As Chu Yu approached step by step, the old woman, leaning on her cane and with a hunched back, finally saw Chu Yu's face clearly. Chu Yu had been following her all the way, and she could naturally sense him, but it seemed more like he was doing it on purpose.
He deliberately exposed himself, letting her know there was someone behind him, but he couldn't shake her off like a leech.
His cloudy eyes narrowed sharply as he looked warily at Chu Yu before him.
"What arrogance!"
"If you want me to stay here, we'll see if you have the ability!"
Unexpectedly, the cane in her hand swept towards Chu Yu, but Chu Yu's Compassionate Sword effortlessly deflected it and swiftly thrust towards the vital point without giving him any chance to catch his breath. The Compassionate Sword reflected a dazzling light in the dark night.
The old woman's eyes widened in horror, and she immediately transformed into her eight-tailed fox form. One of her tails lashed out at Chu Yu, who did not dodge at all, but instead forcefully chopped off the tail with his sword.
"ah!"
A piercing scream rang out, but this was only the beginning. Chu Yu was in no hurry to take her life. Instead, he cut off her body one by one, torturing her mercilessly.
The old woman couldn't hold on any longer and barely managed to transform into human form. Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth. She leaned on a cane with one hand and clutched the bleeding spot on her abdomen with the other. "Cough cough! Who exactly are you?"
"I don't remember ever having any grudge against you!"
Chu Yu raised an eyebrow, a wicked smile playing on his lips, "Eleven thousand years ago, you severely injured a goddess girl,"
As the old woman's face grew increasingly pale, Chu Yu said, word by word, "Her beggar name is Hua."
Before Chu Yu could finish speaking, the old woman staggered back a few steps.
Chu Yu's smile remained unchanged, even widening, "It seems you've remembered."
"So you've come here today for revenge?!"
Chu Yu looked at her with disdain, "You should be grateful that you survived for 110,000 years, otherwise you wouldn't have eleven life-extending talismans to prolong your life."
The old woman looked at Chu Yu in fear. She hadn't expected that he even knew about the Rejuvenation Talisman, which she had just spent a lot of money to buy. It seemed that she had been targeted as soon as she entered the Beauty Pavilion!
She forced herself to remain calm as she looked at Chu Yu, "I didn't intend to take her life back then."
The smile in Chu Yu's eyes vanished completely, replaced by a gaze as deep and unfathomable as a cold pool. "Is that so? But since you hurt her, you should pay with your life!"
Without hesitation, the merciful sword in his hand thrust towards her with deadly ferocity. The old woman knew she couldn't escape today; she had no choice but to fight to the death...
However, after only a hundred moves, all eight tails were severed, and the enormous eight-tailed fox body was reduced to a small, tailless, blood-stained, tangled old fox.
But she was unwilling to die like this. With her last breath, she spoke in a human voice, "Don't you want to know why I knew where she was hiding?"
Chu Yu's eyes remained unmoved by her words. "There are only a few people anyway, and none of them can escape. Why should I listen to your nonsense?"
After speaking, he shattered her inner core with swift and decisive action, picked up the things she had just dropped, pinched them lightly with his fingers, and murmured, "Rejuvenation Talisman."
Chu Yu looked at the Rejuvenation Talisman in his hand, crafted from millions of divine souls, his expression dark and unreadable.
The Rejuvenation Talisman can prolong lifespan because the creator imprisoned these people in a small talisman before their souls completely dissipated after killing them.
Even more so, in order to maximize the effect, the imprisoned souls reenact the scene of their death every day, using ingenious forbidden techniques to transform this resentment into a vast vitality, thus nourishing the user.
To be able to devise such a vicious scheme, and even to actually create it, Chu Yu stared coldly at the lifeless, scruffy fox on the ground.
There are probably very few people in the entire Six Realms who could do that.
Stepping over the fox's corpse, the figure in black vanished like a ghost at the end of the road.
Gently holding the flowers, I carefully placed the person on the bed. I had accidentally splattered blood on myself, and I had to clean it off, otherwise Liao Liao might worry when she woke up.
He didn't want Liao Liao to know about these things either.
Just as he was about to leave after putting down the flowers, Hua Xiao grabbed his sleeve and said, "Chu Yu, my Heart-Controlling Bell."
Chu Yu thought Hua had woken up, but when he looked back, he saw that she was sleeping soundly and had just been talking in her sleep. However, Chu Yu did not dismiss her and leaned over to whisper, "The Imperial Heart Bell is already ours, so you can sleep peacefully."
He gently patted Hua's shoulder with his broad, slender hands, and only returned to his room to bathe and change after Hua had fallen completely asleep.
Chu Yu did not have the habit of sleeping every day. In fact, very few cultivators sleep every day. For people like them, a day is just a moment, and a hundred years is just a snap of the fingers.
After all, in a world where the strong prey on the weak, who isn't seizing the time to cultivate and desperately climb to the top?
But Hua was different. She had been a heavy sleeper since she was a child and needed to rest every day without fail. Sometimes Chu Yu thought that the stories from the human world had had too deep an influence on Hua.
Many of her habits were learned from storybooks, and she found them to be very reasonable and refused to change them.
After Chu Yu finished dealing with the situation, he returned to Hua's bedside to keep watch over her, and even while cultivating, he didn't forget to spare a wisp of his divine soul to watch over Hua.
Perhaps it was a habit formed over the past few months, but as soon as Chu Yu approached, Hua unconsciously clung to him, her small hand tightly gripping Chu Yu's large hand.
A good night's sleep
It was already broad daylight. Hua rubbed her eyes and struggled to open them, then got out of bed with difficulty. After getting ready, she went to Chu Yu's room and called out, "Chu Yu, are you there?"
No one answered her. She pushed open the door and went in. Chu Yu's room was empty. Hua was a little anxious. For the past few months, she would see Chu Yu every time she opened her eyes. Where was Chu Yu now?
After searching the entire yard without finding Chu Yu, he couldn't help but run towards the front yard.
"Chu Yu!"
"Chu Yu!"
As he walked and called out, Chu Yu heard the voice and looked back; it was Hua.
Hua Hua then saw Chu Yu, who was sitting in the pavilion, his view obscured by the surrounding flowers and plants. Hua Hua was a little further away and assumed that Chu Yu was alone, so she happily ran over.
She threw herself into Chu Yu's arms, tightly hugging his slender waist, and said proudly, "Chu Yu, I couldn't find you anywhere when I woke up, how did you end up here~"
Chu Yu gently patted Hua's back, then coughed lightly, a little embarrassed, "Ahem, Liao Liao, let me go first."
Hua pouted unhappily, looked up at him, and grumbled, "Chu Yu, you've changed~. You were hugging me yesterday, but today you won't let me hug you, hmph!"
Chu Yu's ears turned slightly red as he reminded Hua, "Liao Liao, there are still people around."
"Where's anyone? You..."
As she spoke, Hua peeked behind Chu Yu.
"ah!"
Like a startled little rabbit, she immediately covered her face and burrowed into Chu Yu's arms. She was so embarrassed!
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