Ying is up in a tree, glaring at her master's silliness. She bares her teeth at the dragon, but a raccoon dog is no match for fire! Her ears perk when she senses Xiu and Xingchen, toddling anxiously on her branch. Danger! Danger!

Xue Yang isn't expecting the plants to aid him! Dodging some flames, he rolls onto his feet and finally catches sight of his daozhang's white robes.

"Don't get yourself roasted!"

And now... Now he has all the reason in the world to rush at the beast. Leaping onto the dragon's back, Jiangzai extended to its full length, he stabs through the back of the dragon's neck. The howl that follows deafens him and he feels himself slung from his perch and right into the trunk of a tree.