"B-Bing Yi?!"
Wang Ba stared in shock through the Psychic Ghost Loach's eyes.
Although the enormous black Spirit Chicken, half the size of a mountain, had changed drastically in appearance and gained a pair of vertical pupils on its wings, he still immediately recognized its familiar presence.
Even the purple light surrounding the enormous black Spirit Chicken could not conceal the iridescent sheen shimmering across its black feathers.
His gaze shifted swiftly to the two slightly closed vertical pupils on its black wings.
"Wait, those vertical pupils..."
Wang Ba's brows knitted tightly.
Bing Yi should not have had vertical pupils.
But in his memory, there was only one being he had seen with similar vertical pupils, likewise on its wings.
"The Primordial Spirit of Fanming, that fifth-tier Divine Beast from the Eastern Saint Sect in the Chen Kingdom, which was supposed to plug the Membrane Eye but went missing!"
He recalled how Bing Yi had accidentally been swept up by Fanming that day, only to appear here unexpectedly now.
At that moment, many things suddenly became clear to him.
"This isn't Bing Yi. It's Fanming!"
"Fanming seized Bing Yi's body, then took the opportunity to escape the Chen Kingdom and flee south all the way to Wood-Forest Island, one of the Yan Kingdom's three great forbidden grounds..."
"Then, for some unknown reason, it began abducting cultivators throughout the Sen Kingdom."
"The timing fits perfectly, too!"
"But why would it do something like this to these spirit birds..."
Wang Ba watched the utterly transformed Bing Yi in his field of vision.
It roughly mounted a somewhat resistant third-tier spirit bird, pressing the cloaca beneath its tail tightly against the bird's...
Yet its body was simply too enormous.
So much so that even its inconspicuous reproductive organ was perfectly clear through the