Chapter 106 - The Divine Bird Returns (1/2)

That glance from the golden bird made Zhang Che feel as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. Even his heart had stopped for a brief moment.

What kind of might was that? Zhang Che had no words for it.

He only knew that the golden bird didn’t even need to make a move to kill him. Just that spiritual pressure alone was sufficient to snuff out his soul.

When Zhang Che came back to himself, he found he was soaked in cold sweat. A series of questions bubbled to the surface of his mind. -What level and quality of a beast is that? Why would it appear so close to the safety zone?-

Looking backwards, he realized that his beasts were all lying on the ground, trembling. Obviously they had yet to recover from the scare.

On the other hand, the Purple Jade Condor was holding up well. It wasn’t frightened into prostrating, and could even keep flying. As expected of a dark gold-quality beast!

Considering that, Zhang Che hurriedly gave an order to the Purple Jade Condor, telling it to return here. They would make their way back together, no longer heading further into the mountain range. Who knew how dangerous it would be in there?

A wave of rustling, struggling sounds rang out not far away from Zhang Che. He turned to look, and well, it turned out that the Purple Jade Condor had fallen into a cluster of trees. After receiving his command, it tried hard to start flying from among the branches.

It was all a consequence of how much pressure the golden divine bird was emanating.

Zhang Che couldn’t help but feel sorry for that flood dragon-like exotic beast, being hunted like prey by that bird. It would most likely meet its end here; the chances of it surviving wouldn’t even reach ten percent.

After gathering all of his subdued beasts, Zhang Che quickly retreated to the outskirts of the mountain range along the path he used coming in. He kept thinking back about that golden bird’s figure, fantasizing about owning such a beast in the future. Would there be anywhere he couldn’t go then?

Suddenly, Zhang Che came to an abrupt stop, a hint of shock flashed across his face.

He remembered the thunderstorm he experienced some time ago.

Could that flying beast bathing in the thunderstorm that night be this golden divine bird he had just seen? Weren’t the golden lightning snakes flashing around its body proof of that?

Zhang Che felt this was more likely the more he thought about it, and his yearning for such an unimaginably powerful flying beast grew even stronger.

-Mmm, I’ll own such a beast one day!- Zhang Che cheered himself on inwardly.

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“It’s been almost five days. Why isn’t there any news from Zhang Che’s side?”

Han Sheqing sat in his office, his brow slightly furrowed.

All university registration for beastmaster-focused majors would be cut-off tomorrow. If Zhang Che didn’t come back in time to register himself, he would be missing his chance to study at a university.

After thinking for a short while, Han Sheqing opened up his personal terminal and sent a voice call request to a certain number.

Soon, the voice call went through. Sun Lan’s slightly fatigued voice rang, “Hello? Is it Teacher Han? May I ask what’s the matter?”

“Yes, it’s me. Sorry for interrupting you, Madam Sun Lan. May I ask if Zhang Che has returned home in the past few days?”

Sun Lan’s heart immediately tightened. She hurriedly replied, “No, Teacher Han. Did something happen to Xiaoche?”