Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 78 The Foxes are Fellow Daoists
The foxes that were nearby twitched their ears and turned to look at Zhao Qing, making her blush.

Why are you touching your ears?

"Yeah, yeah, what a strange request?"

Does this mean it's friendly to humans?

"Never heard of it!"

While the foxes were gossiping, Zhao Qing was desperately trying to find a crack in the ground to hide in—she hadn't expected the foxes to have such good hearing, and to be so naive as to say it so directly, making her feel like a freak. She didn't even dare to look up at Baili Shuang's expression!

Baili Shuang smiled and helped her out of the predicament, saying, "My junior sister is young and rarely sees such beautiful demon cultivators as those in your Chiyuan Cave. She spoke out of curiosity, so please don't take offense, fellow Daoists."

"I see! Your junior sister has excellent taste!"

"Ugh! Aren't you ashamed to say that!"

"Why would I be ashamed! My fur is much prettier than yours!"

"Wow! Mine looks better!"

"Awoooooo!"

The two foxes argued and started shouting in their own language, neither willing to give in. In the end, they simply pounced on each other, rolled around in a ball, and tore at each other, even raising a few tufts of their beautiful fox fur.

"Hmm... if you want to touch it, then touch it," the fox that Zhao Qing had asked earlier lowered its head and brought its ears to Zhao Qing's eyes, twitching them slightly. It muttered, "Humans are really strange..."

When Hu Zijun returned, she saw a group of foxes crowding around the two Taiyin Sect disciples, their cries and whimpers mingling in the distance.

“It’s my turn, it’s my turn!”

"Get out of the way! You've been touched three times already!"

"Humans are so good at massage!"

"Touch my head! Touch the top of my head!"

"Pah! You're such a busybody! Fellow Daoist, the fur on my chest is the softest!"

Surrounded by the foxes, Zhao Qing felt as if she were floating on air, like a tyrannical emperor with three thousand concubines in his harem, her eyes filled with furry creatures of all shapes and sizes. She wished she had eighteen hands so she could pet them all to her heart's content!
"Dao... Fellow Daoist?"

Hu Zijun couldn't help but voice her doubts.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Qing looked over, shuddered in fright, and guiltily withdrew her hand from scratching a certain fox's chin, trying to explain... "Oh dear! I'm sorry, the little foxes are just too cute..."

Baili Shuang corrected from the side, "You should call them fellow Daoists, as they are almost all much older than you!"

Zhao Qing lowered her head in disbelief, her gaze meeting that of the fox whose chin had been half-scratched and who looked somewhat dejected. The fox whimpered a few times and said, somewhat bewildered, "Me? I'm thirty-three!"

Although Zhao Qing always referred to herself as an "old auntie" online, she had never even celebrated her 25th birthday. Her eyes widened in shock.

The smallest fox wagged its tail and squeezed out of the fox pack, saying in a childish voice, "Me! Me! Me! I'm the smallest! I'm only twenty years old!" Hu Zijun laughed and said, "This is Yun Twenty-One. She refined her horizontal bone at the age of eight and cultivated her inner core at the age of fifteen. She is the most talented fox in the Yun family this generation."

"Truly a young prodigy. A demon cultivator who can cultivate an inner core at the age of fifteen is extremely rare," Baili Shuang said after a few words of commercial praise. She then asked curiously, "Why don't we see any younger ones?"

Hu Zijun said, "Classes are held in the Fox Clan. Those who haven't cultivated their inner core must attend classes in the Fox Clan. Only those who have cultivated it can roam freely."

"Kikoin?"

"It's somewhat like the academies of your human cultivators, but in addition to reading and writing, you also have to learn cultivation. This is a rule established by our ancestors."

Zhao Qing then asked, "And who is the ancestor?"

Baili Shuang hurriedly stopped her, saying in a symbolic manner, "Junior sister, you mustn't be rude!"

Hu Zijun smiled and said, "It's alright. Our ancestor is very kind and doesn't hold grudges. Her title is Xinyue Xingjun, which I'm sure you two have heard of."

Zhao Qing suddenly remembered the records she had seen before and said with annoyance, "Oh right! Chiyuan Cave is the blessed land and small world created by Xinyue Xingjun! I had completely forgotten about this!"

Seeing that both of them knew the name of their ancestor, Hu Zijun became more enthusiastic in her speech: "If I remember correctly, the one worshipped under the jurisdiction of Guangcheng Sect should also be a star lord?"

Baili Shuang nodded and said, "That's right. Guangcheng Sect worships Jiaomu Star Lord, and our Taiyin Sect is no exception."

"Fellow Daoist, this way please. Clan Chief Hu happens to be not far away. I have already told the clan chief about this matter, please come over and we can discuss it in more detail."

Hu Zijun gestured for them to follow, leading Baili Shuang and Zhao Qing to a stone house not far away. Then, she asked casually, "By the way, I noticed that the auspicious cloud you were riding was the color of white jade. It doesn't seem to be a gift from the Star Lord of Horned Wood?"

"Oh, this was bestowed by the Goddess Taiyin."

Hu Zijun was astonished: "The Goddess Taiyin? Is she actually the Goddess Taiyin? This is quite rare. I've heard that the Goddess Taiyin hasn't appeared for thousands of years."

Baili Shuang said, half-truthfully, "The Goddess Taiyin prefers tranquility and has never left the world. The reason our Taiyin Sect is called the Taiyin Sect is precisely because we are indebted to the Goddess Taiyin."

The original Taiyin God is unknown. Last week, Fang Xianyu only vaguely sensed it after he attained the Taiyin Dao. The previous Taiyin God had long since died and disappeared, and the Taiyin God's position had been vacant for thousands of years!
The rules of the divine offices in the Guixu Realm are naturally like this. Unless one personally proves the Dao, no one would know which divine offices are vacant or which are occupied by immortals.

Therefore, no one knew that the previous Goddess of the Moon had died until the new Goddess of the Moon attained enlightenment and took office. Everyone thought that she simply did not interact with other gods and immortals.

Although Fang Xianyu had been vaguely connected with the Taiyin God's position since restarting her second playthrough, given her current Golden Core stage cultivation level, she naturally chose to keep it a secret for now and raise the banner.

After all, probably no one could have guessed that a mere Golden Core cultivator would dare to covet the position of Taiyin God, and that there were indeed some intricate connections between them.

Zhao Qing, who was standing to the side, was confused. Although Baili Shuang had been making her study extra lessons and had crammed a lot about the history of cultivators and immortals in the Guixu Realm, she had completely forgotten the true background of the game "Ten Continents Chronicles". She had long forgotten the specific details and only knew that the sect leader was the Taiyin Goddess - this was something the project team had forced her to analyze during a class.

Therefore, upon hearing Baili Shuang's reply, Zhao Qing began to doubt her own memories.

Isn't the sect leader the Goddess Taiyin?!
Is the sect leader that powerful? He's actually a high god?!
But if the sect leader is a supreme deity, why would he need to submit to the Guangcheng Sect and humble himself before them?

What?! What are you all talking about?!
(End of this chapter)