Hao Ren froze the instant he saw the girl charging out of the woods and subconsciously blurted out, "Lily?"
However, the girl who looked exactly like Lily seemed not to have heard him at all. Wrapped in wind and snow, she tore through several hundred meters of dense forest, pounced down like a tiger landing, and stopped ten meters in front of Hao Ren. She then swept her gaze over the wolf pack, which was strewn with wounded members, and glared furiously at Hao Ren. "Where did you come from?! Why did you beat my little brothers up like this?!"
Hao Ren had barely registered what was happening when his vision blurred. The wolf-eared girl had already launched herself at him. He only had time to instinctively raise his arm to block before he felt as if he had been hit head-on by a high-speed bullet train. Even though he instinctively planted his feet, it did nothing. His entire body was sent flying, spinning more than a dozen times through the air and smashing through four or five trees before finally hitting the ground.
His arm was numb and aching, and half the bones in his body felt horribly out of place. Hao Ren hurriedly flexed his arm and finally confirmed that he had not suffered any serious injuries. The light of Rigid Shield was coursing over his arm. The shield had actually canceled out more than half the impact. Otherwise, even with his current steel-and-iron body, taking a full-force strike from the Husky spirit head-on would definitely not have been so simple.
Just as he caught his breath, the "Werewolf girl" in the distance shook her fist and looked over. Her face was full of surprise, evidently because this was the first time she had seen someone emerge unscathed