The Bear Demon wasn't mute. After Jiang Qiu spoke in the Dragon Language, the creature immediately understood the situation. In other words, he knew Jiang Qiu wanted to learn about this forest—or more precisely, about this world.
'This was the strangest part. How could someone not know where this place was?'
'If it was a being that had fallen from above, it should know this place even better. Don't all those beings from High Heaven awaken with profound wisdom the moment they're born?'
'Just like Jiang Qiu. From the moment he was born, he seemed to possess an independent consciousness, able to recognize his strange surroundings and even ask who he was. He wasn't like a newborn duckling, curiously pecking at everything.'
'Clearly, Jiang Qiu was born with wisdom and didn't need to go through the long process of attaining sentience. He was undoubtedly a being from High Heaven who had descended to this world!'
