Zhi Yao nodded vigorously.
"My Mother is a Nine-Tailed Red Fox, an extremely rare kind of fox!" Growing up, she had only seen her Mother, the only Nine-Tailed Red Fox, among her kin.
She was completely white, failing to inherit her Mother's beautiful fur coat, which had always been a source of regret for Zhi Yao.
Not only was she not beautiful, but she was also slower than other fox cubs. However, her Mother never looked down upon her, cherishing her like a precious treasure.
The more Zhi Yao thought about it, the more worried she became. She couldn't help but cry again, "I'm so useless. If only I wasn't so slow, if I were as intelligent as the other foxes, I could have saved my Mother..."
She cried harder and harder, until Pei Chiyao put down his laptop, held her in his arms, and gently patted her back, coaxing her like a child, "Our Yao is not slow at all. We're just not grown up yet, right? When Yao grows up, she'll be as formidable as her Mother."
Zhi Yao cried so hard that her tears and snot had soaked Pei Chiyao's shirt, but he didn't mind at all.
She raised her tear-filled eyes, and the sadness in her heart instantly turned into determination, "Yes! I'm already better than before!"
She suddenly remembered her jade pendant.
With this jade pendant, she could capture anyone!
Whoever bullied her Mother, she would never let them off the hook, even as a ghost!
Pei Chiyao stared at the photo, feeling that something was off.
This didn't seem quite like a real fox's tail.
Pei Chiyao tapped the armrest with his index finger, one tap after another.
"I'll go with you tonight."
Soon, night fell.
The place was in the suburbs, a rather secluded rental house Zhi Yao had never been to such a rundown place before.
The little girl got out of the car and walked cautiously forward. It was too dark, and she was a bit scared.
Although she knew Pei Chiyao was following her, she still felt a bit scared, scared enough to want to turn around and cuddle into his embrace.
But for her Mother's sake, she couldn't!
Zhi Yao silently encouraged herself.
She quickened her pace and soon saw the rental house.
As she pushed the door open, it was still pitch-black inside.
"Is... is anyone there?"
She trembled as she spoke, taking a few steps inside when, with a "click," the door closed behind her.
Zhi Yao was startled even more.
She turned around abruptly, only to see a fox.
A fox?!
She stared at the scene in surprise, quickly recognizing the fox - "Red Fox Uncle?"
It was a somewhat yellowish fox, almost emaciated.
"Little Zhi Yao, come here."
He was lying on the ground, barely clinging to life.
Zhi Yao's heart ached instantly, "Red Fox Uncle, who did this to you?"
She asked nervously, "Where's my Mother? Was it that person? Was it them who did this to you?"
She quickly walked over and knelt beside Red Fox.
The Red Fox waved his big tail weakly, clearly frail, but his golden eyes shone brightly, "Little Zhi Yao, you look so pretty as a human."
He trembled as he reached out his paw, wanting to touch Zhi Yao.
Zhi Yao immediately bent down and grabbed Red Fox's paw, "Red Fox Uncle, please tell me!"
Red Fox panted weakly, "It was the humans, the vile humans! Little Zhi Yao, you must stay far away from humans! They're all rotten to the core! They'll pull out your tendons, drain your blood, and skin you to make clothes out of your fur!! Humans are the most vile and ugly creatures in this world!"
He spoke with indignation, and Zhi Yao trembled her lips, wanting to explain, but fell silent when she met Red Fox's golden gaze.
"Little Zhi Yao, the human world is too dreadful. It would be better if..."
This was the moment!
The previously frail Red Fox suddenly sprang up, his expression vicious and fierce, not a trace of his former self. He raised his paw and violently attacked Zhi Yao's heart!
"It would be better if you offer yourself to me! Let me empower our Fox Clan!"
Their fox clan was declining, with many children unable to reach the cultivation stage before being captured by the vile humans. At that moment, the few remaining fox spirits with divine power and consciousness were all that remained.
The child of the Snow Wolf King and the Nine-Tailed Red Fox... what immense divine power she must possess!
But alas, such an abomination born from this union was destined not to remain in this world!
By devouring her, his divine power would surely surge!!!
Red Fox's eyes glowed with greed.
He had finally waited for Zhi Yao to grow up, hahaha!
Zhi Yao looked at Red Fox in disbelief, her body reacting faster than her mind. She avoided the fatal blow aimed at her heart, but she couldn't evade Red Fox's paw completely, and she squeezed her eyes shut tightly.
But the anticipated pain never came. Instead, Zhi Yao heard a scream.
She hurriedly opened her eyes to see Red Fox lying on the ground.
He had transformed into a human form.
He clutched his chest in shock, his gaze towards Zhi Yao complex beyond measure, "Where did you get this jade?!"
Didn't he throw it away?
And there were even a pair of them!
Zhi Yao stared at Red Fox, speechless.
Suddenly, with a loud "bang," the door was kicked open.
Pei Chiyao strode in, followed by two more "bangs" and Red Fox's screams as blood splattered across the rental house.
Red Fox clutched his legs, which had been shot twice, the pain excruciating.
He watched as the human approached Zhi Yao and picked her up, and Red Fox's resentment towards her reached its peak, "You... you're just like your Mother! You've betrayed the Fox Clan!! You're conspiring with humans, you abomination!"
Her Mother was an extremely rare species. If she had mated with other foxes from the clan, their offspring would have been the rarest in the world. But... she had mated with a wolf instead, giving birth to this abomination!
"Red Fox Uncle..." Zhi Yao couldn't believe it, that this was the Red Fox Uncle who had doted on her for hundreds of years.
How could he have become like this?
"Enough talk." Pei Chiyao raised his gun, the black muzzle pointing at Red Fox's head, "Where's her Mother?"
"Hahaha! You actually believed me?" Red Fox laughed mockingly, "I have no idea where your Mother is. That fox tail was bought by me, dyed in color. You really believed it? How stupid! Of course, an abomination like you would be stupid!"
Zhi Yao was the product of a wolf and a fox's union.
Although her Mother had always deceived the clan, people had still noticed the difference in this fox cub.
Her body was frail, and she developed slowly, so calling her stupid wouldn't be an exaggeration.
Moreover... her body exuded an extremely strong scent of divine power. But that divine power seemed merely stored within her, as Zhi Yao was completely unable to harness it, to the point that she couldn't even transform into a human.
After years of observation and investigation, he had finally uncovered Zhi Yao's true origins...
