"Lord! Beware of a trap!!!"
Yi Chen shouted frantically.
The terror and panic in his voice were like a bucket of cold water thrown over King Chu's flaming rage.
He looked again at the White Ape, completely buried beneath the yellow earth.
Surging vital force brewed underground. As he pressed down on the White Ape, it felt as though he were pinning down a formidable lifeform on the verge of breaking from its shell!
No.
A hot potato, a chestnut pulled from the fire!
At that thought, monstrous waves rose in King Chu's heart, and the boiling Boundless Sea surged backward into the heavens.
"How could it be possible?"
A peak Great Demon had endured a Martial Saint hammering it for half a day without falling—already an incomprehensible thing. Yet after all his effort, its vital force was still rising?
Could it be... a breakthrough in the midst of battle?!
In a flash of lightning.
King Chu's pupils shrank sharply.
The Blue Lake waters swept aside by his fist wind came roaring back, countless whitecaps churning atop the tide and gathering into a white wall, like a crazily shrinking beast-fighting arena.
The roar of the tide was the audience's clamorous cries; the tide heads were fences squeezing away all room to survive, telling everyone that once they entered, there was only one ending: slaughter, slaughter to their hearts' content! Only the victor could walk out alive!
Run or fight?
The White Ape had emerged from nowhere, contended with the Flood Dragon for the throne, and was connected to the Furnace. There were too many unknowns.
King Chu's mind waged a battle between heaven and man. In that instant of hesitation, the White Ape's vital force rose another level!
Golden light flashed beneath the earth.
Golden Body!
The Golden Body had