Golden Roc

The Golden Roc is a ten-thousand-foot sacred Shaman beast that answers Tian Xie Zi's summoning voice and carries him and Su Ming at extraordinary speed. Shaman elders are horrified to discover that the creature they repeatedly failed to summon already recognizes a Berserker master.

Biography

Freezing Sky and the Ninth Summit

Tian Xie Zi summons the Golden Roc while confronting Shamans, using a sacred Shaman Skill despite being a Berserker. The colossal bird arrives in a storm of wind and acknowledges him, overturning the tribe's assumption that its inaccessible resting place represented an unclaimed sacred beast. He mounts it with Su Ming and uses its speed for travel, giving his disciple a direct example of movement achieved by a powerful body rather than lightness alone. (Chapters 259–281)

The Golden Roc's existing bond later explains why repeated Shaman expeditions could never gain its acknowledgment. This revelation magnifies Tian Xie Zi's mystery: he possesses not only the chant required to call their sacred beast but also the allegiance their own practitioners sought unsuccessfully. Su Ming continues to remember the roc when considering how weight, body refinement, and speed interact, making it an instructional model as well as transportation. (Chapters 316–325)

Appearance and personality

The Golden Roc is a gigantic gold-colored bird about ten thousand feet in size. Its arrival produces a great gust of wind and a low growl that shakes the sky. The dossier does not preserve speech or detailed individual temperament. Its central behavioral trait is selective acknowledgment: it responds to Tian Xie Zi while refusing the Shaman tribe members who had repeatedly sought it.

Abilities and cultivation

Sacred-beast acknowledgment

The roc can choose or recognize an owner and appears only when Tian Xie Zi uses the appropriate Shaman summoning voice. Shamans familiar with the rite call it their sacred beast and infer from their failures that it had already been claimed. The source does not explain when Tian Xie Zi earned acknowledgment or whether anyone else can command it through the chant alone. (Chapters 259–260, 325)

Aerial speed

Despite its enormous and presumably heavy body, the Golden Roc flies at speed that Berserkers find difficult to match. It can carry Tian Xie Zi and Su Ming over long distances and inspires Su Ming to imagine combining its speed with armor and defensive Runes. That speculation concerns a possible training setup; it does not establish that the roc itself uses those Runes or Divine General Armor. (Chapters 260–281, 325)

Wind and physical scale

Its manifestation sweeps the land with powerful wind, and its body supplies the carrying capacity of a mobile platform. No direct offensive strike or formal cultivation realm is demonstrated in the selected evidence, so its battle strength should not be inferred solely from its sacred status and size. (Chapter 259)

Relationships

• Tian Xie Zi: Recognized master and summoner, whose possession of the bond confounds the Shamans.
• Su Ming: Passenger who later uses the roc's combination of weight and speed as a model in thinking about body refinement.

Items

No personal equipment is recorded. The Golden Roc is itself a living mount, not an item.