Chapter 1530: Is the premature aging you mentioned about hair loss?

"I did consider simply signing a contract with any random god-tier beast tamer, making sure none of us would be happy... but after meeting you, I discovered another possibility."

Su Yang asked, "Why didn't you ask for my opinion?"

The phoenix countered, "If I had told you back then, would you have accepted me?"

"No!"

"I knew it!"

Su Yang's hand slowly relaxed, his tone calm: "Do you know what I'm thinking of doing right now?"

"Probably want to kill me?"

"Clever!"

In an instant, heaven and earth shifted.

Su Yang and the Extinction Phoenix appeared deep within the Green Cloud Mountains.

The Yinglong, the Hellblood Vine, and the Exploding Elder Yan Mo also appeared.

The Green Cloud Mountains might as well be the grave Su Yang chose for the Extinction Phoenix!

"Given how honest I've been, can you spare me?" the phoenix chuckled bitterly. "Look, as soon as I asked why I regressed, I told you everything... I actually wanted to reveal the truth long ago, but I was afraid. Now that I've finally been honest, you want to kill me—don't you think that's cruel?"

"I don't think so."

"What a heartless man!"

"Heh! You're not the first to say that about me, and you won't be the last!"

"If you kill me, do you really think you can stay out of this?"

"Why not?" Su Yang sneered. "As long as I clean it up properly!"

The phoenix shook its head: "From the moment you signed the contract with me, you were already doomed to be entangled in this."

"How so?"

"Every time I regress one rank, the other side can locate my position through the Samsara Fruit... This time, I regressed inside your beast space. The Samsara Fruit in their hands will change—but won't mark a direction. They'll deduce that I've signed a contract with some lucky god-tier beast tamer."

"Who would know if I kill you?"

"Of course someone knows—your subordinates know, someone in the Huaxia Federation knows, and my own subordinates know."

"I can just kill all your subordinates!"

The phoenix countered: "What about the ones who vanished near my territory? They'll send more people to my lands eventually. They'll eventually discover those ever-widening spatial rifts—and they'll find the Huaxia Federation. With the power of your spatial beast, you can't possibly seal that rift!"

This, Su Yang couldn't easily handle.

He couldn't just go capture all of the phoenix's enemies and wipe their memories, could he?

That'd be worse than just killing them!

"So even if you kill me, it won't help!" the phoenix said. "You might as well keep me alive—I'll obey you faithfully."

Su Yang sneered: "You think you've got me figured out?"

"Of course not!" the phoenix hurried to say. "I just want to live. I admit I'm selfish—but I never realized you had so many responsibilities!"

"I originally thought it through perfectly: you have that spatial beast, so they couldn't touch you, and I could tag along, waiting for the next cycle. As long as I didn't resist the Samsara Fruit's power, I'd regress quickly—and with your abilities, I'd recover fast too... I just didn't consider how much you care about the Huaxia Federation..."

Su Yang hesitated slightly.

The enemies he needed to make had already been made.

Whether the phoenix lived or died now seemed to make little difference.