Jiangli placed its paw on Yang Qing's shoulder, hoping to shield him.
But when another bolt of heavenly thunder descended, Yang Qing shoved Jiangli away.
Caught off guard, Jiangli was pushed aside.
This time, the heavenly thunder came with even greater fury, the descending bolts themselves a scarlet red.
After Yang Qing pushed it away, Jiangli looked up at the sky. Its pupils abruptly contracted when it saw that the falling thunder was red.
"Does it hate Yang Qing that much? It doesn't just want his life—it wants to reduce him to ash!"
Jiangli roared. Though its whole body trembled uncontrollably as it approached the heavenly thunder, it still dragged Yang Qing aside.
There were three bolts of heavenly thunder this time.
When the first two struck, Jiangli had just been pushed aside by Yang Qing.
Yang Qing took both bolts head-on.
The clothes on his body had been blasted into charcoal, and his skin was scorched in patches, leaving bloody, mangled flesh everywhere.
The final bolt had been aimed at the Crown of the Head of Yang Qing, but Jiangli's shove knocked him slightly out of its path.
Heavenly Law probably had not expected anyone to dare play tricks right beneath its eyes at such a critical moment.
Jiangli was a divine beast, and there were few divine beasts in this world. Heavenly Law had not wanted to wipe them out to the last.
But Jiangli's audacious interference infuriated Heavenly Law.
The last bolt missed the Crown of the Head of Yang Qing and struck his shoulder instead, but part of its power turned and landed on Jiangli.
Since its ascension to become a divine beast, Jiangli had never again suffered the agony of having its body tempered by heavenly thunder. Now, struck so suddenly, its face—the face it