As it turned out, no one could avoid encountering absurd situations in life where "words could actually be arranged and combined like this." Take Long Hair's sentence, "The fish fell into the water, and she can't swim." Without any context, you could throw that at anyone and leave them puzzling over it for two months.
Actually, even with the context, it was still pretty hard to process at first...
Fortunately, among those present were people whose bodies reacted faster than their brains. The moment Long Hair finished speaking, Huli was already moving. With a hum like a treasured blade leaving its sheath, she launched both her tails. The fox tails, spitting blue thrust flames, suddenly lit up the surroundings and streaked along two swift trajectories straight into the underground lake.
As water splashed, the fox tails plunged in. Firelight rippled and burned across the waves. Yu Sheng stared wide-eyed at the scene, and moments later, the two balls of fire rapidly expanded. Two huge, furry tails emerged again, holding a Mermaid between them as she thrashed with her eyes shut. With perfect coordination, they flew to the shore and gave a flick, sending the Mermaid smack onto the ground.
The Mermaid continued thrashing with her eyes closed.
Everyone was still somewhat dazed, but True Spirit Qianji was clearly the most bewildered. Aside from seeing someone—and a fish—fall from the sky, he had also witnessed a Nine-tailed Fox launch her own tails for the first time. The old man, who had spent his entire life cultivating immortality and studying mechanisms at the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, had his horizons blown wide open. His Dao heart vibrated like it had been switched to vibration mode, and he nearly thought the Immortal Fox clan had secretly developed some bizarre new path to ascension.