"Boom!"
Amid those cries of shock, Ping'an hurled a punch at Wumei, his expression utterly unchanged.
Wumei had never expected Xu Taiping to have a Mountain-Lifting Ape as a spirit pet. With no countermeasure prepared, he could only barely raise his arms to block.
"Bang!"
With a thunderous crash, everyone watched in horror as Wumei's enormous body, transformed by Dharma Form Heaven and Earth, was punched clean off the ground by the Mountain-Lifting Ape named Ping'an.
"Boom!"
The instant Wumei flew backward off the ground, Ping'an leaped up and unleashed the Ape Demon Art's Ape Strike Palm, thrusting both palms out together. The palm shadows bore down on Wumei before he could fall, with the force to topple mountains and overturn seas.
"Bang!"
Amid a tremendous crash that seemed capable of shattering the mountains, Wumei's body, transformed by Dharma Form Heaven and Earth, was blasted apart by Ping'an's palm strike.
Restored to his true form, Wumei began vomiting mouthful after mouthful of blood, mixed with chunks of shattered organs.
"Whoosh!"
Xu Taiping, who had long been waiting, appeared beside Wumei in a single flash, lightning wreathing his figure.
Then, with a sharp swish, he swung his saber down at Wumei's head.
But just as Xu Taiping was about to sever Wumei's head, a bone-chilling, sinister wind suddenly blew from behind him without warning.
Immediately afterward, a pitch-black lotus hung upside down above his head.
"Taiping, dodge!"
Almost the instant that lotus appeared, Fairy Lingyue's somewhat urgent voice suddenly exploded in Xu Taiping's mind.
Even so, her warning came too late.
"Boom!..."
After Xu Taiping severed that faceless man's head with a swish, the ink-black lotus abruptly bloomed. A pale hand reached out from within it and gently pressed against the top of Xu Taiping's head.
"Crack!"
A sound like shattering