The Red-Scaled Alligator General spread his enormous jaws and let out a low laugh.
The laugh was muffled and hoarse, as though rising from deep within the mud at the river bottom, shaking the shallows into rings of fine ripples.
"I have hidden among the demon horde for so long..."
"All to wait for human geniuses like you."
As his words fell, the Red-Scaled Alligator General raised a massive claw.
Boom!
The Bone-Forging Realm demonic power he had suppressed for so long erupted in full.
The shallows beneath his feet instantly sank, and great sheets of mud and water were blasted into the air.
In midair, Meng Tingxue's sword had already descended.
The snow-white sword light had been clear and concentrated, carrying four forces-Pinewind, Snow-Listening, Cold Plum, and Azure Dragon Demon-Suppressing-enough to slay the Mountain-Moving Ape Chief with a single stroke.
Yet against the Red-Scaled Alligator General's sudden eruption of demonic power, that sword light began to tremble violently.
The frost condensed around it shattered inch by inch.
It was like a lone boat swept into suddenly surging, monstrous waves.
Yet Meng Tingxue did not withdraw her sword.
The demonic wind rushing at her sent her white robes whipping backward and tangled her black hair, plastering it against her pale cheeks.
But both hands holding her sword remained steady.
There was no fear in her usually cool eyes. Instead, an unprecedented sharpness flared within them.
Facing that almost suffocating Bone-Forging Realm demonic might, she continued driving her sword forward.
Boom!
The snow-white sword light collided head-on with the crimson demonic claw.
A deafening crash shook the shallows.
Where the two forces collided, the air seemed to burst apart. Muddy water suddenly shot dozens of feet into the air, forming a murky wall that obscured everyone's vision.
Violent shock waves swept