Chapter 103 Underwater Chase

  Li Ling's spinning kick accurately kicked the Gao Jue onto the sharp teeth of its own sickle. Coldly watching as Gao Jue's body fell from high altitude and into the spaceship's thruster, a deafening crash echoed within the thruster, producing a terrifying sonic boom that shook the sandy ground with massive waves, what kind of power is this?

  Li Ling's jumping force was gradually exhausted, and after hovering in the air at the 100-meter boundary point, his body slowly fell, but his eyes were still vigilantly fixed on the inside of the spaceship's propulsion grid, because Li Ling knew that the simple kick just now had not caused any harm to the Glutton.

  The interior of the damaged thruster nozzle was now a swirling vortex of dust and debris, kicked up by the massive body's fall, which had created a thick layer of dust that completely shrouded the scene inside the nozzle.

  Li Ling, who had started falling from the high sky, stared intently with all his might, but at this moment he couldn't see what was going on inside the thruster and didn't know what state Piao Yu was in.

  Li Ling's body fell from high altitude with acceleration towards the sandy ground, when one foot away from the ground, both legs' knees slightly bent, unloaded most of the downward force, and stood firmly on the sandy ground like a mountain, the downward force stirred up a wave of sand flying in the air.

  Li Ling raised one hand and slapped away the sand waves stirred up by his own fall, then slowly walked towards the thruster grid port. The sand under his feet buried the thruster grid port, Li Ling walked on it, not daring to relax at all, but concentrated on listening and collecting information from under his feet.

  The front end of the web was blasted out a ten-meter-square hole, and Li Ling came to the side of the hole. Below were swirling smoke and fog. Li Ling furrowed his brow, gazing down intently, and suddenly discovered two huge red pupils flashing in the darkness - a pair of angry red pupils belonging to the Glutton's eyes, staring up at Li Ling with deep resentment from within the fog.

  The low growl, like the call of the grim reaper, came from under the mesh of the thruster, with a low and high-frequency sound, like a bat emitting ultrasonic waves, shaking the mesh that covered Li Ling's feet in sand, constantly trembling.

  Li Lingxu narrowed his eyes, furrowed his brow, and quietly looked down at the blood-red glow in the mist below without daring to be even slightly slow.

  About ten seconds later...

  A roar came from below the net...

  Frenzied air currents burst out, a mighty roar came swiftly, the frequency of the web mouth under Li Ling's feet doubled.

  Suddenly, a row of snow-bright, forest-cold, sickle-like fangs pierced through the net mouth with a "ka" sound, cutting off the net mouth with their sharp edges, and appeared under Li Ling's feet.

  Li Ling reacted extremely quickly, suddenly shocked, knee bent, using all his strength, he leaped into the air.

  Ka cha...... The web mouth was ruthlessly bitten to pieces by the sharp teeth, bursting through the web mouth. The black double wings shook violently and flapped fiercely, closely pursuing Li Ling as he rushed back and forth.

  Li Ling's rising speed was not as fast as the gluttonous flight, and soon the huge fangs came to Li Ling's feet again. Li Ling gritted his teeth and desperately pointed his toes on the fangs, his body shook violently, and he got a boost to rise into the air again.

  Originally, Li Ling's kick was intended to send the pastry flying back again. But unexpectedly, this time the pastry remained as stable as Mount Tai, not moving in the slightest. Moreover, under the fierce flapping of its black wings, it continued to pursue him.

  Li Ling's eyebrows were almost furrowed into a river character, his feet exerted force, and he made a side kick, his legs bent, again using the rebound to fly out sideways. At this critical moment, the gluttonous beast opened its huge mouth and bit down on the empty air, its icy fangs interlocking with each other, making a cracking sound, and sparks flew out in all directions.

  Li Ling watched the jagged teeth snap shut, and his heart skipped a beat. Fortunately, Li Ling reacted quickly and used a side kick to borrow force and avoid it. Otherwise, if he had been bitten by those jagged teeth, even with the cellular enhancement and muscle tissue defense that was like armor, he would still have been torn apart by this bite.

  With a sudden flutter of its dual wings and a stretch of its body, it had already completely jumped out from the inside of the net. Standing on the sandy ground, it raised its enormous head, which was almost half as big as its body, and gazed up at the sun in the sky with bloodshot eyes, half-hidden by the sand. It let out a mighty roar. The meaning within that roar seemed to be telling the heavens that it had once again descended upon the mortal world.

  Li Ling, with the help of a sideways kick, flew out more than ten zhang away, and with the help of the wind, slowly landed on the sandy ground, standing steadily. Looking at the giant's roar towards the sky, Li Ling vaguely felt a strong threat, which was obvious.

  Because, just in the previous attack of Taotie, Taotie's strength had doubled, otherwise, with Li Ling's powerful kick, it wouldn't have been bounced back by Taotie's hard body.

  After a long, mournful howl, the beast slowly lowered its head and gazed at Li Ling standing in the sandy ground. At this moment, Li Ling seemed like an extremely small prey to the beast's eyes, filled with only the excitement of hunting and the anger of regaining his dignity as a demon beast, for the person in front of him had escaped from his jaws multiple times and was getting stronger.

  "It seems that using simple attacks is completely ineffective." Li Ling had never just wanted to hold off the Glutton, but hoped he could directly defeat it head-on.

  But now it seems that this hope is going to be in vain.

  A loud roar... With a mighty roar, the Glutton lowered its head, revealing its icy fangs, and charged towards Li Ling at a speed as fast as a rocket.

  Li Ling watched as the fierce beast charged towards him, knowing that dodging to the side would be impossible. He stretched out both palms and grabbed one of the beast's sharp teeth.

  The glutton actually didn't stop in his tracks, but instead, pushed Li Ling to run wildly on the sandy ground, probably wanting to have a contest of strength with him.

  Li Ling's expression was calm, but in his heart he was secretly suffering. After all, underfoot was the fine and soft sandy ground, being pushed by this giant and ferocious creature, apart from sliding backwards on the sand, there was no other way to unload the force of the push.

  Whoosh...... One man and one beast moved instantly.

  Flying sand and dust, even more violent and rapid than the sandstorm in the desert itself. Moreover, the body of the glutton is extremely large, like a bulldozer, pushing the surrounding sand to fly like sword waves.

  It was only a matter of minutes before Li Ling and Bao suddenly found themselves tens of miles away, just a few more miles to go before they would be out of the sandy storm area.

  Looking at the edge of the approaching sandstorm, Li Ling secretly cursed that if they got out of this sandy area, they would inevitably encounter other people walking in the desert, causing some unnecessary casualties.

  To avoid harming innocent people or scaring others, Li Ling suddenly sank his feet and directed all the force pushing backward to the ground using the Taiji guiding method. In an instant, Li Ling's feet felt as heavy as a thousand kilograms, and he and the beast drilled into the sand like a drilling machine.

  With a burst of strength, he also pushed Li Ling into the sand below. Suddenly, the originally violent pushing of the sand suddenly became quiet.

  After passing through the sand surface below, both of them were completely buried in the sand. Li Ling intuitively felt that his whole body was penetrating the earth's crust at an extremely fast speed, drilling deeper and deeper into the depths of the earth. As they drilled deeper, the earth's crust became harder, changing from sand to hard rock.

  This battle gave Li Ling a thrill that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

  Rumble...

  The crust may have reached its limit, and a huge mouth was directly torn open. Li Ling and Taotao were caught off guard and fell into an underground river that was as black as ink and had no visibility.

  Splash...... At the moment of falling into the water, Li Ling closed his breath and swam away in the water. Following closely behind him was Pang Yu's enormous body, which also fell into the underground river along with Li Ling.

  A refreshing sensation in the dark water, Li Ling opened his eyes and with his strong eyesight, he could see everything clearly in the dark water.

  After observation, Li Ling knew that this was already several thousand meters underground, piercing through the rocky layers of the earth's surface and arriving at an underground river beneath the desert!

  "My god, I finally know what it means to fight with all one's might, the sky and clouds have changed color." Li Ling had been strengthened by cell enhancement, and his endurance had also increased to a terrifying extent. He could hold his breath for several days in water without needing to surface. At this moment, he was swimming at high speed, and Li Ling didn't dare relax even a bit, because the giant behind him wasn't a landlubber either.

  Although the Glutton cannot swim, it can use its dual wings on its back to propel water and move at high speeds.

  In the icy black water, there were many underground rocks in the turbulent current. The Gourmand seemed to be quite uncomfortable, except that its body was made of metal, and the water also had some restraining effect on it.

  The pike flapped its double wings, looking at Li Ling who was swimming forward at high speed. Underwater, it let out a loud roar, stirring up thousands of layers of waves. With a shock to its black double wings, its body shot towards Li Ling like a torpedo in the water.

  Li Ling felt the strong water pressure behind him, turned around and swam to the side, barely avoiding a head-on collision with Taotie by a hair's breadth.

  Then with a loud crash... the sturdy body of Taotie, without slowing down, slammed into a rock in the underground river, and that rock was destined to shatter into powder instantly.

  Li Ling immediately understood that this glutton in the water accelerated by relying on its twin wings, but it couldn't control its own deceleration and could only aim at itself for a crash.

  At this moment, the two were hundreds of meters apart, but with his sharp eyesight, Li Ling could see the glutton clearly.

  In the new round of collision, Gluttony's speed in the water jet was twice as fast as before, and a magnificent whirlpool was generated in the turbulent water.

  Li Ling faced it head-on this time, watching as the giant body charged towards him at an incredible speed. However, Li Ling felt that he didn't have any speed to dodge.

  With a loud crash, Li Ling's body was caught by the huge teeth of the giant fish and rushed out at high speed in the water. After smashing a boulder, it finally stopped, and under the broken rock, Li Ling turned over and jumped up, swimming far away from the giant fish.

  While swimming, Li Ling swallowed a bellyful of black water and a thread of fresh blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. The impact just now had injured his chest slightly.

  "It seems impossible to defeat the Glutton now, so let's temporarily use the advantage of the Black Water to stall it for two days. But this is an underground river, how are we going to get out? Li Ling knew that if they couldn't find a way out within two days and take the Glutton with them, their mission to eliminate it would fail once the spaceship took off."