Chapter 189: A Fierce Woman

Very quickly, two streaks of red light cut through the pitch-black darkness.

At this moment, Xu Chen was able to see clearly with his Divine Sense that these were indeed two humans, a man and a woman, but both were very tall—at least two feet taller than normal people—and their attire was strange, wearing tight-fitting red and black interwoven suits that looked like armor, with a pair of red light wings hovering behind their backs and their faces covered in strange red patterns, emitting a very peculiar aura that was neither Yuan Qi nor Spirit Qi, but a strongly fluctuating Soul aura, similar to the feeling the Soul Beast gave him.

However, the only thing that felt somewhat familiar to him was that both of these people held a fish-fork-shaped Magic Treasure that flickered with light, though they looked rather crude and simple.

These two had not-weak cultivation; almost the moment Xu Chen's Divine Sense landed on them, they also discovered Xu Chen's Divine Sense, and both stopped abruptly in the air at the same time, a powerful Soul aura sweeping over, and with a 'Crack!', Xu Chen closed the Shell tightly.

The two strands of Divine Sense did not discover Xu Chen's existence, but it seemed they also did not notice the Clam Shell Boat.

And it was precisely because of this brief pause that, amidst the suddenly churning Black Wind, a flying beast shaped like a giant lizard lunged out, its body size exceeding five zhang, and with a 'Boom—', it brought down a claw, knocking the man who was slightly behind flying, and while he was screaming and tumbling in the air, he suddenly flapped his light wings, roared something Xu Chen could not understand at all, and then turned into a streak of red light and fled in a panic.

The woman flapped her light wings and turned around, but the giant lizard roared, and a wave of Black Mist swept toward her, so she could only hurriedly throw her Flying Fork to fork at the giant lizard.

The giant lizard spat a streak of black light from its mouth, which struck the Flying Fork like lightning, and upon hearing an earth-shattering explosion, the Flying Fork was directly blasted apart in mid-air, turning into a ball of red light that exploded in the air.

The woman seemed to have no intention of continuing the fight, and with a flash of her light wings, she turned and lunged rapidly toward Xu Chen's side.

At this time, Xu Chen had already pried open a tiny gap in the Clam Shell again and saw this brief battle outside; discovering the woman coming toward him, before he could decide how to respond, suddenly there was another violent churning of the Black Wind to the side, and another giant lizard of similar size rushed out.

"Roar..."

The two giant lizards sandwiched the woman between them, and Xu Chen was less than ten zhang away from the giant lizard that appeared later.

Neither of the two giant lizards launched an attack immediately.

One of them stared nervously at Xu Chen's position, seemingly restless as it kept clawing the ground and flicking its tail.

The woman also seemed to suddenly discover the existence of the Shell, and a look of extreme surprise appeared on her strange face; she suddenly turned her body to flee in another direction, but just as she started to move, the Void rippled, and another even larger giant lizard jumped out to block her path several dozen zhang away.

This giant lizard was seven or eight zhang in size, and although its body was not as large as that octopus Soul Beast, its aura did not seem much weaker.

If measured by tier, the Soul aura it emitted was at least that of a Third-tier Mid-stage strength.

Did these people poke a nest of four-legged snakes?

At this moment, even Xu Chen, who was hiding inside the Shell to watch the show, couldn't help but complain, while also feeling that the situation was somewhat tricky.

In just a few short breaths of time, three Third-tier lizards had actually caught up.

Clearly, there was a lizard nest nearby, and the number of these giant lizards was not small.

If he were to help this woman, he feared he would also get trapped here.

Because a strange Shell had appeared in the middle of the battle circle, not only did the woman feel it was strange and baffling, but in reality, the three lizards that had appeared one after another had also noticed the existence of the Shell, their emotions somewhat agitated and uneasy, and while staring at the woman, they were also constantly observing the movements of the Shell.

"Roar~"

After about ten-plus breaths of stalemate, the last giant beast to appear let out an earth-shattering roar, and the three giant lizards lunged at the woman almost simultaneously.

It seemed that in their eyes, the woman's threat was far greater than that of the Shell.

The woman now had no room to escape and could only struggle to launch a counterattack, throwing out three Flying Forks at once, which struck the three giant lizards respectively.

"Boom, boom, boom~"

With three consecutive loud bangs, all three Flying Forks were blasted apart by the giant lizards.

And the woman seemed to have been prepared; taking advantage of the violent fluctuations caused by the explosion of the three Magic Treasures, her light wings suddenly released a blinding light, and her body shot straight up into the sky from where she stood, seemingly wanting to escape from high altitude.

However, just after she rose more than ten zhang high, a streak of black light suddenly arrived first despite being launched later, and it actually wrapped around her leg like lightning.

This was actually the tongue of the largest giant lizard, like a python a foot thick, which pulled the woman down from the sky in one go, heading straight for its ferociously opened mouth.

The woman seemed unwilling to be eaten by the giant lizard; she screamed, turned her hand to take out a red and black interwoven Giant Fork, and without hesitation, used the pulling force of the giant lizard's tongue to charge toward the giant lizard's open mouth, heading straight for its throat.

"What a fierce woman!"

Xu Chen was dumbfounded as he watched through the gap in the Shell, while also feeling deeply shocked inside.

Although the battle had only lasted a few breaths, the woman seemed very calm in every step, and even when facing death, she was fearless; this was completely a style of fighting to perish together.

Perhaps she had no way out and had to do so.

But if cultivators from the outside world encountered such a critical moment in battle, they would inevitably panic, unless they were those Danyuan Realm or even Spirit Realm Great Cultivators who had lived for hundreds of years.

At least in Xu Chen's view, cultivators of the Kaiyuan Realm or Zhenyuan Realm did not have this kind of determination to die.

However, he also saw that this woman's attack method was very singular; although she had Magic Treasures, she did not know Magic Spells, and was fighting entirely by relying on weapons and strength like a mortal martial artist.

And when it came to comparing strength with such terrifying giant beasts whose strength was comparable to the Third-tier Mid-stage, it was obvious that the human body was far too weak.

Perhaps the power erupting from this woman's body was also very fierce, but compared to this giant lizard, she did not have the upper hand at all, let alone facing three giant lizards at the same time.

And just as the woman was about to fall into the giant lizard's mouth, a streak of cyan lightning suddenly descended from the sky and smashed heavily onto the top of the giant lizard's head.

"Boom~"

Amidst the churning lightning, the giant lizard's massive body collapsed with a 'Boom', and at the same time, its huge tongue trembled violently and let go; the woman instantly gained her freedom, and when she turned her head, she saw Xu Chen crawling out from the opened Shell, and a look of extreme shock instantly appeared on her face.

"Run!" Xu Chen roared.

The woman was stunned and seemed not to have understood, but in that split second of hesitation, the two giant lizards beside her spat black light from their mouths simultaneously, one coiling toward the woman's waist and one coiling toward the Giant Fork in the woman's hand.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the woman was entangled again by the two python-like tongues, her movements instantly stiffening between the two giant lizards.

"Crack, crack, crack..."

As the two python-like tongues contracted and pulled violently, bursts of crimson Ancient Rune light erupted from the tight-fitting clothes on the woman's body, and at the same time, the red patterns on her face also suddenly lit up.

The woman gritted her teeth and glared with wide eyes, her face full of pain, but she was still struggling with all her might.

However, this struggle was completely futile; accompanied by flashes of red light, the tight-fitting clothes on her body began to tear, her light wings flickered on and off as if they could collapse at any moment, and the red patterns on her face began to twist, with blood beginning to gush out from her eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.

And at this time, the giant lizard that had been attacked by Xu Chen stood up again, turned its head to glare at Xu Chen like a small mountain, and with a flash of black light in its mouth, its python-like tongue coiled toward Xu Chen.

Xu Chen's figure swayed, dodging past the tongue like a breeze, while his finger lightly tapped forward, and the Thunder Fire Pestle smashed onto the head of the giant lizard that was coiling around the woman again.

Amidst the churning lightning, this smaller giant lizard was smashed directly onto the ground, its whole body wreathed in electric light, screaming and rolling on the ground, with half of its body almost smashed to pieces, and it instantly lost its combat capability.

The Giant Fork in the woman's hand was released, and while astonished, she did not lose her reason; instead, she let out a roar, turned around, and used the Giant Fork in her hand to fiercely fork the tongue wrapped around her waist, then stirred it with all her might; amidst a flash of red light, this tongue also exploded into two pieces with a 'Boom', and this giant lizard also screamed and rolled into the Black Wind.

Just when Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he could deal with the last and largest giant lizard together with the woman, this woman actually turned and left, her pair of red light wings expanding several zhang behind her, and with a fierce flap, she turned into a streak of red light and went far away.

"Screw your grandfather!" Xu Chen was dumbfounded.

If this kind of thing happened in the Immortal World, the other party would at least say a word of thanks, Daoist Friend, before running away, right?

Or perhaps, seeing that Xu Chen had powerful Magic Spells, the other party would stay behind to help deal with the last Soul Beast with all their might, and then escape together.

After all, given the current strength of the two, dealing with the remaining largest Soul Beast was not very difficult.

But Xu Chen had not expected this outcome at all.

It seems this place is indeed different from the Immortal World.

Xu Chen naturally dared not linger in the fight; he turned around rapidly, returned into the Shell, closed the lid, and used all his strength to urge the Shell to chase in the direction the woman had fled.

The remaining giant beast naturally refused to give up, emitting a roar that shook a hundred miles, flapping its pair of giant wings on its back wildly, and chased after the two while wrapped in a ball of black light.

In no more than ten breaths, Xu Chen felt his scalp tingling.

The woman ahead was extremely fast, and the distance seemed to grow as he chased; at first, he could still see a pair of red light wings, but soon he could only see a ball of red light, and after that, only a red dot.

Meanwhile, the intense Soul aura coming from behind had already locked onto him; the giant lizard seemed to be getting closer and closer, its muffled, thunder-like roar vibrating incessantly in his ears as if urging his death.

But no matter how he exerted his full Yuan Qi to push the Shell to accelerate, he felt somewhat powerless, because this Shell was not a magical artifact and lacked any Array; it relied entirely on his brute-force use of Yuan Qi to drive it, and although the speed looked fast, compared to these native winged Soul Beasts, the speed was completely inadequate.

Therefore, in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

The woman ahead had completely vanished, and Xu Chen was caught up to by the giant lizard.

(End of this chapter)