Several days later.
Deep within the territory of Cloud Stepping Ridge in the White Cloud Mountain Range.
There lay a vast forest stretching over fifty thousand li, bursting with life and filled with towering trees.
From time to time, birds could be seen flying out from within, while the shadows of wild beasts flashed past.
Even deeper in the forest, the roars of demon beasts carrying boundless killing intent occasionally rang out.
It made this forest seem exceptionally dangerous.
Yet through such a perilous place, a streak of light flew across the sky openly and without concealment, shattering the area's tranquility.
The sound of countless gigantic creatures stomping about immediately rose from within the vast forest.
However, those stomping sounds grew farther and farther away from that streak of light.
Anyone with sharp enough eyes would have seen countless demon beasts that had been lurking in the shadows turn pale with despair the instant they spotted the streak of light in the sky, as though they had seen something terrifying. They hurriedly turned and fled deeper into the forest to take refuge.
"These demon beasts are becoming less and less ferocious."
The streak of light in the sky halted, revealing a young cultivator in a blue Daoist robe, bearing a Celestial Bone Structure.
With disdain written across his face, he glanced at the demon beasts below and muttered to himself.
Then his gaze shifted toward an enormous valley in the deepest reaches of the vast forest, one shrouded in thunderclouds all year round.
At that very moment, a streak of lightning scattered countless thunderclouds as it soared from the valley into the sky, revealing a Thunder Essence Peng Bird over seventy zhang long. Its eyes brimmed with savagery, lightning crackled all over its body, its feathers were azure-blue, and the