The Bone Splitting Lizard bit half of Xu Lingjun's body into its mouth, then let out a piercing wail.
Blood flowed down along its lips and teeth.
Fragments of two broken fangs spewed out from its wide-open mouth.
Xu Lingjun was a bit dazed; he didn't expect to actually break its big teeth.
Though his mind was stunned, his hands didn't stop.
His punches continued, and with full force, a Flame Killing Fist slammed into the side of the Bone Splitting Lizard's forehead.
It was as if a heavy hammer smashed hard against a concrete slab.
In the ear-piercing sound of impact, the Bone Splitting Lizard gave a miserable cry, its huge body was directly knocked sideways to the ground, as if struck hard on the head by a digger.
It was so dizzy that it instinctively wanted to spit out Xu Lingjun, but trying to shake him off left and right with its jaws proved futile.
It had bitten him.
It indeed broke his skin, and then broke two of its longest teeth, but the remaining teeth were stuck in his muscle and couldn't be pulled out.
How thick could this skin be?
For the first time, it encountered such thick flesh and skin, unbitable, unextractable!
At this moment, Xu Lingjun also came to his senses.
It seemed... not painful?
No, it hurt.
It hurt like getting a vaccination... as if pierced by a row of a dozen needles.
When he played doctor as a kid, he liked injecting others, but feared getting needles himself, a demon beast's injection was no exception!
"Let go!"
Having brushed past death, Xu Lingjun's ferocity surged in his heart.
Pushing Wang Qingya away with force, he grabbed tightly onto the upper jaw of that Bone Splitting Lizard with his other hand.
Condensing a black fist force within his fist, he smashed it hard onto the Bone Splitting Lizard's forehead.
Bam~!
Bam!!
"Let go of me!!!"
Seeing the Bone Splitting Lizard in such ferociousness, being repeatedly punched by him yet not letting go, frantically shaking left and right, it seemed to want to swallow him whole.
If swallowed, it would be over.
Life and death balanced on a thin line, Xu Lingjun's eyes turned red.
My mother didn't bear me to be your food.
Disregarding the severe harm the Flame Killing Fist did to the body, before when Xu Lingjun practiced his punches, although he felt no harm, he was afraid of hidden injuries, so he always held back his strength.
But now he was about to be eaten by a demon beast.
No longer bothered to hold back.
At full strength, his fist force roared in his meridians like an unstoppable torrent, even without qi gathering, at the Body Tempering Ninth Rank, his qi force had long spread throughout his entire body.
And now, in the life or death crisis, Xu Lingjun almost exploded with 300% potential.
Going all out.
The qi force gathered like a vast ocean, all vented through his fists onto the Bone Splitting Lizard's head and face.
The thumping sound of hammering was endless.
Yet the Bone Splitting Lizard was incredibly tough, even screaming in agony, struggling desperately, but still stubbornly clung to Xu Lingjun without letting go.
Man and beast fell into a deadlock.
Except during the stalemate.
Accompanied by a cracking sound of bone fracturing.
The large external bone armor on the Bone Splitting Lizard's head had been smashed with cracks.
The Bone Splitting Lizard struggled more fiercely, man and beast rolled on the ground.
Gradually... Xu Lingjun began to gain the upper hand!
Perhaps it was an illusion, but Xu Lingjun felt his strength growing, as if all the latent potential in his body was being drawn out in this life-or-death moment.
The qi force also, with each full-force venting, kept concentrating... kept merging...
If he weren't about to be eaten by this demon beast, he might have felt his transformation, as if... there was a major breakthrough between life and death...
But right now, to avoid being eaten.
He could only desperately smash at the Bone Splitting Lizard in front of him, bashing its head into dizziness, causing it to wail endlessly.
"Still won't let go!!!"
With a roar, he lifted the Bone Splitting Lizard's ton-heavy body high, then slammed it to the ground as if uprooting a willow tree.
Everyone felt the ground tremble slightly!
Xu Lingjun had already twisted his body to ride on the Bone Splitting Lizard's neck, pounding it with punch after punch.
Skull smashed, eyes burst, tendons hanging out, looking miserable beyond compare, even the tongue hung out limp and couldn't retract.
Even so, it still strained to breathe, fervently shaking its head, just refusing to let go.
At last...
Its last bit of strength was exhausted.
Its body collapsed helplessly to the ground, unable to move anymore, only its unclosed eyes hinted at the agony and torment it suffered before dying.
"Won't let go even in death, have guts..."
Only then did Xu Lingjun relaxed slightly, gasping heavily in lingering fear, shouting, "Damn, scared the hell out of me."
"Xiaojun!!!"
A tearful cry rose, Wang Qingya couldn't care that this demon beast was still connected to Xu Lingjun, she rushed over and hugged Xu Lingjun, sobbing uncontrollably, as she cried she angrily punched him a few times, tears and snot running, sobbing loudly, "Why didn't you dodge, why... what would I do if you died..."
She then bit down hard on Xu Lingjun's shoulder in frustration, then covered her mouth crying even more sorrowfully.
As she wept, she hammered him hard, switching hands after a while.
The aloof demeanor she had deliberately maintained at school completely shattered at this moment...
Watching Xu Lingjun protect her beneath him, watching him push her aside.
She felt as if the sky was falling.
She came to find him, wanting to take care of him, accompany him, so he wouldn't be alone.
She never thought to have him die saving her...
Bean-sized tears streamed down her cheeks, the previously charming beauty cried horribly, tears and snot smeared all over, completely disregarding her image.
"I'm fine, Sister Yaya, I'm fine."
Xu Lingjun also wanted to cry; for all that he lived two lives, this was honestly the first time he'd faced something so terrifying.
To be half-eaten alive by a hideous, fearsome demon beast... that constant sensation of being swallowed into its belly left him at a loss.
For the first time, scared to death.
It was only because Wang Qingya was crying so intently; otherwise, he feared he would've broken down in tears himself...
But even so, as he tightly embraced Wang Qingya now, his face was ghostly pale with fright, Wang Qingya could distinctly sense Xu Lingjun's frightful trembling body.
No matter who, escaping for the first time from the clutches of death, the reaction would not be good.
He was scared, yet still pushed me aside, facing this terrifying demon beast in my stead.
The fear in Wang Qingya's heart eased slightly, but she tightened her embrace on Xu Lingjun even more.
Tightly burying Xu Lingjun in her chest, wishing to provide him with a sense of security, telling him that she was alive, he was alive, and they both were still alive and well.
The siblings desperately sought to physically provide each other comfort and reassurance.
Neither noticed that at this time, both the field, and the Sun and Moon Bright Sect elders and Sect Leader Mingri on the other side of the virtual reality conversion device.
Everyone fell into deathly silence.
"Just now... what happened?"
After a long while, Guo Zheng's confused voice sounded as if waking from a dream.
"I... don't know."
Guo Xu also stood there, stunned, staring at the Bone Splitting Lizard lying motionless on the ground.
All the trainees looked at Xu Lingjun, then at the Bone Splitting Lizard on the ground, which had not a single movement left.
The burst eye sockets seemed to still have tear marks dripping down...
It had been beaten to death.
It seemed to have cried sorrowfully before dying, as if an innocent beast had been brutally killed by a person; though knowing it deserved its fate, witnessing its pitiful end, they couldn't help but feel... truly sorry for it.