An Chen frowned slightly when he heard this. "Then let's go around it. We shouldn't provoke it."
"I'm afraid we can't. Thunder wyrms are fiercely territorial, and we've already entered its territory... Hmm, wait. If we had already entered, we should have felt an oppressive aura descend on us, shouldn't we?"
Halfway through his analysis, Yu Tianyao fell silent in thought, then spoke again in puzzlement.
"Something might be wrong..." Yu Tianyao concluded.
"In that case, why don't we take a look? It might be an injured thunder wyrm."
An Chen made the suggestion after hearing him.
Yu Tianyao considered it for a moment, then nodded.
"The bloodline of my blue lightning tyrant dragon martial soul happens to suppress it."
With that, the two headed toward the cave where the sound had come from.
Just then, another bovine bellow came from inside the cave, exactly like the one before.
The two exchanged a glance, both frowning.
The cave was pitch-black, with only the densely packed arcs of electricity floating in the air giving off a faint glow.
The farther they walked, the denser the arcs became. The thunder wyrm seemed to notice their arrival, its repeated bellows growing clearer and clearer.
An Chen's doubts deepened, for the sounds all had the same frequency, without any variation. A genuine cry should have risen and fallen, carrying shifts in emotion.
Yu Tianyao, who was walking ahead, noticed this too. He stopped and looked back at An Chen.
An Chen nodded, and the two continued forward close to the stone wall.
A short while later, they could clearly hear where the sound was coming from, and they stopped.
They had reached the end of the cave, but there was no thunder wyrm in sight.
Instead, there was a little gray beast smaller than