An enormous figure slowly poked its head out of the blood clouds.
Feng Xu and Mo Qing took a closer look, and both sucked in a breath of cold air.
What emerged from the blood clouds was an enormous centipede.
The centipede was over a hundred feet long, its entire body blood-red and covered in bizarre, flame-shaped markings.
Its appearance was hideous and terrifying, with a bloody face, savage fangs, and over a hundred blood-red eyes, each the size of an egg, scattered across its body.
Merely being watched by those eyes made their hair stand on end.
"Wh-what kind of monster is this?!"
Feng Xu cried out in horror, "How could anything survive inside such a scorching Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation?!"
Black Tortoise's expression grew grave. "This vile beast is called the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord."
"It does not live inside the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation. It is the Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation itself."
"The Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formation uses the egg of a Flame Insect, a Netherworld evil beast, as its formation eye, allowing the formation to shift nimbly and take on countless variations."
"However, this formation has stood in the Western Court of the Nine Netherworlds Continent for ten thousand years. Over those millennia, it absorbed vast amounts of evil aura from the Nine Netherworlds Abyss, causing the Flame Insect egg to hatch and develop into its final form-the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord."
"In the Middle Plane, I encountered Flame Demon Soul-Boiling Formations laid by Netherworld cultivators on four occasions."
"But this is the first time I have seen one this powerful."
No sooner had Black Tortoise finished speaking than the Hundred-Eyed Evil Lord attacked.
Rather than approaching them, it kept several miles away, thrashing violently among the fiery clouds.
As its enormous body twisted and writhed, bloody silhouettes