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Chapter 135: Encountering the Tiger Again
[Species]: Spider-Tailed Ghost-Faced Viper [Attributes]: Earth, poison [Bloodline]: First Tier, upper grade (mutant beast) [Cultivation]: Forty-five years [Innate Talent]: Spider-Tail Thorn (the hollow bone spines on its spider-like tail store large quantities of venom, which can corrode magic power and poison cultivators below Foundation Establishment to death) Ghost-Face Soul-Seizing (the ghost-face markings on its head writhe and emit hissing sounds, plunging prey into the illusion of being gnawed by ten thousand spiders.)
It really is a first-tier mutant beast, a Spider-Tailed Ghost-Faced Viper.
Seeing Golden Egg suffer an ambush and go from hunter to prey, Chen Beiwu shook his head slightly, no surprise in his eyes.
Cunning mutant beasts like the Spider-Tailed Ghost-Faced Viper were rather like anglers. They liked to use their spider-shaped tails as bait, laying ambushes to catch their opponents off guard.
Some cultivators with powerful divine sense could easily see through a Spider-Tailed Ghost-Faced Viper's disguise, and even exploit its habits to kill it with ease.
Divine sense, however, happened to be Golden Egg's weak point.
"Woof."
Iron Egg gave a low growl and was about to charge forward, but Chen Beiwu reached out to stop him.
"No need to go help. The gap in their strength is too great."
As his words fell, the Spider-Tailed Viper precisely thrust its two hooked fangs at Golden Egg's most vulnerable spot, the gills, intending to inject lethal venom capable of poisoning any first-tier demonic beast to death.
Yet a sudden change occurred.
The instant the fangs struck the scales, what rang out was not the sound of flesh tearing, but the piercing clash of metal against stone.
"Crack... snap!"
Fragments sprayed out with venomous blood. The fangs the Spider-Tailed Viper took such pride in seemed to have struck a