The upstream journey had taken only two hours, but the downstream return took nearly a full day. It was completely dark by the time he reached Listening Sea Lake. After tossing the crocodiles into the lake, Su He glanced at Feng Ya Ya, who had yet to wake, then sped toward Beast Taming Valley.
Old Daoist Ge's small courtyard lay outside Beast Taming Valley, right beside Elephant Water. It made it convenient for him to descend into Elephant Water and manage his territory after assuming his turtle form.
Su He crashed into the courtyard and searched inside and out, but found no trace of Old Daoist Ge.
The old Daoist had gone somewhere unknown, and the boy attendant was not home either.
Just as Su He wondered whether he should go to the second formation and knock against the old Daoist's divine-sense thought, a voice came from overhead. "Disciple, are you looking for me?"
Su He looked up and saw an exotic beast crouched atop a pillar standing in the courtyard like a ceremonial column. It resembled a wild leopard, patterned with markings upon a white body.
This was Master's Third Body, Meng Ji! Cultivators of the Beast Transformation Scripture had one body per realm. The Mortal Shedding Realm could Condense Second Body, while the Demon Transformation Realm could condense a Third Body.
Old Daoist Ge's Third Body had begun as an ordinary wild leopard. He had cultivated it step by step until it evolved into Meng Ji.
Meng Ji was skilled at lying in ambush, always making people unconsciously overlook him. Unless someone had been marked by Old Daoist Ge, even if they encountered something related to him, they would struggle to associate it with him.
Those with only a faint impression of him might even forget that he