Heavy panting echoed across the deathly silent Gobi.
Old White Ape dragged half his body behind him, coughing blood as he fled madly.
At last, he came to a stop.
Seeing him stop, the slender figure also halted several dozen paces away.
"Do you really think this monarch... is afraid of you?!"
Old White Ape abruptly turned around, his chest heaving violently.
The girl wore a strange expression. She said nothing, only silently raised her head and glanced at the sky.
The meaning was obvious.
If you weren't afraid, had you spent the entire night running to exercise?
The flesh on White Ape's face twitched, and he immediately said in fury, "If you leave now, this monarch can promise you that today's matter will end here, and I will never pursue it further! My son's death will have nothing to do with you anymore!"
However.
Jiang Yuechu merely scoffed. "Do you really think I'm a three-year-old child?"
Old White Ape roared, "I am a Great Demon of the Core Formation Realm! If I forcibly draw upon my demon core and fight to the death, you may not survive either! If we stop now, why must we both lose?!"
Jiang Yuechu shook her head. "What benefit is there to me in letting you go?"
"In my eyes, both sides losing is better than letting you win alone."
"You!!!"
Old White Ape trembled with rage.
A trace of regret even rose in Old White Ape's heart.
Why had he provoked such a woman, one who could not be swayed by oil or salt?
But...
If he had not obeyed the Demon Court's orders and come to Longyou Circuit to help that little girl from Black River consolidate her foundation, exhausting nearly half the power of his original demon core...
If that had