Hidden Dragon Mountain.
Amid thunder, lightning, deep clouds, and swirling mist, a gigantic Horned Python could be faintly seen circling the mountainside of the towering peak.
The Horned Python's immensely thick body coiled around the mountain two and a half times.
Yet she bore a woman's deathly pale face.
The woman's eyebrows were two red dots, and round patches of rouge adorned her cheeks, as though she were an opera performer.
Li Qiming and the others watched from the foot of the mountain, feeling that this transformed great demon's taste in beauty was decidedly questionable.
"Humans! Why did you kill my husband?!"
The transformed great demon shrieked, her hauntingly beautiful face twisted with anguish.
Li Qiming activated his Brahma Eye and looked closely. Only then did he discover human remains lying atop the transformed great demon's head, apparently those of a scholar.
The man showed no signs of life; he was dead beyond all doubt. Judging by the manner of his death, a martial artist's blood qi had likely shattered his heart meridians.
"Heh, heh, heh!"
"Vile beast!"
"You deceived Scholar Zhang by assuming human form. He fell in love with you and became deeply ensnared by your love poison."
"But humans and demons can never coexist."
"Through your endless nights and days together, you nearly drained Scholar Zhang of all his vital essence. He even developed a trace of demonic power within his body. He was no longer human."
"That was why I struck him dead with my palm!"
In midair, the red-browed old man spoke sternly, his words brimming with righteous conviction.
Through Jiang Lianyue's introduction beside him, Li Qiming learned that this red-browed old man was one of the Spirit Refining elders, known simply as the Red-Browed Elder.
He was also the chief elder among the Demon