Its limbs ended in claws. Not nails, but claws. Long and curved inward, like hooks.
Its head...
Had no eyes.
No nose.
Two antennae stood upright on its head, about twenty centimeters long, their tips trembling faintly.
Its mouth was beneath its jaw. Not an ordinary mouth, but a circular opening with outward-flared edges and an inner wall densely covered in barbs. Like a sucker full of teeth.
Its tail... was long, as long as its body, its surface covered in tiny barbs.
One. Two. Five. Ten.
Twenty. Hundreds, thousands.
They poured out from every direction, surrounding the four of them. They made no cries. As they moved, there was only the rustle of claws scraping the ground and the faint creaking of twisting joints.
Their antennae all trembled toward the same direction... toward them.
Yun Wanlan's voice was tight. "Venerable. These are the Extraterrestrial Demons."
Chen Siyao stared at the nearest one.
She could sense the strength of its energy... the Body-Tempering Realm.
That's it?
Yang Wanqing had clearly sensed it too. Her tense shoulders relaxed, and she twirled the Candied Hawthorn Skewers in her hand. "Body-Tempering Realm? These things are the Extraterrestrial Demons?"
"They're difficult to deal with in large numbers," Yun Wanlan said. "And they don't fear pain or retreat. This is only a small group of Extraterrestrial Demons. There are bigger, stronger ones—"
No sooner had she spoken...
Then a roar came from the swarm of Heavenly Demons.
It didn't come from a throat, but from a chest cavity... a low-frequency vibration produced by some kind of resonance. Dull and grating, it shook even the loose stones beneath their feet into tiny hops.
The one leading them was a size larger than the others, with longer antennae that trembled at a higher frequency.
The instant the