Chapter 180: Current Offender (Third Update, Please Subscribe)

Huji: "..."

Huji had indeed woken up.

But she would rather have hoped she hadn't.

Is there any difference between being awake and not?

It is merely moving from one nightmare into another.

"Why..."

Why return here?

"Where are my clansmen? What have you done to them?"

Ren Yidao turned his head back, continuing to gaze at the half-moon revealed in the cave entrance above the valley, and said indifferently:

"They are doing very well; after eating their fill, they should already be asleep."

"You can rest assured, I will take good care of them."

In Ren Yidao's view, those foxes were already "good employees who will work hard to earn money for me in the future."

Eat well, drink well, sleep well, and play well; only after they cannot live without these things will they be able to work hard for him.

But Huji did not think so.

Only she and the other party had returned to Zizhushan, and it was still the middle of the night.

Huji already had the answer in her heart.

She... was going to die.

That was it.

She was the king of a clan; only when the king dies will they truly submit.

Sooner or later, she had to die.

If it were her, she would also wipe out any unstable factors.

Having made up her mind, Ren Yidao's words took on a different flavor in her ears.

They turned into a smug threat: "You can go in peace, they will fall into my hands afterward, hehehe!"

Should she resist?

"..."

Silently, Huji lowered her head.

Still suffering from a hangover, she gave up resistance.

"If you want to kill me... then do it."

She simply closed her eyes and lay down in front of the Zhulu.

Fight?

How could she fight?

The vast gap in strength made her unable to even conceive the thought of making a move.

Huji was tired.

Being able to die in her homeland at the end was already quite good.

In the end, it could be considered a soul returning to its roots.

If my death can be exchanged for their safety, then so be it.

Ren Yidao:?

Watching Huji's "do whatever you want with me" expression, Ren Yidao stroked his chin, his own expression quite colorful.

What is going on?

After thinking for a moment, having more or less guessed Huji's thoughts, Ren Yidao spoke leisurely:

"I say..."

"Could it be that you really think you were hiding your intentions well before?"

Huji, whose heart had already died, suddenly flicked her tail, and her ears twitched.

What?

"From the very beginning, I knew of the unwillingness in your heart."

"You want to pull some tricks? Fine. I don't mind."

"If you want to resist, then go ahead and try."

Walking slowly to the side of the Red Fox, whose fur was gradually standing on end, Ren Yidao stared at her with a smile, his tone flat:

"If you were stronger than me, then naturally you could go wherever you wanted, and take them with you too."

"But the reality is, you are weaker than me... aren't you?"

Although Ren Yidao spoke lightly, the sliver of aura he leaked was enough to make Huji dare not resist.

Even her body began to tremble uncontrollably!

"Besides, aren't you all still living perfectly well?"

"The rules of the forest are far more cruel than this, aren't they?"

This, this feeling, is far more terrifying than before.

The aura came and went in a flash, and the youth returned to his previous innocent appearance.

Squatting beside the still-trembling little fox, he raised his hand to stroke her soft fur.

The strong enslaving the weak was never anything new.

I even benevolently signed labor contracts with you all!

What a good person I am!

We are all century-old foxes, so why are you playing "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" with me?

After trembling for a long time, Huji finally calmed down and opened her eyes.

She looked at the young man as if she were looking at a terrifying beast.

This beast had hidden itself very well, and it had no intention of swallowing her right now.

Yet, because of this, Huji was a bit confused again.

"Then why did you bring me back?"

What did he mean by bringing her back here alone?

"Because you hid a little secret and didn't confess it."

A secret?

Ren Yidao held Huji in his arms, stood up, and walked toward the Zhulu.

"My nose is very sharp, you know."

Of course there was a secret.

Li Lingling and Yu Yu, those two little things who have never seen the world, don't know, but how could I not understand?

Ren Yidao had already found it strange when he discovered that Wolf King.

And when he saw this Fox King, he already had a guess in his heart.

This place has a secret.

Is there some kind of heaven-sent treasure? Or...

This tiny place is simply a no-man's-land where even dogs wouldn't want to come.

It doesn't even have much in the way of basic cultivation resources, so how was it able to raise a Great Demon of the Earth Realm?

In the wild, it's not that there are no wild Great Demons of the Earth Realm; in fact, one could say there are quite a few.

But their birth has certain requirements regarding the environment and resources.

No matter what, it wouldn't be a place with such thin Spirit Qi.

The Fox Demon that occupied the Xianhu Temple, for instance, belongs to the wild ones.

However, the Spirit Qi here is far worse than that of the area around Chongzhou City.

At the very least, the Divine Path Sect chose to establish their sect there, so the Spirit Qi nearby wouldn't be too bad.

Even so, on the surface, there were only one or two Great Demons.

Previously at Wentian, when a Spirit Transformation demon ghost popped out from the outside, that was already quite explosive news.

You have to know, this is the territory of the Human Race.

All the blessed lands and grotto-heavens, all the Spirit Mountains and great rivers, had long since been carved up completely by others.

The Human Race can barely grab enough for themselves, so how could it ever be the turn of you Demon Race to get a share?

Go stay somewhere cool!

But this place is different.

In this tiny area, where the Spirit Qi is extremely barren, four Earth Realm demon cultivators could actually appear in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and center.

When things go against the norm, there must be a demon.

This place, I'm afraid, has some tricks to it.

Ren Yidao had already discovered this earlier, but hindered by the two Junior Sisters following him, and in order to bring this group of newly recruited employees back, he had slowed his pace slightly.

And now, the two troublesome Junior Sisters were not around, and that group of Fox Demons had all been settled properly.

It was time to get to the bottom of it.

Huji had originally wanted to ponder what secret she could possibly have, but when Ren Yidao carried her into the Zhulu and easily lifted the floorboards to reveal the seal underneath...

She knew.

Huji knew that the secret hidden deepest in her heart, a secret that even the members of her own tribe did not know, had been easily discovered by him.

"I discovered this place earlier, but I thought about it and decided to let you come along too."

Easily undoing the seal that Huji had meticulously set, Ren Yidao held her and stepped into the tunnel.

Huji:?

If you had asked me to help you undo the seal, I could understand.

But you didn't even need me for this!!?

"Why?"

Glancing at the Red Fox strangely, Ren Yidao asked in return:

"Isn't this your home? Isn't it normal to let you have a sense of participation?"

I am a very polite person.

I don't have any special hobbies, I just like this kind of "current offender"...

Slept from six in the morning until about twelve, barely six hours, then ate to recover, started writing in the afternoon, and just finished.

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