Chapter 306

Hutou Gou, outside the Wang Family, an inconspicuous hillside.

"Hu Jiushisan!"

A voice like thunder rang in his ears, startling Hu Jiushisan awake from sleep; he couldn't help shouting, "Who the hell? Don't you know I'm sleeping? Want to die?"

Before he finished speaking, Hu Jiushisan's face changed drastically; only then did he realize he was no longer in his original dwelling, and his former friends didn't know he had "moved" here, even if they wanted to find him.

They wouldn't be able to find it for a while!

At this moment……to know it's here……to call out its name……

In a moment, Hu Jiushisan trembled all over, as if thinking of something, his face full of panic.

"Awake, come out quickly!"

Hu Jianbo scolded.

Hu Jiushisan's face turned deathly pale, devoid of any blood; how could it not know it had just scolded the clan leader, who knows how the clan leader will deal with it.

It really didn't want to see Hu Jianbo, but where would it get the courage to defy the clan leader's order?

Hu Jiushisan trudged out of the cave with legs as heavy as lead, seeing a figure outside the cave, the little hope in it shattered instantly; with a 'plop!' it collapsed to the ground.

Hu Jiushisan wailed with a grief-stricken face: "Clan leader, I, I, I didn't mean to scold you just now, I, I, I didn't know you would come!"

I sent you to protect this household—is this how you protect? Hiding in the cave sleeping in?

Hu Jianbo gave a cold snort, not letting the deathly pale Hu Jiushisan even open his mouth to explain, then continued: "During your time here, has anything happened?"

Hu Jiushisan looked bewildered, seemingly not knowing how to answer Hu Jianbo's question.

Hu Jianbo spoke again: "You idiot, tell me everything you've seen since you came here, from start to finish, without omitting anything!"

"Yes, yes, yes……"

Hu Jiushisan immediately reacted, trembling voice, recounted in detail everything that had happened since arriving outside the Wang Family at Hutou Gou.

After a long while, Hu Jiushisan racked his brains, repeating everything he had seen, then furtively glanced at Hu Jianbo, seeing him frown, as if angry that he was spouting nonsense.

Hu Jiushisan hastily lowered his head, almost like an ostrich, burying his head in the Land God.

Time passed unnoticed; as Hu Jiushisan suffered each day like a year, his heart full of anxiety, not knowing how the clan leader would deal with it.

It could be said it frightened itself, but didn't scare itself to death.

As the saying goes: lowering the head is a blade, raising the head is a blade.

Now, with the clan leader not speaking, it's almost more unbearable than killing it.

Hu Jiushisan instinctively raised his head, about to beg for punishment, but no longer seeing the clan leader's figure, he wondered: "Where did the clan leader go?"

Afterwards.

Hu Jiushisan was overjoyed; regardless of how the clan leader suddenly disappeared, at least it wouldn't come looking for trouble.

The next moment.

Hu Jiushisan went limp, the entire demon collapsing like a puddle of mud onto the ground.

The Wang Family.

Wang Ping'an withdrew the Paper Person, preparing to refine a Small Five Elements Sword Formation inside the World Pearl, quickly setting it up again in his family courtyard.

Even if he couldn't stop Hu Meiniang from barging in, at least it could buy some time, giving him and his whole family a chance to escape. Suddenly.

Wang Ping'an's hair stood on end, his whole body feeling as if plunged into a thousand-year ice cellar, as if some flood or ferocious beast approached; he knew it was his talent: Crisis Sense, taking effect.

While Wang Ping'an panicked, thinking what to do, he fully activated the Sword Apparatus within him, waiting for the enemy to show himself so he could strike when the enemy wasn't looking; then he saw a familiar figure appear in his vision.

No one else—it was Hu Jianbo, whom he had met a few times before.

"How could he be here?"

Wang Ping'an first froze, then realized, recalling his recent speculation, he wondered anxiously: "Could it be that Hu Meiniang provoked him to come inspect me, to see if I have any worth?"

If that were the case, he hoped Hu Jianbo wouldn't find anything; perhaps he could discover he's not bad, but wouldn't let him rather pay the painful price of the entire Nine-headed Mountain Fox Clan to be secretly abducted.

Hu Jianbo looked at the cradle, at Wang Ping'an with his big, shiny black eyes, as if thinking of something, a playful smile on his face, saying: "Fellow Daoist, impressive skill!"

Wang Ping'an's heart churned with shock, secretly wondering if he had unknowingly revealed a flaw, allowing Hu Jianbo to find him.

However.

He didn't respond; no one could guarantee Hu Jianbo wasn't deceiving him.

This novel you have arrived at

"Fellow Daoist, at this point, why bother hiding? I'm not a proper cultivator; I'm just a demon. No matter what you do, Fellow Daoist, it's none of my business, and I won't meddle."

Hu Jianbo looked at Wang Ping'an's still clueless expression, brows slightly furrowed, gave a cold laugh, strode up to Wang Ping'an, examined him thoroughly, and said, comparing him to the infants he'd seen, they were practically identical:

"Since you, Fellow Daoist, don't want to be exposed, then don't blame me for getting rough!"

As he spoke, Hu Jianbo's mind moved, a mass of demonic qi condensed in his right palm, about to strike Wang Ping'an.

Wang Ping'an was so frightened he almost didn't activate the Sword Apparatus within him to counter.

"Wait……has my Crisis Sense not kicked in?"

Wang Ping'an startled, facing the demonic qi Hu Jianbo sent his way, his talent: Crisis Sense, actually gave him no hint at all.

He didn't know whether his talent: Crisis Sense had failed, or whether this mass of demonic qi Hu Jianbo prepared to attack with actually posed no danger.

For a moment, Wang Ping'an hesitated, not knowing what to do.

"Let's gamble!"

Wang Ping'an grit his teeth silently.

The next second.

Wang Ping'an offered no resistance, letting Hu Jianbo's mass of demonic qi seep into his body; discovering he had guessed right, this demonic qi caused him no harm, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He then knew Hu Jianbo was no ordinary demon; he was the clan leader of the Nine-headed Mountain Fox Clan, acting on behalf of the clan, and would hardly harm him for no reason.

"Ding! You have a mass of demonic qi wandering in your body; your exceptional comprehension lets you gain a little, congratulations on earning the reward: Talent: Demonic Qi 【Entry Level】!"

A mechanical, cold voice rang in Wang Ping'an's mind, leaving him stunned; if Hu Jianbo weren't still beside him, he would have burst out laughing.

Never would have imagined that simply demonic qi entering the body would actually earn a reward.

Only then did I realize that my previously ordinary perceptiveness actually has a huge, huge effect!

(End of chapter)