For Our Little Nest

"This place... is so beautiful." Xi Yue gazed at the fireflies above the Spirit Pool with shining eyes. "Who would have thought that after total darkness, this place would become so beautiful?"

Qin Yi could not help turning to glance at her.

So regardless of cultivation or personality, women were still women.

He knew this place was beautiful too... but unfortunately, he was in no mood to appreciate it.

The richer the Spiritual Energy in a place like this, the stronger the surrounding Dark Shadow Power became.

Even the air carried an intense sense of oppression. This entire region was filled with tangible Shadow Pressure. If shadows could possess spirits, if something like a Shadow Beast could gather and be born from them, then such a thing was clearly more likely to appear here than elsewhere.

And the land was too open—absolutely unsuitable for recuperation.

Just as he was thinking that, a roar rang out. A pitch-black mass of shadow pounced straight at them. An overwhelming pressure and a dim, dead aura swiftly assailed them, making both the injured Qin Yi and Xi Yue shudder.

There really was a Shadow Beast.

Its strength was roughly... at the peak of Qianyuan...

"Damn it..." Qin Yi was about to flee with Xi Yue on his back when his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Something was wrong.

If creatures of shadow like this existed, then where had they been when the Formless beings clashed earlier?

Under daylight, shadows hid away. That was easy to understand: spiritless shadows simply dissolved into shaded places beyond the light. But a beast with a spirit—could it really just hide beneath some random rock and call it a day?

When the Formless clashed, heaven and earth collapsed. How could it hide?

There had to be a nest that