Taishang Laojun quickly took a liking to it. "Oh... where did this little thing come from? It's so cute!"
As she spoke, she reached out to grab it.
Uchiha Hikaru had no time to warn her, and tragedy struck!
The little creature let out an angry screech, like an enraged bird, and opened its beak to blast Taishang Laojun's outstretched hand with a wave of Samadhi True Fire!
Terrifying!
Taishang Laojun froze, every hair on her body standing on end.
With a startled cry, she had no time to dodge and was hit head-on.
The next moment, she stood there blackened and charred, looking like she had been blown up by a cannonball.
If she did not possess some resistance to Samadhi True Fire, she would probably have been disfigured.
Uchiha Hikaru did not know whether to laugh or cry. He grabbed the little creature off his head, raised his right index finger to its nose, and said, "This is your master's wife. Don't go spraying fire at her whenever you feel like it, understand?"
The little creature rolled its eyes around, clearly knowing it had done something wrong, so it chose an even more direct approach.
Suddenly, it rolled its little eyes, opened its mouth, stuck out its tongue, gave a full-body twitch, then tilted its head back and went motionless.
Pfft... playing dead!
This thing had become a demon. Master, there's a monster!
Uchiha Hikaru covered his eyes and laughed. He had no idea who this little creature had learned that from. It was actually playing dead—or was that simply a Phoenix's instinct?
And it looked especially convincing.
Seeing that there was nothing he could do about it, Uchiha Hikaru tapped its little head with a finger as punishment and said, "All right, stop pretending. Your master's wife