Saving Mother Wu Ah Rou

"Death God Command!"

Facing Bear Lord's Heaven-rending claw, Zhu Huang's deathly power surged out, condensing into a gorgeous, elegant scythe with a handle over ten feet long and a blade three feet in length.

He slashed out, and an enormous, chilling blade-light swept through the air like a river of stars, as if splitting the void in two.

Boom!

With an earth-shaking crash, the blade-light and bear claw collided violently. Energy scattered in every direction, and both the blade-light and claw-shadow were annihilated.

"This... How is that possible?"

The big black bear lay on the ground, his savage grin frozen on his face. In his view, his old ancestor should have crushed Zhu Huang with ease and torn him apart with one claw. Yet the result was actually an even match?

"The old ancestor definitely wasn't serious. Right, he must be toying with him."

The big black bear shook his head hard, finding an explanation for the scene before him, but his heart was filled with unease.

Da Ming and the other three also let out breaths of relief. His Majesty was indeed incomparably powerful; even this Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, who had undergone several heavenly tribulations, could do nothing to him.

"Good kid. Your strength is indeed extraordinary. No wonder you dared to be so arrogant."

Bear Lord snorted coldly, a fierce light in his eyes. He roared toward the heavens, and his twin claws moved as swiftly as lightning, attacking Zhu Huang in a frenzy.

"Bring it on!"

Zhu Huang charged forward in return, the scythe in his hand sweeping out. It collided repeatedly with Bear Lord's several-meter-long claws, ringing out with a continuous series of fierce metallic clashes.

Golden claw-shadows and black blade-lights scattered across the sky. Within a radius of several dozen miles, the force from the two of them exchanging blows filled the area, forcing Xiao Wu and the other three to retreat again and again.

"So terrifying!"

Xiao Wu stuck out her tongue, her face pale. Da Ming and the other two nodded involuntarily in agreement.

In the blink of an eye, the two sides had clashed over a hundred times, yet neither could do anything to the other. From time to time, both used their ultimate moves, and the Heaven-Rending Divine Claw and Death God Command canceled each other out.

As for the spiritual attack brought by Death God's Wail and the wide-area attack of Poison Rain, although they could not break through Bear Lord's terrifying defense, they still forced him to divert quite a bit of energy to resist them.

Bear Lord's attacks also could not land on Zhu Huang. Even when his claws occasionally struck him, they were blocked by the thick Death Spider Armor.

Both of them had high attack and high defense. Neither could break the other, and for a time, they were locked in a stalemate.

After weighing Bear Lord's strength, Zhu Huang had a measure of it in his heart.

The other party was indeed terrifying, but he still had two super ultimate moves, Death God's Transit and Undying Body, that he had not used. If it came to a life-and-death battle, Zhu Huang was confident he would be the one to survive until the end.

However, once his ultimate moves were used, they were either absolute defense or a one-hit kill. There was no need to use them on Bear Lord.

If he truly killed him, it might very well draw out the other vicious beasts in the Lake of Life.

"Sir, you said that as long as I could receive your Heaven-Rending Divine Claw, you would release Xiao Wu's mother. What do you say now?"

Zhu Huang blocked Bear Lord's attack and spoke indifferently.

"Hmph!"

Bear Lord lashed out viciously with another claw, only for Zhu Huang to block it again. His expression shifted between dark and uncertain, fury surging in his heart. He wished he could tear the person before him to pieces.

But after fighting for so long, he had more or less already gone all out. Of course, if he risked his life, it was not as if he could not unleash an even stronger attack, but then it would become a fight to the death.

The other party was not his mortal enemy. To stake his life against him for the sake of a mere Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Charm Rabbit was truly not worth it.

Glancing at Xiao Wu and the other four watching covetously not far away, Bear Lord's bear face turned completely gloomy.

If there were only Spider Emperor alone, he would still have confidence in fighting to the end and defeating him. Unfortunately, the other side had helpers.

Although one-on-one, he did not take those four Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts seriously, if he were surrounded and beaten, he definitely could not win one against five.

After weighing things up, though he was extremely unwilling, Bear Lord still calmed down and snorted coldly. "I'll remember you. Next time, you won't be so lucky."

After throwing down those parting words, Bear Lord flew off into the distance, without the slightest intention of stopping for a friendly chat.

"Old ancestor..."

The big black bear looked panicked and pleaded repeatedly, "Save me! Take me with you!"

Bear Lord ignored him completely and vanished from sight in the blink of an eye.

"Heh, heh. He's a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and you're a mutated black bear. Although you're both bears, from the way he acts, do you think he would treat you as one of his own?"

Da Ming patted the big black bear's face. "You have two choices now. Submit to my emperor, and you'll receive great benefits. Refuse even unto death, and today we'll have a taste of Hundred-Thousand-Year bear meat. Which will you choose?"

"I..."

The big black bear trembled with fear and looked at Zhu Huang in awe, then shrank back and said, "I submit. I'm willing to submit. Xiong Da greets my emperor."

"Coward!"

Er Ming mocked him disdainfully.

"Yaoyao, remove the Peach Blossom Miasma from him."

Zhu Huang gave Tao Yaoyao the order. They had originally come to subdue the big black bear, and since Xiao Wu's mother was not dead yet, there was naturally no need to kill him.

Tao Yaoyao smiled and withdrew the Peach Blossom Miasma from Xiong Da's body. Xiong Da rolled to his feet, his body rapidly shrinking as he transformed into a two-meter-tall burly man. His face was bruised and swollen, his expression simple and honest, with a fawning look that made him seem quite comical.

Zhu Huang patted Xiong Da on the shoulder. "You're called Xiong Da. Do you also have a brother called Xiong Er?"

Xiong Da scratched his head. "I do have a brother called Xiong Er. He's just too fond of sleeping. He spends most of his time asleep, so his cultivation has fallen way behind. We're twins. I've already broken through to a hundred thousand years, but Xiong Er only has over eighty thousand years of cultivation. I usually have him guard the house."

There really was a Xiong Er?

Zhu Huang could not help smiling. He asked, "Where is Xiao Wu's mother?"

Xiong Da said, "In my bear cave." He glanced at Xiao Wu and said quietly, "The Old Ancestor caught the Soft Bone Charm Rabbit and was originally going to eat her, but before he had the chance, you all arrived."

"Damn it!"

Xiao Wu was overwhelmed with lingering fear. If they had arrived even a little later, she would have lost her mother forever.

Her teeth itched with hatred, and she glared fiercely at Xiong Da, frightening him into shrinking his neck back. Then Xiao Wu rushed toward the bear cave below Sky-Scraping Cliff.

Zhu Huang and the others all followed, arriving inside a huge cave. There, they saw a black bear one size smaller than Xiong Da leaning against the wall, dozing, drool pooling all over the ground.

Despite the huge commotion from the battle outside earlier, it had not even woken up.

"This is my little brother, Xiong Er!"

Xiong Da ran over and grabbed Xiong Er's ear hard, preparing to wake him.

Not far from Xiong Er, a beautiful young married woman in pink-and-white clothes hugged her shoulders and leaned against the corner. Her eyes were vacant, despair showing in them as she silently wept. She looked so soft and fragile, so pitiful that anyone who saw her would not be able to resist comforting her.

"Mom!"

Xiao Wu screamed and hurriedly ran over, helping the young woman up.

"Xiao Wu?"

The young woman looked at the daughter who had suddenly appeared. First, surprise and joy filled her, but then her face turned pale in an instant, and she said in a trembling voice, "Xiao Wu, why are you here too? Were you... were you captured too?" Her vision went dark, and she nearly fainted.

"Mom, I wasn't captured. We came to save you."

Xiao Wu wept tears of joy.

"Save me?"

The young woman looked bewildered and turned to Zhu Huang and the others in confusion.

Xiao Wu quickly explained everything. The more the young woman listened, the more shocked she became. Her little mouth opened into an O shape as she looked at Zhu Huang in disbelief. Only after a long while did she have no choice but to accept the truth, squeezing out one sentence: "Ah Rou thanks Your Majesty for saving my life."

Just as Zhu Huang and the others were rescuing Xiao Wu's mother, Tang Hao had already taken Ah Yin and left the Star Dou Great Forest.

Looking at the bustling city with people coming and going, a strange look flashed through Tang Hao's eyes. A sharp pain gripped his heart, but then he steeled himself. While Ah Yin was not paying attention, he calmly flicked a letter into the distant, luxurious building carved with six designs: a crown, a chrysanthemum, a ghostly shadow, a sword, a tower, and a hammer.