The next instant, Xu Yi regretted it, cursing himself for his stupidity. If he'd simply followed the snake demon into its gaping maw and used the Swift Body Talisman, how could the snake demon possibly still be alive?
But it was too late for regrets now.
In the next moment, a rain of ice arrows came hurtling at him again. He hurriedly summoned the iron essence to encase himself, and a moment later, the ice arrows clattered violently against it.
The immense force of the impact put Xu Yi under tremendous pressure. His arms went numb in an instant. He immediately activated a Swift Body Talisman and burst through the rain of arrows.
"Despicable humans, as treacherous and vicious as ever! You'd rather watch your companion die than come out and save him. If I hadn't feigned death, how much longer would you have stayed hidden?"
The snake demon gave a sinister cackle, its watermelon-sized blood-red eyes fixed on Xu Yi.
It was a great demon at the Speech Stage, possessed of intelligence no lesser than a human's.
Hearing the Black-haired Daoist and the yellow-bearded middle-aged man cry out before they died, it had realized that there might truly be an ambush waiting. The ambusher was so powerful that even its senses had failed to detect him.
The snake demon had acted without hesitation. Using the Black-haired Daoist and the yellow-bearded middle-aged man's true-soul self-detonations as cover, it had staged its own death—and sure enough, it had lured Xu Yi out.
"Old demon, you might not know this, but if you hadn't spoken, I'd be gone by now. But since you opened your mouth, I've decided to stay. You'll surely regret that loose tongue of yours!"
Xu Yi spoke coldly, a thick air of chuunibyou bravado spreading across the scene.