Rushing through the battle, Tara ighe Pikeake and Iron Samanders, who remained locked in fierce frontation, knowing she o get to the Elder Iron Samanders fast.

  Fortunately, her defeating the Greater Pikeake in one blow intimidated the other Pikeakes, so they steered clear of her on their initiative.

  Most of them cowed at her presenone of the Pikeake's previous aggression resent since all magical beats respoth.

  The Pikeakes were pleased to see her rush towards the aid of the Elder Iron Samanders, full of the belief their leader, the Sphyrna Pikeake, would be the oo deal with her.

  With the Pikeakes mostly giving way, she was able to navigate her way through the chaotic csh swiftly.

  Reag the sed Greater Pikeake, the gigantic fish immediately respoo her presence.

  Fear and suspi filled its red, bloodthirsty eyes as it looked at her warily, and the Elder Iron Samaook full advantage of its oppo, making a surprising leap of motion; the rge-ky-looking Samander moved at speed through the water that seemed far too agile for its appearance.

  The Greater Pikeake was taken by surprise, uimating the Elder Samander, who had been on the defensive sihe start to occupy it and its panion.

  All four Elder Samanders khe Sphyrna Pikeake wanted minimal involvement from the Greater Pikeakes, so it had sent them to deal with only one of the four Elder Samanders, and that one was downpying itself from the start to wait for an opportunity to strike.

  The Elder Samander had lost all hope and was going to go all out not too long ago. Yet, evehe two Greater Pikeakes were to as a duo to take down by itself, yet with one remaining and Tara distrag it from the front, it had allowed this gambit to pay off.

  Finally reag the Greater Pikeake, the Elder Iron Samander's brute strength ow be utilised to tto the thing with its cws, causing the rge fish tle as it swings its rge maw from side to side, trying to bite the Elder Iron Samander.

  However, despite its thrashing, the Elder Iron Samander could hold on. Tara, who was taking a ridiculous risk by trusting the Elder Samao tis hold on the rge fish, approached the head of the Greater Pikeakes, which began to bee even mgressive, making the Elder Samaruggle to tain it.

  heless, that was all Tara needed as she bottomed out her Qi to gee a final metallic spike, causing the Greater Pikeakes to scree desperation.

  Yet, that didn’t stop Tara from firing at point-bnk raowards its eye socket.

  Even though she was often inferior to it in cultivation, the attack was damaging; the Greater Pikeake was held firmly by the Elder Iron Samander and could not evade the metallic spike that punctured right into its eye.

  The Greater Pikeake yelled an enormous shriek, causing a pierg sound to echh the water. The thrashing became so intehat the Elder Iron Samander was finally dislodged.

  Near its gaping maw, Tara found herself in grave danger, as the thing remained alive despite having a rge spear deep into its eye socket.

  Tara's fortune downing the first Greater Pikeake was not present this time, as she realised despite the Pikeake boasting weak natural defehe thiess of their flesh that was bolstered many times by their superior cultivation made them extremely difficult to kill in usual circumstances.

  The Greater Pikeake's remaining eye appeared enraged as it looked at her. The thing opes maw as it tried to repeat the as of its predecessor, but this time, she had no preemptive means to stop it.

  Tara was only saved by the swift recovery of the Elder Iron Samander, whom she had assisted. Using the spear as leverage, the Elder Iron Samander gripped it with its powerful jaws, and with the fish who was trying to travel forward to attack her, its momentum only allowed the spear to dig even deeper into its eye socket, making it freeze as it shuddered.

  Tara thought the thing would never die as its other eye moved to aowledge the Elder Iron Samander as it attempted to swing its mouth towards its aggressor.

  Yet the Elder Iron Samander was determined as it pushed the spear even deeper. Despite the Greater Pikeake's high vitality, Qi Gatheris are still mortal, and the final ch from the spear digging through the skull to its brain was finally enough to end the Greater Pikeake.

  Ae the Elder Iron Samander carrying her in this enter, either her tribution, her closeo the Pikeake as it breathed its st or the fact it used the metal spear she geed from her Qi, for whatever one of those reasons caused her to receive credit for the kill acc to the notification she had received.

  [You have defeated {Greater Sikeake}, gaining 150 EXP. You are now 1007/1000 intressing to Level 4.]

  And with it, she had enough EXP to level up. Yet despite that, this was her the time nor pce to do so, so she had to dee the pressing notification indig if she wao level up.

  [gratutions, you currently have enough experience points to level up. Would you like tress to level 4?]

  Hurriedly seleg ‘No’, the Elder Iron Samander, who had just dowhe remaining Greater Pikeake alongside her, wasted no time as it rushed to aid its rades looking worse for wear.

  The Sphyrna Pikeake, though, was e this point and seemed done pying with its prey; the intense light from the crystal on its gigantic head seemed to glow even brighter as Tara withe horrifying sight of the Elder Iron Samahat had just dowhe Greater Pikeake by her side get sliced into two, its thick flesh uo put up the slightest resistance as a bde of ice split it open in a fsh, the surrounding water around its carcass freezing slightly.

  Tara felt hopeless seeing her powerful ally wiped out like that. Yet, she noticed that instead of pressing its advantage, Sphyrna Pikeake's eyes betrayed its true feelings as exhaustion filled its eyes.

  It made Tara realise the Qi expenditure on its ice abilities must be ridiculous. Tara knew firsthand the expense, and even with the Sphyrna Pikeake being double her cultivation, it had been utilising its skills many times during the battle. Even with its more advanced cultivation, it was still only a Qi Gatheri and did not possess endless Qi.

  It was the first time the Sphyrna Pikeake had shown any vulnerabilities during the flict. It was one magical beast of the age and experiehat the two remaining Elder Iron Samanders would never let su opportunity pass.

  Charging toward the Sphyrna Pikeake, which seemed more lethargic, slowed in its movement after utilising its Qi.

  The Elder Iron Samanders duo began to ed hits on the gigantic shark, causing light injuries to appear on the ginormous Pikeake.

  Such a sudden shift in momentum was arming. One moment, the Sphyrna Pikeake tore apart a strong enemy in one blow. The , it seemed to be pushed back by the aggressive attacks from the remaining two Elder Iron Samanders, not allowing the Sphyrna Pikeake any recovery time.

  Despite this, the Sphyrna Pikeake's sheer power and size made it seem invincible. Even with its Qi exhausted, the Sphyrna Pikeake proved a mighty beast with a superior bloodlio Elder Iron Samanders.

  Tara became desperate to think of what she could do, ahoughts drifted to the Earthray, how her poison allowed her to slow down a a far superior oppo.

  She had no idea the effectiveness of her poison towards the stronger Sphyrna Pikeake, yet she had to try.

  The only thing is {Poisoion} only worked if she was close. The Sphyrna Pikeake's thicker flesh and more substantial cultivation made her et a wound to get her poison in its bloodstream.

  Approag the Sphyrna Pikeake, the rge fish briefly gazed at her with a chilling look that screamed death. Reising her tributions to the battle, the Sphyrna Pikeake loathed her and wao tear her limb from limb.

  Yet, it had seen her capabilities and did not feel threatened by the metal spikes, which seemed her most deadly on. The Sphyrna Pikeake was far more durable than its Pikeake terparts, so Tara was not worth noting. Being only ihird stage of Qi Gathering, it dismissed Tara as the lesser threat, with the two Elder Iron Samanders occupying its attention.

  The two Elder Iron Samanders simirly did not believe Tara could do anything. They seemed to look at her pleadingly to back off, as if they wanted her to maintain her safety, thinking she was throwing her life away.

  However, Tara was determined. She khat if she didn’t do anything, the two Elder Iron Samanders were guarao lose eventually, and for some reason, the thought of this irked her greatly.

  Getting close to the Sphyrna Pikeake, she saw the fresh wounds caused by the two Elder Iron Samanders. Despite the frantients from the three, they seemed ridiculously fast and swift pared to her, who, despite seeming smaller and mile in appearance, was noticeably slower thahree, whose bulkier frames moved scarily fast. heless, she still achieved her goal of barely feeling poison dripping from her body as she managed just about to throw herself to climb all over the rge fish wounds.

  The Sphyrna Pikeake strangely invited her to do so, allowio crawl on its back as she preteo make attempts to attack it to hide her true iions of releasing her poison into its wounds.

  She soon discovered why, seeing that her cws ah seemed harmless to the gigantic fish; they were not even sharp enough to pierce deep into its skin. With the ing glint in its eye, she soon discovered exactly why it took the initiative to ence her to crawl on its back.

  The two Elder Iron Samanders seemed to scree annoya her to flee as she soon discovered their warnings held meaning as the gemstone on the giant fish head seemed to glow again.

  She realised the Elder Iron Samanders' warnings, but they were too te, and she suddenly found her sciousness frozen.

  ‘Haha. At least I got my poison into its wounds, I tried.’ Tara thought as she found her movements seemed to slow. Her mind began to grow hazier before her vision started to bee bck. She recalled something.

  ‘Wait, don’t I still have a level avaible?’ Tara thought, knowing she had a ce. She brought up the system, trying to push her to the level, hoping it would be the thing that saved her.

  She had a weird determination that didn’t allow her to back down.

  Tara could be stubborn sometimes, and it may have cost her life this time.

  Yet, if she still could make it out of this oara promised to grow strong to the point where she never found herself in such a situation again.