"Don't come near me! Once you pick up my scent, they'll hunt you down too!"
Bai Yu explained weakly to Xu Taiping.
"They?"
Xu Taiping retreated warily into the courtyard.
"What exactly happened?"
He pressed again.
"West Wind Pavilion... joined forces with the Peacock King and slaughtered my White-Headed Eagle Clan. I don't know whether my mother is alive or dead. I was the only one who escaped."
Bai Yu struggled to steady his breathing, then continued:
"Taiping, I came here because I want you to tell my father about this. To seize our White-Headed Eagle Clan's blessed land, Wind, Come Valley, the Peacock King joined forces with Liu Songshan of West Wind Pavilion to set an ambush. They trapped Mother, then slaughtered and plundered the White-Headed Eagle Clan. Please tell him... tell him he must avenge me, if... if he... he's still alive."
With that, his head drooped helplessly.
Hearing this, much of the confusion in Xu Taiping's heart immediately cleared.
Over this time, he had often heard Bai Yu complain about the enmity between the White-Headed Eagle Clan and the Peacock King Clan. He simply hadn't expected West Wind Pavilion to join forces with the Peacock King Clan in the end.
"Xu Taiping, don't try to save me. Don't get involved. You're no match... for the Peacock King."
At that moment, with his head still lying in the mud, Bai Yu forced himself to warn Xu Taiping again.
Should I save him or not?
Xu Taiping faced a choice.
Just as he hesitated, a bird's cry suddenly rang out from the horizon. Even amid the torrential rain, it still resounded through the mountain forest.
"Taiping, you can take Bai Yu into my Azure Gourd."
Fairy Lingyue reminded Xu Taiping.
"All right."
Xu Taiping's eyes lit up. He nodded