The power of this punch was terrifying, but it also drained all of Lin Yanran's strength.

After all, she was just an ordinary high-tier martial artist. Although her vitality far exceeded others at her level, under this strike, even her lips lost their color, turning extremely pale.

Her body was so weak that she almost fell to the ground.

Clearly, this level of combat skill wasn't something she could use freely at the moment.

Su Bai quickly rushed to Lin Yanran's side and caught her in his arms:

"Are you crazy? You dared to block a dying counterattack from a Bronze High Tier? Do you have a death wish?"

Lin Yanran's face was deathly pale, but she looked at Su Bai tenderly and managed to squeeze out a faint smile:

"I won't allow anything to happen to you, no matter the circumstances!"

Scenes of her past with Su Bai flashed through her mind.

In our first year of junior high, we met at school for the first time. You saw me alone and came over to play with me, make me laugh, and help me get familiar with the school.

My dad never came home since I could remember, and my mom only returned once or twice a year.

They left me alone in my hometown to study, with no one to care for me.

Others thought I was strange because I didn't talk much or smile, saying I was weird or sick.

But only you tried everything to make me smile when you saw I couldn't.

When you saw I didn't like to talk, you silently stayed by my side.

In this world, you're my only friend.

Lin Yanran's whole body felt like it was being torn apart, as the side effects of using advanced combat skills beyond her level fully manifested.

The immense pain and emotions erupted at this moment.

Her eyes reddened, tears flowed uncontrollably, her shoulders trembled, and she struggled to speak:

"Su Bai... promise me, don't get hurt... okay? Don't leave me..."

"I'm scared...!"

"I'm scared... something might happen to you..."

She wasn't afraid of death, but she was truly terrified of what she would do if something happened to Su Bai.

Without Su Bai, how dull this world would be!

Actually, Lin Yanran was very timid.

But just now, when she saw the Nether Cat pouncing towards Su Bai, her heart panicked.

Instinctively, her body moved.

She stood in front of Su Bai and used her strongest combat skill.

Su Bai held Lin Yanran tightly, his eyes full of pain and complexity.

"Don't talk, don't talk..."

......

Little Eight saw that Su Bai had no time to notice it, so it quietly approached the corpse of the Bronze High Tier Nether Cat, pried open its head, and swallowed the beast core in one gulp.

After swallowing the Bronze High Tier beast core, Little Eight's whole body surged with vitality, and it lay on the ground, slowly absorbing the energy from the beast core.

At the same time, its body gradually grew larger.

A few minutes later, it grew from the size of a small car to the size of a van.

Meanwhile, Su Bai also felt a warm current flowing through his body, continuously increasing his physical strength.

But when only a third of this warm current remained, it couldn't be digested and could only lie dormant in his blood.

Little Eight excitedly ran to Su Bai to show off.

"Roar roar roar!" (Master, I've gotten stronger again!)

Su Bai held Lin Yanran, his face serious.

"Roar roar roar!" (Really strong!)

Su Bai still held Lin Yanran, calmly analyzing the battlefield.

"......"

Little Eight felt bored and simply ran to the nearby battlefield, digging out and eating beast cores one by one.

Anyway, the beast cores here were free, so the master shouldn't be angry.

I'm already a mature tamed beast and should learn to find food on my own.

Although the energy contained in ordinary Nether Cat beast cores wasn't much, even a mosquito is meat!

Little Eight, the glutton, wouldn't complain about the taste of the food, as long as there was something to eat!

......

On the battlefield.

The deputy commander's chest had a deep wound from left chest to abdomen, looking terrifying.

But the Nether Cat he was fighting wasn't in much better shape, with thirteen knife wounds, each cutting to the bone!

"Huff huff huff!"

The deputy commander panted heavily, his eyes fiercely fixed on the Nether Cat before him. His vitality was less than a tenth of what it was at the start, but he still frantically mobilized the remaining vitality for one last attack!

The Nether Cat was now half-crouched on the ground, its scarlet eyes locked onto the deputy commander's every move.

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The deputy commander sneered, "Beast! Today is your death day!"

His whole body erupted with vitality, and with the activation of his combat skill, the Nether Cat was powerless to resist, its large head rolling to the ground.

The second Bronze High Tier Nether Cat—dead!

......

In the battlefield of the three prodigies.

Luo Yonghao had twenty-eight wounds all over his body, with three almost overlapping previous injuries. Even with his defense, he was beaten to the point of lying on the ground, unable to get up, with only his eyes able to move.

Lei Yunxiao's spear was broken, and now he used the remaining half as a crutch, half-kneeling on the ground. His upper body clothing was torn to shreds by the Nether Cat, bloodied and gasping heavily.

Zhang Manni's quiver was long empty, and she now held a double-edged knife from her waist, her body covered in wounds, legs trembling as she stood, eyes full of vigilance towards the Nether Cat.

Lei Yunxiao looked at Zhang Manni standing in front of him and Luo Yonghao and shouted angrily:

"Zhang Manni, run! Don't worry about us!"

At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared beside him.

Su Bai said mockingly, "Run?"

"Now the one that should be running is this Nether Cat!"

As Su Bai's words fell, the massive Little Eight appeared between Zhang Manni and the Nether Cat.

Little Eight mechanically raised its front paw and then slammed it down.

"Smack!"

With one blow, it crushed the head of the Bronze Tier Nether Cat!

After pocketing the beast core, Su Bai no longer paid attention to this side but instead turned his gaze back to the battlefield of the instructors and students.

At this time, only three Bronze Mid Tier Nether Cats remained, and under the siege of eight instructors, they were no longer a threat.

There were still dozens of ordinary Nether Cats, but they were divided into several groups by the students, and slaughtering them was only a matter of time.

The deputy commander, also observing the overall situation, saw that the battle was coming to an end and slowly exhaled.

How many people died in this battle?

The deputy commander didn't know yet, but he knew it was a lot!

More than half of the people must have died in this battle!

As the last ordinary Nether Cat was slain, cheers erupted.

"We won!"

"We won the battle!"

"Hahaha, we won!!!"

"Ahahaha!"

Wild laughter!

Wild joy!

Instantly, cheers rose everywhere!

Countless students squatted on the ground, hugging each other and crying!

The emotions pent up in the hearts of the survivors erupted at this moment.

The deputy commander also looked at these students with a face full of relief.

Having gone through this baptism of blood and fire, the once young faces now bore a few more traces of sharpness and solemnity, no longer the panic and naivety of just stepping onto the battlefield.

Overall, everyone had grown, becoming more like warriors. The deputy commander knew this batch of soldiers was made!

In the future, they would surely become the new backbone of humanity!

After fifteen years in the military, he had never been this happy, this exhilarated!

Surveying the devastated battlefield, littered with the corpses of Nether Cats and humans.

Blood flowed on the ground, staining the originally black earth a deep red.