"Go out the back!"
Tang San kicked aside the rubble inside the cave. The Eight Spider Lances unfolded from his back and stabbed repeatedly into the rock wall at the deepest end.
Xiao Wu stared at the sealed stone wall.
"There's no way through!"
"Then make one."
"It's too late. They've already blocked the entrance."
"We still can't charge out the front."
Tang San swung the Eight Spider Lances, piercing the rock wall again and again. Large chunks of stone fell away, soon exposing a recess five feet deep.
Footsteps sounded outside the cave.
"Listen up, you in there! Put down Tang Hao and hand over the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and we'll leave your corpses intact!"
Tang San did not turn around.
"Dogs of Spirit Hall, you think you're worthy of making me surrender?"
The man outside raised his long saber.
"Do it! Seal the entrance!"
Several Soul Skills struck at once, snapping apart the Alarm Net woven from Blue Silver Grass.
With his father on his back, Tang San shuddered from the backlash. The Eight Spider Lances nearly came loose from the rock wall.
Xiao Wu braced Tang Hao's back.
"Brother, let me go. I'll hold them off."
"You'd only be delivering them a Soul Ring."
"That's better than all three of us dying trapped in here."
"Stop talking like that. Help me dig!"
Gritting her teeth, Xiao Wu released her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and kicked the rock wall.
Stone kept falling, but the rock extended too far inward. They could not possibly break through in so little time.
Only the last two layers of Blue Silver Grass remained at the entrance.
"Tang San, you can't escape!"
"Come in if you've got the guts."
"Still hoping to use poison?"
The captain outside raised a hand to stop