Chapter 548 - 257: Death and Rebirth, Communicating with the Land of the End

Chapter 548: Chapter 257: Death and Rebirth, Communicating with the Land of the End

As Qin Hu fearlessly threw himself forward...

Seizing the final opportunity for a surprise attack!

He successfully dodged the King Spine Zerg’s retaliatory strike, closed in on its side mandible, and reached the meter-deep gash that Lin Feng had left behind!

Then, he viciously plunged the Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword he held tightly in his hands into the gash!

With the Wireless Cutting feature engaged, the madly spinning chain managed to drive the tip of the blade deeper into the Armor.

Now, the two-meter-long Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, its one-and-a-half-meter blade, was buried completely within the King Spine Zerg’s body.

This meant that as Qin Hu flew past the edge of the gash, his incredible speed prevented him from pulling out the Chainsaw Sword in time, and his tightly gripping hands...

...were snagged by the hilt!

His rapidly diving figure came to a jarring halt!

Qin Hu was decisive. The instant he felt the snag, he let go, preventing the stuck Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword from slowing him down any further.

But no matter how fast he reacted, the moment he faltered, it was already too late.

The abrupt, brake-like halt left Qin Hu, who was trying to beat his wings and take flight again, crashing head-on into a hind leg—over ten meters thick—flung at him by the Fearless King Spine Zerg.

With a loud BANG!

Qin Hu slammed into it at nearly a hundred meters per second. The impact sent several cracks spiderwebbing across his thick Tiger Armor, and the violent collision snapped several cartilage supports in his beating Membrane Wings.

Qin Hu lost consciousness on impact.

The force of the recoil sent him tumbling toward the pool of lava beneath the King Spine Zerg’s abdomen.

Lin Feng’s eyes and hands were quick. He flapped his wings and flew toward him at top speed, but he was still a step too slow...

He could only watch helplessly as the unconscious Qin Hu, armor and all, sank into the thousand-degree, orange-red lava.

In the end, carbonized by the extreme heat, all that remained was a wisp of white steam with a burnt smell...

Meanwhile, the nine remaining members responsible for providing covering fire now focused their Armor-Piercing Cannons. Dual-wielding eighteen cannons between them, they all fired at once, targeting the massive gash on the King Spine Zerg’s side—the opening Qin Hu had bought with his life.

Countless armor-piercing shells shot one after another into the gash on the Fearless King Spine Zerg’s side, preventing the wound from healing.

Sensing a mortal threat, the Fearless King Spine Zerg let out a heaven-shaking roar!

The roar was almost tangible, creating visible ripples in the steaming heatwaves. Many of the closer Genetic Warriors were disrupted by it, unable to keep their cannons steady to aim.

By this time, Lin Feng had already flown under the King Spine Zerg’s legs and abdomen, arriving at the crater’s edge directly in front of it.

The roar spread rapidly, like a tidal wave.

It was just as Ling Yi had warned before they began their decapitation strike...

At the foot of Fearless Volcano, throughout the entire area enveloped by the Fearless Realm, all the Tiger Spine Zergs and Black Spine Zergs living in the hot springs and the underground volcanic tunnels answered the call of the Fearless King Spine Zerg, bursting forth from the ground...

...and launched a Fearless Charge toward the volcano’s peak!

Lin Feng frowned.

He glanced at Ling Yi, who was crouched on a large boulder, her expression tense and her body trembling slightly. He was just about to fly over and support her.

But in the next moment, a massive Low-tier Zerg Swarm charged into the poisonous miasma gathered halfway up the mountain, only to die horribly in the corrosive acid gas.

Barely one in a hundred made it through.

Even the dozens or hundreds of Tier Two Late Stage or Peak Tiger Spine Zergs that managed to push through, using the bodies of their comrades as cover...

...had their solid outer shells corroded and shattered by the acidic fog’s Damage, causing the fragments to fall away.

Without the protection of their Outer Armor, Ling Yi just had to pull the trigger of her Armor-Piercing Cannon. One after another, powerful shells—each inflicting up to 900 points of Damage—effortlessly tore the fragile Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs to shreds.

At the same time, Lin Feng turned back, took aim at the Fearless King Spine Zerg, and pulled the trigger...

The once-invincible beast, under the combined assault of Lin Feng and Qin Hu, had finally shown a fatal weakness.

Now, under the concentrated fire of the other nine, that weakness at the gash was being turned into a mortal wound!

As one Armor-Piercing Bullet after another penetrated the gash and bored into the King Spine Zerg’s flesh, they blew apart its internal organs and destroyed its brain and nervous system...

The relentless barrage finally overwhelmed its ability to heal, draining away all the Life Force within the Fearless King Spine Zerg.

With a final, mournful cry full of unwilling rage...

The giant Zerg, so massive it could blot out the sky, slowly collapsed against the side of the volcanic crater. Its immense, heavy body crashed through the back slope of the stone ridge.

As the landslide occurred, the newly formed breach began to spew forth massive amounts of lava.

The churning lava in the crater poured out like a flood, wave after unstoppable wave rolling down the mountainside...

It surged toward the foot of the mountain, swallowing everything in its path.

Fortunately, Lin Feng reacted instantly, flying over and sweeping Ling Yi up into his arms.

The massive boulder she had been on was already being swallowed by the rolling lava below.

The surrounding temperature skyrocketed.

A few seconds more, and even if Ling Yi hadn’t been engulfed by the scalding lava, she would have been cooked alive by the searing heat.

He carried Ling Yi back into the air, stopping before the King Spine Zerg’s corpse.

Having died filled with resentment, its body began to dissolve, breaking down into particles of Energy and dissipating into the Mental Realm World.

A small amount of Fearless Realm Energy flowed into the bodies of the nine Genetic Warriors present.

In the end, all that was left was a pale Golden Energy Ball, thirty centimeters in diameter. Its color and density were purer than that of the Unyielding Realm.

Besides that, there was also a Tiger-toothed Chainsaw Sword, still stuck in the edge of the King Spine Zerg’s fatal wound...