With that thought, Qi Wu temporarily exited the current Virtual Battlefield map.
After leaving the map, he raised his hand and tapped the control panel a few times.
He reset the Virtual Battlefield's parameters, set the Demons' level to early-stage Awakening and their number to three, then confirmed the launch.
The sand ahead swelled again, and three enormous Demons burrowed out from beneath it.
One was a Sandworm King, larger than the previous one, with a thicker carapace.
One was a Sand Scorpion King, over fifteen meters long and covered in an ink-black carapace. A massive stinger tipped its tail, dripping corrosive venom.
One was a Sand Lizard King, over twenty meters long and covered in yellow-brown scales. Its eyes resembled two balls of eerie green ghost fire, and lava-like saliva flowed from its mouth.
The three Demons appeared at once, their imposing presence several notches above that of the previous one.
They stared at Qi Wu, letting out low hisses as they slowly closed in on him.
Qi Wu looked at the three Demons, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly. "Now that's more like it."
He raised his right hand and spread his fingers, ice-blue light gathering in his palm.
This time, he did not use an ice Cursed Technique. Instead, he fused the ice law with the space law. Silvery-white spatial rifts flickered faintly within the ice-blue light.
"Ice Cursed Technique: Frozen Space."
He gave a gentle push.
Ice-blue light shot from his palm, instantly enveloping everything within a hundred-meter radius.
Everything the light touched froze-the sand, the hot wind, and the three Demons. The Sandworm King froze with its enormous maw open, the Sand Scorpion King with its stinger raised, and the Sand Lizard King with its enormous maw open. All three were trapped in ice,