Chapter 27 Skirmish_1
Just as the Crab Monster was about to charge again, at the critical moment, Liang Qu manipulated the water currents, quickly using the muddy flow to obstruct the Crab Monster's vision and causing the currents to spin, forming a strangulating force!
With a sudden clench of his fist, there was no message of the Crab Monster's eyeballs being crushed in his perception circle.
However, the Crab Monster's pincers flailed wildly, sending debris flying all around, and the entire seabed was turbid.
Its eyeballs were not burst by the pressure of the water, but it felt intense pain.
Liang Qu once again leaped to avoid the attack range and caught a glimpse of the Fat Catfish chasing after the Crab Monster.
What an opportunity!
As the Crab Monster flailed in pain, the Fat Catfish opportunistically swam up to its side, opened its wide mouth swallowing the water mixed with mud, and bit viciously into one of the Crab Monster's compound eyes.
The eyestalk was torn and chewed off by the Fat Catfish, pulling out pink flesh, tissue, and nerves.
Blood flowed from the hollow eye socket, and the severe pain nearly drove the Crab Monster mad; the eyes on stalks protruding outside its body were almost its biggest weak spots.
Pity that the Crab Monster's two eyes were set too far apart; even the Fat Catfish's large mouth couldn't swallow them both.
The Fat Catfish, having succeeded in its attack, swiftly darted away, narrowly avoiding the gigantic pincers that swung together, and then swam with all its might as if its life depended on it.
Instantly, the Crab Monster went into a wild frenzy, inciting an irresistible fear in anyone who glanced at it; it no longer cared about Liang Qu nearby, and went straight after the Fat Catfish, causing stones along its path to shatter and making the entire seabed seem to tremble.
The scene became chaotic.
No one had expected the Crab Monster to be so fearsome.
Liang Qu's heart pounded wildly, yet watching Fatty flee, he did not hesitate, putting all the water currents' force into his spear. His body's muscles quivered like ripples on water; muscle fibers, tight like iron wires, twisted together, and finally burst forth.
He charged out, like an ape leaping down from an ancient tree, thrusting with all his might at the segments underneath the Crab Monster's body.
The sharp and hard flint easily penetrated the joint membrane, twisting and picking in one fluid motion, he broke open the entire crab leg joint.
The running Crab Monster stumbled, feeling its leg stuck in the mud lose control and break easily under inertia.
With only six limbs remaining on the lower body of the Crab Monster, the sudden loss of one had a huge impact on its balance, significantly reducing its speed in chasing the Fat Catfish.
Bubbles poured from the mouth of the Crab Monster, its nerves intensely agitated from the continued torment; it ignored the catfish and turned around to attack Liang Qu once again.
The massive pincers swung, coming straight at him; if caught between them, he would surely be bisected!
A fear surged in Liang Qu's heart, his left leg muscles tensed, and he tried to step on the rocks to dodge but found only empty space!
His foot sank into the mud; though there was a reaction force, it was nowhere near that of solid rock!
The moment he stepped into the mud, Liang Qu's heart nearly leapt from his chest; adrenaline surged, cold sweat poured out, and caught off guard, he could only once again block horizontally, exerting all his strength to manipulate the water to push himself sideways.
But this time the pincer came at him from above at an angle, not as easy to deflect as before.
Crack.
The spear snapped in two on the spot, and despite the pincer's momentum not decreasing, thankfully the force of the water finally came into play, shifting Liang Qu a few inches away as the pincer grazed his waist and slammed down.
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Mud was being flung everywhere, and the burst Zhupo Dragon's bubble looked like a deflated balloon, air bubbles rising rapidly.
Liang Qu choked on a mouthful of water, feeling a burning pain in his waist and abdomen as if someone had skinned him with a knife, but he dared not linger. Holding his breath once more, he rolled to the side, frantically clutching at rocks and scrambling forward to escape.
On the other side, the Fat Catfish, who had been fleeing desperately, decisively turned around.
Now, the situation had reversed, and it was Liang Qu who was fleeing for his life, kicking off the disordered stones to propel himself through the water.
The Crab Monster immediately moved forward to pursue, but just as it reached a certain point, the sand beneath its feet suddenly collapsed in an explosion, revealing the Zhupo Dragon that had been lying in ambush. It opened its maw and viciously clamped onto another limb of the Crab Monster.
The Zhupo Dragon's powerful bite force easily penetrated the limb's membrane, twirling wildly as it tore at it, managing to bite off one of the Crab Monster's legs.
With two out of the six limbs gone, both on the same side, the Crab Monster couldn't contain its fury. The unstoppable goliath raised its pincer once more, ready to smash Unable to Move into pulp, but at that moment, its vision went completely black, pain spreading like wildfire.
At the head, another eye was gone!
The Fat Catfish, arriving just in time again, repeated its trick, devouring the Crab Monster's other eye. It then turned and dove, escaping swiftly and leaving the more slowly moving, and now unable to flee, Zhupo Dragon behind.
The Crab Monster couldn't scream, but seeing the numerous bubbles it spat out, Liang Qu figured it must be in extreme pain.
A man and two beasts avoided the frenzied Crab Monster and regrouped.
Elsewhere, the Yang Family Martial Arts School was similarly caught in a melee.
Three men who were with Lu Tingcai picked up wooden sticks and rushed towards Li Libo and Chen Jiechang.
Chen Jiechang pulled Li Libo aside to dodge an attack but couldn't avoid the strikes from the remaining assailants. Wooden sticks hit their bodies, as if intent on breaking their bones.
"Motherf*****!"
Chen Jiechang, older and more steadfast than Li Libo, always endured, tried to hide that mix of inferiority and helplessness, but the humiliating rain of blows finally brought the rage to his forehead. After all, he was not yet twenty.
Chen Jiechang bore the pain, his teeth gritted as he locked his gaze onto one of the sticks. The moment it came down, he reached out and grabbed it tightly, then with all his might, charged forward.
Xue Dingyi was taken aback as he was slammed into, and both men fell to the ground, wrestling with each other.
The remaining two wanted to step in to separate them, but Li Libo also seized the opportunity to tackle one to the ground. As another stepped forward to help, the chaos led to someone getting kicked in the shin, falling to the ground and joining the fray.
All five people present had not broken through their barriers; they weren't even martial artists but mere martial disciples. Enraged, they fought without any technique, no different from street thugs brawling.
They grappled, rolling together, exerting all their strength to strangle, kick, bite, press with their elbows, and thrust with their knees, relying solely on ferocity and their tolerance for pain.
Their anger set ablaze all the fighting spirit in their blood.
Xue Dingyi swung his elbow, splitting open the corner of Chen Jiechang's eye. Chen Jiechang's hands clamped desperately around Xue Dingyi's throat, his nails almost tearing the skin, leaving raised blood marks. Behind him, another person was frantically swinging fists, hitting his head, his face, but he did not care!
What's the best way to win a group fight?
It's to catch one person and beat the hell out of them until they have to spend at least a month in bed.
Chen Jiechang etched the names Lu Tingcai and Xue Dingyi into his memory, no matter how the others hit him from behind or at his sides, he only beat Xue Dingyi with all his might!
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