Lady Chixue clearly had not realized that Xu Taiping was trying to save Ping'an. She immediately scoffed:
"These two really do share a deep brotherly bond."
Just then, Xu Taiping's voice suddenly rang out again:
"Ping'an! Your eldest brother is here to save you!"
"Ping'an!! Just answer me once, and I'll come save you right now!"
Lady Chixue immediately grew alert at his words.
She, too, vaguely guessed that Xu Taiping intended to use some spell or divine ability to rescue the Mountain-Lifting Ape on the sacrificial platform from afar.
Yet no matter how Xu Taiping called out, Ping'an, whose body was now enveloped by the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's aura, gave no response.
At this, Lady Chixue sighed in relief, then said mockingly:
"That kid almost had me fooled."
"The sacrifice is already more than halfway complete. Even if that Mountain-Lifting Ape isn't dead, his Divine Sense has probably dispersed."
"How could he possibly answer?"
The Heaven-Hunting Great Sage's brows were tightly furrowed now, his face full of worry.
Rumble...
Amid the increasingly violent rumbling of the trembling heavens and earth, the Heavenly Calamity Blightbone's aura began spreading out from the sacrificial altar, little by little.
At the sight, the Heaven-Hunting Great Sage immediately drew a deep breath and thought:
It seems I can only use...
But before he could finish, Xu Taiping shouted again:
"Ping'an!!"
"If you die here today!"
"Then your eldest brother will stay with you!"
"And be buried here alongside you!"
Lady Chixue gave a cold laugh at these words:
"He's almost dead. How could he spare a thought for you?"
Yet scarcely had Lady Chixue finished speaking when the Mountain-Lifting Ape, who had lain motionless on the sacrificial platform for a long time, suddenly reached out a hand.
Then, in an exceedingly youthful boy's voice,