Arrogant Stance

Situ Xuan stood atop the Demon God Pillar, arms folded across his chest as he looked down over everything below. His posture was arrogant to the extreme, like a monarch gazing down on his subjects. His deep-blue robes snapped in the wind, dark-gold patterns flowing along the hem. The wind blew his hair into disarray, but his body did not move in the slightest, his feet seeming nailed to the pillar.

Four Demon God Pillars towered over the earth, each several dozen zhang high. Blood-colored patterns on their surfaces slowly writhed, and dark-purple demonic energy surged out from within, forming four dense vortices of demonic energy around the pillars. Low roars came from within those vortices. The four demon gods were furious, uneasy, and waiting.

As Situ Xuan's words fell, the four Demon God Pillars trembled at the same time.

The blood-colored patterns on the pillars abruptly blazed with intensity. Dark-purple demonic energy gushed out of the vortices and gathered at the tops of the pillars. The energy churned, spun, and swelled above them, finally transforming into four enormous figures.

The forty-seventh pillar, the Poison Mist Demon God, Vine.

Vine emerged from the demonic energy. Its build was not as massive as Bifrons's, only around five meters long. Its body was serpentine, without limbs, covered from head to tail in dark-green scales. Its head was triangular, like a venomous snake's, and green mucus dripped continuously from its mouth. Wherever that mucus fell to the ground, it corroded deep pits that smoked with blue-green fumes. A thick layer of green mist surrounded its body. That mist was no ordinary fog, but poisonous miasma secreted from within it. If an ordinary person breathed in even one mouthful, their entire body would rot away and they would die.

The forty-eighth pillar, the Frost