The Titan Giant Ape started in alarm, drove his feet into the ground, and leaped sharply to one side.
But the ground had long since been engulfed and eroded by the rot lake, turned to sludge by the seeping waters of the blood tide.
The Titan Giant Ape had been sinking just standing there, let alone trying to push off for a jump.
The blood-soaked mud slipped beneath him. The Titan Giant Ape jumped clear-but not entirely.
With nothing to push against in midair, he was caught by the right foot in the enormous blood-red hand.
Alarmed, he unleashed earthy-yellow soul power, forming an aura around his entire body. He was about to brace himself for the giant hand to slam him down when he discovered that its shape had changed!
Instead of delivering a devastating Eight-Stage Throw, like the Hulk smashing Loki, it clenched viciously!
Where its palm touched the Titan Giant Ape, dozens of rapidly spinning streams of blood crisscrossed his leg, scoring it like meat beneath a knife.
"Roar!"
The Titan Giant Ape screamed. It was as though someone had stuffed a double-bang firecracker into his fur and set it off. Searing pain shot through his right foot.
Boom!
At last, the Titan Giant Ape unleashed his strength. His earthy-yellow aura shattered the enormous blood-red hand, turning it back into bloody water that fell to the ground.
Having suffered a crushing setback, the Titan Giant Ape swiftly retreated, facing Dugu Yan from dozens of meters away.
Blood poured from the crisscrossing wounds on his right foot, the flesh curling outward. The nearby skin rapidly grew moist and swollen from within, and tiny holes appeared.
The Titan Giant Ape felt his right foot gradually go numb, as though a vine were growing from the wound, climbing up his