Chapter 1: The Fox’s Awakening: A Transmigrator’s Resolve

Azure Phoenix Sect, Violet Haze Peak.

By a mountain stream, where the spring water flowed with pristine clarity and a gentle murmur.

A figure clad in fiery crimson drew all eyes. Her skin was fair, her features exquisite, and a tear mole beneath her left eye lent her an air of striking maturity.

One glance was enough to perceive her as an unparalleled beauty, exuding the alluring aura of an older sister from next door.

The young woman, dressed in a crimson-gold fire cloud dress, sat gracefully upon a smooth stone.

The hem of her fire cloud dress was cut exceptionally short, revealing a pair of bare, snow-white legs. The interplay of crimson and white only heightened the captivating allure of her beautiful limbs.

Above these elegant, flawless, and fair legs rested an even whiter presence: a small fox, its fur luxuriant and its entire body a lustrous silver-white.

Cradled in the crimson-clad beauty’s arms, the little fox lowered its small head slightly. Its mischievous, peach-blossom eyes swiveled, fixated on the two luminous, overlapping white thighs.

Gazes fixed on the intertwined pair of beautiful legs, Xiao Xi, the little fox, honestly admitted that he—or rather, ‘it’ now—had a strong desire to leap up and touch them.

After much deliberation, however, it ultimately suppressed the impulse.

Instead, it turned its fox head, leaning back against the exquisite softness and bouncy resilience of the peerless beauty.

As it felt the unparalleled sensation emanating from the woman, Xiao Xi, who had transmigrated into this world a month prior, finally grasped a profound truth.

‘In this alien world, overflowing with material desires, only this pair of soft, plush bunnies can offer a sliver of true warmth!’

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One month ago, Xiao Xi, then an ordinary university student, was engrossed in a novel titled “Battle of the Arrogant Heaven” on a pirated website.

This novel was a popular *Long Aotian* cultivation story, where the protagonist, Ye Chen, gradually ascended from a novice to a formidable cultivator, eventually achieving immortality and saving the world.

While the plot was somewhat mindless and much of the content was typical ‘novice-level’ writing.

For a story that offered instant gratification without requiring much thought.

In the fiercely competitive academic environment of university life, Xiao Xi genuinely enjoyed using this brainless novel as a means of relaxation.

However, if asked about the novel’s flaws, Xiao Xi did have a few significant complaints.

Firstly, several antagonists in the novel shared the surname Xiao.

Even more coincidentally, the names of his own elder brother and father overlapped with those of the main villain in the story, which Xiao Xi found ’emmmmm… rather strange’ while reading.

The second, and most crucial, point was that many characters in the story died needlessly, sacrificed solely for the growth of the male and female protagonists.

While the deaths of some villains were satisfying, the demise of characters who didn’t deserve to die always left Xiao Xi, as a reader, with a lingering sense of injustice.

After four days, he finally reached the grand finale. Seeing all the villains meet their end, the world at peace, and the protagonist along with his harem living shamelessly ever after.

Xiao Xi, having finished the entire novel, was just about to post a scathing review on the pirated website.

However, the moment Xiao Xi connected to the internet, the pirated website swiftly displayed an advertisement.

Unlike the usual garish, sound-effect-laden ads that blared ‘Ha-ha—ha,’ this one consisted of only a few sparse words.

‘Do you wish to save the villains?’

‘Yes (5 seconds off ad time)’

‘No’

Seeing these two options, Xiao Xi didn’t give it much thought. He simply assumed it was a new method for the pirated website to ‘attract traffic’ and prevent idle users.

Based on his past experience, if he didn’t select an option, the 30-second ad would continuously lag and loop.

Xiao Xi suspected that the pirated website generated revenue by siphoning user traffic in this manner.

To avoid being exploited, Xiao Xi unhesitatingly chose ‘Yes.’ Soon, the ad time decreased from 30 seconds to 25 seconds.

Shortly after, another five seconds passed, and a new set of options quickly appeared on the pirated app.

‘Please select your transmigration target?’

‘A: Qing Zhou’

‘B: Tu Ping’

‘C:…D.E.F.G’

‘Z: Random’

Staring at the dense array of 24 options, Xiao Xi couldn’t help but marvel at how sophisticated ‘pirated websites’ had become, presenting two ‘anti-idle’ options within a mere 30 seconds.

The options this time were also quite intriguing, featuring cannon fodder villains from “Battle of the Arrogant Heaven,” the kind who met their demise within a single chapter.

Faced with these choices, Xiao Xi was momentarily at a loss for words regarding the pirated website.

To call the website diligent felt like misdirected effort.

Yet, to call it lazy seemed unfair, considering the obvious effort put into compiling such a comprehensive list of minor characters.

After all, who would remember so many ‘one-chapter’ cannon fodder characters from a novel?

Convinced it was merely another simple advertisement, Xiao Xi, who suffered from a slight case of indecisiveness, didn’t bother to read the prompt carefully at the time. He simply clicked the ‘Random’ option.

The moment he made his selection, his beloved Samsung phone began to heat up. Before he could react, it exploded with a resounding ‘boom.’

When Xiao Xi’s consciousness returned, he found himself transmigrated to the ‘Cloud Marsh Continent’ within the novel.

Unlike other transmigrators, his randomly chosen target wasn’t a human, but a nimble little fox with pristine white, gleaming fur.

In “Battle of the Arrogant Heaven,” due to the author’s dislike for foxes, nearly all fox-kin or those who transformed into demons were antagonists, almost invariably meeting a tragic end.

Having become a fox, Xiao Xi, recalling the novel and the cannon fodder options, began to piece things together.

Over the past month, it had roughly deduced its identity.

It was likely Qing Zhou, the minor minion of the antagonist Senior Disciple Brother Xiao Changgu, who shared a name with his own brother in the original novel.

As for why the ‘Qing Zhou’ in the novel was human, while he was now a fox?

Having been transmigrated for a month, Xiao Xi had a rough theory: a time difference.

In the original text, in the year 183 CE, the villain Xiao Changgu, by a stroke of luck, rescued Su Mei, an elder of Violet Haze Peak, who had been harmed by scoundrels during her outdoor training.

Two years later, in 185 CE, Xiao Changgu, through an unexpected opportunity, joined the Azure Phoenix Sect and became the Violet Haze Peak Master Su Mei’s chief disciple.

Not long after this, the novel’s protagonist, Ye Chen, also joined the Azure Phoenix Sect and began his struggle against the villain Xiao Changgu. Qing Zhou, as a ‘lackey’ in the novel, lost their life during the very first confrontation between the two.

For a minor cannon fodder character with only a few lines, the novel naturally offered only a brief description. The clearest detail Xiao Xi remembered was: ‘After Qing Zhou’s death, he transformed into a spirit fox, entirely white, thus proving his fox demon identity.’

Now, it was 183 CE. Xiao Xi surmised that, given the current timeline, he would likely gradually ‘demonize’ into a human over these unfamiliar two years, beginning his role as the villain’s sidekick.

As for why Xiao Xi was so confident, so certain that he was Qing Zhou.

It was because, in the novel, there were only two fox characters associated with the main villain, Xiao Changgu.

One was the cannon fodder minion, Qing Zhou, and the other was Xiao Changgu’s sister, Xiao Xixi.

Although Xiao Xixi was the villain’s biological sister, her role in the story far exceeded that of Xiao Changgu.

Endowed with a rare and unique Charm Spirit Root, Xiao Xixi was a cheat-like existence in the novel, whose strength increased simply by engaging in ‘lewd acts.’

After the protagonist, Ye Chen, killed Xiao Changgu during a martial arts competition.

Xiao Xixi became demonized. During a training expedition, she was unexpectedly ambushed by the Temple of Joyful Union. After losing her purity, her strength surged dramatically.

Having discovered this shortcut to power, Xiao Xixi, driven by revenge for her brother, abandoned her sect and succumbed to the demonic path. She continuously enhanced her strength through evil techniques of ‘harvesting’ men.

Yet, despite every power surge, she was repeatedly thwarted by the protagonist’s cheat-like fortuitous encounters.

Ultimately, during a hunt for Ye Chen, Xiao Xixi, the villain, while locked in a fierce battle with him, was ambushed by the Abbot of the Grand Joyful Temple, the novel’s largest villainous organization.

What followed was a classic case of evil being overcome by greater evil. Xiao Xixi, who had always ‘harvested’ men, finally fell to the even more sinister villainous abbot and his enormous Ruyi Golden… After that, her fate devolved into ‘VIP content’ of being turned into a ‘plush ball.’

Recalling the indescribable scenes involving the fox-kin junior sister, Xiao Xixi, in the novel.

Especially the novel’s ending, which depicted the tragic fate of the little fox ‘Xiao Xixi’ – a character whose name closely resembled his own – foaming at the mouth, consciousness blurring, and ultimately losing all dignity.

At this, Xiao Xi involuntarily clenched his small fox paws.

It secretly resolved that since it had transmigrated, this time, it absolutely had to save that young girl!

‘Consider it repaying the favor of that initial impulse!’