The Ten-Thousand-Year Ganoderma Immortal had long since gained spiritual awareness. He knew that many creatures wanted to eat him, so he, too, had to find a guardian beast.
His guardian was a One-Horned Shenlin, another formidable monster, which lived inside the cave where he had put down roots.
But even this guardian was not enough. The Ganoderma Immortal had deliberately made his home here at Drunken Immortal Cliff, directly beneath the crevice through which the Beauty Python could poke her head.
If other monsters came hunting him, the Beauty Python needed only to stick out her head to suck them over and devour them. Of course, what she wanted to eat most was him, but he had always managed to evade her carefully.
With the Beauty Python's unwitting help, he had already escaped many calamities.
Only in the future, when Xun Lanyin moved to Mount Jiuhua with her children and Golden Cicada came to play behind the mountain, would things change. He would break the divine talisman seal in front of the Beauty Python's cave, allowing her to extend nearly half her body outside. With both her angle and range of attack greatly increased, she would swallow the Ganoderma Horse in a single gulp and nearly eat the Ganoderma Immortal as well.
Shi Feiyang told the Beauty Python, "That One-Horned Shenlin is an extraordinary beast, too. Don't hurt him. Capture him alive and bring him out to me."
The Beauty Python slipped into the small opening and made her way to the Ganoderma Immortal's cavern.
Terrified, the Ganoderma Immortal burrowed into the earth with the Ganoderma Horse, while the One-Horned Shenlin lunged forward to confront the Beauty Python with his horn.
The One-Horned Shenlin had a lion's head, a dragon's body, six legs underneath, and a single horn on top.