"This way!"
Xuan Ruo keenly determined the direction the sound had come from and swiftly gave chase.
"Stay here and don't move!"
Wen Ruohai called back to the others, then followed her.
Two figures, one in blue and one in white, vanished from everyone's sight.
Wen Ruohai gripped his sword hilt, his face brimming with excitement.
The monster was hiding in a pond.
Xuan Ruo had already taken out her Magic Treasure, a fan that could summon wind out of thin air.
Xuan Ruo signaled for Wen Ruohai to be careful and stay behind her.
They could hardly claim to understand anything about this monster's current circumstances.
But since it had not hurt anyone yet, either it lacked the strength and would be easy to deal with,
or it was brewing some enormous scheme.
Xuan Ruo's cultivation was at the peak of the Second Realm, while Wen Ruohai had reached the peak of the First Realm not long ago.
With Magic Treasures on both of them as well, they had no need to fear ordinary demonic beasts.
Parting the water plants, Xuan Ruo caught sight of the monster.
The creature was as much as eight feet long, with a flattened, elongated body, very short limbs, and a short, laterally flattened tail.
Its skin had only a mucous membrane, with no scales covering it, but bore various markings and was coated in slime. It was hideously ugly.
"This..."
Xuan Ruo froze, for she recognized this monster.
She had seen this creature in the Record of All Things at the Mountain Gate.
A giant salamander. Because its voice sounded like an infant's, it was also called a baby fish.
And looking at this giant salamander, it clearly had not awakened its intelligence.
It was just an ordinary giant salamander.
The mountain village