Volume 1, Chapter 73 – There Are Bad People in the Sword Sect

“Tell me, what’s wrong?” Song Shiyuan asked. “Did something happen?”

“Nothing happened…” The little fox demon rubbed her eyes. “I had a nightmare, a terrible nightmare.”

“I dreamed that the Fox Monarch and the people from the Sword Sect were all trying to separate us.”

“And you, in order to save me, blocked a sword strike from the Sect Master.”

As the little fox demon spoke, tears were about to fall again.

“It’s alright… it was just a nightmare. Look, aren’t I right here, perfectly fine?” Song Shiyuan comforted her carefully. “Dreams and reality are opposites.”

After a good while, the little fox demon’s emotions finally settled down.

She bit her lower lip lightly. “Shiyuan… about what you said yesterday, I’ve thought it over.”

Song Shiyuan could sense the conflict and hesitation in the little fox demon’s eyes.

Indeed, asking her to leave a place where she had grown up must be a cruel decision.

However, Song Shiyuan was also very clear that if the little fox demon didn’t choose this path, an even more dangerous fate would be waiting for her.

To save the little fox demon, Song Shiyuan had to take her away from this purgatory.

From the moment she received the eternal mark, the Fox Palace was no longer her home.

From the moment that World-Ending Fox Monarch betrothed her to Song Shixuan, that Fox Monarch was no longer her family.

“Shiyuan, I want to leave with you.”

The little fox demon’s eyes held a certain kind of determination.

A determination that required staking her life.

“Take me away.”

“Axi.” Song Shiyuan’s eyes stung slightly, but this time it wasn’t from sadness, but from happiness.

She once again pulled the little fox demon into her embrace.

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“I’m so happy, Axi.”

“Before, I thought I was going to lose you.”

“Fortunately… fortunately…”

“You’re still here…”

Lu Zhuxin felt that her phoenix-proud-of-heaven female protagonist was becoming even more clingy.

“But…” The little fox demon pursed her lips and continued, “Shiyuan, have you really figured out how to get out of here?”

“I have a plan,” Song Shiyuan said. “If we can successfully execute it, we’ll be able to leave this place smoothly.”

‘Your plan?’

‘Is it really your plan, little Shiyuan?’

Lu Zhuxin grumbled internally.

“Shiyuan… your plan, is it to coordinate from inside and outside, using the strength of your martial brothers and sisters to rescue you?” the little fox demon said.

Song Shiyuan was surprised for a moment, but since the little fox demon already knew about Lingxiao Sword Sect’s base in Mingzhao City, it wasn’t strange that she could guess this.

So Song Shiyuan nodded. “Yes, my strength alone isn’t enough, so I need to borrow their strength.”

“Shiyuan, I trust you,” the little fox demon said. “But… I find it a bit hard to trust the people from Lingxiao Sword Sect.”

“Why?” Song Shiyuan asked. “The senior martial brothers from Lingxiao Sword Sect are all good people.”

“They were able to risk coming to fox clan territory to rescue their fellow disciples. For the sake of saving people, they put life and death aside.”

“You can trust them too.”

“I know that to you, they’re good people,” the little fox demon’s delicate brows knitted slightly. “But among those good people, there might be some bad people mixed in.”

Song Shiyuan fell silent for a while.

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She understood what the little fox demon meant.

The little fox demon was saying there was a traitor within the Lingxiao Sword Sect.

Just like long ago, the fox demons in the Fox Palace had said that she had been “sold” to the Fox Palace.

So then, was the person who “sold” her the traitor?

“Axi… do you know who the person who betrayed me is?” Song Shiyuan asked.

“I don’t know.” The little fox demon shook her head. “I’m just the lowest ranking maidservant in the Fox Palace. I don’t have the qualifications to know those things.”

“But I think there’s someone who might know.”

Song Shiyuan was astonished. “Who?”

“I don’t know who she is. I’ve only seen her once,” the little fox demon said. “I only know that like you, she’s a sword cultivator female consort who was sold here.”

“A sword cultivator female consort like me?” Song Shiyuan was surprised. During this time, she and the little fox demon had practically toured the entire Fox Palace, yet she had never encountered any other sword cultivator female consorts.

The things in this Fox Palace were cleaner than the Sword Washing Platform at Lingxiao Sword Sect that new disciples had to wipe two or three times every day.

“Who is she? Where is she? How come I’ve never seen her?” Song Shiyuan asked.

The little fox demon looked at her with a complicated expression.

“Because her luck wasn’t as good as yours. She wasn’t favored by that Fox Monarch, so naturally she doesn’t have the authority to move freely within the Fox Palace.”

Song Shiyuan listening to these words felt like there was something a bit sour in them.

She couldn’t help but chuckle lightly. Her little fox demon still cared about this even now.

Song Shiyuan gently embraced the little fox demon and said, “Yes, my luck was good. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had the chance to meet you.”

“But so what if that Fox Monarch favored me?”

“She favored me, but I didn’t favor her.”

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“I favored you, so that Fox Monarch, she’s not as good as you.”

“Mm…” Lu Zhuxin was held in Song Shiyuan’s embrace. She felt the corner of her eye twitching slightly.

Little Shiyuan was hugging her while saying sweet words.

Only these sweet words made Lu Zhuxin feel increasingly subtle the more she listened.

Yes, you didn’t favor me. I’m not as good as myself.

“Ahem…” The little fox demon coughed lightly and slowly pushed Song Shiyuan away. “Stop fooling around…”

“You haven’t seen her because she’s been locked up in Red Spring Pavilion this whole time.”

“Red Spring Pavilion?” Song Shiyuan’s brows knitted slightly.

She remembered. The first time she went to Red Spring Pavilion, outside the pavilion, she had sensed a faint sword qi.

At that time, Song Shiyuan knew that a sword cultivator was imprisoned inside Red Spring Pavilion, a weakened sword cultivator.

Later on, on the night the little fox demon was humiliated, that middle-aged male sword cultivator had also mentioned Red Spring Pavilion.

At this moment, Song Shiyuan’s expression was exceptionally strange and wonderful.

Her voice hoarse, she asked, “The person you’re talking about, it wouldn’t be someone from Lingxu Sword Sect, would it?”

…

The Fox Palace in the deep night was as quiet as usual.

Because the formations within the Fox Palace were profound and the restrictions numerous, the Fox Palace basically had no guards.

The fox demons who could move freely within the Fox Palace were almost all one hundred percent loyal to the Fox Monarch.

Just like the little fox demon who was now sneaking Song Shiyuan into Red Spring Pavilion.

She looked around furtively like a thief, and only then spoke to Song Shiyuan.

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“Good! Good! Today our luck is very good. There’s no one in Red Spring Pavilion.”

Song Shiyuan looked at the little fox demon’s nervous appearance and couldn’t help but find it amusing.

“But we also can’t stay here long,” the little fox demon emphasized to Song Shiyuan. “Red Spring Pavilion is a very special place, so Shiyuan, you definitely can’t stay long.”

“What place is so special?”

Song Shiyuan, who entered Red Spring Pavilion together with the little fox demon, still felt somewhat strange.

Then she smelled those uncomfortable pheromone scents again.

The pheromone scents here were many and mixed.

They irritated Song Shiyuan very uncomfortably.

“She’s in here!” The little fox demon led Song Shiyuan straight to a room in the innermost part.

The door of that room seemed to have some kind of special restriction set on it.

Even fox demons needed to use special hand seals to enter.

Song Shiyuan saw the little fox demon touch the restriction continuously before opening it.

The two pushed the door open and entered.

After seeing the scene before her eyes, Song Shiyuan’s pupils couldn’t help but contract slightly.

A woman’s voice like tinkling bells came through.

“Why come so late? Are you thinking of spending the night here?”

The voice carried weakness and exhaustion.