Jade Sky True Person's eyes gleamed as he fixed his gaze intently on the layer of formation surrounding the cave abode.
Though the formation was nothing remarkable, if he forcibly pierced it with his divine sense, he would inevitably destroy this isolating formation and alert the gray-robed young man inside.
Jade Sky True Person frowned, but ultimately did not force his way through.
"Never mind. No need to beat the grass and startle the snake."
After a brief moment of thought, he raised a hand and waved. A streak of light flew from his sleeve, landing before him and transforming into a strange Beast.
This Beast was built like a tiger, its entire body covered in silvery-gray scales. A chilly gleam flowed across the surface of those scales like rippling water.
Its head was dragonlike yet not quite a dragon's, with two curved horns growing from it. Dense runes covered the horns, faintly emitting spatial fluctuations.
Its eyes were deep purple, their pupils slit vertically like two clusters of burning ghostfire, glimmering with cunning yet lively light.
Its limbs were long and powerful, its claws covered in black keratin. Its tail was slender, ending in a barb whose tip glowed with a faint blue light.
This Beast was called the Heaven-Discerning Beast, an extremely rare ancient variant.
It possessed no great offensive power, but it had a heaven-defying innate gift—transformation, concealment, and imitation.
It could flawlessly imitate any living being it had seen, from appearance to voice, from aura to cultivation—even the aura of a Spirit Treasure could be reproduced so vividly that no flaw could be detected.
This Heaven-Discerning Beast had been accidentally captured by Jade Sky True Person in the Spirit Star Ancient Ruins years ago. He had raised it for a thousand years and long since formed