This stretch of river was exceedingly lively—and chaotic.
Li Qingyun hid amid the river waves, his light dimmed and concealed. With a calm expression, he looked up at the ever-growing mass of sinful thought phantoms gathering above the river.
Yet within him, an appetite swiftly swelled, growing fiercer and fiercer.
His body's instincts urged him to devour, to slaughter.
Because he had rejected that incomplete spirit seal, he had forfeited the fastest and best opportunity for this body. His body instinctively sensed danger.
And upon seeing the densely packed sparks of Heaven Master sinful thoughts above the river, that danger transformed into a wildly spreading hunger.
His body was automatically, helplessly, searching for its final "way out"!
"Eat... eat you..."
Just then, a dim fiery shadow roughly the same size as his body suddenly emerged from the nearby river surface and pounced at him savagely.
Li Qingyun's gaze turned cold. Looking closely, he saw that within the suddenly appearing dim fire seemed to be a dark crimson Painted Skin.
Painted upon the skin was the back of a girl dressed as a weaver maiden. Yet on that graceful, beautiful back, a savage gaping mouth had opened, shouting that it wanted to eat Li Qingyun.
"Painted Skin, woven blood... could this be the sinful thought of some past generation of Weaver Girl Heaven?"
At the sight of it, Li Qingyun immediately recalled the origins of Spider Two, the Spider Demon beneath the Dao Lord's seat, and the things he had spoken of.
"Though its remaining light is dim, it is blood-red within. At this size tier, this sinful thought of Weaver Girl Heaven should count as something fairly vicious!"
His thoughts turned, and a ferocious smile immediately appeared at the corner of his lips. "But since you have encountered this poor