Ying Wu led Song Wen straight down to the center of the island, where pits were likewise densely scattered.
Standing at the edge of a pit, Ying Wu said,
"Fellow Daoist Ye Hua, please look. I created the monster here through artificial modification. What do you think?"
Song Wen lowered his eyes and looked into the depths of the pit, where he saw:
At the bottom stood an ape-like monster a hundred zhang tall.
But the monster had no hands. Its left arm was a thick tentacle, and its right was an enormous spider leg. Above its neck rose a snake's body over ten zhang long, topped by a massive snake's head.
Song Wen immediately recalled how, when Jian Xiao had gathered several Integrated Body Realm Cultivators to venture deep into the Source-Qi Death Domain and attack the Six Baleful Hall, Ying Wu had summoned this monster to assault the hall's defensive formation.
Back then, Ying Wu had also claimed that he had eight other similar monsters besides this one. Yet Song Wen had surveyed the entire island without finding any others like it.
Sure enough, the human heart was treacherous.
No one's words could be taken at face value!
"This beast's body was pieced together from several different demonic creatures, yet it can move freely. Such a thing is truly unheard of-an achievement that would astound the world. I am genuinely curious: how did you accomplish such a feat of wresting creation from heaven and earth?" Song Wen exclaimed in admiration.
Ying Wu smiled faintly. "A paltry trick, hardly worth mentioning. Though this creature combines the strengths of several demonic beasts and has gained tremendous power, its potential is exhausted. It cannot cultivate by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and its strength can scarcely advance another