"If you hadn't swung your fist, it wouldn't have bitten!"
Hai Xixi did not accept his explanation.
Hou Niao did not argue. He had experience with this sort of thing: the more he said, the worse it would get. With these truly pampered descendants of generations of cultivators, ten thousand words were less effective than letting something bite her once.
"Are you sure?"
"Sure!" Hai Xixi answered without hesitation.
The two continued searching. More precisely, Hai Xixi searched while Hou Niao followed at a distance. He devoted more of his attention to investigating this wondrous space. Unfortunately, with his present, limited understanding of the Great Dao, he could not accurately identify just what sort of place this was.
It seemed to be some combination of illusion and reality? If he had to describe it, it bore some resemblance to his Soul Realm space.
It was somewhat like Bao Wen's Aspect Bird back then, but that Aspect Bird certainly had not come from the Tuling Grotto-Heaven. It would hardly be surprising for those great Daoist sects to possess grotto-heavens similar to the Tuling World. Otherwise, how could one explain where all those bizarre Aspect Birds came from? Surely they could not really have been imagined out of thin air?
Soon, Hai Xixi found her next target: a koala, with a round body, a round head, and round eyes. It waddled along, swaying and twisting with every step, utterly endearing in its clumsiness.
Hai Xixi clearly had no resistance whatsoever to cute creatures, and she obviously had no particularly fixed target either, so her interest immediately shifted from searching for a Three-Tailed Marten to the koala.
She used the same old tricks, making Hou Niao struggle to suppress his laughter as he watched from behind. In truth, though, he had no better