Zhang Yang had a clear understanding after his recent attempt.
Gritting his teeth against the fierce wind blowing towards him, he approached the cave entrance!
"You feathered beast, I know you can understand me! Stop flapping those wings of yours and listen to what I have to say!"
Screech!
The three-headed bird let out another cry, clearly enraged.
However, its incessantly flapping wings did indeed stop.
Seeing this, Zhang Yang quickly spoke.
"We stumbled in here by accident. We have no intention of being your enemy. If you can tell us the way out, we'll leave immediately! Otherwise, I'll destroy this cave right now!"
Yes.
Zhang Yang noticed the three-headed bird's nervousness and decided to use it to coerce the creature into leading them out.
But!
The three-headed bird fell silent, shaking its head repeatedly.
Zhang Yang frowned slightly. "What? You don't know the exit either?"
The three-headed bird continued to shake its head, remaining silent.
"You don't even know?" Zhang Yang sighed.
"Alright then, let us leave the cave, and we'll mind our own business!"
Zhang Yang changed his terms, but the three-headed bird still refused to agree, letting out an angry cry!
Screech!
"What? Have I been too nice to you? You still don't want us to leave?" Zhang Yang said sternly.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh~
Suddenly.
A strong wind began to blow, and the three-headed bird flapped its wings again.
It was obvious that it had no intention of letting Zhang Yang and the others leave.
Seeing this, Zhang Yang also became angry.
"You good-for-nothing beast, do you really think I wouldn't dare? Break for me!"
Instantly, True Dragon Qi appeared at Zhang Yang's fingertips.
He severed one-third of the wriggling black lines on the inner wall of the cave entrance.
Rumble!
The entire mountain peak began to shake, and the ground trembled.
And on top of this mountain, within the nest where the three-headed bird resided, black light suddenly shot up into the sky!
"What is that..."
Zhang Yingxiong and the others were startled, looking at the rising blackness and pondering.
Screech!
Screech! Screech!
Zhang Yang's wanton severing of the lines on the cave's inner walls greatly angered the three-headed bird outside the entrance, causing it to cry out incessantly!
Suddenly!
A sharp voice pierced everyone's ears!
"Damn humans, you have completely angered me! You will all perish!"
This!
Everyone was stunned and looked around.
Who was speaking?
Whether it was Zhang Yang and the others inside the cave or Zhang Yingxiong outside, they were all bewildered.
After searching around, they all looked towards the three-headed bird.
"Are you talking to me?" Zhang Yang asked.
"Who else!" the three-headed bird replied angrily.
"Humans, you must pay the price for what you have done! You will all become sacrifices to the gods! None of you will escape!"
This!
Sacrifices to the gods?
Zhang Yang couldn't help but recall the heart deep within the cave. Could that heart be the god the three-headed bird spoke of?
"I don't care about all that! You let us out, or I'll destroy this cave!" Zhang Yang threatened.
Since he knew how much the three-headed bird valued this cave, he had to use it as leverage!
With that said.
The stone tablet and the crystal coffin in Zhang Yang's hands appeared simultaneously.
"Since you won't let us have it easy, I won't let you have it easy either. Let's both perish!" Zhang Yang shouted.
The three-headed bird immediately fell silent.
Clearly.
Zhang Yang's all-or-nothing approach had frightened it.
"I can let you leave, but you are forbidden from causing any further damage to the cave!" the three-headed bird said.
Zhang Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the three-headed bird had compromised.
After a moment of thought, Zhang Yang instructed the giant python.
"Giant Python, you stay here. The Great Elder and I will go out first. Do not move without my command!"
"Ah?" The giant python flinched.
"Master, you're leaving me here alone? I'm scared!"
Slap!
"What are you afraid of? With your size, who can do anything to you here? That feathered beast can't get in anyway," Zhang Yang said, glaring.
"Oh." The giant python felt wronged.
But it still obeyed Zhang Yang's instructions and remained.
At this moment, the three-headed bird outside the cave spoke again.
"Hurry up and get out, humans! This is my greatest concession!"
Zhang Yang and Zhu Zhi immediately walked out of the cave.
They did not notice the fierce glint in the three-headed bird's eyes!
It had already assumed an attacking posture, ready to unleash its fury as soon as Zhang Yang and the others were all out!
Its earlier compromise to let Zhang Yang and the others out was merely to prevent further damage to the cave, and then to lure them out to kill them all!
However!
The three-headed bird had underestimated the situation.
It watched as Zhang Yang rejoined Zhang Yingxiong and the others, but it was unable to make a move.
"There's still a little bug inside the cave! Why didn't it come out with you?" the three-headed bird asked angrily.
"Hmph, worried you'd betray us, so I left it inside. What's it to you?" Zhang Yang said with a smile.
He had already guessed that the three-headed bird wouldn't be so kind, which was why he had made this move!
Screech!
"You cunning humans, how dare you deceive me!" the three-headed bird roared.
It suddenly swooped towards Zhang Yang and the others, its sharp talons aimed directly at Zhang Yang!
"Hey, feathered beast, try and touch my master, and if my master gets hurt, I'll go in and eat that heart!"
Suddenly.
From the cave entrance, the giant python shouted.
Clang!
Hearing the giant python's threat, the three-headed bird lost its balance and fell to the ground, looking quite pathetic.
"You little worm, how dare you threaten me! Do you want to die?" The three-headed bird abandoned its pursuit of Zhang Yang and the others, glaring at the giant python.
"Oh, be polite to this Great Python, or I'll really turn back and eat the heart!" the giant python retorted, also annoyed.
"You wouldn't dare!" The three-headed bird's eyes flashed with fierce light as it threatened the giant python.
"See if I dare!" The giant python was not intimidated and opened its massive maw, biting off several of the wriggling lines on the cave's inner wall!
Screech!
This made the three-headed bird jump with rage!
It had already been threatened by Zhang Yang and the others, and now it was being threatened by a python inferior to itself!
It truly felt like a failure!
Zhang Yang smiled at the three-headed bird's predicament. This feathered beast had been so arrogant since they first met.
Now they had found its weakness!
"Hahaha, let's head back first," Zhang Yang said with a laugh.
Then, their group returned to the underground cave, leaving the giant python to confront the three-headed bird.
The giant python seemed to have found some amusement in the situation, occasionally provoking the three-headed bird, which left the latter seething with anger and nowhere to vent it.
Meanwhile.
Upon returning to the underground cave, Zhang Yang informed everyone about the situation in the cave, and they were all astonished by the giant heart within.
However.
Their spirits soon sank.
Since there was no exit within the cave, they still had no way to get out.
"There's no exit even inside the cave! Is it really a place of no return?" the head of the Zhan Long Department said dejectedly.
The others also wore somber expressions, clearly disheartened.
At this moment.
Zhang Yingxiong suddenly remembered something and said.
"If there's no exit inside the cave, then there's one more place we can check! You all must have noticed the anomaly there earlier."