With a thought, Spirit Detection spread outward on its own, reaching its maximum range in the blink of an eye.
Dai Yunze also saw the owner of that ancient, desolate Mental Power fluctuation.
Dai Yunze's current Mental Power was still far from the level of Form Without Substance. Naturally, the images he usually observed through Spirit Detection were all gray and white, like an old black-and-white television, or as though a black-and-white pencil-sketch filter had been applied.
Yet within the three-dimensional black-and-white world detected by his Mental Power, one existence stood out as conspicuously as the sun.
The Soul Beast possessed a majestic appearance, its body wreathed in golden radiance. It was three meters long and eight feet tall at the shoulder, shaped like a lion with dragon-like claws. Golden fur covered its body, crimson flames burned beneath its feet, its eyes blazed like the noonday sun, and its cry resembled a duet between a dragon and a phoenix. A vertical eye grew upon its forehead, rose-red with gilded gold. Its pupil was clearer than glass, while its bearing carried the majesty of a god.
When Dai Yunze's Mental Power "looked" toward this strange Soul Beast, that incomparably gorgeous rose-gold vertical pupil looked back at him at the very same moment. This also meant that he had already been discovered by this peculiar Soul Beast.
The moment he saw that Soul Beast—especially the strange vertical eye on its forehead—Dai Yunze recognized its identity.
The Imperial Auspicious Beast.
The Three-Eyed Golden Lion!
Upon recognizing the Soul Beast's identity, Dai Yunze fell into a daze.
His first reaction was not to flee immediately. Instead, he wondered why he had encountered the Imperial Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, here.
Only afterward did he realize that the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had the Three-Headed