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No mosquitoes or insects bothered Bai Jiujiu, allowing her to lie freely on the rocks.
Suddenly, Xiao Qiugan sat up. Her body gradually blurred, and she looked at Bai Jiujiu with a strange expression.
“Master, the duration of my secret technique is almost up. I’ve told you everything I wanted to say, but the most important part you guessed yourself, making me lose face.”
“Don’t underestimate your master! After all, I’m a great demon who has lived for eight thousand years!”
Bai Jiujiu stood up, meeting Xiao Qiugan’s gaze at eye level. A faint smile appeared on her face, and her two small dimples looked adorable.
“Right, right, right. Master who spent most of those eight thousand years sleeping.”
“Ungrateful disciple!” Bai Jiujiu puffed out her cheeks and raised her little pink fist. She stopped it on Xiao Qiugan’s cat head but didn’t strike down.
“Master, time is short. I’m really happy to see you again. For that, I must thank Junior Sister.”
“Hmm. Although Ling’er has never given me peace of mind and always causes trouble, thanks to her and Bai Jiu’er providing the Bishui Pearl, I was able to shake off my lethargy and come down the mountain to experience the human world.”
Bai Jiujiu nodded. No matter how much trouble Su Ling’er later caused, she had ultimately fulfilled Bai Jiujiu’s long-standing wish since she transmigrated into this world.
To experience the human world.
Even without that, Bai Jiujiu would not ignore her disciple’s danger.
Of course, ever since coming down the mountain, Bai Jiujiu had been noting down every trouble caused by that little fox Su Ling’er. She had accumulated them in her little notebook and planned to spank her with a snake tail later.
“Master, one last thing. Reminder: don’t invest too much emotion in everything from the dream realm.”
“The history that belongs to Bai Jiu’er hasn’t begun yet. Although I’m not entirely sure, please be careful of the fox demon nearby that can use soul power and has silver patterns.”
Xiao Qiugan finished all her words, and then her body completely disappeared before Bai Jiujiu’s eyes.
‘Ah, contrary to novels, she didn’t vanish while hiding key information.’
‘No riddler.’
Bai Jiujiu stood up from the stone, closed her eyes, and stretched. Then she leaped off the stone and landed on the bank.
‘Don’t worry, Xiao Qiugan. I can still distinguish reality from dreams. At the very least, I won’t lose myself.’
The snake was very confident in herself!
‘A fox demon with silver patterns?’
‘It’s too late for a bath. Time to go home.’
“Dad, Mom, I’m back from my bath…”
Pushing open the courtyard gate, Bai Jiujiu was about to announce her return when she suddenly smelled blood.
It was the scent of Qingqiu fox demon blood.
As an eight-thousand-year great demon, even in the dreamfall, she could easily distinguish the scents of different monsters.
‘Could something have happened to Mom and Sister?’
A hint of panic appeared on Bai Jiujiu’s face. She hurried to the house.
She forcefully pushed open the door and looked inside breathlessly.
But she didn’t find what she had imagined. Bai Hegui was holding medicinal herbs, while Su Po and Bai Jiu’er were crouched on the ground, wiping wounds for two weak fox demons.
Blood and dirt stained their bodies, making it impossible to see any patterns.
“Jiu’er, what’s the rush? What happened?”
They all looked up at Bai Jiujiu, asking in confusion.
‘So the family is fine. That’s good, that’s good.’
Bai Jiujiu awkwardly looked at the room, realizing her loss of composure. She quickly turned away, scratching her chin while dry laughing.
‘So awkward. What should I do?’
“Who are these two?”
‘Jiu’er’s change of subject is so stiff.’
“Sister!”
“Ehe.”
Su Po gently tapped Bai Jiu’er’s head with a wooden stick, making her fox ears perk up in response.
“Mom, you’re biased!”
“Jiu’er, these are my kin. They fled here while being hunted by the Demon-Subduing Bureau’s catchers. Come on, help Mom clean their bodies.”
‘The Demon-Subduing Bureau, huh.’
‘Right, this era isn’t the peaceful coexistence between humans and demons two hundred years later. It’s a time of opposition.’
‘The Bureau’s current goal is to capture any demon appearing in the human world, regardless of guilt or innocence. Every demon is to be arrested.’
Bai Jiujiu took the clean water Su Po handed her and crouched down to wipe the body of the larger fox demon.
‘Can’t even transform yet?’
‘It seems its cultivation is only at the Transformation Realm.’
Bai Jiujiu curiously glanced over the two fox demons. One big, one small. The larger one bore more wounds and was dirtier.
Under the dim candlelight, she could see that the one in Bai Hun’er’s hands had been wiped clean, revealing what seemed to be gray patterns.
‘These two must be mother and daughter.’
Bai Jiujiu dipped the cloth in water and carefully wiped the dirt off the fox demon she was tending.
Under the cloth, silver fur came into her view.
‘A… fox demon with silver patterns!’
Bai Jiujiu’s eyes widened. The cloth slipped into the bucket.
Clear water soaked into the filthy rag, and the bloody dirt seeped in, polluting the crystal-clear liquid and turning it turbid.
The water in the bucket was no longer clean.
“Ah!”
Tong Qiu ran through the forest, pursued closely by wolf demons. In her weakened state, she couldn’t shake them off.
She looked around, observing her surroundings to avoid leading them to Bai Jiujiu trapped in the nightmare.
She pretended to trip and fall into the grass before her, using the opportunity to cover Bai Jiujiu’s body.
To prevent the wolf demons from smelling Bai Jiujiu’s monster scent, she reached for the wound healed by Little Wu three days ago. The scar had just formed new flesh. Tong Qiu didn’t hesitate. She thrust her hand into her own flesh, enduring the intense pain as she ripped the wound open again.
Blood gushed out. Tong Qiu gritted her teeth. Instead of using spiritual power to stanch the bleeding, she let it drench the grass and Bai Jiujiu.
‘The scent of a cultivator’s blood should mask Bai Jiujiu’s monster scent.’
Tong Qiu breathed heavily. Hearing the wolf demons getting closer, she clutched her wound, looked up, and leaped onto a nearby tree.
Heisha and Yinsha soon arrived at the grass hiding Bai Jiujiu. They gathered around the bush, sniffing.
Tong Qiu crouched nervously on the tree, masking her aura with spiritual power. If Heisha and Yinsha parted the grass, they would certainly find Bai Jiujiu.
She was betting.
“Leader, the blood smell is strong. It seems that cultivator fell in the grass and reopened his wound.”
“Indeed…” Heisha lifted his head from the grass and smiled disdainfully.
“There’s no spread of the blood scent. Maybe that cultivator is hiding in this grass. Leader, let me flush him out!”
“Idiot!”
Heisha stopped Yinsha from parting the grass. Instead, he turned to look at the tree beside him.
“Knowing he was wounded and dripping blood, he couldn’t escape. Planning to hide in the tree and ambush us while we searched the grass? What a cunning cultivator!”
As Heisha spoke, he attacked Tong Qiu hiding in the tree!
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