By the time the two enemies faded over the horizon, Atlas was the one in trouble.
He had been taking it easy and keeping the attention of the two phoenixes on himself, but they were fighting seriously. They had no way of knowing why Atlas started randomly attacking them, after all.
He was only able to tell them to calm down after he sensed that the enemies had retreated far enough away. At that point, he put qi into his feet and retreated as far as he could.
"Wait!"
He held his hands out in front of himself and stopped the two. In any normal case, they would not have listened to him. However, Feng Ziran had her own thoughts on the matter, so she held her hand out and signaled to her comrade.
"Zhiying, stop."
The two of them halted in their tracks, still several feet away from Atlas in case he decided to attack.
"So, are you done with your charade?"