This cry was very familiar, like... the Giant Apes within You Lan Grand Canyon!
Could this be the Sky-Piercing Ape Ren Wufeng spoke of? Zhang Xiaohua frowned. This was an area where Wood Element Qi gathered. If there were ferocious beasts related to trees or grass, it would naturally be nothing strange.
Listening to the howling rush closer, Zhang Xiaohua looked around, then leaped up and curled himself into hiding atop an upright broken pillar.
Zhang Xiaohua had barely concealed himself when the cries reached him. He slightly raised his head and peeked out. Four or five enormous apes, each twice as large as a giant ape, came bounding over from afar. These Sky-Piercing Apes differed somewhat from giant apes. Not to mention the snow-white fangs jutting fiercely from their bloody maws, nor their fist-sized, blood-red eyes—even their two arms, which reached past their knees, were strange.
The Sky-Piercing Apes had incomparably broad shoulders, and their arms were thick, powerful, and long. When they raised their arms level, they looked almost connected together; perhaps Long-Armed Apes would have been a more fitting name. One Sky-Piercing Ape leaped to a spot blocked by a huge pillar. Rather than dodge around it, it stretched out both arms and embraced the pillar. With a piercing cry, it lifted the massive pillar, then exerted force and shoved it aside, forcibly clearing a path.
The Sky-Piercing Ape then straightened up, threw back its head toward the heavens, and began crying, "Eeeh~~ Aooo~~!" As it cried, it beat its chest with both fists, looking incomparably excited!
Before that Sky-Piercing Ape finished its long howl, the others also leaped aside, crying as they tossed away the rubble blocking their path. Unfortunately, a half-section of red-painted wood, trailing a strip of curtain, crashed into the pillar where Zhang