The movement grew increasingly obvious. The coils of the scaled body began twisting like millstones, sending accumulated snow cascading down as the humming friction grew louder.
Everyone looked up in astonishment. The ice pillar, gradually tightening and shrinking, was stretching upward. A head emerged from its top, shaking and swaying as though it had just woken up.
An enormous serpent's head with antlers and ears rose from its hiding place, its eyes shining silver-blue. Without that glow, they might not have been able to make out its features at such a height.
The massive head peering out from the top looked down at the crowd below, its silver-blue gaze radiating intimidating majesty.
Wu Jinliang and the others, lying on the distant icefield and spying, also saw the outlines of the change. Wu Jinliang turned to ask the man beside him, "What's that?"
Xu Anchang said, "I don't know. I've never heard of any other monsters in here. It should be a monster formed by the transformation of divine fire."
Wu Jinliang asked in alarm, "It's that big. Can Summer Path Mountain handle it?"
Xu Anchang said, "They should be fine, right? Summer Path Mountain is clearly setting up a formation to deal with it."
So the ice pillar was alive. The Summer Path Mountain group's expressions changed. Its size somewhat exceeded their expectations. None of their sect's predecessors seemed to have encountered anything this large, according to accounts of previous visits, yet the very first one they had met upon entering was outrageously huge.
The Summer Path Mountain group had already realized something was wrong. Slowly retreating, Gu Liani still asked instinctively, "Shi Chun, what is this thing?"
What was it? Shi Chun was dumbfounded himself. How would he know what it was? He had never expected it to be