Although Li Shen was surprised by the bald chicken's strange behavior, he quickly followed after him.
Not far beyond the fork in the road, they saw a huge, pitch-black creature lying in a crater that had been smashed into the ground. It looked a little like an octopus, but had eighteen tentacles. Instead of suckers, each was covered in smooth scales. Its head looked a little like a tyrannosaurus's, but half of it had been blown apart, making it hard to tell whether that was its entire head.
Li Shen's gaze lingered briefly on Bi Fan, who stood atop the monster, then shifted to his second uncle, who had slumped to the ground nearby, staring blankly toward the creature.
Li Shen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The bald chicken's claws went patter-patter against the ground as he raced forward. He charged straight at Bi Fan, stopped in front of him, and cried, "Kid, are you from the Divine Clan?"
Bi Fan froze at the bald chicken's sudden question.
"The Divine Clan?"
Li Shen also looked at the bald chicken in surprise.
"The aura you released just now—if I'm not mistaken, that's an aura unique to the Divine Clan!"
The bald chicken regarded Bi Fan with grave intensity.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm human, not from some Divine Clan!" Bi Fan said.
The bald chicken stared into Bi Fan's eyes as if trying to see through him and determine whether he was lying.
After a moment, confusion showed in his eyes, too.
"Could he really not be one?" the bald chicken murmured. "But that aura really was similar."
Bi Fan took out the Taiyi Sword and absorbed the monster's magic crystal, then leaped over to the bald chicken.
"What is the Divine Clan?"
From Xiao Lian, Bi