Chapter 244: Chapter 243: Life Force is Very Tenacious (Please Subscribe)
On the wasteland, a savage beast resembling an ape, standing seven to eight meters tall, pressed down hard on the prey’s torso with a four to five-meter-long arm.
Its other giant hand, the size of a millstone, gripped the prey’s head, repeatedly smashing it against the ground.
"Thump!"
"Thump!"
"Thump!"
With each impact sound, the ground trembled violently.
The ape-like fierce beast was covered in filthy, unruly fur, especially its face, where the hair fluttered in the wind, resembling a lion’s mane.
Underneath the fur was muscles as large as rocks, connected to each other.
The creature it had pinned down was a Violent Bear.
That’s right, the high-level fierce beast that made many Entry Force Martial Artists fear and avoid it, the Violent Bear.
But now, this four to five-meter tall Violent Bear seemed like a toy in front of the ape-like fierce beast, without a shred of resistance.
At first, when its head was being slammed into the ground, it struggled fiercely, letting out threatening roars, but after two or three hits, its movements slowed down, then it stopped moving altogether.
Its head had completely burst open, blood and brain matter splattering everywhere.
The ape-like fierce beast sensed that the prey in its hand had gone silent, and a human-like look of disdain appeared on its face.
It seemed to think that this guy couldn’t withstand much before dying.
"Bang bang!"
It released the Violent Bear’s head, raised both arms, pounded its chest, and issued guttural sounds as if celebrating its victory.
Every move it made appeared human-like.
In fact, fierce beasts that evolved to the elite level possessed a certain level of intelligence, roughly equivalent to a four or five-year-old human child.
When they reach the commander level, it’s a qualitative change.
"Crunch!"
A crisp sound was heard.
A leg of the Violent Bear was effortlessly torn off, blood spurted from the wound like a fountain.
The ape-like fierce beast’s face showed a human-like smile, then its mouth opened, revealing a blood-red maw, and its steel-like teeth bit into the leg.
"Crunch! Crunch!"
Several crisp sounds.
The flesh and bone fragments were swallowed together.
In three or four seconds, the entire leg of the prey had been devoured.
At that moment, it sniffed the air and looked up to see a figure a thousand meters away.
The figure was none other than Chen Fan.
"Lion Ape."
Chen Fan squinted, instantly recognizing the far-off giant.
The Lion Ape, named for its lion-like facial appearance.
This is an ordinary-level elite fierce beast, possessing great power; one swat could destroy a three-story building made of reinforced concrete.
Moreover, it had incredible jumping ability, leaping up to a hundred meters high, easily clearing the walls of a small city.
The Lion Ape, seeing only a small figure, showed a slight contempt in its eyes, tore off another leg from the Violent Bear, brought it to its mouth, and bit down.
Just then, a black flash arrived in an instant.
"Squelch!"
A crisp sound.
An arrow as thick as two fingers shot directly into the Lion Ape’s left eye, blood splattered instantly, and soon most of the arrow penetrated through.
"Roar!"
With a roar of pain, the Lion Ape dropped the food in its hand and grabbed the arrow, yanking it out with tremendous force.
Blood gushed out like a bursting dam.
Yet, the intense pain sparked its inherent savagery, it glared at the distant figure with its remaining blood-red eye.
"Roar!"
It sprinted toward Chen Fan at blazing speed.
Every step it took caused the ground to cave in.
Then, with a sudden force on its legs, the ground caved nearly half a meter, and its body soared a hundred meters high, aiming to crush Chen Fan like a meteor.
"Truly worthy of an elite-level fierce beast, its life force is incredibly strong."
But Chen Fan remained calm, and just as it was about to strike, his figure flickered and appeared several hundred meters away.
"Boom!"
A loud explosion.
The spot where Chen Fan originally stood turned into a pit four to five meters wide and almost two meters deep!
Countless sand and gravel burst out like shrapnel from a grenade, scattering in all directions.
Dust clouds surged.
"Roar!"
The Lion Ape inspected the pit but found nothing, and let out an enraged roar.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Three piercing sounds came from behind it.
The Lion Ape didn’t have time to turn around before three arrows shot into the back of its head and burst out its face.
One arrow even came out of its eye socket, shattering the eyeball.
The Lion Ape’s body swayed a few times like a drunkard, and seconds later, it collapsed to the ground.
"Hoo."
Chen Fan exhaled.
The bow in his hand seemed to be somewhat weak.
It was almost impossible to kill an elite-level fierce beast with a single arrow unless he used True Qi.
Luckily, the process wasn’t as difficult as imagined.
If one arrow wasn’t enough, three would suffice, and if three weren’t enough, then ten.
"Experience Points, 9000?"
Chen Fan glanced at the updated information in his mind, somewhat surprised.
He initially thought three or four thousand points would be good, but it turned out to be as high as 9000 points! Higher than the C-level Awakened he encountered last time.
"If it were Yang Hu here, he might not be able to kill this creature one-on-one."
Chen Fan murmured.
Despite handling it so effortlessly, it was partly because his speed far outmatched the Lion Ape’s, and also his long reach.
To attack the Lion Ape, he could do so from a thousand meters away; the Lion Ape would find it much harder to reach him.
Yang Hu, no doubt, his superpower was strong, but it wouldn’t be effective until within a hundred meters of the opponent, basically just scratching them.
He would need to use Protective Talismans and a Teleportation Item for a chance to kill it.
Three to four thousand experience points correspond to a mid-stage Meridian Refining Martial Artist, and generally, those wouldn’t have the strength for one-on-one encounters with such a giant.
Chen Fan walked towards the Lion Ape’s corpse.
To be safe, he activated Celestial Response earlier and found no trace of the Lion Ape’s presence.
Undoubtedly, the opponent was dead beyond revival.
As he got closer, he truly sensed the sheer size of the creature.
Describing it as a small mountain would not be exaggerated.
"If I bring this back to the Martial Arts Association, it should be worth over ten million Contribution Points, and if taken to the Awakened Association, it’d yield a thousand points as well."
He took out his alloy battle saber from his waist, intending to slice off valuable materials from the creature, but found it hard to cut.
"Damn."
Chen Fan sweated.
He forgot that his alloy battle saber was only Tier Two.
Cutting high-level fierce beasts was easy, but slicing elite-level fierce beasts posed a challenge.
"Do I have to drag this big guy back?"
Chen Fan frowned.
It wasn’t impossible.
But primarily, this trip aimed to earn experience points.
Going back and forth would waste a lot of time.
"Right, if I coat the blade with True Qi and use Saber Qi to slice, would it be easier?"
The thought sprang up in Chen Fan’s mind.
He gripped the saber hilt, transmitted his True Qi through the meridians to his arm, then into the blade.
He slashed the Lion Ape’s body, instantly creating a wound.
Before this, the Tier Two alloy battle saber only left a white mark on the skin.
"Could Saber Qi have a sharp effect? If using more True Qi, would the results be better?"
Chen Fan immediately pumped a hundred units of True Qi.
The alloy battle saber transformed into a divine weapon, effortlessly slicing off one of the Lion Ape’s claws.
Chen Fan smiled.
He was about to cut off the other three claws when.
A sense of danger surged from deep within him.
"From above!"
Chen Fan looked up.
A giant black shadow was diving down!
A bird-like savage beast!
"Black Feathered Eagle?"
Chen Fan squinted.
This creature was also an ordinary-level elite fierce beast, its strength average, but its speed exceptional; being able to fly made it the toughest among ordinary elite fierce beasts!
It easily spotted ground prey from high above and could escape to the sky if necessary.
"Screech!"
The Black Feathered Eagle let out a sharp cry.
Its wings flapped, whipping up a fierce wind, heading straight for Chen Fan.
Its claws spread wide.
It appeared to want to catch both Chen Fan and the Lion Ape’s corpse.
"Courting death!"
Chen Fan’s mouth curled into a cold smile.
He pulled an arrow from the quiver and set it on the bowstring.
True Qi surged from within, enveloping the arrow, making it glow brightly.
While aware an arrow to the critical spot wouldn’t instantly kill the Black Feathered Eagle, just like the Lion Ape.
This arrow, however, wasn’t ordinary; it was the Cloud-Piercing Stone-Shattering Arrow, charged with 3000 True Qi!
The distance between them was less than three hundred meters.
A fierce wind raged on the ground, sand and rocks flying, nearly blinding one’s vision.
Suddenly!
An air-ripping sound erupted, the arrow, empowered by True Qi, cut through the air, reaching the Black Feathered Eagle instantly.
"Boom!"
A huge explosion.
The arrow, only as thick as two fingers, blew open a gaping wound on the Black Feathered Eagle’s abdomen, then shot skyward.
The Black Feathered Eagle let out an agonizing scream and plummeted to the ground like a broken kite.