Since some powerful Demon Beast lurked here, Liu Changxu formed a hand seal. Blue light immediately shone from his eyes as he swept his gaze across the calm lake.
After scanning the lake, Liu Changxu sent out the Red Lotus Sword. With another hand seal, the sword shot toward a patch of water a hundred feet away. In an instant, it plunged into the lake, sending ripples across its tranquil surface!
Suddenly, a Demon Beast's roar rose from underwater, and a blue giant python surfaced. Judging by the portion visible above the water, it was at least a hundred feet long, with a body as thick as a water vat. Its blue head had a slight bulge, and its fine blue scales glittered with a cold brilliance beneath the sunlight. This giant python was on the verge of transforming into a flood dragon and had reached peak first-tier.
Clearly, this was a powerful Demon Beast. More importantly, Liu Changxu had never fought underwater before. Faced with such a formidable aquatic beast, even he felt his scalp prickle.
The blue python held its enormous head high, its two huge blue eyes glaring furiously at the human before it.
A closer look revealed a blue, bloody gash on its neck, left by Liu Changxu's sword strike.
That attack had clearly enraged the giant python.
Once the python saw that the human cultivator before it was the one who had wounded it, it immediately spat out a blue water arrow wreathed in freezing mist. Liu Changxu used the Wind-Riding Technique to dodge. The arrow missed and struck an empty stretch of ground, blasting a crater ten feet deep. Wisps of cold rose from the crater, which soon froze into a block of blue ice.
Having evaded the python's attack, Liu Changxu directed the