There were quite a few evil cultivators lying in ambush, clearly having come prepared. They didn’t want these sects’ elite disciples to reach Liuguang Sect.
Qiushuang surveyed the scene. Most of these evil cultivators had profound cultivation, their murderous energy boiling—all were ruthless killers with blood on their hands. She was born with a bad temper, and even though her cultivation had already reached the Void Refining realm, her temper wasn’t much better than when she was young. She was indeed very tolerant toward good-looking juniors, but this didn’t mean she could tolerate malevolent youngsters who committed many evils.
As the elder with the highest cultivation in Yunhua Sect, most of the time Qiushuang was merely a symbol of Yunhua Sect. Very few juniors had seen her truly take action.
“Ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth.” Qiushuang sneered coldly. The jade table before her split apart with a crash. “A bunch of crooked melons and cracked dates dare to clamor before us righteous sects—what gave you such courage?”
As her words fell, the round fan in her hand blazed with golden light. Lightning flashed in the depths of the clouds, as if the entire sky was about to flip over.
The female demon’s expression became grave. She took out a soul-summoning bell, and gradually countless departed spirits gathered around. She played with the black hair by her temples: “I know you righteous sects have some ability. Don’t you believe in reincarnation? Why not let these departed spirits play with you?”
These righteous sects loved most to do these things protecting incompetent common people. These departed spirits were all souls of common people after death. Would they protect them or not?
So whether being human or demon, the most satisfying thing was still controlling others’ life and death, doing whatever one pleased, which would place one in an invincible position.
Seeing these densely packed spirit souls, the golden light on Elder Qiushuang’s round fan weakened slightly. She narrowed her eyes at the evil cultivators cursing behind the departed spirits, suddenly flew up, directly passed over the spirit souls, and with a wave scattered and knocked countless evil cultivators from the clouds. Turning to Yunhua Sect’s disciples, she said: “Sword cultivators with Foundation Establishment cultivation and above form arrays. Dao cultivators restrain your energy and control the spirit souls.”
“Yes.” Yunhua Sect disciples all took out their natal magical tools and flew into the air, without the slightest hesitation.
Li Rou and Gui Lin also wanted to follow, but were pulled back by Kong Hou: “You two little brats with Qi Refining cultivation, don’t join in the excitement.”
“Martial Uncle…” Gui Lin and Li Rou looked at their sect members entangled in battle with the spirit souls in the air, anxiety showing on their faces.
Kong Hou sent the two to Qingyuan’s side with one palm strike, cupping her hands to him: “Martial Uncle, I’ll temporarily entrust these two children to you.”
Qingyuan nodded. Behind him stood three more disciples whose cultivation hadn’t reached Foundation Establishment. Gui Lin stood silently behind Qingyuan and saw a martial uncle in the air who loved beauty very much have her hair bun torn apart by a spirit soul, yet she couldn’t spare the time to feel bad about her hair and instead used her magical tool to capture this spirit soul. The other sect members were the same. Clearly these spirit souls were extremely fragile and they only needed one sword stroke to kill countless numbers, yet they deliberately chose the most troublesome method.
He gripped his sword hilt tightly, his heart both sour and bitter, his emotions extremely complex.
“Draw swords.” Shuangqing looked at the Yunhua Sect disciples entangled in battle with evil cultivators and spirit souls, turned to Yuanji Sect disciples and said, “All disciples with Foundation Establishment cultivation and above, draw your swords.” Now with Yunhua Sect holding back the evil cultivators, Yuanji still had a chance to escape, but Shuangqing looked at those Yunhua Sect disciples who showed not the slightest hint of retreat and raised his hand.
He didn’t like Yunhua Sect, but… but he also had his pride. Fleeing from battle—that was something he couldn’t do.
Jin Ling, who had been hiding in a corner, stepped out with a pale face. The hand gripping her sword trembled slightly, yet she didn’t retreat backward.
“Do you still remember the Star Constellation Sword Array you learned in the sect?” Shuangqing said. “I know your cultivation isn’t as good as Yunhua Sect disciples, and I’m not asking you to deal with spirit souls. You just focus specifically on isolated evil cultivators. As long as they’re evil cultivators scattered by Yunhua Sect, go surround and kill them. Remember, don’t act alone. Kill one and earn one, kill two and earn a pair.”
“Yes.” Zhou Xiao let his energy sink to his dantian and said loudly: “All junior martial brothers and sisters with Foundation Establishment cultivation and above, follow me.”
“Form the array!”
“Whoosh.”
Suddenly musical sounds arose. Hearing the music, the righteous sect disciples only felt their minds and spirits clear, their entire bodies filled with power. However, to the evil cultivators’ ears, this melody was like a death dirge. Countless people felt dizzy and nauseous, and whenever anyone fell from the clouds, they were immediately surrounded and killed by Yuanji Sect disciples waiting for the opportunity.
For a time, Yunhua Sect was the one dividing the meat, while Yuanji Sect was the assistant chopping the meat into pieces. Although the two sects hadn’t consulted beforehand, they cooperated with great coordination.
Seeing her subordinate evil cultivators killed, the female demon didn’t show the slightest heartache on her face. Instead, she looked at Shuangqing who was helping Qiushuang and said: “I gave you a chance to escape with your life. Why didn’t you treasure it? You should know that Yunhua Sect wasn’t polite to you back then. Don’t you want revenge? Don’t you want to see the people who looked down on you back then lying disheveled on the ground?”
“Shut up.” Shuangqing took out a face cloth to cover his face. “A strong fox stench—this old man can’t stand it.”
The female demon was so angry her face changed greatly. She flew up from the lotus platform, her index finger transforming into a sharp blade, directly attacking Shuangqing’s spiritual platform. Shuangqing barely dodged and still found time to use his sword to stab two evil cultivators to death: “Don’t get too close to this old man. Even if this old man dies, it won’t be from you killing me, but from being stunk to death by you.”
“You righteous sects only have sharp tongues, is that it?” The female demon was so angry she laughed instead, suddenly turned, and her huge fox tail swelled enormously, sweeping Shuangqing far away with one tail strike.
“A head shaped like a brick also dares to waste words before this seat.” She twisted her body seductively and looked toward Kong Hou standing on a flying sword playing music. Her pupils transformed into beast eyes as she licked the corner of her lips: “So it’s a music cultivator. This seat hasn’t seen a music cultivator manifest in the world for many years. She even has merit and dragon energy on her body—her heart must be very delicious.”
“You think you can eat just because you say so?” Kong Hou turned the phoenix head in her hands, and the melody became fierce and murderous. Countless evil cultivators clutched their heads and howled in pain, and even those spirit souls controlled by the female demon had their movements become sluggish.
“An incompetent junior who doesn’t even have Nascent Soul cultivation dares to clamor before this seat.” What the female demon hated most wasn’t ugly men, but women who were prettier than herself and more vibrant than herself. Seeing Kong Hou provoke her, she flew toward Kong Hou without thinking.
However, before she could get close to Kong Hou, she saw a sword flying toward her. If she hadn’t dodged quickly, this sword would have pierced through her chest. She covered her injured arm and vigilantly retreated several yards, then saw a handsome man in white robes pure as snow appear behind Kong Hou.
“Zhong Xi?” The female demon gritted her teeth, her eyes full of hatred and unwillingness.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk.” Kong Hou shook her head and sighed, turning to Huan Zong and saying: “Do you think she hates you more, or hates me more?”
Huan Zong said: “Regardless of who it is, I won’t let her harm you even a bit.”
“I knew it—Huan Zong is the best.” Kong Hou deliberately smiled sweetly and affectedly, looking at the female demon sideways: “Granny, this junior is still young. Don’t bully me.”
“Little slut, this seat will make you not live to see the age when people call you granny.” Age and charm cause tremendous harm to people, whether men or women. The female demon was so angered by Kong Hou’s words that her demon form showed completely, countless fine hairs surging out from beside her cheeks.
“Oh my, looking at demon woman granny’s fur color, you don’t look like a noble-blooded dark fox or snow fox, but rather…” Kong Hou hid behind Huan Zong, the expression on her face exactly like a treacherous consort in the imperial harem sowing discord, extremely hateful. “Rather like a Tibetan fox living in desert grasslands—square face, small eyes, yellow fur. Fortunately, I don’t like wearing fox fur clothes, otherwise if my martial grand-uncle gave me your skin, I’d be too embarrassed to wear it because it’s too ugly.”
“Little slut, I’ll kill you.” The female demon’s demonic energy surged greatly. She opened her mouth and roared, attacking Kong Hou.
“Oh my, I’m so scared.” Kong Hou flew to dodge to another side. Seeing the female demon being suppressed by Huan Zong unable to advance, she patted her chest with a frightened appearance: “Fortunately, I have Big Brother Zhong Xi here who can protect me.”
“Big Brother Zhong Xi, you must protect me well. I’m so scared.”
Shuangqing, who had been swept off the clouds by the female demon’s tail and flew back up again, heard these words and nearly had his spiritual energy leak out, almost falling back down again. He killed several evil cultivators attempting to ambush Yunhua Sect disciples with a few sword strikes, his expression conflicted and pained. He hadn’t expected that the private interaction between Zhong Xi Zhenren and Kong Hou Xianzi would actually be like this.
Touching his arm, cultivators were still better off single—that led to longevity.
The more Kong Hou acted this way, the more furious the female demon became. But Zhong Xi insisted on protecting this slutty and affected little slut to the death. For a moment, she truly couldn’t do anything to this woman. In the evil cultivator world, she had gorgeous looks and the Venerable Lord backing her—when had she ever suffered such grievances?
With the female demon’s steps held up by Huan Zong and Kong Hou, she had no time to pay much attention to those spirit souls. The spirit souls lost their master’s control and began to become dull, and many had even lost their attack power, standing dazed as righteous sect disciples captured them.
“Senior Brother, two fell down on the left.”
“That one won’t work—Nascent Soul cultivation, we can’t beat him. Pick the one on the right with Core Formation cultivation.”
“Go, go, go!”
“If you can’t beat them, hide in the back. Don’t show off. If it really doesn’t work, throw talismans. A Yunhua Sect disciple gave me a huge bunch of talismans just now.”
“Retreat, retreat, retreat—reinforcements are coming.”
The Yuanji Sect disciples achieved great success with their combat style of retreating when the enemy advances, not pursuing when the enemy retreats, and specifically picking soft persimmons to squeeze. For a time, they fought enthusiastically. Two hours later, the disciples of the two sects had actually shattered the atmosphere of the enemy being strong and us being weak that the female demon had created.
On this side, Kong Hou continued to provoke the female demon with words to prevent her from putting her attention on controlling the spirit souls.
“So you’re that evil cultivator world’s number one beauty?” Kong Hou shook her head and sighed. “It seems there really aren’t many good-looking people in your evil cultivator world. Fortunately, you didn’t join our righteous sects, otherwise you wouldn’t even dare dream of a title like number one beauty.”
“No wonder you can’t walk when you see a male cultivator from our righteous sects. The blame lies only in them being too good-looking—it’s truly too sinful.” Kong Hou flipped to dodge the female demon’s fox tail attack, then saw Huan Zong slash off half her tail with one sword. She applauded: “Big Brother Zhong Xi did well. Do you think a fox without a tail, after returning to original form, would look like a ball from far away?”
Zhong Xi had never known Kong Hou could anger people so much. He wielded his sword, not only suppressing the female demon from getting close to Kong Hou, but even killing two Nascent Soul stage evil cultivators who came to help.
The female demon was so angry her eyes had already turned into beast pupils, and her body began demon transformation. Why did demons want to cultivate into human form? It was because human form allowed them to think more calmly and become rational and steady. Beast form would make them follow their true nature more, act without considering consequences, relying only on bestial instincts.
The already half-beast-transformed female demon could no longer care about any big picture. She had only one thought in her mind, which was to kill Kong Hou, this little slut, without waiting even a moment.
“Roar!” She roared angrily. “Zhong Xi, get out of my way. Don’t think just because you have some good looks, I can’t bear to kill you.”
“An evil demon—what is there to bear or not bear?” Kong Hou plucked the phoenix head. “Big Brother Zhong Xi’s most beloved person is me. For me, he’s willing to do anything. Right, Big Brother Zhong Xi?”
Huan Zong… Huan Zong nodded with a red face: “Right.”
“I’ll kill you two sluts!” The female demon completely lost her reason. With a roar, she transformed into her original form—a huge yellow-furred fox with fierce light in her eyes, one bite enough to swallow Kong Hou whole.
Seeing the female demon completely beast-transformed, Kong Hou immediately flew to Huan Zong’s side and shouted loudly toward the sky: “Quickly pour the medicine.”
Linghui, who had been hiding in the clouds for a while, and another martial brother who was also a medicine cultivator, immediately opened their storage pouches upon hearing this and scattered the green medicinal powder inside.
There was a lot of powder, and it quickly covered the fox demon’s entire body.
“This is…” Shuangqing lowered his head and smelled the medicinal powder on his sleeve. “Fox Laugh Grass?”
Although this medicinal ingredient was named Fox Laugh Grass, it was actually a medicine that, after foxes smelled it, would involuntarily open their mouths wide and faint. Because their fainted appearance looked very much like smiling, it got this name.
After the evil cultivator who impersonated Linghui and approached Wu Chuan was caught earlier, under Yunhua Sect’s “polite and courteous” interrogation, this evil cultivator revealed quite a few things, such as the fact that the evil cultivator world’s number one beauty’s original form was a fox.
Yunhua Sect had anticipated the possibility of evil cultivators ambushing them, but they couldn’t predict who the opponents would be or what methods they would have, so they prepared many things, especially medicinal herbs carefully cultivated by Qingyuan specifically for dealing with foxes.
They never fought unprepared battles.
The female demon Hong Mian was different from ordinary foxes. Although already affected by the medicine’s effects, she still had demonic power to resist, but Yunhua Sect up and down, who had long intended to capture her alive, how could they let her escape? When the magical treasure in Qiushuang’s hand came out, it bound the demon tightly.
Just as everyone was cheering, a Nascent Soul stage evil cultivator chose to self-destruct.
At that moment, a dragon’s roar sounded, and a huge golden dragon phantom suddenly appeared, enveloping everyone within it.
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**Author’s Note:** Tibetan Fox: What did I do wrong? Why are you mocking me again?