"Boom...!"
Just as Xu Taiping and the others stood stunned, the Giant Crimson Scales Serpent suddenly lashed its tail, encircling the outer Body-Protecting Golden Light, the stone statues, and Xu Taiping's group within Annihilation Land.
"Boom!!!"
Amid the deafening crash, the statues continued chanting, but the golden barrier they emitted kept shattering beneath the serpent's crushing coils.
Meanwhile, the blood mist that Old Daoist Huang had cut apart with the Qi-Slaying Art began gathering again, little by little.
Seeing this, Old Daoist Huang immediately said, his face tense:
"Xu Taiping, go! It'll be too late if we don't leave now!"
Xu Taiping glanced around at the stone statues, then cupped his hands toward them from afar.
"Thank you!"
With perfect coordination, Ping'an immediately grabbed Xu Taiping with one hand and Old Daoist Huang with the other, then shot straight skyward with a boom, toward the gap in the blood mist overhead.
"Boom...!"
Amid an ear-splitting blast through the air, Ping'an's Demon Saint Realm body surged beyond the area shrouded in red mist like a small mountain.
But just as before, once airborne, the three could neither move their bodies nor use any magic power.
"Boom!"
Their bodies immediately plunged toward the ground.
This time, however, the three had experience and had already deftly used their divine sense to pull on the clouds overhead.
"Boom!"
In the end, three floating clouds suspended their bodies in midair.
Xu Taiping turned to look down at the ground.
Through the blood mist, which had yet to close completely, he saw the serpent in the mist-shrouded forest furiously attacking the stone statues.
The statues kept shattering and then reforming.
Even so, their chanting never ceased, remaining as steadfast as before.
"Eldest Brother!"
Just then, Ping'an suddenly called out to Xu Taiping.
Xu Taiping nodded, then