Rescuing Someone

"Though we suffered heavy losses this time, all things considered, we won. The Dharma Sect wanted to ambush us, but they ended up trying to steal a chicken and losing the rice used to lure it—they even threw two dragon veins into the bargain."

Inside a crude single-story house, Xuan Pin said this to Li Huowang.

Satisfaction filled Daliang Celestial Surveillance Xuan Pin's voice. Then he said with faint admiration, "You entered the Dragon Belly and still came out alive. From the first moment I laid eyes on you that day, I knew you had great potential."

"You've done us a tremendous favor. If we keep this up, the Dharma Sect will probably be eradicated before long."

Li Huowang could not be bothered to respond. He used a dagger to slice chunks of raw meat, feeding them into his abdomen for Li Sui.

After suffering alongside him all this way, Sui Sui's body had been badly injured as well.

"But you must be careful from now on. You've made the Dharma Sect suffer such a crushing loss; they will certainly remember you."

After hooking one of Li Sui's tentacles around his finger, Li Huowang stuffed it back into his stomach. "When I was inside the Earth Dragon's belly, why didn't you save me with the others outside?"

"We avoided the Earth Dragon, but they were not simply sitting around waiting to die. This was a chain of schemes. Naturally, they had another ambush prepared for those of us who did not fall for it."

Li Huowang no longer wanted to say anything. Nor did he want to guess what the other party was truly thinking at this moment, or whether his words were real or false.

Lean on a mountain, and the mountain collapses; lean on water, and the water