Chapter 612 - 386: Absurdity, a Group in Disarray

Chapter 612: Chapter 386: Absurdity, a Group in Disarray

Liu Jialin and her team received a mission from their superiors and immediately rushed to the destination.

After discovering the Mutant Beast’s tracks, they never imagined that someone would be out here in the wilderness, deep in the night, locked in a fierce, heated battle with such a ferocious creature.

"Captain, should we go help?" the rookie Investigator, Xiaowang, asked Liu Jialin in a low voice.

Liu Jialin shook her head. "We can’t interfere in a battle of this caliber. If we tried to force our way in, we’d likely do more harm than good and just get in the way."

"So we’re just going to stand here and watch?" Xiaowang asked.

"That’s right. For now, all we can do is watch. We have to wait for reinforcements from the Bureau to arrive before we can move in to help that man deal with the Mutant Beast," Liu Jialin said.

The five Investigators then concealed themselves in the dense grass, watching nervously as the man and beast clashed in the distance.

...

Lin Li dodged the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast’s pounce. Pushing off with his right foot, he leaped into the air. He swung his Spiritual Longsword—glowing with a faint golden Spiritual Light—and brought it crashing down on the beast’s back before it could evade.

CLANG...

As the Spiritual Longsword, alight with Spiritual Light, landed on the purple-scaled back of the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast, it first let out a piercing metallic screech, followed by the sharp crackle of splintering scales.

Lin Li’s strike was incredibly powerful. It directly shattered a long row of purple scales on the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast’s back, leaving a massive, gory wound.

ROAR...

The injured Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast let out a pained roar. A faint golden Spiritual Light flickered within its maw as an orange-red glow appeared, and then a scorching pillar of fire erupted forth.

WHOOSH...

The radiant pillar of fire was a meter in diameter. Since he was too close to dodge, Lin Li decisively activated his Elementalization.

POP.

Struck by the pillar of fire, his Elemental Body instantly burst apart. Bizarre clumps of flame scattered across the ground, writhing as they tried to fuse back together.

At that moment, the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast charged forward, using its claws to stamp out the bizarre clumps of flame.

THUMP THUMP THUMP...

With each strike of its massive claws, a clump of flame was extinguished, leaving a pit a dozen-or-so centimeters deep in the grassy earth.

"Body Elementalization?"

’The man fighting the Mutant Beast has actually awakened such a rare ability!!!’

’No, wait, the Superpower he was using before was Wind Blade... H-he’s awakened two Superpowers?!!!’

Hidden in the grass, Liu Jialin and her team all wore looks of utter shock as they witnessed Lin Li’s body undergo Elementalization.

"Captain, that Mutant Beast is trying to extinguish all the scattered pieces of his Flame Body! We..."

Seeing what the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast was doing, the rookie Investigator Xiaowang sounded anxious. But before he could finish, the calm and collected Liu Jialin cut him off.

"Calm down. A Cultivator who has awakened an Elemental Incarnation Body isn’t so easily killed..."

No sooner had Liu Jialin spoken than the situation in the distance shifted, proving her right.

The Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast was rapidly swinging its claws, striking at the bizarre clumps of flame that were writhing on the ground and trying to merge.

Before long, it had stamped out half of the flames.

Lin Li realized that with the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast’s relentless assault, trying to fuse the scattered flames to conserve energy for his recovery was no longer feasible. He immediately abandoned the attempt.

All the writhing clumps of flame on the ground went still. Then, the Spiritual Energy waves from a single clump, slightly farther from the Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast, began to fluctuate violently.

FWOOM.

The clump of flame rapidly expanded. In the blink of an eye, it swelled into a humanoid shape. The fire then dissipated, revealing Lin Li, standing in the same spot, completely unharmed.

The moment Lin Li returned to his human form, the remaining bizarre clumps of flame scattered about lost their Spiritual Energy fluctuations and winked out of existence.

The Red-Horned Purple-Scaled Lizard Beast watched its enemy stand before it, completely unharmed, and felt a pang of frustration at its failed tactic.

However, while it hadn’t succeeded in killing its enemy by stamping out all the flames, its efforts had not been entirely fruitless.

By deactivating his Elemental Body and reverting to his human form from just a single clump of flame, Lin Li had consumed a massive amount of Spiritual Energy.

Mutant Beasts are naturally born with stronger physiques and more abundant Spiritual Energy than humans. Therefore, when facing a Mutant Beast of an equivalent level in a one-on-one fight, only a human Cultivator with truly exceptional talent could hope to overpower it.

Lin Li had eaten several Magical Little Fruits, which had greatly enhanced all of his abilities, but he was still a far cry from possessing such exceptional talent.

With his current combat prowess, Lin Li could have defeated an ordinary Tier Two Peak Mutant Beast with relative ease.

But this Mutant Beast before him, which had arrived on Blue Star through a spatial rift, was clearly no ordinary Tier Two Peak creature.

It had likely reached Tier Two Peak many years ago and was not far from breaking through to Tier Three.