Bai Jinge felt a tremendous force strike her, and her body surged forward uncontrollably.
She instinctively looked back and saw that Song Wen had already turned around to meet the enormous claw.
Anxiety, panic, worry...
Countless emotions surged like a tide in Bai Jinge's eyes.
As Song Wen drew closer to the enormous claw, his body rapidly swelled, transforming into a Demon Ape dozens of zhang tall, its entire body covered in shaggy hair.
"Roar!"
The Demon Ape threw back his head and roared. His muscles knotted like dragons, his veins bulged, and a savage aura erupted around him.
Yet before that colossal claw, the Demon Ape remained as insignificant as an ant.
Boom!
The enormous claw struck the Demon Ape.
He hurtled away like a meteor, crashing diagonally toward the earth below.
Bang, bang, bang-
After a series of muffled impacts, the Demon Ape smashed through several mountains and gouged a deep crater into the ground before finally coming to a stop.
The enormous claw abruptly stalled, then dissipated.
"Extreme Yin-"
Bai Jinge cried out in alarm.
The external force propelling her had faded. She hurriedly dove down toward the crater.
The crater stretched dozens of li across, shrouded in billowing dust.
Bai Jinge plunged into the dust, only to discover faint traces of Origin Qi lingering within.
Throwing caution aside, she flashed straight to the bottom.
The Demon Ape was nowhere to be seen. There was only a human figure struggling to rise.
It was, of course, Song Wen.
His flesh was mangled and bloody, with bones exposed in several places.
"If I'd known, I would have transformed into the Mysterious Tortoise," Song Wen muttered.
He had originally assumed that the enormous claw would shatter his body, giving him the opportunity to cast the Death-Substitution Spell.
Who would