Hiss, hiss, hiss...
Beside the great lake, a giant python flicked its long tongue and rustled in circles along the shore.
Ordinarily, such behavior would have been unremarkable.
But now, every Phantom Beast was rushing toward Three Rainbows Waterfall. The giant python alone refused to follow the tide, which made it decidedly strange.
All at once!
The python shuddered. Its eyes turned vacant, and it slowly swayed its massive body away from the lakeshore.
Only after it had traveled several miles did the confusion gradually fade from its eyes.
It glanced back at the great lake in puzzlement, but the charge of its own kind soon caught its attention, and it joined the surging tide of giant beasts.
Across the lake, muddy waves rolled, as though stirred by the tremors all around.
Beneath the lake, Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
"Strange. I took down the array yesterday, so why are so many Phantom Beasts still being drawn here? Their numbers haven't dropped at all."
"Could this many Phantom Beasts really have been lurking within tens of thousands of miles?"
He could make neither head nor tail of it.
Though he had arranged this trap in haste, he had put considerable thought into it.
To avoid detection by Gu Daosu's protector, Madam Xu, he had taken down the array once it had drawn seven or eight Phantom Beasts.
He had also pushed his concealment art to its absolute limit!
The situation had slipped somewhat out of control, but there were still advantages to be had.
Luo Chen looked up. The lake water was murky, and he could see nothing through it.
"Too blurry!"
Luo Chen murmured and drew on a stream of Pure Magic Power, slowly converting it.
Suddenly, he tapped a finger against the rippling water before him.