"Something to do with its horns?"
Chen Jue paused slightly at those words. Looking again at the cross sections of Bai Ze's broken horns, he discovered that they resembled polished seven-colored gems, giving off a faint seven-colored shimmer.
That multicolored shimmer instantly reminded Chen Jue of the śarīra he had seen in Buddha's Summit Palace, as well as the Heavenly Eye between his brows, which had likewise condensed from mind energy!
Observing them with Heavenly Sensitivity, Chen Jue discovered that the horns atop Bai Ze's head resembled signal-transmitting antennae, constantly radiating a mental magnetic field.
"So that's it! These horns aren't like the horns of cattle, sheep, or rhinoceroses. They're more like insect antennae, capable of detecting energy fluctuations in the outside world."
"Supernatural organs that evolved in response to the environment?" A thought stirred in Chen Jue's mind, and he roughly grasped the function of the horns on Bai Ze's head.
Meanwhile, Yun Xiaomei continued communicating with Bai Ze, translating more information for Chen Jue as she went.
As it turned out, Bai Ze had occupied this mine for years and absorbed vast quantities of mind energy from the seven-colored ore. Its brain had been unable to bear the load, causing it to develop schizophrenia.
Mental illnesses were not exclusive to humans; animals could exhibit similar symptoms. Parrots, for instance, would pluck out their feathers when depressed, while cats and dogs could also suffer hair loss caused by depressive symptoms.
Although Bai Ze was an auspicious beast and sacred beast of legend, it was still an intelligent life-form, and it too suffered from illness.
Years of excessive mind energy intake had exceeded its brain's capacity, producing this confused behavior resembling multiple personality.
After learning why Bai Ze had developed schizophrenia, Chen Jue observed its mental fluctuations at close