"Master, why do you seem to have gained an extra tail?!"
Xumo rubbed his eyes, repeatedly confirming that he wasn't seeing things.
Meanwhile, the white foxgirl blushed, feeling the stimulation of having her new attachment discovered by Xumo. Yuebai felt the new tail behind her clench tighter inside her, and this unprecedented game sensation made the thousand-year soul origin pill beneath her lower abdomen tremble slightly.
Yuebai instinctively hugged herself, retreating two steps with wariness, and even her gaze toward Xumo couldn't hide her disgust and resentment.
If Xumo hadn't been both useless and heartless, abandoning her in the Azure Forest, how would she have fallen into Yino's hands and ended up with a new tail inserted?
And worse... What made Yuebai more embarrassed was that Yino wouldn't allow her to remove it!
He said if Yuebai pulled it out, the spiritual markings on her lower abdomen would activate, stimulating her thousand-year soul origin pill and even causing a chain reaction with the two evil markings on the soles of her feet.
Now, forget about Yuebai having the courage to pull out the tail—just having Xumo mention it made her body tremble as she recalled Yino's warnings. Even her lower abdomen felt somewhat excited.
In the secret realm for just two days and nights, Yuebai hadn't slept at all...
By the time she returned, Yuebai's body from inside to outside, from head to toe, and even her tails had been thoroughly reshaped to Yino's form.
And this strange reshaping, even after Yuebai had left Yino and returned to Jiangnan, still made her feel as if her body was gradually, imperceptibly being corrupted each day and night.
Though Yino wasn't beside her, Yuebai felt his memories constantly surfacing in her mind!
"I grew an extra tail because I broke through to a new realm," Yuebai thought of Yino but explained calmly.
This was also what Yino had told Yuebai to say.
When Yino had just inserted the new tail, Yuebai lay in his arms, biting her teeth in humiliation. But Yino had whispered in her ear, "If Xumo asks when you return, tell him that during our battle in the Azure Forest, you accidentally broke through to a new realm, so you grew a tenth tail. This new tail is a trophy you brought back from that Yino!"
At the time, Yuebai had nearly been enraged to death by Yino.
She angrily bit his shoulder, but sure enough, Yino embraced her for another round of combat, ultimately making Yuebai break through to new realms countless times until she was satisfied.
What kind of combat was this!
Yino was truly shameless. Was what he exchanged with Yuebai really hands? It was clearly... clearly a one-sided and extremely brutal conquest of Yuebai!
Yet strangely, now that Yuebai had returned to Jiangnan and hadn't been bullied by Yino for several days, she actually felt a little itchy with longing.
Why am I thinking of these strange thoughts again!
Yuebai snapped out of her reverie and quickly pinched her thigh to maintain clarity.
Even someone with minimal common sense would see through Yino's absurd explanation! Xumo, however dense, couldn't possibly believe such a thing—
"So that's it! Master, did you experience a breakthrough like I did back then?"
Xumo widened his eyes, looking delighted.
Yuebai's lips twitched as she covered half her face with one hand, forced to admit that Yino was right—even such a blatant lie could pass muster with this fool Xumo.
"Mm... you guessed correctly... I had a breakthrough, so... so I returned with an extra tail..."
Yuebai responded lifelessly to Xumo.
Because when discussing breakthrough, the scenes that came to her mind seemed quite different from Xumo's.
In a sense, Xumo wasn't wrong—she did have breakthroughs, and not just once. That night, she experienced breakthroughs almost every few minutes, feeling as if years were passing in a day with no end in sight...
Thinking of this, when Yuebai looked at Xumo again, her heart reflected a sense of unspeakable moral transgression. She was Xumo's master. According to the Celestial Master and Yino's instructions, Yuebai would need to stay with Xumo at the Jianlan Sect for a long time... After being trained by Yino in private, how could she maintain her dignified facade before Xumo?
More infuriating was...
Though Yuebai knew this wasn't right, standing before Xumo and lying to his face gave her a thrilling sensation. When her heart tensed, her body contracted, making the tenth tail's presence more pronounced, leaving Yuebai restless, every minute before Xumo becoming an exercise in endurance and cultivation.
"After you left, I experienced a breakthrough at a critical moment, then defeated Yino... and escaped with my life..."
The white foxgirl lowered her head, her face flushed, describing the events flatly while unconsciously pressing her legs together. All ten tails behind her trembled to varying degrees.
Listening to his master's description, Xumo smiled brightly:
"So that's what happened! No wonder I couldn't find you when I later returned with several sect elders to rescue you!"
"Master, you don't know, that bastard Yino not only collaborated with Ruoning to fabricate stories, but even insisted he'd never seen you!"
"In my opinion, Yino was defeated after your breakthrough and then furiously framed me out of spite!"
Xumo grew increasingly agitated as he spoke. At the time, he was not only tricked by Yino, but even those righteous sect elders treated Xumo like a madman.
"Is that so? Yino is truly despicable..."
Yuebai listened silently, her lips twitching. But when she habitually joined in cursing Yino, the tenth tail unexpectedly began to squirm, making her delicate body tremble subtly.
Yuebai suddenly remembered she had signed a spirit pet contract with Yino. Now whenever Yuebai spoke ill of Yino in the depths of her heart, he could sense it and manipulate her tail as punishment anytime, anywhere.
Now, Yuebai dared not make a sound. Fearing Xumo would notice something amiss, she could only press her lips together, suppressing her voice while waiting for the tail to settle down.