But Su Jiu soon discovered the reason.
At the very center of the first floor stood a regular hexagonal stone platform, with a Demon Beast tethered atop it. The beast looked rather like a stone lion that had gained sentience, with powerful limbs and fist-sized eyes that lazily surveyed all the cultivators on the first floor.
Su Jiu stared at the Demon Beast for a long while.
The Demon Beast noticed her gaze as well and suddenly turned its head, meeting her eyes directly.
The Demon Beast shook its head in bewilderment.
Based on past experience, shouldn't this female cultivator have gone pale with fright and started screaming? Why was she still staring at me like that? Had she been scared witless?
The Demon Beast paced back and forth on the platform, but its eyes never left Su Jiu.
"A Gold-Eating Beast," Su Jiu said calmly.
Chu Luohen glanced up without saying anything.
Qi Song, however, looked astonished. "The legendary spirit beast that only devours Magic Treasures, ores, and metals?"
Indeed, Gold-Eating Beasts were spirit beasts, not Demon Beasts. They belonged to the category of beasts that could be tamed.
Su Jiu glanced at the iron chain around its neck. Clearly, someone had captured it and brought it here as a guardian beast. No wonder nobody dared casually touch anything here.
Its master had probably already given it some sort of signal.
Su Jiu could tell that many people in the crowd had a thief's heart, but lacked a thief's nerve.
Yet there were also those who knew nothing about Gold-Eating Beasts. Seeing that it was tied up only further emboldened these petty thieves.
As everyone knew, aristocratic clans distinguished between legitimate and concubine-born descendants, as well as between the main line and collateral branches.
Zhang San was a disciple