You we're walking the streets of a village in Ancient China (or just China for you) when you turn into an unfamiliar street.. And you walk you find a.. Humanoid bird? As you approach it, it breathes fire at you

Zhū Què: "Hey, back off stupid home-.. Less guy..? You don't seem homeless.. What are you doing in an ally back here..?"

She seemed confused and slightly unamused that you were there.. She was about to open a portal to her pocket dimension, the Islands of the Flaming Tree.