A terrifying counter-shock force far exceeding his all-out strike surged through the sword hilt like a tidal wave!
Lin Feng felt as if struck by lightning!
Pfft!
His tiger's mouth instantly split open, blood spraying wildly. That prized refined iron longsword nearly flew from his grip, emitting an overwhelmed wail.
The brutal reflection force not only shattered his protective Primeval Essence but traveled up his right arm straight toward his heart meridian.
"Ugh!"
Lin Feng grunted, forcibly swallowing the blood rising to his throat. The terrifying force sent him staggering back over ten steps, each footfall leaving deep imprints in solid rock before he barely stabilized.
His right arm trembled uncontrollably, eyes filled with undisguised horror.
In that moment, he whipped his head toward Lin Xue and the others in the rear.
Seeing the gloating mockery in their eyes, he finally understood why they hadn't warned him, why they'd so readily yielded position.
He'd been screwed by an "information gap"!
This was no dying prey—it was a hedgehog covered in damage-reflecting poison spines!
But he had no time for anger.
Though Lin Feng's full-force strike was perfectly reflected, it had also completely exhausted the Blood Jade Python's last shred of patience, driving it into the absolute frenzy of a dying creature's final burst.
HISSSS—!!!
The dying beast released a piercing shriek capable of rupturing ordinary eardrums.
Its massive head reared up, jaws gaping wide, abdomen contracting violently.
The next second.
SPLAAASH—!
A sky full of reeking venom sprayed in all directions like a sudden torrential downpour!
This venom was far more concentrated than before.
Its extreme corrosiveness made even the hard blue-steel rock smoke and pit the instant it landed.
"AHHH!! My face!"
"Help me!"
Several ordinary Gu Masters who couldn't dodge in time were splashed. Skin and flesh dissolved instantly, wounds deep to the bone.
They screamed and rolled frantically on the ground.
The barely maintained formation completely shattered under this wide-area acid rain cleansing, everyone scattering to survive.
After spraying this lethal rain, the Blood Jade Python had clearly exhausted its last strength.
To escape the imminent concentrated fire, its massive body instinctively thrashed wildly through the pond and muddy shallows.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Its enormous tail whipped the water, mud splattering everywhere.
Water mist mixed with churned black mud instantly blanketed the low-lying canyon floor.
A double smokescreen.
This was a strange beast's survival instinct.
Yet amid this chaos and panic, Lin Mu—who had been cowering at the formation's edge, seemingly paralyzed with fear—now had eyes bright as winter stars.
"This is exactly what I was waiting for—this sky full of mud and dust!"
Without hesitation, Lin Mu covered his mouth and nose with one hand while the other, hidden in his wide sleeve, fiercely activated the Primeval Essence he'd had ready.
Dust Escape Gu—activate!
Poof!
An extremely subtle grayish-brown dust aura rippled silently from Lin Mu's body.
His micro-control reached perfection. He didn't let the Dust Escape Gu's particles burst out conspicuously.
Instead, he exquisitely controlled his Primeval Essence output, letting the grayish-brown dust blend seamlessly into the water mist and mud the Blood Jade Python had churned up.
Indistinguishable from real, absolutely seamless.
The canyon floor, already obscured by miasma and water mist, had its visibility compressed to the extreme.
With the Dust Escape Gu's field enhancement, it instantly plunged into absolute chaos where one couldn't see their own hand!
Everyone became effectively blind.
"Damn it! I can't see!"
"Don't let it escape! It's finished!"
Watching those fate-changing massive points about to slip away, everyone completely lost their composure as smoke and dust blocked all vision.
Ignoring their wounds and the damage-reflecting tyrant body, they blindly hurled every killing technique they had—iron leaves, wind blades, fireballs—toward the pond's center based on memory of where the Python King had thrashed.
For a moment, the muddy pond's center flashed chaotically with light, explosions blending together.
No one knew what they were hitting.
"Lin Mu! Where are your eyes! Quick, use the Eagle Eye Gu to report its position! Hurry!"
In the chaotic smoke, Lin Feng clutched his injured right arm, roaring frantically, voice filled with extreme agitation.
"Young Master! I can't!"
From the nearby mist came Lin Mu's shrill response, tinged with "pain" and "despair." He pressed both hands over his eyes, pretending to roll in agony.
"The smoke is mixed with poison miasma and mud! I can't open my eyes! I can't see anything!"
A perfect deflection of blame.
In reality, Lin Mu's mouth curved into an extremely cold smile behind those hands covering his eyes.
In his world, he didn't need eyes at all.
Deep within his aperture, the Blood Scent Gu jumped excitedly. The Blood Jade Python's thrashing had completely torn open the wound at its vital point.
On Lin Mu's sensory radar, it was a massive red blood marker more dazzling than the sun!
Lin Mu rose in the shadows and peered through the mist, his gaze locking onto the massive creature in the pond's center with perfect precision.
The time had come.
A trace of extreme coldness flashed in his eyes as he finally issued the long-planned death order to that figure who had remained hidden at the formation's edge like a wooden post, rigidly awaiting commands.
"Lin Wuxie, it's time to move."
An extremely faint voice transmission pierced through the cacophonous explosions and reached Lin Wuxie's ears.
At the smoke's densest edge.
Upon receiving the signal, Lin Wuxie's eyes—previously appearing innocent and simple—instantly filled with blood, transforming into a terrifying crimson!
ROAR!
He seemed to completely lose human rationality in an instant.
No Gu light effects activated on his body—only the violent blood qi belonging to a food cauldron, suppressed to the extreme, now burning wildly.
He used no fancy martial techniques, nor did he heed the blindly flying stray attacks or remaining poison rain around him.
He pushed off hard with both legs, instantly shattering the solid rock beneath.
Like a true beast freed from all chains and plunged into absolute frenzy, Lin Wuxie transformed into a black afterimage.
He spread his arms like iron pincers, carrying a primitive, brutal beauty of power.
Braving the sky full of mud and dust, he leaped.
In the chaotic center where everyone was effectively blind, relying on near-bestial instinct and Lin Mu's coordinates, he lunged directly at the massive beast's most vulnerable vital point wound!
The killing formation silently closed in the blind spot.