"Boom...!"
Yet just as Xu Taiping and the others braced themselves, the enormous Demonic Beast suddenly bent down and drove its iron-pincer-like hand through a wild deer in the grass.
Then, beneath the astonished gazes of Xu Taiping and the others,
the Demonic Beast hoisted the deer high, letting its blood drench its entire body.
The scene looked exceedingly bizarre.
"Let's watch what happens first."
Xu Taiping stopped Ping'an, who was about to strike, and began examining the Demonic Beast closely.
It had a humanoid skeleton, but both its arms and torso were covered in black iron carapace.
Thin crimson tendrils grew from its joints.
When it turned its head, Xu Taiping discovered with a start that it had an enormous ant's head.
Yet a string of huge Buddhist prayer beads hung around its neck.
A rust-mottled precepts knife was also tucked at its waist.
Just then, Old Daoist Huang suddenly said:
"This should be a body an Evil Demon from beyond the domain obtained by merging with a human Martial Monk and an ant, allowing it to walk in the Shangqing Realm."
Blade Ghost nodded as well.
"Judging by its aura, it should be an Evil Demon incarnation of a fairly high rank."
Xu Taiping nodded and immediately pressed his hand to the long saber at his waist, ready to strike.
"Thud!"
Just then, the Evil Demon wearing prayer beads around its neck abruptly flung the deer's carcass aside.
Just as they thought it would attack them next,
the Ant-Headed Evil Demon turned and walked toward a wheat field with enormous ears of wheat, as though it had never seen them at all.
Ping'an immediately said in surprise:
"It doesn't seem to have noticed us at all."
Blade Ghost smiled.
"This should be Kang Cangzi's doing."
At these words,