A mass of shadow reached a pool, and Mo Xie emerged from it, his sharp gaze fixed on the water.
The next second, ice-blue light gleamed in his eyes, and a brilliant star orbit flashed into existence before vanishing.
"Ice Vine · Coverage!"
He slowly exhaled a breath of cold air. Ice instantly formed beneath his feet and spread outward at tremendous speed.
Creak... creak... creak!
Frost covered the pool, almost completely freezing its surface. Cold starlight reflected off the ice, and snowflakes even began drifting down around it.
There were creatures in the water. Just as the ice threatened to freeze the entire pool, numerous tiny spider-like things with strangely sinister eyes darted out, scurrying into the surrounding weeds with a seemingly harmless air.
Before long, several water spiders changed direction and silently crawled toward Mo Xie, trying to climb up his trouser legs.
These water spiders were tiny and exceptionally nimble. Anyone walking around this area would never notice whether they had crawled onto their body.
"Hmph!"
Mo Xie snorted coldly, his gaze sharpening. An invisible force scattered the water spiders, preventing them from touching him.
Then he turned his gaze beneath the ice and murmured to himself.
"Still not planning to come out?"
Bang!
As though it had heard Mo Xie, a deafening crash suddenly erupted from the pool. All the ice covering it shattered, sending ice crystals flying through the air.
The freezing water rose in a great white wave and surged outward, flooding the entire patch of wasteland in an instant.
An enormous, hideous black head emerged from the waves. Its rows of eyes shone with sinister red light, reflecting Mo Xie's figure in their eerie crimson depths!
It was a spider's head, fully half the size of a room, with eyes densely clustered between