Wu Ying was filled with shock and suspicion when an unexpected change occurred once more.
Lu Feng only felt the repelling force upon the Profound Origin Shield suddenly diminish. Carried by inertia, he staggered half a step forward.
Cloud Beast Xi He... retreated?!
A doubt abruptly surfaced in Lu Feng's heart.
After withdrawing the Profound Origin Shield, he saw that Cloud Beast Xi He had returned to the Yin Yang Fish Pattern area, floating above the white eye platform as if waiting for something.
Seeing this, everyone faintly sensed a growing unease, as though danger was closing in. For a time, they were all so tense that they scarcely dared breathe.
Before their fearful, vigilant eyes, a fist-sized black cloud suddenly emerged above the symmetrical black eye platform on the other side of the Yin Yang Fish Pattern.
In but an instant, that black cloud rapidly swelled as though breaking free from a cocoon.
In the blink of an eye, it had expanded into an irregular sphere comparable in size to Cloud Beast Xi He, a full two meters in diameter, brimming with a terrifying pressure.
"That cloud... it's a Beast Core!"
"Strange Beast Qiong Gou!"
"It—it came out too!"
Wu Ying's trembling voice rang out.
From the scene before him, from that momentary "expansion," he finally understood just what state these two beasts were in.
They were neither their true bodies nor ethereal forms transformed after death.
They were manifestations of the potential energy released by their Beast Cores.
That fist-sized little black cloud was the Qiong Gou Beast Core, which had been sealed and preserved through some special method.
The enormous Qiong Gou Beast before them was the pure power of its origin after the Beast Core shattered!
The moon waxed and waned; every art had its strengths