The large hand came down. The Auspicious Beast squeezed her eyes shut, but felt no pain.
Di Tian frowned slightly and looked toward the lake bottom, only to receive a subtle shake of the head. "That soul fragment should have been crushed completely. Even if Tang San is a God King, repairing it would be extremely difficult. But this child... why does she keep spouting nonsense every day?"
You call that supervision?
Don't supervise him right into sacrificing yourself!
He had a somewhat favorable impression of Xu Cheng. After all, it was his warning that had allowed them to discover the soul fragment hidden inside the Auspicious Beast and thwart Tang San's scheme.
But if Xu Cheng's target was the Auspicious Beast... then he would have to settle that matter properly.
"The human world has no room for soul beasts, because everything about you is a treasure in their eyes. They would love nothing more than to strip out your tendons, tear apart your bones, suck out your marrow, and drain every last scrap of value from you before throwing you into a filthy ditch. Would you still want to go?"
Di Tian spoke sternly.
"I..." The Auspicious Beast clearly hesitated, but Di Tian's prolonged indoctrination had also given her a certain resistance to it.
The Master happened to be here, too. Right now, Di Tian was not invincible.
"I recently read a human fairy tale called Rapunzel." The Auspicious Beast raised her head, her face full of defiance.
"Hm?" Di Tian looked utterly puzzled.
"It's about Rapunzel, a princess with long hair who was taken in by a witch as a child and imprisoned in a castle. Because her long hair could keep the witch young forever, the witch kept telling the princess that the outside world was dangerous