The two little foxes ran very fast, disappearing from sight in just a few steps.
Zhao Ziyi opened the side hall door and helped Song Chen into the courtyard.
Although this is a side hall, it is small but complete.
After entering, you can see a rain shelter on the left side of the courtyard.
Inside the rain shelter pavilion, there is also a set of stone table and stone chairs.
On the right, there is a ginkgo tree.
The ground was covered with bluestone slabs.
Golden ginkgo leaves have fallen thickly to the ground, and no one has bothered to sweep them up.
Zhao Ziyi shook his head with a smile, "There's only this much soil."
Song Chen's wish to plant may not be fulfilled.
He casually cast a purification spell.
Thick layers of fallen leaves and dust settled on the soil near the roots of the ginkgo tree, finally making the courtyard a bit tidier and cleaner.
Pushing open the door, I entered the side hall, which contained only one room.
Inside the room was a screen painted with a fox, and beyond the screen was a canopy bed.
Zhao Ziyi placed Song Chen on the bed, then took out a futon, placed it on the ground, and sat cross-legged.
We'll discuss everything after Song Chen wakes up.
The light in the room gradually dimmed.
Zhao Ziyi heard rapid breathing.
He quickly stood up from the cushion and walked to the bedside.
Song Chen was sitting on the bed, rubbing his eyes incessantly.
Zhao Ziyi felt heartbroken and quickly went forward to hug Song Chen.
"Don't rub your eyes. Your eyes will be fine by morning."
Song Chen's eyes were completely black. When he heard Zhao Ziyi's voice, he quickly pulled him into his arms.
"Are you alright, Ziyi?"
The first thing Song Chen asked was how she was doing.
Zhao Ziyi couldn't help but tear up and tidied Song Chen's messy hair.
"I'm fine, we're safe now. Your eye is just a minor problem. It'll be fine by morning."
Upon hearing this, Song Chen's wildly beating heart finally calmed down.
Hearing Zhao Ziyi's sobbing voice, he tried to ease the atmosphere and asked with a smile:
What happened while I was away?
Which genius averted this crisis?
After being praised, Zhao Ziyi smiled and wriggled like a caterpillar, "It's me! Let me tell you how I resolved the crisis!"
As dawn broke, Zhao Ziyi finished recounting the events.
Song Chen nodded repeatedly as he listened.
"Genius! Just 20,000 spirit stones a year to guarantee safety? In the turbulent True Treasure Continent, this is practically a paradise on earth!"
Zhao Ziyi nodded:
"That's what I think too. It's not expensive to pay any amount of spirit stones to have a highly skilled ancestor protect us for five hundred years."
When a ray of sunlight shone into the room, the dark curtain in front of Song Chen's eyes was finally torn open.
He can see again!
Song Chen blinked and smiled:
Just as the fox clan ancestor said, my eyes will recover after dawn.
Zhao Ziyi quickly waved his hand:
"You can see it now? How many is this?"
"two."
Zhao Ziyi cheered, Song Chen was finally alright!
After talking for a long time.
Song Chen hugged Zhao Ziyi, stood up and said:
"Let's go out and explore the royal city of the Star Pivot Immortal Fox. We need to think about how to make some money."
The two straightened their clothes slightly and then left the room.
Seeing this side hall, Song Chen smiled and said:
"They moved from thatched huts to caves, and then from caves to a side hall of the royal palace."
It seems that our lives are gradually getting better.
Zhao Ziyi couldn't help but laugh when he thought about their previous living conditions.
Although their lives are rich, sweet, and interesting.
But neither of them really enjoyed anything.
After leaving the side hall, they walked a few hundred meters and saw the gate of the royal palace.
The gate is a pair of double doors, seventy or eighty meters high and thirty meters wide, made entirely of wood with clearly visible grain.
Song Chen touched the gate and thought that the Fox Clan's royal city must be very luxurious.
This tree is a single, unjoined piece, and is at least ten thousand years old.
He tried to push the door open, but it wouldn't budge even after he exerted force.
Song Chen took a few steps back and, after seeing the patterns on the wooden door clearly, couldn't help but marvel.
The wooden door is engraved with countless seal script inscriptions.
Song Chen couldn't discern the level, but he felt that the cultivator who inscribed the characters was indeed powerful.
Zhao Ziyi took out the jade pendant and stuck it on the wooden door.
A radiant light emanated from the jade pendant, and the heavy gate opened slightly.
“Let’s go. Once we’re outside the palace gates, the jade pendant will open the door.”
The two walked out of the palace gate with smiles on their faces.
Stepping over the threshold, Song Chen looked up expectantly.
He had expected to see a luxurious royal city landscape.
But the moment he saw the scene around him clearly, he looked slightly taken aback.
"This is……"
Zhao Ziyi scratched his head, not expecting the fox clan's capital to be so desolate.
Outside the palace gates lay a vast expanse of desolate land stretching as far as the eye could see.
The land was overgrown with weeds.
Song Chen looked down at his feet.
After the heavy rain, the muddy land, dented by people walking on it, dried up again.
The ground was covered with the footprints of the fox clan.
Song Chen felt as if they had entered a sheep pen.
Zhao Ziyi was slightly speechless.
He now understood why the Fox Ancestor had so readily given him a piece of land.
So the land in the Fox Clan's royal city is worthless.
The two left the palace and headed north.
After walking for a long time, they finally confirmed that there were indeed no buildings in the royal city.
Song Chen touched his nose and smiled:
"I almost forgot, foxes live in burrows."
What kind of store should we open?
It feels like no matter what kind of store I open, it will be very popular.
After all, it's the first shop in the royal city.
Zhao Ziyi nodded; he thought so too, believing that any kind of shop would do.
"Sell talismans. I think talismans and elixirs will sell very well."
Furthermore, talismans are easy to craft.
"Yes, that's true. Talismans only require animal blood and cinnabar paper, making them much simpler to make."
The two walked and talked.
When they arrived at the riverbank, Zhao Ziyi looked around and thought the scenery there was absolutely wonderful.
"Let's choose this place for our shop."
Although it's not near a mountain, the presence of water can still broaden one's mind.
After seeing that Zhao Ziyi had chosen a shop location, Song Chen scattered a circle of seeds around it as a marker.
The appearance of the two had already attracted the attention of many foxes.
These two humans must have been tacitly approved to be able to roam around the royal city for so long.
Therefore, when Song Chen and Zhao Ziyi sat around the riverbank enjoying the scenery.
Countless foxes swarmed out of their nests and came to the two of them.
Looking at the various sizes of fur balls around them, Song Chen and Zhao Ziyi's expressions froze.
Although these foxes are cute with their fluffy fur, the aura they exude is above that of the Golden Core stage.
Even the little fox cub, only an arm's length long, possessed the cultivation of the peak Golden Core stage.
Is this the cultivation talent of the native inhabitants of the True Treasure Continent?
For a moment, Song Chen felt immense pressure.
He was constantly doubting himself.
Do these high-level foxes really need his pills and talismans?
Do demon cultivators living in the fox den really need formations?
Clearing his throat, Song Chen smiled at the foxes:
"Fellow Daoists, I have a question I would like to ask you."
"Wow! The human cultivator spoke!"
"What's up?"
"What are you doing on our Star Nexus Fairy Fox's territory?"
"You're so beautiful, are you a human-animal hybrid?"
...
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
Initially, both sides remained silent, with the foxes simply circling around them.
Song Chen's words piqued the interest of the surrounding fox demons.
The scene grew increasingly noisy, like hundreds of ducks quacking.
After enduring it for a moment, Zhao Ziyi finally couldn't hold back any longer.
He took a small box out of his storage bag.
He then opened the lid, and a wonderful fragrance, which permeated time and space, was carried by the wind to all the foxes.
"What's that smell? It smells so good!"
"It smells so good! This is the best smell I've ever had!"
The fluffy foxes were squatting on the ground, their bodies upright, their fox faces raised, sniffing the air.
Zhao Ziyi laughed:
"Fellow Daoists, I have some questions I would like to ask you."
If I ask you who it is, and you answer, I'll give you a piece of spiced beef jerky.
"Five-spice beef jerky? What's that?"
"Are you stupid?! It's a cow!"
"..."
Zhao Ziyi took out two pieces of beef and tossed them into the air.
Countless foxes scrambled into the sky, vying for the beef cubes.
Song Chen's face darkened. He tugged at Zhao Ziyi's sleeve and transmitted his voice:
"These are all seniors in the cultivation world, with profound cultivation levels. How can we play tricks on them like this?"
Zhao Ziyi replied:
"Don't worry, it's fine. Demon cultivators believe in doing whatever they want, unlike human cultivators who go through so much trouble."
The two fox demons who carried Song Chen back yesterday were both at the Nascent Soul stage, yet they were still so approachable.
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