The young man was of a height with Grandpa, built tall and large, wearing black cloth shoes and a light green Daoist robe. It was not the garb of a Daoist priest, however, but that of a scholar, with white lapels and wide sleeves.
He had a white jade belt wound around his waist and a black four-cornered cap upon his head. He looked handsome, dashing, and possessed an extraordinary bearing.
He was precisely Created Being Xiao Wu.
Among the talisman monsters recorded in the Treasure Mirror of Creation of Chen Yindu, ranging from the subordinate ninth rank to the first rank, there were several hundred kinds. Their appearances were bizarre and grotesque. Even the first-rank Talisman God Heavenly Mechanism, though handsome and imposingly heroic, still grew eight arms.
Only Created Being Xiao Wu looked just like an ordinary person—merely an exceptionally handsome one among mortals.
He ate the crane, causing those Sky Listeners to startle in their hearts. They immediately turned their ears in unison, pair after pair of ears swiveling toward Created Being Xiao Wu.
One of the Sky Listeners was just about to raise his brush to write when his waist suddenly tightened. Lowering his gaze, he saw a long, crimson tongue had wrapped around his midsection at some unknown point.
He followed the tongue up, only to see at its end that same young, tall man.
Created Being Xiao Wu abruptly opened his wide mouth, and the next moment, that Sky Listener vanished. Xiao Wu straightened his neck, his mouth agape. The Sky Listener's two lower legs were still outside his jaws, his body bound rigidly straight, his two legs still trying to kick about wildly in vain.
Created Being Xiao Wu mimicked a pelican shaking its neck, and that Sky Listener was promptly shaken down