Li Yifei was half-kneeling on the ground, coughing violently, with blood gushing out with each cough.
Just one strike.
and he had sustained significant injuries.
This was the power of a Planetary Level monster! A power even more terrifying than that of an ordinary Planetary Level human!
Pure, unreasonable, absolute power crushing everything!
"Roar!"
Having landed a successful hit, the Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard stomped forward with its four limbs, causing the earth to rumble like a moving mountain range as it charged toward Li Yifei.
It was going to crush this insect that dared to challenge it into paste!
Watching the colossal body bearing down on him like a collapsing sky, a flicker of madness flashed in Li Yifei's eyes.
"Want to kill me? It's still too early!"
"Disperse!"
His mental force erupted once more.
The massive [Moonlight Wheel] instantly disassembled, reforming into twelve crescent blade discs.
No, not just twelve!
Driven madly by Li Yifei's mental force, each blade disc vibrated at high speed, splitting into countless silver afterimages.
In an instant, hundreds of crescent blade lights, like a breached silver galaxy, swept toward the Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard, blotting out the sky!
"Clang clang clang—!"
A dense sound, like heavy rain pounding on a tin roof, rang out.
Countless blade lights struck the dark red keratinous hide of the Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard, bursting into dazzling showers of sparks.
However, apart from leaving shallow white marks, they couldn't even begin to penetrate its monstrously tough defense!
"As expected, it's not enough..."
Li Yifei's heart sank, but his movements didn't pause in the slightest.
He stomped the ground fiercely with his foot, his entire body transforming into a ghostly black shadow as he sped across the ground.
Perfect-level movement technique!
Under the cover of the hundreds of blade lights, he narrowly, perilously, circled from under the monster's enormous shadow to its flank and rear.
He had found his target!
The joint on the monster's hind limb!
The keratinous layer there was clearly thinner than elsewhere!
"Now!"
Li Yifei's figure shot up like a hunting leopard, the SS-grade combat blade in his hand tracing a dark trajectory as it viciously chopped toward that joint!
At the same time, the thousand crescent blade lights in the sky seemed to receive a command, instantly merging into one, transforming into a brilliant silver torrent that precisely blasted toward the same spot!
The perfect coordination of a mental force master and a Martial Artist!
"Thud—!"
This time, it wasn't the clear clang of metal on metal.
It was the dull sound of a sharp blade cutting into flesh!
"Roooaar—!!!"
The Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard let out a furious roar filled with pain and rage.
A massive, bone-deep wound had been torn open at its hind limb joint, and dark red, scalding-hot blood gushed out like a waterfall!
The intense pain completely ignited the beast's ferocity!
It abruptly turned around, abandoning all defense, its massive head slamming toward Li Yifei's location like a battering ram!
Too fast!
Li Yifei's pupils contracted sharply; there was no time to dodge.
He could only gather all his mental force. The twelve [Arc Light Wheels] instantly formed a small shield in front of him.
"Boom—!!!"
It felt like being hit head-on by a high-speed maglev train.
The Black God armor on Li Yifei's body emitted a sickening sound of twisting metal. His whole body was sent flying like a kite with its string cut, crashing into a small hill and causing it to collapse.
"Pfft—"
A mouthful of blood stained the visor of his combat armor.
His consciousness blurred for an instant.
His internal organs felt as if they had been displaced, and countless bones throughout his body were broken.
Intense dizziness and excruciating pain washed over him like a tidal wave.
"Am I... going to die..."
He struggled, trying to stand up, but found his body wouldn't obey.
The Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard, dragging its injured hind leg, walked toward him step by step, its enormous shadow completely enveloping him.
It looked down at this little insect that had severely wounded it, its eyes filled with cruel mockery.
It opened its bloody maw.
A sulfurous breath, mixed with destructive high temperature, gathered in its throat.
It was going to use its most scorching Dragon Breath to melt this insect completely!
The shadow of death loomed over Li Yifei.
Retreat?
A thought flashed through his mind.
With just a thought, he could use the [group member teleportation coupon] to return to the previously recorded coordinates and escape safely.
But he didn't.
Because he could feel it!
He could feel that long-dormant desire from the deepest part of his body!
Under the extreme pressure of death, every cell in his body was crying out in defiance!
They were craving!
Craving evolution! Craving transformation! Craving to shatter the shackles of genetics!
"Aaaaaah—!!!"
Li Yifei let out a roar that sounded almost inhuman.
All his mental force, all his willpower, all his life potential—at this moment, they burned without reservation, completely, madly!
"Move... damn it!!!"
The twelve [Moonlight Wheel] blades, scattered on the ground due to his severely damaged mental force, began to tremble violently.
Once again, they slowly rose into the air.
And they began to reassemble in a way never seen before!
No longer a defensive disc, no longer scattered blade lights.
All the blade discs connected end to end, layer upon layer, finally transforming into a terrifying, monstrous silver...
Moon Blade, fifty meters long and nearly ten meters wide!
"Slash!!!"
Using the last ounce of his strength, Li Yifei issued his final command.
*Hum—!*
The silver Moon Blade sliced through space, drawing a tragic, beautiful silver line that seemed to pierce heaven and earth.
Its target was not the Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard's head, nor its body.
It was that injured hind leg!
*Thwip—!!!*
A soft, almost imperceptible sound.
The Dragon Breath the Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard was about to spew came to an abrupt halt.
It looked down and saw its own thick hind leg severed cleanly from the wound.
Its massive body lost balance and collapsed with a thunderous crash.
And that silver Moon Blade, after severing its hind leg, its momentum undiminished, shot upward at a tricky, bizarre angle, piercing with pinpoint accuracy into the soft underside of its jaw!
Entering from below the jaw, exiting through the top of its skull!
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
The Earth-Splitting Dragon Lizard's enormous eyes were filled with disbelief.
Then, the light of life rapidly faded from its pupils.
*Crash—!*
The colossal body slammed heavily onto the ground, stirring up clouds of dust.
Li Yifei looked at the fallen behemoth, could no longer hold on, his vision went dark, and he completely lost consciousness.
...
Not even a full minute later.
When Li Yifei's consciousness stirred awake again, the first thing he felt was an unprecedented... hunger.
Not hunger from his stomach, but a desperate, extreme craving for energy, originating from the deepest part of his body, from every single cell!