The Taotie indeed lived up to its reputation as a humanoid Ferocious Beast. With a black broadsword in hand, it danced airtight circles, and as about a dozen hungry wolves pounced out from the bushes, they were cut into broken corpses by the fierce blade as it rose and fell in the Taotie's hands.
Watching from behind, Fang Xiaocao felt her heart pounding with trepidation, silently grateful that Tom had been sufficiently powerful back then, and the Taotie had been without a handy weapon, allowing them to defeat and capture the Taotie through careful planning.
At the same time, Xiaocao couldn't help but feel proud of her own intelligence for having thought of using hypnosis to subdue the Taotie and recruit it into her ranks.
Otherwise, facing the Taotie in its prime, such a humanoid Ferocious Beast with terrifying combat power, Xiaocao shuddered even just thinking about it.
No one would want to make an enemy of such a horrifying existence.