"I'll take care of this scumbag now to prevent him from causing further trouble." Leng Yue said, preparing to kill Wei He with a single blow.

"No!" Nine-Tailed Fox suddenly stopped her. Leng Yue almost lost control of her hand, turned to look at her, and asked with a puzzled expression, "Why?"

"I... I can't really explain it, but I just feel like I'll regret killing him..." Nine-Tails stammered, her face pale. She clearly wanted to kill this scumbag too, so why did this happen to her?

Leng Yue looked at Qian Chen, "What should we do?"

Qianchen held Jiuwei in his arms, glanced at Lengyue one last time, and after a moment of contemplation, said, "Let's spare his life. From now on, let Jiuwei decide his fate!"

Leng Yue nodded. "Alright."

"Let's go." Qian Chen said, throwing out his flying sword and leaping onto it. Leng Yue followed closely behind, and their flying swords rose into the air. Only Wei He remained lying on the ground, motionless, as if he were dead.

"Why did you stop me just now?" Leng Yue took the Nine-Tailed Fox and sighed softly.

Nine-Tails hesitated for a moment, "I don't know, I just feel like there's a voice in my heart telling me to protect him... It's strange, isn't it, since I hate people like that so much!"

"Let nature take its course," Leng Yue said, no longer pursuing the matter. "Perhaps this is the power of bloodline?"

The return journey seemed to pass quickly, but before they even landed, they discovered flames soaring into the sky. They sheathed their flying swords, only to find the bamboo forest ablaze, their thatched hut engulfed in flames, and their home burned down…

"This is..." Leng Yue didn't have time to think further and immediately used magic to extinguish the fire. The area was full of bamboo forests, and a single mishap could start a wildfire, causing incalculable damage. Therefore, their immediate priority was to put out the fire.

Qianchen didn't say much. He and Lengyue tacitly cast spells, the two of them summoning water to extinguish the fire, while one of them used ice crystals to create an isolation zone. Soon, the fire was brought under control.

After the fire was extinguished, the group arrived at the thatched hut, only to find that it had been reduced to ashes.

"My home... is gone again..." Nine-Tails stared blankly at everything before her, muttering to herself, "Why? Why can't I have a home of my own? Why can't I keep anything I care about? The people I love, the people who love me, everything I care about, will God only be satisfied when it takes everything away from me?"

"Nine-Tailed Fox?" Leng Yue realized something was wrong and quickly hugged Nine-Tailed Fox. "Wake up, Daddy and Mommy are here. Don't think nonsense."

"Gu Chen is so ruthless, he took everything from me..."

"Is it acceptable to remove my heart in order to cure his loved one's illness?"

"Why should I? I want to live too! I don't want to die, I still have people I care about!"

"No, no, no, they're all gone! Dad, Mom, and Sister, they're all gone..."

"So cruel. He was so cruel, so cruel, all for my heart..."

Nine-Tails was clearly possessed, and its spiritual power was beginning to go berserk. Leng Yue watched as Nine-Tails was about to explode from the onslaught of its rampaging spiritual power, her heart filled with anxiety.

"Nine-Tailed Fox, wake up! Do you still want revenge?" Leng Yue couldn't help but shake Nine-Tailed Fox, hoping she would come to her senses.

"Get revenge! What kind of skill is it to hurt yourself like this? If you're so capable, go back and take revenge on that scumbag!" Seeing that Jiuwei's confused expression had changed slightly, Leng Yue pressed on.

"You can't give up. Are you just going to give up like this?"

"Think about your family, the suffering they've endured, they're still waiting for you to go back and change their fate!"

"Nothing is set in stone yet, there is still hope. You can't back down!"

………………………………

Leng Yue said a lot of things, good and bad, and finally saw that Jiuwei's expression became more and more determined. The rampant spiritual power on its body gradually stabilized into a ball, but this ball of spiritual power was still surging. Jiuwei's body was shrouded in a huge ball of light.

"..." Leng Yue wanted to say something, but Qian Chen pulled her over and said softly, "Don't disturb her. What happens next depends entirely on her own fate..."

"What should we do?" Leng Yue looked at Qian Chen anxiously, wanting to help, even if it was just to do something small for her.

"No, we can only watch from the sidelines." Qianchen also wanted to help Jiuwei, but some things are simply not allowed.

After an unknown amount of time, the sphere of light on the Nine-Tails' body began to shrink, gradually condensing into the size of a small bullet. This tiny bead was crystal clear and radiant.

Even if Leng Yue and Qian Chen wanted to cover it up, it would be difficult. "It seems there will be new rumors circulating here tomorrow?" Leng Yue smiled bitterly. The fox demon's eating of people hadn't even stopped yet, and now it was emitting light at night, enough to spread new gossip in the streets.

"We should also go to Qingqiu or Kyoto later." After this, they will visit Qingqiu and Kyoto again.

"The light disappeared?" Leng Yue watched as the dazzling little bead disappeared into the Nine-Tailed Fox's dantian.

Before Qianchen could reply, seven more tails appeared behind the Nine-Tailed Fox.

"Is the Nine-Tails really the Nine-Tails?" Leng Yue was so excited that her words became a tongue twister. While Leng Yue was still in surprise, the Nine-Tails' body also changed. The nine tails disappeared, and it instantly transformed from a loli into a young girl, dressed in a light green ancient costume, stunningly beautiful, practically a carbon copy of Bi Luo.

After the Nine-Tailed Fox finished its transformation, it gently descended from mid-air, its jade feet standing ten centimeters off the ground, with a pair of bells wrapped around its ankles swaying in the wind and making a crisp "ring ring ring" sound.

"Where did this bell come from?" Leng Yue was completely bewildered. How could she transform and then conjure up something different? What kind of nonsense was this?

"I'm totally confused too!" Qianchen was also seeing this for the first time. Even though he had been a ghost cultivator and had become Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, he still didn't quite understand this kind of operation.

"How can we still call this girl our daughter?" Leng Yue looked at Jiuwei's girlish face and was at a loss. She had the face of an eighteen-year-old, while Jiuwei had the face of a young girl. The two of them looked like sisters no matter how you looked at them together.

“You’re overthinking it,” Qianchen shook his head helplessly. He knew that Lengyue would always go astray whenever she considered a problem.

"What's wrong with me?" As she spoke, Nine-Tails opened her eyes and looked at Qian Chen and Leng Yue with seriousness. "What just happened to me?"

"What else happened?" Leng Yue walked up to Jiuwei, tapped her forehead, and said irritably, "You almost scared us to death just now, thank goodness you're alright!"

"Mother, why have you gotten shorter?" Nine-Tailed Fox looked at Leng Yue and realized that Leng Yue and Qian Chen's height had shrunk.

“You’ve grown bigger.” Leng Yue waved her hand, and a water mirror appeared in front of the Nine-Tailed Fox. “Here, take a look for yourself.”

Nine-Tails looked over and saw the water mirror shimmering, but the person inside was clearly visible. She had transformed into a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl!

Nine-Tails covered her face, looking at Qian Chen and Leng Yue, "I... how did I become like this?"

"Your spiritual power suddenly went berserk, and after it stabilized, it turned out like this." That was all Qianchen could tell her; he knew nothing more.