Volume 4

236 The High Priest

Nie Zun glanced at me. “Are you an idiot? If it could bring us out, why can’t it fly out on its own? Would it still be locked up like this?”

I scratched my head. “But those two ladies talked about luring the fire phoenix over, so that would mean that it still had some freedom to roam, isn’t it? Those ladies wouldn’t have said that if it really was trapped somewhere. Why can’t the two phoenixes meet then?”

Bing’er looked anxious as its eyes shone brightly at what I just said.

It seemed to be anxious because it wasn’t able to explain what exactly happened.

Nie Zun asked something which stunned me, “Were you human before?”

I turned to him in surprise, and little did I expect that Bing’er would actually answer him so quickly.

I looked at Bing’er again. Though this wasn’t the first time that a body of consciousness turned into something that wasn’t...