After calling out twice and getting no answer, Xiao Yi Xian scrambled out of bed and hurried outside barefoot. She was about to shout again when a rich medicinal fragrance reached her. She followed it with her eyes.
She saw the cave in the cliff. Her beautiful eyes blinked, and all her worry turned to delight.
"Is that... a Sixth-Grade Pill?"
Xiao Yi Xian murmured to herself, staring without blinking at the cave in the cliff.
Then her expression shifted. The fragrance was almost too strong, and it was still spreading. That could not be good.
At the thought, purple Dou Qi Wings appeared behind her. With a gentle beat, she shot out of the little valley.
She intended to stand guard for Brother Xiao Ling. Such a powerful fragrance was bound to attract magical beasts.
It might even draw in mercenaries training in the Magic Beast Mountain Range.
Xiao Yi Xian was right. As the fragrance spread, magical beasts some distance from the valley began to stir, letting out excited roars.
"Roar..."
Hearing the roars, Xiao Yi Xian knew she had been right. She glanced back at the valley, a fleeting softness in her eyes, then turned away. The aura of a Dou Wang expert erupted from her, carrying an unmistakable warning.
Far away, a bull-like magical beast drawn by the fragrance sensed that warning from a fifth-rank being. Fear crept over the longing deep in its heart.
Years of survival told it to leave at once. But the fragrance had awakened its deepest desire: the desire to grow stronger.
It pressed on anyway. Along the way, other magical beasts converged with it and headed toward the little valley.
Meanwhile, Yun Yun and Yao Wan'er, who were training in the inner reaches of the Magic Beast Mountain Range,