"Are Immortals so common and similar where you're from that you can make a blanket statement what all of them are skilled at? How boring." He shakes his head and sets the teapot aside with a mildly insulted huff.

Just because he didn't know this skill yet, didn't mean he wasn't going to start practicing it until he could do it. He may be set in his ways in a lot of aspects, but he was always hungry to learn new techniques. It's all he'd been doing for nearly a century in the mountain alone.