Wang Yue had originally intended to use this matter to bring Feng Xi, the fox demon who could communicate with Si Teng, over to his side. But after hearing Feng Xi's words, he felt deeply disappointed. They had worked together for hundreds of years, yet this fox was still a stone that no amount of warmth could thaw.
But thinking about it, that made sense. Tu Shan Hong Hong, Tu Shan Rong Rong, and Tu Shan Ya Ya had been raised by Feng Xi. Even if she wasn't their birth mother, she was still practically their adoptive mother.
Yet back then, before the three foxes had grown up, Feng Xi had secretly left Tu Shan on her own. That left the three of them without protection and gave the demon-hunting Daoists an opportunity, which was why Tu Shan Hong Hong and Tu Shan Rong Rong had been captured.
Considering Feng Xi's bond with the three Tu Shan sisters, it was far deeper than her relationship with Wang Yue and Si Teng. If she could abandon a bond like that, there was even less reason to expect her to care about the relationship she had built with Si Teng over just a few hundred years. Feng Xi had used Si Teng to absorb emotional power, while Si Teng had relied on Feng Xi to control that power. The two had always been partners.
Having thought it through, Wang Yue stopped trying to persuade her. He simply used magic to force Si Teng into human form. It would continue draining his magical power, and she would immediately turn back into a tree as soon as she was separated from it, but the situation was urgent, and Wang Yue didn't care.
Wang Yue took Si Teng and used his distance-less travel technique to