LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 146: Powerful Flame Creature_2
The team had passed by a pond on their way over, which was the upstream source of the stream.
The most direct and effective strategy against flames is water.
Lu Heng pointed in the direction behind them and said, "There's a pond back there, let's lure the Flame Demon over to it first."
Jian Qing understood immediately what he meant.
They had also passed by that stretch of pond water when they came.
After the two teams entered the fog, they split up to search.
The dividing line was the stream in the middle of the valley.
The source of the stream was that pond, which was marked on the map as Green Dragon Pond.
Following the stream upstream, Green Dragon Pond was where it ended.
Therefore, going further north from Green Dragon Pond to the Gobi Zone, there's no stream, marking the end of the search for both teams.
Lu Heng's team's tracked vehicle became stuck after encountering the Fungal Blanket.
Thus, for the next few days, they traveled on foot, which was why they were slower.
Jian Qing's team, on the other hand, drove all the way to the Gobi Zone, arriving first and encountering the Flame Demon's attack.
Now, Lu Heng suggested luring the Flame Demon to Green Dragon Pond, and Jian Qing immediately agreed, taking up the whirlwind and rushing towards Green Dragon Pond.
The Flame Demon chased for a kilometer and was about to give up the chase.
Seeing this, Jian Qing turned back, raised her assault rifle, and fired a burst at it.
The Flame Demon became enraged once again and continued the pursuit all the way to Green Dragon Pond.
True to its name, the pond water was green and bottomless.
While the Flame Demon had been lured to Green Dragon Pond, it was not about to dive into the water voluntarily.
Had it been anyone else, they might have been powerless, but for the Mistress of Wind, Jian Qing, it only took a bit of wind power to solve this problem.
Lu Heng made this decision precisely because he knew of Jian Qing's abilities.
Without needing a reminder, Jian Qing rushed to the front of Green Dragon Pond, leapt, and jumped straight towards it.
As she fell towards the water's surface, she did not sink, but instead hovered over the water, controlling the wind.
She cried out to the heavens, and Source Energy surged within her, creating a tornado around her.
The tornado sucked up the pond water, forming a massive water column with a diameter of three meters, shooting skywards like a Water Dragon.
The Water Dragon soared thirty meters into the air, then turned and plummeted down towards the Flame Demon.
With a splash and a sizzle...
The Water Dragon and the Flame Demon collided, emitting a hissing sound as the flames were extinguished.
The fire on the Flame Demon was quenched by half, revealing a coal-black entity beneath.
However, after the Water Dragon was expended, the flames on the Flame Demon slowly began to reignite.
Jian Qing continued to increase the intensity of her Source Energy output, stirring up even larger Water Dragons to continue the attack.
After three Water Dragons, most of the flames on the Flame Demon were extinguished, leaving a huge, dark red monster.
Members of both squads arrived, Wu Weibing from the Mechanical Tiger unbuckled the machine cannon from its back, placed it on the ground, and opened fire with a rattling sound.
The dense cannon fire struck the dark red body of the Flame Demon, chipping away coal-mine-like fragments and creating fist-sized craters on its body.
A 20mm machine cannon, hitting the shell of the Flame Demon, could only make craters the size of a fist.
The body strength of the Flame Demon was comparable to steel.
The 20mm might not seem big, only as wide as a thumb, but the power of the machine gun was formidable.
If it were a human, taking a 20mm bullet, their body would be torn to bloody fragments by the kinetic energy, beyond any hope of reassembly.
Such ferocious fire against the Flame Demon could only create fist-sized craters.
For the ten-meter tall Flame Demon, fist-sized craters were little more than an itch.
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Jian Qing continued to control the Water Dragon to attack the Flame Demon, preventing the regeneration of its flames.
As the flames were extinguished, the heat radiating from the Flame Demon plummeted.
In a state of intense burning, getting within three meters would mean enduring the scorching heat of several thousand degrees.
Therefore, when facing the Flame Demon, melee Superpower Users had no means against it and couldn't even get close.
Now the Flame Demon's flames were extinguished, the temperature fell, and it became possible to approach.
Seizing the opportunity, Lu Heng charged forward, leapt high, and unleashed his Essential Skill, Rift Slash, in Zhenyue Style.
A three-meter-long sword light fell, splitting the body of the Flame Demon in half.
The Flame Demon's coal-black body split open up to its chest where suddenly, a fierce light of flames burst forth.
Boom!
A violent explosion engulfed a twenty-meter radius.
This was the Molten Core Explosion of the Flame Demon, a self-destruct Skill with terrifying power.
With this Molten Core Explosion Skill, even powerful melee Superpower Users would be taken out by it if they truly vanquished the Flame Demon.
Fortunately, Lu Heng was aware of this Skill from the start, so at the moment of the Molten Lava Core Explosion, he activated Shadow Traversal and momentary escaped into the Shadow to avoid the blast.
Boom!
The violent explosion shook the earth, as if it were an earthquake.
Jian Qing, still controlling the Water Dragon preparing for another attack, suddenly saw Lu Heng strike, and then the Flame Demon self-destructed, everything happening too suddenly.
Furthermore, the explosion engulfed a twenty-meter radius, and the blast swallowed everything, even blowing a deep crater into the ground.
Lu Heng was also engulfed in the blast.
Seeing this, Jian Qing showed a panicked expression and cried out loudly in distress, "Lu Heng!"
It wasn't just her, Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu, Chen Zihang, and others who had come to support also witnessed this terrifying explosion.
Su Muyu, who was very familiar with Lu Heng's abilities, knew he had a Skill to evade the explosion, but she was nevertheless extremely worried. She immediately directed the scouting hawk into the aftermath of the explosion, hoping to confirm Lu Heng's safety.