I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 93 - 92: Preliminary Round (Part 10)

On the water’s surface, Cui, Ye, and Qi were as anxious as ants on a hot pan. Judging by the turbulence of the river, Li Xing was certainly in a fierce battle with the Crocodile Beast.

The river’s Water Beasts were disturbed, creating chaotic ultrasonic waves and mental interference everywhere, even Qi Ming, with excellent spiritual power, couldn’t discern the situation underwater.

Everyone was sweating for Li Xing. Now, they didn’t hope for her victory, they only hoped she could escape the Crocodile Beast’s entanglement in time. If she stayed too long without breathing, she might suffocate to death.

Cui Tianxiao was undoubtedly the most remorseful one, regretting deeply that he didn’t hold back Li Xing.

"I’ll go down and check!"

"You can’t go!" Ye Qingting, continuously using the Ice Elemental Spirit to freeze the river surface and provide a foothold for everyone, was consuming his Primordial Spirit immensely. Coupled with his worry for Li Xing, his face looked extremely grim at this moment.

Cui Tianxiao’s eyes were bloodshot as he roared, "Why!"

"The situation underwater is unclear, and you don’t have a breathing apparatus. What will you accomplish by going down there? If you also get trapped, will it be my and Qi Ming’s turn next? One goes, one gets stuck, are the four of us lining up to die?"

If Li Xing had already met misfortune, he couldn’t let Ah Xiao go down either. Losing two friends in a day was a blow he couldn’t bear...

Ye Qingting took a deep breath to steady his mind. "What we can do right now is wait!"

Qi Ming: "Brother Ye, what if Sister Xing needs our hel—help, then—then..."

Qi Ming felt that Ye Qingting’s decision was the most rational, but he also worried that if Li Xing was waiting for them to rescue her, their inaction would delay the chance to help her?

This was also Ye Qingting’s most troubling issue. He closed his eyes, and when he reopened them, his gaze was filled with undisguised pain and determination.

"She won’t, she still has the emergency Transmission Array as a trump card. She’s so clever, she wouldn’t stubbornly fight the Crocodile Beast to the death."

Cui Tianxiao shouted, face red and neck thick: "What if things happened suddenly and she didn’t have a chance to activate it?"

Ye Qingting glared: "Obey orders! I’m the captain, I’ll take responsibility if something happens. If something happened to Li Xing... I’d drain the river just to find that Crocodile and avenge her!"

Just at that moment, an enormous roar mixed with spiritual pressure, carrying waves of sound, spread from the riverbed to the surface.

It was the roar of the Crocodile Beast. The three watched the center of the sound wave with pale faces, fearing they would see Li Xing’s body float up the next second. But the actual situation was far more shocking than they imagined.

A giant Water Beast, like a long whale emerging from the sea, leapt straight from the riverbed to the surface, and on its back was a person.

Cui Tianxiao rubbed his eyes, confirmed he wasn’t seeing things, then excitedly shouted:

"Xing—!"

The atmosphere in the livestream room reached a climax.

//Ahhhhh—I’m dead! Li Xing is mighty! The Unyielding Squad is mighty!//

//Oh my gosh! I’ve got goosebumps!//

//Real-life Beauty and the Beast, love it!//

//Breaking news! Beauty Knight and the Heaven-ranked Crocodile battle three hundred rounds, hurry to Livestream Room 84 for the spectacle!//

Without suspense, network lag hit Livestream Room 84 again, and the administrator chose to let it be.

When Li Xing appeared, the school’s assembly hall erupted with enthusiastic cheers. The hanging hearts finally settled down, someone nervously sipped tea to calm down.

Li Xing exhaled the foul air from her chest like a whale spouting, and shouted to Qi Ming:

"Xiao Ming, talisman array—!"

Qi Ming snapped out from a daze and quickly used his spiritual power to connect to the talisman array, activating the already set trapping array. A spot on the water’s surface lit with the unique golden glow of an array, fleeting but enough for Li Xing to see the position clearly.

Li Xing twisted the saber handle with force, the Heavenly Wolf Saber buried to the hilt turned half a circle in the Crocodile Beast’s neck, causing it to let out another scream of pain.

To alleviate the pain, it had to twist its body along the force of the Heavenly Wolf Saber, lunging towards the direction of the trapping array, landing precisely within it.

Qi Ming popped another Blue Medicine in his mouth, his spiritual power surged towards the trapping array without reservation. His task now was to ensure the Great Array’s normal operation, trapping the Crocodile Beast, and buying the three teammates more time. Strike it when it’s down!

With Li Xing’s appearance, the previously dejected team members were now ignited as if on an adrenaline rush, dispelling the heavy and volatile atmosphere.

What of a level thirteen Crocodile Beast? Isn’t it still driven into the array by Li Xing? If she alone can subdue it, now with more manpower, capturing the Crocodile Beast is not just a fantasy.

Now it’s a Heaven Rank target, it’s up to them to see if they can deliver a fatal blow before it escapes.

"Deep Blue Ice Dragon—!"

"Violent Falling Thunder—!"

"Ice Arrow—!"

"Thunder Burst—!"

Ye Qingting and Cui Tianxiao turned their previous frustration and worry into elemental attacks, unleashing them without holding back on the Crocodile Beast.

Trapped by the array, Gustav couldn’t dive underwater to evade attacks, relying only on its thick keratin scales to defend itself.

But Ye Qingting and Cui Tianxiao deliberately targeted areas not covered by keratin scales. Without thick skin protection, the elemental attacks penetrated directly to flesh and internal organs, inflicting massive damage on the Crocodile Beast.

Momentarily stunned by the swift kicks of that particularly crafty bipedal juvenile, it wasn’t until it was battered by both the Ice and Thunder elemental attacks, bleeding profusely, that Gustav remembered it too had an Elemental Attribute.

Seeing its body twist, starting from its forehead’s Heavenly Horn, its entire body rapidly hardened into a tree-like state.

The originally injured and bleeding skin healed, the beast’s body completely transformed, resembling a millennia-old iron tree.

By sacrificing mobility, it had maximally enhanced its defensive power. Now, Gustav was truly impervious to knife and spear.

Ice Dragons and Thunder Arrows collided endlessly against the Crocodile Beast’s body but couldn’t cause the slightest harm anymore.

Sweat beaded on Qi Ming’s forehead, the replenishment speed of the Blue Medicine couldn’t keep up with the array’s spiritual power consumption. The Great Array was on the verge of collapsing.

If the Crocodile Beast escaped confinement, it would be like a dragon returning to the sea or a tiger to the mountains. Once it regained its strength, it would undoubtedly enact a thunderous revenge on them.

Next time facing Gustav’s surprise attack, they might not be so lucky.

Just when everyone was at their wits’ end, Li Xing somersaulted from the Crocodile Beast’s neck to its forehead, and kicked at the Heavenly Horn.

In the tree-state Crocodile Beast, although it couldn’t be harmed by a thousand pounds of force, Li Xing had observed that the Heavenly Horn was one of Crocodile Beast’s weak points. Even if she couldn’t break it, she could still make it hurt.

Sure enough, the Crocodile Beast’s tightly shut mouth slowly cracked open a small gap from the kick, emitting a dull and labored huffing sound.

"Three Thousand Lotus—!"

Three Thousand Lotus, in tune with Li Xing’s thoughts, appeared instantly at the call. Its lotus bud-like true form of the Fire King zipped into the Crocodile Beast’s mouth through the small gap.

Wood feeds fire, fire consumes wood. The blazing flames of Three Thousand Lotus are simply the bane of the tree-state Crocodile Beast, easily dominating it.

Within a few breaths, Gustav’s internal organs were scorched clean by the Fire Lotus, leaving only an empty shell.

Even if it was completely petrified, if its internal organs took irreversible damage, it would still die.

Rolling black smoke with a burnt odor billowed out from its mouth and nostrils. Gustav, in pain, wailed as its life force rapidly drained away without the strength to transform.

A once-great Lord of the River, the Crocodile Beast Gustav, fell here.