Chapter 89: The Great Wilderness Overlord, Demon Ape | Liu Shen Takes Action | Three Days Later, Ascend to the Upper Realm!
The wind arrived with an eerie strangeness.
Not only that, it carried a nauseating stench of blood. When it blew across their bodies, even Qian Renxue, a cultivator in the Blood Transformation Realm, shivered uncontrollably, the hairs on her body standing on end.
"Something's wrong!"
At that moment, Shi Linhu, who had been directing everyone, suddenly froze. The smile on his face stiffened instantly.
Moments later, he dropped to the ground, pressing his ear against the earth to listen.
His face immediately turned deathly pale.
He leapt to his feet and roared:
"Quick, drop the prey!"
"Everyone scatter and run!"
"Something big is coming!"
Before his words had even finished—
BOOM!
A thunderous explosion echoed across the sky. The bright heavens suddenly darkened.
It was not clouds blocking the sun.
Instead, an unimaginably massive shadow, wrapped in rolling demonic energy, surged forward from the deepest parts of the Great Wilderness, crushing everything in its path!
"That is…"
Hiding among the trees, Qian Renxue raised her head in terror.
Through the gaps in the canopy, she saw a scene she would never forget for the rest of her life.
High above in the sky, nearly a thousand meters up, floated a gigantic demonic ape over a hundred meters tall.
Its body was covered in pitch-black scales. Behind it spread a pair of enormous black flesh wings that blotted out the sky.
Its face was ferocious, fangs protruding, eyes blood-red, like burning moons.
Merely hovering there caused the surrounding space to distort slightly.
The Great Wilderness Overlord, Demon Ape!
This was a true pure-blooded primordial beast.
Its strength was far beyond anything Little One and the others could possibly handle. Compared to it, the One-Horned Blazing Fire Bear that had just been killed might as well have been a tame little puppy.
"ROAR!!!"
The Demon Ape in the sky unleashed a thunderous roar.
The sound waves instantly became visible to the naked eye, spreading outward in rings of black ripples!
"Pfft!"
In an instant, Qian Renxue, hiding in the tree, felt as if her chest had been struck by a massive hammer.
She spat out a mouthful of blood and was violently blasted away, crashing hard into an ancient tree.
As for the weaker youths of Stone Village, they clutched their ears and collapsed to the ground in agony, unable even to stand.
"It's over…"
Shi Linhu gripped the broadsword in his hand tightly, his entire body trembling.
"It's the king of this region! Why would it appear here?!"
In the sky, the Demon Ape had clearly been drawn here by the disturbance caused when Little One killed the One-Horned Blazing Fire Bear with a single punch.
Slowly, it turned its eyes.
Those blood-moon-like pupils swept across the land below.
The next second—
It moved.
The enormous body suddenly dove downward, the hurricane it created snapping hundreds of towering ancient trees in half!
A massive black demonic claw, wrapped in dense black runes, descended toward Little One and Qian Renxue!
One claw strike.
It sealed the sky and locked the earth.
There was no escape.
"Run!!"
Qian Renxue screamed, trying to flee the Demon Ape's attack range.
But under that terrifying pressure, her body had become as stiff as iron.
She could not move at all.
"You damned monkey!"
At the critical moment, Little One did the opposite of retreat.
He stepped forward!
Though small, he felt no fear.
"Buzz!"
At his chest, the location where his Supreme Bone once existed was now empty.
Yet in that moment, all the blood in Little One's body began boiling to its limit!
"Suanni Treasure Technique!"
"Green-Scaled Eagle Treasure Technique!"
Instantly, a golden phantom of a Suan Ni and a crescent-shaped azure moon appeared behind him.
He pushed the power of the Blood Transformation Realm's extreme limit to its peak, trying to block the attack and buy even a sliver of survival for his clan members!
But the gap was simply too great.
Before that mountain-like descending claw, Little One's dazzling treasure techniques were like a candle flickering in the wind.
Shaking.
Fragile.
They were crushed instantly.
Not even a moment of resistance.
Outside the Sky Screen, the people of the Douluo Continent who witnessed this scene felt their hearts leap into their throats.
Even Gu Yuena closed her eyes, unable to bear watching a peerless genius fall like this.
Because before that, absolute power—
All resistance was meaningless.
However—
Just as the demonic claw was less than three meters above Little One's head—
Whoosh!
A sharp sound tore through the air.
The darkened sky suddenly lit up with a soft emerald glow.
That light was gentle and sacred.
Yet it carried a nobility that seemed to stand above all creation.
"That is…!"
Qian Renxue widened her eyes and looked up in shock.
From the void above, a crystal-clear willow branch appeared.
It looked as if it had been carved from flawless jade.
Though it appeared delicate, the moment it descended—
The once-arrogant Demon Ape reacted as if it had seen something terrifying.
It abruptly halted its dive.
Then it frantically flapped its wings, trying to escape.
But the willow branch gave it no chance.
Even though the Demon Ape had already fled far away in an instant, the emerald branch ignored the distance of space itself.
It appeared behind the beast effortlessly.
Puchi!
The branch passed through the air.
The Demon Ape's neck, once thought indestructible, something even divine weapons could barely damage, was pierced instantly.
At that moment, the entire scene seemed to freeze.
The Demon Ape still maintained the posture of fleeing.
But its head slowly slid off.
Even the black mist and runes filling the sky were erased by that single strike.
BOOM!
The massive ape head crashed onto the ground.
Its eyes were still wide open, the terror before death frozen within them.
As the hundred-meter-tall headless corpse collapsed, black beast blood gushed from the severed neck, quickly forming a small river.
Instant kill with one strike.
The entire process flowed like moving water.
So fast that no one even had time to realize what had happened.
At that moment, the willow branch that was about to disappear suddenly paused.
Then a cold voice echoed directly within everyone's minds:
"A great calamity is approaching. Chaos will soon engulf the Great Wilderness."
"Quickly bring the prey back."
"When the matters here are settled, in three days I will open the formation."
"And lead you all to ascend to the Upper Realm."
After the voice faded, the emerald willow branch completely vanished from the world.
Looking at the branch that had pierced the Demon Ape yet remained unstained by blood, Qian Renxue was so shocked she dropped to her knees.
This… was the power of Stone Village's sacrificial spirit?
That quiet, withered tree standing at the village entrance…
The one with only a single branch?
"So powerful…"
Beside her, Shi Linhu and the others stood stunned for three full seconds before finally snapping back to reality.
Looking at the disappearing willow branch, their bodies trembled with excitement.
Then they all dropped to their knees with a thud and kowtowed frantically toward the direction where it had vanished.
"Yes!"
"Thank you, Lord Liu Shen!"
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