"What a bizarre trick. That good-for-nothing Chiqing lost to you, but I suppose it was no disgrace!" The White-Eyed Ape King saw Lu Xiaotian's speed surge, yet showed not the slightest alarm. Instead, he burst into laughter.
As his laughter shook the air, the sinister ghost energy in the void gathered, and droplets of icy ghost rain began to fall in a steady drizzle.
The scattered bones below were drenched by the ghost rain and began to corrode at a visible rate, wisps of green smoke rising from them.
The Flame-Tailed Kite Demon beat its wings, stirring up powerful currents that swept the falling ghost rain away. But doing so inevitably increased its expenditure of energy.
The White-Eyed Ape King belonged to the Demon Ape clan, yet he could already control this ghost rain. He was also so closely associated with the Three-Halberd Corpse Ape. It seemed the cultivation method he practiced had drawn close to the path of corpse demons.
As these thoughts turned over in Lu Xiaotian's mind, a vicious glint flashed in the White-Eyed Ape King's yellow-white eyes. He made a series of guttural sounds, seemingly chanting an incantation, and the ghost rain gathering in the air began to form into storms.
Lu Xiaotian's expression changed. The White-Eyed Ape King was not only powerful, but had an eerie variety of methods. Given the situation, escaping to Soulfall Pool as planned was likely unrealistic.
He ran through every possible escape route in his mind, then rejected them one by one.
When Lu Xiaotian had killed the Four-Winged Mantis earlier, he had already fought it for a while and laid part of the Eight-Trigram Star-Origin Mountain-Shaking Formation. Later, when the Charmshadow Scorpion King arrived, Ban Qianzhi had been able to hold it off partly because Lu Xiaotian had fought