Chapter 121: A Foxy Encounter

Poor Leng Qingqiu had no idea how flawed her hastily made necklace was.

She didn’t even know that the truth—that she was never really Chu Huaizhou’s true dao partner—had been thoroughly exposed.

She still believed that Chu Huaizhou had never been toyed with by anyone other than her.

In reality, it wasn’t just Xia Baiqian. Even the seemingly simple-minded Bai Li had taken a few small bites.

Moreover, during his heart-to-heart talk with Xia Baiqian, Chu Huaizhou unexpectedly recovered memories from his late Nascent Soul stage.

He learned what Bai Li had said long ago: the real reason he and Leng Qingqiu were always alone in a room, not allowing outsiders in.

It wasn’t what Chu Huaizhou had imagined.

It was just that Qingqiu had obtained a rare treasure in the Shenghua Secret Realm. While using it to aid her cultivation, she had nearly fallen into qi deviation.

At every turn of day and night, her meridians would freeze over with cold energy, causing her unbearable pain.

Only if Chu Huaizhou used his far superior spiritual power to forcibly nourish and circulate her qi for an hour could the pain be eased.

Well, he wondered how he had eventually found a way to relieve Qingqiu of that suffering.

At any rate, she showed no signs of abnormality now and had even grasped the Dao of [Ice].

Thus, the last possible misunderstanding about her being his dao partner was successfully cleared up.

Leng Qingqiu lost her leverage as a dao partner, plummeting from the top tier to the second-to-last tier.

Back at Xu Mengdie’s aerial pavilion.

Xia Baiqian’s counter-punishment against Chu Huaizhou only caught her off guard at first, making her shy.

But as she gradually adapted, she discovered a strange, indescribable emotion welling up inside her.

It became uncontrollable. Even when Chu Huaizhou wanted to end the punishment and withdraw his hand, she used her two small snow treats to stop him, forcing him to continue.

This drove Chu Huaizhou nearly to despair—neither gentle nor forceful tactics worked.

What should he do to make his disciple more wary and less affectionate?

Truly, when one is weak, everything they do seems like coquettish behavior.

And so, under the constant gaze of the other two women, Xia Baiqian kept doing this and that underwater.

She persisted until Xu Mengdie said she felt dizzy from soaking and wanted to leave.

Bai Li also made an excuse to get some fresh air, but secretly went looking for Chu Huaizhou.

Only then did Xia Baiqian release her two small snow treats.

Chu Huaizhou surfaced from the water, dizzy and on the verge of fainting.

His hands were nearly numb, saturated with the fragrance of flowers and fruit.

They had… lost all feeling.

Xia Baiqian, her eyes dazed, saw her master looking down at her hands and knew what she was worried about.

She reached out her jade-like hand, absorbed all the lingering aura, ensuring Bai Li wouldn’t detect anything.

Then she watched her master flee the hot spring, licking her lips.

“Master, we have a long time ahead of us. Plenty of time~ hehe~”

“One day, I’ll make you willingly do this and that with me~”

Indeed, Chu Huaizhou’s efforts that day were not without effect.

At least initially, when Xia Baiqian saw her master interacting with other women and often neglecting her, she was determined to conquer her master.

But now, her hazy gaze cleared, becoming sharp and lively.

Suddenly, she lost interest in doing that sort of thing. It seemed… boring.

It was far more interesting to slowly train her master, watching him gradually succumb, hehe~.

…

Afterwards, Chu Huaizhou tidied himself up, got everything ready, found a chair on the third floor, and pretended to look at the scenery outside.

As expected, he successfully “coincidentally” met Miss Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, who was patrolling the entire aerial pavilion.

The moment Bai Li saw Chu Huaizhou, tears welled up in her eyes—whether from not seeing him for so long or from sheer excitement.

She rushed over in three quick steps and flung herself onto him.

“Duang~”

She knocked both him and the chair to the ground.

Her proud assets pressed firmly against his chest.

Even through the fabric, he could feel their astonishing elasticity.

Chu Huaizhou thought, ‘Coach, she’s charging with the ball!’

Bai Li’s nine big tails fluttered joyfully and wagged wildly.

“Human, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you for days and couldn’t find you, meow.”

Chu Huaizhou: “Me? I’ve just been wandering around here.”

Bai Li: “I’ve searched almost the entire pavilion. I was afraid you’d been taken away by some bad woman again, meow. Glad you’re okay, meow~”

She wrapped her arms around his back and nuzzled against his chest affectionately, rubbing her face on him.

As if they hadn’t seen each other for ages, though in reality it was only half an hour.

A very long half-hour, to be sure.

Chu Huaizhou looked at the mature Bai Li in his arms, stroked her soft white hair, and couldn’t help shaking his head with a wry smile.

What was pressing down on him now was not a nine-tailed celestial fox at all, but a big, spoiled cat.

Her luxurious pomegranate-red palace gown was already rumpled from all the rubbing, and her long legs under the skirt were restlessly kicking.

This silly fox—if she just stood still silently, she was the epitome of a domineering empress.

But the moment she opened her mouth or made a move, she instantly turned into an adorable softie.

If outsiders saw her like this, the title of Spirit Beast Empress might become the Demon Realm’s Little Kitty.

As Bai Li rubbed against him, she seemed to catch a strange scent. She perked up her big white fox ears and sniffed hard with her nose.

Her brow furrowed.

Weird. Why did she smell Xiao Baiqian? But when she sniffed carefully, it didn’t seem quite right.

She cast a suspicious gaze over Chu Huaizhou, but seeing his calm expression, she shook her head as if convincing herself. The next moment, her brow relaxed.

Forget it. As long as she found him. The scent was probably from staying too long with Baiqian earlier; her nose must have picked it up.

Baiqian had said that when she arrived, Chu Huaizhou had already left the hot spring. How could he have been soaking in it that whole time?

Bai Li chose to believe.

She continued her cuddle.

Unfortunately, Chu Huaizhou had just been tormented for half an hour and was now in an invincible sage mode.

With only the passively running Xuanqiong Mingxin Jade Manual and the necklace from Qingqiu, he could barely resist Bai Li’s temptation, feeling nothing.

Bai Li didn’t push him away as usual. Instead, she cuddled closer, sniffing his clothes’ scent like a kitten inhaling catnip, her face showing intoxication.

Occasionally, she would purr “meow, meow.”

Truly adorable.

“Human… you promised me before. It’s been over ten days. Shouldn’t you…”

Just as Bai Li had absorbed enough scent and the mood was right, she began to climb up slowly, unconsciously revealing a seductive expression.

Suddenly, she felt a chill on her back. She turned to see Xia Baiqian, dressed in an orange-yellow pearl-white lake silk dress, standing at the end of the corridor, her clear bright eyes staring at them.

“Poof—”

Yes, our little Bai Li, upon seeing Baiqian approach, shyly transformed back into her small fox energy-saving form.

Chu Huaizhou remained expressionless, having seen this scene many times before.

He was immune.

Holding the curled-up Bai Li, who was blinking her watery amber eyes on the verge of tears, he walked back to Xu Mengdie’s bedroom with Xia Baiqian.

They had rested enough. After a little more chatting, it would be time to head home.

He wondered how Ye Feng was doing. Hopefully Di Xiaoyao would recover soon.

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