Her face crumpled as she shouted toward Life Lake, "Da Ming, Second Brother is dead!"
Xiao Wu's voice echoed over Life Lake, carrying endless grief and despair.
Tears slid down her cheeks and fell into the lake, stirring rings of ripples.
The surface of the lake suddenly surged violently, as if some colossal creature were awakening.
Immediately after, a massive figure slowly rose from the lake—the Sky Azure Bull Python, the Da Ming Xiao Wu spoke of.
"Xiao Wu, what did you say? Second Brother is... dead?" the Sky Azure Bull Python's weary voice was low, filled with disbelief.
Xiao Wu was sobbing too hard to speak. She could only nod.
In her mind, the image of the Titan Giant Ape's enormous body kept surfacing—the sight of it reduced to a puddle of minced flesh.
That was her brother, her guardian, yet now he had left her forever.
Pain and fury flashed through the Sky Azure Bull Python's eyes. Its huge body trembled slightly, and ripples spread endlessly across Life Lake.
It drew in a deep breath, its voice carrying suppressed rage. "Who? Who killed Second Brother?"
Xiao Wu raised her head, her eyes filled with hatred and pain. "It was Lan Minghua. I don't know what method he used, but he took advantage of Second Brother being unprepared and killed him. Before I left Life Lake, he was already dead."
Xiao Wu pushed all responsibility for killing the Titan Giant Ape onto Lan Minghua, saying nothing at all about Tang San.
Because she felt this had nothing to do with Tang San. Lan Minghua had made his move because he had taken a fancy to the Titan Giant Ape Soul Bone.
Yet the truth was that Xiao Wu had known all along it was because Tang San was worried