Chapter 101 The Lizard King Awakens
With their reunion imminent, both sides were excited. Ah Chen and his two companions put on their last three Swiftness Talismans and sped off.
As they ran, Nie Xiaoxiao suddenly pointed to a spot not far ahead and exclaimed, "Hey? When did such a huge sand dune appear there? I didn't see it before!"
Achen and Lele looked in the direction she was pointing and were also taken aback.
It's not easy to find particularly obvious landmarks in the desert. Logically speaking, such a large sand dune should be visible as soon as you look up on your way forward.
Why didn't the three of them notice this before?
"Could it be a mirage? My mother has told me about this kind of desert spectacle," Achen said.
Before he finished speaking, the three of them felt a tremor beneath their feet, and their bodies began to sway.
"It's an earthquake!" Nie Xiaoxiao exclaimed.
“No, it is…” Lele pointed with trembling hands to the huge sand mountain.
The three of them finally realized that it was not a sand dune at all, but the head of a giant beast.
At this moment, the sand and gravel slid down from its head, stirring up bursts of yellow dust.
The behemoth's head was as large as a mountain, and its vertical pupils gleamed with a cold light.
Its gaping maw revealed two rows of sharp teeth, like rows of daggers neatly inserted inside.
Even from more than a mile away, you can feel the oppressive aura emanating from its body.
The giant beast roared to the sky, "Roar! Roar! Roar!"
The shock made the ears of the three people ring. On the surrounding sand, countless lizards fled quickly into the distance, and the gerbils also hurriedly burrowed into their underground caves.
Just as Ah Chen was about to find a gerbil burrow to burrow into, he saw the giant beast lift its forelimbs out of the sand, and the dust it stirred up instantly buried the entrances to several gerbil burrows within his sight.
"This is that sixth-tier lizard king. We're doomed." Nie Xiaoxiao's face was filled with despair.
"Don't panic. Maybe it can't even see us. After all, we're not even good enough to be food for it," Lele said.
Ah Chen glanced down at the sleeping fathead fish that served as a pendant, and casually added another concealing talisman to it.
Even a fifth-tier fathead fish can't intimidate a sixth-tier lizard king at all, and might even be used as a stepping stone for advancement and swallowed whole.
Therefore, Ah Chen did not intend to summon the fathead fish, nor did he want to reveal its existence.
He held the teleportation jade talisman in his hand, prepared for the worst.
"The Lizard King has woken up. Be prepared to retreat at any time!" Ah Chen lowered his head and sent the last message to Leng Qiuchan through the communication talisman.
The two sides were only ten miles apart, so it was impossible for Leng Qiuchan and her group not to know about such a big commotion.
Both sides waited anxiously, and then they heard a roar coming from afar.
Ah Chen secretly released his mental net, which immediately detected the movement.
"Sand scorpion swarm! The sand scorpion swarm is coming!" he whispered to the two.
The three of them found a relatively tall and lush clump of Gynostemma pentaphyllum and squatted down inside to continue observing.
Even if we really have to log off today, at least we should watch the last bit of excitement.
Among the sand scorpion swarm, most of the adult sand scorpions are at the fifth level, but they have the advantage of being numerous, while this lizard king, although at the sixth level, is a lone commander.
With the two sides facing off, it remains to be seen who will emerge victorious.
Soon, the sand scorpions surrounded them, a dark mass, so numerous that it was impossible to count them all.
The lizard king was clearly enraged by their invasion of its territory. It opened its mouth wide and sucked in dozens of sand scorpions.
But the other sand scorpions were not afraid and leaped forward one after another, rushing to its front.
Both are earth-elemental, but the sand scorpion's tail is metal-elemental and contains potent venom.
Countless sand scorpions leaped onto the Lizard King's body, trying to pierce it with the venomous stingers on their tails, but their thick skin and scales were impenetrable.
However, the sand scorpions seemed to have mastered a technique: dozens of sand scorpions would stab at the gaps between its scales, and even if it quickly slapped them to death, at least they would leave a shallow scratch on its body.
The next batch of sand scorpions will appear in the same location, continuing the unfinished work of their fallen comrades.
"At this rate, this lizard king will soon be poisoned to death by the sand scorpions," Nie Xiaoxiao analyzed.
“We have to choose one side as an ally, otherwise if one side falls, we will certainly not have a good ending either,” Achen said.
“Then we should definitely help the Lizard King. It looks quite pitiful, being surrounded by so many sand scorpions,” Nie Xiaoxiao said.
“I think we should help the Lizard King. It’s the true king of this desert. With its help, we can easily leave this desert,” Lele said.
“That makes sense. There are just too many sand scorpions. If we don’t stop them, they will soon disrupt the balance of this area, and then all other creatures will go extinct,” Achen said.
"Alright, alright, two to one, let's do it your way. But how are we going to deal with so many sand scorpions?" Nie Xiaoxiao asked.
“All we need to do is help the Lizard King deal with those suicide squads who are trying to puncture its skin and poison it,” Achen said.
Having personally experienced attacks by beast tides and zombie hordes, Achen was not afraid of such a dense group attack.
Lele even took out the Heavenly Thunder and Earthly Fire Soul-Severing Umbrella, and Nie Xiaoxiao also took out the Thunderstorm Fruit that her fairy had grown.
Ah Chen then directly drew talismans in the air, creating dozens of Snow Sprite talismans that he had created after improving his father's area-of-effect skill, Snowflakes.
The three of them jumped from three different directions and simultaneously landed next to the sand scorpion, which was using a suicidal tactic to try to injure the lizard king with its tail stinger.
The lizard king was extremely annoyed by their attacks, and it knew all too well how venomous the sand scorpion's stinger was.
Even though it's a sixth-tier creature with relatively strong resistance to venom, it still can't withstand the sheer number of sand scorpions and their highly venomous stingers.
If this continues, it definitely won't be able to hold on.
Just then, its divine sense detected three human cubs whose auras were not very strong.
It has no idea exactly when they arrived here.
They jumped onto it like fleas, and it had no idea what they wanted to do.
Just as it was contemplating whether to kill them with a single blow, it saw all three unleash a group attack.
Nie Xiaoxiao's Thunderstorm Fruits were all aimed at the Sand Scorpion's tail. With Xianxian providing her with accurate directions, her attacks almost never missed.
The sand scorpion's stinger is very powerful, but the tail itself is not very defensive. In battle, the sand scorpion usually only uses its stinger to kill its opponent with a single blow when it has its front pincers pincers restraining the enemy.
However, their opponent at this moment is the Lizard King, who is using suicide attack tactics, so they have no time to defend themselves.
Thus, Nie Xiaoxiao took advantage of the situation and quickly blew off the tails of more than a dozen sand scorpions.
Compared to Xianxian's Thunder Bomb, Lele's Heavenly Thunder and Earthly Fire Soul-Severing Umbrella is no less formidable. With the switch on the umbrella handle pressed, the umbrella surface spins rapidly, shooting out countless hidden weapons carrying lightning and flames.
The sand scorpion's single tail, which was always used to defeat enemies, was now being hit by a series of hidden weapons, and it cried out in agony.
Ah Chen's snow sprite was even more terrifying, spinning silently and severing the tails of countless sand scorpions.
The Sand Scorpion Army never expected that the Lizard King, who always acted alone, would actually find three human cultivators skilled in area-of-effect spells to help him.
Lizard King: I'm still completely bewildered.
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