Insufficient balance

  Ling Chen fell to the ground, losing a small amount of life. He rolled once and stabilized his body. His hands grasping the Heart's Blade also clenched tightly. The knife that struck his head dealt 34 points of damage. The greedy giant clam's head defense was relatively low, only in comparison to its body. Ling Chen's basic attack power of 118 only managed to deal 34 damage, being offset by nearly three-quarters... but as long as he could break through its defenses, there was hope!!

  So the only way to defeat it is that every time it spits out its tongue, avoid it and step on the giant tongue in an instant, letting the giant tongue bring his body to the head position for attack...

  This is the only possibility... also makes it a possibility that ordinary players will never be able to achieve. Dodging the tongue spear's attack is already extremely difficult, and after dodging, jumping onto the tongue surface in the first moment, and then jumping onto its head top just before the giant tongue is fully retracted into the mouth... In this process, even if there is a slight mistake, it will be directly swallowed into the greedy giant clam's mouth or fall down, and be trampled by the greedy giant clam.

  And it was this ordinary player's fundamentally impossible attack method that became Ling Chen's only possibility.

  Whoosh!!

  Fearsome tongue darts shot out like flying arrows, Ling Chen's eyes narrowed into a thin slit, the tongue darts that were shooting towards him seemed to slow down suddenly in his line of sight, clearly revealing their trajectory...

  A sideways leap, the greedy giant octopus's tongue spear had already landed on the ground in front of him, only a hair's breadth away from his feet. In the brief moment when the tongue spear paused, he swiftly leapt forward with his body just touching the ground, firmly grasping his balance, and then followed the retraction of the tongue spear towards the head of the greedy giant octopus.

  Only one step away from the terrifying giant mouth, Ling Chen jumped up with all his might in this instant, accurately landing on top of the greedy giant clam's mouth, but unlike before, he didn't attack immediately. Instead, he took another step forward, jumping to a position between its two eyes. The Heartbreak Sword was swung, "Full Force Strike" slashing down with full force.

  Standing in the middle of the Greedy Giant Clam's two eyes, with the obstruction of both left and right eyes, he was thrown off after attacking three times continuously.

  Ling Chen, who had fallen to the ground, lost a small amount of health again. He steadied himself, lifted his head, and a cold smile spread across his face... Alright, I'll send you to hell bit by bit!!

  My body, my mind, my will... must hold on!!

  I must not die here!!

  Gasp!!!

  Although Ling Chen's two attacks only caused it slight harm, they had already enraged it. The huge cyan eyes released an even more ferocious and menacing glare, its body paused for a moment, before the two enormous hind legs suddenly kicked the ground...

  Ling Chen's body made an evasive movement subconsciously at that moment, but the next moment, the dark greenish-black shadow of the greedy giant clam did not fall towards him, instead it jumped high in place and then fell heavily back to the ground.

  Ling Chen: "!!!!!!"

  Ling Chen's eyes were fixed intently on the greedy giant clam's falling body, and in his mind flashed one of its most terrifying skills - Shattered Stone Rain.

  Just as Ling Chen's body was about to hit the ground under the greedy giant clam's fall, he jumped high into the air.

  BOOM!!

  A loud rumble, the entire space violently shook, and the fragmented rocks and dust on the surrounding stone walls fell down with a rustling sound. As Ling Chen landed, the ground was still trembling, almost causing him to lose his balance, if he hadn't jumped up in time, this would have been enough to make him lose his balance and fall, or even be stunned. With all his might, he struggled to maintain his balance, and Ling Chen made a desperate retreat backwards.

  Gasp!!

  The greedy giant clam's body shone with a thick, heavy yellow light. As it continued to sway on the ground, countless pebbles seemed to come from nowhere and heavily pounded the ground from above, forming a dense meteor shower of pebbles.

  Boom boom boom boom boom boom...

  Disaster debris fell down with a terrible crashing sound, completely enveloping Ling Chen's body. Ling Chen didn't lift his head, because the time he used to lift his head was enough for him to be hit by several falling rocks. He closed his eyes and listened to every gust of wind near his body, his body twisting in a posture that completely defied human physiology, sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes left, sometimes right, his entire body creating a ring-shaped shadow that couldn't be seen clearly...

  No one could see clearly, he made eight large or small shifts in two seconds, and then rushed out of the dense falling rock crevice unscathed, his body stuck to the edge of the wall... The range of the falling rock rain was 20 meters around the greedy giant octopus's body, he successfully escaped, and when his tense body relaxed for a moment, if it wasn't for leaning against the wall, he almost fell to the ground.

  A greedy giant clam with a life of 800,000, so far he has only caused less than 150 points of damage to it... and during this period, he has narrowly escaped death several times.

  Even so, he was absolutely unwilling to give up. The word "give up" had never existed in his dictionary.

  After unleashing the gravel rain, the greedy giant clam will enter a stiff state for at least three seconds. However, even if this stiff time is extended by ten times, it would be of no use to Ling Chen, as he cannot break through the greedy giant clam's defense. This brief period can only be used to adjust his mentality, allowing his tense nerves and spirit to relax for a short while.

  Gasp!!

  A greedy giant clam that had recovered from its rigid state made a "pounce", diving towards the location where Ling Chen was, and then crashed into the wall that Ling Chen was leaning against with a loud "boom". Ling Chen took two consecutive long-range gazes, dodging the greedy giant clam's pounce and the shockwave on the ground, before quickly retreating backwards to a distance of exactly ten meters from the greedy giant clam...

  Because he vaguely inferred that at this distance, the greedy giant clam would easily launch a tongue stab.

  Whoosh!!

  As he wished, the greedy giant clam's tongue shot over with a strong gust of wind. Ling Chen, who was prepared, flashed and jumped, once again stepping onto the giant tongue face. With the momentum of the tongue, he jumped to the head of the greedy giant clam and struck three full-force blows, "Brush Brush Brush".

  The first two times missed, the third time was a dazzling blue damage, an overwhelming strike that exceeded all of Ling Xuan's previous total damage.

  Under the high defense of Greedy Giant Clam, the effect of burst damage far outweighs that of critical strike damage.

  After three attacks, Ling Chen was thrown down heavily. He quickly pulled away from the Greedy Giant Clam and then swallowed a bottle of red medicine to restore his life. Frowning tightly, he ran rapidly around the Greedy Giant Clam's body within a ten-meter range, waiting for its next tongue stab to arrive.

  Boom!

  BOOM!!

  BOOM!!

  Bam! Bam! Boom! Boulder Impact! Bam! Bam! Rockfall...

  Ling Chen's body dodged and weaved through various attacks that could easily kill him, his breathing growing heavier, but his spirit never wavered. His dignity, his willpower would not allow him to fall here. But what made him start to feel a chill was that this greedy giant octopus seemed to have learned its lesson... For two whole minutes, it hadn't used its tongue stab again!

  The BOSS of the fairy spirit has begun to have a certain level of intelligence, could it be that this giant toad has thoroughly understood that Ling Chen only has the opportunity to hurt it when it releases its tongue thorn?

  If so, then he really has no hope at all.

  Whoosh!!

  Just as he was starting to get anxious, a huge tongue darted out at him suddenly.

  This sudden blow that could make ordinary people despair made Ling Chen excited, almost falling to the ground while running. This tongue stab was not just a simple attack, it also meant that this greedy giant clam's IQ was not so mature, still using a nearly mechanical fighting style. Ling Chen barely dodged and jumped up again, killing towards the greedy giant clam's head.

  The Greedy Giant Clam's most frequent move is the Slap, followed by Tongue Thrust. However, its limited intelligence causes it to use Tongue Thrust much less frequently, sometimes using it only twice or thrice in a minute, and other times not using it at all for several minutes. Ling Chen focuses all his attention on the Greedy Giant Clam, seizing every precious opportunity to accurately grab onto it, then unleashing three consecutive attacks on its head...

  …………

  …………

  Once, twice, thrice... ten times, twenty times...

  All the blows were perfectly dodged by Ling Chen, and the boulders and scattered rocks did not touch his body once. The low-frequency release of the large-scale rockfall allowed for an average of only one occurrence every ten minutes, each time letting Ling Chen tread on the edge of death, but also never truly killing him...

  The greedy giant clam originally released its tongue spines several times a minute, but eventually averaged only three releases every two minutes.

  And every time, Ling Chen accurately grasped the opportunity, miraculously... or rather terrifyingly without any mistakes or omissions. At the same time, each of the three attacks averaged around 100 points of damage per round.

  The life value of the greedy giant clam is falling extremely slowly in this form... Half an hour, it lost 4,000 life values, and half an hour later, its life fell to 72,000.

  Ling Chen, apart from losing life each time he was thrown to the ground, had not been touched by the greedy giant octopus's body or attacks from start to finish.

  An hour, a total of 8,000 greedy giant clams' life values were shaved off...

  If I can keep going like this... ten hours... just nine more hours...

  Maybe it can be conquered!!

  Another narrow escape from the falling rocks, Ling Chen was drenched in sweat, he half squatted on the ground, taking advantage of the greedy giant clam's brief stiffness to pant heavily.

  For an hour, his heartstrings had been stretched taut to the point of breaking, and such mental exhaustion had already exceeded the limits of ordinary people. That he could hold on until now was already enough to be unbelievable. Ordinary people would feel dizzy and weak all over after less than ten minutes in this state of high mental tension, and they would hate nothing more than to fall asleep.

  Ling Chen was also mentally exhausted and wanted to take a long nap, but if he really wanted to defeat the greedy giant clam, under no other unexpected circumstances and variables, he still had to hold on for nine hours... These nine hours, as long as his spirit relaxed for half a moment, he would step into death...

  Nine hours...

  Can I really hold on... Ling Chen lowered his head, silently staring at his palm as it slowly clenched.

  Give me faith and strength!!

  Struggling with you on the edge of death time and time again, defeating the god of death time and time again...... What's my little mental fatigue compared to that!!