Shota is surrounded by monsters!

Huang Quan arrived just in time to witness this scene, her eyes filled with worry and anger. Without saying a word, she and her spirit beast chased after the monster, while the fox spirits also ran across the ground, trying to catch up with it.

"Let me go!"

After losing her weapon, Kagura could only weakly pound her tail that was binding her. The monster, seemingly wanting to toy with her, used her as a shield, swinging her around behind its rear to prevent Ranguren from continuing to spit missiles at its rear.

"Quiet down."

Taotie turned around and glared at the girl kicking its butt, saying, "If you kick me again, I'll eat you up!"

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Chapter Seven. Escape

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"..."

After being glared at fiercely by the monster, Kagura quieted down a bit, but soon she began to resist even more fiercely.

How annoying! Taotie swung its tail back and forth, because no one would be happy to be kicked in the butt by a human like that. After running for a while, it suddenly leaped onto an ancient tree, then kicked it down, and Taotie jumped back onto the highway.

Great, there's no one around.

The gluttonous beast turned around, looked at Luan Honglian and Huang Quan chasing after it, opened its mouth wide, and began to inhale...

Countless rocks and stones began to fly uncontrollably toward the Taotie's gaping maw. The Luan Honglian, hovering in mid-air, had nowhere to take hold and was immediately restrained and pulled toward the Taotie by the small "black hole" inside its belly.

"Luan Honglian, just charge forward in one breath!"

The Lion King, wielding a gleaming sword in Huang Quan's hand, was already ready to fight. No matter what its origins were, this monster who had kidnapped Kagura had to be destroyed!

The Taotie stopped devouring the spirit beast and human who were rushing towards it. When they were still three meters away, its belly suddenly swelled up, and then it opened its mouth again...

"boom--"

With a terrifying sound, the Taotie compressed the air and mud it had just inhaled and expelled it all at once!

The ultimate technique of gluttony—the air cannon!

Of course, the so-called profound mysteries of the Taotie don't exist. For the Taotie clan, if they encounter something they can defeat, they'll devour it in one bite; if they can't, they'll simply turn and run. The powerful physical strength of ancient ferocious beasts and the abyss-like demonic power are all useless to them. While Shota's physical strength is decent, as a young Taotie, his demonic power is significantly weaker than his ancestors. Otherwise, a mere shake of his fur wouldn't have exuded such domineering aura that his opponents would have retreated immediately.

The Taotie Mystery is nothing more than some techniques that this weak, young Taotie developed out of boredom during its growth process.

Even so, Taotie's talent should not be underestimated.

As Taotie opened its mouth again, its belly flattened out, and then a visible stream of air mixed with mud and rocks transformed into a huge projectile that blasted towards the two people!

"Hoo." Taotie took another small, comfortable breath, and waved its furry paws at the spirit beasts and humans it had blown away.

"Goodbye and don't come back."

The gluttonous beast scratched at its teeth with its claws. It had accidentally inhaled too much of something it shouldn't have, and its teeth were now stained. Looks like it'll have to brush them again when it gets home...

Then, it placed the girl on its tail in front of it and looked her over. The girl was looking at it with an angry gaze.

"Let me go!"

The girl continued to resist. Even though she possessed spiritual power, without a weapon, she posed no threat to Shota. However…

The Taotie seemed to have discovered something interesting, and it hung the girl upside down.

"what……"

Even when faced with a monster, the girl instinctively pulled at her skirt to cover her private parts, though of course, the gluttonous beast's attention wasn't on that area...

This girl... is so unprofessional. She clearly came here to fight, so why is there a weapon strapped to one thigh and a bag of POCKY on the other?

However, I like it.

The Taotie stretched out its claws toward the girl's thigh.

The girl closed her eyes in despair. And then…

She was placed on the ground.

"Huh?" When the girl opened her eyes, she found that the monster waved the Pocky in its paw at her, then threw the Pocky into the air, caught it with its tail, and ran away.

"..."

"Kagura!"

Huang Quan, looking somewhat disheveled, ran back. Upon seeing Kagura sitting on the road, she quickly jumped off Ran Hong Lian and ran over to hug her with some concern.

"Are you alright? Are you alright? I was so worried about you..."

Tears welled up in Huang Quan's eyes. In the instant she was knocked away, she almost thought that Kagura was going to leave her.

"No, it's nothing."

Kagura only came to her senses after seeing Yomi's tears and quickly said, "Yomi-nee, I'm alright..."

"Really?"

Huang Quan released her hand and then touched her all over to see if she was injured.

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Kagura, who couldn't stand being touched by Yomi, quickly pushed her hand away and said, "I'm really not hurt."

"That's fine, that's fine."

Relieved, Huang Quan only thought to ask about the whereabouts of the monster after learning that Kagura was safe and sound. She asked, "Where is that monster?"

"They escaped, from here."

Kagura pointed in a direction, hesitated for a moment, and then added, "They stole a bag of Pocky..."

"What? They stole... POCKY?"

Huang Quan looked at Kagura with some disbelief, while Kagura nodded with a wry smile.

"Strange monster...maybe it's just hungry." Kagura patted her skirt and stood up from the ground. Looking at the place where Taotie had fled, she suddenly said to Yomi, "Hey, Yomi-nee, how can I turn a monster into my own spirit beast?"

"Hmm. Capture it first, seal it... Wait, you don't mean you're thinking of subduing that monster from earlier, do you?"

Huang Quan quickly waved his hand and said, "It's not that simple. Besides, doesn't the Tsuchimiya family still have Byakuei? You'll have to inherit it sooner or later."

"But... I really want to have my own spirit beast to fight alongside Yomi as soon as possible." Kagura looked at Ran Hongren standing behind Yomi and said with some envy, "That's great. If it were that monster from before, I might be able to lure it home with Pocky."

"Alright, stop thinking about such unrealistic things." Huang Quan patted Kagura's head and said, "If we can't catch up, we'll have to go back first. Everyone is worried about you."

"Ah."

"Snapped--"

As Shota, now in human form, walked along, he bit off the POCKY he was holding in his mouth, chewed it a couple of times, and then swallowed it whole. Although he wasn't full, the feeling of his mouth constantly moving was quite nice.

"Hmm... human food really does taste better."

Shota wagged his tail and slowly walked towards home. Only after spotting a figure in the distance did he take another Pocky stick and put it in his mouth, then hid his tail...

Where is it hidden?

A gentle breeze blew by, and Shota looked down at his attire—completely naked and without any makeup.

"HOLYSHIT".

I usually take off all my clothes at home and run to the bathroom to reveal my true form, completely forgetting the setting that my clothes will burst when I transform.

Shota wrapped his tail into a thong shape, barely covering some of his private parts. He sighed, realizing he had no choice but to think of something else.

How do I get back? It's not a big deal in the wild, but if I go into the city, I'll definitely be treated like a pervert, and there's no way to hide...

"WHAT? Sorcery? We're already top-tier monsters, able to swallow and spit things out. What would we need other sorcery for?"

When faced with his little Taotie's strange question, the old man said, "Besides this... it seems like it can also transform, right?"

"Seventy-two transformations?!"

The little glutton's eyes lit up.

“Besides enlarging and shrinking, we can only become HUMAN.” Old Man Taotie patted Little Taotie’s head and said, “Don’t ask me why we can become HUMAN. It’s not because they are the most intelligent of all beings—that’s self-proclaimed. Becoming HUMAN is just a wicked hobby of our ancestors. Of course, our ancestors were quite obsessed with human girls. Tsk tsk.”

"...You can't even use invisibility?"

"Besides using demonic energy—exhaling and inhaling it… Speaking of which, why do we need to become invisible? As Taotie, we should run upright on the earth. Only those small monsters would learn such crooked methods. We are ancient ferocious beasts, we should have pride, UNDERSTAND? PRIDE, pride! Wait, I think I smell those priests. Son, run! It would be troublesome if they bumped into us…"

"Can't we beat them?"

"Can't beat them? How could that be? We could wipe them out in one go. But humans are annoying. If we attack SMALL, we'll attract a bunch of OLDs. Who knows if some Pope will come looking for trouble with some expeditionary force? Although it's not like we can't beat them. It's better to keep a low profile at times like this."

The gluttonous father picked up his son and ran away.

Thinking back to his unscrupulous father, Shota sighed, shook his head to clear his mind, and had no choice but to transform back into a gluttonous beast. He shrunk smaller and smaller until he was only the size of a cat. The miniature gluttonous beast licked its paws, picked up the remaining few Pocky sticks in its mouth, and swayed its head as it walked along the highway.

Hmm? It looks like a car is coming from behind.

Shota turned his head and glanced around, noticing faint lights coming from inside. Although it was normal to have cars on the highway, the people inside the cars exuded a strong spiritual energy—it seemed to be the same group of people he had fought before.

"We've been discovered, meow?" Shota muttered, then dismissed the idea, guessing they were just heading home on their way.

"What a nuisance, meow."

Shota had no choice but to hide by the roadside, then curl up and wait for the other person to pass before running away—as for jumping into the woods below and then back up, that was too much trouble.

Not long after, a Jeep and a mannequin drove past it.

"Huh? What's wrong, Huang Quan?"

Sitting in the car, Kagura noticed Yomi suddenly looking out the window and asked with some confusion, "What's outside?"

"It's nothing." Huang Quan looked away, realizing she must have been imagining things. How could she possibly see a cat with a Pocky stick in its mouth...?

"parking!"

Huang Quan suddenly shouted, and without saying a word, he pushed open the car door, jumped out, and ran towards where the "cat" had been.

"Chaotic Crimson Lotus!"

"..."

Shota, who had seen the car had already passed, jumped out of his hiding place, only to suddenly find a spirit beast jumping out and running towards him. His fur stood on end, and without saying a word, he turned around and started running.

"I want to eat gluttony, meow."

Shota swallowed the entire POCKY in his mouth at once, and upon seeing the spirit beast Ran Honglian, whose size was dozens or even hundreds of times his own, he instinctively...

"stop!"

Huang Quan, standing on the chaotic red lotus, spotted the golden demon and immediately commanded his spirit beast to pounce on it.