Hidden in Culai Mountain, there might be a nuclear-grade evolved beast.

"Zhang Xiao used the word 'invite,' which shows his relationship with this evolved beast is roughly like mine with the Snail Traveler—after all, Bug Warriors can't release Activity, and can't establish a Mind-Imprint."

"Xu Yun controlled the Mushroom City for several months and clearly didn't know there was a peerless jin beast like this. In Chen Jiuxian's day, Culai Mountain was explored, and no trace of a peerless jin beast was ever found."

"This peerless jin beast came later!"

"It very likely is, like the dragon-claw pagoda tree and the Snail Traveler, drawn here by the mysterious thing—and once the mysterious thing stopped releasing its pull, it lingered in Culai Mountain."

"Culai Mountain, twenty or thirty kilometers around, really is a fine place to hide. So long as it's not a body as large as the Snail Traveler's, with no high-tech reconnaissance, and under Zhang Xiao's deliberate concealment, it truly could be hidden. Hidden away, and slowly befriending the peerless jin beast."

Shen Cong's power of filling-in-the-blanks was formidable, and he trusted the content he filled in.

"If not for my appearance, this peerless jin beast very likely would have been Zhang Xiao's greatest aid in launching his coup against Xu Yun! He hid the peerless jin beast, hid the fact that he was a five-core Bug Warrior—real cunning indeed!"

Drawing a deep breath, Shen Cong reached his decision. "Since you want to do me in, and you're this much of a threat, I have to kill you first!"

A peerless jin beast was not to be trifled with.

If it were a non-combative herbivore like the Snail Traveler, no need to worry—but if it were a peerless jin beast evolved from a carnivore, its combat power would absolutely be off the charts.

In single combat, Shen Cong couldn't handle it.

So he had to seek aid, and the pest-killing force was fine aid—wiping out Bug Warriors was their duty to begin with. Shen Cong promptly found Han Shoucheng. "Commander Han, prepare yourselves to face a peerless jin beast."