Chapter 58: I missed one grunt… damn, my disguise just got spotted!

“Does Little Li look sad?”

Song Ruoxue asked in confusion.

Su Li’er came back to her senses and quickly put on a smile. Although she was a little tired and haggard, she quickly retorted.

“It’s nothing, I just suddenly thought of something…”

“Is it because of me? Actually… Little Li is also my favorite person.”

“Sect Master… hmph~~”

“Why is Little Li crying?”

Song Ruoxue couldn’t understand why, after she had sincerely expressed her feelings, her junior sister was still shedding tears.

She didn’t understand, she couldn’t understand at all.

Just as Su Li’er couldn’t understand why Song Ruoxue had to respond to this feeling so sincerely at this particular time, when her heart was at its most conflicted and guilty…

‘You damn big ice block Sect Master.’

‘You won’t understand.’

‘Why I suddenly want to cry.’

‘Because… I am not the little junior sister in your heart.’

‘I am the demon-kin you hate the most, that nine-tailed fox…’

‘I feel that I am not worthy of your affection…’

“I just feel that,” Song Ruoxue reached out and rubbed Su Li’er’s head, her tone comforting and encouraging, “Little Li has been trying to be strong on her own for many things. It’s not easy.”

“…Don’t, don’t touch my head.”

Su Li’er gently swatted away the delicate hand on her head and pouted.

She looked as if she were throwing a little tantrum.

Song Ruoxue looked at the depths of the cave with understanding and asked in a very soft voice, “Little Li, I’m going to go deeper and look for that nine-tailed fox. Shall we go together?”

Alright.

As expected, the sadness was only temporary.

Exposing her identity was even more frightening!

“Mmm… okay.” Su Li’er obediently followed.

The two of them, one in front, one behind.

Song Ruoxue always had a pleasant minty fragrance on her. In the dark environment, her hazy back was really beautiful.

‘If I hugged her, even the coldest body would slowly warm up, right?’

‘So nice.’

‘This is the first time in my two lives that I’ve been confessed to… but I can’t accept it.’

—Su Li’er always remembered the dream from that night.

Those cold hands, the suffocating feeling of her neck being locked… and the fear of being punished.

So contradictory.

‘I feel… a little confused.’

‘What on earth… do I want?’

‘Lifespan?’

Or a sincere relationship?’

‘Perhaps the reason why the Scorching Sun Sword left was because it already knew in advance?’

Hahaha.

Su Li’er, what are you thinking about?

‘So boring.’

Su Li’er was a little listless.

‘There’s no nine-tailed fox in this cave at all.’

‘I’m the fox you’re looking for, Sect Master…’

After winding around for nearly twenty minutes, they were silent with each other.

Song Ruoxue had always been this kind of person, especially when she was focused on something, she became even more taciturn.

When they had passed another fork in the road and arrived at a small pill pharmacy piled with household waste.

Song Ruoxue finally couldn’t help but whisper.

“Strange, why can’t I see that nine-tailed fox anywhere? Little Li, are you sure she’s in the cave?”

“…She is, I just don’t know where she’s hiding?”

Su Li’er pretended to search in the small, dilapidated room.

Looking at her clumsy movements, it didn’t look like she was looking for a person at all, but more like she was looking for a broom or a mop.

‘Eh?’

‘Strange.’

Why is there a big bulge on the wall?’

‘What’s under the quilt?’

Su Li’er rubbed her small chin and stared at the raised quilt in thought.

‘A place like this… would have a quilt?’

There isn’t even a bed in this room.

Song Ruoxue walked forward and stood next to Su Li’er. She stared at the high, raised bedding with a deep gaze.

Both master and disciple realized a problem.

—There’s… a person hiding in this quilt!

“Little Li, step back,” Song Ruoxue said very, very softly.

Su Li’er obediently obeyed and took several light steps back. She had just barely recovered a little bit of her spiritual energy, and the demon sword was sealed outside. This little bit of spiritual energy was not enough to fight, so it was better to stay far away.

“Nine-tailed fox, so foolish… this really isn’t like you,” Song Ruoxue murmured. She reached out and quickly pulled off the bedding. The bedding was thrown far away like a sponge.

It landed on the dusty ground.

But what came into view was not some nine-tailed fox, Little Heavenly Dao… but a middle-aged man with tears and snot streaming down his face, dressed in a black robe.

“I’m sorry, Immortal Fox Sister! I didn’t mean to join the Martial Slaughter Sect! It was all to save some more money for my family. My wife is about to give birth, and I really had no choice! Immortal Fox Sister, you’ve killed all of them, just spare my life! I’m begging you… wuwuwuwu!”

The black-robed man said in extreme grief. Due to his panic, he didn’t dare to open his eyes.

Song Ruoxue was dumbfounded. “What… Immortal Fox?”

Su Li’er’s eyeballs were about to pop out, and she almost jumped to the ceiling!

‘What the hell, could this be the small fry I missed killing just now!?’

‘It’s… going to be a problem.’

In the pill pharmacy, the atmosphere was strange. In the dark environment, they couldn’t see each other’s facial expressions clearly.

The black-robed man slowly opened his eyes and was slightly taken aback. “It’s not that nine-tailed fox? You… you are? The Sword Sect’s Sect Master?!”

—Nine-tailed fox.

These three words were like some kind of special button.

It instantly triggered Song Ruoxue’s vigilance. She lowered her eyes. “If you don’t want to die, tell me everything you know.”

The black-robed man immediately deflated, his face covered in tears. He cupped his hands and bowed repeatedly. “Sect Master of the Sword Sect! Please, please take me out of here. I really can’t stand it anymore. That nine-tailed fox is too perverted… she kills on sight, and she can kill a person with just a look… even a fifth-heaven cultivator was instantly killed. I… we’re all dead. She must have gone to find the boss… to ask the boss for the Nirvana Undying Herb. I knew it! That kind of divine herb absolutely cannot be picked… it will bring about a fatal disaster!”

“…The nine-tailed fox killed all of you?”

“Yes… yes! It’s that white-haired fox demon… with nine tails, she looks like a child… I also saw that nine-tailed fox disguise herself as someone else and hide in this cave. I’m so scared…”

The black-robed man looked around helplessly. Suddenly, his gaze met Su Li’er’s.

The black-robed man’s expression was clearly astonished, as if his soul had been taken away. His lips trembled, and he tried to say something, but his throat was so hoarse it was unrecognizable, and he could only make a muffled sound.

“…I… I, I… Immortal Fox… you’re here?…”

Song Ruoxue frowned. “Speak slowly. What Immortal Fox? Where is she?”

The black-robed man tried hard to extend his hand, but he couldn’t lift his arm several times. His face was already completely pale. “She’s… she’s… that… that…”

Su Li’er felt that this was very bad!

A great sense of crisis was warning her!

‘This… this small fry was hiding in the dark just now and saw the whole process of me disguising myself!?’

‘It’s… over.’

—Sizzle.

A layer of frost spread rapidly across the ground, passing by Song Ruoxue’s side. In an instant, it covered the entire lower half of the black-robed man’s body. The mist of frost lingered in the air.

Su Li’er was breathing heavily, her heart feeling as if it were about to be dragged out of her chest.

At a critical moment, she had stopped thinking and had, without any warning, used the power of her Ice Spirit Root to try and kill that black-robed man, to silence him!

This attack was too fast, and it had severely overdrawn her spiritual energy.

Su Li’er fell to the ground as if she had lost her balance. The world in front of her was constantly spinning and shaking. For the first time, she felt what it was like… for even her breathing to tremble.

She didn’t dare to look up, and she stared blankly at the ground in front of her, which was covered in ice.

The black-robed man showed a look of despair, and in his mumbles and cries for help, he lost his breath.

Song Ruoxue turned her head in a panic and looked at Su Li’er, who had fallen to the ground, in disbelief. She then looked at the frost on the ground.

“Lit-tle… Li?”