"There's no time to grieve. Go, quickly!"
Tears filled Lingling's eyes as well as she turned back. She cast one final glance at Chu Huan, as though she wanted to etch his appearance deep into her eyes, even unto death.
With a shout, she stuffed a wholly dark-green pill into her mouth.
"The last Corpse Demon Pill. I just wonder how many people I can take down with me this time." Lingling clenched her teeth and let out a low roar.
As she spoke, the breath she exhaled had already begun turning dark green.
Her skin underwent the same transformation.
Though Lingling was already forty years old,
as a member of the Xuan Yin Sect, she truly possessed the art of preserving her beauty. Her skin was so moist and supple that it was scarcely any different from that of a maiden of sixteen.
Yet as dark-green breath spilled from her mouth, her moist, rosy skin began turning green and slowly rotting away.
Her body hair began growing wildly, thickening without cease.
In what seemed like the blink of an eye, she transformed from a soft, delicate woman into a large ape with black fur and green skin.
"Roar!"
Lingling opened her mouth and unleashed a beastlike roar.
Along with that roar came billows of dark-green mist.
At the very front of the pursuers were the people from the Seven Luminaries Sect who had discovered them first.
The one leading them was Qing Tiantian, Sect Master of the Seven Luminaries Sect.
Qing was an exceptionally unusual surname.
It was said that the founding ancestor of the Seven Luminaries Sect had borne that surname.
Unfortunately, his line had died out in the seventh generation.
Yet the Seven Luminaries Sect soon developed a very strange tradition: no matter who became Sect Master,