"Is that... the Divine Bird?" Yenaier's eyes widened. Even though she could spot an ant on a tree ten miles away, she still rubbed her eyes to make sure she was not seeing some inexplicable illusion.
"Yes, that's the one. So it's the Divine Bird from Big Bird City's legends? I never thought we'd actually see it here!" Okelo confirmed. Her eyes gleamed like two emeralds shimmering beneath a smooth mirror of ice.
Pitman and Zeng Mu exchanged a glance without saying anything, then took the lead in racing toward the golden streak that had vanished over the mountaintop. They knew that finding the Divine Bird would lead them to Ying Zheng.
On a mountaintop less than fifty miles away, Ying Zheng and his men had already spent the entire afternoon.
When the four saw the golden light sweep beneath the sky like a golden needle turning upward to trace an arc that vanished in an instant, Ying Zheng and his two trusted subordinates witnessed the same sight from another direction.
"Look! That golden streak!" Qin Zhongyi shouted, his voice tinged with excitement.
They had been away from the Royal City for some time now, roughly seven days, and had spent half that time searching for this legendary Divine Bird, which was actually a superior grade Three-Element Flying Bird Elemental Beast.
Over the past three or four days, they had heard reports of its whereabouts from government informants in various places, but had never seen it themselves. Now, just as those reports had described, the golden streak truly flashed before their eyes. Though it lasted only an instant, the energy fluctuations it released had already revealed its identity and origin.
"Ha, it really is! I didn't expect to see it so soon. I thought there was only a chance it