That golden monkey was covered in blood and his chest was apparently caved in. There was a palm print left in the crater that Lu Xuan left behind.
Despite the monkey's severely bloodied state, he still managed to hang on by manipulating all that demonic qi about him; he was doing his best to buy himself time.
He no longer thought of defeating Lu Xuan. He had utterly no idea just how Lu Xuan managed to get that far with cultivation. The monkey, who had been unstoppable before, was unable to even begin resisting Lu Xuan's attacks at all.
Suddenly, a massive rumbling noise rang out from the center of that island, followed by exclamations of joy.
"It's broken!"
The expressions of everyone present changed at that moment. The protective barrier on that Divine Tree of Enlightenment had been broken.
That golden monkey was in a thoroughly berserk state by then. He knew all too well that he was left with very few options.