Fat Lin's rock suddenly emerged from the river and floated higher and higher, as if answering Liu Xing's unspoken questions. Water cascaded from the top of the inverted pyramid, creating a temporary waterfall. Soon after, the inverted pyramid floated several meters above the surface of the water. Then it began to segment with multiple lines appearing as if a long sword had slashed it horizontally. Each segment started rotating clockwise and made the inverted pyramid resembling a giant spinning top. However, one segment remained still and opened, revealing a giant yellow eye larger than Liu Xing himself.

The yellow eye observed Liu Xing silently, then narrowed. Suddenly, it transformed into a grotesque yellow mouth, filled with hundreds of black tongues, thousands of razor-sharp teeth, and the roof of its mouth pulsed with thousands of tiny yellow eyes. Each of these eyes seemed to glare at Liu Xing with pure hatred. Seeing the giant inverted pyramid with its bizarre mouth and eyes, Liu Xing's heart started to beat faster. Fat Lin's rock was a spirit beast! He tried to sense the spirit beast's qi, attempting to gauge its power. But when he sensed nothing, he felt his heart pound in his chest. He couldn't feel any qi at all! It was as if the spirit beast possessed no qi, which was impossible.

The inverted pyramid began to scream. The sound was horrifying, like the wails of thousands of tortured children, and a shockwave spread outwards in every direction. Then, a yellow ball of light formed in front of its mouth.

Seeing this, Liu Xing activated his Lightning Cloak and jumped. A yellow beam exploded where Liu Xing had stood, obliterating the ground. He landed on top of a large boulder several meters away and observed the newly created hole. It was deep and wide, and it glowed with a red hue, as if the ground had melted into lava. Seeing this, Liu Xing sighs in relief. He concluded that the spirit beast was powerful, but not overwhelmingly so. It confirmed that the spirit beast's cultivation was not so high that he couldn't sense its qi. More likely, it possessed a mechanism to conceal its qi.

Liu Xing licked his lips. It was obvious that the spirit beast was angry because he had taken the Ethereal Pearl. To think that something called Fat Lin's rock would turn out to be a spirit beast. In hindsight, it had been quite obvious.

Liu Xing had two options. Fight or flee. The easiest choice would have been to flee. After all, Liu Xing already possessed the Ethereal Pearl. But it wasn't wise. The spirit beast would follow him and rampage, endangering Second Gray Cloud City. Moreover, this slumbering spirit beast had awakened because of him, so he needed to take responsibility and put it to sleep again.

Liu Xing began to smile, his heart racing. He wasn't a fighting junkie, but he wanted to test his current strength, especially with his new shield and Thunderstrike Gauntlets.

"All right," Liu Xing nodded. His heart started beating faster and faster. "Let's dance!"

With his Lightning Cloak active, Liu Xing kicked the boulder as hard as possible, making it explode into smithereens. He launched himself like lightning from a dark cloud, his right hand gleaming with a lightning blade.

In the air, Liu Xing extended the blade and slashed vertically, trying to split the spinning inverted pyramid in two. When his blade was only meters from touching it, it suddenly bent. Instead of a straight blade that would cut the spirit beast, it curved around it, as if the lightning blade refused to touch it.

The spinning pyramid created a yellow ball of energy in front of its mouth the size of a barrel. Thousands of black tongues held it like tiny baby hands cradling a burning sun. Then, with a mighty push, the yellow ball flew like an arrow toward Liu Xing.

Liu Xing retracted his lightning blade and swung it at the ball, splitting it in two. Knowing that the ball would explode, he spun his body, summoned his shield, and jumped as hard as he could. He flew straight up like a rocket just as the ball exploded. The explosion created a shock wave that churned the river, and yellow light made the bending trees and toppling boulders glow.

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Gravity pulled Liu Xing downward, and seeing the force of that attack, he suddenly remembered Xia Hongyi and Xia Shizi. He didn't know their intentions, but Liu Xing didn't want them to die as collateral damage.

His eyes scanned the area, and he finally saw Xia Shizi running frantically, eyes wide, carrying Xia Hongyi, whose eyes were open so wide they looked like they might pop. They must have been surprised, and Liu Xing was thankful they hadn't been killed in the attack.

The inverted, spinning spirit beast flew toward him like a spaceship, and Liu Xing licked his lips. "Since my lightning blade isn't working on you, how about this?"

Liu Xing pointed his gun toward the spirit beast. He infused the bullets with Exploding Fist and fired six rounds rapidly. The bullets flew so fast they appeared to travel as one.

Seeing the bullets, the spirit beast roared like thousands of hungry pigs and opened its grotesque mouth. Thousands of black tongues stretched out like tree branches, creating a large shield to defend itself.

As the six bullets struck the newly created shield, six simultaneous explosions ripped six holes in the barrier. It screamed again, the yellow eyes in the roof of its mouth glaring at him with hatred.

Liu Xing summoned his shield and launched himself. He flew through the holes he had created and appeared in front of its mouth. From this close range, Liu Xing realized that the mouth was huge, like the entrance to a wide cave. He aimed his gun at the mouth and shot six bullets infused with Exploding Bullets. Before the bullets struck, he jumped into the air, looking down, and saw the mouth explode. Yellow blood and fragments of black tongues and yellow eyes flew everywhere, splashing onto the river surface and painting the nearby boulders and trees yellow.

Ignoring the wailing spirit beast, Liu Xing shot six more times, this time infusing the bullets with normal Lightning Palm. He aimed for the section on top of the spirit beast, the area rumored to be an arena. When his six bullets were only meters from the spirit beast, Liu Xing sharpened his eyes to see what would happen. He saw his bullets suddenly travel along the surface of the spirit beast before shooting out the back, as if a spatial barrier caused every attack to bend around it.

Seeing this, Liu Xing understood that its defense mechanism was quite strong. He believed that only attacks of immense power could pierce it, but this spirit beast was not invincible. After all, while its body was protected, its mouth, filled with tongues and eyes, was not. He suspected it hadn't protected its mouth because it served as its primary weapon.

"If that's all the tricks it has, then the winner of this fight is already decided," Liu Xing smiled ferociously.

The spirit beast, seeing Liu Xing smile, screamed again, but he detected a hint of fear in its thousand eyes.

He kicked off his shield and moved like lightning.

***

Xia Hongyi stood atop the highest branch of a tree, trying to watch the fight unfold. His uncle stood beside him, face as aloof as ever, yet even he could see the fear in his uncle's eyes on this rare occasion.

He looked into the distance, where a giant spinning top wailed and screamed, shooting condensed light from its mouth, sweeping away everything in its path. Trees, ground, river—everything was being destroyed, flying, and churning like debris in a deadly hurricane.

Seeing this, Xia Hongyi felt a profound fear grip his heart. His heart beat so fast he felt his chest would explode, and giant beads of sweat drenched his back, making him feel sick, as if he had a fever. Even his teeth chattered, a physical manifestation of the terror he felt.

Around the giant spinning top, blue lightning danced, as if creating a lightning prison. The explosions continued without pause, a constant barrage like the unending rumble of angry thunder. From afar, it looked like a hurricane battling a storm of lightning. The spinning top tried to ram itself into the lightning, shooting condensed light, even using its branch-like appendages from its mouth to create a net and ensnare its opponent. But everything was ignored by the cultivator, Liu Xing. He moved so fast that the condensed light didn't even graze his afterimage, and his long lightning blade slashed through the branch-like appendages as if they were tofu.

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