The False Dragon impatiently lashed its tail and claws from time to time, sending Master Tiger flying again and again.
The wounds on Master Tiger's body multiplied, and his movements grew slower and slower. By the end, he could barely even stand.
Just as Cui Jiuyang and Master Tiger both lay gravely wounded on the ground, beset by danger and hanging between life and death, the False Dragon suddenly froze again without warning!
Seeing this, Cui Jiuyang and Master Tiger scrambled away, putting some distance between themselves and it.
Only then did they hear Bai Susu's weak but anxious voice coming from the other side of the stone terrace:
"Young Master Cui, run!"
Bai Susu had regained consciousness at some point. She stood at the edge of the stone terrace, her frail body swaying gently in the wind like a solitary white wildflower in the mountains.
"Run!"
She repeated it once more, then slowly collapsed...
Many years later, atop Zheyu Cliff, known as the Demon Immortal's Hidden Realm, young demons often saw their ancestor standing on the mountaintop's Wangxian Platform beneath a sky thick with dark clouds, gazing up with a faint smile.
Some lively young demons plucked up their courage and asked their ancestor why she was smiling.
The ancestor known as the Moonlit Immortal Maiden still looked like a young girl. With a lovely smile, she said, "I remembered those days. The weather was just like this when someone... risked his life for me."
Chapter 208: Ancestral assets
Very little time passed between Bai Susu's anxious appearance beside the Clifftop Stone Terrace to shout her warning and the two men using the False Dragon's brief pause to retreat to a safe distance.
Su Su had only managed to utter seven syllables in total.
Yet in the time it