Half-Human, Half-Beast

The dense fog blanketed several miles of land. It lay close to the path, practically pressed against it, with some of the fog even spilling onto the path.

A stretch of path roughly two to three hundred zhang long had been swallowed by the dense fog.

Song Wen's figure flashed past. Following the path, he charged straight into the fog.

The mist was like a heavy curtain, turning everything before his eyes hazy and indistinct.

Suddenly, a two-foot-tall figure burst from the fog and pounced at the blood-red tentacles extending from Song Wen's body.

It was a half-human, half-insect monster.

It had the body of a beetle, yet bore the head of a child.

It was as though the head of a human child had been forcibly mounted onto a beetle's body.

Two half-foot-long fangs protruded from the monster's mouth, looking exceedingly incongruous.

Its eyes were grayish-white, without pupils.

The shell on its back parted slightly, revealing a pair of transparent wings.

With a flutter of those wings, it moved as swiftly as lightning.

The monster pounced upon one of the blood-red tentacles.

Its pair of fangs easily pierced through the tentacle. Then it violently jerked its head, forcibly tearing the tentacle apart.

Just as the monster was about to feast heartily, it discovered that the tentacle it had bitten off had suddenly transformed into blood qi.

It raised its grayish-white eyes and looked at Song Wen.

Song Wen's expression tightened. He saw anger in the monster's eyes.

"This monster is extremely violent, but it seems to possess little intelligence."

That was Song Wen's assessment of the monster.

Song Wen suddenly recalled that he had seen a similar monster before.

Back in Origin Cave, when he had lured resentful spirits to besiege Gou Jun, one of the fourth-rank resentful spirits