Everyone followed the exotic beasts' gazes. On the mountaintop, a gray rock over three meters tall suddenly began to shake violently, spiderweb cracks appearing across its surface.
"Crack..."
The cracks widened until the rock finally shattered with a boom. Fragments clattered down the mountainside, and a Grey Giant Ape rose from the rubble.
The ape stood less than three meters tall. Compared with the other exotic beasts, it was not particularly huge, but its limbs were as thick as barrels. Its entire body was covered in dense gray fur, with bits of rock and dirt clinging between the hairs.
Its face was hideous, its blue-green skin exposed. Its mouth split open, revealing two rows of sharp fangs, while its scarlet eyes shone like lanterns as they fixed themselves on the people below.
The ape raised its thick arms, clenched both fists, and smashed them hard against its chest.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The dull impacts rang out like drumbeats. Each blow sent more loose stones rolling from the mountaintop.
Seeing this, the exotic beasts below let out even louder roars, as if answering the ape.
Zheng Cheng's expression sank completely. He could clearly sense the Spiritual Energy fluctuations radiating from the ape... They were considerably stronger than what the intelligence they had obtained earlier had described.
An ordinary Second-Order High Stage Cultivator would have no chance against it.
Zheng Cheng muttered gravely, "This ape's strength seems to have increased during the time we spent preparing our battle plan."
The burly man beside him also put away his earlier ease and tightened his grip on the Wolf-tooth Club. In a steady voice, he said, "It doesn't matter. Even if its strength has increased considerably, there's still only one of it.
"We have more than a dozen Second-Order High Stage fighters, along with