"Let me think about it."
Their conversation was quite amicable. The matter of the Jade Rabbit switching allegiance to Qi Yun was never brought up directly; it seemed they had reached a deal in private.
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In the rear section of Awakening Lion Valley, the camp of the Mountain Monarch—a place that several Nascent Soul Cultivators from Yue'e's faction had never been able to breach—was now completely deserted.
When the Beast Taming Sect's Guardian Envoy chased the Old Lion into the Barbaric Wilderness, the Mountain Monarch here received the news. Terrified, he immediately gathered his trusted subordinates and retreated toward the Wild Bull Highland.
'Even the Old Lion couldn't hold out. How could I, a late-stage Nascent Soul demon beast, possibly stay behind and wait for death?'
The intelligence of demon beasts generally increased with their cultivation realm, especially for those in the borderlands who had contact with humans.
