Taotie can identify humans by their scent.
It did indeed smell the scent of the person who dared to try and form a pact with it. This person had come down with the Tianning group, but the two groups had separated.
It also caught the scent of its human companions who had summoned it thousands of years ago!
As for Tianning and the others, Taotie showed little interest, waving its paws to tell the three to get out of Snow City quickly, lest it be caught in the crossfire and lose its life when it sought revenge.
Seeing that Taotie's attitude was quite amiable, Long Aotian boldly advised, "Why are you so determined to destroy Snow City? Haven't you considered that if the residents of Snow City were to collectively fight against you again, the tragedy of the past would repeat itself? They would suffer heavy casualties, and you would be sealed away for thousands of years once more..."
Such a lose-lose situation is completely unnecessary.
The Taotie, however, couldn't bear the advice of these insignificant humans. It retorted angrily, "It was you humans who were greedy and summoned me here. In the end, you're the ones who were summoned, and you're the ones who sealed me away! How can I, a mighty beast, be played like a dog by you? Would you swallow this insult?!"
Long Aotian: "..."
Tianning: "..."
Taotie huffed, "I'm one of the Four Great Fiends, after all. If those three guys find out I just chickened out and went back like that, wouldn't I have no shame?!"
As Taotie spoke, it looked at Tianning and said coldly, "If you know what's good for you, get lost. The only reason I'm giving you face and wasting my breath is because of her."
Noticing that Taotie was actually looking at the little sparrow on Tianning's head, Long Aotian swallowed hard. If it weren't for the chirping, they would have already started fighting, and they wouldn't be having such a peaceful conversation now.
Anyone else would have probably fled or rushed back to Liuzong to seek help.
But Tianning pointed out the problem in the opposite direction: "Have you ever thought that perhaps you and the residents of Snow City are nothing more than pitiful pawns manipulated by certain people?"
Taotie: "What do you mean?"
"Some people want to borrow your power, but they dare not act in person, fearing the backlash from not being able to control the ferocious beast. So they used Snow City to summon you. However, they did not expect that the residents of Snow City would use their lives to seal you and leave behind customs that have deepened the seal on you generation after generation."
"But thousands of years later, the city lord discovered the ice crystals. Mining them weakened the seal, and they saw an opportunity to regain control of you."
Tianning boldly speculated that even the smugglers who initially bribed the missing residents of Snow City to enter the Snow Mountain were part of a plan orchestrated by someone behind the scenes. Behind the fake city lord was a force that wanted to eliminate the city lord and seize power in Snow City.
After all, even the city lord only learned of the Taotie's existence by consulting ancient books. Snow City had long abandoned the custom of reinforcing the Taotie, so how could anyone else possibly know about it? This was clearly a long-planned scheme.
However, they never expected that the blood of the Taotie contained hatred for the people of Snow City who had sealed it away. This caused the spirit beasts on the snow mountain to become corrupted after being contaminated, constantly creating fake spirit beasts to attack Snow City. The Frost Deer, as a high-level spirit beast, even created blizzards to isolate Snow City from the outside world.
This prevented the fake city lord and his group from transmitting intelligence to the outside world.
“So,” Tianning said, “don’t you think it’s more interesting to expose the mastermind behind this than to kill boring ants?”
"They can bother you once, and they can bother you countless times. This time it's Snow City, next time it could be Water City, Wood City, Earth City... If one day your power weakens to the point that they can easily control you, once they have complete confidence, the person behind you will appear in front of you."
Taotie got goosebumps from Tianning's words and couldn't help but say, "You humans aren't strong, so you love to resort to these kinds of schemes and tricks!"
Tian Ning blinked: "So you're scared?"
Taotie: "..."
This girl's words are really troublesome. Rather than waiting to die, we should take the initiative and find out whoever dares to have ulterior motives towards it!
Anyway, the fact that this girl can bring the Phoenix Lord means that she is protected by the Heavenly Dao and possesses great fortune.
Following her will definitely bring a lot of trouble, but there's a very high chance you'll encounter the person behind it all!
After thinking it over again and again, Taotie decided it was a good idea.
We can deal with the ants in Snow City anytime. The real problem is that guy who refuses to show his face and is causing trouble behind the scenes!
"Then you two should get me out of this damn thing first." Taotie ordered Tianning and Long Aotian around like he was calling his underlings.
It refers to the ice and snow crystals that trapped its lower body.
Although it had broken free most of its strength, this thing still exerted its restraint on it.
Tian Ning nodded and said, "Before that, you should first make a Heavenly Oath. If you follow us, you will pretend to be an ordinary cultivator and behave yourself without causing trouble. If you break the oath, you will be trapped in the ice crystal for tens of thousands of years."
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