Seeing a living, breathing Kun Peng with his own eyes struck Yu Xuan far harder than he expected.
He knew of ancient beasts.
He had studied records of primordial species.
But something about seeing a being you once imagined as a child.
The ones from a childhood story?
Something about watching a creature that once lived only between the pages of a slightly torn book.
Those hit differently.
Especially when they blot out the sun.
And Yu Xuan was sure he would see more of such legendary creatures.
"AUUHHHHAAAA—!"
The Kun Peng's cry rippled across the Land of Mortality.
It was not merely sound.
It was a declaration.
A signal.
A summon.
The cry traveled through sky, leaf-realms, ocean depths, and even the trunk of the Dao Blessed Primordial Heaven and Earth Divine Spirit Tree.
Every sentient being within this sealed world heard it.
Yu Xuan felt it in his bones.
Then.
The blazing sun above began to dim.
Not gradually.
Rapidly.
