Mantis and Oriole
The murky mountain-flood sludge suddenly splashed crimson, scarlet churning within it.
A fountain of blood erupted!
The cage woven from countless raindrops and the ice crystals grown from bitter cold all collapsed and scattered. A shrill, piercing scream sounded beneath the blood fountain as wriggling limbs shot out, struggling and sweeping about, sending Little Cow and Horse flying, overturning it, and driving it back!
The blood-tinged, muddy Turbid Flow boiled as writhing masses of flesh stretched out, propping up an enormous body that rose from within and revealed its mangled form.
The car shell and frame still clinging to it were faintly recognizable, as though...
this thing had originally been a car?!
But once its camouflage shell fell away, the bizarre flesh compressed and hidden beneath it unfurled. It resembled a gigantic octopus, its head covered in amber-colored giant eyes, while its tentacles bore bony suckers and maw-like organs that made one's scalp tingle.
It seemed to possess the Talent of some sort of camouflage, its colors constantly changing. Concealed by the torrential rain, it had been nearly impossible to notice. Unfortunately, blood kept spraying from the massive gash piercing its body.
Within the sac behind the wound, a vaguely visible human figure convulsed and twitched.
Gravely wounded.
Its Spiritual Substance was in disarray, its expression horrified.
Its blood-red face twisted as it stared fixedly at Ji Jue.
Shocked and doubtful.
As though it had seen a ghost.
With the navigator drawing attention in the sky, the driver had controlled the Giant Beast to lurk beneath the mountain flood packed with mud and gravel. It had silently moved upstream and slipped beneath Ji Jue and the others' feet. The Giant Beast's Talent had blocked and concealed the large-scale Spiritual Substance fluctuations, compensating for the greatest weakness of