At Shen Luo's mental command, starlight flashed across his legs, and he unleashed Shift Form, Change Shadow once more.
To his surprise, however, this time he had only shifted sideways less than ten feet before being forced to stop. The void around him had twisted under the pressure of those enormous claw marks, and an indescribable force pressed in on him from every direction.
Left with no choice, Shen Luo raised the Six-Chen Whip horizontally with both hands to block.
A shrill metallic clang rang out.
An enormous claw of black flame raked across the Six-Chen Whip, throwing off a shower of crimson sparks. Immense force surged through the whip, bending Shen Luo's arms abruptly. It felt as though a mountain were crushing down upon him.
With a thunderous boom, the ground beneath Shen Luo's feet split apart. The already shattered Five-Finger Mountain crumbled at once, and a chasm thousands of feet deep cleaved the entire mountain in two. Shen Luo plunged straight toward its base.
Standing atop the mountain peak, the black-cloaked man grinned viciously and swung both palms again and again into the mountain fissure. Behind him, the giant wolf phantom's razor-sharp claws rained down below like a violent storm.
Rumble...
Deafening explosions rang out without end. The entire Five-Finger Mountain shook violently as rocks collapsed and rolled down, while dust filled the sky.
Bai Ling fled desperately through the dust and rubble toward the foot of the mountain, repeatedly chanting in her heart, It's over, it's over...
The Twelve Star Officials and Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, who had been battling one another, were also scattered apart and vanished from the world.
After a long while, the black-cloaked man seemed to have vented enough and finally stopped. Somewhat vexed, he said,
"Don't let him get smashed to pieces,