With a click, the horn embedded itself where the Strange Beast's head had originally been. The surrounding scales wrapped around it as well, securing the horn in place and restoring its former appearance.
Zhou Zixing and Qian Ying were both greatly astonished by this. They had never expected the horn to fuse back into the Strange Beast's head so quickly. The moment they saw the horn move, they had intended to stop it.
Yet before either of them could even step forward, the fusion had already finished. The entire sequence had happened incredibly fast, truly catching them by surprise.
Although the injured Strange Beast's eyes were crimson, they revealed a trace of helplessness. After all, it was utterly speechless about the horn on its head. It could remove the horn through conscious control, but once it was removed, as long as it came close to the horn, it would automatically fuse back together.
It had always been this way for thousands of years. In the past, whenever cultivators wanted to cross the lake, they would take the horn and use it as needed. Then it would approach the horn and retrieve it.
But these two Old Men before it were not people it knew, nor did they have permission to pass through, so naturally it would not readily hand over its horn.
However, it had no choice. After being taught a lesson by the two Old Men, it had no choice but to lower its head and offer up its horn. But these two Old Men could not be so unreasonable. After using the horn, they had brought it back and placed it beside it again. Wasn't that giving it a chance to retrieve and fuse with it?
It was helpless, but it could not speak. It could only look