Chapter 73: Cranking a Sonic Boom by Hand? Jiang Chu Xuan Was Stunned

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!......

Amid the tall forest, a lithe young girl leaped nimbly between the tree branches.

The girl had silver-white hair, and each leap carried her seven or eight meters.

Yet even so, she kept glancing back with a worried expression.

Behind her, several hundred meters away, something massive was rapidly charging toward her.

The surrounding trees were being smashed down in clusters by the massive creature’s charge.

“This is bad...”

Jiang Chu Xuan’s delicate face was grim.

Earlier that morning, she had been filming a video of her team slaying a ferocious beast for this week’s release.

Unexpectedly, a fourth-rank ferocious beast suddenly burst out of the forest.

It scattered her and her bodyguard team, but fortunately, the beast hadn’t targeted her.

That’s how she barely escaped with her life.

Afterward, she tried to regroup with her bodyguard team.

But then, after merely passing a cave, she triggered a third-rank Digging Earth Dragon that had been lurking inside—and it gave chase!

Keep in mind,

Any ferocious beast with “Dragon” in its name is invariably vicious and notoriously difficult to handle.

This Digging Earth Dragon was no exception.

Though only a low-tier third-rank beast, its combat power surpassed that of an ordinary high-tier third-rank beast!

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

Even if she swallowed a Blood-Explosion Pill, her strength would barely reach low-tier third rank.

She had no chance of defeating this Digging Earth Dragon—not even a chance to escape!

In other words, she was nearly certain to die.

“I only hope an Ability Team sees my distress signal and comes to help me.”

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

But she knew the odds of rescue were minuscule.

After all, adventurer teams daring to enter the Source Water Wildlands’ mountain forests were rare.

And her distress signal only appeared within a two-kilometer radius—making it unlikely any adventurer team would spot it.

Even if an adventurer team did detect the signal and headed this way,

Upon seeing the terrifying Digging Earth Dragon, they’d likely be too terrified to even appear.

Only a team like her own bodyguard squad—composed of elite third-rank Ability users—might dare to intervene.

“I should’ve waited before rushing into the mountain forest zone.”

Jiang Chu Xuan felt a pang of regret.

On video platforms, her follower count had been growing rapidly.

So she’d decided to capitalize on the momentum by filming a video of slaying a third-rank beast to gain more followers—and that’s why she entered the mountain forest zone.

Now, unexpected trouble had struck, and her very life was no longer secure.

“Roar—”

The Digging Earth Dragon’s roar grew closer behind her.

As Jiang Chu Xuan leaped between branches, she suddenly noticed a patch of grass ahead—and her expression changed.

The Digging Earth Dragon was massive; in the forest, it could use the dense trees to slightly slow its charge.

But ahead lay open grassland—no trees to block it. Once it reached that, it would catch her in moments.

Yet hesitating now would only make her die faster.

So Jiang Chu Xuan bit her red lip and leapt down from the tall tree.

“Ice Seal!”

Jiang Chu Xuan landed lightly.

Immediately, bone-chilling cold erupted from her, freezing everything within a fifty-meter radius.

Under the afternoon sun, the ice sparkled crystal-clear.

The B-rank combat technique “Ice Seal” could freeze everything within a certain radius.

Combined with her A-rank Nature-based Ice Ability “Frost Ice Soul,” it produced this effect.

“I hope this buys me a little more time.”

Jiang Chu Xuan narrowed her beautiful eyes, stretched her long legs, and resumed fleeing.

Jiang Chu’s beautiful eyes narrowed, and she strode forward with long steps, fleeing once more.

Yet only seconds later, the Digging Earth Dragon’s roar sounded again behind her!

Yet, only a few breaths later, the roar of the Digging Earth Dragon rose again behind her!

Jiang Chu Xuan instinctively turned back.

There, bursting from the forest, was the Digging Earth Dragon—shaped like a pangolin, yet towering as high as three or four stories.

Out burst the Digging Earth Dragon, its shape resembling a pangolin but towering as high as three or four stories!

The ice she’d just created offered it zero resistance.

With a single charge, accompanied by a sound like shattering glass, the entire frozen zone exploded into shards.

“It’s over. I can’t escape.”

Jiang Chu Xuan’s face darkened with despair.

But then—a flash of lightning.

A tall, slender figure wielding a long spear suddenly appeared before the Digging Earth Dragon.

A tall, slender figure wielding a long spear suddenly appeared before the Digging Earth Dragon.

Jiang Chu Xuan froze, recognizing the young man she’d met a week ago.

But his rank was only high-tier second rank!

Her delicate face paled, and she shouted urgently:

“Run! This is a low-tier third-rank Digging Earth Dragon! You can’t fight it!”

But the young man ahead acted as if he hadn’t heard, standing firm.

“Ugh! Why won’t you listen?!”

Jiang Chu Xuan stamped her foot in frustration.

Dying was one thing—but she didn’t want to drag an innocent bystander down with her.

So she unleashed all her A-rank Ability “Frost Ice Soul,” flooding the air with freezing energy as she sprinted toward Xu Jingming.

At the same time, she flipped her right hand—and a Grade-Two Blood-Explosion Pill appeared in her slender palm.

“You go! I’ll handle it!”

Just as Jiang Chu Xuan was about to swallow the Blood-Explosion Pill and make her final stand,

The figure ahead moved. His body crackled with terrifying lightning; he clenched his hand in midair.

A voice, divine and commanding, rang out: “Lei Mao!”

Instantly, the blue-purple lightning swirling around him coalesced into a spear of pure thunder.

The blue-purple lightning swirling around him rapidly converged, forming a spear of thunder!

With a deep, thunderous sonic boom,

The lightning spear was hurled with pinpoint accuracy, striking deep into the Digging Earth Dragon’s massive eyeball.

It plunged over a meter inside—blood gushed out.

It plunged more than a meter deep! Blood gushed forth!

The Digging Earth Dragon shrieked in agony, swinging its forelimbs to crush the annoying human.

The Digging Earth Dragon let out a pained roar, swinging its forelimbs to crush the annoying human before it.

The entire lightning spear embedded in its eye detonated!

The thunder spear, fully embedded in its eyeball, exploded outright!

In an instant, crackling lightning arcs erupted as red and white matter sprayed everywhere.

The headless corpse staggered, then crashed heavily to the ground—dead beyond revival.

“The Digging Earth Dragon was just instantly killed?!”

Jiang Chu Xuan’s eyes widened in disbelief, staring at the scene from afar.

She hadn’t even swallowed the Blood-Explosion Pill yet!

This twist came too fast!

True, the eyeball was one of the Digging Earth Dragon’s weak points—but few Ability users could even hit it.

One, the beast actively protected it.

Two, the Digging Earth Dragon was agile, often dodging lethal attacks with a single twist.

Yet this young man’s lightning spear moved faster than lightning—leaving the beast no time to react.

“Then... the sonic boom I heard earlier wasn’t an illusion?”

Jiang Chu Xuan’s mind went numb.

Jiang Chu’s heart felt dazed.

Generating a sonic boom with bare hands—how much strength does that require?

After several deep breaths, Jiang Chu’s emotions finally calmed.

Striding forward with long, rounded legs, she walked toward the tall figure ahead.

Regardless of how he managed it.

After all, he had saved her; she must sincerely and properly thank him.