Lin Yu rushed forward with the knife in his hand. Before he could get close, the monster began to mutter something, and a strange dark red aura surged around its body. In an instant, a thick cloud of black smoke gushed out and completely enveloped Lin Yu in the blink of an eye. Lin Yu was shocked and realized that the situation was not good. Almost at the same time the thought flashed through his mind, he threw the insect blade with a fierce momentum in his left hand. He was more wary of the monster's endless strange spells than engaging in close combat.
"Puff!" The sound of the insect blade piercing flesh came, and Lin Yu was sure that he had hit the target. However, the black fog in front of him showed no sign of dissipating. Obviously, although the monster had been stabbed, it was not fatally wounded.
The black fog surrounding Lin Yu was thick and strange. Fortunately, it didn't seem to have any direct lethality. Lin Yu tried to circulate the true yuan in his body and let the true yuan overflow outside his body, but he found that the pure true yuan had no repulsive reaction to the black fog. It seemed that this black fog was only used to block the line of sight and did not have any harmful functions to the human body. Otherwise, the true yuan force containing vitality would surely have sensed it.
But just blocking the line of sight had already put Lin Yu in a great dilemma. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind attacked from behind. Lin Yu reacted quickly and dodged to the side in a hurry, but the muscles on his back were still scratched with several deep wounds. Looking at the figure of the monster that struck and ran away, Lin Yu quickly chased after it for a few steps, but due to the obstruction of his sight, he soon lost the target. It was really difficult for Lin Yu to rely only on improvisation when he couldn't see.
"Chixiao Spiritual Eyes ? Initial Glimpse, activate!" Lin Yu shouted loudly. His eyes were instantly dyed crimson, and his eyesight was greatly improved. However, this black fog was purely designed to block the line of sight, and the effect was better than expected. Even though Lin Yu activated the pupil technique, his field of vision could only be expanded to a few steps. Nevertheless, this was already a huge improvement. Before that, he could almost only see a short distance in front of his nose.
After activating the pupil technique, Lin Yu regained some initiative. Although he couldn't counter-kill the monster for the time being, he could handle the passive defense with ease. Besides the fact that the true yuan force was consumed too quickly and it was a bit difficult for him to bear with his cultivation at the third level of the Clarity of Breath stage, he didn't suffer any other injuries.
In this way, a human and a monster were locked in a torturous stalemate. The monster had the initiative in the situation, while Lin Yu was more confident of victory. The reason was simple. Lin Yu was consuming his true yuan force, while the monster was bleeding. Lin Yu's broken right arm was an old injury, which only affected his body's strength, while the monster's severed right hand was a new injury, a real severe bleeding wound. If it were an ordinary person with a slightly weaker constitution, they would probably have fainted and died after having their right arm severed. But this monster had been entangled with Lin Yu for more than half an hour without treating its wound.
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Lin Yu thought to himself, "Even if the monster's self-healing ability is strong, with continuous running, attacking, and maintaining such a large-scale black fog, its physical strength should be almost exhausted. After all, it is a monster. No matter how strong its endurance is, can it surpass that of a cultivator? It won't be able to hold on for long."
Although he made such a judgment in his heart, Lin Yu did not relax his vigilance at all. A wounded beast was often more dangerous. This monster refused to retreat and fight to the death, obviously hating him deeply. Lin Yu was worried that it would act recklessly or even try to die together with him.
Lin Yu maintained the pupil technique, lowered his body, and protected his left hand in front of him, with a watertight defense. However, after waiting for a long time, his legs ached from squatting, but the monster did not launch an attack. Instead, the black fog around him began to gradually dissipate.
"Could it be that it saw the situation was not good and ran away?" As soon as this thought flashed through his mind, Lin Yu's body involuntarily relaxed. His spirit and physical strength were already extremely exhausted, and he was only supported by his willpower. Just as Lin Yu put down his left hand, his body relaxed, and the black fog was about to disperse completely, a strong gust of wind rushed towards him, and two scarlet eyes like ghost fire appeared in front of him. Then, a cold blade stabbed into Lin Yu's chest and abdomen and stirred fiercely.
"Ah..." At the moment of being sneak attacked by the monster, Lin Yu's just-dissipated spirit and energy instantly condensed to the peak. The strong true yuan force overflowed like a volcanic eruption and raged wildly with his dantian as the center. Stimulated by his emotions, the power of the "Iron Evil Magnetic Devouring Hand" in Lin Yu's body, which was silver-white, surged like a high-voltage current and forced the monster in front of him to step back again and again.
Perhaps the monster had the same thought as Lin Yu, both worrying that the other would fight desperately. After the violent true yuan force subsided, the silver-white light of the iron evil also gradually dissipated. Lin Yu spat out crimson blood from his mouth and nose and slowly bent over. Obviously, the monster's strike was both fierce and accurate.
Lin Yu gasped for breath and looked down at the insect blade inserted in his chest and abdomen. He smiled bitterly and thought, "It really holds a grudge! I used this knife to cut off your right arm, and you're using it to take my life?"
At this time, the black fog that had already dissipated around him gathered again and became thicker. The situation was very clear. As long as the monster successfully launched a sneak attack one more time, Lin Yu would surely die. The monster had remained inactive before, just to paralyze Lin Yu. It even took the risk of lurking, waiting for the black fog to dissipate and for Lin Yu to relax his vigilance. It had to be said that although this plan was simple and risky, combined with the monster's boldness, carefulness, and super endurance, it had become a fatal move that could determine the outcome of life and death in an instant.
