Xiao Wu Is Taken

As he flung Xiao Wu away, Tang San lashed out with a flying kick, striking Ma Hongjun's large, round butt hard. That kick rivaled Cristiano Ronaldo's bicycle kick and Beckham's Full Moon Scimitar.

At the same time, Tang San used the momentum to roll away.

At the final critical instant, he escaped the Titan Giant Ape's pouncing range.

By then, Dai Mubai had long since been awakened by the Titan Giant Ape's roar.

Bai Ge's chop had not been heavy, and Dai Mubai's resistance exceeded Bai Ge's expectations.

After all, his martial soul was the divine beast White Tiger. Faced with a life-or-death crisis, Dai Mubai reacted immediately upon opening his eyes and regaining consciousness!

Seeing the Titan Giant Ape swooping down from the air, Dai Mubai let out a low roar like a tiger's howl. Power surged through his waist and abdomen as he sprang forward like a fierce tiger leaping across a ravine!

As he flew toward Zhu Zhuqing, Dai Mubai extended his long arm as if plucking the moon from the heavens and pulled Zhu Qing into his embrace.

At the same time, he fired a White Tiger Light Wave at the ground, blasting a deep pit into the earth.

The instant Zhu Zhuqing entered his arms, he held her tight and dove straight into the pit.

At this critical moment between life and death, Dai Mubai unleashed an unprecedented level of adaptability and combat awareness.

He had almost instantly thought of this method. By hiding beneath the ground, they would not be crushed flat.

The pit in the ground had been created precisely for that purpose.

Then there was Bai Ge. After releasing the Crystal Wall, he immediately used Teleportation and arrived beside Ning Rongrong.

However, after using two skills at full strength in succession, he could not catch his breath.

But after only a moment's recovery, the wings of the Golden Saint Armor and the wings of the Silver Emperor Skyfalcon External Soul Bone spread wide. With four wings unfurled, Bai Ge carried Ning Rongrong into the air.

While he was at it, he kicked Oscar into the air.

"Boom!"

The Titan Giant Ape crashed to the ground.

But Tang San, who had rolled away the instant the Titan Giant Ape came down, felt his heart turn cold—

Because he clearly saw one of the Titan Giant Ape's forepaws suddenly rise, catching Xiao Wu, whom he had flung into the air, in its hand.

"No—let Xiao Wu go!"

Seeing Xiao Wu fall into the Titan Giant Ape's grasp, Tang San's eyes instantly reddened. He kicked hard off the ground and shot into the air, both hands flashing across his waist like lightning.

More than ten streaks of cold light rose at once, shooting straight toward the Titan Giant Ape's eyes.

The eyes were one of the few weak points on the Titan Giant Ape's body.

At that moment, Tang San's heart sank to rock bottom.

He knew perfectly well that with the Titan Giant Ape's strength, the slightest squeeze of its hand would turn Xiao Wu into a bloody, white mess on the ground—a mass of mosaic.

Zhao Wuji finally landed as well, and he too witnessed Xiao Wu falling into the Titan Giant Ape's grasp.

Zhao Wuji threw back his head and roared. His seventh Soul Ring lit up, and a profound black radiance erupted.

Intense black light instantly enveloped Zhao Wuji's entire body.

Immediately afterward, his body began to undergo a tremendous transformation.

After activating the Vajra Bear Avatar, Zhao Wuji's already exceptionally burly body rapidly expanded. In the blink of an eye, he had grown over five meters tall!

The muscles across his body swelled in an exaggerated fashion, while tawny fur grew wildly. He transformed into a genuine Vajra Bear.

Once his body had fully taken bear form, the tawny fur instantly changed color, gleaming with brilliant golden light.

Having transformed into the Vajra Bear, Zhao Wuji lunged without hesitation at the arm holding Xiao Wu.

Martial Soul Avatar! This skill was the strongest trump card of every Soul Master above rank seventy!

What Zhao Wuji had displayed was the true form of the Vajra Bear martial soul.

But this was also Zhao Wuji's final resort.

At the same time, the Titan Giant Ape made only one simple movement, rendering Tang San's fully unleashed hidden weapons useless.

It closed its eyes.

"Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink..."

Amid a series of dense, crisp sounds like metal striking metal, every hidden weapon flying toward the Titan Giant Ape's eyes was blocked by its eyelids.

At the same time, the Titan Giant Ape suddenly straightened up. The huge hand gripping Xiao Wu dodged Zhao Wuji's charge, while its other arm met Zhao Wuji head-on. The two collided with no tricks or feints whatsoever.

Boom—

Zhao Wuji was indeed formidable after using his Martial Soul Avatar. With his defense increased by two hundred percent and the Vajra Bear's true form empowering him, he was not sent flying this time.

Amid the thunderous crash, Zhao Wuji staggered back seven or eight steps before barely steadying himself, while the Titan Giant Ape seemed completely unaffected.

It let out another furious roar.

A black shockwave blew Tang San, who was unleashing hidden weapons with all his might, along with his weapons, far away. He slammed heavily into a large tree.

"No!" Xiao Wu cried out as she watched Tang San get blown away.

The Titan Giant Ape lowered its head to look at Xiao Wu in its grasp, then let out another low roar. It leaped into the air, and with a single bound, it was already a hundred meters away, vanishing into the forest.

Bai Ge slowly descended from the air while holding Ning Rongrong. Ning Rongrong's little face was deathly pale, and she clung tightly to Bai Ge, refusing to let go.

The little girl had truly been terrified. Never before had she felt death so close to her. For the first time, she understood what "death" truly meant.

Since childhood, the two Titled Douluo had treated her as if she might melt in their mouths or break in their hands. She had never truly experienced the killing intent of a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse.

But the Titan Giant Ape was completely different. Its savage, feral killing intent made her vividly feel the despair, helplessness, darkness, and coldness of impending death.

It was the terror of a life about to end.

Bai Ge continued comforting Ning Rongrong. He knew very well that Xiao Wu would be fine.

Under that premise, Ning Rongrong was his first concern.

In fact, in the original story, many people only remembered that Ning Rongrong wanted to hire Tang San to kill Dai Mubai, but they forgot the reason. After the spirit fighting match ended, the fat man had invited Mu Bai to a brothel, and Dai Mubai had sternly refused because he wanted to pursue his fiancée, Zhu Zhuqing.

But he still gave himself away. Zhu Qing came to despise Mu Bai because of it, calling him disgusting.

After returning to the academy, Ning Rongrong gloated and mocked Dai Mubai for failing to win back his wife.

Already on the verge of losing control, Dai Mubai became so enraged that he spoke without thinking, even uttering the words "rape first, kill afterward."

He even struck Ning Rongrong.

Given Ning Rongrong's status, she completely lost it.

In truth, based on those four words alone, it would not have been excessive for Bone Douluo to kill Dai Mubai and carry his head to the Star Luo Imperial Family to demand an explanation.

Star Luo would even have had to apologize and offer compensation.

But the little girl did not truly understand what killing someone meant.

She had no real concept of it.

But now, she understood.