Volume 2, Chapter 118 – The Small Register

“Since you know she was wearing a mask to conceal her appearance, why do you have no doubts about it?” Liu Funing said.

“If everything was fine, why would she need to conceal her appearance?”

“Concealing one’s appearance, isn’t only done to hide one’s identity?”

Facing Liu Funing’s questions, Song Shiyuan’s eyes couldn’t help but show a trace of mockery.

The little fox demon wore that mask not to hide her identity, but to borrow the True Fox Spirit on the mask to open the Fox Palace’s formation restrictions.

If it weren’t for that mask, the little fox demon might have already fallen victim to Song Shixuan’s schemes during that chaos.

Only Song Shiyuan knew the secret of the fox demon mask.

If it were before, Song Shiyuan might have still argued a few words with Liu Funing.

But now, seeing the certainty on Liu Funing’s face, Song Shiyuan knew that saying anything would be useless.

Moreover, the little fox demon was already dead…

Song Shiyuan pressed her lips together. How many people could understand the pain in her heart at this moment?

“Sect Master Liu…” Song Shiyuan’s voice carried a trace of hoarseness. “You seem to have forgotten what the innate abilities of fox demons are.”

“One of the fox demons’ innate talents is the art of transformation.”

“If the Fox Monarch wanted to hide her identity, she could have just used illusions to change her appearance directly, couldn’t she? Why would she deliberately wear such an eye-catching mask?”

“That wouldn’t help her hide her identity at all, would it?”

Liu Funing’s words stopped.

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From this logic, the Fox Monarch wearing a mask to hide her identity was indeed superfluous.

Admittedly, if Liu Funing herself were the Fox Monarch and wanted to hide her identity to deceive people, she would definitely use illusions to alter her appearance.

Creating a false body close to one’s original appearance would be of no help in deceiving people.

Moreover, Song Shiyuan had also seen the Fox Monarch.

Without using illusions, wouldn’t she be easily exposed?

When Song Shixuan directly identified that little fox as the Fox Monarch earlier, that was a clear example.

So this didn’t make sense!

If she had changed her identity, how could she be so easily recognized?

Liu Funing pressed her lips together. “Even if… she’s not the Fox Monarch, so what… This time the sword sect’s plan failed because someone exposed our actions, letting the fox demons detect our plan in advance…”

“Since that fox demon knew about our actions, then the most likely possibility is that it was exposed through her…”

Hearing this, Song Shiyuan sighed inwardly. As expected.

No matter how she explained, this Sect Master Liu would never believe her.

Even if she couldn’t prove the little fox demon was the Fox Monarch, she would still insist the little fox demon approached Song Shiyuan with ulterior motives.

How ridiculous.

Such a stubborn person could actually become a sect master?

After the last great battle, had Qinglan Sword Sect truly suffered such heavy losses and become so depleted of talent?

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Since communication was impossible, Song Shiyuan lost interest in continuing the conversation with Liu Funing.

“Sect Master Liu, if you have no other matters, you can go wander elsewhere,” Song Shiyuan said. “Regardless, she’s already dead. The person is gone, and I don’t want to discuss this matter with anyone anymore.”

After saying this, Song Shiyuan didn’t care about Liu Funing’s reaction. She lowered her head and gripped her broom, continuing to sweep the fallen leaves on the ground.

“You!” Liu Funing was so angry her face darkened. “Song Shiyuan, you’re truly obstinate!”

“Please move aside, I need to sweep the dust.” Song Shiyuan tapped Liu Funing’s foot with her broom.

Liu Funing was so angry she couldn’t speak.

“Are Liu Funing and Song Shiyuan here?” A voice interrupted the atmosphere between them.

A fox demon wearing a maidservant’s dress walked in.

Song Shiyuan looked up.

She recognized this fox demon. Back when she was still the Fox Monarch’s female consort, this fox demon had brought her pastries.

Seeing her unharmed appearance, the previous chaos hadn’t affected the fox demons in the Fox Palace at all.

Song Shiyuan didn’t know if it was her imagination, but it seemed like this fox beauty had even winked at her after entering.

“I’m Liu Funing. What’s the matter?” Liu Funing never had a pleasant expression toward fox demons.

Especially toward such a weak fox demon.

The fox beauty cleared her throat.

“I’m here on behalf of Steward Xian’er to assign you two sword cultivator adults the miscellaneous tasks you’ll be responsible for from now on.”

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Under Liu Funing’s puzzled gaze, the fox demon pulled two booklets from her bosom and placed them in Liu Funing’s and Song Shiyuan’s hands respectively.

“What is this?” Liu Funing opened the booklet in her hand with confusion.

“This booklet contains the matters you’ll be responsible for from now on,” the fox beauty said with a smile.

“Are you insane?!” Liu Funing looked at the detailed items listed page after page in the booklet.

This booklet was at least two fingers thick.

She said angrily, “Did you dump all the miscellaneous tasks of the entire Fox Palace on me?!”

The fox beauty’s smile remained unchanged. “Steward Hu Xian’er anticipated Sect Master Liu’s reaction from the beginning.”

“She asked me to remind Sect Master Liu not to forget the contract that was established previously.”

Liu Funing’s entire face turned iron blue.

Dao law contracts had extremely strong binding power on cultivators. If violated, they would bring a very powerful dao backlash.

However, when signing the contract, Liu Funing never expected that the fox clan would use the contract to make her do such things.

Moreover…

Liu Funing looked at the booklet in Song Shiyuan’s hands.

“Why is her booklet so much smaller than mine?”

Song Shiyuan briefly scanned the contents of the booklet.

Rather than calling it a booklet, it was more like two sheets of paper.

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What was written on it was basically simple tasks like sweeping, fetching water, watering flowers, and such.

These were things Song Shiyuan had been doing since she woke up.

She didn’t have any particular feelings about it.

It was just that compared to Liu Funing, her tasks seemed much lighter.

“Sect Master Liu,” the fox beauty chuckled. “As a sect master, are you going to compare yourself with a junior?”

“A Seventh Realm sect master can naturally do more things than a Fourth Realm junior.”

“Or,” the fox beauty raised her gaze, “do you want to use your authority as sect master to exchange tasks with a junior?”

Liu Funing’s face turned iron blue. She could see that these fox demons were determined to make things difficult for her.

If she didn’t agree, perhaps there were even more troublesome matters waiting for her.

“Are all these arrangements from Hu Xian’er?” Liu Funing said through gritted teeth.

“They were personally arranged by Steward Xian’er,” the fox beauty said with a light laugh. “If Sect Master Liu is truly unwilling, Steward Xian’er has other arrangements.”

Liu Funing thought of Qu Qingtang whom she’d seen earlier.

Compared to Qu Qingtang attending the Fox Monarch’s side and being forced to call a fox demon “Master,” Liu Funing merely doing miscellaneous tasks in the Fox Palace was obviously much more acceptable.

“You’re ruthless!” Liu Funing said viciously.

When under someone’s roof, one must bow one’s head.