Three ten-thousand-year Lava Earth Dragons, resembling gigantic pangolins, their bodies encased in thick lava plate armor, stood shoulder to shoulder.
They did not charge immediately. Instead, they suddenly raised their massive forelimbs, which were covered in a metallic keratin layer, and slammed them viciously into the ground!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three shockwaves visible to the naked eye—mixed with lava and violently surging soul power—skimmed along the ground like three burning razors. They tore through the solid rock strata, carving deep trenches as they slammed fiercely into the small-scale yet still terrifyingly hot Flame Sandstorm that continued to be automatically maintained around Lin Xia and Larvitar due to their uninterrupted feeding!
Screee—!
A piercing sound of scorching rang out.
The moment the shockwaves collided with the force field, their leading edges vaporized instantly under the extreme heat, like ice and snow melting away!
However, the immense kinetic force and soul power contained within the shockwaves did not vanish completely. Before being annihilated, their middle and rear sections slammed violently into the edge of the sandstorm, triggering intense energy ripples!
The golden light of the sandstorm flickered violently, flashing and dimming, its range forcibly compressed by several meters!
Lin Xia's skull, wreathed in golden flames, turned slightly, the hollow eye sockets "looking" toward the direction from which the shockwaves had come.
Yet his crimson-gold arm bones, sheathed in molten muscle, remained firmly pressed against the mineral vein, greedily drawing in power. He showed no intention of counterattacking, as though he had merely been brushed by a mosquito.
Larvitar did not even lift its head. Its small claws scraped at the ore as its molten fangs gnawed with loud crunching sounds.
The probing attack was over, the true killing move followed immediately!
Two even more massive beasts, shaped like ancient tyrannosaurs—the Ten-Thousand-Year Lava Tyrant Dragons!
Several meters tall at the shoulder, their lava armor bristled with jagged bone spurs. Each step they took cracked the earth beneath them.
The instant the shockwaves destabilized the force field, they moved!
No roars only thunderous, muffled footsteps shaking the ground!
The two Lava Tyrant Dragons transformed into massive dark-red streaks of light. Ignoring the unstable edge of the flame force field ahead, they charged with absolute resolve, their entire bodies wrapped in blazing golden soul power flames!
Like two colossal shells fired straight out of a volcano, they slammed brutally into the core area where Lin Xia and Larvitar were located!
Screee—BOOOOM!!!!
This collision was no longer silent annihilation, but a heaven-shaking explosion!
The ten-thousand-year lava armor covering the Lava Tyrant Dragons erupted with dazzling light the instant it touched the force field infused with the primordial flames of the Sun Essence!
Under the ultra-high temperature, the armor let out a groan of structural collapse, in large stretches softening, melting, and peeling away!
Like red-hot iron plunged into icy water, scorching steam and golden energy turbulence billowed forth, blotting out the sky!
Their flesh, upon contact with the flame force field, was cut and vaporized instantly, as if slashed simultaneously by billions of red-hot micro-blades! A thick stench of burning flesh and sulfur filled the entire mine, nauseating beyond belief!
Yet the will of ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, strengthened by the subterranean cry, was unimaginably tenacious!
Their massive skeletons shimmered with dark-red soul power within the flames, forcibly resisting the power of annihilation!
Relying on the terrifying inertia granted by their colossal bodies and a charge fueled by the burning of life and soul power, they forcibly broke through the edge of the Flame Sandstorm!
Like two burning mountains collapsing, their enormous skeletal frames, most of their flesh already incinerated during the charge—along with remnants of lava armor and boiling golden soul power, smashed heavily into Lin Xia and Larvitar!
BOOM!!!
The earth shook violently! The entire mine seemed on the verge of collapse!
Lin Xia's molten-covered crimson-gold skeleton was struck head-on by the massive skull of one Lava Tyrant Dragon!
The overwhelming impact slammed him down against the mineral vein with a deep, thunderous crash. His crimson-gold bones scraped violently against the ore flowing with liquid golden light, sparks flying everywhere!
One of Lin Xia's arm bones was even twisted out of shape by the collision!
Larvitar, meanwhile, was struck by the massive claw of the other Lava Tyrant Dragon!
Its small molten body was flung into the air like it had been hit by a high-speed train, then smashed brutally into the side wall of the cave!
With a deafening boom, the solid rock wall caved inward, forming a deep crater as rubble rained down!
The glow of Larvitar's lava armor dimmed instantly, fine cracks appearing across multiple areas!
The feeding was interrupted!
That continuous, heart-pounding crunching sound came to an abrupt halt.
The mine fell into a strange, deathly silence. Only the sizzling of melting rock, the crackling of ten-thousand-year Soul Beast skeletons being scorched by extreme heat, and the ever-closer subterranean cry, filled with urgency and savage fury—echoed through the depths.
Lou Gao, watching from within the rock fissure, felt his courage shatter. His fingernails dug deeply into the scorching stone.
It was over!
Under such a terrifying impact, even the skeleton had been smashed apart!
However, the next scene sent an icy chill straight through Lou Gao's bones and through the hearts of the ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts that had launched the charge!
Lin Xia, pinned against the mineral vein beneath the massive skeleton, suddenly erupted with an even more dazzling crimson-gold radiance from his twisted and deformed arm bone!
The molten, lava-like substance that had been partially scattered by the collision flowed back as if alive, instantly surging and condensing once more!
Amid the crimson-gold light, the twisted arm bone emitted a faint crack and in the blink of an eye, it snapped back into place, fully restored!
At the same time, Larvitar—embedded in the rock wall after being sent flying—shuddered violently with its small molten skeleton!
Its crimson-gold flaming eyes flared to life!
The molten substance covering its body boiled like magma, instantly "flowing" out of the rock wall to rewrap and repair its small skeleton.
The cracks in its armor rapidly closed under the circulation of golden light, becoming even more solid and thicker than before!
It broke free from the rock wall and landed steadily on the ground.
No anger.
No counterattack.
Only… the desire to feed!
Lin Xia's eye sockets, burning with golden flames, coldly swept over the enormous Lava Tyrant Dragon skeleton pressing down on him.
Under the constant scorching of the Sun Essence force field, that skeleton was letting out its final wail, its soul power glow rapidly dimming.
Lin Xia's crimson-gold arm bone suddenly jerked!
Crack!
A teeth-gritting sound of shattering bone rang out!
The massive skull of the Ten-Thousand-Year Lava Tyrant Dragon—hard beyond belief and brimming with immense soul power—was forcibly pried apart and crushed by Lin Xia's seemingly slender crimson-gold arm bone!
Lin Xia paid no attention to the gigantic bone fragments scattered across his body.
He had only one target, the mineral vein!
That Sun Essence, flowing with liquid golden light and radiating irresistible, boundless energy!
Lin Xia bent down once more. His crimson-gold finger bones plunged deep into the ore as he greedily drew in even more of the primordial power!
The molten muscle that had been blasted apart rapidly re-covered and reinforced his bones.
Larvitar was the same.
It did not even spare a glance for the Lava Tyrant Dragon skeleton that had sent it flying. Its small figure turned into a streak of crimson-gold light and instantly pounced back onto the mineral vein!
Its molten fangs began gnawing madly once more—crack, crack—the sound faster and louder than before!
As if trying to make up for the time it had lost!
Under the golden glow, the runes flowing across its lava armor grew brighter and more complex, faintly forming some kind of profound, mysterious pattern.
At this sight, the subterranean cry suddenly surged to a shrill, piercing peak!
The fury contained within that sound was enough to tear space itself apart!
"ROOOAAARRR—!!!"
At the cave entrance, the remaining seven or eight ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts—Lava Giant Lizard Kings, Lava Rhinoceros Beasts, and even more grotesque volcanic overlords, had their eyes completely consumed by despairing madness and absolute control!
They no longer held anything back. Like puppets manipulated by invisible strings, they let out earth-shaking roars, ignited golden soul flames by burning their very life essence, and transformed into streaks of death-bound meteors, charging toward that land of destruction without hesitation!
This time, it was a suicidal all-out assault!
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