Chapter 857: Chapter 857: Another monster! Chapter 857: Chapter 857: Another monster! Fan Zixuan, as a mber of the Fan Family, finally spoke his wish to the “Fox Fairy.”
Murder! Kill Huang Xiaolong!
Today, Fan Zixuan did what his father and grandfather never dared to do in their lives!
At this mont, the seven-tailed red fox outside the cave squeaked a few tis at the cave, then stood up on its hind legs, unexpectedly made a kneeling motion, its front limbs together as if it was worshipping and praying for sothing.
“Very well, Xiaohong, this matter is for you to handle,” the Fox Fairy said with a clear and gently laughing voice from within the cave.
Next second…
Bang~~!!!!
With a loud noise, the seven-tailed red fox suddenly disappeared.
Fan Zixuan was so startled that he quickly took a step back. It was as if a firecracker had gone off in front of him, with smoke billowing and a great cloud of white smoke rising up.
Within the smoke, one could faintly see a slender and srizing silhouette.
Then, out of the smoke, a young girl stepped forth!
This girl, in the bloom of her youth, was dressed in a red outfit that seed to be from the ti of the Republic of China. With bright eyes and shiny teeth, she was extraordinarily charming. Her red clothes only served to make her radiate with even more stunning beauty. As she revealed a smile, flowers seed to bloom all around her, and even the air was filled with intoxicating floral fragrance.
“My goddess, Xiaohong will now follow Young Master Zixuan to kill that person and fulfill Young Master Zixuan’s wish. This will complete your ritorious deeds,” the young girl in red spoke sweetly, her voice tinglingly enchanting as if to numb one’s very marrow.
Upon hearing her voice, Fan Zixuan felt so spellbound that a surge of impulse erged within him—to die for the red-clad girl before him right this instant, without a word of complaint! Even if the girl in red ordered him to kill his own parents, not a single frown would appear on his brow!
Inside the cave, the Fox Fairy spoke. “Xiaohong, you have cultivated for a thousand years before you grew seven tails and took human form… You must be very careful. In Rong City, there are formidable ancient martial families like the Yu Family. You must act discreetly, or else all your millennia of cultivation could be ruined in an instant, which would be a complete loss.”
The girl in red, Xiaohong, instantly fell to her knees outside the cave. “Goddess, rest assured, Xiaohong will surely fulfill Young Master Zixuan’s wish. If not, Xiaohong will have no face to return to see you!”
Xiaohong too made a firm pledge.
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It took Huang Xiaolong several hours, but it wasn’t until the evening that he managed to resolve the troubleso matters of those people in the private room.
The people left respectfully and bid farewell.
In the room, only Huang Xiaolong, Zhao Bing, Sister Huan, and Zhao Bing’s parents were left.
At this ti, the dark spots on Mother Zhao’s face had completely vanished, and Huang Xiaolong had cured her illness with acupuncture. Mother Zhao felt much lighter all over, especially in the mind, which had beco more clear.
“Ah~~ Little Long, you really are capable! I feel so much better now!” Mother Zhao looked at Huang Xiaolong with a rather flattering smile, her face nearly blooming with joy.
Oh dear. When Huang Xiaolong arrived, Mother Zhao had still been pulling a long face, sarcastically mocking Huang Xiaolong, even driving him away in person. But now, she showed a face that seed desperate to marry her daughter to Huang Xiaolong right away.
How quickly people turn their faces, faster than flipping a book!
However, Huang Xiaolong didn’t take her to task. Judging from her facial disposition, Mother Zhao was a bit sharp and harsh, but not a thoroughly vile person—just sowhat rcenary. And in today’s society, who isn’t a bit rcenary?
“Little Long~ my mom… you know, could you please not hold it against her?” Zhao Bing apologized tentatively.
Father Zhao and Sister Huan also apologized profusely on the side.
Huang Xiaolong said with a smile, “I’m not that petty.”
Upon hearing Huang Xiaolong’s response, the Zhao Family mbers all heaved a sigh of relief.
“Ah ha~ Dinner ti is approaching… Why not, let’s go ho. I’ll cook a al myself, as a way to apologize to you, Little Long, and also to thank you for curing my illness,” Mother Zhao offered warmly.
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“Whatever works.” Huang Xiaolong replied succinctly.
Then, they left the private room.
Father Zhao and Mother Zhao took one car.
Huang Xiaolong, Zhao Bing, and Sister Huan took another.
On the car driven by Sister Huan, Zhao Bing and Huang Xiaolong were sitting in the back seat.
“Little Long~ today… today really… really troubled you… I didn’t expect such a thing to happen.” Zhao Bing said, embarrassed.
“It’s nothing,” Huang Xiaolong said with an indifferent smile. “I don’t see any problem. Besides, life is so boring without such events; it’s quite good this way, actually.”
“Uh~~~” Huang Xiaolong’s reply left Zhao Bing sowhat speechless.
After a pause, Zhao Bing continued, “Little Long, now that the Yu Family has stepped in, and they have shown you so much… such respect, even if Fan Zixuan had ten tis the courage, he wouldn’t dare find fault with you or retaliate against you again.”
“Hehe~~” Huang Xiaolong chuckled mischievously. “If the Fan Family doesn’t trouble , I might have to go looking for their bad luck… harboring a nest of fox spirits, what good could they possibly do in the future?”
At this mont, Sister Huan asked while driving, “Master Long, what exactly are you doing in Rong City this ti?”
Huang Xiaolong said with a smile, “Just strolling around, catching ghosts if there are any, and subduing demons if they appear.”
After a pause, Huang Xiaolong said aningfully, “I find Rong City to be a very interesting city… there are many surprises…”
“Giggle giggle giggle~~ Master Long, you really are carefree,” Sister Huan said with a laugh.
The car arrived at a residential community where Zhao Bing’s parents lived.
This community was quite upscale, with uniform row houses and excellent greenery.
All along the way, Mother Zhao was very warm, taking great care of Huang Xiaolong, treating him as if he was already her son-in-law, “Little Long, when you get to our ho, don’t be polite, just treat it like your own ho. Just now, Bingbing’s dad and I discussed it, and we have no objections to your relationship with Bingbing! By the way, Little Long, have you and Bingbing already done what needs to be done? When are you planning to get your marriage license?”
“Pfft~~~~” Upon hearing this, Sister Huan couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Zhao Bing was enormously embarrassed, stamping her foot and saying, “Mom! What nonsense are you talking about! I’m speechless with you!”
“Oh my, Bingbing, why are you feeling shy? Mom has been there; us won, no matter how capable we are, ultimately rely on n. Finding a good marriage is what allows us to live the second half of our lives with peace of mind…” Mother Zhao began to ramble on and on.
Just at that mont!
An invisible ripple swept through the air!
‘There’s a demon aura!’ Huang Xiaolong’s heart shuddered. ‘Oh… could it be, the Fan Family? They called for a protective fairy so quickly to take revenge on ?’
But soon, Huang Xiaolong realized… The faint demon aura was not that of a fox spirit, but another kind of demon.
And more importantly, the target of this demon aura was not Huang Xiaolong, but—Mother Zhao!
In the ti it took to speak, a cluster of black qi floated over out of nowhere, piercing straight into Mother Zhao’s forehead!
In an instant, Mother Zhao, who had been incessantly muttering and giving life lessons to Zhao Bing, suddenly stopped speaking. Her expression turned sinister and greedy as she cast her gaze towards Zhao Bing!
The next second!
Mother Zhao, as if possessed, lunged straight at Zhao Bing, emitting a strange squeak from her throat, her hands reaching for Zhao Bing’s neck!
This was so sudden that Zhao Bing, Father Zhao, and Sister Huan were completely caught off guard. Just as Mother Zhao was about to seize Zhao Bing’s neck—
Huang Xiaolong smiled faintly, and his right index finger pointed out through the air.
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Whoosh~~!
A beam of golden light directly struck the spot between Mother Zhao’s eyebrows.
“Squeak~~~~~~~!”
Mother Zhao let out a piercing scream as a stream of black smoke billowed from between her eyebrows, twisted a few tis, and tried to escape.
“Trying to leave?” Huang Xiaolong’s right hand grabbed with his fingers, and from the center of his palm burst forth a raging fla. This was the pure Samadhi True Fire, which did not burn mundane objects, but was specialized in vanquishing ghosts and demons!
The Samadhi True Fire engulfed the cloud of black smoke, quickly reducing it to nothingness.
At the sa ti, Huang Xiaolong’s gaze shifted and he saw in a distant flower bed a yellow shadow flash by at an incredibly fast speed, disappearing into the night in a mont.
However, before the yellow shadow vanished, a pair of eyes filled with resentnt and hatred appeared in Huang Xiaolong’s mind.
These eyes were green, exceedingly eerie, and reeked of greed and cruelty.
“Oh? You’re holding a grudge against ?” Huang Xiaolong chuckled teasingly. He didn’t bother to chase after it, but gave a slight nod after a quick thought.
Mother Zhao ca back to her senses, murmuring in confusion. “What happened to just now? How did I suddenly lose consciousness… It’s so strange…”
“Wife, what sort of madness did you have? The way you were just now was truly vicious. And, did you really want to strangle our daughter to death?” Father Zhao scolded, his voice a blend of shock, bewildernt, and heart-pounding fear.
Zhao Bing and Sister Huan, however, turned their attention to Huang Xiaolong, both saying in unison. “A ghost? A monster?”
Indeed, after spending more ti with Huang Xiaolong, Zhao Bing and Sister Huan couldn’t help but think of demons and ghosts whenever sothing spooky occurred.
“Mhm. It was a demon, but just a remnant soul of it that had possessed Aunt Zhao,” Huang Xiaolong said with a smile.
“Demon~~demon… demon…” Mother Zhao’s face turned pale with fear, and she began to shake like a sieve.
Father Zhao was terrified as well.
“Little Long, is it Fan Zixuan who is causing trouble?” Zhao Bing said through gritted teeth, anger visible in her expression. She thought to herself how cursed their lives had been, falling into such misfortune. She had just been possessed by a fox demon, and now her mother was ensnared by evil as well!
“It’s not him,” Huang Xiaolong replied confidently with a shake of his head. He then said with a smile, “Don’t worry, I’ve scared the demon away. However… Aunt Zhao, you’re in danger now.”
“I… I… I…” Mother Zhao’s teeth chattered.
“Yes, the demon is fixated on you and will seek revenge until your death,” Huang Xiaolong said, his expression far from joking.
Mother Zhao fainted on the spot.
At the Zhao household.
On the living room sofa.
Huang Xiaolong applied pressure to the unconscious Mother Zhao’s philtrum, and she soon began to stir.
“Little Long! What on earth is going on?” Mother Zhao cried out distraught.
Zhao Bing also quickly tugged at Huang Xiaolong’s sleeve, choking up. “Little Long, you must help my mom! You have to help her! My mom might be a bit snobbish, but… but she has a kind heart… She’s not a bad person…”
Huang Xiaolong chuckled, gathering his thoughts before saying to Mother Zhao, “Aunt Zhao, you have offended a demon. Now, it has co for you.”
“Offended a demon?” Mother Zhao shook her head repeatedly. “Little Long, I would never dare to offend a demon! I an, yes, I might have a bit of a sharp tongue, but I… I…”
Huang Xiaolong laughed aningfully, muttering. “Coming to Rong City was the right decision! It’s thrilling! Hahaha~~~~!”
After a pause, Huang Xiaolong spoke calmly. “Aunt Zhao, think carefully. Have you recently scolded soone without good reason?”
“Cursing?” Mother Zhao’s brow furrowed in concentration, getting lost in her mories. It took her several minutes before she replied with an embarrassed expression. “Little Long, haven’t I told you? I do tend to have a foul mouth… Ah, cursing… Well, yes, I curse quite often… This… This bad habit of mine, I’ll change it! I’ll change! I’ll definitely change! From now on, I absolutely won’t curse people at random anymore! But… Does cursing people have anything to do with offending monsters?”
“Aunt Zhao, what I an is, have you ever cursed soone that you don’t know at all?” Huang Xiaolong hinted.
“Little Long, although my mouth is foul, I see no point in cursing strangers, not at all! What, you really take for so unreasonable shrew?” Mother Zhao said, looking aggrieved.
“Think about it more carefully.” Huang Xiaolong smiled.
“I really didn’t… Oh, wait, now that I think about it, sothing does co to mind.” Mother Zhao’s eyes suddenly lit up as she slapped her forehead. “That’s right, last Sunday, I ate a bit too much for dinner and went downstairs to walk around the neighborhood. As I was walking, so person popped out of nowhere, blocking my path and smiling at , which gave quite a scare… I thought I’d encountered a robber or so pervert…”
“What did this person look like?” Huang Xiaolong inquired.
“A young man, wearing so nondescript yellow clothes, he looked quite handso but in a weird way… Oh, that’s right, he was also wearing a lon cap. I an, who still wears such an outdated hat nowadays?” Mother Zhao recalled as she spoke. “At the ti, I suspected that the young man had so ntal issues.”
Mother Zhao continued her story. “Later on, sothing even stranger happened. The young man kept grinning foolishly at and bowing. He asked , ‘Big sister, do you think I look like a human?’ When I heard this, I imdiately got annoyed, thinking he really was crazy!”
Huang Xiaolong’s interest piqued, and he smiled. “How did you respond?”
“I… I…” Mother Zhao admitted sowhat sheepishly. “I confess, I did curse at him… I said, ‘You look like a fart… You’re not human at all, just a lunatic, not like a person in the slightest…'”
“Heh heh~~~” Huang Xiaolong laughed, half-smiling. “Well cursed.”
Mother Zhao beca increasingly embarrassed. “Little Long, you’re mocking , aren’t you? Anyway… After that, he kept asking the sa question over and over, ‘Big sister, do you think I look like a human?’ I got so angry that I kicked him, sending him tumbling. He didn’t fight back, just got up and walked away dejectedly, tears streaming down his face. However… as he left, he glared at fiercely, as if he wanted to kill .”
“That’s it then.” Huang Xiaolong nodded.
“No way, Little Long, was that young man a monster?” Mother Zhao’s face was a picture of disbelief. “If he really was a monster, he could have just eaten right there. But he didn’t retaliate when I kicked him; he even cried his eyes out…”
Huang Xiaolong spoke gravely, “Aunt Zhao, that young man is a monster. You’ve ruined its big plan, and now you’re in trouble. Such monsters are very vindictive and will stop at nothing to kill you if they don’t die! It’s not just you who will die, your entire family will too… I didn’t expect, coming to Rong City, to continuously encounter monsters…”
Mother Zhao felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave.
Zhao Bing, Father Zhao, and the others exchanged bewildered looks.
Yet, they couldn’t help but believe what Huang Xiaolong had said.
Huang Xiaolong organized his thoughts and explained, “As far as I know, for such monsters to transform into a human shape, the final step of their success is to find soone on the street and ask, ‘Do you think I look like a human?’ If that person says ‘You look human’ or ‘You are human,’ then the monster’s transformation is complete. Their big plan has succeeded. On the other hand, once soone answers ‘You don’t look human,’ the monster’s efforts have been wasted, and they lose their chance to transform for life.”
Mother Zhao and the others listened in a daze, scarcely understanding.
Zhao Bing asked, “Little Long, do you an to say that the monster asked my mom if it looked human, and when my mom said it didn’t and even hit it, that resulted in its failure and now it’s dead set on revenge? My mom prevented it from achieving its goal?”
“That’s exactly what I an.” Huang Xiaolong nodded and smiled.
Mother Zhao beat her chest and stamped her feet in regret. “I… I brought this on myself! At that ti, I should have just gone along with it and said it looked human, wouldn’t that have been fine? Such unnecessary trouble!”
“That wouldn’t have worked either.” Huang Xiaolong shook his head. “If you had helped it achieve its big plan, you would have been using the fortune of your descendants to aid its cultivation. Simply put, Aunt Zhao, had you said it looked human that night, it would have risen to great heights, becoming a royal of its kind. From then on, you would have had to worship it. It could guarantee you a lifeti of glory and wealth. However, once you died, it would have taken its revenge on your descendants, causing your family to fall apart and et with untily deaths…”
“This is too bizarre… too bizarre…” Mother Zhao was distraught.
“It is a rule, and there’s no reasoning to it,” Huang Xiaolong remarked with a smile. “In the world of monsters, many things are inexplicable. For example, for an eight-tailed fox demon to evolve into a nine-tailed one, it must help a human fulfill a wish. If a snake demon is seen by soone during its tribulation, it must be referred to as a ‘dragon’; if the word ‘snake’ is uttered, the snake demon’s efforts are for naught.”
Pausing for a mont, Huang Xiaolong looked at Mother Zhao with a mockingly sympathetic gaze. “Aunt Zhao, today was just the first act of revenge. From now on, you will face endless retribution from that monster. Like I said, it will not rest until you die.”
At these words, Mother Zhao fainted from fright once again.
Zhao Bing, weeping like rain on pear blossoms, begged Huang Xiaolong, “Little Long, you must save my mom, save my family~~~”
Sister Huanhuan asked with a trembling voice, “Master Long, the monster you ntioned, it’s too uncanny. What, what exactly is it?”
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