Chapter 301: You Like to Talk, Don

“Wang”

The ear fox, who called itself the Fox King, ceased its noisy clamor after being struck by Master Fuli’s club, clutching its agonizing crown and emitting whimpers.

Though its body was no larger than a slipper, its voice rivaled an air-raid siren.

“Shut your mouth for now—I’ll come back and deal with you later.”

An Sheng retracted the straight branch he had just swung, mimicking a great hero sheathing his sword with a particularly stylish flourish.

“Wang wang wang—”

But the ear fox, despite being beaten, did not grow obedient like other spirit beasts; once the pain in its crown slightly subsided, it opened its mouth wide and let out a piercing dog-like bark directed at An Sheng.

The ear fox, furious, constantly interrupted An Sheng’s speech, preventing him from communicating with the Wang couple.

An Sheng frowned and looked at the ear fox.

“Ying ying ying! Wang wang wang—”

“I’ll give you one chance.”

“Ying ying ying—”

“Htui—” An Sheng spat, the saliva landing deep in the ear fox’s throat; the Fox King felt something foreign lodge there, instinctively swallowing—but upon regaining awareness, he immediately thrashed and gagged violently.

“If you’re going to argue, don’t open your mouth that wide,” An Sheng sneered with contempt, waved his hand dismissively, and walked two steps toward the living room, ignoring the ear fox.

Lin Bingyun had been filming the entire process of Master Fuli punishing evildoers with her phone.

An Sheng’s gaze swept over the mutated Wang Ya and the couple kneeling on the floor, weeping uncontrollably.

“Wang—whatever your name is, yes, lift your head, lean closer to me—I’ll show you a great treasure.”

Following Master Fuli’s pointing finger, Wang Lei instinctively crawled forward two steps while still on his knees.

“Yes, yes, right there.”

Master Fuli measured the spot, then raised his branch with lightning speed and delivered a firm, precise blow to Wang Lei’s head.

“Dong—”

A skull-thudding echo reverberated through the living room; Wang Lei’s eyes rolled back and he instinctively screamed, clutching his head.

“Bold Wang Lei! I, Master Fuli, see through every detail—do you think I don’t know why the ear fox is haunting you?”

Master Fuli kicked out, sending Wang Lei tumbling to the floor, then swung his club and began beating his buttocks.

“Wang Ya, come over and flip your father over!” An Sheng gestured to Wang Ya; the girl, who had stood frozen nearby with a blank expression, extended her scorpion pincers, gripped her father’s body, and flipped him over.

After delivering twenty solid blows to Wang Lei’s front, Master Fuli lowered the branch.

【Master Fuli sees through all things, keenly sensing Wang Lei’s insincere wish and lies—he raised foxes for profit, often abandoning sick ones into the wild to die, yet the foreign red foxes that escaped came to bully the local foxes. Master Fuli avenged the Xia North foxes!】

【Wish Power +1】

“Hng?”

An Sheng, seeing the wish list prompt, froze, glancing involuntarily at Wang Ya’s mother.

“You too—bring your head over here.”

Qiao Yu, who had been sobbing uncontrollably and trying to plead with Master Fuli to stop, was startled—but she knew the white fox speaking human speech was a true immortal, and dared not disobey.

Qiao Yu, terrified and weeping, berated her husband for entering the leather business.

“Dong—”

Master Fuli struck again; suddenly, golden light flashed in his mind.

【Master Fuli, meticulous as silk, uncovered Qiao Yu, the mastermind behind a former wildlife smuggling ring—they committed grave crimes, destroying the ecosystem and introducing foreign species to siphon the blessings of Xia’s spirit beasts.】

【Wish Power +2】

An Sheng: “.”

So it’s real? I just said it offhand.

And it actually generated wish power.

Seeing the wish power credited, An Sheng sat silently on the sofa on the second floor of the villa and spoke:

“Let’s lay everything out on the table. I know about your animal smuggling. I know why that loudmouth fox is after you—you understand too.”

Aside from what happened to Wang Ya, the grudge between Wang Lei, Qiao Yu, and the ear fox was simple.

The ear fox was imported by Wang Lei and Qiao Yu through smuggling, brought into Xia as a pet to sell—but later ended up in Wang Ya’s hands, becoming her pet.

Spirit beasts differ among themselves.

The ear fox, though a spirit beast, is a textbook example of a 【Human Society Specialized Spirit Beast】.

In short, its evolutionary path is toward becoming a fox-loli—its own power is extremely weak.

Without any change, the ear fox, as a spirit beast, could only remain Wang Ya’s pet.

But then another event occurred: Wang Ya’s body mutated for reasons unknown, allowing the ear fox to turn the tables and become the master, using Wang Ya to rule here.

The mutated Wang Ya, though grotesquely deformed, was truly powerful—especially in defense, where she was unmatched, unafraid to clash head-on with a hundred-ton beast.

But she met Master Fuli.

Master Fuli, with his triple-high traits—high attack, high agility, high HP—crushed Wang Ya into despair.

She couldn’t even touch him, let alone retaliate.

The ear fox exploited Wang Ya’s mutation to spread rumors throughout the fox breeding farm, convincing Wang Lei and Qiao Yu that their daughter’s deformity was a curse from the Fox Immortal, punishment for their sins.

The ear fox was using Wang Ya’s power to pretend to be a fox king.

From the detailed wishes of different beings in the Fox Kingdom, An Sheng pieced together the true origins of the Wang family’s grudges.

But a problem arose.

Wang Ya’s mutation had nothing to do with the ear fox or Wang Lei and Qiao Yu—then how did she become like this?

Qiao Yu wished to Master Fuli that her daughter would return.

The cause of Wang Ya’s mutation is tied to wish power—otherwise An Sheng wouldn’t have gone through the trouble of gathering all parties in the villa to reconstruct the truth through interrogation and cross-examination.

The ear fox, which controlled Wang Ya, clearly knew what happened—but it would never tell Wang Lei, to exact revenge for their trafficking of it.

Therefore,

An Sheng first silenced the ear fox, then brutally beat Wang Lei and Qiao Yu.

As Master Fuli spoke, revealing the hidden origins of the Fox Kingdom’s rise to wealth,

the villa fell into brief silence; Wang Lei and Qiao Yu, as well as the ear fox, all clutched their aching spots and said nothing.

Wang Lei and Qiao Yu were the beneficiaries.

The trafficked ear fox, too, was now a beneficiary of those illegal earnings.

It, they, and the hotel staff—all were vested interests, all hiding this truth.

How much is a fur fox worth?

A rare exotic pet starts at thirty to fifty thousand.

A well-bred rare species? Buyers pay hundreds of thousands, even millions—and sometimes, you don’t buy one or two—you buy a whole group.

Because some creatures are social; buying just one or two makes survival nearly impossible.

Wang Lei, Qiao Yu, and the hotel staff once specialized in pet smuggling; the fox breeding farm was likely not even their main business—just one method to launder their illegal income.

“Speak up! Earlier, one of you was screaming insults nonstop, the other two were praying desperately to save their daughter—why are you all silent now?”

“If you won’t talk, I’m calling the police!”

“I’ll send you two to prison to pick up soap, then ship you off to the lumberjacks’ dormitory!” An Sheng swept his gaze around the room and slammed his fist on the sofa arm.

“?”

Lin Bingyun froze—could we really report this?

(End of Chapter)