Crimson Spirit Pearl

Crack crack crack crack!

As the crimson figure shifted slightly, a dense barrage of bone-cracking sounds rang out like rain.

Amid the cracking of bones, the enormous crimson figure rose to its feet with extreme slowness. The instant it stood up, the joints throughout its body still seemed extraordinarily stiff!

"This is..."

Ye Zhen's gaze suddenly tightened. The Monster Beast before him stood three zhang tall, with incomparably long arms that stretched to two zhang when it stood. Its fur was the color of flames, and its pair of crimson eyes in particular sent chills through one's heart with a single glance.

"Why does that gaze seem... completely devoid of life..."

After being stared at by the Crimson Demonic Monkey, Ye Zhen's expression turned astonished once more. Those enormous eyes were cold as dead things, carrying none of a wild beast's feral nature.

They were entirely unlike the eyes of any Monster Beast Ye Zhen had encountered before.

Roar!

White vapor burst from its nostrils as the Crimson Demonic Monkey, having suddenly stood, let out an enraged roar!

Rumble!

Prepared long ago, Ye Zhen flicked his hand, sending a bolt of Soul Shocking Heavenly Lightning crashing down upon it. At the same time, he shot forward, and the Heart Sword's sword light burst forth.

Ye Zhen intended to kill this thing outright while the Soul Shocking Heavenly Lightning paralyzed it.

To be honest, Ye Zhen truly did not fear an ordinary lone Monster Beast.

Then an eerie scene suddenly unfolded.

The demon monkey stretched out one of its long arms and abruptly swung up a gigantic shield, blocking it before itself—and blocking the Soul Shocking Thunder Light that had struck toward it.

Almost at the same instant, the demon monkey swung its left arm, silently whipping out an incomparably black