If Bronya were next to Li Xuan, she would know that he had encountered an Assault-class Honkai Beast.
"Screech!" The flying Honkai Beast, floating in the air, looked down on the human before it and let out a disdainful cry. It had thought it was another Honkai Beast, but it turned out to be just a human.
"Screech, screech, screech!~" The three smaller flying Honkai Beasts also flew over at this time, hovering above Li Xuan's head and making a noisy, cicada-like sound.
"Scree-roar!~" The large flying Honkai Beast flapped its wings, signaling the other three Honkai Beasts to attack Li Xuan.
"No choice..." Li Xuan said softly. "I didn't intend to start anything..."
"..." A deep blue toy box appeared in Li Xuan's hand. It was the six-star Divine Weapon, 'Seele's Toy Box'. As soon as the toy box hit the ground, it miraculously transformed into a cross nearly two meters tall...
"Clatter, clatter~" As the strings of the golden cross twanged crisply, spear mounts extended from both sides. Twelve long spears glinted with a black light under the sun; their heads were forged from high-concentration obsidian.
"Just enough to get the Honkai energy crystals for my ten-pull!..." Li Xuan placed his hand gently on the center of the golden cross. The twelve long spears were poised, ready to attack the three flying Honkai Beasts circling in the sky.
Although Li Xuan had planned to retreat and avoid conflict with this type of Honkai Beast he was seeing for the first time, it didn't mean he was afraid of them. Possessing 'Judah's Oath', the strongest Honkai Beast restraining weapon in this world, Li Xuan could honestly walk sideways in front of Honkai Beasts...
After all, Honkai energy did not easily gather around high-purity obsidian. After being pierced by the long spears, even the most powerful Honkai Beast would be unable to break free. Without the support of Honkai energy, a Honkai Beast was just a slightly larger animal.
"Screech!" The three small flying Honkai Beasts let out a piercing cry and began to charge towards Li Xuan, flapping their wings.
"...Swish!" A long spear, glinting with a cold light, shot fiercely towards one of the flying Honkai Beasts.
"Screech!" The flying Honkai Beast cried out softly. Its already small body tilted slightly, and it dodged the attack from Li Xuan's 'Judah's Oath'.
"As expected, they're not that easy to deal with..." Li Xuan helplessly retracted the fired Spear of Light. The chain of light connected to the obsidian spearhead returned to its mount.
Unlike Chariot-class Honkai Beasts, which were practically target practice, this flying-type Honkai Beast was extremely agile. If the Spears of Light couldn't hit them, then no matter how powerful the attack, it would be useless.
"Screech!" The three Honkai Beasts let out a piercing sound and charged at Li Xuan.
"Xuanyuan Shield, deploy..." An azure shield quickly appeared on the surface of Li Xuan's body, forming a defense. An eggshell-like shield enveloped his entire body.
"Screech!" As the flying Honkai Beasts approached Li Xuan, the tips of their three wings closed together. Then, using the momentum of their glide, the sharp and hard wingtips cut at Li Xuan's shield like a scythe.
"...." The azure shield's color faded slightly due to the attack from the three flying Honkai Beasts... The three flying Honkai Beasts, having been blocked by the shield, stumbled a bit in the air as they readjusted their bodies to attack again.
"Judah's Oath!" As if in response to Li Xuan's call, the twelve Spears of Light from the golden cross 'Judah's Oath' automatically shot out towards the three flying Honkai Beasts that had yet to react. Each Honkai Beast was simultaneously sealed off from escape by four Spears of Light.
"Screech!" Before the three Honkai Beasts could even let out a scream, they were directly pierced by the sharp obsidian spearheads. High-concentration obsidian was indeed the bane of Honkai energy. The flying Honkai Beasts, which had been so lively just a moment ago, were now like snails under the sun.
"Splurt!" Four Spears of Light simultaneously pierced through the relatively fragile bodies of the flying Honkai Beasts. Under the sun, a few drops of the rare, dark red blood of Honkai Beasts dripped from the spearheads, which were as dark as the night.
The dark red blood dripped onto the white concrete floor like blooming flowers.
"So they're pretty easy to take down after all..." Li Xuan said, stroking his chin as he looked at the Honkai Beast corpses skewered on the extended Spears of Light like shish kebabs. He had thought this type of Honkai Beast would be formidable... It seems they weren't that strong after all, aside from being hard to hit...
"Screech! Scree-roar!!!" The large flying Honkai Beast floating in the sky let out a roar. The pungent smell of blood let it know that its children were already dead...
"Screech!" A powerful surge of Honkai energy erupted from the flying Honkai Beast's body. Blood-red Honkai energy formed a mist that swirled around the Honkai Beast's slender body.
"Is it about to use an ultimate move?!" Li Xuan said in shock as he watched the figure enveloped in the blood-red Honkai energy mist.
"Screech!" The flying Honkai Beast let out a cry, flapped its wings slightly, then folded them against its body and charged straight down at Li Xuan on the ground.
As it broke through the air, the Honkai energy mist formed a protective layer around the Honkai Beast's body...
"Unfurl!" Li Xuan said softly. The twelve Spears of Light from 'Judah's Oath', which had just been retracted, shot out like arrows from a bow towards the diving Honkai Beast.
"How is this possible?!..." Li Xuan stared in shock at the scene before him. The twelve Spears of Light from 'Judah's Oath', fired at full power, were actually repelled by the Honkai energy mist on the Honkai Beast's body before they could even hit it...
"..." Li Xuan's black eyes reflected the image of the flying Honkai Beast descending from the sky. There were only a few short meters between them now.
Li Xuan couldn't imagine the consequences of it crashing into his body... The opponent was clearly putting its all into this attack, while the shield on his body had just been weakened by blocking the three Honkai Beasts and was now quite thin... If he were really hit in the body by that sharp head, even his body would probably have a hole in it...
"..." Li Xuan silently watched the approaching Honkai Beast. The sense of urgency rising in his heart caused the blood in his veins to circulate faster and faster. The energy in his cells was continuously compressed, and a pure surge of Honkai energy welled up from deep within his body and flowed throughout.
"Get... up!!" Li Xuan's eyes were slightly red. His once slender arms were now covered in sharp, defined muscles...
"BANG!" After a hundred years... the 152-kilogram cross 'Judah's Oath' was once again lifted by a human! Then, it let out a roar-like sound, "BOOM!" as it was slammed heavily onto the ground again.
"CLANG!~" As if a large bell had been struck by a temple attendant, the Honkai Beast, which had launched a full-power attack, was completely blocked by the golden cross that Li Xuan had lifted and placed before him like a city wall.
"VWOOM!~" The cross, made of 'Soul Steel', vibrated slightly... just like a lake rippling after being hit by a small pebble.
(End of Chapter)