The Demon Beast's head was not shaped like an ordinary snake's, however. Instead, it had an antlike face, eyes with far more white than black, and two thick antennae on its head that kept knocking against each other.
No forked tongue flicked from his mouth. Instead, like an ant, he had a pair of enormous hooked mandibles extending from either corner. In the reflected light of the ice and snow, they gleamed like two deathly scythes, radiating a chilling hunger for flesh.
The Demon Beast immediately spotted the body rapidly solidifying out of a blur, and his white-dominated eyes narrowed.
"Only early seventh tier? You stumbled in here by mistake-and you're an expert in formations, too!"
The instant Li Yan's body solidified, the serpentine Demon Beast narrowed his eyes, surprise appearing on his face. He had never expected the intruder to be someone other than the cultivator he had anticipated.
As Li Yan steadied himself, his divine sense had already swept swiftly over the creature. His first reaction was relief: the aura emanating from this beast was only at the middle seventh tier. That immediately dispelled his greatest fear.
Had an eighth-tier creature appeared, his chances of escaping would have been slim. Although he had advanced to the Body Integration Realm, the higher one climbed along the immortal path, the greater the gulf between successive realms became.
Li Yan was not even confident that he could escape an early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator. Those in the Tribulation Transcendence Realm could usually kill integrated body late-stage cultivators with relative ease. They were, nominally, the mightiest cultivators in this world.
Then Li Yan noticed the Demon Beast's appearance. Why did it not match the descriptions of the "Mysterious Drift Bug" he had seen? Neither the jade slips he had collected about this creature