Hou Niao understood, but too late. Had he known Wu Weijiang had this trick up his sleeve, he would have chosen other, more aggressive methods.
"Looks like they're not taking anyone out anymore? Are they treating us as dead already?"
Hai Xixi said coldly, "The Wu Household's method allows them to leave Tuling Grotto-Heaven instantly, but it has a side effect: the normal means of leaving will be 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 patriarchs, 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 mournfully from the wounds their all-out joint strike had inflicted, he knew its next attack would be utterly beyond his ability to withstand alone.
In the end, they had still been played by the even more shameless Wu Weijiang.
"You knew everything? Why didn't you leave sooner? Now you're staying here waiting to die, and dragging me down with you?"
Hai Xixi said bitterly, "Actually, I... I only just figured it out too... Before, I was just being spiteful. If he wouldn't leave, then I couldn't leave either. I'm sorry."
Hou Niao felt a headache coming on. To have such advantages and still do something so foolish truly left him speechless. He had never considered running away-racing a bird of a higher realm 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.