"Take this rotten wood apart!"
Longface roared furiously, grabbing the black wood with both hands and yanking with all his strength. Across from him, Little Stone also wrapped his arms around the wood and gritted his teeth as he pulled. Ripples spread across the surface of the black sunken wood, its sheen flashing wildly. The formation and secret techniques were running madly, resisting the destruction.
Yet the cage made from pitch-black sunken wood was incredibly sturdy. It creaked under their pulling, the formation flared brilliantly, but it simply would not break!
The Snake Demon Boy jumped up, but before he could act, he saw the crowd packed together in maddening congestion. He had no choice but to jump back down and return to Old Hui Xian's side, acting as a qualified Guardian Spirit Beast.
Little Stone hugged the wood with both hands and leaned his body back, raising one foot to brace against the black wooden cage so he could exert more force.
"Brother Face...! Why is this cage so tough?!"
"Good material! Senior Brother Stone, put your back into it! Tear it down and bring it back to the mountain—we could build houses with it, and they wouldn't rot for a thousand years!"
Longface's arm muscles bulged as he was already calculating where the lumber could be used. The lavishly spending Heavenly King had completely turned into a shrewd, penny-pinching mortal. He did not care about its gloomy properties; at worst, he could recite a few more scriptures and refine it.
With Longface and Little Stone exerting force outside, the girl trapped in the cage felt less pressure. She suddenly flipped over and lay sideways within the cage. Fire-aspect dragon energy surged and burned, damaging the sunken wood. Her hands and feet pushed with all their might, joining Longface