Suddenly!
"Aooo!!!" The Earth God, whose enormous face lay against the ground, seemed to realize something was wrong. Countless bursts of yellow-orange light surged wildly from the grooves covering his body, lighting up his entire form like a cracked spiderweb.
"Crack, crack, crack!!" As the Earth God roared, his immense body crackled incessantly. His yellow-brown form suddenly turned gray-black, taking on the appearance of rock. His defenses grew harder, and were still thickening!
Just then!
"Take this!" Li Xiaoya brought the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff crashing down on the Earth God's increasingly thick head once more.
"Clang! Clang!" Earth-shaking crashes erupted as the Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff struck the Earth God's head, producing a series of metallic collisions. Countless flames and streaks of red light surged in every direction, stirring up astonishing blasts of astral wind. Rings of astral wind rippled through the sky, while waves of light shuddered through space. A hole hundreds of yards across blasted open in the Earth God's head, but the staff could penetrate no farther. The entire Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff bounced back into the air.
"Fellow Daoist, stand aside!" the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast roared furiously.
Heavens!
The spinning yellow-orange cyclone surrounding the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast blazed with dazzling light. Its golden-orange radiance illuminated dozens of miles around, turning almost the entire world yellow-orange. The piercing whistles of its astral wind made Li Xiaoya's eardrums ache terribly!
"Return!" Without the slightest hesitation, Li Xiaoya roared and beckoned with his fingers. The Shaking-Heaven Divine Fire Staff turned into a red beam and instantly shot toward him...
In an instant!
The spinning yellow-orange vortex formed by the One-Horned Tiger-Lion Beast slammed into the Earth God's head.
"Clang!!" An earth-shaking metallic collision thundered out. Countless golden sparks shot into the sky, and golden light erupted everywhere as