Red Clothes drifted out of the crevice and tilted her head to look at the sky. In an instant, her red skirt snapped in the wind, her long hair flew wildly, and the aura around her turned biting cold.
"A fight? Do we ambush them or charge straight in?"
Jin Si was calculating the height and their strength.
"There won't be a fight."
Red Clothes looked disappointed at that.
Xiao Yu stared intently at the eagle in the distant sky. Birds took flight from all over the mountain, most of them white cranes, more than twenty clustered together. Clear, lingering crane cries rang out one after another as the flock spread their wings and circled, facing off from afar against the gold-edged white eagle.
Among the flock, a white crane in the Yang Spirit Realm beat its wings and emerged. Spirit light flowed around it, and its imposing presence set it apart as it led the flock forward.
Thermal Sensing revealed that the gold-edged white eagle opposite them was extraordinary. Its path of cultivation differed from the local one, and its level was equivalent to the Yang Spirit Realm. The two sides faced each other from afar, the atmosphere taut.
Xiao Yu watched for a moment, then spread her wings.
"I'll go take a look."
Jin Si felt somewhat conflicted. In every fight before, Xiao Yu had worked alongside him, their advances and retreats in perfect accord, yet this time he could not help.
"They're flying too high for me to reach. Be careful."
"It's fine. Eagles aren't good at close aerial combat. Besides, judging by this, there won't be a fight."
Before her words had faded, she gave a powerful beat of her wings and shot skyward, slicing through layer after layer of cloud and mist to become a