Cheng Mei was taken aback upon hearing this.

"You poisoned Chu Lian with demonic poison!"

A soft, cold laugh.

"Your Majesty truly lives up to your reputation! You saw right through my thoughts!"

“That’s right, I poisoned Chu Lian with demonic poison! Your Majesty, as you know, every fox demon has a different constitution. Only the fox demon poisoned with demonic poison can be cured! Even if you are the Fox Demon King, you cannot cure this poison!”

"Your Majesty, you are someone I personally trained, how could I not have considered the possibility of such a situation!"

"I was killed by your palm strike, and right after that, that girl Chu Lian will be completely finished!"

"You don't want the Great Yuan Kingdom to be without an empress in the future, do you? Of course, Ye Mu can easily marry another woman to be his empress. However, whether this empress is recognized by the current emperor and whether Ye Mu truly loves her is another question!"

"Your Majesty, look at my plan, isn't it brilliant? You always say I lack wisdom, but right now, you really can't do anything to me!"

"That fox demon you looked down on the most actually has a time when he can give you trouble!"

"Seeing your ashen face, Your Majesty, makes me very happy!"

Cheng Mei stared at her with a livid face.

"Rou Mei, you who have committed many evil deeds will surely bring about your own downfall!"

"Your Majesty, please don't lecture me with these grand principles. From childhood to adulthood, you've always said that even demons shouldn't harm humans. But there's one thing! You've never considered that humans are thinking of killing us and skinning us alive. My beloved, ugh!"

"That fox demon I blindly fancied before, wasn't she killed by humans along with that bitch? That white fox pelt is still sitting in the Ye residence! Isn't that interesting?"

Cheng Mei sighed.

"They weren't killed by humans! I killed them."

Roumei was taken aback.

"What did you say? You killed him?!"

Why did you kill them?!

Roumei suddenly thought of something.

"Oh—now I understand, you like that bitch too!"

"You couldn't stand that bitch being pinned down by that scumbag fox, so out of jealousy, you killed him!"

Cheng Mei sat down helplessly.

He stared at her speechlessly.

"That's why I said you have no wisdom; you think about everything in terms of romance! It's really foolish!"

"The reason I killed them was because they had drained the vital energy of the two children. In order to save those two innocent children, I persuaded them to return the vital energy. This method of cultivating by absorbing vital energy is too cruel and should not harm the innocent!"

"But they wouldn't listen at all, and even called me a bastard reciting scriptures!"

"Of course I have to kill them and return the life force of those two children to them. Otherwise, if it gets too late, those two children will be beyond saving!"

"As for the hunter, I told him to say what I said!"

"Even after the hunter found out I was a fox demon, he didn't do anything to me!"

Roumei frowned slightly.

"I thought I was the only fox demon who would choose to cultivate in this way, but I didn't expect that bitch was the same as me!"

Cheng Mei's expression changed upon hearing this.

Roumei realized what was happening.

Isn't this indirectly saying that he himself is a despicable person?

"I don't care about others, but one thing I'm sure of is—"

"If I die tonight, then Chu Lian will die too!"

"Of course, there are ways to save her, you know that yourself!"

Cheng Mei nodded.

"The only way to save her is to use the Fox Demon King's inner core to detoxify her!"

"Yes! You old fool! I refuse to believe you'd be willing to give up your millennia of cultivation for a mere mortal woman!"

"You're incredibly foolish! You could have attained immortality, but you chose to give up that opportunity and continue being a demon!"

"Why do you care so much about the affairs of the fox demon realm? Who becomes the next fox demon king is none of your business. Why don't you just be a good god?"

"They're just bored and have nothing better to do!"

Cheng Mei sighed.

"You'll never understand what a sense of mission means!"

"Yes, yes, I don't understand! And I don't need to understand these things anyway. It's not my place as the Fox Demon King, given my relatively short experience!"

Cheng Mei glanced at Rou Mei.

"Do you know that if you continue to cultivate diligently, you could actually become the next Fox Demon King!"

Roumei was taken aback.

He then burst into laughter.

"Stop talking nonsense! Do you think I'd believe you?"

"You've criticized me in front of all the fox demons more than once, saying that I have the shallowest wisdom and that being able to transform into human form is already my limit!"

Cheng Mei sighed and said.

"That was to protect you, to prevent other fox demons from eyeing you covetously and trying to harm you. The demon core in your body was different from the moment you were born, just like bamboo."

"At first, it grows slowly, taking many years to break through the soil, but once it breaks through, it grows like crazy! In just one month, it can grow tens of meters tall!"

"This principle applies to you. When your demon core is cultivated to a certain level, it will break through the cultivation barrier and experience explosive growth!"

"But the fundamental premise of all this is that you have accumulated good deeds for yourself!"

"Everything you do must be done without any intention of harming others. The more you do this, the purer the demon core within you will be, and the higher the realm you can break through to! In the end, you might even surpass me!"

"But everything you do is imbuing your demon core with miasma! When the miasma accumulates to a certain level, you will transform into a complete demon, losing all your reason and never being able to take human form again, only able to survive as a demon!"

"A demon like this is hated by everyone, and demon hunters will certainly not let you go."

Roumei was so shocked by Chengmei's words that she couldn't speak for a long time!

"No way! No way! You're lying to me! I don't believe it!"

Cheng Mei said calmly.

"If you don't believe me, you can spit out your demon core and see!"

Roumei thought for a moment.

It immediately spat out the demon core.

Her demon core was originally pink.

But now, it has turned black.

It was shrouded in a thick layer of black mist.

"How could this be? Just a month ago, the demon core wasn't like this."

"Because you did evil deeds, your demon core will naturally be contaminated by the miasma!" Cheng Mei sighed.

"You're destined not to become the next Fox Demon King!"

"That position, perhaps Niannian can take."

Roumei was taken aback.

“Niannian? That ugly fox demon?! Impossible! Her tail was cut off after she was struck by lightning! Her cultivation is also below mine, how could she possibly be the Fox Demon King?”

"It's you! You old geezer, you gave her your cultivation, you helped her cultivate! You biased old geezer!!"