Chapter 92: Section 93: He is Zong Ge


    The shipwright’s situation was critical.


    Bat monkeys moved with extreme agility; they had powerful limbs, explosive leaps, and could use their wings to execute various maneuvers in the air.


    Big Fool, though strong, had no martial arts training and fought solely with his brute strength, unable to protect the old shipwright.


    In fact, Big Fool was a threat in himself.


    Zhenjin was very worried that the little giant would step on the old shipwright while moving around and crush the old man to death on the spot.


    “Roar roar!”


    ...


    “Get lost, you annoying flies, all of you, get lost!”


    Big Fool swung his wooden club, but he couldn’t hit the bat monkeys; his injuries increased as he began to lose his sanity.


    Suddenly, a bat monkey darted between his legs, pouncing toward the old shipwright.


    Big Fool had no reaction.


    But just then, an arrow whizzed in and killed the bat monkey on the spot.


    Big Fool, belatedly realizing what had happened, stared dumbly at the killed bat monkey.


    At that instant, another bat monkey took the opportunity to pounce on Big Fool’s head, extending its claw in an attempt to gouge out his eyes.


    At the same time, two other bat monkeys, one on the left and one on the right, lunged at the old shipwright.


    If Big Fool wanted to save his own eyes, he couldn’t protect the old shipwright. To protect the old shipwright, he would have to go blind.


    At the crucial moment, Big Fool didn’t hesitate for a second; one hand grabbed the bat monkey on the left, and the other swung the wooden club, trying to swat away the bat monkey on the right.


    He was willing to sacrifice his own eyes to save the old shipwright!


    The bat monkey on the left screamed sharply, its wings beating furiously as it retreated backward, avoiding Big Fool’s grasp.


    The bat monkey on the right suddenly crouched down, lying flat on the ground, dodging the wooden club’s sweep.


    The bat monkey on top of Big Fool’s head was about to insert its claw into his eyeball.


    Whoosh whoosh whoosh!


    The next moment, three arrows fell from the sky like a thunderbolt, killing the three bat monkeys on the spot!


    Big Fool was stunned again and instinctively looked in the direction from which the arrows came.


    He saw a young knight, with golden hair and blue eyes, holding a crossbow in one hand and a thin sword in the other, charging forward.


    Zhenjin struggled to get close to Big Fool; with his long-range firepower, Big Fool and the shipwright narrowly escaped with their lives.


    However, at that moment, a noisy screech suddenly erupted from the forest.


    Whooosh…


    A large group of bat monkeys suddenly emerged from the woods; this horde was the largest Zhenjin had ever seen. There were three Black Iron Level Magic Beasts amongst the bat monkeys, over thirty at the Bronze Level, and the number of ordinary bat monkeys exceeded a hundred!


    “This is bad,” Zhenjin’s pupils shrank as he watched the swarm of bat monkeys rolling in, trapping him halfway.


    Bat monkeys attacked from all directions, from the sky and the ground.


    Zhenjin dodged left and right; sometimes he dived and leaped, other times he curled and rolled, avoiding being hit by any bat monkey.


    “This feeling…” Zhenjin remembered his past experience of fighting a lizard swarm alone. The situation now was very similar to that time; despite being surrounded and the enemies all around him, he wasn’t panicking at all. He maintained an icy calm, as if a natural talent allowed him to always find the best dodging path and avoid being caught in a pincer.


    While dodging, Zhenjin also counterattacked.


    His quiver of crossbow arrows soon emptied, killing over twenty ordinary bat monkeys; Zhenjin’s shots hardly ever missed.


    However, there were too many bat monkeys surrounding him.


    A new batch of bat monkeys, nearly eighty percent of which, were concentrated on him.


    Replacing the quiver for the Repeating Crossbow was actually quite simple. But Zhenjin, under siege, had to dodge constantly and had no chance to replace the quiver.


    Under these circumstances, the thin sword Silver Lightning lent by Hei Juan became enormously helpful to Zhenjin.


    The thin sword swirled in his hands, its lightning-like silvery gleam always accompanied by the limbs of bat monkeys being severed, their blood splattering with their shrieks.


    The thin sword was indeed Hei Juan’s family heirloom; it could easily pierce through Bronze bat monkeys. Hei Juan’s inability to pierce through them was purely due to insufficient strength, not comparable to Zhenjin’s.


    Indeed, Zhenjin had mutated his arms into those of a bear.


    As for whether it could threaten the Black Iron Bat Monkeys, that remained to be tested.


    The three Black Iron Bat Monkeys floated mid-air, staring fixedly at Zhenjin, constantly screeching but not engaging in the fight.


    Even though Zhenjin held the upper hand, constantly reaping the lives of bat monkeys, he also became bound in place, unable to rush to the shipwright’s aid.


    With Zhenjin’s arrow support gone, Big Fool fell back into peril.


    “Don’t hurt Daddy!” Big Fool guarded the old shipwright, continually driving away the bat monkeys, but they moved freely in and out; the smallest gap would see them pounce and tear a chunk of flesh from Big Fool.


    The old shipwright also sustained several attacks.


    Seeing the old shipwright with new wounds, Big Fool became frantic, bellowed a great cry, and suddenly bent down and hunched over, forming a half circle to shield the old shipwright within.


    The surrounding bat monkeys screamed excitedly as they swarmed over, continuously scratching, clawing, and biting at Big Fool.


    Big Fool was quickly covered in wounds, his blood flowing incessantly.


    But he clenched his teeth hard, bowed his head, bearing the constant onslaught of pain. He curled his limbs as much as possible, doing his utmost to maintain a tight defense around the old shipwright.


    His back, his arms, his thighs soon became a blurred mess of flesh and blood.


    “Damn it,” Zhenjin realized the situation and moved even more swiftly, trying to carve out a bloody path.


    But the next moment, the trees trembled slightly, and a rumbling sound approached.


    A rhinoceros charged onto the battlefield.


    “It’s that Silver Level rhinoceros again?!” Zhenjin saw the rhinoceros heading straight for him.


    The rhinoceros was stout, its whole body seemed to be cast in silver, and it stood two meters tall. Its hooves, larger than millstones, left shallow pits in the ground with each stomp.


    With its head lowered, it charged forward, its speed increasing. The horn on its head was thick and sharp, a terrifying massive weapon!


    Zhenjin quickly dodged. It was unwise to confront the rhinoceros head-on.


    He even doubted that even if he mutated into a Silver Spear Scorpion, standing in front of the charging rhinoceros, he would likely be crushed flat.


    Fortunately, once the rhinoceros charged, its path was straight and it couldn’t turn at will. Its weight was too great, its momentum too strong; it had to slow down to change direction.


    The bat monkeys, too, were intimidated by the charging rhinoceros and scattered.


    The path was too obvious; Zhenjin easily dodged the rhinoceros.


    But in the next moment, the dispersed bat monkeys surrounded Zhenjin once again.


    The Silver Rhinoceros eventually crashed into a tree, booming three times as it broke through three large trees in succession. For a moment, the ground shook, and leaves flew.


    Thump, thump, thump…


    The Silver Rhinoceros shook its head, adjusted its direction, and set off on another charge.


    But this time, its target was no longer Zhenjin, but the closer and more conspicuous Big Fool!


    “This is bad!” Zhenjin’s face changed when he saw the Silver Rhinoceros charging towards Big Fool.


    “Big Fool, get out of the way!” the crew members on the hillside yelled out, urgently reminding him.


    But Big Fool shook his head, shouting, “Big guy won’t hide, big guy will protect Daddy!”


    He had his head buried and couldn’t see the Silver Rhinoceros charging at him.


    Zhenjin wanted to help but was blocked by the bat monkeys.


    Just as Big Fool was about to be rammed to death on the spot by the Silver Rhinoceros, and the old shipwright was about to be crushed into mincemeat, suddenly, a burly figure leaped down from the treetops and stood in the path of the charging Silver Rhinoceros.


    Bang!


    The next moment, the Silver Rhinoceros crashed solidly into the burly figure with a trembling thud.


    But the burly figure was not thrown flying, nor did he fall!


    He stood upright with his thick back, his chest’s fine steel armor firmly withstanding the rhinoceros’s horn.


    His legs swelled with exaggerated muscle curvature, planted in the ground, firmly supporting his upper body.


    The force of the rhinoceros’s charge was too great, carrying the burly figure forward.


    “Ah—!”


    The burly figure roared, his voice echoing in the wilderness.


    The speed of the rhinoceros’s charge slowed more and more, finally coming to a halt.


    The burly figure had retreated hundreds of meters, his calves almost buried in the dirt. His chest’s war armor had been completely deformed by the impact, an indentation caved in. His ribs were certainly broken!


    The burly figure’s roaring ceased alongside the rhinoceros, both staring each other down.


    Suddenly, the burly figure spewed out a mouthful of fresh blood.


    “Ha ha ha!”


    He let out a mad laughter.


    Then the next moment, he grabbed the rhinoceros’s horn with his broad left hand and raised his right fist high.


    Bang!


    Bang bang!


    Bang bang bang…


    Fists like torrential rain, smashing onto the Silver Rhinoceros’s hard skull.


    The Silver Rhinoceros wailed, attempting to lift its head and toss the burly figure away with its horn, but it was unsuccessful.


    Its horn was firmly grasped by the burly figure, its head, its eyes continually pounded by the wild fists. Extreme pain and dizziness plunged the Silver Rhinoceros into a furious state; it stamped the ground with all four hooves, its thick leg muscles bulging, generating a potent force. But its head was still firmly pressed on the ground by the burly figure.


    The burly figure stood over two meters tall, with a goatee and a head of brown long hair cascading over his shoulders. His pupils were also a yellow-brown color. His exposed skin had a sparse layer of lion-like mane.


    “This time, let’s see where you can run. Ah ah ah!”


    The burly figure kept shouting, his ferocious aura terrifying. The Silver Rhinoceros under his iron fist had become the bullied and the weak. Sёarch* The N??eFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    “He must be Zong Ge!” Zhenjin’s eyes showed a trace of gravity, “This guy, does he really only have Black Iron cultivation?”