Yet despite everything the Nine-Colored Mysterious Bird had said, Jiang Yun remained as calm as a still lake, without a ripple.
He merely raised the corners of his mouth in a faint, knowing smile, as though endless secrets lay hidden within it.
Then he slowly shook his head and denied it softly. "I'm not from there!"
It was a simple denial, but to the Nine-Hued Mysterious Bird, it was like posting a sign that read "No silver buried here." It only made her more certain of her guess.
She was convinced that the uncanny flame she had developed on the Reincarnation Road using the mysterious Great Void Flame and the ancient Ancient Cosmos Flame had caught the attention of those strange beings from the Four Extremes Floating Soil.
Grief and anger filled her. She had already been sealed in this sunless place, yet they still refused to leave her alone and had sent someone after her.
Meanwhile, the supreme beings of the Underworld Source, her own kind, cared nothing for whether she lived or died. They had left her trapped here.
"Get me out, and I'll share my discovery with the people behind you!"
The Nine-Hued Mysterious Bird spoke suddenly, her voice once again filled with the arrogance of someone certain of victory, as though she still stood above all and ruled everything.
She addressed Jiang Yun from on high, her tone suggesting she was bestowing an immense favor upon him.
Jiang Yun was speechless. Even in this predicament, the Nine-Hued Mysterious Bird remained so conceited.
The strongest beings of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the Immortal Realm, the Sea of Realms, and even the Four Great Source Ancient Lands were largely cut from the same cloth.
But Jiang Yun ignored her arrogance and instead asked, as if in