Beigong Yu was beside himself with rage. The kunpeng energy he sensed in Marquis Kun had come from the nest of kunpengs, where he himself had been born. There was another egg there that he’d carefully protected, anticipating the birth of another of his kind. Similarly, Spiriteater Demon Frogs had once gone extinct, but some remaining eggs had remained whole and carried on the bloodline.

The presence emanating from this shark, however, meant that the nest had been invaded, and the egg that Beigong Yu had carefully preserved might’ve fallen into someone else’s hand. It’d been only two years since his death in the Dusk Tournam...