The man and the fox stood there staring at each other for a long time, and neither of them compromised first.
After a while, Yan Chu, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly stood up. The movement was so big that the black fox jumped back in shock, but Yan Chu, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, reached out and caught it first.
He lifted the fox up and vowed, "I have a solution!!"
Black Fox's face was full of confusion.
Yan Chu blinked and said confidently, "Trust me."
Black Fox: “…”
It didn't believe it at all and even wanted to give the man in front of it a tail.
Half an hour later, two figures, one big and one small, appeared on the road leading to Jinning Town.
Although the world today is relatively stable, it is rare to see a single woman traveling with a young child. In addition, they were walking on a small road in the wilderness with few people... It was clearly broad daylight, but it added a bit of weird and mysterious flavor.
When passers-by saw this, they couldn't help but shrink their necks and felt a chill on their backs.
But just as he was feeling terrified, he saw the child looking up and saying something to the woman. He didn't pay attention to his feet and tripped over the gravel on the side of the road, stumbling and almost falling. Because of this, the weird atmosphere just now disappeared instantly, and he even couldn't help but laugh a little.
The child didn't fall completely after all, and was held up by the woman.
Then, the woman grabbed the back of the collar and picked up the child... with one hand.
Passerby: ...?
The child doesn't look very old, but he is about five or six years old. To be honest, he is quite heavy.
This made people sigh at the "strong arms of the heroine", and they seemed to know how the other party dared to travel alone with the child.
The woman picked up the child as usual, even lifting it a little too high and almost carrying the child on her shoulders. But after a little adjustment, she finally returned to the normal position of holding the child.
From a distance, this scene can be described as "a loving mother and a filial son".
The passerby took a few more glances and couldn't help but think of his wife and children waiting for him at home. He was so eager to go home that he even walked much faster.
However, if the passerby was closer, he could see the expressions on the faces of the two, one big and one small, and hear their conversation, he would probably understand that the facts were very different from what he imagined.
The "woman" frowned and looked at the boy in her arms with a questioning look.
"She" opened her red lips slightly, and the first thing she said was a clear male voice, "Do you really want to do this? If the evil spirit is leaked, it will be over if my senior brother finds out!"
The boy sneered, and the voice he made was a normal child's voice that was hard to tell whether it was male or female, but the ending tone seemed to have a strange upward tone, "Just take care of yourself!"
Dye its hair white and pretend to be a dog?
Maybe in the next life!!
Yan Chu was quite confident in his disguise. He raised his little finger slightly to tidy up the long hair beside his temples, and his eyes moved around, showing his charming manner.
Not to mention Jiang Lu, even if the two masters were resurrected, they would not be able to recognize that this was their apprentice.
The black fox transformed into a boy: "..."
Once a person becomes shameless, even a fox will feel ashamed of himself.
Although Yan Chu was confident, he was still worried about the fox. He anxiously pulled the boy's hair and checked him up and down, fearing that the black fox would accidentally expose its ears.
Logically speaking, given the Black Fox's magical powers, it wouldn't make such a low-level mistake.
But this kind of thing is not only affected by demonic power, but also has something to do with the degree of familiarity with magic. The heavens of this world favor the human race, and once demons transform, most of them practice in human form. However, for various reasons, the black fox he raised would rather keep its original form most of the time and rarely transform into a human.
——Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been so unaccustomed to walking on two legs that I almost fell flat on my face.
Yan Chu didn't use any light force, and his fingers hooked into the other's hair, accidentally pulling out a few strands. The black fox's face was horrible, and he subconsciously wanted to stretch out his claws to scratch him, but he forgot that he was now in a transformed body, and as a result, he didn't scratch him, and almost fell down. With his center of gravity unstable, he subconsciously struggled.
It was no longer the little fox that could be grabbed by Yan Chu. Yan Chu couldn't help but howl at the noise and said, "Don't kick! Don't kick! My breasts are going to fall off!"
The black fox's struggling body froze.
After a moment, he questioned: "Didn't you use magic? How did it fall?!"
Yan Chu awkwardly put his hand into his collar to adjust it, mumbling: "Spiritual power must be used on the blade. Senior brother is not stupid. If you use it more often, he will see it... Just use some padding for this kind of place."
Black Fox: ???
Is it possible that he won’t be able to see it if I just put some padding around it?
Yan Chu seemed to have seen through its doubts and chuckled with a hint of pride, "Who do you think my senior brother is? Would he stare at this place?"
Black Fox: ...?
This is the truth, so why is it so strange that Director Yan pointed it out so specifically?
Although Chu Lu arrived at the town of Jinning based on the divination results, the monster was trying to hide its tracks, so it was still difficult to find it based on its demonic aura.
Besides, there seemed something strange about this town.
...It's so clean.
There isn't even the usual aura of mountain spirits or ghosts.
But it was obvious that there was a rabbit spirit living in the inn.
It was as if there was an invisible barrier that hid all the demonic energy inside. This was a huge problem for cultivators who mostly relied on their scent to find demons.
…
Chu Lu's original intention was to stay here for a few days to investigate whether there were any strange things happening recently.
After all, he had divined several times, and the results always fell here, which meant that the escaped monster did not pass through here accidentally, but must have come to this place after escaping from the Monster Locking Tower.
Considering that the demon is now seriously injured and its demonic power is only one tenth of what it has left, the possible reason why it insists on staying in this place is the strange ability of this town to conceal demonic aura, but it is more likely that there is something here that can help it recover from its injuries.
However, Chu Lu soon discovered that he seemed to be able to save a lot of investigation effort because some colleagues... or more accurately, "juniors", had come over.
Not long after he came over, a group of young boys and girls came into Fu Yue Inn. The leading boy was wearing a blue shirt with black edges and had a long sword on his back.
It was a very familiar outfit, which could be seen every day in Tianshang Mountain. It was once commented by Yan Chu as "looking like a dead fish caught in a net after putting it on". He refused to obey, but of course, he finally put it on... after being severely punished by the then head of Tianshang Mountain.
This young man is a disciple of Tianshang Mountain who is traveling outside.
There were several people following the young man, all dressed differently, but their origins could be identified at a glance. It was unclear whether these people were together by chance or traveling together.
Chu Lu met this group of people when he was about to go out to investigate. He happened to overhear their conversation with the waiter and learned that this group of young people came here in pursuit of an evil raccoon demon, but lost all trace of the demon as soon as they entered Jinning Town, so they came around to inquire for news.
After hearing that the raccoon demon had eaten the hearts of more than a dozen people, the waiter's face turned pale, and he was sweating profusely. He said with trembling lips, "How, how, how did you get here?!"
I guess you have heard about the deeds of that raccoon monster.
Seeing that the waiter was terribly frightened and could not tell any useful information, the young man immediately tried to comfort him, "Don't panic, shopkeeper. We are here to solve this matter. If the monster does evil again, its evil spirit will definitely leak out, and we will definitely notice it then..."
Perhaps it was because the boy who was speaking looked so calm and reliable, the waiter was still frightened, but at least they were able to have a normal conversation.
The young man immediately took the opportunity to ask if there had been any strange things happening in the town recently, or if anyone had suddenly died.
When asked about the latter, the waiter's expression became unnatural for a moment. His eyes wandered and he glanced around, but he was still worried. He gestured and led the few people to turn a corner and come to a hidden corner blocked by the stairs.
The sight in the lobby was blocked, and the waiter seemed relieved. He lowered his voice and whispered, "If we talk about 'sudden death', there is only the one in the east of the city..."
"Mr. Xu from the farm over there was said to have died of illness a few days ago, but—"
The waiter paused here, as if worried that someone might be eavesdropping.
His attitude of just saying stop for a long time and forcing people to dig down bit by bit was really worrying. The boy's companions behind him who were more impatient couldn't help but show anxious expressions.
The young man was very patient. "Don't worry, shopkeeper. I had already set up a soundproof barrier when I came here just now. Unless someone has a higher cultivation level than me, it is impossible for them to hear this conversation."
Liu Gou'er stared in surprise and whispered, "It's really the method of the immortals."
Then he changed his previous hesitant attitude and began to describe in vivid detail the tragic condition of Mr. Xu's body.
According to him, it was "a distant cousin of his wife's sister-in-law's husband who worked as a helper on Mr. Xu's farm" and he happened to see it. However, based on the detailed description, it is not wrong to say that he saw it with his own eyes.
However, just now I said that the severed right arm was thrown into the lake to soak, but now it is hanging on the tree and dripping with blood...
In just a short while, Mr. Xu had grown four arms and eight legs.
Even if he was an octopus spirit, there were four more of them now.
A girl in pink behind the boy couldn't hold back her excitement and wanted to speak, but her companion gently pulled her sleeve to stop her.
The young man was as patient as ever, and he kept listening until Liu Gou'er stopped talking with his mouth dry and unsatisfied, then he nodded slightly, "I understand, thank you store owner."
This attitude finally made Liu Gou'er feel a little guilty.
Finally, he implicitly stated that these news were heard from "a distant cousin of his wife's sister-in-law's husband who worked as a helper at Mr. Xu's farm" and were not sure whether they were true or not.
The girl who had wanted to speak at first had her eyes rolled up to the sky.
——Is this “uncertain”? No matter how you think about it, it can’t be true, right?!
Although there are too many flaws in it, it is still more reliable than what they had heard along the way, that the east house lost a chicken or the west house was missing an egg.
This is also why the young man mentioned the incident of "the raccoon demon killing people" right from the start.
——This place is really xenophobic. If you don’t explain the seriousness of the situation, you won’t be able to get anything out of it.
Now that they had a rare clue, the group prepared to head to Xujiazhuang in the east of the city.
Liu Gou'er also nodded and bowed to see them off, "Goodbye, little immortals."
——“Little” immortal?
This slightly strange address made the leading young man pause at the door of the inn. He turned his head and looked back, just in time to see the young man who had just walked down the stairs.
He was dressed in white and had black hair, and looked very imposing, but Yun Huiming could not sense any cultivation ability from him.
Either this person is a mortal with no cultivation, or he has a magical treasure that can conceal his aura, or his cultivation is far higher than his...
Yun Huiming almost immediately concluded that it was the last possibility.
As if noticing his gaze, the young man lowered his eyes and looked over.
When their eyes met, Yun Huiming subconsciously stood up straight. He inexplicably felt a sense of fear as if the master had come in person to check on his disciples' training. He couldn't help but reflect on whether there was anything he had not thought through in what he had just done.
It was Liu Gou'er who broke the brief silence. He looked at Chu Lu who was going downstairs and asked cautiously, "Is the Immortal here also for the matter of monsters?"
Hearing this, Chu Lu shifted his gaze from the disciple of Tianshang Mountain to Liu Gou'er and nodded slightly.
——Although it was not because of the raccoon monster they were chasing, they did come here because of the monster.
However, seeing that the other party was still frightened, Chu Lu did not elaborate on the existence of a second, more dangerous monster in this town... After all, for these mortals, knowing the inside story would do no good except to increase their fear.
Unlike the fear he felt when he heard the group of young men mention the monster just now, this time, even though the immortal in front of him didn't say anything, Liu Gou'er looked relieved as if "the matter has been resolved."
He bowed respectfully again and said, "Thank you for your help, Immortal. I would like to thank you on behalf of the people of this town."
This undisguised differential treatment made the pink-dressed girl, who had already walked outside the inn, stare with wide eyes.
Her pretty face flushed red, and she seemed to want to say something, but when she saw the senior in white, she moved her lips a few times but said nothing.
She felt that... the waiter's "differential treatment" did not seem unreasonable...
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