Chapter 64: The Eunuch's Fox Pet
There are very few records of this part in the books of the Demon Suppression Bureau and in other handwritings of heavenly masters that Pei Duo has seen.
Some monsters would show strange symptoms on their bodies when they eat each other, but Pei Duo had never seen such a strange situation as the growth of three pairs of evenly distributed soft grains.
In order to check more carefully, Pei Duo touched the hair on Lin Zhi's back and sides, but did not find any strange bean-sized things growing on the skin.
Although Pei Duo's headache was slightly relieved by Lin Zhi's calming technique, his headache seemed to get worse again when faced with this difficult problem.
Pei Duo was worried that it might mutate. Now it was only the size of a small bean. What would he do if it grew bigger in the future?
Maybe when I meet Master Wu Chen later, I can ask him if he has ever seen such a situation.
Lin Zhi was concentrating on performing the spell. When he opened his eyes, he found Pei Duo looking at his abdomen inquiringly.
Not only did she push his hair aside, but her expression was also very solemn.
Lin Zhi took a deep breath and kept telling himself that he was a demon, not a human, and he had to stay calm.
"My Lord, what are you doing?"
Lin Zhi tried her best to hold back from saying this with gritted teeth, so as to avoid her character collapsing.
"Have you felt anything strange in your body recently?"
Pei Duo looked at the light pink soft grains on Lin Zhi's belly. One of them turned into a ripe red due to his exploratory rubbing, and it also seemed a little bigger than the others.
If it weren't for the sake of caution, Pei Duo might have tried to pinch it.
Lin Zhi looked at his expression and analyzed his actions. There was still something she didn't understand, and she found it quite absurd and funny.
The little fox shook his head, his purple eyes filled with confusion.
"Does it hurt here?"
The more serious Pei Duo's questions were, the more Lin Zhi wanted to laugh. She even couldn't wait to see Pei Duo's expression after he knew the truth.
"It hurts a bit because of the pinch from the master."
The little fox's clear boyish voice turned soft and aggrieved, and he even turned over as if to escape.
Pei Duo's hands were pressed under the furry fox, and there was a hint of confusion in his eyes.
Since it’s not a big deal, let’s wait and see.
At this moment, Pei Duo heard the little fox looking at him and said in a muffled voice: "But why are you pinching here, sir? I'm not a female fox, so there's no use for me here."
The straightforward little fox's voice was full of confusion and his purple eyes were full of curiosity.
Pei Duo's face showed a moment of surprise, and his expression became visibly stiff, but he immediately regained his composure.
Although his emotions were only exposed for a moment, for someone like Pei Duo, this emotion was already obvious enough.
Pei Duo rarely remained speechless, but at this moment, even if he racked his brains, he still had no idea what to say.
He didn't even think about that place when he discovered it, but now it seems very obvious. It's on the abdomen and has that color and shape. If Lin Zhi was a female fox, he would of course know that it was definitely a place for feeding young, but Lin Zhi is a male fox!
Male foxes actually have six, but if you think about it, isn’t it the same for humans too? Both women and men have six.
Pei Duo had never raised animals, let alone foxes which were rarely seen. Even if he was more talented than humans, he would not pay attention to this aspect.
Fortunately, he had not arrived at Fanjing Temple at this moment, and he did not ask Master Wuchen this stupid question, otherwise Pei Duo might not even be able to maintain a calm expression.
But at this moment, Pei Duo thought of the fox-eared boy on the bed next to the screen that day, and a rare feeling of shame and anger arose in his heart.
Although Lin Zhi is a fox and not a human, what difference does it make? If Lin Zhi turned into a human form now, the traces would be more obvious without the fur to cover them.
Pei Duo has never been one of those people who thinks about romance. Although he is not a real eunuch, he is more pure-hearted than a real eunuch. In addition, he has been in a high position for a long time and rarely does such stupid things. Therefore, he is not thinking about anything else now. He just feels a little headache.
Pei Duo's head hurt even more when he thought of Lin Zhiruo in human form, looking at him with a wronged and confused expression on her face.
Pei Duo hadn't realized at this time that, while he was thinking like this, he had quietly lost his aversion to Lin Zhi's human form.
Lin Zhi acted like a big-tailed fox with an innocent look on his face, but he couldn't help laughing in his heart.
Even 01 laughed loudly, and Lin Zhi was sure that it was a mockery.
Strictly speaking, Pei Duo is a fragment of the personality of 01's designer, but 01 still smiles very happily.
Pei Duo slowly pulled out his hand that was being pressed by the fox, rubbed his solar plexus and said, "The demon pill you refined half a month ago was obtained from a man-eating tiger demon. Although I processed it, it would be safer to check it again."
In this way, he lightly passed over the action just now, as if he had not made any joke at all.
Lin Zhi would never let him go so easily, so he turned his body over and lay flat on his back, saying in a voice without any doubt: "Then please check again, sir."
The little fox looked completely trusting, fearing that something might go wrong while he was refining the demon pill.
There was a look of hesitation in Pei Duo's eyes, which finally turned into a sigh in his heart.
It was good that Lin Zhi did not cause any misunderstanding, but the little fox was too defenseless and too easy to be fooled. The marks of being pinched had not disappeared yet, and its soft belly was exposed for people to take a closer look. There was no cunning of the fox clan at all.
Pei Duo didn't show it on his face, but he was frowning in his heart. Fortunately, the little fox was in his hands, and he didn't have that kind of thought. If it fell into the hands of someone with bad intentions, it would have been tortured long ago, let alone getting back half of his fox heart, which would make it easier for others to control it.
Since Pei Duo said to check, he endured the headache and really checked it out.
The demonic energy flowed through Lin Zhi's veins, and together with the beating half of his demon heart, it was holding him alive.
Although Pei Duo couldn't see the size of the demon pill in Lin Zhi's dantian, he could feel the existence of the demon pill, which proved that Lin Zhi was gradually recovering.
Pei Duo's eyes swept across the light red lines on Lin Zhi's abdomen, and when he swept below, he found some changes.
The pair of small bells seemed to have grown a little bigger, but the change was not very obvious. However, he had a good memory and compared them in his mind and confirmed that they were a little bigger.
It could be that his demonic power has recovered or he has grown up a little, or more likely it is because of his actions just now... In short, Pei Duo didn't say much and put the matter behind him.
"Recovering well."
Pei Duo ended the conversation with these words and closed his eyes and dozed off.
Lin Zhi didn't tease him anymore and cast a calming spell on him. She lay beside his hand and listened to the sound of the carriage running on the official road.
The door of Fanjing Temple had already been closed in the evening, and Pei Duo entered through the side door with ease.
The novice monk guarding the door saluted Pei Duo with his hands clasped together, and his expression paused for a moment on the fox on Pei Duo's shoulder.
Pei Duo nodded to him and walked in with Lin Zhi.
In Lin Zhi's sight, Fanjing Temple was shrouded in a layer of golden light, and evil spirits could not enter. Even the little ghosts with lower Taoism skills could easily be reduced to ashes.
He also had some resistance to this golden light in his heart, which came from the instinct of the monster's body.
Pei Duo seemed to have done something to him, allowing him to enter the temple safely without any resistance.
Pei Duo was led by the novice monk and stood at a small door on the other side of the temple.
The purple bamboo forest on the back mountain of Fanjing Temple is not allowed to be entered by pilgrims at will, and can only be reached through a door inside the temple.
Pei Duo walked into the door holding the fox. Under the moonlight, the air in the bamboo forest was clear and fresh, and the gentle breeze made people feel relaxed and happy, without any feeling of the stuffiness of the summer night.
Master Wuchen, wearing a cassock, is meditating on the platform, giving people an extremely distant sense of Zen.
Pei Duo approached Master Wuchen and saluted with his hands clasped together. Master Wuchen was eighty years old this year. His eyebrows and beard were all white, but his eyes were not cloudy, revealing a clear and bright mind.
"Donor Pei."
Master Wu Chen returned the gift, and his eyes fell on Lin Zhi with a peaceful look.
Lin Zhi squatted on Pei Duo's shoulder and imitated them. He stood up and put his two paws together to salute Master Wuchen.
Master Wu Chen laughed and returned the gift to the fox demon.
"Go ahead. I'll call you back when I'm leaving."
Pei Duo pinched the little fox's chubby palm and told him to go to the forest to practice.
Lin Zhi nodded and ran into the depths of the forest.
The fox's lithe body quickly disappeared into the bamboo forest, giving Pei Duo a feeling that it was naturally returning to nature, which made him dazed for a moment.
Master Wuchen recited a Buddhist verse and said, "Between heaven and earth, everything has its owner."
He began to recite scriptures and Pei Duo listened with his eyes closed.
But this time, he was not thinking about these Buddhist principles, but Master Wuchen's casual sigh.
Everything between heaven and earth has its own home, but the little fox belongs to him.
Once what he wants to do is implemented and Dai Viet is further under his control, the matter of attacking Wucheng will naturally be put on the agenda.
Under the moonlight, the young man's expression became even calmer.
The purple bamboo forest of Fanjing Temple was indeed full of spiritual energy. Lin Zhi practiced with great concentration. After all, he couldn't come here often.
This is the disadvantage of being a demon. Even if it has never harmed anyone, it still needs to be guarded against and even hunted down. Because just because a demon doesn't harm people now doesn't mean it won't harm people in the future. In the minds of most heavenly masters, demons are unforgivable evildoers.
To the demons, humans are too fragile. Sometimes, even if the demons have no intention of harming people, their mere presence there will make people weak or unlucky, and then die as a result.
But Lin Zhi was not worried about these things, because he was Pei Duo's fox.
About an hour later, Lin Zhi felt a slight heat in front of him.
That was a small mark left on him by Pei Duo, which could be used to summon him.
Lin Zhi went towards Pei Duo and followed him home.
He was not interested in what Pei Duo and Master Wu Chen said, he just needed to grasp the general situation.
The carriage would not be able to enter the city until tomorrow morning, so after dropping Pei Duo off not far outside the city gate, the driver drove off to find a place to stay.
Pei Duo easily climbed up the city wall from his hiding place and headed towards the mansion.
Although the city gates were closed, there was no curfew in the city. Some streets were particularly busy, with the aroma of food wafting from the lights.
A carriage passed by Pei Duo, and the wind blew up a corner of the curtain, revealing half of the plain face of the girl inside.
Lin Zhi followed the direction of the carriage and whispered to Pei Duo, "That man is a little strange."
After devouring Hang Wan'er's spirit, Lin Zhi would also be easily attracted by the strong power of will, but he was not limited to scholars.
The human woman in the car just now had a strong sense of obsession, which attracted Lin Zhi's attention.
Pei Duo did not notice anything unusual, but he could see that the girl was surrounded by a faint red aura, which was a reflection of her romantic luck.
If it were an ordinary woman, Pei Duo would not pay attention to her.
But this person is the second daughter of Minister Zheng, and is the candidate for selection this time. She even claimed to be ill and delayed entering the palace until tomorrow.
Such good luck, coupled with what Lin Zhi said strangely, made Pei Duo narrow his eyes.
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