The Mysterious Woman

Zhang Shuai stood by the pool, observing the activity within. Based on his previous experience, there should have been a guardian beast in the pool. However, the water was too strange; his Divine Sense could neither penetrate to the bottom nor investigate the conditions within.

No matter what, he had to test it first.

Zhang Shuai held his breath and focused. He held two fingers together like a sword, gathering a thread of sharp sword qi at his fingertips as he cautiously probed toward the roots of the Creation Green Lotus, intending to cut it out intact.

However, just as his sword qi was about to touch the lotus roots—

The previously still pool suddenly churned violently. The center of the pool seemed to boil as enormous waves exploded upward!

A thick blue-black beam of light, reeking heavily of blood, shot out from the bottom like a lurking venomous dragon. With lightning speed, it lunged straight at Zhang Shuai's face!

Zhang Shuai had been prepared. His body flashed backward like lightning, narrowly evading the sudden, deadly strike!

The blue-black light swept past the tip of his nose. The foul wind it carried was nauseating, and the terrifying corrosive law within it eroded the space where he had just stood into a web of fine black cracks!

"Hisss—!!"

A shrill hiss that made one's scalp tingle, as though it had risen from the depths of hell, rang out. Accompanied by the sound of water sloshing like dragging chains, a massive shadow slowly rose from the pool!

A giant python whose body rivaled a mountain range, covered from head to tail in dark green scales like metal, extended an incomparably ferocious head from the water!

No, not one head, but nine!

Each head was as large as a house. Their appearances differed