The trees of the Western Heavenly Forest were towering, blotting out the sky, and its depths were boundless darkness.
To find his bearings within, Ye Tian had no choice but to activate his Heavenly Eye in search of light.
Before coming here, Ye Tian had learned a little about the place. By rights, there should have been quite a few cultivators in the Western Heavenly Forest, yet not a trace of one could be seen now.
The surroundings were terrifyingly silent. Ye Tian spread out his divine sense and searched in every direction. Before long, he found a place where white bones lay exposed in the wilderness, the bodies of countless cultivators having been gnawed clean.
A dense scent of blood drifted through the air.
Following the path and feeling his way forward, Ye Tian spotted a gaunt male lion in the distance. It had almost no flesh left, only a scant skeletal frame. It seemed to be the dangerous beast recorded in the ancient texts—the Bone-Corroding Dragon Lion.
Though it had the appearance of a lion, it possessed dragon wings. Its body had no flesh at all, composed entirely of an extraordinarily tough skeleton. It was a rare dangerous beast with an ancient bloodline.
At that moment, the Bone-Corroding Dragon Lion was pacing repeatedly at the entrance of a cave, seemingly waiting for a hare, awaiting the cultivators within to emerge.
Ye Tian quietly concealed himself and waited nearby for events to unfold. Once the time was right, he would play the mantis stalking the cicada, with the oriole waiting behind.
Time trickled away second by second. The Bone-Corroding Dragon Lion concealed itself among a pile of grass to one side, thoroughly hiding its aura as well.
Had Ye Tian not kept watch over the Bone-Corroding Dragon Lion all