After parting ways with Yan He, Song Wen no longer needed to use the Heaven-and-Earth Avatar to deceive others, so he put the avatar away.
Seeing that the Earth Savage Bull had not pursued him, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief; but the situation remained perilous.
Demonic beasts lay to both his east and west, while he was currently heading north.
Song Wen planned to travel north for a hundred li, then turn east and leave the mountain range.
However, after flying just over ten li, he heard a thunderous boom from the east.
Immediately afterward, a figure came hurtling toward him.
It was Ye Bing.
Like Wei Qian, she had suffered a heavy blow and been sent flying.
Bang!
Ye Bing crashed into a mountain peak. Rocks tumbled down at once, and dust billowed into the air.
Then another figure burst through the miasma. It was Xiao Ying.
Behind her, furious roars rang out one after another.
The roars shook heaven and earth, stirring the miasma into violent, ceaseless surges.
Song Wen inwardly cried out in alarm and was about to use the Blood Escape Technique to flee.
Just then, a gigantic humanoid figure descended from the sky.
It was a giant ape, more than a hundred zhang tall, its entire body knotted with muscles. Its dark skin was covered in black bristles like steel needles. Its arms were thick, its palms broad, and its fingertips sharp as swords, as though they could effortlessly tear apart anything.
The most eye-catching thing about the giant ape was its pair of blood-red eyes, which glowed like two crimson lanterns amid the murky miasma.
Before it even landed, its two claws struck out simultaneously to either side, each slashing through the air with a claw radiance.
One struck at Xiao Ying,