Hou Niao understood, but it was too late. Had he known Wu Weijiang still had this trick up his sleeve, he would have chosen other, more aggressive methods.
"Seems they aren't taking anyone out anymore? Are they treating us as dead already?"
Hai Xixi said coldly, "The Wu family's method lets them leave Tuling Grotto-Heaven instantly, but it has a side effect: the normal means of leaving becomes obstructed for a while. Yes, long enough for the Luan Bird to eat us both."
Hou Niao felt that, compared with two cultivators backed by Infant Transformation ancestors, he knew far too little. Wu Weijiang aside, even Hai Xixi, though sometimes childish in her behavior, could seem unfathomable at other times. This was the contradiction born of practical experience mingling with deep reserves of inherited knowledge.
Watching the Luan Bird cry out in pain after their combined, all-out strike, he knew its next attack would be something he could never withstand alone.
In the end, the even more shameless Wu Weijiang had played them both.
"You knew all this? Why didn't you leave sooner? Now you're stuck here waiting to die, and you've dragged me down with you?"
Hai Xixi said bitterly, "I actually... I only just figured it out myself... Before, I was just being spiteful. If he wouldn't leave, then I couldn't leave either. I'm sorry."
Hou Niao's head ached a little. To have such advantages and still do something so foolish truly left him speechless. He had never considered fleeing. Racing a higher-realm bird on these spirit beasts' own territory...
Hai Xixi, however, was a born optimist. "But I have a way. We don't need to kill it. We can tame it instead. None of the spirit beasts here are fundamentally different. They can all be tamed; it's only