Just then, the light suddenly intensified, and Qi Zhao noticed a strange golden light flowing faintly beneath the skin of the giant beast's old neck wound.
Qi Xu's eyes lit up instantly. Without thinking, he flapped his wings and swooped down. With lightning speed, he used his sharp claws to cleanly slice open the skin, and a crystal the size of a pigeon egg, glowing with a warm light, rolled out.
The surface still bears traces of fine blood vessels, radiating faint yet pure energy fluctuations...
As soon as Qi Xu took this thing out, the sleeping behemoth went berserk.
The roar of the sleeping behemoth shook the entire pit. Blood mist gushed from the wound on its neck, and the red light in its originally dim eye sockets surged, becoming several times more intense than at its peak!
The excruciating pain and rage from losing its energy core completely overwhelmed its reason. It forcefully broke free from the shackles formed by icy slime and various thorny vines, and with its thick limbs slamming into the ground, its massive body, like an out-of-control mountain, crashed violently towards Qi Xu.
Qi Xugang had just caught the golden crystal when he felt a devastating force coming towards him. He instinctively flapped his wings and retreated, but was still hit on the edge of his wing by the giant beast's forelimbs.
With a crisp "crack," black feathers flew everywhere, and Qi Xu crashed into the rock wall like a kite with a broken string, spitting out a mouthful of black blood, while the crystal was firmly held in its beak.
"Baby!"
"leader!"
Qi Xu heard many voices calling his name, and despite the excruciating pain in his wings, he swooped down again.
The sleeping behemoth was already at its last gasp; once its core detached from its body, it would not last long. But its current frenzied counterattack was enough to wipe everyone out with it.
With his claws aimed at the giant beast's eye sockets, Qi Xu was determined to go all in, even if it meant mutual destruction, to completely eliminate this threat!
At worst, if we fail in this treasure map adventure, we can use the resurrection item to "reborn" in [Zhan Tu] and find a way to start over later. Qi Xu doesn't want to watch everyone die here together.
They are not NPCs, not just a string of data, not dispensable entities, but living, breathing beings, teammates fighting side by side...
Just as its claws were about to pierce the red light, the giant beast suddenly opened its blood-red maw, and a torrent of dark red energy surged out. Qi Xu guessed that this was its killing move, which it had gathered by exhausting its last bit of life force.
While shouting for retreat, Qi Xu desperately approached the sleeping behemoth, spreading his wings as wide as possible and using his body to block all the red light.
But at that moment, a black shadow larger than Qi Xu streaked past like a meteor, crashing heavily into Qi Xu and pushing her out of the energy torrent's range.
Qi Xu turned around in astonishment.
"mom!"
The mother black bird didn't turn around; she simply flapped her wings with all her might to shield Qi Xu. The dark red energy surge slammed into its back, instantly burning off its feathers and sizzling its flesh, yet it still held its body tightly open, blocking all the red light completely.
"No, Mom!" Qi Xu screamed in anguish, tears streaming down her face once again.
And watching helplessly as the mother blackbird's body was pierced by the giant beast's claws, seeing the reluctance and expectation in her last gaze, I was instantly overwhelmed by an extreme surge of anger and grief...
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