"Run!"
In fact, Huang Lou Lou did not need to shout.
The moment she turned around, she saw Ji Yuan racing back the way they had come.
He did not hesitate. He immediately used the lotus Dugu Yan had given him.
The lotus trembled, then erupted with astonishing force, sweeping Ji Yuan toward the cave entrance.
The flight speed of a Spirit Transformation Late Stage cultivator lived up to its reputation.
Huang Lou Lou reacted only half a beat slower.
She crushed her own lotus almost at the same time. Pink light flashed, and its petals wrapped her into a streak of light that shot after Ji Yuan.
Behind them, the Star Beast vanished from the Lightning Flood Dragon's back.
The next instant, he appeared behind Huang Lou Lou. His indigo claws, wreathed in bone-chilling Void power, slashed down viciously.
His five claws carved five violet-black rifts through the Void.
The strike slammed into the lotus petals.
The pale pink petals shook violently, ripples spreading across their surface in overlapping waves.
Their glow visibly dimmed, but they held without tearing.
Huang Lou Lou felt as if a mountain had struck her back. Her organs churned, and blood rose in her throat.
Gritting her teeth, she used the impact to surge forward, closing the gap with Ji Yuan.
One behind the other, they burst through the lightning-webbed entrance like two pink meteors and returned to the vast cavern.
On the Lightning Flood Dragon's back, the Star Beast glanced at his empty claws, then looked toward the entrance.
Surprise flickered through his deep-blue eyes before anger replaced it.
He slapped the Lightning Flood Dragon hard on the head and roared, "Wretched beast! After them!"
With a low, rumbling roar, the Lightning Flood Dragon squeezed his enormous body out of the cave.
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