"Hero Pei, please protect our young master. Leave this monster to us!"
Seeing that the monster in the lake had no intention of giving up, Bu Er and Jiang Zhizhou exchanged a glance and made their decision.
It seemed the monster meant to make trouble for them, but they had no idea how powerful it was. To be safe, Pei Buji would have to escort Yang Qing away first.
The two of them would then find a way to escape.
Pei Buji nodded.
Bu Er was right. Yang Qing had no particular skills to defend himself with. If anything happened to him, Bu Er and the others would surely go mad.
Only after escorting Yang Qing away from this treacherous place could he devise a plan that would keep everyone safe.
But before the four of them could act, the monster opened its bloody maw, and a song drifted out from deep within its belly.
They had never imagined that the ethereal voice they had heard earlier had come from the mouth of this hideous monster!
Even more unexpectedly, now that the monster had emerged from the water, its song rang out louder still.
The voice, which had sounded somewhat indistinct before, now sent a tremor through the chests of Jiang Zhizhou, Bu Er, and Pei Buji. Their smoothly circulating internal energy nearly veered off course.
"This monster can actually use the Soul-Seizing Technique!" Pei Buji reeled in shock, his body swaying.
Jiang Zhizhou and Bu Er looked even more distressed.
They truly had not expected the monster to be so troublesome, much less that its ability to suppress their internal energy would be so formidable.
Moreover, the stronger their internal energy, the more severely it was suppressed.
Of the four of them, Pei Buji had the strongest internal energy.