"..."
"For a mortal, this really was a bit too thrilling."
Li Ye rubbed his brow and murmured to himself.
On a desolate snowy night, a deserted snow forest surrounded the courtyard, while outside the house, a gigantic Black Bear pounded on the door with a savage expression.
Any mortal would probably have been terrified.
But a Black Bear?
At a thought from him, the panel immediately appeared--
Name: Wish-Granting Bear Mood: Frenzied, Hungry Status: A bear from the Suike Realm, tainted by demonic qi. In the darkness, it possessed extreme ferocity and feared neither pain nor death. During the "Winter" solar term, it would be driven by demonic qi to imitate human movements and attack every living creature it saw.
"Oh?"
Demonic qi?
He carefully swept it with his Divine Sense and discovered a familiar yet icy, frenzied demonic qi coiling around the Black Bear.
That demonic qi was... something similar to what he had seen long ago, when he had lived in Returning Shore Market—the white Snow Fiends.
Back then, he had never had a chance to act; the Beaver and Flint Crystal Worm had handled everything.
But the demonic qi on this Black Bear was outrageously dense.
The demonic qi alone was at Foundation Establishment Late Stage.
So which world had this thing come from? The Suike Realm?
And—
Although Li Ye's strength was sealed, the faint, elusive sensation from Jianmu told him that this no longer seemed to be the snow forest from before.
As ink-black night closed in, the surrounding space had twisted as well. Even his Divine Sense could not extend too far—the warped space would sever it.
His Divine Sense, which could originally cover hundreds of li in every direction, now reached only... a few hundred meters around the courtyard.
"Interesting."