"Leader, Wang Xu is only Tier Four, but the Desert Sand Insect Beast is a Tier Five beast. Even for us, it’s not easy to take it down alone," said Red Eye.
"That’s right. It takes both of us to barely manage to kill a Desert Sand Insect Beast. Is it too dangerous for him to go alone?" Black Whip Blue Sword spoke up.
Jin Tun waved his hand, looking at Wang Xu’s back, "Don’t underestimate him. Being able to cultivate the ’Basic Flesh Body’ to the Fourth Layer at Tier Four is already incredible. Defeating a Tier Five Desert Sand Insect Beast is difficult, but not impossible."
Ghost Calculator nodded in agreement, "Once the ’Basic Flesh Body’ reaches the Fourth Layer, one’s physical body undergoes a tremendous transformation. Wang Xu has confidence in challenging the Desert Sand Insect Beast alone. He must have his methods. We just need to watch."
The group nodded thoughtfully, their eyes focused on Wang Xu gradually approaching the Desert Sand Insect Beast in the distance.
"Ugh!" When Wang Xu was twenty meters away from the Desert Sand Insect Beast, it had already opened its eyes, noticing the approaching human, and let out a low, muffled growl.
The Desert Sand Insect Beast began to move over the sand, its body like a swimming fish swiftly approaching Wang Xu.
"Sss!" The Desert Sand Insect Beast opened its mouth, revealing layers of circular throats within its grotesque and terrifying maw, with sharp fangs growing from within. A pale yellow acid sprayed out. Wang Xu’s figure flickered, and the pale yellow acid landed on the sand, sizzling.
Wang Xu advanced, swinging the Blood Bone Giant Saber in his hand, slashing at the Desert Sand Insect Beast!
Hundred Blades Thunder Strike!
The Desert Sand Insect Beast, being a Tier Five beast, naturally had strong evasion abilities. Without an all-encompassing attack, its fish-like body moved slightly, effortlessly dodging Wang Xu’s strike.
While evading, the Desert Sand Insect Beast opened its huge, terrifying mouth again, biting towards Wang Xu with lightning speed!
Wang Xu’s heart suddenly leapt, his mind instantly cooling down. His body twisted, his entire being seemingly wringing like a towel, just managing to avoid the Desert Sand Insect Beast’s strike.
"Great!" The people watching from afar couldn’t help but cheer at this scene.
Wang Xu’s realm might not be enough, but he was quick-witted under pressure, relying on the advantage of the Fourth Layer of ’Basic Flesh Body’ to evade, which was indeed remarkable.
"It’s not good. Wang Xu may have dodged this strike, but the next one will be hard to evade. Red Eye, be prepared, step in if necessary," Jin Tun said seriously.
Although Wang Xu was able to fight the Desert Sand Insect Beast evenly, it didn’t mean he could kill it.
The Desert Sand Insect Beast burrowed into the sand, moving within it like a fish in water, its massive body swimming through the sand at high speed.
The Desert Sand Insect Beast leaped out of the sand. Wang Xu raised the Blood Bone Giant Saber, blocking the beast’s strike, but its insect leg brushed against his shoulder, revealing the armor underneath.
With another powerful leap, the Desert Sand Insect Beast held a natural advantage in the sand. Wang Xu seemed trapped in the center of a pool, helplessly watching as the Desert Sand Insect Beast attacked him again and burrowed back into the sand.
"Leader, Wang Xu is in bad shape. I’m going to support him immediately!" Red Eye proposed as Wang Xu was forced into defense, looking battered.
Jin Tun was about to agree, seeing that Wang Xu indeed had no power to fight back, but Ghost Calculator suddenly spoke up, "No rush. Wang Xu is a cautious person. Haven’t you noticed, even though Wang Xu is at a disadvantage, he’s not in any life-threatening danger? If I’m not mistaken, Wang Xu is using the Desert Sand Insect Beast to train his body technique."
Training body technique?
Is there such a way to train body technique?
At this moment, Wang Xu was indeed using the Desert Sand Insect Beast to test his body technique. Entangled by the Desert Sand Insect Beast, facing attacks coming at any moment, under the pressure of not being hit, Wang Xu gradually became excited, his nerves taut.
Stepping back, a splash of pale yellow acid passed by.
Turning sideways, the massive terrifying insect mouth lunged, brushing past him.
Stepping forward, the Blood Bone Giant Saber in his hand cleaved down, the blade tearing into the Desert Sand Insect Beast’s massive mouth, causing it to howl in pain.
Wang Xu had taken a risk, putting himself in danger, to understand the body technique. Now, Wang Xu could clearly feel that he was not far from reaching Spirit Level body technique, having grasped the threshold.
"Again!" Wang Xu was overjoyed.
His figure flickered continuously, Wang Xu continued to dodge all sorts of attacks from the Desert Sand Insect Beast. Initially, the Desert Sand Insect Beast occasionally landed a hit or two, but gradually, all its attacks missed. No matter from which angle it attacked, Wang Xu evaded as if he had foreseen it, narrowly dodging by just a few centimeters.
"Ugh!" The Desert Sand Insect Beast was enraged, letting out a long howl to the sky, with a strange sound emanating from its throat.
"Damn it!" Jin Tun’s face changed, "This Desert Sand Insect Beast is summoning its companions, hurry, get Wang Xu back!"
But before his words fell, Wang Xu was already completely surrounded by several Desert Sand Insect Beasts bursting out from the ground!
"Damn it!" Jin Tun’s face was grim, "There is actually an Insect Nest of Desert Sand Insect Beasts underground, this time we’ve stirred up big trouble."
Generally speaking, even if a Desert Sand Insect Beast calls for companions, it takes some time for them to arrive, but this time they all rushed out from the sand, clearly indicating an Insect Nest exists beneath the sand surface.
An Insect Nest signifies that dozens or even hundreds of Desert Sand Insect Beasts coexist simultaneously, such a terrifying fighting power is enough to overwhelm their Red Flame Battle Group!
"Retreat!" Jin Tun immediately ordered.
"Chief, but Wang Xu..." Red Axe said, distressed.
Jin Tun’s face was firm, eyes blazing: "When a nest goes all out, it’s not something we can withstand. Even if we go to rescue him, we’ll all perish. I’m the leader, I can’t endanger the whole group for one person, move!"
"Pray, hope that Brother Wang Xu can return safely..." Jin Tun thought to himself.
At the same time, Wang Xu immersed himself in the insight of his Body Technique, as if his figure was performing a beautiful dance, shifting left and right, appearing and disappearing, as dozens of Desert Sand Insect Beasts attacked him simultaneously. The overwhelming assault completely engulfed him, yet not a single attack landed on Wang Xu.
Wang Xu’s Body Technique had broken through.
Insight is like opening a door. Sometimes you can’t see where the door is; other times, it suddenly becomes clear, and you open that door effortlessly.
This was the case for Wang Xu. He touched the threshold of the Spirit Level Body Technique and put himself in a Void Spirit State during the assault from a dozen Desert Sand Insect Beasts, suddenly comprehending "Spirit."
What is Spirit? Ethereal and traceless, comes and goes without a shadow, born of nature, moving with nature.
Unconstrained by form. Unrestricted by rules, dance as you wish!
"Haha..." Wang Xu laughed heartily, "So that’s how it is, so that’s how it is!"
With a wave of his hand, the Blood Bone Giant Saber swung freely. Facing the densely packed Desert Sand Insect Beasts, Wang Xu advanced instead of retreating, moving among the Desert Sand Insect Beasts with steps like a dragonfly touching water, stopping only to make each swing of the Blood Bone Giant Saber.
"Splat!" The speed of the Desert Sand Insect Beasts’ Body Technique could no longer keep up with Wang Xu’s speed, purely being toyed with like clowns. With a light slash, a Desert Sand Insect Beast’s head was sent flying.
"Splat!" "Splat!" "Splat!"...
One by one, the Desert Sand Insect Beasts were split open, their blood soaking into the sand. More Desert Sand Insect Beasts arrived from underground, yet faced the same fate.
In just a moment, the area was a river of blood, with dozens of Desert Sand Insect Beasts lying dead across the land. Disgusting entrails and blood mixed together, the air thick with the stench of blood.
When Wang Xu returned from his Void Spirit State, looking at the corpses strewn across the ground, his whole body was drenched with blood, yet his eyes showed undisguisable excitement.
The remaining Desert Sand Insect Beasts shuddered and retreated, the mass of corpses was enough to make the remaining Desert Sand Insect Beasts afraid to linger, burrowing into the sand and vanishing.
"Devour them!" Wang Xu didn’t hesitate, sitting down cross-legged, as a Mysterious Flame flew into the air, immediately covering the entire area of Desert Sand Insect Beast corpses.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh ~
When the Mysterious Flame returned to Wang Xu’s body, a huge surge of energy instantly filled Wang Xu entirely!
Unhindered, the Tier Four Late Stage directly broke through to the Tier Four Peak.
This energy only consumed a part, as the Tier Four Peak continued to charge toward Tier Five.
Every cell in his body was devouring energy; the energy required to break through to Tier Five was enormous. After cell energy absorption, they would undergo transformation, and the flesh body would become stronger once again.
After a while, a palpitating aura suddenly spread across the desert!
"It’s done, Tier Five!" Wang Xu exhaled a long breath.
The surging energy within his body was still roaring, yet it suddenly rushed toward the "core," being thoroughly absorbed by it.
The energy from dozens of Tier Five Insect Beasts, Wang Xu spent only half, the remaining half was enough to take him from the Early Stage of Tier Five to the Middle Stage of Tier Five, yet unexpectedly the "core" intervened and absorbed all the remaining energy.