Lu Xiaotian's eyelids twitched when he heard that. He swept a glance over the middle-aged nun and the black-robed elder, whose expression remained unchanged, and was greatly astonished. These two really were no ordinary people—they had actually noticed the abnormality in his divine sense so quickly, yet could still remain unruffled until now. If the middle-aged nun had not pointed it out herself, Lu Xiaotian would not have known that they had already discovered it.
The frail woman transformed from Zhuolian looked aghast. Then she said weakly, "This one understands. I'll take you several transcendent seniors to Zhuolian Island right away."
The Zhuolian woman had only taken a few steps forward when she suddenly cried out and retreated, hurriedly hiding behind the middle-aged nun and the black-robed elder.
Dozens of li ahead, amid the wind and rain, a burly man suddenly burst into view. He radiated an aura similar to that of the frail woman and fled toward them in a panic.
Then a monster burst through the water. Its body was shaped like a python, and a huge mouth occupied seventy percent of its entire head. Tentacle-like teeth extended from within that mouth, giving it an extremely ferocious appearance. It let out a shrill howl, and wherever the howl passed, the raindrops falling through the air froze in place. The burly man's fleeing speed also dropped by more than half.
Lu Xiaotian was quite astonished as well. The monster's mastery of water-element laws was something he had rarely seen in his life. Its sound waves could actually halt the rain, while the power of the water-element laws coiled around the burly man like strands of silk. Even though he fled with all his might, he could not change his plight in the slightest. He could only watch as his