However, they would definitely try the answer given by the gray-robed old man once. Trapped inside this magical treasure for only a few short days, they had already begun to despair.
That question was like a damned curse, plaguing them at every moment and leaving their minds unsettled.
They had no other concerns about the gray-robed old man's answer. The two women believed that he still could not control this magical treasure.
Thus, at worst, they could simply hide back in the front courtyard. Yet the answer Li Yan had given seemed to have made them think of a certain possibility.
"Big Sister, why is he helping us like this?"
Ming Yu immediately sent a voice transmission in secret.
"I don't know. Perhaps... perhaps the Undying Nether Phoenix blood essence in his bloodline has made him more or less acknowledge our existence!"
Ming Qi replied, somewhat uncertainly.
Yet even she could not fully convince herself. If he alone obtained the Undying Nether Phoenix inheritance that might exist here, would that not be even better? It would make him even more powerful.
That was the greatest benefit to cultivators. Compared with it, everything else paled far too much.
Still, this could be explained through bloodline. Though he was human, his physical body had indeed already fused with the Undying Nether Phoenix.
True Undying Nether Phoenixes might already have vanished from this world, or perhaps they had nearly gone extinct. They were exceedingly difficult to find again; their clan's search was proof enough.
Then, if a human was influenced by its blood essence and had come to acknowledge the Undying Nether Phoenix's connection to himself, thoughts of kinship might also arise.
Ming Qi understood this loneliness. The identity of an Undying Nether Phoenix had to be concealed from outsiders, while they themselves