"This is bad!"
An ominous feeling had barely risen in his heart when CC let out a furious bark, opened wide, and lunged straight at Lü Qingzhou.
Lü Qingzhou stepped back and thrust out both hands, trying to restrain CC with spiritual qi.
To his shock, CC bit straight through the spiritual qi—and took Lü Qingzhou's right hand clean off.
"Aah!"
Lü Qingzhou screamed in agony. Beside him, Elder Yun's expression changed in horror. "It really is a spirit beast!"
Shocked as he was, Elder Yun sprang into action. Moving both palms, he unleashed a restraining force far stronger than Lü Qingzhou's and lifted CC straight into the air.
But before Elder Yun could fling CC away, CC swiped a paw. That dragon-shaped beast claw appeared again, breaking Elder Yun's spiritual restraint outright.
"What?!"
This was Elder Yun's first time fighting a spirit beast, and he clearly had not expected one to be so formidable.
Once free, CC had a clear target. Instead of attacking Elder Yun, CC charged again at Lü Qingzhou, who lay on the ground groaning in pain.
With his hand bitten off, Lü Qingzhou's fighting strength had plummeted. Seeing CC coming at him again, he cried helplessly for aid. "Elder Yun, Qin Jian, help me stop this beast!"
Qin Jian had already been scared out of his wits by CC. There was no way he would go over and get himself killed now. He hid far away, trembling.
Elder Yun was also stunned by what had just happened. In that brief lapse, CC rushed up to Lü Qingzhou and lashed out with a furious barrage of claw strikes.
Lü Qingzhou lay sprawled on the ground, able only to summon his Qi Armor and endure the assault.
But as CC's terrifying beast claws hammered down again and