The whirling sandstorm flew like rain as an enormous creature burst from beneath the sand. For a moment, it was impossible to see what it was. More than a dozen thick tentacles stabbed toward Yue Qianchou in the air at once. Yue Qianchou swiftly shot sideways. Yet after flying only a short distance, his expression changed as he sensed that while circulating his cultivation and unleashing his power, the True Essence within him was being consumed at double the rate.
Startled, he swiftly landed atop a sand dune dozens of meters away. There was no time to investigate why his True Essence was being drained so rapidly. He turned and stared at the monster that had erupted from beneath the sand. Once it sprang into the air and spread its tentacles, its span reached over thirty meters, like a giant umbrella opening in the sky. The sand it had flung up came rustling down from all directions...
A giant octopus? Yue Qianchou stared blankly at the huge thing as it sprang up and fell back down. The monster with more than a dozen enormous tentacles looked extremely like an octopus. But ordinary octopuses did not seem to have so many tentacles, nor were they this large. Stranger still, its body appeared to be covered in palm-sized black scales.
After letting out two anguished wails of "Wuu, wuu," the massive creature fell straight from the air. With a bang, it smashed into the sand and lay motionless. One enormous tentacle landed two meters in front of Yue Qianchou. At its tip was actually a gleaming black sharp claw, like a raptor's talon.
A plume of black smoke rose from the giant octopus's head. Its huge body visibly withered, the decay spreading all the way through its dozen or so massive tentacles.