That giant skull lunged downward, opening its massive maw as howling baleful winds raged. Judging by size alone, swallowing Lu Xiaotian in a single gulp was entirely effortless, and he still would have looked too small to even wedge between its teeth. At this moment, Lu Xiaotian's body shrank slightly before a blood-red ape suddenly burst forth from within him, expanding to dozens of zhang in height as its thick palms hammered against its chest like war drums.
Bang! The enormous blood-red ape slammed its dual palms into the giant skull. The two entities clashed in midair, tearing into and battling each other.
Dark Nightmare Ghost King's expression turned grim, several bone chains at his side still locked in combat with the blood-red python in the air. Although he had not expected these two tricks of his to easily finish off the tier-12 body cultivator before him, only once they truly fought did he realize that the tenaciousness of this tier-12 body cultivator far exceeded his expectations. Based solely on the strength displayed right now, finishing him off would require a considerable amount of effort. Yet Dark Nightmare Ghost King also knew that this silver-haired cultivator before him had previously escaped from his hands while still in the Golden Core stage; whether in terms of methods or resourcefulness, he was an elite among peers of the same rank and certainly wouldn't possess only these few tricks.
Dark Nightmare Ghost King waved his hands, and amid a stream of black smoke, dozens of skulls suddenly shrieked as they appeared. These dozens of skulls were pitch-black like black jade, making them look all the more ferocious. Linked together as if conjoined, the skulls formed a single row, and Dark Nightmare Ghost King grasped one end. The side-by-side black skulls whipped forward like