After knocking Bai Ming back with a single punch, Dongfang Yingcai immediately shifted her target. She locked onto the underground evil creature with her Spiritual Sense, then plunged sharply downward and crashed into the earth.
Boom!
Boom, boom, boom!
The tremors of her fist boring a path soon drowned out the evil creature's thunderous rumbling. About three breaths later, Yang Lingshu and the others saw a patch of ground not far beneath them suddenly swell.
At that moment, the ground, which should have been hard as stone, rolled and surged like waves upon the sea.
Crack!
Then, accompanied by an earth-shattering blast, the rocks and soil of that stretch of land erupted skyward, shot straight into the clouds by the force of two tremendous powers.
Only then did Yang Lingshu and the others finally see the full form of the evil creature that had caused the earth to quake and roar.
Its body resembled a squat, bloated snake. It was not wholly made of flesh and blood; a considerable portion of it had been piled and fused together from all kinds of stones and minerals, while the missing gaps were filled with rotting flesh and viscous blood.
The root of its consciousness had been nurtured from two profound sources of resentment and hatred, each from a different origin.
Driven by those two resentments, it had traveled eastward from the heart of the Northwest, guided all the way by its instinct to seek vengeance.
From the intelligence Yang Lingqing had sent back in an urgent report, Dongfang Yingcai already knew that this evil creature had been created by Yue Wuxiang, the sealed Northwest True Intent Cultivator. However, she still did not know the origin of the other resentment.
Yet Yang Lingshu, a cultivator of the Yang Clan's main branch, discerned its