Chapter 182: Chapter 170: Familiar Feeling, Stabbing Pain (Part 2)

But Gao Neng wasn’t about to give her the chance to escape through the window.

Several Iron Thorns shot up from the windowsill, sealing the window in an instant.

Ye Ying’s face slammed right into them.

"Ah!" Another bloodcurdling scream rang out.

Gao Neng glanced over. It looked like her face was marred, and her body was pinned tight by the Iron Thorns.

"Nightingale!" The snake-skinned man spun around and slammed his palm against the Iron Thorns, shattering the ones wrapped around Ye Ying.

’Middle-tier aliens seem to possess immense strength. I wonder if they have any special skills besides raw power?’ Gao Neng mused, tightening his grip on the large saber in his hand.

Since this power wouldn’t last long, he stopped trying to conserve energy and spirit. His Spiritual Power began to spread out wildly.

Empowered by his Spiritual Power, his extraction of the surrounding Elemental Energy became even more frenzied.

Moreover, as the snake-skinned man shattered the Iron Thorns, Gao Neng was already upon him, raising his large saber and slashing down.

"Half-Step Kill!"

BOOM!

The snake-skinned man was driven to one knee by the force of the blow.

A few pieces of the red Scale Armor covering his body were even blasted off by the immense impact.

"Boss!" The two Middle-tier Women charged forward.

"Bring it on, all three of you!" Gao Neng was already prepared to fight one against three. As he forced the snake-skinned man to his knees, he lashed out with a kick.

THWACK!

One of the women was kicked back.

But the other woman had already closed in behind Gao Neng. A white bone with a metallic sheen appeared in her hand.

CLANG!

Gao Neng whipped his saber back to block.

The bone collided with his large saber, producing a metallic ring.

Then, Gao Neng saw a new hole on his Alloy Saber. ’It was actually pierced by the bone?’

’Are middle-tier aliens this strong? If I hadn’t taken Fang Tangtang’s Seed Burst Pill, I might not have made it out of here today.’ Gao Neng was startled, and the energy he had extracted lashed out wildly.

Countless Iron Thorns shot toward the two Middle-tier Women.

Meanwhile, he continued to press the snake-skinned man, bringing his saber down in another ferocious slash.

"Half-Step Kill!"

BOOM!

The snake-skinned man had just struggled to his feet when he was sent flying by the strike.

"Ah, damn it!" the snake-skinned man cursed. "The power of the Spring of Life won’t last long! Don’t fight them head-on! Tie them up in a drawn-out battle and wear them down!"

"Wear me down? Let’s see you try!" Gao Neng gritted his teeth and unleashed all the power in his magnetic core at once, extracting all the iron in the vicinity.

RUMBLE!

The floor completely fractured.

Countless Iron Thorns erupted from the ground.

Or rather, this was no longer a patch of Iron Thorns, but a giant thorn tree. Its barbed spikes filled the entire room.

Like a forest of sharp blades, it partitioned the area into several isolated pockets.

It was a shocking scene.

One of the three Tier Three Late Stage aliens fighting Fang Tangtang was nailed directly to the wall by the thorn tree, blood gushing from his chest.

Naturally, Fang Tangtang wasn’t about to pass up this opportunity.

She swung her scythe.

A head went flying through the air.

"Hahaha... I, Fang Tangtang, have slain an alien spy!" Fang Tangtang was ecstatic. Her face was flushed so red it looked like it might start bleeding, though it was hard to tell if it was from excitement or splattered blood.

But one thing was certain...

...the aliens finally began to panic.

The entire room was choked with the thorn tree, severely hindering their movements. What’s more, the branches seemed to have eyes, stabbing toward the vulnerable parts of their bodies.

"Ah!" Another alien had an eye pierced through.

Then, the last Tier Three alien was stabbed and leaped into the air...

...her hands desperately clutching a certain spot below.

Flames of fury blazed in her eyes. She was humiliated, unwilling to accept it. Eight aliens, suppressed by two humans who were only at Tier Two. She refused to accept this outcome.

But it was no damn use.

Because a second thorn branch was already upon her.

This time, it pierced her through and through.

As for the two Middle-tier Women and the snake-skinned man, they weren’t too badly hurt by the thorn tree. Only one of the three suffered a minor wound to the arm.

’Looks like pure iron has a hard time doing real damage to middle-tier aliens,’ Gao Neng assessed. ’Pure iron is relatively soft, not all that hard.’

But in this small building...

...iron was the most convenient metallic energy source to extract.

Of course, besides metallic energy, there was also non-metallic energy. And the most effective and fastest way to harden iron was...

Carbon!

Gao Neng recalled that when he first met Shen Ning’Er in the Forgotten Land, she had mentioned that energy manifestations could have a "devour" effect.

He’d just never had a chance to try it.

Now was the perfect time.

With a thought, a Super Earth Dragon burst from the ground.

"Devour carbon and evolve into a Pig Iron Earth Dragon!" Gao Neng commanded, picturing the way Shen Ning’Er used her Iron Dragon. Flames immediately erupted over his own Earth Dragon.

The black Earth Dragon transformed, becoming like a red-hot furnace.

The wooden furniture in the room began to scorch from the intense heat.

WHOOSH!

The Earth Dragon began to crawl along the thorn tree.

Its two scythe-like claws began to relentlessly attack the two Middle-tier Women.

CLANG!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

...

"It’s really getting harder!" Gao Neng’s eyes lit up. He could clearly feel the Earth Dragon’s body hardening as it devoured the carbon.

It had successfully evolved into a Pig Iron Earth Dragon.

Unfortunately, evolving it into a Refined Steel Earth Dragon would require a much slower refinement process.

Because making refined steel required precise control over the carbon ratio.

"Gao Neng, why haven’t you killed them yet? Can you handle the energy drain?" Fang Tangtang cried out anxiously when she saw him still controlling the Earth Dragon.

"Energy drain?!" Hearing this, Gao Neng’s expression changed drastically. His hand seemed to slip, and the Earth Dragon fell from the thorn tree.

More importantly, as the Earth Dragon fell,

his own legs gave out.

THUMP!

He collapsed to the floor as if from sheer exhaustion.

"I barely said a word and you collapsed?! Holy shit... What am I, Death God Fang Tangtang, supposed to do now? Ah... I’m out of strength too!" Fang Tangtang cried in alarm, and her body began to tremble.

The two Middle-tier Women and the snake-skinned man hadn’t expected this. ’They were fighting one second, and the next they’ve completely lost their strength?’

"The power from the Spring of Life has run out!"

"Quick! Now’s our chance! Let’s kill them together!"

"Kill!"

After a brief moment of shock, the snake-skinned man and the two Middle-tier Women pounced.

It was the perfect opportunity.

They completely ignored the surrounding thorn trees. After all, if Gao Neng was out of power, the thorns were nothing more than decorations.

"Help me, Fang Tangtang!" Gao Neng yelled, scrambling backward.

"I... I’m out of strength too!" Fang Tangtang’s eyes were wide with panic, but she remained rooted to the spot, trembling uncontrollably.

One of the Middle-tier Women charged toward Fang Tangtang.

The other Middle-tier Woman and the snake-skinned man charged toward Gao Neng.

A double kill!

Gao Neng closed his eyes in despair.

Terrified, Fang Tangtang tripped on a thorn branch while backing away and collapsed to the ground, completely defenseless.

Closer!

Closer!

The Middle-tier Woman rushing Fang Tangtang had a cold glint in her eyes and a cruel smirk on her lips. She could finally eliminate these two budding geniuses.

For aliens like them, who had been so severely injured on the battlefield that they had no hope of ever breaking through to a higher tier... this was a worthy trade.

"Die!" the woman roared.

Then, she felt the world was spinning.

Fang Tangtang, who had been right in front of her, seemed to be somersaulting through the air.

’What’s going on?’

The woman instinctively glanced down. In her field of vision, she seemed to be in mid-air, her body still hurtling forward from inertia.

"I’m... dead?!"