Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 80 "Destroying the Corpse and Covering Up the Evidence"

Just as Zhao Qing was typing and saying to Wang Ergou, "It seems the mission has failed," she suddenly heard Hu Zijun's voice.

"Fellow Daoists, please wait!"

Hu Zijun hurriedly caught up and apologized, "My great-grandmother didn't mean that. It's just that she is, after all, the clan leader of Chiyuan Cave, and she dares not readily accept what you two fellow Daoists have said... Of course, I'm not saying I don't believe you two, but this matter is of great importance, and I dare not agree."

Baili Shuang had dealt with those sects and forces before. She smiled reassuringly at Hu Zijun and said, "Fellow Daoist, there's no need to say more. The Crimson Primordial Fox Clan has many members, so it's understandable that they might find it difficult to admit to such matters. However, since you've come after me, you must have received instructions in private?"

Upon hearing this, Hu Zijun breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "I can't hide it from you, fellow Daoist. The clan leader secretly instructed me to go with you two to kill them on the spot and cleanse the clan."

She even confidently declared, "My great-grandmother lent me a level-eight magic weapon. No matter what her cultivation level is, as long as she hasn't become an immortal, she won't get away with it!"

"Clan Chief Hu is indeed very kind. Please convey my gratitude to him."

"No problem, no problem. It's our duty to intervene since it involves the Red Plains Cave..."

After listening to the pointless pleasantries between Baili Shuang and Hu Zijun, Zhao Qing finally realized what was going on. She stared in disbelief as she relayed the whole thing to Wang Ergou, exclaiming, "Wait, is our senior sister from S Province? How come she keeps spouting such polite words?"

"You're young now, aren't you?" Wang Ergou said confidently, pointing around like someone who'd been through it all. "Those who've been toughened up by society all have to be this good at handling things. What else can you do? You can't just turn the table when the boss is serving you food, or change the song when the boss is singing karaoke, can you?"

Once again atop the auspicious clouds, Zhao Qing listened as Baili Shuang and Hu Zijun recounted the development history of the fox clan, which was initially polite and distant, and then, somewhat presumptuously, the private life and preferences of the Taiyin Goddess. Finally, she spotted a very conspicuous wasteland in the sky.

It's a sandy eye!
"Fellow Daoist, this is the place."

As Baili Shuang finished speaking, Hu Zijun's face darkened.

It wasn't that she was angry with Baili Shuang, but rather that she saw auspicious clouds floating above the Gray Sand Eyes. These were indeed auspicious pink clouds bestowed by the Heart Moon Star Lord, which even the fox children of the Red Plain Cave could use!

Hu Zijun laughed in fury: "What audacity! I'd like to see which fox clan this is, daring to act like this!"

As she spoke, she took off the bracelet from her wrist and tossed it forward—

Suddenly, a gigantic, whale- or shark-like phantom emerged from a glittering amber piece on the bracelet. Dozens of meters long, its tail lashed out, creating a shadowy, overwhelming presence. Despite adjusting her senses, Zhao Qing involuntarily collapsed to the ground with a thud.

The fish-shaped phantom opened its large mouth, causing the entire gray sand eye to fly even more violently. All the sand and stones, along with a faint, strange aura, were instantly sucked into its mouth.

A dozen seconds later, it was as if the world had been transformed, and the scenery of the wasteland was completely revealed, with three huge rocks standing out in the distance.

The golden-haired bamboo fox, which had been hiding in the ground when it saw the auspicious clouds approaching from afar, trembled in fright and couldn't help but exclaim, "What a powerful magic weapon!"

"This must be the Three Stone Cave?"

Hu Zijun muttered to herself, then summoned her demonic power and shouted, "Fox cubs and fox descendants of the Crimson Plain Cave, come forward immediately and confess your sins!"

"Fox cubs and fox descendants of Chiyuan Cave, come quickly and confess your sins!"

"Fox cubs and fox grandchildren of Chiyuan Cave, come quickly and bow your heads to confess your sins—" Three times in a row, the voice imbued with demonic power suddenly rose like thunder, making everyone's hearts pound several times, and also drawing many eyes around to stare intently at the entrance of the Three Stone Cave in front of them.

Inside the Three Stone Cave, Yun Guanxia, ​​who was happily applying a honey and egg face mask, jumped up with a start upon hearing the three shouts, and with her tail, she knocked Bai Chenxue, who was grooming her, to the ground.

At this moment, Yun Guanxia's face was filled with terror and her complexion was deathly pale. The fox fur on her tail was all puffed up!

The other two fox demons in the cave also rushed over, so frightened that they could barely maintain their human form. They pleaded with Yun Guanxia for help, "Your Majesty! It's the True Person Hu Shi Zijun! The Crimson Plains Cave must have been discovered! What should we do!"

Yun Guanxia paced back and forth anxiously, then took a deep breath and said, "Don't panic, don't panic. You two don't eat many people, so you'll only suffer a little. Your lives are still safe. I'll find a way to save you later... Just remember to keep your mouths shut!"

As she spoke, she muttered to herself, "Luckily, I always keep a mirror close to my body, so she shouldn't notice..."

She had barely finished speaking when she suddenly turned her head and looked at Wang Ergou and Jia Xiaoren, who were locked in a cage, and Bai Chenxue, who had just gotten up from the ground and was huddled in a corner trying to make herself inconspicuous.

"These people cannot be allowed to live! Otherwise, we will not be able to keep this a secret!"

Yun Guanxia snorted coldly and used her magic to pull Wang Ergou out of the cage. The originally charming and beautiful head suddenly turned into a ferocious fox head. In the dark cave, the two fox eyes flashed with a terrifying golden light, which was extremely frightening.

With a single, massive bite, she severed Wang Ergou's head, then devoured his body in a few bites without even chewing.

The splattered blood was everywhere, and even a few drops got on Bai Chenxue's face!
Bai Chenxue could no longer bear the terrifying scene and couldn't help but scream. Unexpectedly, the fox demon, who had been relatively kind to her just moments before, grabbed her and, just like before, ate her.

After eating Jia Xiaoren as well, Yun Guanxia finally realized that something was wrong.

The reason she dared to defy convention and collude with the python demon in red robes to raise humans was because eating people allowed her to gain cultivation power extremely quickly! And she just happened to obtain a magical artifact that could mask the stench caused by eating people.

It was because of this magical artifact that she was able to slip through the cracks every time she returned to Chiyuan Cave, never being discovered, and was always praised for her intelligence and diligence in cultivation.

Only she knew that eating a human once would grant her decades of cultivation, far surpassing the benefits of arduous cultivation. The only downside was that it would take at least a year to fully digest the cultivation nourished by the human she ate.

However, eating young children makes digestion much faster. Although young children provide less cultivation, it still increases cultivation faster than eating adult humans. Therefore, she often caught young children to eat later on.

Eating three people in one go like this should theoretically make you feel "full," and it would take at least three years to fully digest and absorb the cultivation power it has generated!

However, in such an emergency, she was only concerned with destroying the evidence and didn't care about anything else. She didn't expect that after eating three people, she felt as if she hadn't eaten anything at all and didn't feel the slightest bit of "eating people"!
That's really strange!

But before she could ponder this further, she heard Hu Zijun's voice come from outside again: "You beast! How dare you eat people in front of me!"

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Yun Guanxia was stunned. She licked the blood that seemed to be non-existent at the corner of her mouth, somewhat confused—hmm? It really doesn't taste like blood?

(End of this chapter)