The giant ape swung both arms, stirring up a violent gale that churned the surrounding miasma without end.
Its two enormous palms spread open like a pair of iron gates, reaching for Tang Gui and Sang Bu.
Earthen-yellow light flared around Tang Gui and Sang Bu respectively, condensing into shields that enveloped their entire bodies.
Had Song Wen been present, he would have recognized them as Thick Earth Talismans.
Since Chi Pei had sent them into danger, he naturally had to give them something to keep them alive.
The two giant palms each seized one shield. Under the overwhelming brute force, the shields were crushed to pieces.
Yet as the shields shattered, they unleashed a powerful shockwave that slowed the closing palms. Tang Gui and Sang Bu seized the chance to escape the giant hands' grasp and recalled their respective defensive magical treasures.
Just as the giant ape was about to give chase again, a black, translucent barrier suddenly appeared out of thin air high above.
The barrier was like a colossal net cast over the heavens, covering an area ten li in every direction and releasing dense corpse qi. The corpse qi swiftly condensed into nine thick black chains, which swept toward the giant ape like nine ferocious giant pythons.
The black chains carried an intensely frigid power. Wherever they passed, the temperature plummeted, ice crystals condensed in the air, and even the originally dense miasma froze solid, turning into sheets of frost that fell to the ground.
The miasma throughout the barrier dispersed like morning fog, swiftly thinning as the scene within gradually became clear.
"Hahaha..." Chi Pei's laughter rang out, carrying a trace of smug arrogance. "It truly is a Blood-Eyed Divine Ape!"
He stood suspended above the barrier, with a formation disk the size of a