Wang Qi quickly realized that the white light he had created seemed to have drawn the hostility. He slapped his forehead, recalling a few bits of common knowledge.
If certain living creatures dwelled farther from a star, or if their atmospheric composition was unusual and refracted or reflected different Electromagnetic Waves in peculiar ways, then there really could be creatures unable to visually perceive normal visible light.
With a thought from Wang Qi, the white orb of light he had released immediately went out.
But it was already too late. The malformed arm had already reached for him.
"Damn."
Dazzling golden light flashed. The Death Curse Beast's shell fell to the ground, and flesh could still be seen writhing inside.
But its outer portions had already been vaporized by Sword Qi.
"Tch, it was just too disgusting, so I unconsciously hit too hard." Wang Qi looked at his arm, somewhat frustrated. "Really... I still can't properly control the strength of my attacks. I can't act as freely as my heart desires. Not good enough. I should make a note of this and continue optimizing my cultivation method after I return, cutting off the influence of emotional fluctuations."
As Wang Qi spoke, he looked again at those terrified "flesh gourds."
"Huh? So the small ones were the intelligent lifeforms?"
He clearly remembered that before those large creatures attacked, the little creatures seemed to have performed certain patterned movements, guiding those giant snails to attack him.
From Wang Qi's first impression, those enormous snails that seemed to possess mutated arms looked far more like intelligent creatures than those little things.
First and foremost, the most intuitive indication was their size.
Although saying so was somewhat of an overgeneralization, statistically speaking, larger creatures really did find it easier to develop intelligence than smaller