Chapter 309: Lion Ape

On the Wasteland, an imposing, ape-like Fierce Beast was running wild.

It stood seven or eight meters tall, like a moving hill.

At this moment, it extended an arm as thick as a giant pillar, four or five meters long, and clamped down on its prey's torso like iron pincers.

Its other giant hand, the size of a millstone, splayed its five fingers wide, gripped the prey's skull firmly, and smashed it against the ground without mercy.

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

"Thud!"

Each impact was accompanied by a dull, jarring sound, as if a heavy hammer were striking the drumhead of the earth, causing the ground to tremble violently, as if the entire Wasteland were shivering under this force.

This ape-like Fierce Beast was covered in messy, filthy fur, especially around its face, where the hair danced wildly in the wind, resembling a majestic lion.

Beneath the fur, muscles as large and solid as rocks were tightly knit together, manifesting its terrifying strength.

And pinned beneath it was, surprisingly, a Violent Bear.

That's right, it was that very Advanced Fierce Beast, the Violent Bear, which made many In-Jin Martial Artists shudder at the mere mention of its name and flee far away upon encountering it.

Yet at this moment, this four-to-five-meter-tall Violent Bear was as fragile as a toy before this ape-like Fierce Beast, with no power to fight back at all.

At first, when its head was pressed into the ground and smashed, it had struggled desperately, letting out thunderous roars as if issuing a threat.

But after only two or three impacts, its struggles grew weak, and then, it went completely still.

As it turned out, its skull had completely exploded, and red and white blood and brains were splattered everywhere.

The ape-like Fierce Beast seemed to notice that the prey in its hands had lost its breath, and a look of human-like disdain appeared on its face, as if it were complaining: "This guy, it couldn't take much at all, it died so quickly?"

"Thump, thump!"

It released the Violent Bear's skull, raised its arms high, and beat its chest forcefully, while making "ho-ho" sounds from its mouth, as if celebrating its victory; every movement carried a sense of human-like behavior.

In reality, once a Fierce Beast evolves to the Elite-level, it already possesses a certain level of intelligence, roughly equivalent to a human child of four or five years old. And once it advances to the Commander-level, that is a qualitative leap.

"Crack!"

With a crisp sound, one of the Violent Bear's hind legs was easily torn off by the ape-like Fierce Beast, and blood sprayed out from the severed wound like a surging fountain.

A human-like smile appeared on the ape-like Fierce Beast's fur-covered face, then it opened its blood-red maw, revealing teeth as sharp as steel, and took a bite of the hind leg.

"Crunch! Crunch!"

With a few more crisp sounds, it swallowed the flesh and blood along with the bone fragments.

In just three or four seconds, the opponent's entire hind leg had been swallowed into its belly.

Just then, its nose twitched slightly, as if it had smelled something, and then it suddenly raised its head, spotting a human figure a thousand meters away at a glance.

This figure was none other than Lu Yu.

"Lion Ape." Lu Yu narrowed his eyes slightly, instantly recognizing the behemoth in the distance.

The Lion Ape is named for its facial contours, which are extremely similar to those of a lion.

It is an Ordinary-level Elite-level Fierce Beast with astonishing strength; with just a casual slap, it can turn a three-story reinforced concrete building into a pile of chaotic ruins.

Even more troublesome is its terrifying jumping ability; with a single leap, it can easily jump a hundred meters high, and even the walls of a small city are like nothing to it, easily vaulted over.

Seeing that it was only a tiny human, the Lion Ape could not help but show a trace of contempt in its eyes.

It reached out and tore off the Violent Bear's other hind leg, brought it to its mouth, opened its maw, and bit down hard.

However, at this very instant, a black, cold glint arrived in a flash like lightning.

"Puchi!"

Accompanied by a crisp sound, two arrows as thick as fingers, like a death-dealing grim reaper, shot straight into the Lion Ape's left eye; blood splattered in an instant, and then, more than half of the arrow shaft pierced through the other side.

"Roar!"

The piercing pain caused the Lion Ape to let out an earth-shattering roar; it angrily threw away the food in its hand, grabbed the arrow, and with a sudden force, actually pulled the entire arrow out! For a moment, blood surged out like a bursting river, impossible to stop.

But this intense pain did not make it retreat; instead, it completely ignited the brutality in its bones.

It stared viciously at Lu Yu in the distance with its only remaining blood-red eye.

"Roar!"

The next second, it moved all four limbs, like a speeding meteor, and sprinted madly toward Lu Yu. With every step it took, the ground was trampled into a deep depression.

Immediately after, it exerted force with its legs, and the ground instantly sank nearly half a meter, while its body flew a hundred meters into the air like a cannonball, crashing down toward Lu Yu like a falling meteorite.

"As expected of an Elite-level Fierce Beast, its vitality is indeed tenacious." Lu Yu remained calm and composed; just as the Lion Ape was about to crush him in that split second, his figure flashed, and he instantly appeared several hundred meters away.

"Boom!"

With a deafening roar, a large pit four or five meters in diameter and nearly two meters deep at its center instantly appeared where Lu Yu had been standing! Countless sand and stones, like fragments after a grenade explosion, shot wildly in all directions, and for a time, dust filled the air, blotting out the sky.

"Roar!"

The Lion Ape checked the large pit, only to find it empty, and could not help but let out a grumpy roar.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Three sharp piercing sounds suddenly rang out behind it.

Before the Lion Ape could turn around, three arrows shot into the back of its head like ghosts and pierced out through its front face. One of them shot directly out of its eye socket, instantly exploding that eyeball.

The Lion Ape's body swayed violently, as if it were drunk; a few seconds later, it finally could not hold on and collapsed with a crash.

"Phew." Lu Yu exhaled softly, thinking to himself that the power of the bow in his hand seemed a bit weak.

To kill an Elite-level Fierce Beast with a single arrow using this bow was an almost impossible task, unless he used the True Qi within his body.

But fortunately, the whole process was not as difficult as he had imagined. If one arrow didn't work, then three; if three still didn't work, then ten.

"Experience Value, 9000 points?" Lu Yu looked at the information prompt appearing in his mind and couldn't help but be slightly stunned, a flash of surprise in his eyes.

He had originally thought that getting three or four thousand Experience Value would be quite good, but he hadn't expected it to reach as high as 9000 points! It was even higher than the Experience Value he had gained from fighting that C-Class Awakened last time.

"If it were that Du Hu who came instead, in a one-on-one situation, he might not necessarily be able to kill this guy," Lu Yu muttered to himself in a low voice.

Don't look at how easily he solved this Lion Ape; on one hand, it was because his speed far exceeded this Lion Ape's; on the other hand, it was because he occupied the advantage of range.

He could attack the Lion Ape from a thousand meters away, while it would not be so easy for the Lion Ape to attack him.

As for that Du Hu, it cannot be denied that his ability is very strong, but it is estimated that unless he closes the distance to within a hundred meters, it would be like scratching an itch to the Lion Ape, causing no substantial damage at all.

He must rely on an Amulet, plus a Teleportation Item, to have any possibility of killing the Lion Ape.

And three or four thousand Experience Value usually corresponds to a Vein Refining mid-stage Martial Artist; an ordinary Vein Refining mid-stage Martial Artist indeed lacks the strength to kill such a powerful Fierce Beast one-on-one.

Lu Yu walked slowly toward the corpse of the Lion Ape. Just in case, he had activated Heaven-Human Induction earlier to confirm that the Lion Ape before him had completely lost its breath; without a doubt, it was dead as could be.

Only after getting close did Lu Yu truly feel the sheer size of this Lion Ape; describing it as a small hill was not an exaggeration in the slightest.