That night, after closing for business, Xu Ran and his four beasts quietly arrived at Falling Thunder Valley.
"This is the place." Looking at the deep valley in the distance, where terrifying heavenly lightning flashed incessantly, Xu Ran lowered his voice. "Twelve, can you see anything wrong?"
"Chirp~" (Let me try.)
Twelve could not help taking another couple of looks into the valley.
It could sense a powerful Beast King dwelling there.
Of course, compared to Father, it was still far weaker.
That gave Twelve a little more confidence.
Dense Psychic Element power rippled around its body like water, soon enveloping Xu Ran and all four beasts and isolating them from their surroundings, indirectly concealing them through an illusion.
Then, taking Xu Ran and the other three along, it began carefully investigating the outskirts of Falling Thunder Valley.
"The Thunder-Patterned Golden Willow has always lived inside the valley, so if whoever left the marker wanted to avoid alerting it, they must have left it outside the valley. That way, the Thunder-Patterned Golden Willow wouldn't notice."
As Twelve analyzed the situation, it flapped its wings and swiftly swept over the landscape before landing somewhere. "There's a trace of an unusual aura here."
"Cha!" (Leave it to me!)
Without another word, Can Can immediately burrowed into the earth, emerging a moment later holding an Earth Spirit Mouse.
Twelve: "..."
This clearly was not a marker someone had left.
It casually flicked out a thread, taking control of the poor Earth Spirit Mouse, then stared into its intelligent eyes.
"Chirp?" (How long have you lived here?)
"Squeak, squeak, squeak~" (I only arrived a few days ago. I came here to escape disaster.)
"Chirp~" (All right, go back.)
Twelve shook its head helplessly. Knowing it could get no useful information from the mouse, it