Da Xuan Martial Saint-Chapter 359 - 248 Demon Fox_2

Chen Mu stood in the courtyard, sensing the breath disappear into the distance. He shrugged slightly before returning to the house, where he brewed a cup of hot tea and sipped it leisurely.

Now, he truly had no interest in joining Hua Nongying in any righteous and evil love-and-kill games. This time, because of Meng Danyun, he had spared her. There were still too many tasks for him to complete, and for the time being, he had no intention of having too much interaction with the Hehuan Sect.

That said,

Hua Nongying had indeed mastered the second stage of the Taiyin Artistic Conception. If there was a chance, he was genuinely curious to see whether the two sisters could create a true Yin Yang Artistic Conception. So far, apart from a Heavenly Sword, he had not encountered any artistic conception of this level. He also needed to measure how it compared to the Qiankun before he could know.

Setting the teacup down, Chen Mu silently disappeared from the house.

He had also obtained the Dual Cultivation Method, as of now, there was no need for him to continue staying in Bi Prefecture. His final destination was the village where he had previously met that little girl to see what choice she would make, and then he would return to his sect.

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Soon.

Chen Mu left the highland and, following his memory, navigated through the mountain cliffs. Before long, a village nestled in a narrow valley appeared before him.

Standing on higher ground, he swept his gaze and soon spotted Jin Ling’er, who was washing clothes by a stream that ran through the valley. The clothes were coarse hemp garments that required strong pounding to clean, but the young girl’s strength was extraordinary, making the task look easy for her.

Silently,

Chen Mu appeared in front of her.

"...Benefactor?"

When Jin Ling’er saw Chen Mu, she was initially shocked and then joyfully exclaimed.

Chen Mu calmly looked at her and asked, "How have you considered it?"

Upon hearing Chen Mu’s words, Jin Ling’er seemed to think of something. Her eyes momentarily dimmed, then she bit her lip and said, "If I go to the Seven Profound Sect to learn martial arts, can I still come back later? I want to be stronger than my uncle, protect the village from those monsters..."

Chen Mu observed Jin Ling’er and said, "Once you reach a certain realm, naturally, you can leave the sect. However, based on what you said, it seems some incidents have occurred in your village recently?"

Jin Ling’er nodded sadly and began to recount.

About half a month ago, a monster attacked the village at night. It was an extremely powerful fox demon. Her uncle, along with the village’s hunters, had tried their best to drive it away, but they were severely injured in the process and he died a couple of days later.

Hunters in the mountains dying to monsters were fairly common occurrences. Her father had died at the hands of a monster while out gathering herbs, and they only found a few blood-stained pieces of his clothing afterward.

"A fox demon?"

After listening to Jin Ling’er’s words, Chen Mu’s eyes revealed a thoughtful expression.

Fox demons are generally more cunning than other monsters. There had also been no disasters in the mountains recently. Normally, they wouldn’t attack a village, as these mountain dwellers lived off the mountain, frequently gathered herbs, and were commonly skilled in Skin Toughening and Body Refinement; they weren’t easy to defeat. Moreover, too much killing would attract stronger martial artists to hunt them down.

From Jin Ling’er’s description, the fox had three tails and pale golden fur. If true, it was an extremely rare kind of monster, ’Golden Tail Fox’, known for being cunning, greedy, and particularly sensitive to Heaven and Earth Spiritual Items. Generally, where they appear, some Heaven and Earth Spiritual Items are likely born.

"Golden Tail Foxes generally do not attack villages, nor have there been recent disasters. So perhaps it was attracted by some kind of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Items in the nearby mountains, fearing discovery by the villagers, thus attempting an attack to drive the villagers away. After a fierce battle, finding it difficult to drive them off, it finally retreated."

Chen Mu silently organized a series of deductions in his mind.

If his guess was correct, then there should be some kind of spiritual object in these mountains, either difficult to extract or not yet ripe for harvesting.

The Golden Tail Fox, after all, was a low-rank demon, only a Third Rank monster. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Items it considered treasures might also possibly be common and not highly valuable. However, since there was a possibility of spiritual objects existing, it was worth investigating.

"Alright, I understand. That fox demon might have discovered some precious spiritual objects nearby and, unable to act hastily, attacked your village. I am also interested in what it has found; I will go and look for it for you."

Chen Mu didn’t conceal anything and directly informed Jin Ling’er of the situation.

"So that’s what happened."

Jin Ling’er had absolutely no reaction to the "precious spiritual objects" mentioned by Chen Mu, her gaze slightly downcast as she responded with only one sentence, and then kowtowed to Chen Mu, "Thank you, Benefactor..."

She only knew that a vicious monster fox lurked in the nearby mountains, and should Chen Mu not locate and deal with it, the village might still suffer attacks. As for any precious spiritual objects, they did not even cross her mind.

Chen Mu nodded slightly.

He then turned around, his toes touched the ground, and his whole body disappeared from the spot in an instant.

He did not ask for more specific intelligence, such as the last direction in which the beast fled. The Golden Tail Fox was exceedingly cunning; such information was basically meaningless.

In the past, he had many monster-hunting experiences, and now being a top existence in the Five Viscera Realm, a master on the Wind Cloud List, he naturally did not require too many complicated tactics. Searching for the Golden Tail Fox was very simple — a sweeping search!

If his judgment was correct, the Golden Tail Fox would not be far from Jin Ling’er’s village, and now with his Qiankun Artistic Conception fully perceptive, any traces of the beast within a hundred yards could hardly escape his mystical senses.

He only needed to search systematically, piece by piece, and though it might take some time, he would be able to ferret it out.

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Whoosh! Whoosh!!

Chen Mu’s figure swiftly shuttled between the mountain walls, sweeping through the area piece by piece. About half a day later, he finally found traces of the beast in a canyon about ten miles from the mountain village.

Chen Mu’s gaze swept over the canyon; in his line of sight, the entire area was not like the mountain walls or soil, but rather made up of different colors of The Power of Heaven and Earth. Within this power, he could clearly identify some ’inharmonious’ spots, all of which were residual traces of the beast.

Whoosh.

Chen Mu leaped onto the mountain wall, looked around, and then stared intently in a distant direction, catching a glimpse of a faint golden afterimage fleeting by, apparently fleeing.

"Thinking of fleeing?"

His expression calm, he took a step and walked down from the mountain wall, soon reaching the place occupied by the faint golden demon shadow, only to see it was a thick mountain wall with an extremely narrow crevice.

The Golden Tail Fox had burrowed into it, no longer visible.

"Quite good at hiding, but..."

Chen Mu’s lips curved up slightly. If it had been before, facing such a narrow rock crevice, which he could sense went very deep, it indeed would have been a bit troublesome and required effort to dig in.

But for him now, crevice or no crevice, form or formlessness, it made no difference.

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Inside the crevice.

A faint golden demon shadow was struggling along the narrow crevice, desperately burrowing deeper. Its body covered in faint golden fur, it had three tails, indeed the monster Golden Tail Fox.

At that moment, in the Golden Tail Fox’s demon eyes, which showed a very anthropomorphic panic — although it had only caught a brief glimpse of the distant Chen Mu, it instantly knew it was an extremely terrifying presence, even more dreadful than some beings it had encountered before.

Luckily, it had dominated this area early on and discovered this rock crevice, a perfect hiding place. This rock peak went deep into the mountain with multiple different exits also available.

However.

Just as it had burrowed deeper for a while, realizing there was no movement from behind and letting out a slight breath of relief, it slowed down a bit.

Suddenly, a face appeared quietly in the pitch-black crevice!

"!!"

The hairs on the three tails of the Golden Tail Fox almost exploded, and its demon eyes showed extreme horror. It tried desperately to retreat, but a large hand reached into the crevice and grabbed its tails in one go.

That hand, glowing faintly, penetrated the rock layer as if it were nothing.