Meng Chao gazed deeply at Lü Siya.
He branded that wisp of black flame into his heart.
He swallowed back the blood that had filled his mouth after he bit through his lips and tongue.
Using blood hot as magma to cool his ever-scorching nerves, blood vessels, and spirit meridians.
Then, with a low roar, he forcibly tore free his legs, which felt as though they were tangled in Tree Root's grasp, and lunged toward the escape route Lü Siya had opened.
Countless green tides and blood-red patterns appeared around Lü Siya's right eye.
They threw themselves at the black flame one after another.
Her right eye once again became crystalline and blood-red.
She became "Lü Siya" again.
And tried to shatter and pull out the two stalactites piercing her body.
However, deep within the green armor, the last wisp of stubborn power remained active, desperately interfering with her movements.
She had only just pulled out the first stalactite.
When the second stabbed even deeper, wedging itself tightly into the gaps between her bones.
After great difficulty, she shattered the second stalactite and picked out the sharp-edged fragments one by one, only for her feet to be bitten by jagged stalagmites that had silently spread beneath them.
By the time she finally broke free from every rock's entanglement.
Meng Chao had already vanished from the karst cave and crawled deep into the rock fissures.
Meng Chao heard an enraged roar behind him.
He sensed the entire underground cave network trembling, on the verge of a total collapse.
Thousands upon thousands of vines and green tides were also chasing after him like raging floodwaters and savage beasts.
But he could not turn back.
He could only crawl forward on all fours with every ounce of strength he had.
He crawled over