"Grandma, are you all right?"
Chao Tianxiang slowly woke up, and Meng Yiran helped her to her feet.
"Leave quickly. It isn't safe here. The Titan Giant Ape might come back."
"Let's find your grandfather first!"
Meng Yiran nodded and helped Chao Tianxiang away. At this moment, Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong were the first to regain consciousness.
Seeing the shattered ruins all around them, they could not help asking, "What exactly happened?"
"It's good that you've finished absorbing them. Xiao Wu has been taken by the Titan Giant Ape. I'm going after her. Once Teacher Zhao wakes up, you all need to leave the Star Dou Great Forest immediately."
Ning Rongrong asked, "What about you?"
"Don't worry. I'll be fine."
With that, Bai Ying activated his Flying Soul Tool and flew into the distance. The central region of the Star Dou Great Forest lay by that lake. It was filled with life energy, and few had ever set foot there since ancient times, because it was home to the two Soul Beast Kings, the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape.
Bai Ying was using a Flying Soul Tool, and its speed was no slower than that of some flying Soul Beasts.
"Getting closer. Closer and closer."
Bai Ying could sense the Titan Giant Ape's aura. Under the pressure of that terrifying presence, every Soul Beast kept far away, so not a single Soul Beast appeared along the way.
Soon, Bai Ying spotted Xiao Wu and the Titan Giant Ape. From afar, Xiao Wu's entire body was enveloped in a layer of blood-red light. A yellow Hundred-year Spirit Ring and a purple Thousand-year Spirit Ring appeared around her.
But beneath that blood-red glow, the shadow of a third Spirit Ring emerged.
"Looks like my theory was right."