Chapter 475

That's a genuine ten‑tail!

Hu Yulin shook his head: 'Even tigers have moments of dozing, let alone she must have been in a state of "grief greater than death of the heart"? In any case, her clansmen found an opening, cut off her ten fox tails, beat her to death with sticks, and threw her into the mass grave.'

Those present couldn't help but sigh; it was too tragic.

The next moment, Hu Yulin's words shocked us: 'Everyone thought that killing this "demon" would restore normality to the fox clan, and everything she left behind would be quickly divided up, just as everyone was about to erase all traces of her existence, she returned.'

Li Qingying exclaimed in surprise: 'Not beaten to death? Feigned death?'

'No, she really died.' Hu Yulin said, 'But for some unknown reason, she came back to life, not only revived but also regrew her ten tails.'

This was beyond everyone's expectations.

Hui Moqiong muttered softly: 'Hearing this, it really sounds like a monster.'

Li Qingying grabbed his thigh hard and twisted it, signaling him not to talk nonsense.

Hu Yulin didn't care about that, he continued: 'Her return put the entire fox clan on high alert, because as each of her tails regrew, many clan members died suddenly.'

They tried every means, killing her again and again, yet she revived each time and regrew her ten tails, the fox clan's misfortune cycling endlessly.

'Later, someone somehow found an enlightened monk; the monk calculated on his fingers and said that when she was thrown into the mass grave, her demon core absorbed the vast yin qi accumulated in the earth veins beneath, reviving her; as long as she lived another day, the yin qi in her body would affect the whole clan, until the entire clan perished…'

Hui Moqiong frowned and asked: 'What is the real situation? Is it really like that?'

'No one knows for sure.' Hu Yulin said, 'The monk said that since her power comes from the earth veins, it can only be suppressed and sealed using Earth Vein Spiritual Energy.'

Liu Junyan said: 'So she was later sealed in Yin Mountain?'

Hu Yulin nodded: 'Yin Mountain got its name precisely because of this.'

Li Qingying sighed: 'It seems this monk truly has profound cultivation.'

'Yes, he had some skill, and he indeed relieved the urgent crisis of the Yin Mountain fox clan.' Hu Yulin said, 'But it's puzzling that not long after, the monk died in that very belly‑land.'

I asked: 'Was he sought revenge?'

'No.' Hu Yulin said helplessly, 'After an inspection, everyone found that the monk died from a backlash when he tried to break the sealing Fǎzhèn he himself had previously made.'

Hui Moqiong slammed the table, exploding with profanity: 'Holy shit, this old thing is guarding his own theft!'

He made the seal himself, then went to undo it.

What exactly does this so‑called monk want?

'No one knows what the monk wanted to steal.' Hu Yulin said, 'But afterward, the Yin Mountain fox clan seemed cursed: whenever a member cultivated nine tails, they suffered Heavenly Punishment, most unable to survive the Heavenly Tribulation and died; those who barely lived had their inner cores shattered, and their nine tails reduced to one.'

Hu Sanmei is such a case: her inner core shattered, leaving only one tail.

'Everyone believes this curse and Heavenly Punishment come from her, so the dead nine‑tailed foxes are buried in that belly‑land, outwardly claimed to be the ancestral graves of the Yin Mountain fox clan.'

Hearing this, everyone felt a bit restless.

I asked: 'In other words, the place Hēimǎng and his men infiltrated is actually that belly‑land sealed with the ten‑tailed fox?'

The beasts they raised, resembling the Taotie, are actually the corpses of nine‑tailed foxes that could not withstand the heavenly punishment?

This… this is too unbelievable.

'They were after her.' Hu Yulin said, 'These secrets of the Yin Mountain fox clan are not told to outsiders, yet there is no completely wind‑tight wall; rumors in both the yin and yang realms say that the monk back then deceived the Yin Mountain fox clan, sealing not a demon but an immortal undying body. The ten‑tailed fox is not a demon but an immortal who shares heaven and earth's lifespan; obtaining her inner elixir would truly grant eternal life with heaven and earth.'

Hui Moqiong said indignantly: 'Utterly absurd.'

After going round and round, the issue seems to have returned to the topic of 'eternal life.'

Could it be that what Hēimǎng has been pursuing all along is truly 'eternal life'?

Just then, someone came from outside to report that Yin Mountain had encountered trouble again.

Liu Junyan instinctively reached out and pressed her hand on Hu Yulin's shoulder to stop him from acting rashly.

Hu Yulin urged: 'Haven't all the members who could be relocated already been moved? What major incident could still happen?!'

The messenger panicked: 'A white light suddenly appeared in the belly‑land of Yin Mountain, shooting straight up to the heavens, as if… as if someone is undergoing tribulation.'

I asked Hu Yulin: 'At this critical juncture, who in Yin Mountain is in the tribulation stage?'

Hu Yulin counted on his fingers for a while and said: 'If I haven't missed anyone, among the main members, nobody is in the tribulation stage.'

That's strange.

Hui Moqiong startled: 'Could it be that ten‑tailed fox?'

One sentence shattered the silence!

If it really is that ten‑tailed fox, things will become troublesome.

Liu Junyan asked Hu Yulin: 'Where is Hu Sanmei's closed‑door cultivation this time?'

Hu Yulin blinked, then said: 'It's in a cave next to that belly‑land. Are you suspecting… the fox immortal undergoing tribulation? No, it can't be her; her inner core is shattered, her nine tails reduced to one, and she has been like that for many years…'

As he spoke, he himself began to feel uncertain.

And this time, everyone also couldn't stay seated.

Better safe than sorry!

If it truly is Hu Sanmei undergoing tribulation, we cannot just sit and wait for doom.

Li Qingying stayed to guard the Dang Pu, while Hui Moqiong went to Jiǔyàn qū to guard the fox clan's wounded.

The main reason is fear that if the news leaks, fox clan members will be unable to restrain themselves and cause an accident.

I, Liu Junyan, and Hu Yulin rushed together to Yin Mountain.

Our vehicle stopped far off, with muffled thunder rumbling overhead.

As the messenger reported, deep in Yin Mountain there indeed was a white light shooting straight to the heavens, almost illuminating that mountain range.

Yet the whole Yin Mountain was eerily quiet.

Like a tomb utterly devoid of life.

Hu Yulin's fists clenched so tightly they made a creaking sound.

He gritted his teeth and said: 'Just looking like this, we can't see any problem, Seventh Lord, Xiao Jiu, the rest is up to you!'

Before his words even finished, Hu Yulin abruptly transformed into his white fox true form and leapt swiftly toward Yin Mountain.

The incident happened suddenly; we had no time to react, and we couldn't even pull (someone) in time.

The white fox's snow‑white figure kept leaping about in Yin Mountain, like a pebble dropped onto a calm lake surface.

Almost instantly, we heard the howl of a wild beast.

Immediately afterward, several huge wild beasts surrounded and attacked the white fox.

I instinctively summoned Feng Wu, pressing my finger to my brow, chanting a shamanic incantation; the next moment, an arrow was nocked on the bowstring, aimed at the wild beast closest to the white fox…