(I previously wrote that Green Mountain had two in Heavenly Access and ten in Sea-Breaking, then forgot. I kept thinking there needed to be more in Sea-Breaking to make fighting other people easier. Yesterday, three in Sea-Breaking appeared on Jade Lake Peak all at once, which was a little off. I'll think it over some more. Also, I really like Corpse Dog.)
The cultivation sects of the Chaotian Continent with long histories and deep foundations generally had divine beasts guarding their mountains. The white snake of Great Marsh and the Cold-Calling Bird of Kunlun, for instance, were both very famous. Even the Western Sea Sword Sect, whose foundations were somewhat shallower, had a Flying Whale whose shadow on the sea loomed like a mountain, holding all quarters in awe.
The Zhongzhou Sect's mountain-guarding divine beast, Qilin, had long since become the protagonist of countless myths, though the other protagonist, Azure Dragon, had disappeared many years ago.
The Green Mountain Sect naturally had its own mountain-guarding divine beasts: the legendary Four Guardians.
But the Green Mountain Guardians were rather mysterious. Cultivators knew only that their titles were Origin Turtle, White Ghost, Yin Phoenix, and Night Howl, not what they actually looked like.
Only today had Yuan Qu learned that his sect's guardian White Ghost was a cat, Yin Phoenix was a chicken, and Origin Turtle really was an old turtle.
Never mind comparing them to Qilin-even compared with the mountain-guarding divine beasts of other sects, this was far too shabby.
Yuan Qu very much wanted to forget these things and remember only those incomparably imposing titles.
"What about the other one?" Gu Qing asked curiously.
"Lord Night Howl... Lord Night Howl... isn't an ordinary... all right... he's a dog."
Yuan Qu spent a long time thinking about how to