Li Ping learned the truth from Bai Qing.
At last, he understood the whole story of how the fourth-tier Blazing Arrow Eagle had ended up as a barbecue meal.
Still, he believed that power below the Nascent Soul Realm appearing in the Cloudmist Mountains probably would not draw the Azure Giant Hand.
After all, there were plenty of third-tier demon beasts in those mist-shrouded mountains.
Bai Qing, who was only in the Foundation Establishment Realm, had met the hand's owner and not only escaped unscathed, but even enjoyed a free barbecue meal.
Considering that there was not a single fourth-tier demon beast in the Cloudmist Mountains,
a bold conjecture even arose in his mind: perhaps the entire Cloudmist Mountains were that delicate-featured youth's pasture, and he was simply too picky to eat demon beasts below the fourth tier.
Whenever a demon beast broke through to the fourth tier, the Azure Giant Hand would appear, seize it, and turn it into barbecue.
Having reached this conjecture, Li Ping did not tell the others that the barbecued bird Bai Qing had seen was a fourth-tier demon beast, lest he cause needless panic.
With their strength, the Azure Giant Hand would hardly bother dealing with them anyway.
Of course, if humans dared to enter the Cloudmist Mountains in force, ruin the "pasture," and interfere with the growth of the "flock," they might also draw punishment from the hand.
But the Immortal City lacked the strength to do such a thing, so this danger likewise needed no consideration.
They drank and feasted through the night until dawn.
Only then did the others rise to take their leave, ready to attend to their own work.
Li Ping nodded his assent.
As senior figures in the Immortal City, all five had a great many affairs to