No matter what, Lan Feng lying to him is something Yan Xiaobao is unwilling to accept. If the truth proves he was indeed lying, then who knows which parts of the earlier story were real and which were fabricated? This made it nearly impossible for Yan Xiaobao to trust anything he was told.
"I was once human, that's a fact," Lan Feng stated plainly, as though he had no intention of hiding anything from Yan Xiaobao. "But when we received our father's inheritance, we transformed into beasts."
Hearing that it was possible to change from human to Divine Beast completely shocked Yan Xiaobao. It made no sense! A deep fear emerged within him—was there really nothing immutable here, not even one's race or gender?
One thing was certain: the Phoenix could easily answer any of his questions. This answer seemed trivial—as long as the question concerned the world they now inhabited, the bird was willing to respond.
