A Battle of Wits

"Duang-!!!"

A thunderous boom rang through the sky, making the two enormous figures racing through the dense forest stop in their tracks and look up.

"Mom, what was that sound?"

Xiao Wu craned her neck and asked Ah Rou on her back.

"Hard to say~" Ah Rou shook her head, gripping the long pink fur on Xiao Wu's back. "It sounded like it came from the direction Ling Yi flew off in. Let's hurry~"

"Mm-hmm!"

Xiao Wu nodded vigorously and pushed off with her two muscular hind legs, bounding far ahead with Ah Rou on her back. "Er Ming, hurry and keep up-!"

Behind them, Er Ming remained as silent and taciturn as ever. Gripping a metal ball one and a half meters in diameter, he moved swiftly on all fours, landing without a sound. In a few breaths, he caught up with Xiao Wu, but rather than passing her, he followed silently behind at an unhurried pace.

Atop the small mountain.

At some unknown point, a solid metal "city wall brick" over three meters tall, two meters wide, and nearly two meters thick had appeared abruptly on the summit.

The next second, Ling Yi placed his right hand on the "city wall brick" and stored it in his Storage Soul Tool. Raising his left hand high, he swung the oversized claw hammer he had already been holding!

His target was the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, which had just crashed headfirst into the "city wall brick"!

"I was fucking ready for you-!!!"

With a thunderous shout, he released the oversized claw hammer, which weighed over eight thousand jin. Its momentum carried it across the two or three meters between them in an instant, striking the unprepared Dark Demon Evil God Tiger on the forehead, squarely on the dark,