The giant ape Wu Shandie had transformed into had eyes as red as blood, yet they were filled with unwavering determination.
Her ten fingers, like iron hooks, flew rapidly through the air, forming one rune after another that fell onto the array plate.
By the time her muscular arms had begun to tremble slightly, the cracks in the barrier finally stopped spreading and began to slowly mend.
"Fellow Daoist Wu, well done."
Gu Huang, standing nearby, could not help but perk up.
He turned to look inside the formation, intending to see what means Gou Jun, already at the end of his tether, still had to deal with them.
Yet to his astonishment, Gou Jun, who had forcibly restored his spiritual power through a blood sacrifice technique, was now shriveled like a dried corpse. However, he showed none of the weakness of depleted blood essence. Instead, he continued burning his blood essence without pause, and the spiritual power exhausted by his second activation of the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword rapidly filled up once more.
Seeing the Nine Calamities Measuring-Heaven Sword return to Gou Jun's hand, Gu Huang suddenly felt a powerful sense of unease rise in his heart.
With a flicker of his eyes, he instantly transformed into a streak of light and fled at top speed.
The giant ape turned her head, watching Gu Huang's retreating back grow ever more distant, and was both shocked and furious.
The one who had previously egged her on to kill Gou Jun was Gu Huang; the one who fled first when the situation turned bad was also Gu Huang.
Since Gu Huang had fled, she naturally would not remain behind to hold the line.
Her body moved, and while controlling the array plate, she flew toward the mountain gate.
Though the Nine