Chapter 583 - 380: This Battle

Chapter 583: Chapter 380: This Battle

This time, he didn’t slam into her back. Instead, he aimed straight for her throat! His arms clamped around Lu Hongyan’s neck like iron bands. It was a completely suicidal fighting style!

"Agh...!" Caught off guard, Lu Hongyan was tackled to the ground. With her throat locked in a death grip, she immediately struggled to breathe. She thrashed in terror, her nails scratching frantically at Pang Damao’s face and back, leaving streaks of blood. Her legs kicked wildly as she tried to break free.

But Pang Damao had long forgotten the pain. A single voice roared in his mind, "Strangle her! Avenge Mom and Dad!" The Giant Strength in his arms was so immense it nearly snapped her neck! No matter how Lu Hongyan scratched and kicked, he refused to let go!

Lu Hongyan’s struggles gradually became futile. The lack of oxygen and agonizing pain blurred her consciousness. In the final seconds of her life, she saw Pang Damao’s eyes burning with blood and fire. There was no joy of victory in them, only an endless blood feud and the absolute resolve of mutual destruction.

"Urgh... hh..." Lu Hongyan finally stopped struggling. Her body went limp, her pupils dilated, and she completely stopped breathing. Even in death, her face remained frozen in utter disbelief and deep-seated terror.

Feeling the body in his arms go limp, Pang Damao finally relaxed his strangling grip. Intense pain washed over him like a tidal wave—the dull ache at the back of his head, the burning sting from the knife wounds on his back, the agony in his internal organs, and the overwhelming exhaustion of spending all his strength. It swallowed him whole in an instant.

He raised his head and saw Yang Wanli nearby, who was struggling to prop himself up into a sitting position. His wrinkled, pale, and bloodless face carried deep shock and a hint of an indescribably complex emotion.

Wang River adjusted the Flying Light Arrows to pursue them. THWACK, THWACK, THWACK, THWACK. One guard after another was shot dead, though the distance was too great...

Meanwhile.

A sudden crisis erupted!

The strategic confidence on Lu Hongyan’s face instantly froze! The sudden roar of engines and the deafening rumble of an Earthquake, combined with the Rock Giant Scorpion abruptly appearing a hundred meters away and the array of repeating Crossbow Carriages gleaming with the light of death, made her very soul tremble!

The hunter had become the hunted! Just as she had sent her main forces into the dungeon, a deadly predator bared its fangs!

"Enemy attack! Defend—Agh!"

The guard captain’s shrill warning had barely pierced the air before it was completely drowned out by an even sharper, denser chorus of Breaking the Sky screeches!

SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH! SWISH, SWISH, SWISH!

The repeating Crossbow Carriage tractors unleashed their first full-fire volley! A swarm of crossbow bolts, dense as locusts, formed a cold metallic storm that tore through the air and arrived in the blink of an eye! A black rain of death mercilessly blanketed the ten insignificant guards. SPLURT! SPLURT! "Agh!" Blood sprayed wildly! Splintered bone fragments mixed with shredded pieces of Wood Armor flew everywhere! It was an absolute massacre!

The fragile human wall of ten guards was as weak as paper before this absolute mechanical firepower, collapsing in an instant! More than half of the guards only had time to register expressions of horror before their chests and heads were pierced, or their bodies were shredded by multiple bolts. Their screams were abruptly cut short as they were reduced to mangled corpses on the ground! The few who luckily avoided direct hits were scared out of their wits by the tragic state of their comrades and the flying gore. They instinctively threw themselves to the ground or raised their wooden shields.

CRACK! THWACK!

The Giant Strength contained within the crossbow bolts easily pierced through—and even shattered—those flimsy wooden shields! The shield-bearers’ arms twisted and snapped grotesquely. Instantly overwhelmed by agonizing pain and terror, they scrambled and crawled, desperately trying to escape this purgatory.

"Golden Lion! Protect me!" Lu Hongyan’s scream was completely out of tune. Her face was as pale as a sheet, entirely stripped of the dignified majesty expected of a female Lord. At this life-and-death juncture, the Golden Lion Mount beneath her unleashed an earth-shattering roar, erupting with a blinding halo of Gold light! A thick energy barrier, flowing with complex Gold runes, instantly expanded like an eggshell, securely enveloping both her and the Golden Lion!

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! The subsequent volley of heavy crossbow bolts smashed violently against the Gold barrier like raging waves crashing against a reef! Amidst deafening explosions, the shield trembled violently as ripples spread frantically across its surface. Although it barely withstood this round of focused fire, its light grew visibly dimmer, and the flow of its runes became sluggish!

At that moment, the true killing blow arrived! ROAR! The Rock Giant Scorpion crushed over the ground littered with mangled corpses, its massive size exuding a terrifying pressure that seemed to freeze the very air! Ignoring the last few guards paralyzed by fear, it pushed off with its six legs and viciously rammed into the Gold barrier!

KABOOM—CRACK!

The tough rock-like shell of the scorpion slammed into the already crumbling barrier, triggering a crisp sound like tearing silk! The cracked Gold light shattered like glass, exploding into a sky full of glowing dust!

The barrier had been smashed by sheer brute force! "Die!" Man Datou’s eyes were blood-red, resembling a descending demon god! His massive body leaped aggressively from the scorpion’s back, swinging his heavy greataxe in a wide arc. His target was the completely exposed head of Lu Hongyan! The axe blade cleaved the air in a Breaking the Sky arc, letting out a mournful wail!

ROAR! The Golden Lion Mount let out a terrified whimper the moment the barrier broke. Faced with the descending greataxe and the horrifying Rock Giant Scorpion at point-blank range, it instinctively chose self-preservation—its massive body abruptly sprang to the side to dodge!

With this sudden evasion, it perfectly exposed the terrified and off-balance Lu Hongyan on its back!

Lu Hongyan paled in terror. The shadow of death had never felt as real as it did in this moment! She desperately tried to pull the reins tight to steady herself, but the Golden Lion’s evasive maneuver caused her to completely lose her balance!