Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 74 Enjoying this place, I forget all about Shu.
"Woooooooo..."

The cabbage wailed, tears welling in its eyes, as it struggled to stand up, but due to its severe injuries, it fell back into the grass, its tongue lolling out, gasping for breath in pain.

The golden-haired bamboo fox quickly mobilized its demonic power to stop the cabbage's injuries. Then, it transformed into a golden-haired boy in golden clothes, picked up the cabbage, and ran into the forest.

"Sugarcane! Quickly get some seven-leaf ginseng! A child is injured!"

From afar, the golden-haired bamboo civet called out at the top of its lungs.

Zhu Xian shook the leaves on her head: "Hmm? Whose child is hurt? Was it from a fight?"

The golden-haired bamboo fox gently placed the cabbage at Zhu Xian's feet: "This one just left. I don't know where those three little brats went, but this child got beaten up like this!"

Zhu Xian glanced at the cabbage and said, "It was injured by a fall, it doesn't need the Seven-Leaf Ginseng!"

As it spoke, a refreshing gust of wood-elemental spiritual energy condensed around it. This breeze, containing the power of revival, enveloped the cabbage, and in a moment, the cabbage stopped crying. It was healed in an instant!
Seeing this, the golden-haired bamboo fox was relieved, but then it huffed and said, "I smelled a vixen outside the forest just now. I'm afraid some demon cultivator bullied it and made it look like this!"

"A fox demon? From the Red Plains Cave?"

The golden-haired bamboo fox shook its head: "No, the fox demons of the Crimson Plains Cave don't have such a fishy smell. They can't develop that stench unless they've eaten hundreds or thousands of people!"

After her injuries were healed and she calmed down, Bai Cai recognized the golden-haired bamboo rat in front of her. She immediately rolled over and got up, biting the hem of the golden-haired bamboo rat's clothes and trying to walk out. When she saw the golden-haired bamboo rat looking down at her, she barked twice in a hurry and bit the hem of her clothes again, pulling hard.

The golden-haired bamboo rat suddenly realized: "No wonder I only dodged it; those three little cubs must be in some danger!"

Zhu Xian said, "They are indeed from the Guangcheng Sect. Go and take a look."

"That's how it should be,"

The golden-haired bamboo rat nodded, then made a few strange squeaks. Two golden-haired bamboo rats that looked similar to him but were only a few sizes smaller immediately emerged from the bushes beside him. He then instructed, "You two, go and find a sect called 'Taiyin Sect' to send a message. They should be nearby. If you can't find them, go to Guangcheng Sect and tell them that three disciples of Taiyin Sect have probably run into trouble, one of whom has a white dog."

"Understood, Third Uncle!"

"I'll go right away!"

The two little golden-haired bamboo rats responded, turned their heads, burrowed into the ground, and disappeared.

Zhu Xian then reminded him, "I think it has a tracking talisman on its neck. Try to use it to find the three of them."

"I didn't even see it!"

The boy, who was actually a golden bamboo fox, sighed in frustration, picked up the cabbage, and used his demonic power to reach into the small pouch on its neck. Sure enough, there was a tracking talisman inside!

It's drawn so crookedly that it can't even reach five out of ten in terms of power.

Fortunately, it was enough for tracking. He focused his demonic power on his eyes and stared intently. A barely perceptible thin red line appeared and disappeared in the air, which was the trajectory that the cabbage had followed all the way!

"If this talisman were drawn any uglier, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to see it!"

The golden-haired bamboo fox couldn't help but complain, and followed the red line. Although it took Wang Ergou and his two companions a long time to reach the Three Stone Cave with Yun Guanxia, ​​and Bai Cai practically ran a marathon, the golden-haired bamboo fox actually found the place in just a short while.

After all, the difference between people is greater than the difference between people and dogs, and the difference between cultivators is greater than the difference between a cultivator and a paramecium—the same applies to the difference between cultivators and demon cultivators.

However, the red line on the tracking talisman broke off at a dead land filled with sand and stones. No grass or trees grew there, and no rain fell. Apart from a patch of strangely shaped boulders, there seemed to be no living thing, only rolling yellow sand and flying gravel.

"Could some kind of demon be living here?"

The golden-haired bamboo fox found the secret passage quite unbelievable.

He knew a thing or two about this place. It was called the Gray Sand Eye. Although the sand and stones in the sky looked somewhat yellow, it was only because of the glow of the sunset clouds. In reality, the flying sand and stones were a strange gray.

Because the sun is often obscured by colorful clouds here, the cultivators, demons, and spirits in the vicinity all believe that some rare and precious treasures have been born here, which has caused such a strange phenomenon. If it were some kind of demon or evil spirit, there would be no such auspicious phenomenon as colorful clouds!
Of course, over the centuries, there have been cultivators, demon cultivators, and spirits who coveted rare treasures and tried to venture in relying on their cultivation levels. However, this place is extremely terrifying; once you enter, you never come out again!
Over time, no one dared to covet the "exotic treasures" among them.

The golden-haired bamboo fox, brought here by the cabbage, became cautious. So many people had gone in before and their fates were unknown. Although he had eight hundred years of cultivation, he dared not be careless. So he stared at the gray sand eyes from afar, racking his brains for a solution.

The cabbage, oblivious to all the intricacies, grew impatient when it saw the golden-haired bamboo fox hesitating and barked incessantly.

The golden-haired bamboo fox said helplessly, "It's not that I'm unwilling to save your companion, it's just that even I dare not easily go to this place!"

After speaking, he also became somewhat anxious. This place was so dangerous that going in was almost certain death. He didn't know if what those brats said about being able to resurrect was true or false. Even if it was a puppet, if it was ruined, there would probably be some price to pay...

"What a coincidence! Luckily, I brought two sugarcane leaves with me. Let's give it a shot!"

The golden-haired bamboo fox muttered to itself, taking out a folded sugarcane leaf from its bosom. The leaf was several feet long, with a shimmering green sheen on its surface, and its material no longer resembled a leaf but rather a piece of jade.

He muttered a few words, and the leaf gradually shrank, eventually transforming into a small, yellowish-brown snake as thin as a finger. It was light and agile, and its expression was lively, making it seem unlike any other illusion!
The golden-haired bamboo fox imbued the little snake with its demonic power, then placed it on the ground. The little snake immediately burrowed into the soil and disappeared without a trace.

Once the little snake successfully burrowed into the eye of the gray sand, the golden-haired bamboo fox used its demonic power to conjure a somewhat blurry image in front of it—a scene seen from the little snake's perspective, except that, presumably because it was underground, the image was completely black.

The golden-haired bamboo dog gently patted the cabbage's head, soothingly saying, "Wait a minute, let's see what's causing this trouble inside!"

Soon, the screen brightened, revealing three towering boulders with a dark hole in the middle.

The little snake seemed to linger at the entrance of the hole for a while before slithering inside, and the scene went dark again.

The cave was pitch black, similar to the scene underground, but after a short while, a somewhat familiar sound could be faintly heard.

"Sister, sister, please let me touch you a little longer! I have a secret recipe for skin care, and hair care... no, I mean, a way to care for your fur! Please let me touch you a little longer, please!"

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This time, even the golden-haired bamboo fox was full of questions. For some reason, he even felt that he could hear the excitement of being so happy that he forgot about home from that tone.

(End of this chapter)