"I understand, Brother Bagū." The other ice-spike demon monkeys answered in unison.
"Miss Mo, it looks like this is as far as we can go. I'd imagined dying in all sorts of ways, but I never thought I'd end up dying alongside you." Zhu Jinfu was swept by the icy aura of an ice-spike demon monkey. A layer of frost rose over his body, and he couldn't help shivering. The balance of power had shifted, and the demon monkey attacking him grew even more aggressive.
Mo Yuyan's face was pale. She had clearly expended too much of her magical power. She snapped, "What do you mean, dying or not? Even if I die, I'm not dying with you."
"You've still got the mood to talk about that? We can kill the man. As for the woman, Brother Bagū, you may not be interested in women, but the rest of us just came out of seclusion and headed straight for this cave abode. We've been pent up for a while." A somewhat sturdier ice-spike demon monkey beside Bagū let out a lewd chuckle.
"You damn monkeys! I'd rather destroy my own body than let you beasts have your way with me!" Mo Yuyan's expression changed drastically. She cursed her bad luck inwardly. After one fierce battle after another, she really was at the end of her rope. Mo Yuyan kept glancing at Zhu Jinfu, who was already in grave danger. She clenched her teeth and was about to act when Zhu Jinfu, fighting as he retreated, reached a depression in the ground.
The ice-spike demon monkey pursuing Zhu Jinfu flashed around behind him and was about to strike the killing blow when the waist-high boulder behind it suddenly moved.
Before the ice-spike demon monkey attacking Zhu Jinfu could react, its body