A powerful impulse surged within Gu Yuena. She wanted to intervene and interrupt the Nine-Colored Deer's ascension to godhood, to make this Auspicious Beast who knew neither the heights of heaven nor the depths of earth understand who truly ruled this forest.
But in the end, she suppressed that impulse.
Her injuries had not fully healed, and the Nine-Colored Deer's healing power was her most reliable means of recovery. If she interrupted the Nine-Colored Deer's ascension now, the deer would certainly refuse to continue treating her.
Gu Yuena took a deep breath, forcibly pressed her churning anger back into the depths of her heart, then closed her eyes again, no longer looking at the nine-colored halo spreading outward.
She needed to endure, needed to wait. At least until her injuries had healed, she could not openly fall out with the Nine-Colored Deer.
Meanwhile, on the shore of the Lake of Life, the Soul Beasts that rarely gathered in the core region were now quietly staying near the Nine-Colored Deer.
They did not venture too close. Each simply found a suitable spot and watched the figure shrouded in nine-colored radiance from afar, as though taking part in a process they could not fully understand yet instinctively wished to approach.
Xiong Jun crouched beneath an ancient tree, the nine-colored radiance flowing across the lake reflected in his great bronze-bell eyes.
He felt the auspicious aura seeping into every corner of his body, felt the fluctuating energy within him being slowly soothed, and remained silent for a long time.
Bi Ji stood a short distance beside him, the shifting light on the lake reflected in her gentle, water-clear eyes as well.
Her expression was somewhat calmer than Xiong Jun's, but beneath that calm lay an equally faint tremor.
Farther away, the Myriad Demon