Chapter 55: The Fifth Beast: Iron-backed Mantis
As its companion weapon, the jumping monkey can summon its own iron rod at will.
With the iron rod in its hand, it suddenly gained confidence and began to fight back.
The level 20 jumping monkey is considered to be superior in both strength and speed, but its speed is still a bit slow in front of the level 28 ironback mantis.
It couldn't withstand the Ironback Mantis's violent attack, and several scars appeared on its body in just a moment.
The wound on the shoulder was the most serious, with white bones faintly visible at the wound.
Fortunately, the jumping monkey was not fighting alone. The black stone beast and the vampire bat were assisting him, which greatly reduced his pressure.
The three life beasts besieged the Ironback Mantis, but the situation was still at a disadvantage.
Lu Ming sighed: "The level gap is still quite big!"
Whether it's the jumping monkey, the black stone beast, or the vampire poisonous bat, none of these three beasts has broken through to level 21.
Like demon beasts and life beasts, their strength will increase significantly every ten levels. They are still a little weak now.
"This can't go on like this!"
The Blue Star was unsheathed, and Lu Ming rushed into the battlefield like a gust of wind, riding the wind in the air.
Seeing that his life beast was no match for the Ironback Mantis, Lu Ming took action himself.
Knowing that the opponent's pair of knife-like forelimbs were powerful, Lu Ming did not meet the challenge head-on, but instead attacked the iron-back mantis's lower body.
Its four long legs!
The Ironback Mantis was very fast, so Lu Ming cut off its legs. No matter how fast it was, it couldn't move without its legs.
Lu Ming launched the attack suddenly and at an extremely fast speed. By the time the Ironback Mantis reacted, it was already too late.
A blue starlight flashed, and one of the Ironback Mantis's long legs was cut off.
With one of its legs cut off, the Ironback Mantis could no longer maintain its balance and immediately fell to the ground.
Lu Ming seized the opportunity and thrust his sword forward, this time his target was the opponent's back.
"Danglang"
A sound of metal clashing was heard, and Lu Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
"What a strong defense! He deserves the name Iron Back!"
The back of the ironback mantis is actually as hard as a piece of steel.
Fortunately, Lu Ming's Blue Star Sword could cut through iron like mud. Under the infusion of his divine power, the sword still pierced in, but it did not penetrate deep.
The iron-backed mantis glared at Lu Ming with its compound eyes, and its knife-like forelimbs slashed at him fiercely, as if it wanted to cut him in half.
Seeing this, Lu Ming quickly drew his sword.
Fortunately, his actions were decisive. After withdrawing the sword, Lu Ming's clothes were only slightly damaged.
Lu Ming's attack completely angered the Ironback Mantis, and it waved its terrifying forelimbs to cut Lu Ming into pieces.
But after losing a leg, it lost its speed, which made it even angrier.
When the jumping monkeys saw the iron-backed mantis in trouble, they immediately launched a fierce attack, trying to beat the mantis into submission.
Seeing that the Ironback Mantis was in life-and-death crisis, countless wind blades shot out as the Ironback Mantis swung its forelimbs.
Don't forget, the Ironback Mantis is a wind-type monster, and its previous attacks were only physical attacks, with no wind-type attacks revealed at all.
Now it is between life and death, so it naturally no longer hides and uses wind magic to attack.
Dense wind blades flew in all directions, and the beasts had no choice but to resist first.
Although the power of these wind blades is not too great, there are too many of them and the jumping monkeys dare not ignore them.
The Ironback Mantis kept firing wind blades, its eyes fixed on Lu Ming. If eyes could kill, Lu Ming would have died long ago.
The Ironback Mantis retreated while firing wind blades.
It wants to escape!
At this time, the Ironback Mantis has realized that it is no match for Lu Ming and his friends. Although it wants to kill Lu Ming very much, its strength does not allow it, so it can only escape first.
Lu Ming immediately caught the movement of the Ironback Mantis, and a light flashed in his eyes.
"I finally defeated you, how could I let you escape!"
He changed his steps and quickly approached the other party.
Seeing this, the Ironback Mantis increased the speed of launching wind blades by another three times, but unfortunately, all of these wind blades were chopped into pieces by Lu Ming's sword.
Soon Lu Ming rushed to the Ironback Mantis and said, "Just go and die!"
The Blue Star Sword drew an arc of sword with a breath of death and slashed towards the Ironback Mantis.
Seeing that it could not escape, the Ironback Mantis became more aggressive, with its terrifying pair of forelimbs curled up in front of its chest, obviously gathering strength.
It launched its attack just when Lu Ming's sword was about to chop down.
What surprised Lu Ming was that the Ironback Mantis' attack was not to block the Blue Star Sword, but to directly attack Lu Ming himself.
"You want to die with me? You deserve it!"
Lu Ming tapped his feet lightly and flew backwards.
At the same time, a black shadow shot out from his hand, which was an iron rod.
He asked blacksmith Li to remake this iron rod. Not only is it tougher and sharper, it also has a hollow middle, specially used for bleeding!
Under Lu Ming's magical power, the iron rod has the speed of a rocket.
The Ironback Mantis saw a black shadow flashing before its eyes, and it immediately waved its forelimbs to block it, but it was still a step too late.
The iron rod instantly hit one of its compound eyes, and at that moment, the iron-backed mantis trembled all over.
That is to say, its eyes are on the side, otherwise this iron rod could have completely taken its life.
Even so, Lu Ming's attack caused it great damage.
Lu Ming raised the corner of his mouth: "I want to see if you can still block my sword this time."
As his body swayed, Lu Ming appeared on the left side of the Ironback Mantis, because it was its left eye that was blinded just now.
The Ironback Mantis can no longer provide 360-degree defense without blind spots, so Lu Ming takes advantage of its blind spot to launch another attack.
Ever since Lu Ming disappeared from the Ironback Mantis's sight, it knew that the situation was not good. It swung its knife-like forelimbs quickly, forming a defensive net to protect itself.
Looking at the impenetrable defense network, Lu Ming was full of disdain.
"In front of my pupils, your struggle is just in vain."
Under the double pupils, the dancing phantom's forelimbs suddenly became clear.
The next moment, the long sword stabbed straight forward.
The Blue Star Sword broke through the heavy defenses and pierced through the Ironback Mantis's head.
At that moment, all the phantoms disappeared, and the Ironback Mantis was left with only a slight unconscious twitch.
The powerful level 28 Ironback Mantis, die!
"call"
Lu Ming breathed a sigh of relief. This iron-back mantis was really troublesome.
Although it took Lu Ming a lot of effort to kill the Ironback Mantis, his fatigue was soon washed away by the joy.
A ball of light rose from the body of the Ironback Mantis, which was exactly the beast soul that Lu Ming needed.
Lu Ming immediately summoned the Book of Life and absorbed the beast soul with ease.
Lu Ming obtained his fifth life beast - Ironback Mantis!