Soon,
Xia Yu, having released his "magic hair" form, returned from afar.
The Five-headed Bird had been strangled to death, hidden in a secretive corner, but when he returned to the battlefield, Jintan Shun was nowhere in sight, and the items that had exploded from his backpack seemed to have been cleaned up by the mercenaries—the ground was spotless.
In front of the cliff, Xia Yu found a climbing rope dangling down and he shouted downward,
"Come down—"
The mercenary uncle replied.
As Xia Yu descended the rope, the "magic hair" form had drained quite a bit of his energy, leaving him almost famished and desperately needing food and drink to recover, but he still had the strength to move and didn't completely collapse after transforming.
His feet touched the ground, and a fishy smell hit him as he approached the cave in the mountain wall.
There was the glow of a flashlight inside, and Xia Yu stepped in.
"Hey, I'm really lucky this time!"