Fox Demon: Why did your brother beat you up every day at the beginning of the month?

"No, impossible!" Gazing at the despairing power in the sky, everyone's pupils dilated in shock, followed by a deafening roar! The river of Tushan was widened by more than twice its original width by this palm strike, and towering waves rose from the ground!

The palm print slammed into the riverbed. From mid-air, the entire Tushan region was altered by this palm strike, leaving behind an indelible, enormous palm print. The Taoists struck by it all exploded into clouds of blood mist.

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Notifications kept popping up on the system panel, but the boy's gaze remained fixed on the fox spirit girl in his arms, whose ears were blushing.

Until the surrounding noise subsided.

Dongfang Haoyang then released his hand from Ya Ya's ears, guessing that the sound would be harmful to their sensitive hearing.

"You stinky, stinky cockroach, what are you doing?! Let go of me right now! Don't think you can take advantage of me just because I agreed!"

Tu Shan Ya Ya's ears turned bright red, and she avoided eye contact with Dongfang Hao Yang.

"Agree? Agree to what? I didn't hear anything."

Dongfang Haoyang shrugged and joked, as a large amount of golden flames began to emerge from his body. The golden flames suddenly condensed in the air into an enormous divine dragon bell, enveloping the area.

The surging river water crashed against the inner wall of the Shenlong Bell, but was quickly gathered back into the river, and there was no natural disaster of river flooding.

The water level had dropped several meters, leaving the fish stranded on the riverbed. The entire river channel and banks were enveloped by the enormous handprint. The rushing river water couldn't immediately fill the massive channel.

"You stinky cockroach! If you don't let go of me, I'm not talking to you anymore! Humph!" Tu Shan Ya Ya turned her head away, looking like a wronged little wife.

Dongfang Haoyang smiled faintly. He had just wanted to tease Ya Ya, this carefree and silly fox, and flicked a finger lightly at the blood-red talisman on Ya Ya's arm.

Instantly, a powerful golden flame erupted. The blood-red talisman wailed pitifully in the firelight, quickly turning into a wisp of green smoke.

Tu Shan Ya Ya was startled! Goosebumps were raised by that chilling scream.

"Huh! What's that?"

Dongfang Haoyang smiled and explained, "It's probably the legendary demon-repelling talisman, which has miraculous effects on demons."

"That person must have been an evil cultivator who used some kind of secret technique."

Dongfang Haoyang frowned as he spoke.

"I guess he must have used the essence and soul of other cultivators to nourish his natal magic weapon, greatly increasing its power."

"Moreover... it seems that his magic weapon consists of two talismans. The first one is a feint, while the second one is the killing move. If you had used your demonic power just now, you would probably have been injured in the soul by that demon-countering talisman, so I came down."

Actually, there was one more thing Haoyang didn't mention: the demons trapped in the Demon-Slaying Talisman would experience extreme pain once they used their demonic power.

He didn't want to see Ya Ya crying again, after all, it was quite tiring to comfort her...

The reason I didn't come down earlier was simply to see how strong Ya Ya really was and what weaknesses she had that could be addressed.

But his duty is to be a bodyguard, and he will not and will not allow anyone to jump out and try to harm this stupid fox demon.

"Hmph, I don't believe it! If you hadn't come, I could have taken them all down by myself!"

"Yes, yes, I believe you have the ability. I wasn't planning on making a move anyway."

As Dongfang Haoyang spoke, he casually grabbed a large hand in the void, which caught the Taoist's dissipating soul and then threw it into a treasure bottle made of divine fire.

Instantly, a pitiful wail came from the bottle!

Feeling it was too noisy, Dongfang Haoyang put it into his storage bag.

"This is a Soul Refining Bottle, you can also call it a Sky Lantern, it's specially used to burn the souls of the most heinous criminals."

Tu Shan Ya Ya crossed her arms and snorted coldly.

"I know that, but you've been watching the show from the sky the whole time, watching me get beaten up by a bunch of Taoist priests!"

"You're the one chasing after a bunch of Taoist priests, aren't you..."

"In any case, Miss Ya Ya, you should stick to ice-based techniques from now on..."

"If you had kept using your ice magic to launch long-range attacks, these bastards wouldn't have been a match for you, and that piece of trash wouldn't have gotten away with it."

A mage insisting on playing melee combat—if he encounters a high-level tank or swordsman, he'll be utterly destroyed...

"I don't need you to lecture me..."

Tu Shan Ya Ya pouted, but she was unexpectedly happy that Dongfang Haoyang was willing to come down and help her. This meant that this stinky cockroach cared about her.

And that stinky cockroach was clearly concerned about me! What a dishonest creature!

"What are you thinking about?"

Dongfang Haoyang casually released the Divine Dragon Bell, and golden fragments floated up from the sky. He then casually sealed a remnant soul of a Demon King into a talisman and put it into his pocket.

Haoyang smiled as he looked at Tu Shan Ya Ya, who was deep in thought.

"No, it's nothing..."

Tu Shan Ya Ya's lips curled up slightly, and she let out a chuckle, but she turned her face away from Dongfang Hao Yang.

Tu Shan Ya Ya, that silly little fox, can never hide her feelings.

For someone as clever as Ya Ya, Dongfang Haoyang could use logic to deduce the answer, but for someone like Ya Ya, he was truly at a loss and could only rely on guessing.

"Hey! Oh right, I just saw some monsters captured on their boat... You didn't just slap them all to death, did you?!"

"Do you think I'm like you... that I'd fall for such a petty trick?"

"I rescued all the demons and moved them to the shore. I also captured a Taoist priest, intending to search his soul to get some information and details about these people."

Dongfang Haoyang said jokingly, gently poked Ya Ya's forehead, and flew towards the ground.

"You stinky cockroach! Who are you calling a jerk? You think I won't bite you?!"

Tu Shan Ya Ya, her temper flaring, followed behind Dongfang Hao Yang, jumping and hopping with rage.

The two landed on the ground. Tu Shan Ya Ya became angrier and angrier. She raised her foot to kick Dongfang Hao Yang's butt, but Hao Yang noticed and dodged it. Then Hao Yang turned around and kicked her back.

"You stinky cockroach, how dare you kick me! I'm going to tell Rongrong."

"Hey, you can't take a joke, huh? You're allowed to kick me, but I'm not allowed to kick you?"

"Anyway, you're not allowed to kick me. You just hugged me..." Tu Shan Ya Ya pouted, her face slightly red. She raised her foot to kick again, but it was dodged.

"I was worried you'd fall because you can't use your demonic powers..."

Dongfang Haoyang kicked back as he spoke, but the kick was dodged.

"You still won't admit you care about me..."

"If you say so, then it must be..."

Dongfang Haoyang shrugged and sighed. In his mind, he wanted to beat Xiaoyue Yue a dozen times. It was because of this stupid little brother that he was now completely unable to break ties with the blushing, silly little fox demon in front of him.

"If you like me, you're not allowed to dodge my next kick!"

Tu Shan Ya Ya finished speaking with a blush and quickly kicked out. The force wasn't great, but the speed was very fast.

While Dongfang Haoyang was still in a daze, the little foot had already kicked his leg.

Tu Shan Ya Ya stared blankly for a moment at her little foot that had kicked Dongfang Haoyang's shin, then her face turned bright red.

"that……"

"Actually, I didn't hear you clearly just now."

"But my brother and I actually both like you..."

Dongfang Haoyang scratched his cheek, his eyes darting away as he looked in another direction.

Tu Shan Ya Ya looked up and stared directly at the boy whose cheeks were flushed.

"Fool……"

Ya Ya gently nudged Dongfang Haoyang's chest with her little head, her pair of brown folded ears sticking straight up, but were forcibly separated because they were nudged to his chest.

"I didn't say anything, and you didn't hear a thing, you stinky cockroach. If anyone else finds out, I'll take you down with me..."

"Um……"

Dongfang Haoyang gently rubbed the trembling little purple-haired head in his arms.

Unseen by him, Tu Shan Ya Ya's lips unconsciously curled upwards, her face flushed, but her smile grew even brighter.