Cui Yue kept staring at Zhou Lukang, oblivious. He could not understand why Zhou Lukang had suddenly fallen silent in the middle of joking around, or why his expression had gone so stiff. He nudged Zhou Lukang with an elbow and whispered, "Senior Brother, what's wrong?"
Zhou Lukang jolted back to his senses. He looked at Guai Guai and Qiao Ranran in sudden terror.
Qiao Ranran smiled. "Senior Brother Zhou figured it out!"
Zhou Lukang immediately composed himself and said with an utterly straight face, "No. I don't know anything!" He could never admit it. Guai Guai was Pei Ling's Battle Pet. Even if he knew Guai Guai was a Demon Beast, he had to pretend he didn't, or who knew whether Pei Ling might kill him to keep him quiet?
For some reason, everyone in the Profound Heart Sect shared an understanding: although Pei Ling was Nie Gui's disciple and a member of the sect, there was something so unusual about him that they could overlook his strangeness and still get along with him normally.
"Senior Brother Zhou, it isn't really a secret." Zhou Lukang's face plainly said he did not want to know, which Qiao Ranran found terribly funny. "Guai Guai isn't a Demon Beast of either kind. Strictly speaking, Guai Guai is a Primordial Savage Beast."
Zhou Lukang said, "What??" That was even more shocking than finding out Guai Guai was a Demon Beast!
Zhou Lukang was dumbstruck. Even Cui Yue, who had been listening with the detached air of someone watching a fire from across the river, went blank. A Primordial Savage Beast? What was that?
"Guai Guai advanced in Demon Glow Forest and awakened the Bloodline of Taotie, a Primordial Savage Beast. So Guai Guai isn't either kind of Demon Beast."
Qiao Ranran thought that