"Scatter! Keep your distance!"
Song Qiuya remained calm in the crisis, rapidly relaying orders through divine sense while forming seals with both hands. "It's huge, so it must be slow. Xiao Yue, use a trapping formation to lock down its legs! Chuxia, Chu Ran, attack the gaps between its scales!"
Before she finished speaking, the temperature plummeted.
Frost swiftly condensed across the ground, and a thick layer of mystic ice covered the earth beneath the Demon Ape's feet. Bitter cold spread up its legs, making it stumble in its charge.
"Got it!"
On the right flank, Zhang Ruoxi drew a deep breath.
She pushed the Taiyin Breathing Technique to its limit. A dense, visible blood-and-qi beacon erupted from her seemingly delicate, socially anxious frame.
She was tired of always hiding behind others.
The soil beneath her feet exploded.
She did not use her sword. Driving through her legs, she shot skyward like a cannonball, breaking the sound barrier with a shrill sonic boom and a cloud of vapor as she hurtled straight toward the Demon Ape's face.
Her right fist clenched tight, concentrating tremendous force into a single point.
"Die!"
Boom!
Her fist slammed squarely into the chin of the Demon Ape's left head.
With a distinct crack of breaking bone, the twenty-meter-tall Demon Ape let out a piercing howl of pain. Its massive body staggered three full steps backward.
"Now's our chance!"
Li Xiaoyue climbed out of the crater. Without even wiping the blood from her chin, she pressed both hands firmly against the ground.
"Earth Spirit Bind!"
Countless thick rock chains burst wildly from beneath the earth, coiling around the Demon Ape's legs like giant pythons.
"Go!"
Qin Chuxia and Qin Churan moved as one. Two flying swords, one red and one blue-green, intertwined in the air, forming