"It was indeed difficult to distinguish them. Spirit charms were generally female, and most were formed when plants such as grasses, flowers, and trees gained sentience and took shape. Spirit monsters, on the other hand, were mostly male and were often transformed from flesh-born spiritual bodies. But this was not a strict distinction. Take the Ginseng Spirit, for example. Though it belonged to the category of flowering plants and herbs, it was still classified as a spirit monster," Wuman'er explained.
"It was said that places where spirit charms and spirit monsters reproduced were usually rich in spiritual energy, rare lands of excellent feng shui. But the spiritual energy here is ordinary, and it does not look like such a place," Shen Luo said.
"Yes, it is rather strange. Frog Spirit Monsters were cautious by nature. Most of the time, they hid in underwater dwellings they built in the mud at the bottom of the water, and rarely surfaced. Even observing from afar like this was almost unheard of. Unless..." Wuman'er mused.
"Unless this is not where it lives," Shen Luo added.
As soon as he finished speaking, his gaze immediately shifted toward a sandbank not far away.
The aquatic grass there was lush, and a dense clump of reeds grew there.
Behind the reeds, faint ripples spread across the water's surface. It looked calm, but beneath it lurked a furtive figure clutching a handful of transparent crystal threads.
Just as Shen Luo and Wuman'er's flying boat drifted past nearby, the figure suddenly yanked the crystal threads in his hand, and the waters within a radius of thirty feet immediately began to boil.
A large net lying at the bottom of the water suddenly contracted, releasing masses of snow-white lightning that crackled across the surface. Thick streams of blood quickly spread