"Elder Huang, why don't you let me go out and hold it off for a while?"
In a forest of withered trees beneath the blood mist of the Impure Land, Ping'an stood within the Annihilation Land barrier. Watching the golden barriers summoned by more than a dozen stone statues shatter layer after layer beneath the giant axe of a demonic beast outside, he could not help calling to Old Daoist Huang beside him.
The demonic beast stood a hundred zhang tall, its filthy, tangled hair hanging all the way to its heels.
Beneath that filthy hair was a long, thin humanoid body like a skeleton, with a bull's head stitched onto its neck.
"Aaah...!!"
Just then, the demonic beast suddenly craned its neck and let out a furious roar.
In an instant, its tangled hair turned into a mass of raging flames that surged toward the sky.
Then it gripped its giant axe with both hands and, its face contorted with fury, hacked down at the golden barriers before it.
"Bang...!"
Amid the deafening crash, more than half the layers of golden barriers summoned by the stone statues of the Third Watch Observatory disciples shattered.
At the same time, great swathes of the ground around the demonic beast began turning into marshland.
Seeing this, Ping'an looked at Old Daoist Huang again.
"Elder Huang!"
Old Daoist Huang drew a deep breath, then shook his head and said firmly,
"You mustn't go out!"
Before Ping'an could argue, he explained,
"My divine sense can tell that this demonic beast is far stronger than the Serpent Demon you and Xu Taiping fought before."
"Going out there would be courting death!"
Ping'an frowned.
"Is this bull demon really that strong?"
Old Daoist Huang's expression was grave.
"Extremely strong!"
He pointed at the five-colored radiance emanating