At this moment, everyone’s gazes turned in unison toward Bai Su.
It was too much of a coincidence!
So coincidental it made their scalps crawl and hearts tremble!
Although this little fox looked ugly after shapeshifting, the expression on the pretty half of her face was far too similar to Bai Su’s!
Besides, in this world there was only one Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit fox!
Ye Chen’s gaze was filled with extreme shock. He turned his head slowly to stare at Bai Su.
If this little fox really were Bai Su, he felt his mind would truly be thrown into chaos!
Bai Su herself looked stunned.
She felt the cultivators’ stares upon her and naturally understood their meaning.
“How could it possibly be me!”
She immediately denied it, “I am one favored by the Heavenly Dao, never afflicted by any bloodline curse!”
“Moreover.”
Bai Su shook the merit golden wheel behind her and said proudly, “I ask, who in heaven and earth would dare curse me?”
The cultivators’ astonished expressions gradually eased.
Indeed.
The gap was simply too great!
One possessed beauty that could make all mortals swoon, the other had a hideously ugly face.
One was favored by the Heavenly Dao, the other had a tragic fate.
Setting aside everything else, Bai Su’s merit golden wheel behind her was enough to set them apart. If anyone dared place a bloodline curse on her, the Heavenly Dao would surely be enraged.
No one could withstand the karmic backlash of that merit golden wheel!
“But this fox truly is a nine-tailed heavenly fox.”
“She has only been struck by a bloodline curse and cannot manifest her true form.”
“Probably, she and the Empress Bai are at least of the same clan,” a cultivator spoke up after some hesitation.
But the cultivator quickly felt as if he’d fallen into an ice pit. When he looked up he saw Bai Su’s unbearably icy glare.
“She will never be of my Qingqiu line!”
“And she has nothing whatsoever to do with me!”
“A Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit fox—there is only one in this world, and it is me!”
As a Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit fox, Bai Su was born the Demon Race’s sovereign.
Her bloodline was noble and she had the ability to sense kin. She could feel that aside from herself, her mother was the only other Qingqiu fox in this world.
But even her mother was not nine-tailed.
How could there possibly be another Qingqiu nine-tailed fox in this world?
Of course, all of that was true of the time only after her birth.
As for before she was born?
To be honest, Bai Su couldn’t be certain whether there had been other Qingqiu nine-tailed spirit foxes in the world.
But she could not accept this outcome.
The Heavenly Emperor had harmed the Demon Race and the Qingqiu line so terribly—how could her own kin have saved him?
If that were truly the case, even if she was done with all six cycles of reincarnation, Bai Su would never spare the little fox.
…
“Why have you come…”
Gu Changqing gazed at the little fox in human form before him, his expression somewhat conflicted.
He could sense that the little fox had just manifested nine tails by squeezing out some reserve powers, and the consequence was that she had to bear a massive backlash.
She was already barely clinging to life. If she had to endure another backlash…
At this moment the little fox’s face was deathly pale, almost devoid of any color.
She forced a wan smile at Gu Changqing. “I guessed you’d come here and I thought there’s no way you could beat the crocodile ancestor, so I hurried over… luckily, I arrived in time…”
She said no more, but lifted her hand and drew the little blue flower from the pool.
She gently rubbed it in her hand until it became blue powder.
“Quick, eat this divine flower. It should offset your backlash,” Gu Changqing said in a flustered manner. The little fox’s actions made him realize something.
He struggled to rise, but it was as if he had lost control of his body.
Apart from his consciousness, he could no longer control anything else.
She shook her head and said softly, “It’s useless.”
“This flower is indeed divine, but to me it is but a drop in the sea.”
She slowly crouched and forced the medicine into Gu Changqing’s mouth, her voice like a mosquito’s, “If you don’t eat this flower, you can’t leave the Forbidden Zone. I’ll die very soon.”
“Of the two of us with such tragic fates, at least one of us should survive, right?”
…
Outside the mirror.
The cultivators’ expressions were somewhat moved.
No one had expected that, faced with this life-saving divine medicine, the little fox would once again give it to the Heavenly Emperor.
“If she doesn’t take this divine medicine, she will surely die!!”
“A person she merely met by chance—why does she always use her own life to save the Heavenly Emperor? Is it worth it?!!”
Indeed, this flower’s divinity had little effect on the little fox and couldn’t wash away the bloodline curse, but a sliver of life meant another chance to survive!
How could she just hand it over like that?!
Hadn’t she given enough already?!
Bai Su’s expression was complex.
There was shock, incomprehension, and boundless anger!
“You’ve already reached this point and you still think of him first!”
“If you truly are of my Qingqiu line, then you’re a disgrace to Qingqiu! If not for you, how could my Qingqiu line, my Demon Race, have fallen to this state!”
At this moment Bai Su hated the little fox with utter intensity.
And her hatred for the Heavenly Emperor grew even stronger!
If not for this little fox, how could the once-mighty Demon Race have fallen to such a state?
How could her own mother have been suppressed by the Heavenly Emperor?!
And the Heavenly Emperor was utterly inhumane.
Since this little fox was nine-tailed, she likely could not be separated from the Qingqiu line.
But the Heavenly Emperor proved to be completely inhuman and showed no mercy for that bond. He utterly exterminated the Qingqiu line!