Yang Qi waited for their affectionate reunion to quiet down before walking over and using the Basic Spirit Communication Technique to ask a question.
"Caiyun, that powerful, foreign beast you found in the mountains last time—is it still around?"
[It is.]
Caiyun raised her head, her vertical pupils exceptionally bright in the fading light of the forest.
[It's very cautious. It almost never leaves the territory it marked.]
[The food in this forest is abundant. It can eat its fill from a single hunt, so it doesn't spend much time active outside.]
She paused, then added,
[I've kept an eye out for it a few times, trying to confirm its trail.]
[But the timing of its appearances is hard to predict. I've never managed to run into it.]
'It only stays within a fixed territory?'
'And it rarely shows itself?'
This beast's behavior was indeed unusually cautious; one might even call it a homebody.
