Chapter 4 Crashes Become Routine

The little fox was bewildered until now.

He had sneaked out to play before, but accidentally fell into the sights of human cultivators.

Terrified, it fled indiscriminately and ended up in the woods by Jingming Lake in the Purple Cloud Sect. It then fainted from severe injuries and the cultivator's poison.

It had just woken up, and to its despair, it discovered a human spiritual force in its mind.

It could clearly feel that if it harbored any ill intentions towards the owner of this spiritual force, it would be instantly annihilated.

According to the knowledge passed down by its elders, it had now been contracted as a pet by a hateful human...

Becoming a cultivator's pet meant forever losing precious freedom, and who knew if it would die in battle someday...

But it couldn't dwell on such thoughts now, for it was starving to death...

So, the little fox limped along the direction indicated by the spiritual force in its mind to find its master. Freedom or not, it just wanted to eat its fill first...

Immortal Jade Peak.

[Detecting that the host's pet is in a state of extreme hunger. If not fed soon, there is a risk of death.]

Ye Fan was sleeping soundly, his breaths soft and even.

"Squeak..." The little fox weakly chirped twice at Ye Fan on the bed.

It could clearly feel that this human had contracted it, but it couldn't understand why the other party remained indifferent even as it was starving to death...

In the past, it had heard from its clan that while the actions of human cultivators capturing their kind were detestable, they were at least friendly to their kin in the initial stages.

No matter how bad the attitude, they wouldn't withhold food...

After seeing that Ye Fan had no cultivation earlier, it had tried to resist the contract, but the intense pain quickly subdued it...

After trying to call out a few more times and finding it useless, the little fox limped towards the kitchen.

This human had no cultivation, so they must eat. There should be some leftovers in the kitchen.

The thought of itself, a descendant of the noble Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox, having to resort to eating leftovers made the little fox so wronged it wanted to cry...

Five minutes later.

Looking at the empty kitchen, the little fox was completely dumbfounded...

Let alone leftovers, there wasn't even any pot-washing water...

Feeling the unbearable hunger in its belly, the little fox gritted its teeth and started gnawing on the raw cabbage on the ground...

A quarter of an hour later.

Having eaten a stomach full of cabbage and radishes, the little fox felt drowsy and crawled under Ye Fan's bed to sleep.

Even though it had been contracted as a pet, it held no affection for its master who wouldn't even feed it. It certainly wouldn't sleep next to him!

Under the moonlight, several dark figures sneaked into the Purple Cloud Sect's encampment.

Soon, there was a commotion within the Purple Cloud Sect, mixed with shouts of "Catch the thief!" and the like.

As the Purple Cloud Sect descended into chaos, two shadowy figures stealthily made their way towards Immortal Jade Peak.

Watching the red light on the magical artifact in his hand grow brighter, the smile in True Master Huaxuan's eyes deepened!

Huaxuan True Master, the Sect Master of Wenxiang Sect.

Accompanying him was the Grand Elder of Wenxiang Sect.

He naturally would not give up on a treasure like the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox just like that.

Fortunately, the disciples who had captured the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox earlier had picked up a few fox hairs that had fallen off it.

With the fox hairs of the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox and the magical artifact in hand, he easily located the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox's whereabouts.

Especially upon seeing that the artifact's indicated direction was not towards Purple Cloud Peak, where Purple Cloud True Person resided, Huaxuan True Master's excitement grew even stronger!

If it were truly in Purple Cloud True Person's possession, he might not have been able to obtain it so smoothly tonight!

Before coming, he had spent a considerable sum to hire the three notorious Bandit Kings of the Eastern Wilderness. Even if Purple Cloud True Person himself intervened, it would take him some time to catch up to them!

Even if he did catch up, it wouldn't matter, because by then, he would have already taken the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox home!

Thus, Huaxuan True Master and the Grand Elder crept into Ye Fan's bedroom.

Sensing a faint beastly aura from beneath the bed, the two immediately grinned!

However, before they could capture the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox, they had to deal with the person sleeping there first, lest they wake him up and cause trouble by shouting...

Soon, a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy emanated from the two.

[Warning! Warning! Host is about to face a devastating strike! Please host... Never mind...]

Just as the two were preparing to unleash their condensed spells, their vision suddenly went black...

"Gulp!"

"Gulp!"

"Hmm...?" Hearing sounds from the room, Ye Fan groggily sat up: "Are there mice?"

Lighting a candle and seeing the situation in the room, Ye Fan was stunned.

He saw two individuals in Purple Cloud Sect robes lying motionless in his room, their life or death uncertain.

Normally, anyone would suspect that two strangers suddenly collapsing in their room meant harm.

However, Ye Fan did not feel that way.

Firstly, the Purple Cloud Sect strictly forbade disciples from harming each other, and the punishment for such an offense was more terrifying than death.

Secondly, there was no reason for others to harm him.

Coveting his identity as a personal disciple?

As if killing him would make them one.

Cultivation techniques, treasures?

Although he was the Sect Master's personal disciple, everyone in the sect knew that he was the poorest in the entire sect!

He had no cultivation techniques or treasures, and was only rich in money...

Such an act, with no benefit and immense risk, would only be done by someone brain-dead.

Of course, the most important reason was that after living through 99 lifetimes, Ye Fan had long since become indifferent to life and death.

"No matter the situation, let's wake them up first." Ye Fan took out a pill from his spatial ring, split it in half, and fed it to the two.

The pill was very effective, and the two woke up as soon as they swallowed it.

However, what Ye Fan didn't know was that as the pill entered their mouths, it flashed with a dark red light...

After waking up, the two flashed out of the room and disappeared.

They had been incapacitated before they could even react. Now, even if they were foolish, they knew they had kicked an iron plate!

Ye Fan: ???

Are these two disciples sick?

Forget it, he'll go back to sleep.

Just as he was about to lie down, Ye Fan seemed to remember something and quickly took out another pill from his spatial ring.

"Oh no!" Ye Fan thought with a grimace, "What I fed them just now seems to be the pill that the Second Elder gave me as a welcome gift when I first arrived..."

Everyone in the Purple Cloud Sect knew that if you didn't want to court disaster, you shouldn't take pills given by the Second Elder...

"It should be fine..." Ye Fan scratched his head and lay back in bed.

Five hundred miles south of the Purple Cloud Sect.

Huaxuan True Master and the Grand Elder stopped, their faces filled with lingering fear.

They never expected that the Purple Cloud Sect had an existence even more terrifying than Purple Cloud True Person!

Now, forget about the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox; being able to survive was a stroke of luck!

Huaxuan True Master had already decided to prepare a generous gift and personally apologize tomorrow, even if it meant going bankrupt!

Judging by the young man's actions earlier, he could easily kill them.

He didn't believe the other party would be careless enough to let them escape; it was clearly intentional, waiting for them to come and apologize.

Run?

If they truly dared to run, their bodies might be discovered at any moment...

As they passed by the Demonic Beast Forest, the two suddenly felt something was wrong with their bodies.

Their eyes became hazy.

Their legs involuntarily felt the urge to jump.

Just then, a foraging hyena-boar demon happened to pass by...

The hyena-boar demon, seeing two powerful figures with terrifying auras staring at it with burning gazes, was so scared that its legs went weak on the spot...