My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

Deep in the forest, the light gradually dimmed.

The towering trees blocked out the sunlight, and the air was filled with the damp, decaying smell of fallen leaves.

Sizi stumbled and pushed aside the waist-high weeds, her eyes fixed on the colorful streak of light ahead.

"Little butterfly, wait for me!"

The little girl was panting heavily from running, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

She didn't notice.

A strange figure lurked in the shadows of the bushes not far in front of her.

It was a half-transformed monster.

It has a huge black goat's head with two curved, sharp horns on top.

Its lower body consists of sheep legs covered in black hair, while its upper body barely maintains the shape of a human torso.

This is a low-level sheep demon living on the edge of the Buddhist kingdom's small world.

They usually survive by eating carrion and lone wild animals.

now.

The sheep demon's cloudy, yellowish vertical pupils were fixed on the rhinoceros that was parting the grass and getting closer.

Its nostrils twitched violently.

Greedy saliva dripped from the corners of his foul-smelling mouth onto the soil.

"Such rich spiritual energy...such fresh and tender flesh!"

The goat demon's heart was pounding wildly in its chest.

In its perception, this human girl with no fluctuations in cultivation was simply a walking, human-shaped, all-around tonic!

As long as he swallows her, he can definitely save himself a hundred years of arduous cultivation and completely transform into human form!

As for the kittens, puppies, and birds following behind the little girl?

The sheep demon was not taken seriously at all.

It's just an ordinary wild beast without a trace of demonic energy; it'll be perfect as dessert later.

The ice crystal butterfly flew up to the bushes where the sheep demon was hiding.

The sheep demon's eyes darted around.

An idea came to mind.

It suddenly stretched out its hairy black claw.

With lightning speed, he grabbed the ice crystal butterfly in mid-air and firmly grasped it in his palm.

"oops!"

The rhinoceros that had been chasing them stopped in its tracks.

She saw the butterfly being caught and looked up anxiously.

The bushes were parted.

The sheep demon, with its body hunched over, slowly walked out.

It tried its best to squeeze out what it thought was an incredibly kind smile from its ferocious goat face.

"Little one, is this what you're looking for?"

The sheep demon stretched out its palm in front of the rhinoceros and slowly opened it.

The beautiful ice crystal butterfly, its wings broken, was struggling helplessly in its palm, emitting a faint seven-colored light.

Si Zi looked at the sheep demon's enormous sheep head.

The little girl wasn't scared at all; instead, she widened her eyes and curiously looked her over.

In Chang'an, she had seen far too many demons in human form.

Those fox spirit sisters who perform on the street, and bull spirit uncles who sell groceries, aren't they all stranger-looking than this sheep spirit?

"Grandpa Sheep, you're hurting it."

Sizi looked at the injured butterfly with a face full of heartache.

Hearing "Grandpa Sheep," the sheep demon was overjoyed.

What an unsuspecting human cub.

May Buddha bless me, and may I, this old ox, have a good meal today!

"Hehe, what a kind-hearted little kid."

The sheep demon feigned kindness with a hoarse voice while taking a step forward without making a sound.

It brought them closer to the rhinoceros.

"Do you want this butterfly?"

The sheep demon extended its hand forward again.

"Uh-huh!"

Sizi nodded repeatedly, completely unaware of the impending danger.

She stretched out her two delicate white hands, lowered her head, and carefully tried to take the butterfly.

"Wow, it's even prettier up close!"

It's now!

A burst of scarlet, ferocious light erupted from the sheep demon's turbid vertical pupils!

The mask of hypocrisy has been completely torn off.

A thick, pungent black aura, like a volcanic eruption, burst forth from its body!

"Beautiful? Well, you can stay inside my belly and see for yourself!"

The goat demon let out a chilling roar.

Its mouth instantly split open to an extremely exaggerated degree, revealing a mouthful of interlocking, chilling fangs.

The foul-smelling saliva stretched into long, thin threads in mid-air.

It opened its blood-red maw.

With a stench, it swallowed the ox, which was right next to it and had its head down looking at the butterfly, in one gulp!

In the sheep demon's prediction.

however.

time.

At this moment, it was as if I was being overwhelmed by some terrifying and incomprehensible force.

The pause button was abruptly pressed.

The goat demon's gaping maw was only an inch away from the rhinoceros's head.

But it could no longer move forward even a fraction of an inch.

It's not that it doesn't want to move.

But it... dared not move!

A chill ran down the sheep demon's tailbone, like a cold bolt of lightning, instantly shooting straight to the top of its head.

Its entire body of black wool bristled like steel needles in that instant.

Those vertical pupils, which were originally filled with greed, had now shrunk to the size of pinpoints, filled with an extreme fear that could not be described in words.

because.

Right in front of its line of sight.

Behind that harmless little girl.

Those "kittens and puppies" that it had just regarded as dessert after its meal.

now.

It has completely changed.

Gone are the adorable clumsiness and the childish voice.

The earth trembled, and space distorted.

A surge of violent, ancient demonic power, carrying a terrifying pressure capable of destroying heaven and earth, rose like plumes of black smoke into the sky.

Behind the rhinoceros, a thunderous explosion erupted!

Enveloped in these terrifying demonic powers.

In the void, the phantom images of ferocious beasts, as large as mountains, faintly appeared!

The three-headed owl with two wings on its back, its phantom image blotting out the sun, had three pairs of dark golden eyes that leaped with ghostly flames as it stared intently at the sheep demon's soul.

The illusory image of the striped tiger roared to the sky, its roar carrying a murderous aura powerful enough to shatter mountains and rivers.

The dark purple leopard's phantom seemed to blend into the shadows, radiating a suffocating, deathly chill.

But what truly terrified the sheep demon was...

It is the phantom image located in the very center.

It was a huge, fat orange cat, as big as an ancient mountain.

It lay lazily in the void, looking down below.

Above the phantom of this orange cat, there was a terrifying and eerie power that made people kneel down without any will to resist!

That was the purest and most powerful faith of the billions of people in the Tang Dynasty!

And that imperial aura, as imposing as the might of heaven!

This power of faith is ten thousand times purer and one hundred thousand times more terrifying than the Buddha's light that the sheep demon saw in the Buddhist temple!

These monsters...

What on earth are these monsters?!

They didn't even attack proactively; the enormous, ferocious phantom of the demon beast just stared intently at it.

The aura that was unintentionally released had already completely sealed off the laws of this world.

Incidentally, he completely isolated the sheep demon's senses, protecting the rhinoceros in front of him so that the little girl wouldn't notice anything amiss.

The sheep demon froze completely.

It remained in the position of having its gaping maw wide open, even its breathing had stopped.

The soul was screaming madly, trembling madly.

In this suffocating and terrifying standoff.

With its head bowed, Sizi finally finished admiring the ice crystal butterfly.

She had no idea that a gaping maw, big enough to devour her, was hanging above her head.

They were completely unaware that behind them stood a group of ancient ferocious beasts capable of flattening this small world.

The rhinoceros held the injured butterfly in its arms.

The little girl slowly raised her head.

That delicate, beautiful face was filled with innocent and naive questions.

She looked at the goat monster in front of her, stiff as a stone sculpture, with its mouth wide open and its eyes filled with despair and fear.

Sizi blinked her clear, large eyes.

In a childish, yet utterly sincere voice, she asked:

"Grandpa Sheep".

Why are you opening your mouth so wide?

"Are you... really going to give me this butterfly?"