"Heh heh..."
"Then I'll give it a try."
With a cold laugh, Shi Po gave it a try.
It abruptly plunged its forelimb into the cluster of bone spikes on its back and pulled out a thick, three-foot-long bone spike.
The bone spike was grayish white all over, its surface covered in spiral cracks and its tip marked with blackened traces of smoke.
A strip of dark red flesh still clung to it as it was pulled from its back.
It gripped the bone spike and swung it twice at its side, producing a dull howl as the spike cut through the air.
"Bone Spear."
With a low growl, it exerted a sudden burst of strength through its forelimb and hurled the Bone Spear at Meng Jiu's chest.
The instant the Bone Spear left its grip, a mass of eerie green ghostfire burst around it in midair.
The ghostfire enveloped the Bone Spear, turning it into an eerie green afterimage that shot toward Meng Jiu at the utmost speed.
Meng Jiu's bamboo pole moved.
Rather than block the Bone Spear, he tapped the ground with the tip of the bamboo.
The instant the bamboo tip touched the ground, dozens of emerald-green bamboo shoots suddenly sprouted from the gaps between the stone tiles.
The bamboo shoots broke through the ground with tremendous speed, weaving together before Meng Jiu into a fence of bamboo shoots.
The Bone Spear shot into the bamboo-shoot fence, its sharp bone tip piercing three of the shoots.
But a fourth bamboo shoot thrust in from the side, deflecting the Bone Spear's charge by half an inch.
A fifth bamboo shoot squeezed in from the other side, and a sixth wedged the Bone Spear firmly in place.
The three-foot-long bone spike was stuck amid the bamboo shoots, unable