“What the fuck is this thing…”

Earth-Monkey and Earth-Rooster looked at each other, momentarily unsure whether to take advantage and launch a sneak attack or decisively flee.

Heavenly-Rooster and Heavenly-Monkey held hands, their bodies rapidly hunching over. Deep wrinkles like tree bark covered their entire bodies layer by layer.

No matter how beautiful their faces had been, they all vanished at this moment, leaving only deep eye sockets and drooping corners of their mouths.

They arched their waists deeply like shrimp, their necks about to sink into the ground. Even their hair spread out on the floor like carpets.

At first, Earth-Monkey felt these two looked a bit like Xuanwu, but looking now, how could they still resemble Xuanwu?

Even if Xuanwu had truly experienced “Wild Growth,” it definitely wouldn’t be “Wild Growth” for such an extended time.

If these two didn’t release their hands, they would inevitably die of old age right here.

“The situation doesn’t seem quite right…” Earth-Monkey said. “Let’s leave first… They can resolve their own matters themselves.”

“Alright!” Earth-Rooster nodded. The two moved toward the exit.

At this moment, Heavenly-Monkey finally released her hand. Two swaying figures, along with all the long hair in the room, shifted slightly. When Earth-Rooster and Earth-Monkey stepped on it, they only felt the carpet being pulled away and nearly fell to the ground.

“Cough… Madwoman…” Heavenly-Rooster wanted to curse a few words, but his voice was already as hoarse as sandpaper scraping. “What’s the point of doing this… You’ve ruined a war that could have been won…”

“War…?” Heavenly-Monkey’s aged voice also squeezed out from her throat. “What a joke… My life has been ruined… Why should I still care about others’ wars?”

Heavenly-Rooster was about to speak but felt his consciousness rapidly leaving him.

What seemed to have been aged by “Wild Growth” wasn’t just his body, but also his brain.

A sense of helpless fear began spreading in his heart—

With his current aged body plus a sluggish brain, could he still turn this situation around?

Turn around… what situation again?

“How wonderful…” Heavenly-Monkey lowered her head, squeezing out an unpleasant voice. “We’ve still ended up growing old together after all… Now no one will despise the other’s ugly appearance… Right? We can be together forever. You don’t need to play those little tricks to deceive me anymore…”

Heavenly-Rooster paused, feeling like that made sense, but what had he deceived about?

Who was this old woman again?

Heavenly-Monkey moved her feet, wanting to get closer to Heavenly-Rooster, but her waist had completely become arc-shaped. There was simply no way to lift her head. She could only support herself with both hands and crawl to Heavenly-Rooster’s side like an animal.

The numerous gray-black hairs with her as the center also began to writhe. Because the hair filled the room, it looked as if the room itself was moving.

“Now we’ve already grown old together with white hair…” Heavenly-Monkey extended her hand with difficulty and grabbed Heavenly-Rooster’s wrist. “Only two people in the way are left… As long as we kill them, we’ll have no more obstacles…”

“Kill them…?” Heavenly-Rooster slowly raised his head and looked toward Earth-Rooster and Earth-Monkey.

This glance made the two shudder with horror.

Those were a pair of withered yellow, completely clouded pupils. They were hidden in deep and shriveled eye sockets, unable even to reflect light.

“That’s right… Let’s kill them…”

Both of them raised their heads at this moment, gazing with faces like tree bark.

“Fuck… This is fucking…” Earth-Monkey felt all the monkey fur on his body standing up. The current situation was really somewhat bizarre.

These two were clearly about to die of old age, yet before dying, they were preparing to go down fighting.

A completely obsessed Heavenly-Monkey together with a senile Heavenly-Rooster—the situation felt even more troublesome than before.

Earth-Monkey hurried to the door and reached out to pull the door handle. The next second, all the hair in the room moved, rapidly contracting like a receding tide.

The two lost their footing. Earth-Monkey saw Earth-Rooster about to fall and quickly reached out to support her. In an instant, he was quite annoyed.

“Hey! Don’t touch me!” Earth-Rooster shouted somewhat anxiously.

“Fuck, I forgot.”

The two raised their heads. They saw two enormous masses of hair flying up in midair, almost filling the entire room.

There were clearly people in the center of that hair, but their figures were completely blocked by the hair. Only a mass of black hair waves writhing in midair flew toward them. This terrifying scene made them feel ice-cold all over their bodies.

Earth-Monkey pushed Earth-Rooster away with one motion, then tried to dodge, but every step would land on hair on the ground. Soon his ankles were entangled.

The black hair in midair instantly closed in at this moment. From within, two withered hands like tree branches extended out and grasped his neck, fiercely throwing him to the ground.

“Fuck… You old thing…” Earth-Monkey couldn’t distinguish whether the person before him was Heavenly-Monkey or Heavenly-Rooster. He only saw a face covered in wrinkles appear before his eyes.

The hands were stiff and ice-cold, embedded deeply in his neck like wire.

Earth-Monkey quickly extended his hands to punch, but several times he only hit the hair. He had to glare with wide eyes to judge the glowing outline of his opponent. Only then did he discover the opponent’s body shape had become so thin it was difficult to recognize, like a withered tree.

Seeing Earth-Monkey in danger, Earth-Rooster just wanted to step forward to save him but was tackled by another enormous mass of hair. That hair covered her face and entire body, preventing her from even opening her eyes.

She only felt as if she had fallen into a cave covered with cobwebs, every inch of her body entangled by silk threads.

“Ah! This thing is really too annoying!”

After saying this, a withered hand suddenly shot out from the hair and struck Earth-Rooster’s lower abdomen. Earth-Rooster also spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, but before her eyes was still only black hair, impossible to brush away no matter what.

“Quail!!” Earth-Monkey shouted loudly in the hair where no body shape could be seen. “Are you still fucking alive?!”

“This old lady is still alive…” Earth-Rooster struggled to open her eyes and saw a hand reaching toward her face. She quickly bent her arm to block. “But I’ll die soon! This bitch has gone completely mad…”

“Fuck, I can’t break free either!” Earth-Monkey said through gritted teeth. “But I feel these two are like a final burst of energy before death! We just need to stall for a while and they’ll die!”

“Damn it…” Earth-Rooster’s veins bulged. After grabbing the opponent’s arm, she rolled over, wanting to pin the opponent down, but got entangled in hair all over her body again. “If we keep stalling, I might die too… This ghost thing doesn’t even want its own life…”

“Hehe…” A withered hand brushed aside the hair, revealing a terrifying face hidden deep in darkness. “Sister… Your face looks so good… Can you tear off your facial skin and give it to me?”

“My fucking facial skin is thin—you should tear tree bark instead!”

Earth-Rooster punched that face, almost knocking out all her teeth.

“Since you don’t want peace before dying… This old lady will exchange a few moves with you.”