"This beast had a few tricks up its sleeve."
Song Wen let out a soft exclamation, but there was no trace of worry in his voice. If anything, he sounded intrigued.
The veil of mist that had blocked the Lightning Sphere looked flimsy, but it was no ordinary thing.
Song Wen waved his hand, sending Qing Shuang flying behind him.
He himself charged straight at the flood dragon.
Azure spiritual light swirled around Song Wen. Beneath its glow, his body rapidly swelled, and bristles as sharp as needles pushed through his skin.
In the blink of an eye, Song Wen had become a giant ape a hundred zhang tall. Yet before the flood dragon, which stretched several hundred zhang, he still looked as small as an infant.
"Roar!"
The giant ape bellowed, clenched his fists, and swung them at the flood dragon's head.
But the dragon flicked its tail.
Rather than meet the giant ape's attack head-on, the flood dragon swept its tail across at him.
The giant ape had no time to dodge. He could only drive both fists into the dragon's body.
Boom!
A thunderous crash rang out.
The giant ape flew sideways as though struck by a meteor.
Where the dragon's tail had caught his right flank, flesh was mangled and ribs were broken. Splintered bone jutted visibly through the wound.
But where the giant fists had struck the dragon's tail, scales had shattered and flesh had flown.
The giant ape hurriedly steadied himself. Ignoring the wound in his abdomen, he narrowed his eyes and fixed his gaze on the mist flowing around the flood dragon.
The flood dragon's body was powerful, but its ability to gain the upper hand in close combat against Song Wen—whose cultivation was one minor realm higher and who had transformed into