Xu Wuyi turned toward the rift.
The ice-blue opening, which had already grown still, suddenly began to twist violently.
Light flickered wildly across its surface, shifting from ice blue to bright white, then from white to a blinding deep blue.
Terrifying ripples surged from the depths of the rift and spread outward. Wherever they passed, Star Beast corpses were jolted into the air.
Then an even more terrifying aura poured from the rift.
It was bitterly cold, carrying a chill that seemed capable of freezing everything.
The temperature dropped more than ten degrees in an instant. A thin layer of frost began forming on the Star Beast corpses lying in the snow.
The fighters' expressions changed, and they instinctively took several steps back.
Tang Shaoxuan's face turned grim as well. He rested his right hand on his sword hilt, and the energy around him began to surge.
"It's a Beast King," he said in a low, grave voice. "At least a mid-tier Beast King."
The moment he finished speaking, a deep roar came from within the rift.
It pierced layer upon layer of spatial barriers and rang clearly in every ear.
The sound carried fury, killing intent, and the authority of one long accustomed to standing above others.
Then everyone saw a pair of eyes.
Huge eyes had appeared in the chaotic space deep within the rift.
They were ice blue, with vertical pupils, and so cold that merely looking at them made scalps prickle.
Through the violently twisting rift, they fixed on the world outside.
On the tiny humans, and on the young man at their forefront who had just killed countless of its subjects.
Xu Wuyi looked back at it.
Their gazes collided across layer upon layer of spatial barriers and the violently twisting rift.
In that instant,