Chapter 52: Demon Bone Healing I promise, from now on, you will be the only fox...

Xie Yunqing's heart softened when he saw her look, so he had to follow her wishes and gently stroked the bone surface with his fingertips, feeling its temperature gradually rising in his hands.

A faint trace of his own demonic power slowly seeped into his meridians through the gaps between his fingers.

This time, the demonic energy entering his body wasn't as violent and jarring as last time, causing him immense discomfort. Instead, it felt quite comfortable, like a gentle stream, quietly soothing his damaged meridians.

"How is it? Do you feel better?" Shen Wenji stared at his face nervously, even breathing became cautious.

Xie Yunqing closed his eyes, the demon bone in his palm turned into powder, and he felt the power flowing through his body. The severe pain in his abdomen seemed to have really eased.

He opened his eyes, the fatigue in them vanishing. He smiled and said, "It worked. I can feel my wounds healing."

Shen Wenji breathed a sigh of relief, blinked his sore eyes, raised his hand, and wanted to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, but the person in front of him gently grasped his wrist.

Xie Yunqing took her hand and placed his cheek against her palm, rubbing it gently, his fingertips brushing against her knuckles: "I'm so glad I have you."

She smiled, moved closer, rested her forehead against his, and whispered, "Don't worry, I'll definitely find a way to get you out. Elder Zhang already knows I'm in the Demon Realm, and she'll bring people from the Hehuan Sect to support us."

Xie Yunqing shook his head: "No, the Demon Realm is dangerous, we can't let the people of the Hehuan Sect take risks."

He clenched Shen Wenji's hand and said, "What the demons want is the support of the Hehuan Sect. If you come here, you will fall into their trap."

"I do have a plan. Why don't we pretend to surrender and infiltrate the demon tribe? We can first find out their plans and then make our own plans."

Shen Wenji nodded. Her eyes swept over the completely shattered demon bone powder on the ground, and she asked with a sense of loss, "Little fox... is it really gone?"

"Don't you really hate it?" Xie Yunqing paused, as if remembering something, and asked casually, "Before, you were clamoring to skin it and eat its meat, but now you feel sorry for it?"

"I was just trying to scare it." Shen Wenji lowered his eyelashes. "The little fox is quite cute. It's a little hard to let go, right? Will I really never see it again?"

"Silly girl." Xie Yunqing saw the disappointment that could not be hidden in her eyes. He raised his hand and gently pinched her cheek, his voice becoming softer: "It has always been there. It was originally transformed from my demon bones. It is one with me. How could it really disappear?"

Shen Wenji's eyes were full of joy, but his tone was a little complaining: "Why didn't you say it earlier? You made me sad for so long."

"If it sees you worrying about it, it will definitely lift its tail proudly."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Wenji blinked and asked, "Can I see it then?"

"I can't see it now. My demonic power can't condense its appearance." Xie Yunqing held his forehead helplessly.

Shen Wenji began to feel depressed: “Oh, okay.”

Xie Yunqing sighed, and a layer of light red mist suddenly appeared around him. When the mist dissipated, a pair of furry red fox ears quietly emerged from his head.

The tips of his ears were a little pink and shook slightly. The next second, a fluffy fox tail hung down behind him.

The tip of its flexible tail swept across the straw on the ground, and then climbed up Shen Wenji's wrist. The fur swirled and scratched her palm.

Xie Yunqing's ears turned red. He snorted softly and stuttered, "I, I am also a fox."

Shen Wenji was puzzled: "So?"

"Since I can't touch the little fox, why not... touch the big fox in front of me?"

Xie Yunqing leaned down and looked at her seriously. The fox ears on his head stood up, and the inside of his earlobes were slightly red.

"We are one. If you touch me, you are touching it."

Shen Wenji couldn't suppress the smile on his face, his eyes lit up instantly, and he couldn't bear it for a moment, so he stretched out his palm, gently grabbed the fox ears on his head, and touched the soft fur on them with his fingertips.

"Really? It even feels better. Yours is the most comfortable fox ear I've ever touched."

Who understands? This kind of fox that doesn't struggle at all and allows itself to be petted is something you only see once in a century!

Hearing her words, Xie Yunqing's face instantly turned cold, and even the fox ears on his head drooped.

He lowered his eyebrows and carefully considered his words: "Have you touched many foxes?"

Shen Wenji was stunned: "???"

Hey, are you being reasonable? She's not a three-year-old child. She's been traveling all over the country for so many years, what kind of spirit pets hasn't she seen?

Foxes are the most common spiritual pets in the world of immortal cultivation. There are dozens of them in the Hehuan Sect alone. How could you not have touched one?

Seeing that she didn't say anything, which seemed to indicate her agreement, Xie Yunqing turned his head away and stopped looking at her.

Shen Wenji was angry and amused: "Be reasonable, I can't lie to you. I dare to say that I haven't touched it, do you dare to believe it?"

"I believe you. I believe everything you say. Why don't you coax me?"

The fluffy fox tail sweeping across her skin, coupled with the deliberately misleading words, was very foul.

Shen Wenji was silent. She had no other tricks. Despite this, her fingers were not idle. She couldn't help but hold the fox's tail tightly and began to touch it.

Just kidding, who can resist stroking the tail that is right in front of you?

Xie Yunqing didn't struggle this time. Instead, he lowered his head and moved closer to meet her eyes. His voice was full of temptation: "Are you satisfied with having a fox like me?"

Shen Wenji nodded and ran his fingertips up along the fox tail.

Xie Yunqing panted softly, grabbed her hand, and said suggestively: "My little master, don't you have anything you want to tell me?"

"I promise that from now on, you are the only fox. I won't touch other foxes, let alone even look at them."

Shen Wenji looked at him with a smile and said teasingly, "Are you satisfied now, little vixen?"

"Yeah." Xie Yunqing pretended to be calm, nodded slightly, and let go of her hand, but his trembling ears still revealed his inner panic.

Shen Wenji took the opportunity to pinch the trembling fox ears and said with a stern face: "But I am not satisfied. You didn't let me touch it just now. I was very angry."

Xie Yunqing's ears turned red when she touched him, and his fox tail unconsciously wrapped around her waist. He said with a smile: "Then I will let you touch me now, as long as it can make you happy."

She gently scratched the inside of the fox's ears with her fingertips, and seeing Xie Yunqing's ears getting redder and redder, she couldn't help laughing out loud.

Xie Yunqing was shy and silent, and angrily retracted his fox ears.

Shen Wenji grabbed his arm and asked in surprise, "Didn't you say you could touch me casually?"

"snort."

"Don't take it, please, let me touch it for a while longer."

“…”

While the two were bickering, a very unpleasant interruption came from outside the house.

Mo Cang said frivolously, "Brother and sister-in-law are having a pleasant chat, but it's time to leave. The Demon Lord has something to tell you."

The smile in Xie Yunqing's eyes gradually faded, and the fox characteristics on his body were quietly covered up by him, and he returned to his cold appearance.

He held onto the wall and struggled to stand up. Shen Wenji quickly reached out to help him, and the two of them leaned on each other and walked out of the hut.

Mo Cang leaned against the pillar of the corridor, looking at their tightly clasped hands. A sinister look flashed in his eyes, but he quickly changed it into a playful smile: "Brother, you are in a good mood. You can't even protect yourself, but you still want to be intimate with your sister-in-law."

He took two steps closer and his eyes fell on Xie Yunqing's pale face.

His tone was filled with undisguised sarcasm. "But don't be so delusional, brother. So what if you're favored by the Demon Lord? The Demon Lord position won't be passed down to a scumbag with impure blood. With your mixed bloodline, you're not even worthy of entering the Demon Realm, let alone competing for a position."

"The position of Demon Lord will only be mine."

Xie Yunqing was not interested in this position in the first place, so he ignored him and just protected Shen Wenji and moved forward.

Mo Cang refused to give in and wanted to use Shen Wenji to disgust Xie Yunqing.

So, he used a very ambiguous tone: "Wen Ji, look at him now. He can't even protect himself, how can he protect you? Why don't you come with me? Just hand over the Tianque Bell to me, and you will be the only Demon Queen. I promise to let you enjoy all the honors, which is a hundred times better than following him."

As he expected, Xie Yunqing finally reacted. His face quickly turned cold and he stared at Mo Cang grimly.

Shen Wenji paused and raised his eyes with disdain: "Son, there is no need to say more. Who I choose is none of your business. Even if you are all demons, I will only choose him and will never follow you."

"Wherever Xie Yunqing is, I will be there. Saint Son, please don't worry too much."

The smile on Mo Cang's face completely disappeared, and his eyes were gloomy: "Good, very good. What a loving couple you are. I am increasingly looking forward to your miserable end."

He turned around and waved his sleeves: "Come with me, the Demon Lord asked me to take you to see the consequences of disobeying in the Demon Realm."

Shen Wenji and Xie Yunqing looked at each other and followed tacitly.

After passing through several dark and damp corridors, a huge black iron door appeared in front of me. From behind the door came bursts of shrill screams, mixed with a strong smell of blood.

Mo Cang pushed open the iron door, and a biting chill hit him in the face.

Behind the door was an empty purgatory. The ground was covered with black chains, and countless figures were tied to the chains, including demon cultivators and monster cultivators, but the majority of them were disciples of immortal sects.

Shen Wenji's eyes swept across the crowd, and when she paused, she saw her eldest brother chained to a stone pillar.

He was covered in wounds, unconscious, and even the rise and fall of his chest was very weak.

Shen Wenji looked carefully and found that his body was covered with wounds, many of which were old wounds that were difficult to heal, but the eldest brother she saw today clearly had no wounds.

Two senior brothers? Could this be some strange magic from the demon clan?

Glancing to the side, he saw a woman in a blood-red dress tied to another stone pillar not far from the eldest brother.

Her hair was disheveled, but it couldn't hide her beautiful face. Shen Wenji recognized her at a glance. This person was Su Tengyue.

The demon clan's saintly maiden is also in Purgatory? Is the demon lord so cruel to his own children?

Shen Wenji restrained his expression and asked nonchalantly, "Is the Demon Saint also imprisoned here?"

Mo Cang couldn't hide his surprise. He laughed and said, "I thought... you would care about your senior brother first."

"I didn't expect that my sister would make you miss her so much."

He sneered: "But she looks like this because of you."

He walked up to Su Tengyue and kicked the stone pillar with his toes.

"This demon saint not only failed to kidnap you, but also lost the Tianque Bell. She messed up the Demon Lord's plan, so she can only stay here and reflect on her mistakes."

"Wen Ji, you want to save her? Why don't you just hand over the Tianque Bell?" Mo Cang arched his brows and said good-naturedly, "I can plead with the Demon Lord to release her early."

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