The next morning.

One after another, the doors to the meditation rooms were opened, and Li Molin, Liuli, and the other four people and three demons came out of the rooms.

The morning sunlight felt wonderfully comforting on her skin. Liuli stretched and yawned as she faced the rising sun, letting out a languid sigh.

Li Molin turned to look at Liuli, his gaze gentle, and asked, "Liuli, did you sleep well last night?"

"He's alright," Liuli replied calmly, then asked, "What about the monk?"

“In the woodshed.” Li Molin said, turning his gaze to Yu Ke, Ji Jue, and Lang Yuan. A look of doubt immediately appeared in his eyes. He frowned and asked, “Why are all three of you here? Who is watching that monk?”

Ji Jue's expression panicked. Yu Ke and Lang Yuan exchanged a questioning glance. Then, both Yu Ke and Lang Yuan looked at Ji Jue. Yu Ke hesitated and asked, "Ji Jue, why didn't you ask me to replace you?"

"I..." Ji Jue lowered his head, stammering and unable to speak.

Li Molin's eyes turned cold, and he said angrily, "Ji Jue, speak!"

Seeing this, Liuli was furious. She said in a cold voice, "Ge Yiyuan, go and check the woodshed!"

"Yes!" Ge Yiyuan responded and strode towards the woodshed.

A short while later, Ge Yiyuan walked to the outside of the woodshed and looked through the wide-open door. He then turned around and called out, "Miss, there's nothing there!"

Liu Li's gaze turned cold as she looked at Li Molin and asked, "Young Master Li, what's going on?"

"Lord Ji!" Li Molin said coldly, "What's going on?"

"Yes, yes..." Ji Jue lowered his head deeply like a child who had done something wrong, stammering but unable to say anything.

Li Molin's expression was unfriendly as he coldly asked, "Were you so sleepy that you didn't keep an eye on that monk?"

Ji Jue still couldn't say anything. Liu Li, standing to the side, gave a cold laugh and said in a deep voice, "If Young Master Li's men are unwilling to help me keep an eye on that monk, they can simply have Ge Yiyuan and Yu Xin watch over him. It's not like he'll escape!"

Upon hearing Liuli's words, Li Molin's gaze toward Ji Jue grew even more furious, turning extremely gloomy.

Ji Jue scratched his head and stammered, "It wasn't me, it was..."

"It was I who released that monk!" Suddenly, a crisp female voice rang out. Lingxi walked out of the meditation room step by step. She looked up at Liuli's direction and said, "It was I who tricked Ji Jue into going to sleep and then released that monk."

Lang Yuan glanced at Ling Xi, then at Li Molin's gloomy face and Liu Li's angry little face, and his expression changed.

Liuli stared coldly at Lingxi, then suddenly took out the Winged Spirit Whip without a word and lashed it at Lingxi's head.

At that time, Lingxi was not far from Liuli, and the incident happened suddenly. No one expected Liuli to make a move, so by the time everyone reacted, the long whip was already very close to Lingxi.

Wolf Yuan moved swiftly, turning around and kneeling in front of Lingxi, using his back to block the whip for her.

With a crisp "snap," even though Wolf Source, being a demon, was physically strong, his clothes were still torn to shreds by Liuli's furious strike. A bloody whip mark immediately appeared on his back, and blood seeped out, quickly staining his tattered clothes red.

"Please calm down, young lady!" After blocking the attack, Lang Yuan dared not linger. He turned to Liu Li and said in a deep voice, "Lang Yuan is willing to do everything in his power to bring that monk back to you, young lady. Please do not take your anger out on Ling Xi!"

“Lang Yuan…” Lingxi looked up at the whip marks on Lang Yuan’s shoulder, her eyes glistening with tears, and she seemed deeply moved.

Liuli's anger remained undiminished. She looked at Lingxi and coldly rebuked, "Why did you release that monk?"

Lingxi withdrew her gaze from Langyuan's back, took a few steps out from behind him, large tears welling up in her eyes and falling one by one. Her voice choked with sobs as she cried out, "Because I want that monk to awaken all the beautiful feelings in my sister's heart, I want my sister to return to the way she was before. I miss the sister I used to be so much, I hate the sister I am now!"

Upon hearing this, Lang Yuan's expression changed, Li Molin remained silent, and Liu Li was furious.

Liuli raised her long whip, about to strike again, while Langyuan moved his right hand to retaliate. Suddenly, Li Molin stopped Liuli and said in a deep voice, "That's enough, Liuli. It's my fault for the monk running away. I will help you catch him. Don't be angry."

"Hmph!" Liu Li snorted coldly and said in a chilling voice, "Today, I, Liu Li, will let it go for the sake of you, Young Master Li, but I hope that Young Master Li can keep a better eye on his subordinates in the future!"

Having said that, she sheathed her whip, flicked her sleeves, and walked toward the front hall, saying in a deep voice as she went, "Yu Xin, Ge Yiyuan, let's go!"

"Yes!" Yu Xin and Ge Yiyuan responded and hurriedly chased after Liuli.

"Young Master, what about us?" Yu Ke looked at Li Molin and asked hesitantly.

Li Molin looked at Liuli's angry back and followed her, sighing softly, "Let's go."

Yu Ke shook his head helplessly, turned to greet Lang Yuan, and asked in a low voice, "Lang Yuan, how are you?"

Lang Yuan shook his head and said, "I'm fine."

"Then let's go." Yu Ke glared at Ji Jue with an unfriendly expression and left first. Ji Jue shrank his neck and hurriedly chased after him.

Lingxi wiped away her tears with her bare hands and leaped onto Langyuan's shoulder. Her voice was still choked with emotion as she whispered, "Langyuan, thank you. Are you... alright?"

"It's alright," Lang Yuan replied calmly. The wolf demon's body possessed extremely strong healing abilities, and the wound on Lang Yuan's back had already stopped bleeding. He turned to look at Ling Xi, hesitated, then reached out to wipe away the tears on her face, and said gently, "Don't be sad."

"Okay." Lingxi lay down on Langyuan's broad shoulder and covered her little face with her two front paws.

Lang Yuan withdrew his gaze, which was full of pity, and saw that Yu Ke and Ji Jue had already walked far away. He quickly strode after them.

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From then on, Liuli continued to search for and cruelly murder lone monks throughout the Central Plains. Her whereabouts were unpredictable, so the people from the three temples who gathered to hunt her down could not find her at all. Often, by the time they rushed over after hearing the news of a monk's death, Liuli had already left.

The Buddhist disciples were extremely resentful but helpless. Under the orders of the temple's masters, none of the disciples dared to walk alone down the mountain anymore, and they rarely went down the mountain unless there was a reason.

Therefore, now, Liuli can no longer find any lone Buddhist disciples, nor can she find any disciples with higher cultivation levels. It is necessary to torture them until they become demonic and insane, and then throw them into the temple to watch them kill each other.

It was late summer, around the 30th of the sixth month, and Liuli had stayed on Fox Plain for three days.

Many years later, there is no more blood or white fox corpses on Fox Plain. The green grass has grown to more than a foot tall. When the wind blows, it bends the grass and reveals piles of rotten fox bones underneath.

Liuli sat silently on a low hill, quietly watching the scenery on Fox Plain.