Song Yan Ning withdrew her hand, "Forget it, let’s go check out another shop, maybe they will have a fox too."
Qin Yushen and Elder Mie Yu nodded, following Song Yan Ning toward the exit of the shop.
"Wait a minute! I agree!" The shopkeeper, seeing that the three were truly about to leave, became anxious and hurriedly called out to them. He had already made up his mind that when General Lun Sa came asking, he would say that the Beast Chariot had been rented out. After all, General Lun Sa only visited every few years and would not notice.
Song Yan Ning stopped, looking at the shopkeeper, "You agree?"
"I agree!" The shopkeeper nodded vigorously, fearing Song Yan Ning might change her mind.
Song Yan Ning thought for a moment, "Alright then!" She took out a Storage Bag and tossed it to the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper joyfully received the Storage Bag and simultaneously removed the restraining mark on the fox, "I’ve removed its restraint mark; you can take it away now."
Qin Yushen stepped forward, leading the fox Beast Chariot out of the shop.
The three of them came to a secluded corner.
Song Yan Ning set up a Concealing Array Formation, saw that Elder Mie Yu had already unfastened the reins from the fox’s neck, and handed it a Vitality Pill, "Eat this, it’s good for you." The pill she gave the fox was a Vitality Pill, which, as the name suggests, was meant to enhance vitality.
For a Nine-tailed Fox, each tail represents an opportunity for life. Now, this fox had only one tail left; once its vitality was exhausted, it would die.
The fox looked at the Vitality Pill in Song Yan Ning’s hand, hesitated slightly, then swallowed the pill.
Upon ingesting the pill, the fox’s somewhat dull fur instantly became glossy.
The fox looked at its fur, a glint of surprise in its eyes. The moment it first saw Song Yan Ning, it felt a sense of kinship. However, it understood that this was likely a misconception, for Song Yan Ning was a human cultivator, and it was improbable for it to feel that way about her.
"Can you speak?" Song Yan Ning asked.
The fox hesitated for a moment, "I can speak." It had been purchased by them now; they could do whatever they wanted to it, and it had no way to stop them.
"Tell me how you escaped from the Fox Clan and how you got captured," Song Yan Ning fed another pill to the fox. She believed that with her Vitality Pills, it wouldn’t be long before the fox’s tails would grow back.
"My name is Hu Jing; I am the granddaughter of Elder Mie Yun. When the enemies attacked, my grandfather hid me. They didn’t find me, and after they left, I escaped, but before I could get far, I was captured by General Lun Sa of the White Tiger Clan. He cut off my other eight tails and threw me into the shop where the beasts for hire were kept." Remembering that dark time, tears streamed down the corners of Hu Jing’s eyes.
"Damn it!" Song Yan Ning clenched her fists in anger, a murderous intent forming in her eyes. If it were not for the timing, she would undoubtedly extinguish all those who had hurt her clansmen.
"How is your grandfather?" Elder Mie Yu asked.
"My grandfather was skinned, and his fur was hung on the city wall," Hu Jing thought of her grandfather’s terrible fate, and the tears flowed even heavier. Every time she was driven to Fox City, she would see that body hanging on the wall; her heart ached, she was filled with hatred, but she was powerless to do anything.
"I’m going to kill them!" Elder Mie Yu’s eyes reddened as he shouted. They were truly cruel to treat Elder Mie Yun that way.
Song Yan Ning reached out and grabbed Elder Mie Yu, her eyes swirling intensely with murderous intent, exuding a deadly aura.