Through the wisps of spiritual power rising like green smoke from the mountain peaks before being swallowed by the black shadow, he had already vaguely sensed something.
Just as the others were filled with horror, a voice they knew all too well suddenly rang out from the black shadow overhead:
"Master! Elder Lu! Go! Get out of here!"
"Xu Taiping's Dahei Black Hound can draw origin power from every living being he devours."
"He has already devoured my physique and magic power!"
The speaker was, of course, Qi He's primordial spirit, whom Xiaohei had swallowed earlier.
Rumble...
As he spoke, two more enormous python shadows formed from spiritual power enveloped the Yellow Origin Palace's two mountain peaks.
In an instant, the barrier at the Yellow Origin Palace's mountain gate abruptly transformed from golden mist into flames that soared into the sky.
Boom!!
Under the scorching onslaught of those surging flames, the black shadow's swallowing of the peaks abruptly slowed.
Eventually, it stopped altogether.
Then, before the astonished eyes of Black-Robed Fish, Elder Lu, and the others, Xuan Zhou suddenly burst into wild laughter:
"Xu Taiping! You underestimate the reserves of our Yellow Origin Palace!"
The others let out long sighs of relief.
The corners of Xuan Zhou's mouth lifted as he said:
"Our ancestor personally laid this barrier after winning a half-immortal seat."
"It can defend! And it can attack!"
As he spoke, amid rumbling thunder, the barrier flames enveloping the two peaks abruptly transformed into streaks of thunder power, which burst outward in every direction.
In an instant, all that thunder power struck the black shadow Xiaohei had become.
For a time, not only was Xiaohei unable to continue swallowing the two peaks, but the thunder power forced him to spit out the portions he had swallowed, little by