Chapter 58: Fox Girl Treasure

Sang Ying hurriedly put a transformation talisman on herself, and with a "poof," she transformed into a little fox.

She felt extremely embarrassed when she remembered what happened last night, and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into. She scratched at herself with her paws and buried her head completely in the fox's tail.

Damn it, she only wanted to drink to bolster her courage, why did it turn out like this?

The fox's tail tip was tugged by a cool, gentle fingertip, and a clear voice, tinged with a faint smile, landed on its head, "Junior Sister, are you burying your head in the sand?"

Hearing his voice, Sang Ying felt her ears burning even hotter, remembering how he had whispered "baby" in her ear. That wretched lecherous dragon! He'd used that method to coax her into a shameless night of cultivation, and now her back ached.

Although she really liked hearing that, how could she say it out loud? It was so embarrassing.

Sang Ying buried her head deep in the fox's tail and pretended to be dead, remaining silent even when he called out.

After a while, her body suddenly felt light as she was lifted off the bed and instantly fell into an embrace filled with the scent of sandalwood.

The young man lifted her up with both hands. Sang Ying hurriedly looked up and met a pair of dark, deep eyes that reflected the fine light like stars, making them exceptionally beautiful.

He asked in a calm and unhurried tone, "Junior sister, are you turning your back on me after sleeping with me?"

Sang Ying's fox ears twitched, and she stubbornly denied it, saying, "What are you talking about? I was drunk and don't remember what happened last night."

If she hadn't turned into a fox and pretended to be dead the moment she saw him, her words would have been somewhat believable. But as she is now, it's clear she's just faking it.

Xie Lingyu said calmly, "That's true. It's normal for my junior sister to forget what happened since she doesn't drink alcohol."

Upon hearing this, Sang Ying's fox ears relaxed and drooped down. Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she suddenly heard the young man's slow, deliberate voice fall.

"Since Junior Sister has forgotten, let's do what we did last night again. It'll help her remember..."

As he spoke, he moved closer to her little fox face, about to kiss her. Sang Ying was so frightened that her two fox ears perked up instantly. She raised her paws to block his face and blurted out in a panic, "No need to remember, I remember!"

The young man gazed at her with his dark eyes, "Junior Sister, are you sure you remember everything?"

Sang Ying nodded her head like a chick pecking at rice. She breathed a sigh of relief when he stepped back, then said with a mixture of embarrassment and anger, "How could you not even spare a fox, you pervert!"

Xie Lingyu took her little paw into her palm, squeezed it, and glanced at her. "What's so strange about that? Junior sister, have you forgotten that I am a demon?"

"And if my junior sister turns into a fox, she's no longer my junior sister?"

Sang Ying was about to argue with him when she suddenly noticed his eyes. Unlike yesterday's listless gaze, his dark eyes were now bright and clear. And if she wasn't mistaken, it seemed like he had turned his eyes to look at her?

Sang Ying raised her little paw and pressed it against his face, blinking her eyes. "Xie Lingyu, can you see now?"

Her response was a soft "hmm".

Sang Ying became happy, "How was it restored? Did the Immortal Alliance develop an antidote? When was it restored? You couldn't have seen it yesterday, could you, Xie Lingyu—"

The young man chuckled softly, took her little fox paw, and pressed it to the corner of her eye, gently stroking it with his fingertips. His beautiful dark eyes were fixed on her: "It's like this..."

“Last night you were thirsty, and when I picked you up to drink water, I noticed that you could see light. After cultivating for another half an hour, your vision was still blurry, but you could still see outlines. By the time you finished cultivating, you could see clearly.”

Sang Ying twitched her fox ears, the tips turning red. "Why do you talk like you're doing the restoration together with me..."

Suddenly realizing what she was saying, she slapped his face with her little paw and snorted loudly, "Do I look like an idiot? Don't think I didn't see through you. You're just trying to trick me into cultivating with this excuse."

Xie Lingyu kissed her little fox paw, "I'm not lying to you this time. I've discovered these past few days that what's affecting my body is something similar to elemental spiritual energy. I've tried many times to expel this thing, but I haven't been able to."

“During our cultivation last night, this substance was absorbed by your body along with our joint cultivation.”

Sang Ying blinked, even more puzzled: "But I don't feel anything wrong, my eyes are fine."

She frowned slightly: "But my stomach feels sore and cramped. Could this be one of the symptoms?"

"No, it's because I kissed you a little too roughly last night."

Sang Ying's ears instantly turned bright red, and her eyes trembled.

Xie Lingyu was also somewhat helpless. She put her down and held her on her lap, placing her palm on her soft belly and gently rubbing it to relieve her discomfort. "I originally wanted to be gentle, but you got drunk and acted recklessly, wanting to finish everything, so I lost control for a moment."

Sang Ying: "..."

Sang Ying silently covered her head with her fox tail.

"But I cleaned it up for you last night and applied some medicine, so you shouldn't be injured. Is your stomach just uncomfortable, or is there any other pain?"

After a while, a soft, muffled voice came from under the fox's tail: "My arms and legs are so sore too."

Xie Lingyu held her, gently massaging her little paws with her fingertips, and continued the previous topic: "I checked you, and after you absorbed those things, the fire spirit root in your body underwent some changes."

Sang Ying was confused; what changes had occurred that she hadn't noticed?

Sang Ying closed her eyes and delved into her spiritual sense to examine it closely. She saw some gray mist surrounding the fire spirit root, shimmering with tiny lights.

Normally, one should guard against and try every means to expel foreign objects from the body, but now the two sides are getting along very harmoniously, and there are even signs of merging.

Sang Ying opened her eyes, tore off the talisman and turned back into a human. Forgetting that she was still sitting in his arms, she quickly turned around and looked at him nervously with wet eyes.

"Xie Lingyu, it's already about to invade my spiritual root, am I going to die?"

"Finally decided to change back?"

Xie Lingyu chuckled, shifted the position of the person in his arms, letting her lean against him, and gently massaged her lower abdomen with his palm, continuing, "Junior Sister, do you know what types of elemental spiritual power there are?"

Why would they suddenly test her with general knowledge questions? Sang Ying was puzzled but answered honestly: "Metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Cultivators' spiritual roots are also classified according to these, giving rise to mutated ice spiritual roots and the like."

Sang Ying thought for a moment, "Oh right, there's also the lightning element, but that's just a legend. No one has ever seen the lightning element in spiritual energy, nor has anyone ever seen a cultivator with a lightning spiritual root."

As she spoke, Sang Ying seemed to understand something, her eyes widening slightly: "You mean this thing is lightning element?"

Xie Lingyu rested his chin on her hair, holding her tightly in his arms, and said slowly, "These days I went to the ancient ruins of the Dragon Clan to find some ancient documents. One of the broken stone tablets recorded that at the beginning of the birth of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, there were these six elemental spiritual powers in the spiritual energy."

"But the lightning element is too domineering. It will enter the body along with other elemental spiritual power. This element will burn every part of the body's flesh and meridians every moment, starting from the most vulnerable eyes, and slowly until finally even every blood vessel in the body will be burned black, causing countless deaths and injuries."

Sang Ying was taken aback and frowned. Blindness... the symptoms matched.

This explains why they couldn't detect anything unusual and therefore couldn't "detoxify" it, since it was originally part of the spiritual energy.

"Then what?"

"Later, the Heavenly Dao separated this element from the spiritual energy and sealed it in the clouds and mist, waiting for the right time to emerge."

Sang Ying understood, "This is... the Heavenly Tribulation?"

Xie Lingyu nodded, "That's right."

Now you can understand why everyone went blind after absorbing just a little lightning element. Everyone knows how powerful and terrifying the Heavenly Tribulation is, and countless cultivators have died under it.

Inhaling lightning element now is equivalent to dismantling heavenly lightning and putting it into the body, burning it every moment. How can those fragile organs in the body withstand it?

Sang Ying raised her head and bumped his chin. "Then what about me? I'm not blind, and I don't feel any discomfort."

"Because my junior sister has a lightning spiritual root."

Sang Ying stared blankly, blinking for a long time. "But I've tested the spirit stones several times, and they all say I have no spiritual root."

Everyone said she had no talent for cultivation, not even the worst of the five spiritual roots.

Xie Lingyu cupped her face in her hands, "The Spirit Inquiry Stone can only detect the five existing elemental powers, and cannot detect the lightning spiritual root. The reason why Junior Sister has been unable to cultivate all these years is because there is no lightning element in the spiritual energy."

Even with the best talent, how can one cultivate without elemental spiritual power?

Sang Ying looked down at her hands. She realized she actually had a lightning elemental root. Suddenly, she blinked, "I can absorb the lightning element from you, so I can absorb others' too, right? That way..."

A sudden pain shot through her neck as the young man bit her. His usually calm and composed voice was now tinged with anger as he coldly rejected her: "No."

Sang Ying asked curiously, "Why not..."

He pinched her cheek with his fingers, narrowed his eyes slightly, and his voice turned sinister: "Don't even think about cultivating with someone else."

Sang Ying was taken aback: "...Does it require joint cultivation to absorb?"

"The absorbed lightning element has penetrated deep into the body's internal organs, and naturally, it can only be absorbed through deep penetration, and it also takes time."

Sang Ying's ears turned red, and she shrank back against the cushion, whispering, "I know, I'll think of another way."

She was thinking that if she could absorb the energy, she could help her two senior brothers, but of course, she couldn't cultivate together with them.

Seeing that she had given up on the idea, Xie Lingyu stopped talking, but she was not completely at ease.

Junior sister is kind and soft-hearted. Right now, her two senior brothers are alright, but what if one day they are really in grave danger...? Xie Lingyu hugged her tightly and whispered, "You don't need to worry so much about your senior brothers. The Dragon Clan has made some progress and will find a solution."

Sang Ying nodded. Actually, once they figured out what this "poison" was, things would be much easier to solve.

Now that the medicine to suppress the flow of qi has been distributed, the situation is unlikely to worsen, and Sang Ying is somewhat relieved.

She raised her aching arm and started ordering him around again: "Xie Lingyu, I want to take a bath."

"good."

The young man picked her up and took her to the hot spring room. He walked past the jade-paved hot spring pool, picked some flower petals from the outside, and sprinkled them on the pool, where steam rose.

"You and I will soak together."

Xie Lingyu was somewhat surprised by these words. Why wasn't she shy today? He chuckled softly and was about to carry her into the water when the girl in his arms slowly took out a talisman, which transformed back into a little fox in the next second.

Xie Lingyu laughed, "So that's what Junior Sister was planning."

The little fox's clear eyes gleamed with cunning. She snorted softly, "What idea? It's just to prevent some lecherous dragon from doing bad things."

She still remembered everything that happened at the hot spring last time. Back then, he refrained from kissing her because she hadn't reached the Foundation Establishment stage yet. Now that he had no such reservations, he would definitely coax her into doing naughty things while they were bathing together.

She now sees through him; he's a black-hearted dragon, full of evil intentions, cunning and wicked.

“Junior sister, what I’m suggesting is indeed feasible, but there’s something I forgot to tell you.”

The young man held her as they leaned against the edge of the hot spring pool, speaking in a calm tone.

"What's up?"

As the hot spring water soaked her body, Sang Ying comfortably raised her head in surprise upon hearing this, only to find that the perspective in front of her had gradually changed from looking up to looking straight ahead.

Sang Ying: !!!

The water reflected the graceful figure of the young girl. Amidst the swirling mist, the young man's fingers rested on her lower back. Behind her, the fluffy, bright red fox tail swayed, and the fox ears on her head twitched in bewilderment.

He hooked his long, slender fingers around the fox's tail, pulled it to his front, and twirled it lightly with his fingertips. He chuckled softly, speaking slowly and deliberately.

"What should we do? It seems that my junior sister's remaining spiritual power is not enough to support the operation of the talisman."