Hearing Xu Qingtong's voice transmission as she meditated, Du Siwen hurriedly opened her eyes. At the same time, she spread her Divine Sense to probe their surroundings.
"Senior Sister, don't probe with your Divine Sense!" Xu Qingtong transmitted. "This monster has very powerful Divine Sense!"
Hearing this, Du Siwen hastily withdrew her Divine Sense and looked at Xu Qingtong.
Xu Qingtong kept his eyes closed and said nothing, his Divine Sense fixed firmly on a Corpse Fiend fifty li away.
The Corpse Fiend was white all over, its body covered in thick white hair. Its two eyes glowed red as it prowled about.
Most ghosts, monsters, and evil creatures disliked sunlight and preferred to move about at night, yet they liked to feed on things containing yang energy, such as living humans. Perhaps this, too, was an instinctive pursuit of Yin-Yang balance!
The Corpse Fiend twitched its nostrils as it walked, sniffing continuously. Before long, its hand shot out like lightning, swiftly seizing a small beast and tossing it into its mouth to swallow. A look of satisfaction actually appeared on its stiff face.
Suddenly, the Corpse Fiend raised its head and looked toward Xu Qingtong's position. Then it stopped searching about and charged toward the pair in great strides, as swift as a gale.
"Not good, we've been discovered!" Seeing the Corpse Fiend coming straight at them, Xu Qingtong knew they had been exposed.
"Senior Sister, we've been discovered. Prepare to fight!" Xu Qingtong said to Du Siwen, then summoned the Fengyi Sword.
"What is it?"
"A Corpse Fiend, much stronger than the one we encountered last time. It should have reached the Nascent Soul Realm!" Xu Qingtong said.
Moments later, the Corpse Fiend reached the pair. It could sense the presence of living people here but could not