He Ao watched the eyeball curled up inside the cave before slightly raising his gaze. A faint trace of surprise flickered in his purple-radiant eyes.
He knew very well that the eyeball floating in the air was not the powerful Exotic Beast's true body. The mountain beneath his feet was.
That enormous soul shadow almost completely covered the mountain.
The Exotic Beast was indeed powerful. Its strength far surpassed that of an ordinary B-rank, and it was faintly approaching the threshold of the Imperfect Angel class, though it lacked the support of a powerful status.
But as long as Angels did not intervene, it would have no problem bullying the vast majority of ordinary Exotic Beasts with its strength.
Moreover, it was intelligent. Most importantly, it had developed a faint "self."
Having a "self" meant possessing consciousness. It could barely be considered an intelligent life-form.
Its sense of self was not particularly strong, however, and the consciousness and memories in its mind were fragmented.
Still, through those fragmented memories, He Ao figured out why it had come here.
And that had a little to do with him.
The Exotic Beast did not like to move around. It had originally lived in the wilderness outside Yilan City, leading a mostly peaceful and isolated life.
Then, around two years ago, during Lynn's instance, the Abyss Angel descended from the abyss. He Ao had borrowed the God of War's power to fight the Abyss Angel in the wilderness north of Yilan City.
That battle had also involved the powers of gods such as the Mysterious Shadow and the Goddess of Life.
Even now, the wilderness north of Yilan City remained an endless expanse of molten earth.
The Exotic Beast had been at the edge of the battlefield back then. If it had not