After leaving the tribe, Ling Qing released the Azure Lion and sat cross-legged atop it, supported by a lotus pedestal beneath him.
As Wondrous Purity continually refined the Azure Lion, it had grown ever more formidable.
With a single thunderous roar, it could shake the Nine Heavens above and pierce through the Yellow Springs below, terrifying a million departed souls.
Ying selected a batch of Lushu deer from the beast enclosure—horselike in build and covered in tiger stripes. Without saddles, bridles, or reins, she simply straddled one's back and clutched its long mane.
Ling Qing saw this but did not change anything. They still had no idea what the outside world was like.
The two humans and two beasts followed the direction in which Zao Ya and the others had gone, leaving the territory of the Azure Stone Tribe.
Ling Qing opened his Dharma Eye of True Insight and looked around, spotting a place where the vital aura was especially dense.
Knowing there had to be a spiritual shaman there, he willed it, and the Azure Lion began to walk forward at an unhurried pace.
The Azure Lion strolled lightly, but the Lushu had to exert all its strength just to keep up.
The two beasts were not slow, and before long, they reached the place.
An enormous exotic beast, one li tall and several li long, lay stretched between two mountains. It had eight legs and resembled a triceratops.
All over the beast's body hung densely packed houses of every kind, with many people climbing up and down its body.
Their clothing came in all sorts of styles. They did not look like a tribe so much as a caravan.
The Azure Stone Tribe's former range had been very limited; Ying knew nothing at all about places farther away.