Before they even reached the palace, Hua Yunfei and the others felt that some presence had set its sights on them. Aside from Hua Yunfei and Jiang Ruoyao, the four others—the Horned Middle-aged Man and his companions—felt a chill run down their spines.
There was a vicious creature outside the palace!
Not every safe zone had vicious creatures. In the past, the people inside the palace had often gone to the islands to cause trouble, so the Horned Middle-aged Man and the others had assumed there were no vicious creatures here. Now it seemed they were wrong. There really was one outside the palace.
It had already set its sights on them!
Hua Yunfei and the others stopped and looked to the right of the palace. A black stone, as large as a star, lay there—but on closer inspection, it was no stone at all. It was a vicious creature!
The creature was a wolf with green wings. Its enormous eyes were a strange black, and its bared fangs gleamed white. It looked ferocious to the core.
A powerful aura burst from its body, no weaker than that of a Quasi-Hegemon Level lifeform!
"It's a Black-eyed Green-winged Sky Wolf! A Blood Beast unique to the Undying River!" the Horned Middle-aged Man cried out, never expecting to find a Quasi-Hegemon Level vicious creature outside the palace.
"It's not at Quasi-Hegemon Level. It hasn't reached that stage yet," Hua Yunfei said, watching the Black-eyed Green-winged Sky Wolf.
Perhaps because they had lived in the Undying River for so long, the Blood Beasts there had all become imbued with its aura. Their auras were far stronger than those of creatures at the same level elsewhere.
Take the Black-eyed Green-winged Sky Wolf before them, for example. It was only at Half-step Hegemon Level and