The Totem Black Snake stretched its enormous body upward. It seemed to have spotted something and slowly brought its entire face closer to the towering skyscraper, toward the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows. Its searchlight-like pupils were level with the restaurant on the seventieth floor.
Its serpentine eyes showed neither anger nor joy. There was no telling what it was thinking or what it intended to do. Perhaps it simply needed somewhere to rest its gaze, and unfortunately, three young people happened to occupy one small spot there.
The Totem Black Snake turned its gaze toward the girl in the lavish hanfu. The terrifying thing inside her made it uneasy, especially now, during its shedding period, when it was exceedingly weak.
Then it looked at the man standing in front of the girl in hanfu—or, more precisely, at his scarlet eyes. Those pitch-black hexagrams seemed to sear themselves into its mind.
The Totem Black Snake roared, its forked tongue flicking through the air. It seemed restless now, for Mo Xie possessed a power that made it wary. An evil aura gradually spread!
That evil aura inspired a measure of fear even in a Supreme Monarch Level Demon Beast like itself!
Yet the next second, the Totem Black Snake stretched its enormous body upward. It seemed to have noticed something. It stared gravely at Mo Xie's pupils for a while, then looked at his chest, where a faint golden light flickered...
Mo Xie watched the Totem Black Snake draw closer to them. His face remained utterly expressionless, without a trace of fear or dread!
He remained somewhat on guard, but as he sensed the glow emanating from the Qilin Pendant against his chest, the scarlet gradually faded from his eyes. He understood that things should be fine now.
Outside the windows, the overcast