But just as she was saying this, Supreme Venerable Xuanwei suddenly roared as though he had gone mad:
"I willingly sacrifice my body in exchange for the Ancient Gods' descent!"
Lady Chixue froze for a moment at these words, then knitted her brows and curled her lips upward.
"You do have some courage!"
She had already intended to flee, but immediately summoned all her strength, abruptly forming a bloody palm that slammed toward Heaven-Hunting Great Sage.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous crash, Heaven-Hunting Great Sage, who was resisting the falling meteors overhead, was actually sent flying backward by Lady Chixue's palm strike.
"Rumble..."
Almost simultaneously, the giant maw of the flesh embryo formed from the Heavenly Calamity Ancient Gods' aura swallowed Supreme Venerable Xuanwei's body in a single gulp.
"Boom!!!"
In the blink of an eye, amid an ear-splitting qi explosion, the flesh embryo's enormous maw transformed into a gigantic monster with a human upper body and the lower body of an octopus.
And that human body looked exactly like Supreme Venerable Xuanwei.
"Boom!"
Just then, the half-human, half-octopus monster suddenly lashed a thick tentacle toward Xu Taiping, wrapping up both him and the purple qi.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous noise, the tentacle's suckers latched firmly onto the mass of purple qi, which then shrank at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Clang!"
But at that very moment, another streak of sword light descended from the sky, slashing straight down at the octopus's tentacle.
"Swish!"
Amid a piercing whistle through the air, Heavenly Lord Shihu severed the tentacle with a single sword strike.
Seeing this, Xu Taiping immediately let out a long breath.
"Sorry for the trouble, Heavenly Lord Shihu!"
As he spoke, the purple qi once again pried open the raging flames of true fire and flowed into the