The ancient ape puppet's elbow whipped up a violent gale, blasting apart the seawater surging toward it. At the same time, a deep-blue pillar of light shot straight at the spot between the three eyes.
If Bai Rou had guessed correctly, that place should have been similar to a cultivator's sea of consciousness.
The three-eyed squid had not expected this puppet to be so agile, its attack path equally tricky and vicious, actually breaking through its seemingly watertight blockade.
Moreover, the target was precisely the part of its body currently exposed above the sea, where its defenses were weakest.
Yet it was delighted as well. How could such a weakly defended place be so easily attacked? It had naturally prepared countermeasures long ago.
Of course, if the opponent had been stronger and given it no time to react, it still might have had no way to defend itself.
But as things stood, the other party's attack intent had been somewhat deliberate and had been seen through by it.
Just as the dark-blue beam arrived in an instant, three jets of pitch-black liquid suddenly shot from its three enormous eyes, like three black water columns.
One of those water columns accurately collided with the dark-blue beam.
Boom!
Amid a muffled blast, the dark-blue beam's momentum sharply slowed.
At the front of the beam, the black liquid resembled waves crashing against a shore embankment. As the fluid churned at the forefront, it actually pushed the blue beam backward.
The other two black water columns flashed forward and had already reached the ancient ape puppet's lower abdomen and chest. Its chest was where the puppet's formation core lay, as well as Bai Rou's hiding place.
Bai Rou's expression changed within the ancient ape puppet. It seemed she had fallen into a trap. Neither