Between chasing and escaping, Gao Yuan once again ran for nearly twenty miles.
Even though the Light Body Talisman has greatly reduced the burden on his body, Gao Yuan still feels the weight of his body. Every step he takes is extremely difficult, weighing more than a thousand pounds!
The monster that fell behind him was not much better. Gao Yuan took a moment to look back and saw that the black smoke lingering around the monster was so thin that it was almost transparent.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but Gao Yuan actually saw a trace of unwillingness mixed with despair in the monster's pure black eyes!
He's about to collapse!
Gao Yuan kept repeating this sentence in his heart, not daring to relax for a moment, because he himself was about to collapse!
At the same time, Gao Yuan also spent some of his energy paying attention to his feet.
At this time, they were walking through a sparsely forested valley. The thick vines and thick piles of fallen leaves on the ground in the valley covered all traces under the cover of snow. There was a risk of tripping if not careful while walking.
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Looking around, there are tall poplar trees all around.
These poplar trees are all over twenty meters tall, with their slender and straight trunks reaching into the sky.
There are only some branches branched out four or five meters from the top, which look like rows of upside-down brooms from a distance.
The dappled sunlight shines through these huge poplar trees, forming patches of cross-shaded tree shadows on the ground.
Coupled with the mist lingering in the valley, the entire valley seemed a little dark.
Perhaps it was a psychological effect, but Gao Yuan felt a vague and depressing smell in the air, which made his already tense nerves even more tense.
After running hundreds of meters again, Gao Yuan felt increasingly tired.
He kept moving with his feet, reached out and took out two Aiki Pills, swallowed one and held the other between his teeth, and then silently mobilized his inner energy.
After a while, an enhanced version of the Lingxi Finger Energy was charged up, everything was ready, and the decisive battle was about to begin!
Sidestepping around the poplar tree in front of him, Gao Yuan was trying to correct his posture by fine-tuning the wind direction of the Wind Technique when he suddenly heard a crash from behind, followed by a series of messy footsteps mixed with the roar of a monster.
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Gao Yuan turned his head and looked around, only to see that the monster seemed to have tripped over something on the ground while running, and stumbled forward with some imbalance.
It's now!
Gao Yuan roared in his heart, and immediately turned around quickly with the cooperation of the wind technique, and fired at the monster with the Lingxi finger power of his right hand that was already ready to go.
Just as the monster tried its best to stabilize its body, the translucent energy with a hint of gray light crashed into the monster's chest that had just puffed up with an indomitable momentum.
"Chichi~"
The black smoke lingering around the monster was extremely thin at this time. Although it protected the monster in front of it at the first moment, it could no longer resist the bombardment of Lingxi Finger.
Accompanied by a violent energy reaction, the translucent energy penetrated the layer of black smoke and struck the monster's muscled chest.
"boom!"
Under the burst of energy, a lot of strange flesh and blood with a hint of blue light suddenly spattered out, and under the influence of the huge impact, the monster flew back seven or eight steps and crashed into the side of a towering poplar tree.
On the main trunk.
"Wow!"
Upon impact, the snow that had accumulated on the canopy of the poplar tree suddenly fell down.
With a powerful blow, Gao Yuan did not intend to give the monster any chance to breathe. When the energy in his right hand was accumulating, he fired out a normal version of the Lingxi finger with his left hand. The translucent energy was directed at the monster, which was exploded in the previous attack.
The skin and flesh were shot away with electricity, and the monster was immediately bombarded with another shrill scream.
After a brief pause, the inner energy in Gao Yuan's right hand had been condensed, and he immediately pointed at the monster in the distance without hesitation.
Just when Gao Yuan retracted his hands to his waist and prepared to gather his inner energy again, he suddenly heard a faint grinding sound coming from the direction of the monster.
It was very subtle at first, but after a while it was as clear and crisp as a hand clapping a bell, and Gao Yuan's movements suddenly froze.
He quickly looked at it and saw that the surface of the poplar tree trunk that the monster had hit when it retreated was rippling with layers of strange ripples.
From time to time, palm-sized pieces of bark fell off the poplar trees, and before they even hit the ground, they spontaneously shattered into countless thumb-sized pieces.
I saw these thumb-sized fragments tumbling and falling to the ground, and they were still shaking, as if they were alive!
Gao Yuan was shocked, and upon closer inspection he discovered something unusual.
Where are these bark fragments?
These are clearly silver beetles!
I saw that these beetles had a pair of huge mouthparts that were more than one-third of their total body length at the front of their bodies. Their shells were dull silver with some light gray spots scattered here and there.
The surface of the insect shell is so rough that even sunlight does not reflect on it, and when it crawls, it makes a rustling sound like iron filings from time to time.
These beetles were originally densely packed all over the surface of the poplar tree. The gray spots on the surface of adjacent beetles were spliced together. From a distance, they looked like the bark of the poplar tree with criss-crossing ravines!
Just when Gao Yuan's mind was shaken, he suddenly heard a slightly panicked roar from the monster opposite.
Gao Yuan looked at it intently and suddenly felt his scalp numb.
I saw the first batch of beetles that fell from the poplar tree lying on the ground shaking for a while, their backs suddenly split from the middle, and a pair of transparent wings like cicada wings stretched out from them.
Following a faint buzzing sound, these beetles flew up unsteadily on the spot, hovering in the air for a while, and soon discovered the monster close at hand, and quickly approached it.
Due to the large number of beetles, it looks like a gray gauze blowing in the wind from a distance.
And because the monster was close to the main trunk of the poplar tree, many falling swarms of lumpy insects fell directly on the monster, and at this time, they were already active on the monster.
Almost instantly, the monster's figure was overwhelmed by countless silver beetles.
At the same time, a heart-wrenching sound of friction accompanied by the monster's scream of "ho~ho~" reached Gao Yuan's ears.
In horror, Gao Yuan suddenly thought of something even more terrifying, and turned his head sharply to look around.
Sure enough, the disturbance of these insects seemed to be contagious, and the surfaces of other poplar trees in the distance also had ripples at this time.
Then, patches of beetles began to peel off, and soon they spread to almost all the poplar trees in the valley!
Countless swarms of silver beetles fell one after another, looking like falling snowflakes from a distance!
At the same time, the rustling sounds from the disturbance of the insect swarms gathered from all directions, as harsh as the chirping of cicadas in midsummer!
Gao Yuan felt a chill coming from his tailbone and going straight to his forehead. He didn't dare to wait for a moment longer. He only had one thought in his mind - get out of here quickly!
At this time, he no longer cares about the monster. No treasures or equipment are important anymore. Survival is the only fundamental thing!
Seeing that many beetles had gathered around him and were running toward him, Gao Yuan subconsciously kicked his foot onto a dry vine on the ground, bringing a bunch of fallen leaves and broken snow to hit the oncoming insects.
Yun then frantically activated the Wind Technique, briefly identified the direction, and then ran towards the outside of the valley.
Attracted by the flying vines, some of the beetles broke away from the swarm and clung to the flying dry vines.
With a faint "clicking" sound, the nearly two-meter-long vine broke into countless pieces before it even hit the ground, and fell to the ground like raindrops.
Gao Yuan turned his head and saw this scene and felt his scalp numb, and his speed increased a few points unconsciously!