In the conference room, Wang Qi, Ke Like, and another avatar envoy whose avatar had not been destroyed by Wang Qi's "self-destruction"—Bai Jizhen—sat together, staring at one another.
More precisely, the other two kept their eyes fixed on Wang Qi. Wang Qi's gaze, meanwhile, drifted restlessly between them.
"Senior, our avatars are right below us, aren't they? The distance is very short, isn't it? Why do the three of us have to talk up here?" Wang Qi sighed. "There's about a tenth-of-a-second delay in communication between an avatar and its true body. To cultivators, that's obvious enough. In the eyes of those natives, our three avatars must look utterly dazed."
Ke Like shook his head. "That's still better than being treated as monsters or Outer Realm Devils. Don't forget, Bai Jizhen and I simply can't 'speak'!"
The avatars controlled by Ke Like and Bai Jizhen did not understand the language of the Fire Folk at all—they did not merely fail to "hear" it; they possessed no knowledge of the language whatsoever. Forget listening, reading, and speaking. Even if other Fire Folk sent them signals in that language, they might not recognize them.
After all, the Immortal Alliance's exploration efforts mostly focused on planets, with relatively little involving stars. Furthermore, Fire Folk appeared somewhat less frequently than Earth Folk and Wind Folk, though more frequently than Water Folk.
Almost no Conquest Envoys had experience infiltrating Fire Folk civilization.
If the three avatars communicated before the Fire Folk through a method of communication the Fire Folk had never seen before, the Fire Folk would most likely take them for evil aberrations.
Under such circumstances, they might as well pretend to be mute and leave all communication to Wang Qi.
The Beauty God's research into linguistics was exceedingly thorough. They had studied more