Chapter 9: The Way Is Clear But There Is Sunshine
When the fox demon got angry, Lingxiang was on guard. When he got close, she used the Calm and Peaceful Technique to instantly open her shield to block him. With her left hand, she used the Lotus Heart Sword Technique and used her fingers as swords to slash at his chest.
The fox demon was caught off guard by Lingxiang's counterattack and barely dodged it, but her clothes were cut.
Before he could steady himself, Lingxiang attacked his lower body with sword energy to block his escape. His right hand flew and he performed the Waves and Tides Technique, hoping to use the Water Prison Technique to trap the fox demon.
The fox demon was furious: "How dare you, you little yellow-haired girl, to resist me!"
The demon dodged the spell in an instant, raised his hand and waved, and an invisible air swept towards the spiritual fragrance.
The move was so fast that she didn't have time to block it. She was hit by the airflow and crashed into the stone wall. Lingxiang suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen and back, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The demon fox curled up its five fingers and leaped up, revealing its demonic appearance, like a wild fox hunting. Its claws were as long as young bamboo shoots and as sharp as sword blades, and it was about to pinch Lingxiang in an instant.
At the moment of life and death, a huge rock suddenly rose between the two of them, blocking the attack of the fox demon, and then turned into several large rocks and shot towards him.
The fox demon dodged and retreated quickly. When it stood still, it looked towards Lingxiang again, but the stone was nowhere to be seen.
"Who dares to trespass into my cave and deceive me with illusions?"
"Shut up, you monster! Stop being so arrogant! You are killing people!" This was exactly Chi Yanzi's Wubenxiang Jue.
As he spoke, Chi Yanzi flew out, holding a whisk in his right hand, using his Qi as a blade, and with his left hand, he twisted his fingers, drunkenly entangled in branches, and attacked the fox demon.
"Hmph! A little trick!"
The fox demon changed its claws into hands, dodged the air blade, and actually took on Chi Yanzi's move directly. Then it turned around and took advantage of the gap in the move to hit him in the chest with a palm.
Chi Yanzi had no way to dodge and was hit by the palm. He felt a pain in his chest and took a few steps back.
"Master! I'm here to help you!"
A flash of sword light passed by, and the fox demon retreated hastily, only to see a fair-faced young man standing in front of him.
"It's you again! You're a defeated general, yet you dare to come and seek death!"
"Shut up, you monster! Give my sister back to me!"
Liu Xia used the willow-pointing-the-moon move to stab the fox demon, and Chi Yanzi also leaped up, taking a deep breath, and moved forward with a hand seal.
While the three were fighting, Long Qi quietly came to Lingxiang and wanted to take her away.
"Don't worry about me. I can't escape. Go up quickly and fight with these two while you retreat."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Am I going to leave you here to die?" As he said that, he picked up Lingxiang and walked towards the cave entrance.
"We agreed when we came here that we would rescue you first and then make long-term plans."
While the fox demon was fighting with the two men, he discovered that someone was trying to escape with Lingxiang.
"Ha! What a good trick!"
He turned around and instantly moved behind Liu Xia, slapped him on the back, then instantly came in front of Chi Yanzi and used his martial arts to knock him away.
However, in the blink of an eye, both of them were seriously injured and passed out.
Long Qi turned his back to the fox demon, unaware of the danger. Just as he was about to step out of the courtyard, he was swept by the demonic wind. He hurriedly protected Lingxiang, turned his body, and hit his back against the wall.
The fox demon looked at the unconscious Long Qi, grabbed Lingxiang's neck and lifted her up.
"How dare you, a mere mortal, think of snatching someone from me? How dare you, ..."
When Long Qi was hit, Lingxiang secretly took a deep breath, took out a pill from her Qiankun bag and held it in her hand, and made a gesture with her left hand, ready to go.
It happened in a flash. She tried her best and, while the fox demon was talking, she put the pill into his mouth and activated it with the seal of her left hand.
"Stop making noise and causing trouble!"
We've already started fighting, yet you're still talking so much!
The fox demon hadn't finished speaking when he suddenly felt a churning in his throat. When he came to his senses, he was filled with rage and exerted force with his hands, wanting to take Lingxiang's life.
Lingxiang used her right hand to pinch the Bolang Jue to resist hard, and her left hand was still activating the elixir. However, she was injured and exhausted, and gradually sank into chaos.
The fox demon also felt powerless in his hands, his body became soft as water, and he fell asleep instantly.
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When Lingxiang opened her eyes, she saw four women on a stage, wearing revealing clothes and dancing erotically. She looked around and found that it was a brothel.
"This fox is really not a good thing!"
She thought she was going to be killed by the fox demon, but she didn't expect the Huimeng Pill to take effect so quickly.
In this case, the three people should be able to be saved.
The so-called Dream-Returning Pill uses the power of the pill to bring the practitioner into the dream of the person taking the pill, so as to know what the person taking the pill has in mind.
Originally, this pill was used to cure heart disease or dispel nightmares, but unexpectedly it could also save lives.
Although it is a medium-grade pill, people will still fall into a coma for two or three days after taking it. As for this fox, although it has some cultivation, it is still a beast after all, so it may also be in a coma for three or four days.
There's no way to get out for the time being, so let's see what the fox demon has in mind and why he kidnapped the woman and ruined the man's marriage.
But why did this fox come to this brothel? Could it be that he fell in love with the girls here?
Just when Lingxiang was puzzled, she saw the madam and a few burly men go up to the second floor, enter a room, and soon drag a man downstairs.
After a closer look, isn't this the fox demon? Why is he so beaten up and covered in wounds? I almost didn't recognize him.
Lingxiang hurriedly followed, only to see several big men dragging him out of the door, and the madam spat on the ground.
"You are such a good fellow, Wu Yuan. You have no money but you still think about my girl Chunhua. You still say that you are deeply in love with her! I'm telling you! This is a brothel! If you had done all the matchmaking and betrothal, I would have let you call me mom. But with your shabby yard with nothing in it, you still want to have sex with me under the moonlight. You're just dreaming! A poor scholar, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
After saying that, he turned around and went in to entertain others.
It turns out that the fox demon's name is Wu Yuan. But he is obviously a human, how could he become a demon, and how could his demonic power be so strong?
While Lingxiang was wondering, the scene around her flashed by and changed. "Yuanlang, Chunhua admired your talent, but we are not destined to be together. I'm afraid we can't be together in this life."
"Miss Chunhua, please don't be like this. You and I love each other and have a lot in mind. If we can make it, we will definitely live together until old age." As he said this, he seemed to have made a great decision, "Just wait for me patiently for two days. When I sell the old house, we will leave here and find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and become a pair of immortal lovers."
Ugh~ Such sour words made Lingxiang shiver. Just when she felt nauseous, the surrounding scene flashed by again.
In the forest, I saw a man and a woman carrying bags and running forward in a panic.
"Yuan Lang... I can't run anymore... Let me take a break..."
"Okay... We've been running around for a whole day. The market must not be open yet, so they probably don't know about what's going on between us." Wu Yuan said as he helped Chunhua sit down.
Chunhua took out a water bag and handed it to Wu Yuan, saying, "You've been running for a long time, and your mouth must be dry. Drink some tea to moisten your throat."
"You drink first." Wu Yuan's face was full of heartache and he handed the water bag back to her.
"I still have some. In case it's not enough, I prepared two bags." Chunhua said, taking out another bag of water from the package.
"You are very thoughtful."
After resting for a while, Wu Yuan tried to help Chunhua up, but he couldn't get up. Then he saw Chunhua foaming at the mouth, covering his stomach with his hands, curled up on the ground, looking extremely painful.
At this time Chunhua stood up.
"Oh~ I didn't expect you to be such a lovesick person. I almost don't want to kill you."
"Why... do... this... to... me..." Wu Yuan asked with his eyes wide open, trying hard to squeeze out these few words from between his teeth.
"Why? Haha~ Then I'll be kind today and let you die knowingly." Chunhua said, and sat down next to Wu Yuan who was twitching continuously.
"I was originally a daughter of an official, but my whole family was exiled because my father committed a crime against the emperor. I used to live a life of luxury, but my life fell from grace and I was forced to become a court prostitute. Do you know how miserable that was? I was finally pardoned and released after winning a battle, but was then sold to a brothel by a corrupt officer, where I was forced to smile and sell my body all day long..." As she spoke, she brushed off her skirt and stood up.
"Ah~ These are all old things, let's not talk about them," Chunhua looked down at Wu Yuan, "I thought this was the only way for my life, but I didn't expect to meet you. You really think you are talented and knowledgeable, but you are just a pawn for me to escape from that hellhole. I finally made you fall in love with me, but you turned out to be a poor guy who didn't even have money to redeem myself. So I had to convince you to sell the old house and help me escape."
"I finally escaped, do I have to suffer with a poor boy like you for the rest of my life!" Chunhua said as she squatted down, took the package from Wu Yuan, turned around and left.
At this time, Wu Yuan's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at Chunhua as she walked away. He did not close his eyes until he took his last breath.
"I hate it so much... I hate it so much..."
At this time, Wu Yuan's voice was heard all around.
"My mother abandoned me, and you abandoned me too..."
So full of resentment.
"I hate... all the women in the world..."
At this time, the sun was setting, and a fox appeared from nowhere, carefully and tentatively came to Wu Yuan and sniffed him. When it smelled his face, it happened to inhale the resentment into its body along with his soul.
Oh~ Turns out it was born from resentment, no wonder it has such a strong power.
At this moment, everything around me suddenly stopped moving.
"What a yellow-haired girl! How dare you spy on my heart!"
Lingxiang turned around and saw the fox demon slapping her, but she was neither panicked nor dodged.
The fox demon slapped Lingxiang straight through her body.
Lingxiang sat down and said, "I am just a thought, not a soul, how could I let you hit me."
"What did you do to me!?" the fox asked angrily.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm just trying to save my life."
"Humph! It turns out that women in the world are all cunning!"
"Even a cunning rabbit with three burrows can be eaten by a fox. You, a fox with profound cultivation, are calling me cunning. It's simply hilarious."
The fox said nothing, just glared at Lingxiang.
"Alas, you are also a pitiful person. Why do you have to embarrass me? Look at me. I have been cultivating for many years but have not been able to break through. I am not even worthy of having a soul. I am forced to go down the mountain to sell medicine. Speaking of which, I am also quite pitiful."
"Don't talk nonsense in front of me! Quickly untie the spell!"
"I'm not stupid. I'm not asking you to wake up so I can kill me?" Lingxiang said, flicking her nails. "How about you sit down and have a good chat?"
"I have nothing to say to women!"
"Tsk tsk tsk! Look at what you said. Without women, there would be no men. Although I don't know why your mother abandoned you, she still gave birth to... uh... gave birth to you, didn't she?"
"Hmph! What nonsense!" Although the fox demon said this, he also sat down.
"Don't be angry. When the time comes, the spell will naturally end. You beat me like that, and I may not be able to survive until then. When a dying man is about to die, his words are good. Just listen to me. Not all women are like the ones you met in your life. It's just your bad luck. Maybe it's the sins you committed in your previous life, and the judge has recorded it. It's a debt you must pay back in this life."
"Humph! You're still talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense. The young lady of the Liu family whom you captured is a good girl. If you don't believe me, you can ask her yourself after the spell is solved."
"What does this mean?"
"Then Miss Liu was not taken away from the Liu Mansion, right?"
"So what?"
"It's not that great. Even if I tell you, you may not believe it. It would be better if you go and ask in person when the time comes, and then you will be more convinced." Lingxiang looked up at the still falling leaves, "Remember to burn more paper money for me every year on this day. That's all I want."
"By the way, are you a ghost or a demon now?"
(End of this chapter)
