Chu Feng looked at Senior Sister Yuyan before him. Not only was she incredibly beautiful, she was downright cool!
Seeing her junior brother completely awestruck, Bai Yuyan felt quite satisfied. All that effort she put into creating the perfect atmosphere hadn’t gone to waste.
But in the next moment, Chu Feng’s words completely caught her off guard.
“Sword qi! Senior Sister Yuyan, can you teach me sword qi?!”
Come on, sword qi was the ultimate cool factor for any man!
Drawing a sword and unleashing sword qi…just imagining it was enough to get his blood pumping.
Chu Feng was already envisioning his future heroic self in action!
“Uh…”
The smile on Bai Yuyan’s face froze. Of all things, she never imagined her junior brother would say that. Shouldn’t he be thanking her for showing up just in time to save him? Maybe gazing at her with awe and admiration?
This wasn’t at all how she had pictured things going.
“I’ll teach you someday, junior brother.”
At that moment, not far off, although the fox demon had been heavily wounded by Bai Yuyan, it hadn’t yet perished; it was merely on the brink of death.
Bai Yuyan turned around, ready to finish it off.
“Fufu… I must say, I’m a bit surprised. A mere fourth-rank cultivator actually defeated a fifth-rank demon?”
A sweet voice drifted through the air…then, in an instant, a barrier formed around them.
A small white fox appeared at the fallen fox demon’s side. Her gaze bypassed Bai Yuyan and fixed directly on Chu Feng.
For some reason, Chu Feng actually saw a trace of gentleness in the little fox’s eyes. It was an expression strikingly similar to how his master would look at him.
“It’s you!”
Bai Yuyan immediately recognized the voice…how could she possibly forget? That seductive fox demon! What was she doing here!?
“Oh my, it seems my appearance has made the Moonlight Sword Fairy’s prized disciple rather unhappy.”
A playful gleam flashed in the fox’s eyes. Bai Yuyan, this little girl, posed little threat. It was her master who was the real issue. That “little rascal” had always preferred more mature women, and Bai Yuyan’s master had a figure just as tempting as her own.
A master-disciple combo with added flavor…it was perfect for “a full-course meal”.
Bai Yuyan clenched her teeth. No doubt about it…. this infuriating tone, this fox was definitely the Demon Empress. More precisely, a clone of the Fox Clan’s Empress!
“Your Majesty…”
The injured fox demon, who now recognized the identity of the little white fox beside her, was deeply shocked. Why would Her Majesty be here!?
The white fox glanced back at her subordinate, and in the next instant, a formation materialized beneath the wounded fox demon.
“Return to the clan and recover.”
As the words fell from her lips, the fox demon’s body vanished.
Though the fox demon had indeed killed many people, so what? After all, her victims weren’t demons, but humans.
Between humans and demons, the cycle of slaughter never ceased.
Humans hunted demons, seizing their demon cores, refining their bones, and stripping away their pelts.
In turn, demons hunted humans, devoured their flesh, and drained their blood essence to advance their own cultivation.
The little white fox gazed deeply at Chu Feng. If not for the fact that she was currently far away from the Great Yan, preoccupied with urgent affairs, and unable to come in person, it wouldn’t have been just her clone standing here tonight….but her true body.
“Little rascal, be good and wait for me, won’t you~?”
Her voice echoed directly into his mind through soul transmission.
The next moment, the barrier dissolved. Both the wounded fox demon and the little fox vanished without a trace.
Chu Feng replayed the fox’s words in his mind. Damn it… it felt like he’d just been targeted by a fox!
***
The next day, Bai Yuyan reported directly to Elder Wei and Zhao Lei, the commander of the Dragon Phoenix Guards, that the fox demon had been gravely injured. But unfortunately, she managed to escape in the end.
Elder Wei and Zhao Lei were both skeptical at first. Then, Bai Yuyan produced the fox demon’s demon core.
“Fifth-rank cultivation!”
Both Elder Wei and Zhao Lei were stunned.
To defeat a demon of the fifth rank while only at the fourth…such a feat was extraordinary. At the lower stages, it was common to fight across one or even two ranks. But once cultivation advanced further, even a single small realm gap became as vast as heaven and earth.
“Elder Wei, according to sect rules, the demon core belongs to whoever defeats the demon, correct?”
Bai Yuyan spoke calmly.
Her words weren’t wrong. But that rule usually applied to second-rank or third-rank demon cores. Those were weak in effect, and letting disciples keep them served more to inspire motivation than provide real benefit.
But a fifth-rank demon core was a different matter entirely. Even Elder Wei, at the sixth rank himself, found it tempting. If it had been any ordinary disciple, he would have persuaded them one way or another to hand it over to the sect.
But Bai Yuyan was the disciple of the Moonlight Sword Fairy. He didn’t dare.
“Of course.”
Elder Wei nodded his head.
Meanwhile, Chu Feng was downstairs at the tavern, drinking tea with Liu Zhitong.
He couldn’t help but admire these like-minded cultivators. As soon as word spread that the culprit had been heavily injured and fled, they immediately hurried over to the Fragrant Flower Pavilion to “comfort” the demon race girls there, caring for them with concern.
“Hehe, well? Brother Zhang, aren’t you tempted?”
Liu Zhitong noticed Chu Feng’s gaze wandering constantly over the fox demon girls and immediately understood. After all, men were men.
“Alas… the spirit is willing, but the purse is weak!”
Chu Feng sighed. So many beautiful fox girls before his eyes….his heart was pounding. But his wallet was empty. This very morning, it had been Senior Sister Yuyan who made him breakfast. Otherwise, he would’ve gone hungry again.
“What?! Brother Zhang, you don’t even have ten spirit stones?!” Liu Zhitong exclaimed in surprise. “Our Heaven’s Pinnacle Sect is one of the top sects. When new disciples pass the entrance test, the sect gives out fifty spirit stones as cultivation funds. At the Fragrant Flower Pavilion, ten spirit stones can get someone to chat with you for a quarter of an hour…though of course, no touching allowed.”
“What! Fifty spirit stones?!”
Upon hearing Liu Zhitong’s words, Chu Feng touched his pocket. How come he didn’t have a single one?
Seeing the confused look on Chu Feng’s face, Liu Zhitong asked, “Brother Zhang, were you perhaps taken in as a personal disciple by an elder? Normally, as long as you pass the trial, the sect gives out the stones. But if you’re accepted by an elder, it’s an exception. Because the elder is supposed to give the spirit stones to their new disciple themselves.”
“So, if you’re taken in by an elder… there’s a chance you won’t get any spirit stones?”
Chu Feng thought back to being accepted by his master. Could it be that his spirit stones were swallowed up by his master?
But… his master treated him so well. She had even helped him draw qi into his body through dual… cultivation. How could she have secretly kept his spirit stones?
“No way,” Liu Zhitong shook his head. “On the contrary, if you’re taken in by an elder, you actually get more spirit stones.”
“Look!”
Liu Zhitong pointed at Xue Yiyi who was dressed in a yellow robe.
“Brother Zhang, that girl’s talent is second only to Lin Ruo among the new disciples. She was taken in by an elder, and the elder immediately gave her 800 spirit stones! I’ve never seen that many spirit stones in my entire life!”
“And look at Lin Ruo. On the very day he was accepted as a disciple by the Moonlight Sword Fairy, the Sword Fairy waved her hand and gave him a thousand spirit stones!”
After hearing Liu Zhitong’s words, Chu Feng was completely stunned. Eight hundred! A thousand!
Wait a second!
The Moonlight Sword Fairy…. that’s his master!
“You’re saying… Lin Ruo became the disciple of the Moonlight Sword Fairy?!”
Chu Feng asked in shock. His master had never mentioned anything about this. And Senior Sister Yuyan, who was also his master’s disciple, hadn’t said a word either.
“Yeah! Brother Zhang, you didn’t know? Lin Ruo caused such a stir that even the Moonlight Sword Fairy took notice. Just thinking about it makes me jealous. The Moonlight Sword Fairy is one of the top beauties in the cultivation world. I wish I had a beautiful master like her too!”
After hearing Liu Zhitong’s words, Chu Feng was completely dumbfounded. That person with the protagonist template… was actually his senior brother?
Then what did that make him? An NPC?
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