The six golden spheres of light flickered like lightning before slamming into the old man's protective spiritual energy.
A thunderous boom shook the air as all six spheres detonated simultaneously, transforming into rolling waves of golden light that engulfed the elder's entire body.
Though the demon elder's spiritual barrier possessed defensive power on par with a top-grade treasure, it shattered in an instant. Steeling his resolve, he bit the remaining half of his tongue clean through and spat it backward in a mixture of essence blood.
In the blink of an eye, a blood shield coalesced behind him.
The golden light surged forward and crashed heavily against the blood shield, but after holding for only a brief moment, a small portion of the golden radiance still punched through, striking the elder's body with vicious force.
The robed elder felt a tremendous impact slam into his back, and he could no longer keep his footing. He staggered forward several steps, a sweetness rising in his throat, and could not stop himself from spurting out mouthfuls of dark crimson blood. His spiritual sense swam in a haze of confusion.
At that moment, the giant ape standing high in the sky suddenly took a single step forward. Its massive body blurred, and in the next instant it materialized eerily right before the elder. A golden-furred hand thrust forward with lightning speed.
The demon elder, horrified, tried to cast another technique to dodge, but it was already too late.
The five fingers of the golden hand spread apart and pierced clean through the elder's chest, seizing a still-beating heart and ripping it out with raw force.
Silver flames erupted along the entire arm, and torrents of spiritual fire reduced both the elder and the heart to ash in an instant — not even giving the Nascent Soul within time to escape.
The entire killing had taken no more than a heartbeat!
The seven demon women below had only just reacted. Seeing the elder fall so decisively, a trace of fear crept across each of their faces.
Without hesitation, all seven let out a sharp cry simultaneously. Their wings beat once behind their backs, and they transformed into seven streaks of fleeing light, each rocketing in a different direction — abandoning the fight entirely and fleeing for their lives.
"You think you can escape? A mere clone technique — did you really think it could fool my eyes?" The giant ape that
When the crack of thunder rang out and all the lightning spheres detonated simultaneously into arcs of silver-white electricity, the giant ape's colossal body blurred and transformed into a single thread of blue-white light that shot forward. In a single flash it crossed several hundred zhang of distance, materializing in an instant above one of the winged women's streaks of light.
The light flickered and faded, and the giant ape's form reappeared.
The demon woman below saw this and her face drained of color. Her streak of light blazed brighter as she tried to force her remaining power to accelerate, but it was already too late.
The giant ape let out a thunderous roar. Every strand of golden fur on its body bristled outward as its frame surged to an enormous size in the gale, swelling to a hundred zhang in the blink of an eye.
It clenched both titanic fists, and they transformed into two golden meteors that hurtled downward with devastating force.
Before they even made contact, an invisible wave of crushing power enveloped all the void within a li of the area. The winged woman's flight slowed abruptly, her speed dropping to a crawl.
Her face went deathly pale. She let out a piercing shriek, and the six women fleeing in other directions flickered once with light before their bodies collapsed and dispersed into nothing.
But the winged woman caught beneath the giant ape's attack saw her aura surge several fold in an instant. Both her hands shot upward, and two fist-sized black spheres flew skyward. Her wings then beat violently toward the heavens, and countless feathers broke free, transforming into a rainstorm of black light that shot upward.
Amid the hissing of air being torn apart, two earth-shattering booms erupted!
The moment the two spheres made contact with the golden fists, they detonated into two black suns. Inky, pitch-black demon flames roared upward, blanketing an acre of sky in darkness.
The dense barrage of black-feathered projectiles also pierced into the black demon flames like arrows at the end of their flight.
After the colossal explosions, the terrifying aura bearing down from the sky eased, and the oppressive pressure weighing on everything around grew noticeably lighter.
The winged woman's heart soared with hope. Without a second thought, her body blazed with fleeing light as she transformed once more into a rainbow and shot away.
But she had barely covered a dozen zhang when a muffled boom like the tearing of the void echoed from high above.
A flash of gold and silver lit the sky simultaneously as a massive golden fist, wreathed in silver flames and trailing a ferocious gale, smashed down through the black demon fire.
"Not good!"
The winged woman saw the golden fist bearing down and let out a sharp scream. She spat a small green shield toward the sky, which flickered and expanded to several zhang in size, positioning itself above her. At the same time, her wings wrapped around her body, transforming into an exquisitely crafted suit of battle armor that shielded every inch of her skin.
A deafening boom!
The green shield shattered and disintegrated in an instant. The winged woman was hammered downward by the golden fist, becoming a streak of black light that plummeted from the sky and smashed into the ground below.
With a thunderous impact, a man-shaped crater several zhang deep appeared in the dense forest floor.
The winged demon woman had been driven bodily into the earth, her meridians so slack and numbed by the tremendous force that she lay utterly unable to move a single muscle.
High above, a violent gust of wind swept through, and all the remaining black flames were swept away without a trace.