"To hell with you!" Seeing the colored light sweeping toward him, Hou Yi hurriedly hurled the Sun-Shooting Bow and Sun-Shooting Arrow at it. With a bang, both bow and arrow shattered, and the impact drove Hou Yi back several steps. He shouted at Soaring Serpent, "Hey, you stinking snake, are you seriously trying to hit me?"
"Why has your voice changed? Hou Yi, Great Shaman of the Witch Race, indeed! Why don't you look in a mirror and take a good look at your true form? You're as fat as a ball. Aren't you ashamed of impersonating Hou Yi?"
"You..." Hou Yi-no, Gungun-felt humiliated by the snake. Divine light flashed over his body, revealing his true form. Then he pointed at Soaring Serpent and cursed, "What's wrong with being fat? Have I been eating your household's spirit fruit? You stinking snake, you're only a few hundred thousand years old, and your hair's already completely white! You've grown decrepit before your time, and you think you have any right to criticize me? Tell me, what are you plotting with Kong Xuan? Are you scheming to do something bad? Confess and receive leniency; resist and face severity!"
"Ha! Decrepit before my time? Fine, very fine indeed~" Soaring Serpent laughed in fury. Then his gaze sharpened as he stared at Gungun. "I'm going to teach you fat bear a lesson today!"
"Aah!" With that, Soaring Serpent charged at Gungun, Lotus Lantern in hand.
"Hmph! A snake attacking a bear-you don't know your own limits!" Gungun snorted at the sight, then beckoned with his hand. A golden bowl appeared, and he aimed it at Soaring Serpent, shouting, "Ha! Behold this Ancestral Bear's treasure!"
"Humm~" As his words fell, a vast flood of golden light shone from the Heaven-Earth Bowl.
"Yah~" At the same time,