Chapter 9: The Way is Clear, But There is Sunshine
When the fox demon got angry, Lingxiang was on guard. When he got close to her, she used the Calm and Unmoved Technique to instantly open her shield to block him. With her left hand, she used the Lotus Heart Sword Technique and used her fingers as swords to slash at his chest.
The fox demon was caught off guard by Lingxiang's counterattack and barely dodged it, but her clothes were actually torn.
Before he could steady himself, Lingxiang attacked his lower body with sword energy, blocking his way. His right hand flew and he used the Waves and Tides Technique to trap the fox demon with the Water Prison Technique.
The fox demon was furious: "How dare you, you little yellow-haired girl, resist me!"
The demon dodged the spell in an instant, raised his hand and waved it, and invisible air swept towards the spiritual fragrance.
The technique was so fast that she had no time to block it. In an instant, she was hit by the airflow and crashed into the stone wall. Lingxiang suddenly felt a sharp pain in her abdomen and back, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
The fox curled its five fingers and leaped up, revealing its demonic appearance, like a wild fox hunting. Its claws were as long as young bamboo shoots and as sharp as swords, and in an instant it was about to pinch Lingxiang.
At the critical moment of life and death, a huge rock suddenly rose between the two of them, blocking the attack of the fox demon, and then turned into several large rocks and shot towards him.
The fox demon dodged and retreated quickly. When it stood still, it looked towards Lingxiang again, but the stone was nowhere to be seen.
"Who dares to trespass into my cave and deceive me with illusions?"
"Shut up, you monster! Stop being so arrogant! You're killing people!" It was exactly Chi Yanzi's Wubenxiang Jue.
As he spoke, Chi Yanzi flew out, holding a whisk in his right hand, using his energy as a blade, and twisting his left hand, drunkenly entangled in branches, attacking the fox demon.
"Hmph! Such a trifle!"
The fox demon changed its claws into hands, dodged the air blade, and actually directly caught Chi Yanzi's move. Then it turned around and took advantage of the gap in the move to hit him in the chest with a palm.
Chi Yanzi was unable to dodge and was hit by the palm. He felt a pain in his chest and retreated several steps.
"Master! I'm here to help you!"
A flash of sword light passed by, and the fox demon retreated quickly, only to see a pale-faced young man standing in front of him.
"It's you again! A defeated opponent, yet you dare to come here and seek death!"
"Shut up, you monster! Give my sister back to me!"
Liu Xia used the willow-pointing-moon move to stab the fox demon, and Chi Yanzi also jumped up, took a deep breath, and moved forward with a magic formula.
While the three were fighting, Long Qi quietly came to Lingxiang and wanted to take her away.
"Don't worry about me. You can't escape. Go up quickly and fight with these two while you retreat."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Am I going to leave you here to die?" As he said that, he picked up Lingxiang and walked towards the cave entrance.
"We agreed when we came here that we would rescue you first and then make a long-term plan."
While the fox demon was fighting with the two men, he discovered that someone was trying to escape with Lingxiang.
"Ha! What a good trick!"
He turned around and instantly moved behind Liu Xia, slapping him on the back with a palm. Then he instantly came in front of Chi Yanzi and used his martial arts to knock him away.
However, in the blink of an eye, both of them were seriously injured and passed out.
Long Qi turned his back to the fox demon, unaware of the danger. Just as he was about to step out of the courtyard, he was swept by the demonic wind. He hurriedly protected Lingxiang, twisted his body, and hit his back against the wall.
The fox demon looked at the unconscious Long Qi, grabbed Lingxiang's neck and lifted her up.
"How dare you, a mere mortal, think of snatching someone from me? How dare you..."
When Long Qi was hit, Lingxiang secretly took a deep breath, took out a pill from her Qiankun bag and held it in her hand, and then she twisted her left hand and prepared to attack.
In a flash, she tried her best and while the fox demon was talking, she put the pill into his mouth and activated it with the seal of her left hand.
"Stop making such noise and bothering me!"
They've already started fighting, and you're still talking so much!
Before the fox demon could finish his words, he felt a sudden churning in his throat. When he came to his senses, he was filled with rage and exerted force with his hands, wanting to take Lingxiang's life.
Lingxiang used her right hand to pinch the Wave Technique to resist hard, and her left hand was still activating the elixir. However, she was injured and exhausted, and gradually sank into chaos.
The fox demon also felt powerless in his hands, his body became soft as water, and he fell asleep suddenly.
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When Lingxiang opened her eyes, she saw four women on a stage, scantily clad, dancing and singing obscene songs. She looked around and realized it was a brothel.
"This fox is really not a good thing!"
She thought she was going to be killed by the fox demon, but she didn't expect the Huimeng Pill to take effect so quickly.
It seems that the three people can be saved.
The so-called Dream Returning Pill uses the power of the pill to bring the practitioner into the dream of the person who takes the pill, so as to know what the person's mental problems are.
Originally, this pill was used to treat heart disease or dispel nightmares, but unexpectedly it could also save lives.
Although it is a medium-grade pill, people will still fall into a coma for two or three days after taking it. As for this fox, although it has some cultivation, it is still an animal after all, so it may take three or four days for it to fall into a coma as well.
I can't get out for a while anyway, so I'll see what the fox demon has in mind and why he kidnapped the woman and ruined the man's marriage.
But why did this fox come to this brothel? Could it be that he has taken a fancy to the girls here?
Just when Lingxiang was puzzled, she saw the madam and a few burly men go up to the second floor, enter a room, and soon drag a man downstairs.
After taking a closer look, I realized that this was the fox demon. Why was it beaten so badly that it was covered with wounds? I almost didn't recognize it.
Lingxiang hurriedly followed, only to see several big men dragging him out of the door, and the brothel owner spat on the ground.
"You are such a good fellow, Wu Yuan! You have no money, yet you still think about my daughter Chunhua, and you say you are deeply in love with her! I'm telling you! This is a brothel! If you had done all the matchmaking and betrothal, I would have let you call me mother. But with your shabby house and nothing more than four walls, you still dream of being with me under the moonlight and flowers. You're just dreaming! A poor scholar, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
After saying that, he turned around and went in to entertain others.
It turns out that the fox demon's name is Wu Yuan. But he is clearly a human, how could he become a demon, and how could his demonic power be so strong?
While Lingxiang was wondering, the scene around her flashed by and changed.
"Yuan Lang, Chun Hua originally admired your talent, but in the end, we are not destined to be together. I'm afraid we can't be together in this life."
"Miss Chunhua, please don't be like this. You and I are in love and have a lot in common. If we can make it, we will definitely live together until old age." As he spoke, he seemed to have made a great decision, "Please wait patiently for me for two days. Once I sell the old house, we will leave this place and find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and live like a pair of immortal lovers."
Ugh~ Such sour words made Lingxiang shiver. Just when she felt nauseous, the surrounding scene flashed by again.
In the forest, a man and a woman were running forward in panic with their bags on their backs.
"Yuan Lang... I can't run anymore... Let me take a break..."
"Okay... We've been running around for a whole day. The market must not be open yet, so they probably don't know about what happened between you and me." Wu Yuan helped Chunhua sit down.
Chunhua took out a water bag and handed it to Wu Yuan, saying, "You've been running for a long time, and your mouth must be dry. Have some tea to moisten your throat."
"You drink first." Wu Yuan's face was full of heartache as he handed the water bag back to her.
"I still have some. In case it's not enough, I prepared two bags." Chunhua said, taking out another bag of water from the package.
"You're really thoughtful."
After resting for a while, Wu Yuan tried to help Chunhua up, but he couldn't get up. Then he saw Chunhua foaming at the mouth, covering his stomach with his hands, curled up on the ground, looking extremely painful.
At this time Chunhua stood up.
"Oh~ I didn't expect you to be such a lovesick person. I almost don't want to kill you."
"Why... do... this... to... me..." Wu Yuan asked with his eyes wide open, trying hard to squeeze out these words from between his teeth.
"Why? Haha~ Then I will be kind today and let you die with peace of mind." Chunhua said, sitting down next to Wu Yuan who was twitching continuously.
"I was originally a daughter of an official, but my whole family was exiled because my father committed a crime against the emperor. I used to live a life of luxury, but my life plummeted and I was forced to become a court prostitute. Do you know how miserable that was? I finally won a battle and was pardoned and released, but was then sold to a brothel by a bad officer, where I was forced to smile and sell my body all day long..." As she spoke, she brushed off her clothes and stood up.
"Ah~ These are all old stories, let's not talk about them," Chunhua looked down at Wu Yuan, "I thought this was the end of my life, but I didn't expect to meet you. You really think you are so talented and knowledgeable, but you are just a pawn to escape from that hellish place. I finally made you fall in love with me, but I didn't expect you to be poor and didn't even have the money to redeem yourself. So I had no choice but to convince you to sell your old house so that you can help me escape."
"I finally escaped, do I have to suffer with a poor boy like you for the rest of my life?" Chunhua said as she squatted down, took the package from Wu Yuan, turned around and left.
At this time, Wu Yuan's eyes were bloodshot and he stared at Chunhua as she walked away. He did not close his eyes until he took his last breath.
"I hate it so much... I hate it so much..."
At this time, Wu Yuan's voice was heard all around.
"My mother abandoned me, and you abandoned me too..."
So full of resentment.
"I hate...all the women in the world..."
At this time, the sun was setting, and a fox appeared from nowhere, cautiously and tentatively came to Wu Yuan and sniffed him. When it smelled his face, it happened to inhale a breath of resentment into its body along with its soul.
Oh~ It turns out that it was born out of resentment, no wonder it has such a strong power.
At this moment, everything around him suddenly stopped moving.
"What a yellow-haired girl! How dare you peek into my heart!"
Lingxiang turned around and saw the fox demon slapping her with its palm, but she was neither panicked nor dodged.
The fox demon slapped Lingxiang straight through with one palm.
Lingxiang sat down and said, "I am just a thought, not a spirit, how could I let you hit me?"
"What did you do to me!?" the fox asked angrily.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm just trying to save my life."
"Humph! It turns out that women all over the world are as cunning as ever!"
"Even a cunning rabbit with three burrows can be eaten by a fox. Yet you, a fox with profound cultivation, are calling me cunning. It's simply hilarious."
The fox said nothing, just glared at Lingxiang angrily.
"Alas, you are also a pitiful person. Why do you have to embarrass me? Look at me. I have been cultivating for many years, but I can't break through. I don't even have the ability to have a soul. I am forced to go down the mountain to sell medicine. I am quite pitiful."
"Don't talk nonsense in front of me! Quickly undo the spell!"
"I'm not stupid. I'm not going to wake you up so I can kill me?" Lingxiang said, snapping her nails. "How about you sit down and have a chat?"
"I have nothing to say to women!"
"Tsk tsk tsk! Look at what you're saying. Without women, there wouldn't be men. I don't know why your mother abandoned you, but she still gave birth to... uh... you, didn't she?"
Lingxiang wasn't sure if what she said was right, after all, Wu Yuan, as a human, was already dead.
"Hmph! You're talking nonsense!" Although the fox demon said this, he also sat down.
"Don't be angry. When the time comes, the spell will naturally break. I was beaten like that by you, and I might not survive if I wait until then. When a dying man is about to die, his words are good. Just listen to me."
Lingxiang said this, moving closer to Wu Yuan.
"Not all women are like the ones you met in your lifetime. You're just unlucky. Perhaps it's the sins you committed in your past life that the judge has recorded, a debt you must repay in this lifetime."
"Humph! You're still talking nonsense!"
"I'm not talking nonsense. The young lady of the Liu family you captured is a good girl. If you don't believe me, you can ask her yourself after the spell is unraveled."
"What does this mean?"
"Then Miss Liu was not taken away from the Liu Mansion, right?"
"So what?" Wu Yuan was a little shaken.
"Not much. Even if I tell you, you might not believe me. It would be better if you go and ask in person when the time comes." Lingxiang looked up at the still falling leaves. "Remember to burn more paper money for me every year on this day. That's all I want."
As soon as the words fell, Lingxiang couldn't help but ask the question that had troubled her for a long time:
"By the way, are you a ghost or a demon now?"
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