Chapter 57: The Fox Demon and the Daoist Priest

The Jianghu is vast, so it’s normal to get lost in it.

Shi Feizhe scratched his head. He just wanted to show off some cool moves, skipping Zhao Family Market and heading directly northwest to Kongtong Mountain Market.

As a result, the mountains in the dark taught him a lesson.

Is it here? Or there?

He had absolutely no idea!

It seems that one should be low-key and patient!

Muttering to himself, sounding a bit like a pig, Shi Feizhe, as he built a fire, had a profound realization.

I’ve been living too comfortably for the past two years, I’ve gotten a bit complacent!

These past two years have been peaceful and stable, compared to the disaster-stricken Qiuyang City two years ago, it feels like a world away.

He didn’t know where he was, so he decided to wait until daybreak to figure out his direction.

He remembered the first time he spent a night outdoors, he encountered Hua Xiaomei. The second time, he met Shan Xu.

He wondered if there would be anything else in this dark night?

Shi Feizhe didn’t know, but he closed his eyes and adjusted his breathing, waiting for dawn. He could now replace sleep with meditation.

The Jianghu was changing, and so was he.

In the latter half of the night, Shi Feizhe’s ears twitched. He suddenly heard the sound of something stepping on leaves and branches.

“Young Master, please save this little fox!” A soft voice transmitted through his mind, coming from the woods in the darkness.

“Huh?” Shi Feizhe instantly perked up.

Late night, fox demon, rescue!

These keywords, this is the Jianghu!

It’s so stran……

But as he turned his head, he saw an ordinary-looking square-faced fox running out of the woods, stepping on leaves. Not only did the fox have a square face, but its yellow-white fur wasn’t shiny either. It was very different from the foxes in Shi Feizhe’s memory.

It looked like a dog!

“?”

“Young Master! Young Master!” The voice was quite anxious, and continued: “There’s an evil Daoist priest behind me, please lend a helping hand and save me!”

Shi Feizhe looked at his nose, his nose at his heart, pretending not to hear.

This kind of fox, let it die.

“Young Master~” Seeing Shi Feizhe like this, the fox cursed inwardly. Then, with a “poof,” it transformed into a woman wearing a semi-transparent gauze, and said:

“Young Master~ Do you think I’m beautiful?”

Shi Feizhe looked at the woman transformed by the fox demon. Her appearance was very ordinary, like a maid next to a young lady from a wealthy family, easily forgotten.

“Average.” Shi Feizhe couldn’t help but say.

He rarely commented on someone’s appearance directly, even if it was a fox demon! But the appearance this fox demon transformed into was too ordinary!

This was fucking bullshit, she was messing with him!

“Young Master, you don’t know, our fox clan transforms our appearance based on the other person’s looks. If the other person is handsome and elegant, then we will also transform into a breathtaking beauty!”

The fox demon explained in a soft and gentle voice.

“???”

What do you mean, you damned beast?

You transformed into something unattractive and you’re saying I’m ugly!

Is this your attitude when asking for help?

Shi Feizhe glared.

The fox demon also glared back, continuing to transmit her voice: “That Daoist priest behind me is from the True Dragon Path! He subdues countless demons with his ‘True Dragon,’ regardless of gender! Young Master, think of a way quickly, otherwise, who knows…”

Why are there so many filthy people in the Jianghu?!

Hearing the fox demon’s tone, Shi Feizhe frowned. Hearing the content of what she said, his frown deepened.

He thought of the demon monk Wu Jing he had killed before.

They were both disgusting existences!

Just then, a song came from the woods: “I wish to ride a whale and return, but I fear the celestial officials in heaven will despise my drunken state!”

“This humble Daoist, Li Qingshan of the Ascension Path, greets the gentleman! Visiting late at night is truly presumptuous, but that fox demon is of great use to me, I ask the gentleman to relinquish her!”

A man emerged from the woods. He was wearing a faded blue Daoist robe, a yellow leather gourd with a crooked mouth hung from his waist, and a wooden box was strapped to his back. He had a slender figure, handsome features, a short beard, and a wooden hairpin in his hair.

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He looked immortal and refined, not a lewd person, but rather a master!

Surprisingly, he was holding a bloody human head in one hand.

“Ascension Path! My dear mother…” Hearing the Daoist priest introduce himself, the fox demon rolled her eyes and fainted.

The illusion also dissipated with the fox demon’s faint, and she returned to her yellow-furred dog-like form.

“Good, square-faced and yellow-furred, a true Snow Mountain fox! I ask the gentleman to relinquish her!” Seeing the fox demon’s appearance, Li Qingshan’s eyes lit up and he said.

“Didn’t she say that a Daoist priest from the True Dragon Path was chasing her?” Shi Feizhe saw that Li Qingshan had a dignified air, not like a lewd Daoist priest.

“Oh? True Dragon Path? Is the gentleman talking about him?” Li Qingshan picked up the bloody head in his hand and said:

“This Daoist priest from the True Dragon Path, although he claims to subdue demons, in reality, he uses the name of demon subjugation to satisfy his own perverse desires! And he uses the name of Daoism, damaging our reputation. I happened to encounter him today and have already slain him with a single sword strike!”

“Good! Well done!” Shi Feizhe clapped his hands and said.

He also hated this kind of messed-up person. If he encountered them, he would definitely cut them down with a sword.

“What use does Daoist Priest Li have for this fox demon?” Shi Feizhe then asked.

Seeing Shi Feizhe’s question, Li Qingshan said, “To be honest, this fox demon is not a local one, but comes from the Western Snow Mountains. After a fox demon reaches adulthood, its internal organs secrete a kind of mucus that is very suitable for bonding leather.”

“So you’re using the fox demon as glue!” Shi Feizhe suddenly understood. This Daoist priest from the Ascension Path had quite a scientific spirit!

“Exactly! Our Ascension Path aspires to ascend to the stars and explore the mysteries of heaven and earth! My master’s invention, the flying sphere, can already fly thousands of feet into the air, and we need the fox demon to make even larger flying spheres!”

Li Qingshan’s face was full of pride when he spoke of his master.

“?”

“Celestial stars?” Shi Feizhe was puzzled.

“Precisely! Gentleman, look up!” Li Qingshan pointed to the stars in the sky with one hand while holding the head in the other.

“What is the sky like?”

“How high is the sky?”

“Why are there stars in the sky?”

“We can look up and see the stars every night, but we never know what they look like!”

“Since we have doubts in our hearts, why not fly up to the sky and take a look?”

“A thousand years ago, our ancestor suddenly had a realization and wanted to go up to the sky to take a look! To explore the secrets of the sky!” Li Qingshan said passionately, as if he wasn’t in the wilderness but on a podium.

Shi Feizhe shuddered as he saw Li Qingshan speak with such a fanatical expression.

“Martial arts masters can only fly tens or hundreds of feet into the sky! So we need other methods to make people fly higher! To fly above the sky!”

“After so many years, generations of ancestors have poured their hearts and souls into this, countless people have died, and only then have we achieved what we have today.”

“Our sect can now fly in the sky at a height of thousands of feet, seeing the edge of the earth and the heavens beyond the heavens!”

“The secrets of the sky are open to us!”

“Unfortunately, we ultimately failed.”

“The flying sphere can’t fly that high, we need a bigger one! And that requires a lot of adhesive!”

“Now, I implore the gentleman to relinquish the fox demon! Fulfill our wish!”

Watching Li Qingshan go from calm to fanatical, and then from fanatical back to calm, it seemed he was willing to do anything for the thousand-year dream of the Ascension Path.

At this time, Shi Feizhe remembered that someone had said that Daoist priests are all crazy.

Daoist priests are truly insane. （ I’m still coding on May 1st~~ I’m truly a working-class hero! ）