"Did we... escape?"
Qian Renxue looked up at Tang Shuo, a lingering trace of fear still in her golden eyes.
"For now."
Tang Shuo said.
He looked toward the Star Dou Great Forest, his gaze beneath the mask deep and unfathomable.
Xiao Wu.
Tang San.
Shrek.
Very well.
I'll remember this debt.
The tranquility of the valley was torn apart by a distant roar.
Tang Shuo had barely finished saying, "For now."
Boom!
The ground shook violently once more.
More violently than ever before!
Qian Renxue, who had just sat down, swayed and nearly fell.
Bracing herself against a rock, she looked at Tang Shuo, her golden pupils filled with shock and doubt.
"It... it followed us here?!"
Several hundred miles!
How long had it even been?
How had that monster locked onto their location?!
Tang Shuo did not answer.
He merely raised his head and looked toward the valley entrance, his gaze beneath the mask as still and solemn as water.
That familiar, suffocating kingly pressure was tearing through the air toward them at an astonishing speed.
"We can't get away."
Tang Shuo's voice was very calm.
He helped Qian Renxue behind a relatively safe boulder.
"Stay here. Don't come out."
As Qian Renxue watched his solitary figure walk toward the valley entrance, a complicated feeling rose within her.
"You're going to... face it alone?"
Tang Shuo did not stop walking.
"What else?"
"We can't just wait to die."
As his words fell, he was already standing in the center of the valley.
The next moment.
Boom!!!
A small hill at the valley entrance was blasted apart by an irresistible force!
Rubble flew through the air, and dust billowed everywhere.
Amid the swirling dust, a massive figure slowly stepped forth.
The Titan Giant Ape!
Its body still bore wounds