Tang San's eyes nearly split with fury. The moment he realized Huyan Li's true intent, he shouted for Xiao Wu to retreat, while controlling the Blue Silver Grass around her waist to pull her back.
But it was already too late.
In fact, Xiao Wu had realized the danger she was in without needing Tang San's warning.
She might have had a foul mouth and a taste for fighting, but she was no fool.
After all, she was a rabbit who had transformed into a human from a hundred-thousand-year soul beast. She had lived for tens of thousands of years at the very least, so her intelligence and perception were still above the passing mark.
The moment Huyan Li shifted his lock-on from Tang San to her, Xiao Wu understood that she was his real target.
Xiao Wu instinctively followed Tang San's instructions, trying to dart backward and evade Huyan Li's Crushing Kill as it descended with savage force.
The fatal problem was that her previous burst of strength had just run out, and fresh strength had yet to gather. It was clearly too late to push herself backward. Only her third spirit skill, Teleportation, offered any chance of escape.
But the string of spirit skills she had used earlier had already all but emptied her soul power. She had just used Waist Bow to delay Huyan Li's Crushing Kill, leaving the soul power in her body even thinner-not enough to activate the spirit ring skill Teleportation.
Even eating the Recovery Big Sausage Oscar had handed out beforehand would have been useless. Soul power simply did not recover that quickly.
With nowhere to dodge, Xiao Wu could only watch helplessly as Huyan Li's enormous body crushed down toward her.
"Aah-!"
With a piercing scream, Huyan Li's feet, transformed into the