"Release some Yang Fish? Why?"
Di Yi did not quite understand, but since the Fire Kui Ox had said it, there had to be a reason.
"It involves a certain place, a secret of the Fire Domain. To get there, you need the Yang Fish's help." The Fire Kui Ox did not spell it out. Clearly, it was a major secret, not something that could be divulged lightly.
"But we've already made enemies. What difference would releasing them make?" Di Yi looked at the Yang Fish piled into a small mountain. This advice had come far too late.
"That's why I said it was a half-formed suggestion," the Fire Kui Ox said. In truth, it felt that whether the Yang Fish helped or not would pose no problem for Di Yi.
The only reason it had mentioned this was to make things easier to discuss if they encountered one another again.
Otherwise, if he happened upon a great opportunity, found that place, and wanted to venture deeper, only to discover that the Yang Fish refused to cooperate, it would have no way to explain itself, however justified it was.
"Today's haul was plentiful. I'm off to refine the Yang Fish and cultivate. Keep at it yourself. Let's part here." The Fire Kui Ox had never reaped such a great harvest before. Its mind was already a restless monkey, its thoughts a galloping horse; it wished it could begin its transformation immediately.
"All right." Di Yi nodded and did not keep the Fire Kui Ox there.
Just as it had said it needed to refine the Yang Fish to cultivate, he, too, ought to begin working on the Primordial Vermilion Bird's Divine Cultivation Path. With so many Yang Fish, he had plenty to expend.
After all, he had come here for