Volume 1, Chapter 13 – There’s Scum Among Sword Cultivators

The information in the small fox demon’s words was rather substantial, making Song Shiyuan’s mental circuits unable to keep up.

To the point that for a moment, Song Shiyuan didn’t even know whether she should marvel at the small fox demon’s innocence or secretly curse that Fox Monarch’s despicable shamelessness.

Thinking of this, Song Shiyuan’s gaze toward Lu Zhuxin carried some pity.

That Fox Monarch was raising such a small fox demon in the Demon Palace just to let her become someone else’s female consort.

She was truly pitiful.

“Small fox demon, do you know what a female consort means?”

“Female consort?” The small fox demon blinked her harmless big eyes. “Sword cultivator sister, aren’t you a female consort?”

“Ugh…” Song Shiyuan’s expression crumpled.

She really was a female consort, a female consort forcibly seized by the Fox Monarch.

The small fox demon thought for a moment, holding up a serious little face, and said, “The other elder sisters told Axi that a female consort is someone who wholeheartedly loves and serves their lord husband, entrusting their entire life to their lord husband.”

“Axi didn’t really understand before.” She smiled sweetly. “But after seeing Sister Song Shiyuan, Axi understood.”

“Only a good person as beautiful and kind-hearted as Shiyuan can become a female consort!”

“…” Song Shiyuan was completely speechless.

She felt like the small fox demon before her had inexplicably stabbed her.

Now she didn’t know whether her expression should be crying or laughing.

“A female consort… might not be what you think, small fox demon.” Song Shiyuan’s face showed some hesitation.

She didn’t know how to explain to this girl. Should she cruelly shatter this poor child’s inner fantasy?

“Axi really envies Sister Shiyuan.” The small fox demon said, “In this Fox Palace, the vast majority of foxes want to become Her Majesty’s female consorts.”

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“Axi also wants to become someone like Sister Shiyuan.”

No, I don’t want this blessing at all!

Song Shiyuan thought to herself.

Looking at the small fox demon’s eyes full of longing, Song Shiyuan ultimately didn’t shatter the small fox demon’s fantasy.

She still remembered another matter the small fox demon had mentioned.

The Fox Monarch had found a sword cultivator for this innocent small fox demon.

“Are there other sword cultivators in the Demon Palace?” Song Shiyuan asked. “And does the Fox Monarch often send some fox demons to sword cultivators as female consorts?”

The small fox demon shook her head, then nodded.

“Among the sword cultivators in the Demon Palace, I’ve only seen you, Sister!”

“But I know that high-ranking members from sword cultivator sects often come to the Demon Palace.”

“The Demon Palace will also select some fox demon sisters who have made mistakes, or fox demon sisters who are willing, to be sent out of the Demon Palace.”

“To let those powerful sword cultivators select and take away.”

“Also, some people will send sword cultivators in.” The small fox demon smiled. “Just like Sister Shiyuan.”

“How is that possible?!” Song Shiyuan’s first reaction was disbelief.

What the small fox demon said directly overturned Song Shiyuan’s long-held worldview.

She and her martial brothers and sisters had all been captured and brought in by the Fox Monarch. How could they possibly have been sent in by someone!

“Sword cultivators place the greatest importance on their nature of mind!”

“Only with a sincere nature of mind can one pursue the ultimate in the sword!”

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“Therefore, sword cultivators hate evil the most!”

“How could they possibly do such a thing as consorting with demonic evil!”

“Moreover, I was forcibly abducted by the Fox Monarch! I’m not an item traded in!”

Song Shiyuan’s gaze was full of doubt.

The entanglement between sword cultivators and the fox demon lineage had existed since ancient times.

But such sordid business of trading with demonic evil had always been taboo for the entire righteous sect.

How could anyone take such risks to do such sordid things, and high-ranking sword cultivators at that?

This had already crossed the bottom line of being human!

If discovered, one would become a public enemy of the righteous path and be directly expelled by the united cultivation world!

Therefore, Song Shiyuan found it very difficult to believe the small fox demon’s one-sided words.

Lu Zhuxin knew Song Shiyuan’s temperament.

This junior martial sister of the sword sect with an upright and pure nature would find it hard to accept such things.

But unfortunately, what Lu Zhuxin was saying now was all true.

All of it was novel setting he had casually written.

“Axi doesn’t really understand what Sister Shiyuan is saying.” Lu Zhuxin said, “But everything Axi says is the truth. Axi won’t lie to sister!”

Song Shiyuan’s expression changed. She knew she had reacted a bit excessively just now.

She calmed her expression and continued asking, “So… this sword cultivator the Fox Monarch selected for you, is he also a high-ranking sword cultivator?”

This concerned sword cultivators throughout the entire cultivation world. This matter was too important.

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For public and private reasons, Song Shiyuan felt she should investigate this matter clearly.

Since this small fox demon was also one of the fox demons selected to be gifted away, perhaps she could be a breakthrough point here.

Song Shiyuan was very curious about just who this sword cultivator scum that could make the Fox Monarch personally gift a female consort could be.

“Have you seen him?” Song Shiyuan asked.

Lu Zhuxin shook her head again. “Axi doesn’t know.”

“Her Majesty only told Axi that this sword cultivator lord is a genius among the young generation of sword cultivators, becoming a Nascent Soul stage cultivator before even reaching a hundred years old, and very likely to become a sect leader in the future!”

“Sister Shiyuan, does this count as very impressive?” The small fox demon still had an innocent face.

But this innocent and naive face gradually became distorted in Song Shiyuan’s vision.

She began to think about something. Could the words of this small fox demon who seemed incomparably pure really be taken as truth?

From the moment Song Shiyuan began asking questions, she had been firmly watching this small fox demon with her qi sense, perceiving her breathing and heartbeat.

If she was lying, perhaps she could see clues from it.

But Song Shiyuan discovered that she wasn’t. This small fox demon with an innocent face before her had maintained a very natural state throughout.

She wasn’t lying…

This discovery made Song Shiyuan feel even more uneasy.

Because the information the small fox demon was saying all seemed to match up with Shixuan.

Is it just a coincidence?

A genius of the young generation, a Nascent Soul sword cultivator under a hundred years old, perhaps even the young sect master of some sword sect.

It could indeed match up with Song Shixuan, but it wasn’t necessarily Song Shixuan!

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“Indeed… very impressive.” Song Shiyuan said.

“Are you as strong as them?” The small fox demon tilted her head, looking curious.

Song Shiyuan stared fixedly at her, the light in her eyes indiscernible. “I haven’t even met him. How can I compare?”

“Why don’t you tell me who he is and see if he’s someone I know.”

“That way, I can tell you who’s more impressive.”

It definitely won’t be Song Shixuan.

Song Shixuan was captured together with them, so it couldn’t possibly be him.

The small fox demon raised her head, meeting Song Shiyuan’s eyes without any evasion.

“Sister Shiyuan, Axi truly doesn’t know.”

“Axi only knows that the sword cultivator lord the Fox Monarch wants Axi to serve…”

“He is surnamed Song.”

Surnamed Song? Which Song?

Song Shiyuan’s pupils trembled.

Lu Zhuxin looked at the sword cultivator junior martial sister’s deathly pale appearance and laughed inwardly.

Little by little,

Slowly but surely.

Sweating buckets now, aren’t you, little sister?