Suddenly, a huge, hideous head covered in bright blue scales burst out of the water.
The creature resembled a flood dragon, but had neither horns nor claws. Its head was flat, and its slit pupils gleamed with an eerie chill. It opened its bloody maw, its long forked tongue flickering through the air with a series of hisses.
Yi Yang recognized the Demon Beast. It was actually an Azure-Scaled Serpent!
And a Demon Beast at Profound Awakening, the first realm of Profound Mystery, at that!
Ancient books recorded that Azure-Scaled Serpents had bright blue scales, and a single movement could send an entire lake churning. They were highly aggressive, but most terrifying of all was their deadly venom. A Profound Awakening Azure-Scaled Serpent could poison even a Dharma Body warrior into collapse.
Yi Yang's pupils abruptly contracted. He had never expected such a vicious creature to be lurking in this lake.
The moment the Azure-Scaled Serpent appeared, its cold slit pupils locked onto Yi Yang behind the boulder.
It had clearly discovered this uninvited guest long ago and had merely been waiting for him to make the first move.
"Hiss!"
The Azure-Scaled Serpent let out a piercing hiss, thrusting most of its enormous body out of the water.
Rather than attack immediately, it opened its jaws and spat violently toward Yi Yang.
A jet of dark green venom, reeking of a powerful, fishy stench, shot out like water from a high-pressure hose.
Even the air sizzled with corrosion wherever the venom passed.
Yi Yang pushed off hard and shot backward more than ten zhang, narrowly evading the stream of venom.
The venom struck the boulder where Yi Yang had been hiding.
The hard bluestone, taller than a man, reacted as though concentrated sulfuric acid had been poured over it. Clouds