Stubborn Stain
They locked eyes, allowing each of them to get a pretty good luck at the other one.
Where most of its body was shrouded by that grey haze, Hao Xuan could see its off-white eyes as clear as day. And it could see him, although in its eyes he was just an indistinct figure of pure white light.
The 'boy' yelled something in a foreign language allowing Hao Xuan to hear his voice for the first time which was remarkably similar to a human child, before beelining deeper into the rock forest.
Hao Xuan purposefully stayed as far back as he could to follow the child from a safe distance using his spiritual sense but still showed up in his peripheral vision every now and then to make him think he was purposefully losing him.
To the Djinn child's defense, he tried his level best by often going in random directions and even disappearing for a few seconds every so often and then reappearing in a different place moments later.