I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 149 Red-tailed Fox
"No spirit crystals. That is a problem."

After Lu Xiaowu died, the contract between him and the Demon-Revealing Mirror was automatically dissolved.

In fact, a magical artifact of the Demon-Revealing Mirror's caliber wouldn't be used casually without a contractual agreement. Ke Mengqi possessed both a storage ring to house it and the ability to nurture its original owner's soul.

Because of these two conditions, it was willing to be used by Meng Qi.

"Red-tailed fox!"

When Lu Xiaowu saw a small fox with white fur all over its body and only a bright red tail in the demon-revealing mirror, he asked in surprise, "This thing has a high status in the fox clan of the demon realm because of its bloodline talent, and its numbers are very small. How come it came here with other demons?"

Meng Qi asked, "What is its bloodline talent?"

"The most powerful hallucination is the time illusion, which makes people lose track of time while still doing what they're supposed to be doing. But when they come to their senses, several years may have passed instead of the days or months they thought they had. It's a bit eerie!"

Mengqi then remembered her father saying that he had once been trapped in a strange illusion in the Grand Canyon, watching the sunrise and sunset. Even though it was a day, he felt extremely tired, and his body was being drained. Some people couldn't take it and died.

It initially filled them with panic and fear, but then, for some unknown reason, the illusion vanished on its own. They then encountered a pack of wolves, fought a desperate battle, and after several deaths and injuries, finally escaped.

Does this illusion have a time limit?

"Of course, although it is their bloodline talent, it consumes a lot of spiritual energy when used. I guess this little fox demon's illusion can only last for five days at most, and it can't withstand it any longer."

"Then how do we break this?"

"I usually strike immediately upon first sight, killing it in one blow, without giving it time to use its illusion," Lu Xiaowu said softly.

Meng Qi turned to look at him, and after a few seconds asked, "What if we can't kill it in one hit, and it accidentally casts an illusion? How do we break it?"

Lu Xiaowu pondered for a moment, then whispered, "I can usually kill them in one move, unless they are at least Nascent Soul level, in which case it might take two or three moves. But this one is clearly not even at the Golden Core level yet, so it will be easy to fight."

Meng Qi understood and pointed out incisively, "You've never entered an illusion, so you can't break through it!"

Lu Xiaowu thought to himself, "What's the point of breaking this? It's not going to end even if you beat them to death."

Why does this child like to get stuck on something and insist on breaking it down?
Just then, there was another knock on the door, and Dongfang Shuo's voice rang out from outside, "Xiao Qi, are you done yet?"

Lu Xiaowu asked in surprise, "What do you mean, 'Is it all over yet?'"

"nothing."

Meng Qi stood up expressionlessly, put the backpack she had packed on the bedside table into her storage ring, and her senior brother very consciously returned to her sea of ​​consciousness in a flash.

The three drove to Stone Mountain on the outskirts of Langxi City. The demon-revealing mirror showed that the red-tailed fox was in a hidden cave on the back of the mountain.

Because the mountain is covered with rocks and no grass or trees grow there, few people usually come here.

But that's just the surface. If you go further in, you'll find flowers and grass, and while there aren't any tall, sturdy trees, there's no shortage of greenery. It's just that they all grow on the cliffs or in crevices on the back side, making them less easy to see.

The cave where the red-tailed fox lives is located halfway up this mountain.

"How do we get up there?"

The three of them reached the rocky mountain in no time. They then quietly crept up to the back side, but the cave halfway up the mountain was in a very tricky location. The outside was covered with short, tall grass that they couldn't even pull with their hands, so they had no foothold. There were no protruding rocks on the outside either, so they couldn't step on them.

Meng Qi sighed, tilting her head back, "Dongfang Shuo, you still aren't trying hard enough."

Dongfang Shuo was completely baffled. "What does that mean?"

"If you could draw a talisman for flying over walls and rooftops, wouldn't we be able to go up there right away?"

Dongfang Shuo:
He laughed in exasperation, "Then why don't you just say you can draw them yourself? Others may not know, but we certainly don't know whether you can draw talismans or not?"

Given Yu Qingge's many talents, Xiao Qi, his apprentice, also possesses an extremely wide range of skills.

Drawing talismans, forming formations, alchemy (haven't tried it yet), weapon crafting (haven't tried it yet), swordsmanship (it's been incorporated into knife techniques).
"Can they be the same? You're a professional, I'm just doing this as a hobby."

That reason is undeniable, but it's infuriating.

Meng Qi tried to use the power of wood, but apart from being able to pull out a few blades of grass, she couldn't help them climb halfway up the mountain.

"I'm out of ideas, I'll try the teleportation method."

She couldn't guarantee she'd reach the cave entrance in one go, because moving from low to high ground was more difficult than on flat ground. She hadn't tried before because she was afraid of making a noise and being discovered by the fox.

Meng Qi, unusually serious, said, "You two stay far away. If I'm discovered, I'll try to lure it out of the cave. That way, even if it uses an illusion, it will only target me. I can wear it down in its illusion while you two launch a sneak attack."

Wei Xiaole had already obtained information about the red-tailed fox from Xia Yunsong, so the two of them also knew about the fox's innate skills.

Wei Xiaole frowned. As the team leader and older brother, he really didn't want Meng Qi to go on the adventure alone.

Dongfang Shuo didn't want to either.

"Alright, stop dawdling. If we delay any longer, it will find out."

After saying that, Meng Qi flashed up the mountain. She guessed correctly. The terrain here was indeed not conducive to teleportation. She had to reveal herself after only rising less than ten meters. But fortunately, she had the wood attribute. Although the grass was small, it was enough to support her toes.

After using the teleportation technique about four times, and then combining it with the wood element, Meng Qi successfully reached the Red-tailed Fox's cave.

Before her feet had even fully landed at the cave entrance, which was only half a person's height, Meng Qi pulled out the Black Maple and threw it out like a hidden weapon.

Black Maple was speechless, but there was nothing it could do. After all, its master said it had a brain, so how could it argue that it didn't?

The intelligent Black Maple, carrying a sharp killing intent, strode straight into the fox den, attempting a successful sneak attack.

But it forgot, and Meng Qi forgot, that the seven-colored light emanating from the crystal on the hilt of the sword was something that shone even brighter in the darkness.

So Black Maple had just entered the cave and hadn't gone deep into it when the Red-tailed Fox discovered him. However, it was fast enough to catch up in the blink of an eye. Despite Black Maple's panic and desperate attempts to dodge, the Red-tailed Fox managed to slash Black Maple's back. Although it wasn't fatal, the cut was deep enough to expose bone, and the bright red blood stained the white fur on Black Maple's back.

Meng Qi bent down and walked into the cave, cursing in her heart, "So what if he has a noble bloodline? So noble that he lives in a dog hole?"

The size of the cave wasn't very obvious in the demon-revealing mirror; only when you were inside did you realize that this fox was truly a dog, having found a cave that an adult couldn't possibly enter, and even a 1.6-meter-tall child like her had difficulty bending over.

(End of this chapter)