Hou Niao's strategy was simple: exhaust the white dragon.
This battle rolled on for three days. On the first day, there was give-and-take between the two; by the second day, the young white dragon began to lose its strength, and by the third day, it was completely at a disadvantage.
The underwater combat relied mainly on close-quarter contact, something Hou Niao had been skilled at for hundreds of years, resulting in a frightening instinct.
The underwater environment couldn't provide any advantage to the young white dragon, making the outcome inevitable.
By the fourth day, Hou Niao abandoned the longsword and straightaway rode onto the white dragon's neck, holding onto its dragon horns... At this point, he could easily have decapitated the dragon, but he chose not to, instead wanting to make the white dragon yield.
Indeed, he was bullying it for being an immature adult.
