"When did the sky turn into this?" Li Chen's expression shifted slightly at the sight. "Heavenly Pivot, does the sky outside really look like this?"
Heavenly Pivot said, "This is a live projection. It should be accurate."
Li Chen immediately headed for the gate. Before long, he was outside, stepping onto the plaza halfway up the mountain that resembled a viewing terrace.
He looked up. Sure enough, a blood moon hung overhead, radiating boundless blood-red light against the pitch-black sky.
There was nothing ordinary about that crimson glow. Merely standing beneath the moonlight, Li Chen felt his blood and vital energy grow restless, as though some force had awakened them.
My true body's blood and vital energy have long since been transformed through spiritualization, and my own will keeps them suppressed, so I should remain unaffected. But if this avatar feels it so strongly, lower-realm demon beasts and the like must find it just as unbearable.
What exactly could it be?
A thought stirred in his mind, and he hurriedly told Heavenly Pivot, "Activate the Void Transfer Array and launch a detector up there. I want to see exactly what's causing this!"
Heavenly Pivot replied, "Yes!"
Just then, the alarm sounded again.
"Strange beasts incoming! All units, stay alert!"
Li Chen snorted coldly. His consciousness connected to the spirit waves and spread in every direction along the Heavenly Network here.
He soon located the source of the alarm and shifted his attention to an Eye Crystal surveillance post standing on a ridge thirty li to the east, shaped much like a utility pole.
Several li ahead, an enormous python over a zhang thick and more than twenty zhang long came charging forward, shaking the earth with a thunderous rumble.
"That's... a Ba Serpent!"
The creature in his memories matched the