"Honey, you scared me to death. I never thought he'd really fall for it."
"What exactly happened?" Teacher Ma asked, his face full of confusion. He had been in a dazed state the entire time and had no idea what was going on.
Chapter 883: Journey Along the Yellow River
"It was all part of my plan," I said.
"I wasn't actually knocked unconscious. I was just hiding nearby," White Fox said.
"So you were pretending just now?" Teacher Ma asked.
"Yes." I nodded and said, "But I wasn't pretending to be weak. I really was weak. That was the only way to make the Ominous Painting Collector take the bait and try everything it could to seize my body."
"I still don't understand." Teacher Ma looked completely bewildered.
"It's normal that you don't understand." I looked at him and said, "From my observations just now, I realized that although the Ominous Painting Collector is extremely powerful, it has one fatal weakness: it doesn't have a body of its own and can only fight by possessing others."
"I don't think that's a weakness. It's made you suffer setbacks at every turn," Teacher Ma said.
"Yes, because it possessed Liu Ling'er's body, making us too wary to act," I said.
"What?" Liu Ling'er screamed and shouted at us, "That's what happened?"
"Of course." I reached out and suddenly grabbed Liu Ling'er's arm. She let out a scream of pain, so I had Teacher Ma find some bandages and wrap her arm.
Only then did I say, "That is the Ominous Painting Collector's strength, and also its weakness."
"Although we were too wary to act, Liu Ling'er's body also prevented it from displaying its true strength. It couldn't do anything to us either, so we remained locked in a stalemate."
"And it