"A human?"
"Of course I'm human!"
"But... how does it know the word 'human'?" Countless thoughts raced through Chen Jue's mind. This was his first time coming face-to-face with a nonhuman intelligent being.
Although he had already encountered several [Transcendent Level] life-forms on this unfamiliar planet, such as the Ant Queen and the Feiyi leader, they possessed only rudimentary ways of using their Mental Magnetic Fields. They could only project their emotions outward to achieve extremely basic communication, with no way to communicate through language, culture, or thought.
But this Phoenix Bird, as large as a passenger jet, possessed the ability to give its Mental Magnetic Field tangible form, condensing it into that Five-Colored Radiance and using it to communicate with a human like him.
"A Void Level life-form?"
"Probably not... most likely just at the peak of the Transcendent Level..." Chen Jue studied the Phoenix Bird. The aura emanating from it did not make him feel pressured, so its level of life was clearly close to his own.
"Through spiritual perception, one senses all things; the spirit stirs qi and penetrates the subtle."
"Divine beasts and spirit birds-one possesses supernatural powers, the other understands spiritual perception. They can no longer be described as unenlightened exotic beasts." Looking at it, Chen Jue recalled descriptions of the Phoenix from ancient texts, most of which called it a divine beast or spirit bird.
Moreover, the rainbow light it projected carried no malice. On the contrary, it was filled with curiosity toward him and gentle emotions, allowing Chen Jue's taut nerves to relax a little.
After organizing his thoughts, Chen Jue used its marvelous Five-Colored Radiance to greet it through his Mental Magnetic Field. "Hello, big fellow! I really am a 'human.' How did you learn that 'humans' exist? Are there other 'humans'