Mother Empress

By the time Zhang Ping arrived, Feng Laixian had already lost an arm.

Even the strongest defense would eventually slip.

Fighting three at once was simply too much.

All three monsters had half-meter-long blades growing from their foreclaws.

Feng Laixian had almost no room for error. A single mistake had cost him his arm, severed by a monster's blade.

Now, Feng Laixian gripped his Guandao one-handed as he kept maneuvering around the three monsters, his severed arm rapidly regenerating.

The problem was that Feng Laixian actually hoped his arm would not recover too quickly. This regeneration came at a price, consuming enormous amounts of his stamina.

He would rather hold out until dawn, then enter his Great Sun Red Emperor Form and counterattack all at once.

Just then, however, his ears twitched. He immediately retreated at speed. The three monsters were about to pursue him when a three-meter-tall red giant dropped from the sky, landing right between them.

"Oh no!"

Feng Laixian's expression darkened slightly at the sight of the red giant, and he quickly backed away.

The three monsters, meanwhile, howled and lunged at the red giant.

"Easy, easy. One at a time!"

Zhang Ping reached out and seized one monster by the throat. Its foreclaws slashed wildly at his arm, but his thick metallic coating blocked every strike without so much as a scratch.

He opened his mouth and slurped the monster down, then grabbed another monster that was frantically scraping away at his leg and opened his mouth to eat that one too.

Feng Laixian watched, dumbfounded.

"Master Feng, are you all right?"

After eating the third monster, Zhang Ping dispelled the metallic coating on his body and turned around to ask.

"Zhang Ping?"

Seeing the red giant turn back into Zhang Ping in the blink of