Blazing flames rose into the sky above the high cliff, and the giant beast's body was now reduced to a deep shadow within the fire, seeming on the verge of turning to ashes the next moment. But in truth, the pressure pressing down from the high cliff did not decrease at all. Reflected in the firelight, Yu Ci even saw the beast sway its head and shake its fur within it, completely unharmed.
Narrowing his eyes, Yu Ci stared intently at the firelight on the high cliff. The dark clouds accumulated in his heart were finally burned through by a tongue of flame, and his confusion vanished:
A ghost beast!
This creature was an overlord within the Sky Rift Valley, and also a pet legendary to have been abandoned by the Rakshasa Ghost King. It had always lived in the Sky Rift Valley, yet for some unknown reason, it appeared here two thousand miles away from the Sky Rift Valley.
It was truly an old friend. Ever since witnessing it unleash a heaven-shaking illusion to slaughter thousands of fiends and demons beneath the Sky Rift Valley, Yu Ci had not heard any news of it until now, four or five months passing. Time flew swiftly, and the situation in the Sky Rift Valley was also vastly different. Yet he wondered if the ghost beast's appearance here had any connection to the situation over there?
At this moment, Yu Ci recalled another matter. Back then in the Sky Rift Valley, when he was with Ye Tu, he had encountered a disturbance similar to the one last night. At the time, the fierce birds and ominous beasts in the Sky Rift Valley had also bolted wildly like wolves and boars, panicking into a cluster, and the culprit had precisely been the ghost