Strangeness and Silence

The last demonic beast was much smaller. It hopped as it walked, rather like a squirrel.

Its dense black fur stood on end like needles, but its tail was not fluffy at all. It was smooth and bare like a rod, making it look rather comical.

As the bald tail swayed, it gave off a "hiss hiss hiss" sound. A red tongue flickered in and out from its tip from time to time.

At the base of its tail was a pair of sinister eyes sweeping the surroundings, making it resemble a serpent-like creature whose mouth and eyes had been split into two separate places.

Though this mouse-bodied, snake-tailed demonic beast was the smallest of the three second-order demonic beasts, it gave Zhao Min the greatest sense of danger.

What shocked Zhao Min even more was that she sensed demonic aura from the surrounding beasts and trees. The demonic aura radiating from those three second-order demonic beasts was especially dense.

"Are these all demonic beasts? And those trees..."

An unbelievable thought rose in Zhao Min's heart. For a moment, she could not determine whether she had judged wrongly.

But how could Zhao Min spare attention for such matters now? The aura of her False Core cultivation abruptly erupted, and the "demonic beasts" that had been slowly closing in all halted where they stood.

After a brief hesitation, the greed in these "demonic beasts'" eyes ultimately overcame their fear, and they continued slowly approaching Zhao Min and Li Yan.

The instant Zhao Min temporarily intimidated the group of "demonic beasts," she waved her jade-like hand, releasing over four hundred yellow gu insects the size of adult fists.

Each of these yellow gu insects had a sharp horn growing from the center of its head, while golden light flashed from its tiny