Before the blood mist on the altar had dissipated, Xiao Lian suddenly stumbled and bumped into the Soul Guide beside her.
The moment her bronze fox mask slipped off, the black-feathered fox demon was inserting her tail into the Thousand Soul Cauldron.
Suddenly turning around, the eyes of the person inside the tail bell simultaneously flashed with bloodlust: "You've rebelled! You degraded bastard!"
Xiao Lian's silver hairpin suddenly emitted a blinding blue light, and the jade fragments shattered into powder in her palm.
She raised her hand and slapped the blood talisman against the crack in the cauldron.
Wherever the runes passed, the fox tail grafted onto the pseudo-nine-tailed fox suddenly sprouted charred, broken ends.
"You're not the clan leader! You're an imposter!"
Xiao Lian's voice was like an ice pick piercing through a blood mist, and a crisp sound of bones dislocating came from the back of her neck.
Half of a snow-white fox tail emerged from it, with bits of human skin still clinging to its fur, creating a stark contrast with the putrid fur entwined around the tip of the black-feathered fox demon's tail.
She looked up at the top of the altar, a cold smile playing on her lips: "Why would a true Nine-Tailed Fox use a living soul to extend its tail? Look at this tail—"
The black-feathered fox demon's nine tails suddenly froze, and black blood seeped from the broken ends of the tails into the air.
A fragment of Xiaolian's silver hairpin pierced deeply into the birthmark on her wrist.
The moment the blood gushed out, the snow-white fox tail at the back of her neck began to absorb the life-giving blood overflowing from the cauldron, and tiny runes lit up on the tips of each hair.
"A hundred years ago, a lightning tribulation split the spine of the True Nine-Tails, and you dared to impersonate the clan leader after picking up half of its tailbone? Besides, you are not my father at all!"
"Nonsense, you lowly bastard, you're asking for death!"
The black-feathered fox demon's shriek shook the entire cave.
The bells at the tip of the tail shattered one after another, and the embedded human eyes rolled into the pool of blood with a "plop plop," causing thousands of finger bones to dance wildly like a swarm of snakes.
Twelve soul-capturing foxes lunged forward simultaneously, their humerus hairpins weaving a net of white bones in mid-air.
Instead of retreating, Xiao Lian advanced. As her snow-white fox tail swept across the ground, the lifeblood in the blood pool suddenly flowed backward, forming a flowing fox-shaped river of blood at her feet.
The broken silver hairpin fragment cut his palm as he pressed it against the crack in the Thousand Soul Cauldron.
The cauldron suddenly trembled like a bell, and the golden light seeping from the cracks was like a sword, splitting the nearest Soul-Stealing Fox in two.
When the monster fell, it revealed the human chest cavity hidden beneath the skeleton, with half a piece of jade engraved with "Nine Tail" embedded in the heart.
That strong?
Even I was a little confused when I saw the ends of Xiaolian's hair.
Is this still the same girl who used to be so timid and hesitant when she spoke to me?
I didn't expect him to be so good at hiding his true abilities.
The black-feathered fox demon's tail lashed wildly, sweeping away the foxfire burning on the cave ceiling.
"If it weren't for your mother protecting you, you bastard, back then, you would have been reduced to ashes long ago!"
Her coccyx, a withered bone, was completely exposed, and she was frantically absorbing the blood of living souls with the help of the demonic power of the Thousand Soul Cauldron.
"Even your father's soul is being refined in the cauldron now. Do you think you can get away with this little bit of blood..."
Before she could finish speaking, Xiaolian's snow-white fox tail suddenly grew longer and wrapped around the black-feathered fox demon's thickest tailbone.
Amidst the cracking sound of bones breaking, the stolen tailbone was forcibly ripped off, revealing rotting flesh crawling with maggots underneath.
The lifeblood of the living soul surged into Xiaolian's body along the fox tail.
Pain and determination flashed in her eyes.
"Grab her! Don't let this bastard ruin the ritual!"
The black-feathered fox demon's shriek caused the cave ceiling to collapse.
The bells at the tip of her tail shattered, and the embedded human eyes rolled into the pool of blood, causing thousands of finger bones to stand upright.
Xiao Lian's snow-white fox tail suddenly entangled the nearest soul-capturing fox.
Amidst the sound of bones shattering, the monster transformed into a pool of black water, revealing half of a human spine beneath.
"Grab her!"
The bells at the tip of the black-feathered fox demon's tail all shattered, causing thousands of finger bones to dance wildly like a swarm of snakes.
Three foxes in human form suddenly emerged from the mist.
Foot-long bone claws grew from their fingertips, forged from the finger bones of Li Jinrong and others.
Xiao Lian's snow-white fox tail swept across the blood river, and suddenly hundreds of wronged souls' handprints appeared in the blood, supporting her and helping her avoid the attack of bone claws.
"You think you're a savior?"
The black-feathered fox demon's withered tailbone was inserted into the Thousand Soul Cauldron, and the cauldron suddenly burst out with an eerie red light.
"I've already refined the soul of the True Nine-Tails into a cauldron spirit, look—"
She pointed to the cauldron's handle, where a huge fox head-shaped inner core was embedded, its surface covered with cracks: "After the tribulation of lightning back then, I cut off the tailbone of the True Nine-Tailed Fox, extracted its inner core, and nourished it with the blood of a living soul for a hundred years!"
Xiao Lian swayed slightly, a hint of wavering flashing across her resolute eyes.
I was then shocked to realize that the snow-white fox tail at the back of her neck was only half a tail, and the base was still wrapped with a faded red rope.
Taking advantage of the moment, the black-feathered fox demon flung out her tailbone, the life-soul chains on the tip of the bone binding her ankle: "Your mother turned you into a human before she died, but your blood is still fox blood!"
The Blood River suddenly reversed its flow, and Xiao Lian was pulled toward the Thousand Soul Cauldron.
She plunged a fragment of her silver hairpin into her heart, and blood splattered onto the inner core of the cauldron's handle, where a faint golden light emanated from the crack.
"father……"
Her voice choked with emotion, "So you've been here all along..."
The cracks on the surface of the inner elixir suddenly widened, revealing a coiled nine-tailed phantom inside, which was the true deity described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas as having a voice like an infant.
The black-feathered fox demon's shriek turned into a terrified whimper: "Impossible! I've clearly refined the inner core for a hundred years—"
Before he could finish speaking, the phantom of the True Nine-Tails opened its eyes, which shimmered with starlight.
The cracks in the Thousand Soul Cauldron instantly spread throughout his body, and the living soul blood inside the cauldron gushed out like a waterfall.
The phantom images of the wronged souls that had been refined appeared one after another. Their eyes no longer held pain, but were filled with a gentle light of gratitude.
Xiao Lian's snow-white fox tail has finally grown out completely.
She reached out and caught the inner core that fell from the cauldron's handle; her body was covered in fox markings, yet she did not appear ferocious.
"The lightning tribulation did not split the spine, but the divinity and demonic nature of the Nine-Tailed Fox."
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