Yuan Qingquan

The Golden-Haired Hou stretched out a forepaw, and several hundred blades gathered together, forming six gigantic sabers in the shape of a plum blossom that swept all the Five-Colored Coiling Dragon Staffs aside.

The Five-Colored Coiling Dragon Staff harnessed the power of the five elements, severing off the outside world and trapping the Golden-Haired Hou within. The Golden-Haired Hou could only fight with its back to the river; only by breaking through the Five-Colored Coiling Dragon Staff could it truly reconnect with the outside world. Otherwise, defeat was merely a matter of time.

Seeing this, Yan Chihuo knew that the Five-Colored Coiling Dragon Staff and the Dragon-Transformation Blade were respectively the supreme applications of the earth-attribute advanced Falling Rock Art and the metal-attribute Thousand Blade Technique. He could not help but wonder secretly: why did both the Earth Divine Ape and the Golden-Haired Hou give their techniques names containing the word "dragon"? Was that not rather disrespectful toward the dragon race? Although the dragons dwelled in the East Sea, they should not be slighted so brazenly.

What he did not know was that in ancient times, the Golden-Haired Hou Clan and the Earth Divine Ape Clan had both been on poor terms with the dragon race, and no one knew how many times they had fought. Thus, it was hardly strange for them to give their own arts such names.

The Long-Armed Black Ape had originally believed that it had been concealing its true strength all along and would surely win this time. But after fighting to this point, it too realized that its strength truly fell short by a notch, and thoughts of retreat arose in its heart.

If it had continued fighting to the death, it could have held on for some time even in defeat. But the