Chapter 449 - 448: Demon Sect Holy Saint’s Essence imprint?

Chapter 449: Chapter 448: Demon Sect Holy Saint’s Essence imprint?

Chapter 448: Demon Sect Holy Saint’s Essence imprint?

Luo Wusheng had always known just how terrifying his little pink fox could be when she was angry.

On this matter, a certain white-haired loli—who possessed a prodigious talent for infuriating the little pink fox—understood it far too well.

Back in the stone cavern before parting ways with Yao Ji, if Yue Xuanji hadn’t been well-prepared with her top-tier escape abilities, she might have been sold off to a brothel on the spot.

And even though that white-haired loli had escaped that time, she was later possessed by the little pink fox and almost got herself killed anyway.

If even the Heavenly Divination Tower Master—who possessed Divine Transformation cultivation—had ended up like that, Luo Wusheng was certain that his own frail body wouldn’t be able to endure it at all.

That was why, at this moment, he was desperately trying to restrain his thoughts.

With how blunt and unfiltered his mind currently was, who knew what strange "chemical reactions" might occur upon seeing the little pink fox’s long-lost kemonomimi form?

—Of course, the little pink fox suddenly revealing this Genshin Impact Yae Miko-like form was not without reason.

Earlier, after accidentally provoking this Netherqueen, Luo Wusheng naturally began considering countermeasures to remedy the situation.

He was quite experienced in the art of coaxing angry girls... after all, he’d earned quite a lot of skill points from Little Yuli in that department.

The only problem was that in his current "speaks-whatever-he-thinks" state, most of his usual tricks would probably backfire.

So he chose the safest option:

Change the subject.

When he shifted the conversation to their current situation and serious matters, the little pink fox—who had just vented a wave of anger—indeed calmed down noticeably.

And he genuinely was concerned about what was happening here, so it was killing two birds with one stone.

’I can still feel my physical body unconsciously grinding away at the Netherkin race’s restriction. Miss Kirin is still asleep—perhaps this backlash is something she has to endure.’

’As for the Netherking, the corpse-dragon he controls is being swarmed by those sadistic plants... for now, it’s completely suppressed. As expected, plants hard-counter zombies.’

With that thought, he realized his situation was already safe.

The hardest part of the Netherkin race chaos was over.

The space controlled by Demon Moon would no longer produce enemies. Even if he wanted to break the restriction, he now had plenty of time—no more urgent pressure.

As for the chaos in the royal city—well, that wasn’t under his jurisdiction. And he had no qualification to interfere in the critical Divine Transformation-level battle anyway. Better to leave that "shining on stage" to the Daoist Sect Master.

All he needed to do was return to his body later, send Miss Kirin back, and the task would be fully complete.

Although... he did have this vague feeling that after being kneaded around earlier, he had forgotten something.

But it probably wasn’t anything important.

Luo Wusheng finally relaxed.

’But... why didn’t Yao Ji directly tell me what state I’m in right now?’

And why did she ask him to touch her tail first...?

...

At this moment.

"Touch this tail. Just once. And don’t do anything weird."

"O-okay... Actually, I kind of want to know what touching something feels like with this body— Ahem, I said nothing."

Under the little pink fox’s increasingly dangerous gaze, Luo Wusheng—who had almost lost control of his mouth again—quickly corrected himself.

He thought for a moment, then looked down at the fox tail resting before him.

To be honest, he didn’t quite understand how he was "seeing" anything right now—everything he saw entered his mind directly via consciousness, with zoom-in and zoom-out capability. It felt exactly like using that Demon Moon artifact to view mental images.

In the picture currently displayed, the fluffy fox tail gently swayed.

’It really makes me want to pet it... No, focus—this is the little pink fox’s tail that had its Ancient Phoenix Essence imprint stripped away?’

Carefully controlling his thoughts so they wouldn’t spill out as spoken words, Luo Wusheng pondered in silence.

Thanks to Yao Ji’s demonstration, he could clearly distinguish the differences among the nine fox tails.

Including the tail before him, there were two whose radiance appeared particularly dim. According to the explanation previously given by that white-haired loli while she was possessed, those should be the two tails that had lost their Ancestral Netherkin Tail Essence.

The one before him was the Ninth Tail, the one that had once contained the Ancient Phoenix Essence Imprint.

The other dim tail should be the one whose inner Essence imprint had been given to the white-haired loli... but he had no idea what kind of Ancestral Netherkin that imprint had belonged to.

Aside from those, there was also a tail wrapped in a mysterious, arcane glow that drew Luo Wusheng’s attention, giving him a strangely familiar feeling.

"That belongs to the Ancestral Netherkin with the Devouring ability."

Yao Ji sensed Luo Wusheng’s thoughts explained calmly.

Then she lightly furrowed her brows.

"Hurry. Don’t waste time."

Holding this posture was extremely embarrassing for her.

Honestly—why had her brain short-circuited just now, making her think she should give her young master a little sweetness and reveal this Humanoid Form to him?

’At this stage all I needed to do was reveal my Origin Form and let him touch the tail...’

Her emotions were complicated, but Yao Ji did nothing else.

Luo Wusheng fell into thought.

So that familiar feeling came from him having mastered the tribulation-devouring ability as well...

But Luo Wusheng had no idea what his little pink fox was thinking. He simply refocused the mental image back onto the fox tail before him.

Following her instructions, he began trying to move his consciousness, attempting to make this strange body come into contact with the tail.

Because he had barely been able to sense any connection with this body earlier, Luo Wusheng had worried that this slime-like body wouldn’t respond to his control at all—that it would be like when he used the Demon Moon treasure and could only passively receive images...

But he quickly realized he had been worrying too much.

Although the evolutionary level of this body didn’t quite match his "CPU," the control of his consciousness was unbelievably smooth, as if the body were a natural extension of himself.

"It worked!" Luo Wusheng was a little excited.

Only now did he truly merge his consciousness into this body.

He had never piloted a slime body before, but he did have plenty of knowledge from his previous life’s various works that involved slimes.

Comparing with those works, powerful slimes usually possessed abilities like devouring or shapeshifting.

’Shapeshifting? I’m familiar with that. In a sense, my [Phantomless 2.0] works on a similar principle—transforming into preset forms I created during refinement...’

So could he try that now?

When slimes shapeshifted... tentacles?

Uh, better keep it proper. A normal arm...

Thinking this, Luo Wusheng somehow began skillfully wriggling his current bizarre body, first drifting closer to the tail extended by the little pink fox.

And then, from his liquid-like body, five slender tentacles extended out, wrapping around the tail coil after coil.

Luo Wusheng: ∑’っ°Д°;’っ

Wait—wait! I can explain!

Luo Wusheng panicked a little, but the next moment, he felt... something.

Though faint, he could sense the presence of the Ancient Phoenix Essence Imprint within this tail—only in an extremely diluted amount.

If the Ancient Phoenix Essence Imprint in his possession could resurrect a Nascent Soul cultivator through nirvana, then this tiny, tiny trace he now sensed was probably only enough to regrow hair or nails at best.

Luo Wusheng’s heart stirred.

The little pink fox had told him before that the Ancestral Netherkin Tail Essence she gave away would not disappear from the root.

Over the course of long years—and as her cultivation rose further—the lost Ancestral Netherkin Tail Essence would slowly recover.

But this process was extremely long.

With the little pink fox’s current cultivation, it would take at least tens of thousands of years.

Luo Wusheng couldn’t help recalling the letter she left him on the day they parted, and all the help she had given him despite not being by his side.

The key Ancient Phoenix Essence Imprint needed for his resurrection plan...

Information about the Netherkin race hidden attack...

The [Phantomless 2.0] Guqin form that he used to set the mood these days...

Even the tribulation lightning that had unexpectedly aided him multiple times and raised his "forceful presence" by another level—all of it came from the thunder core she had left him, which he devoured using the tribulation-devouring ability he had plucked from her.

Judging from that overbearing kiss she gave him that day, the little pink fox definitely had feelings for him.

’Though that day’s situation was a bit complicated... huh?’

While sensing the Ancient Phoenix Essence Imprint, Luo Wusheng’s consciousness suddenly froze.

Something was strange.

Hadn’t the little pink fox said that the lost Ancestral Netherkin Tail Essence would take ages to recover?

But wasn’t the amount of Ancient Phoenix Essence Imprint he was sensing... a little too much?

And even stranger—mixed within it was a familiar aura, one even more recognizable to him than the Phoenix imprint he had refined.

That was...

The Demon Sect Holy Saint’s Essence imprint?

...

Yao Ji stared silently at the creature whose five slimy tendrils were wrapped around her tail.

Had she given her young master too much freedom... turning him into this?

Just as she reached that thought, those tentacles suddenly melted away, dissolving into liquid light that seeped completely into her tail.

The dim radiance on the Ninth Tail brightened slightly.

"That’s why I said to just touch it once..."

Yao Ji let out a soft sigh.

She glanced at her young master—whose slime body had shrunk dramatically after losing the mass that had become the tentacles—and raised one elegant, pale hand, making a light grasping motion.

A tiny, illusory silhouette was pulled out from the slime body and floated to her.

It was a miniature Luo Wusheng, eyes shut, brow raised as if pondering something unbelievable.

’So... he’s figured something out too.’

Yao Ji quietly watched the small projection of her young master, strange star-like lights flickering faintly in her demonic eyes.

Her feelings toward the youth before her were extremely complicated.

At first, he had simply been a human cultivator she found pleasant—handsome, sweet-tongued, able to appreciate her music. Nothing more.

But then event after event unfolded, each deepening their bond further.

On the day of their last parting, because of that bizarre secret technique he helped her recover—and the karmic entanglement he told her about which moved her heart—Yao Ji had finally made up her mind.

She wanted to become his strength.

She wanted to help him.

But even then, she hadn’t fully acknowledged her own feelings.

Not until that old hag—who should have been sold to a brothel—pulled a massive stunt while she was still mentally preparing herself.

She had exploded on the spot.

Riding that surge of uncontrollable emotion, she gave him her first kiss with complete decisiveness.

Only afterwards did she realize something felt... off.

But by now, though she wouldn’t say it aloud, she had fully recognized her feelings.

Yao Ji gently touched her lips with her pinky finger, then lightly tapped the tiny illusion before her.

The moment she touched it, the illusion dissipated.

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