Star bridges and iron locks unfurl slowly, fire trees and silver flowers bloom everywhere.
The grand mansion is suddenly shattered into gold and jade, and the tall building turns into a blazing red.
The seven-treasure pavilion burned into a sky-holding volcano, the entire sky reflected a deep red by the towering pillars. The immense power could be heard from a great distance, and Feng Menglong, carrying the little fox, encountered another problem.
Ji Xiang had told him to just run, but where should he run now?
If he ran too slowly, he feared being caught in the crossfire of the battle. If he ran too fast, he would return to the county town. Feng Menglong was afraid that Ji Xiang wouldn't be able to find them, especially since something like this had happened before. He didn't want to experience being treated like a rag again.
"If I run back to the county town now, won't I be captured by the Wenxiang Cult's evil temple again?"
"But if I don't run... it seems I have no choice but to run!"
Feng Menglong swallowed hard, hiding in the shadows. In fact, the Milong Casino was not very far from the county town, it was just located within the territory. So, after a frantic run within the territory, returning to the mortal realm was not a big deal. However, upon returning, Feng Menglong realized he wasn't far from the county town at all.
He was almost at the county town gate!
And now, the county town was engulfed in flames!
The Wenxiang Cult followers were actually killing people!
However, the people they were killing were all the Milong gamblers!
It was hard to believe that people who were once neighbors, perhaps even borrowing rice, soy sauce, and vinegar from each other, would turn around and kill you with a large cleaver. A head flew into the sky on the spot, and blood splattered five steps away...
The Wenxiang Cult was purging the remnants of Milong here and, under the banner of the Huangtian Cult, had once again donned a new guise.
Feng Menglong had heard of the Huangtian Cult. It was a religion that had flourished during the Jiajing Emperor's reign. It was originally considered a branch of folk law, a legitimate religion... but not long ago, an order to suppress the Huangtian Cult began to spread to the four corners of the Sun, Moon, Mountains, and Rivers, and the Huangtian Cult was completely classified as the White Lotus Sect.
"This is a frame-up! But they're all dogs fighting each other. What should I do now!"
Feng Menglong watched as the Wenxiang Cult followers, shouting slogans like "Tai Yin gives birth to light, the sacred fire shines everywhere," set fires and chased down Milong gamblers. Even the government in the county town could not escape... In fact, the government in the county town had long been corrupted.
The divine beast depicted on the official's robe could not manifest to help him because the official himself had lost his national prestige.
Furthermore, because the Wenxiang Cult disguised themselves as the Eastern Mahayana Sect and became a legitimate religion, their actions locally were not excessively interfered with by national prestige. They entered the yamen without any obstacles, and with a large number of mortal followers, they used mortal fires to commit great evil, which could not be stopped.
National prestige was lost, and the official himself was rushed into the yamen by the Wenxiang Cult followers and hacked to death at the gate. Finally, they were granted official recognition for harboring an evil cult, and in the end, they reaped what they sowed.
There was also a lot of money in the official's mansion, which the Wenxiang Cult followers scrambled to seize. At the end, they had mortal followers hold torches and burn down the yamen with a great fire, and they also forged a blood letter from the Huangtian Cult at the entrance.
"The killer is the Bodhisattva of Universal Illumination, the Fire Lord!"
The Wenxiang Cult followers did this entirely at the behest of their third leader, Xu Hongru.
Xu Hongru had already met the expert from the inner realm, but that expert had not yet fully arrived in the mortal realm. Even with all his efforts, the distance between the two realms was still immeasurable. When he learned that the Milong Casino had been destroyed, that expert instructed Xu Hongru to don the guise of the Huangtian Cult, set fires everywhere, and purge all opposition.
Xu Hongru was not yet aware of some of the events that had occurred in Shuntian Prefecture, so having other religions take the blame was the best course of action. He had actually thought of it long ago, but this expert had given him a scapegoat and stated that this Huangtian Cult could definitely bear the blame.
They dared to burn the Forbidden City, let alone a small county town?
Feng Menglong saw the chaotic scene in the county town, which was beginning to spread to the mountains and wilderness. It seemed that the Wenxiang Cult followers were going to search for the Seven-Treasure Pavilion, or perhaps they intended to surround and kill Ji Xiang...
Forming a group to deliver themselves?
Feng Menglong had witnessed all of Ji Xiang's previous actions and was not worried about these Wenxiang Cult followers finding Ji Xiang. After all, given the Taoist priest's temperament, he would kill as many as came, regardless of whether they were mortals.
Feeling a sound on his shoulder, the little fox woke up, but was still under a spell. He yelped and bit Feng Menglong, causing Feng Menglong to cry out in pain and fall to the ground. He fumbled for the talismans he had written himself and began to cast spells on Feng Menglong!
"How dare a mere human strike me!"
Feng Menglong's face turned ashen!
At this moment, the little fox grinned sinisterly and unleashed the Golden Light Charm he had drawn himself!
The Golden Light Charm... was gone.
The Golden Light Charms flew out, flickered with golden light, and flew randomly in all directions, then all fell to the ground, becoming ineffective.
For a moment, Feng Menglong didn't know whether to be happy or to pity the child.
So this was what Ji Xiang meant by a "poor student"...
"Pfft!"
Feng Menglong almost burst out laughing.
And Hu Xiaoshi also looked "confusedly" at the talismans he had thrown. His head was dizzy, and he seemed to be coming to his senses, but he was still baring his teeth at Feng Menglong, still fanatically saying, "You laugh now, but soon the Wenxiang Fox Ancestor will come to help me!"
"The Fox Ancestor sits on a lotus platform, and the scent of incense spreads in all directions!"
Then he pounced on Feng Menglong like a puppy to bite him. Feng Menglong, bitten and jumping around, accidentally kicked off his shoe, which the little fox tore apart. The smell of his dirty socks instantly wafted up, and the little fox's nose twitched, causing him to vomit and collapse on the ground, convulsing.
Hoo!
A wisp of incense smoke emerged from the little fox's nostrils and vanished into nothingness. The little fox, in a daze, finally came to his senses.
Feng Menglong was astonished.
The foul odor had canceled out the incense, and the foul odor had canceled out the mother fox's musk. This was reasonable... but why did he feel a little unhappy?
Was it really that smelly?
This made him look at his own feet, with an urge to sniff them.
The little fox shook his head violently and finally saw the situation clearly. Seeing Feng Menglong holding his foot, he immediately showed a look of disgust: "What are you doing, that's disgusting!"
"Disgusting?! You little brat, this is all because of you! My shoes are gone!"
Feng Menglong was furious, and the little fox shook his head, also recalling some fragmented memories from before, such as the fox demon Taoist daring to stroke his chin and face like a puppy. His expression immediately changed, and he gagged again.
"I am a noble fox immortal, to be bewitched by these demons! How disgusting!"
After vomiting, the little fox's expression suddenly changed. He remembered that one of the magical artifacts he carried had been taken away. It was the North Emperor Tianpeng Ruler, an item specifically used to reveal demons!
At that time, he had told all the fox spirits the names and general functions of his magical artifacts!
"Oh no, oh no! I lost my grand-master's magical artifact! I also told them the function of my grand-master's magical artifact. This is terrible!"
Thinking that upon his return, it wouldn't be a matter of copying the Golden Light Charm a hundred times, the little fox became flustered and lost:
"I have to go back to that temple and steal back the North Emperor Tianpeng Ruler."
Feng Menglong mocked from the side: "If you go back, you'll just become someone else's lackey. Daoist Ji said you couldn't resist the scent of the mother fox and were mesmerized by her musk... If you really want to go back this time, remember to bring my socks."