coiling around him rapidly converged, forming a thunder spear!

Then,

Accompanied by a muffled sonic boom — bang!

The thunder spear was hurled out violently, striking with extreme precision into the Burrowing Earth Dragon's enormous eye ahead.

It sank in over a meter deep! Blood gushed out!

"Roar—"

The Burrowing Earth Dragon let out a pained howl, waving its forelimbs, wanting to finish off the detestable human before it.

However, the next moment.

The entire thunder spear embedded in the eye simply exploded!

Boom!!

For a moment, along with the crackling arcs of lightning, red and white splattered everywhere.

And the headless corpse, having lost its brain's control, swayed and crashed down with a thunderous fall, deader than dead.

"The Burrowing Earth Dragon was just instantly killed like that?!"

Not far away, Jiang Chuxuan's apricot eyes were wide as saucers, staring at this scene in disbelief.

She hadn't even swallowed the Blood Burst Pill in her hand yet!

This reversal came way too fast!

Besides, although the eye is one of the Burrowing Earth Dragon's weak points, very few ability-users can actually attack it.

On one hand, the Burrowing Earth Dragon actively protects it.

On the other hand, the Burrowing Earth Dragon is agile in its movements, often dodging lethal attacks with a single sidestep.

Yet this young man's thunder spear was as fast as lightning, leaving the Burrowing Earth Dragon no time to dodge at all!

"If that's the case, the sonic boom I heard earlier wasn't an illusion?"

Jiang Chuxuan's mind was somewhat dazed.

Creating a sonic boom with bare hands — how much strength would that take?

After several deep breaths, Jiang Chuxuan's emotions finally settled down.

Striding on her full, long legs, she walked toward the tall figure ahead.

No matter how the other party had done it.

After all, the other party had saved her, so she still had to properly and solemnly thank him......