These spirit beasts looked like monkeys, yet had no tails. Their bodies were covered only in jet-black hide, without a trace of fur. Their leaf-like faces held the same clever eyes as monkeys, but their mouths were exceptionally wide, with two fangs jutting out. They looked exceedingly vicious!
"Squeak, squeak~~" As one of the spirit beasts flew through the air, it suddenly cried out and pounced toward the black ground. Then its long arms, which had long since reached past its knees, shot fiercely into the soil. With a miserable roar, it dragged a Mo Ran nearly thirty feet long and nine feet wide from beneath the earth! The beast's arms had pierced directly into the Mo Ran's body, and black blood was already flowing out!
The instant the Mo Ran was dragged out, its two fleshy wings beat rapidly as it tried to fly into the air, carrying the spirit beast up with it!
"Squeak, squeak, squeak..." The other spirit beasts nearby revealed delighted looks, one after another flying up and pouncing toward other parts of the Mo Ran's body!
"Screech~~" The Mo Ran let out a cry, opened its mouth, and spat out another mass of black qi toward one of the spirit beasts. At the same time, its tail swept around, lashing toward a spirit beast in another direction!
Something strange happened. The qi mass that had previously been so formidable, the qi mass that had left even Golden Core cultivators helpless, did not alert the spirit beast in the slightest. Only when the qi mass was close did the beast swiftly stretch out an arm, revealing a palm with only three fingers. Like plucking the moon from the bottom of the sea, it reached into the qi mass. The beast's three fingers glimmered with a faint