Pan Long seemed not to notice the sneak attack from behind. The gray-green wall snapped shut around him.
Spencer's ambush had worked, and he could not help laughing with excitement. Countless sharp teeth sprang from the wall and bit fiercely at Pan Long's flesh, trying to tear him apart.
But those teeth could not even reach Pan Long's body.
Before they could sink in, an invisible force stopped them cold.
"Those teeth of yours are a lot weaker than your tentacles." Pan Long shook his head. "They can't even bite through the True Qi protecting me!"
Spencer looked bewildered. He was about to pour on more strength when Pan Long pushed off with both feet and suddenly hurled himself backward, slamming hard into the wall behind him.
With a crash, brick and stone shattered. The monster's mouth, fused with the wall, tore open as well. Gray-red liquid flowed down like blood and fell to the ground, where it gave off wisps of bluish smoke.
Pan Long used the force of that collision to retreat from the room, escaping Spencer's trap.
Seeing him break free, Spencer roared in fury. The entire house writhed and twisted out of shape. Gray-green tentacles sprouted from it and lashed toward him.
Beneath the sunlight, the whole house writhed and twisted like a nightmare escaped from a horror story, transforming into a giant tentacled monster.
Pan Long frowned.
This thing isn't afraid of sunlight?
Sunlight had always been the Calamities' greatest enemy. No matter how powerful a Calamity was, exposure to sunlight would kill it in moments, even reducing it to ash.
Yet Spencer had broken that iron rule. The Calamity he had become by fusing with the house was not afraid of sunlight at all!
Pan Long could not help asking, "How did you make