A sharp swoosh tore past Jiang Chen's cheek.
The rocky limb grazed his face and struck the cliff behind him.
Stone exploded outward in a violent spray. Fragments whistled past his ears and vanished into the abyss below. If he had been a single breath slower, his skull would have been split like a cracked melon.
"Goddammit!" Jiang Chen's heart surged with boiling fury.
Still clinging to the sword wedged into the rock, he swung his body sideways like a pendulum. Using the momentum, he lashed out with a heavy kick, his foot connecting solidly with the rocky protrusion that had just tried to decapitate him.
BAM!!
Pain shot up his leg like fire, but the force disrupted the creature's balance mid-lunge, sending the attacker sliding across the vertical surface of the cliff.
Only then did Jiang Chen see it clearly.
In the harsh, unforgiving sunlight, the predator finally revealed itself to be a Rock Faced Ghost Spider.
