"Shit, how strong is this guy?"
Just a few minutes had passed, and Lu Yuan was already drenched in sweat, not from the scorching sun above but from the intense exercise that had caused a massive build-up of lactic acid, bringing about a terrible sense of fatigue.
His lungs were even more so because of the intense breathing, unbearably painful.
"Awooo~ Awooo!!" Old Wolf's voice howled in the distance, seeing his master being chased and becoming frantic, yet not daring to come closer.
That Fire Lizard was simply too strong; a single slap could turn a wolf into mush.
Lu Yuan focused all his spiritual power, picking up humanity's courage, and raced against the poisoned Fire Lizard.
The behemoth's speed had exceeded his expectations and had already reached behind him, lunging forward in a pounce.
Yet he had not arrived at his destination.
There were still a full four hundred meters to cover, which even a world-class athlete would need forty seconds to cross.
And the utterly exhausted him would need at least a minute and a half.
The dimming sunset cast their shadows extraordinarily long and slanted.
Lu Yuan saw the behemoth's shadow that had already enveloped him, like a demon claw extending from hell, attacking his body.
The sound of wind, the drops of rain, and the remnants of the sunset light mingled together, forming a cruel frost.
"Am I going to die?"
Lu Yuan felt a little sad, having given it his all, his legs like they were filled with lead, no longer running as fast as before.
He harbored no resentment, merely feeling somewhat unreconciled with the level of his own strength.
But he didn't want to activate "Different Space."
Because once Different Space was activated, the behemoth might return to its lair due to the severe toxins to recover from its injuries.
Once the Fire Lizard got over the toxins, Lu Yuan wouldn't have another chance.
After all, he had only one Spider Poison Gland.
Without the poison, he really didn't stand a chance.
"Come on, come and eat your grandpa!"
"Roar!"
The killing intent was coming!
The Fire Lizard fiercely lunged forward.
Lu Yuan clenched his teeth, his rough fingers grabbed the steel long spear, and he pushed off the ground fiercely, using the repulsion to leap several meters to the side.
A gust of wind swept past him.
Following its leap, the Fire Lizard landed where he had just been.
Due to its huge inertia, its massive body rolled forward more than ten meters, tossing several large rocks into the air.
Lu Yuan was hit in the head by some flying debris, blood streaming down from his eye sockets.
He sprang up from the ground like flying and continued sprinting towards his destination.
But that was as far as he could go.
The Fire Lizard got up again as well.
Four hundred meters still represented an insurmountable chasm; he was lucky to have dodged once, given the huge disparity in speed, he couldn't hope to evade a second time.
There's a limit to human effort.
"Is this the end?"
The sun slowly set, and the wind and the rain began to pick up, the heavens with their dark humor watched over humanity, just as it had witnessed the deaths of countless heroes and men, always neutral.
It was at this moment that Lu Yuan heard a series of wolf howls.
The howls were incredibly loud, sounding like a challenge and a curse.
He saw Old Wolf!!
"Awooo awooo awooo awooo!!"
Old Wolf had finally crossed that dividing line, viciously launching a spiritual roar at the Fire Lizard.
The she-wolves also hid behind, howling madly: "Awooo awooo awooo awooo!"
Put together, the howling truly was a provocation.
Old Wolf was a very clever wolf.
It knew where the traps were and also knew that Lu Yuan's speed was not enough to lead the Fire Lizard into the traps.
So, it tried to take over the last leg of the journey as a relay.
Its old bones needed to run!
"Don't you die on me!! I'll hide first," Lu Yuan's nose turned sour as he appreciated Old Wolf's kindness and activated Different Space.
A thin layer of ripples on the water's surface enclosed and protected him.
The Fire Lizard noticed that the annoying creature before its eyes had disappeared and then heard, not far off, the even more detestable howling of a wolf.
This damn ant dared to provoke it.
Enraged, it charged forward, intending to squash these cursed and feeble beings.
Old Wolf turned its head and ran.
Truthfully, it was terrified; it was so scared that it was pissing and shitting itself as it ran, though luckily, it wasn't far from the trap and soon reached its edge after a short distance.
It hesitated, uncertain whether its old bones could jump over the trap.
The Fire Lizard roared towards it like a dump truck aiming for Old Wolf!
Lu Yuan's heart clenched as his vision blurred, and he heard a wretched wolf howl.
He saw Old Wolf being knocked several meters away, flying directly into the bushes.
Meanwhile, the Fire Lizard fell into the trap with a "boom."
Several huge stones hanging from wooden poles smashed into the trap, crushing the beast's head, causing it to bleed profusely.
"Is it trapped?!"
Lu Yuan immediately deactivated Different Space and, holding his long spear, charged forward.
The colossal creature was still struggling in the trap; several sharp long spears pierced its abdomen, and bright red blood sprayed out.
"Roar!!"
[An injured Fire Lizard of Extraordinary Life, poisoned as well, appears to have a severe wound in its abdomen.]
[But be advised, its Life Force is still strong, and the wound is slowly clotting.]
[You still can't kill it.]
Lu Yuan glanced once more at Old Wolf, who lay immobile in the bushes.
"Old Wolf!!!"
At this moment, he was in a state of extreme anger, his whole body trembled, and rage flowed endlessly from his chest.
"I still haven't won, still haven't... "
But he had exhausted all his tactics, and he was powerless.
In a short while, the Fire Lizard would break free from the net of vines and crawl out of the trap, and wherever it went, he would be no match for it.
An immense sense of despair enveloped Lu Yuan as if the weight of the entire world was pressing down on his spine.
He racked his brains but couldn't think of any solutions.
The next second, he saw the long spear tightly grasped in his hand.
It was a long spear fashioned by grinding steel reinforcement bars.
...
The raindrops in the sky grew larger, and everything around him was veiled in a white mist.
In the end, he had to rely on himself.
Humans, can only rely on themselves.
"Life doesn't even last thirty years," Lu Yuan murmured softly, "it's like a dream, or an illusion. Those granted life in this world, who isn't subject to mortality?"
Thunder ripped through the sky, lighting up the human world.
He gripped the long spear tightly, leaped forth, and jumped into the trap.
"Let me borrow your Spark!!"
With that jump, he landed directly atop the Fire Lizard's massive body.
Lu Yuan let out a roaring cry from his throat like a wild beast, and the sharp spear became a blur as it viciously stabbed towards the eye area of the Fire Lizard!
A scorching hot and boiling liquid splashed onto Lu Yuan's body.
The Fire Lizard struggled madly, losing all sense of reason, "Roar!!"
The entire earthen pit trap collapsed, and the soil and rocks sprayed onto Lu Yuan's face like buckshot.
Then, in the next instant, a blast akin to a Cloud Bomb erupted into the sky!
The scorching heat created copious amounts of steam, and everything nearby became shrouded in fog.
This was the Fire Lizard's skill, Fire Breathing!