"That purple-gold kasaya is pretty good too—not an ordinary item. We came for the Buddhist beads, but if other treasures of the Buddhist path appear, naturally we can't let them pass us by."
Lu Xiaotian reached for the purple-gold kasaya again, but his pupils abruptly contracted. Several enormous black tentacles, like those of an octopus, shot out of the bronze coffin. As swift as lightning, they lashed at Lu Xiaotian and the Tortoise Demon nearby, as well as the Golden-Armored Corpse King.
The bronze stone coffin was already extremely close to Lu Xiaotian. Yet right up until the moment the tentacles burst from it, the inside of the coffin had been shrouded in a gloomy, eerie darkness. Meanwhile, most of the demons' attention had been on their companions, wary that these old rivals might strike without warning. None had expected the bronze coffin, which had never shown any sign of trouble, to suddenly act up and disgorge a demonic beast.
If Lu Xiaotian hadn't possessed his True Illusion Ice Eyes, he would never have been the first to notice it. But the black tentacles were so fast as to beggar belief. The one lashing at him was wreathed in bluish-green demonic flames, yet those flames carried a bone-deep chill.
The black tentacles striking at the Tortoise Demon and the Golden-Armored Corpse King, however, were wrapped in a thin layer of floating ice. That ice gave off a strange, feverish heat, as if one had been plunged into a sea of flames—only with an even more frenzied restlessness.
A demon of both ice and fire. Its strength had already surpassed that of the six great clan heads. It was likely on par with Xiang Kuang. As the black tentacle whipped toward him, Lu Xiaotian felt there was nowhere to dodge. He