Moves on all fronts

At the foot of a mountain several kilometers from Pearl-Watching Peak.

Two adventurers lay helpless on the ground, their faces swollen and bruised. They struggled several times but could not get up.

"Tell me. Which way did that girl go?"

A burly man standing two and a half meters tall stood before the two adventurers and asked the question flatly.

The older Awakened coughed, then cried out in pain and indignation, "We already told you! We don't know, we really don't! We only happened to run into her!"

"Yuanlong, he's telling the truth," said a woman beside the burly man.

Zhu Yuanlong looked at the two adventurers, then turned away. "Finish them off. We'll keep searching. We have to find that girl as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

The woman answered and waved to the subordinates behind her.

Several of them immediately stepped forward, grabbed the two adventurers by the hair, and dragged them aside to finish them off without hesitation.

Meanwhile.

In a forest more than ten kilometers away, Zhang Ping was fighting a Corpse-Eating Ape.

Earlier, he had killed one instantly with a surprise attack, but Corpse-Eating Apes were far from weak. They seemed to be born knowing how to use the Ape King Form. Their erratic, unpredictable movements made them extremely difficult opponents.

"Yuanlong? Ape dragon?"

"A girl?"

Wielding his enormous scythe, Zhang Ping glanced toward the direction the wind was blowing from as he swung.

The Corpse-Eating Ape's eyes brightened slightly. In the next instant, it closed in and threw a punch straight at Zhang Ping's head.

"You fell for it!"

Zhang Ping narrowed his eyes with a smile, his upper body twisting downward at an uncanny angle no human could possibly achieve.

As he dodged the ape's fist, he twisted at the waist and sliced through