Demon, come and cultivate for me.

"Kill her first, and then I'll tell you."

The fox demon's eyes were filled with tears, and anyone who saw her would inevitably feel pity for her.

Zhou Chu nodded, feigning ignorance, then turned and clasped his hands in a fist salute to Xie Ning, saying:

"Miss Xie Ning, please forgive me."

"Quick! Kill this wicked woman!" The fox demon wiped away her tears, but was extremely pleased with herself.

It seems my sister was right; men really do fall for this.

Xie Ning took a step back, holding her sword horizontally in front of her, and looked at Zhou Chu in horror:

"you……"

Before she could finish speaking, she saw Zhou Chu's lips curl up almost imperceptibly.

Then, Zhou Chu suddenly appeared and unexpectedly pulled the fox demon away from the edge of the cliff.

That's a brilliant feint.

Xie Ning breathed a sigh of relief. For a moment, she thought Zhou Chu had really been bewitched by the vixen and was going to kill her.

Zhou Chu gripped the fox demon's throat tightly with his large hand:

"Tell me, where did you put the package?"

The fox demon was being pinched so hard that it stuck out its tongue and its eyes rolled back.

She patted Zhou Chu's arm weakly and then pointed to the mountain god temple.

Zhou Chu let go of her: "Go get it back."

"Cough cough~" The fox demon coughed for a while, rubbing his neck which had been pinched red, and entered the mountain god temple.

Zhou Chu and Xie Ning followed closely behind, arriving at the collapsed main hall with the fox demon.

The unburnt charcoal made the heat unbearable.

The fox demon stood inside the hall and pointed to the altar.

A hole has appeared on the altar where the statue of the god was originally placed.

Zhou Chu leaned in and looked inside. It was pitch black, and a chill, along with an unknown odor, wafted out.

"You, get out of here." Zhou Chu's tone left no room for argument.

The fox demon shook its head in terror, as if there was something terrifying inside the dark hole.

Zhou Chu raised his fist:

"I can kill the mountain god with just three punches. I wonder if you can withstand one of my punches?"

The fox demon bit her lip, finally steeled her resolve, and leaped into the hole.

Zhou Chu followed closely behind, and Xie Ning, covering her mouth and nose, also jumped down.

The hole wasn't deep, only about two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters).

The area below was unusually cold, a stark contrast to the scorching heat above—it was like an icebox and an oven.

There is also a horizontal passageway at the bottom, leading somewhere unknown.

But Zhou Chu wasn't interested; he picked up the package and carried it on his shoulder.

Just as I was about to climb up, I found myself in an awkward situation.

Because he was wearing Xie Ning's cloak, if he climbed directly up, wouldn't the people below see the accessory...?

So he gestured for Xie Ning to go up first.

Seeing that Zhou Chu had retrieved the package, Xie Ning drew her sword, intending to finish off the fox demon.

The fox demon turned and ran into the passageway.

But after running only a few steps, he stopped, collapsed to the ground, covered his face, and cried.

"I have cultivated myself for many years and have never harmed a single person. Why do you want to exterminate me?"

"Stop making excuses here. What demon doesn't harm people? How can it cultivate and transform if it doesn't harm people?" Xie Ning questioned.

"Our fox clan has its own cultivation methods that do not harm nature and do not require us to harm people."

My cultivation had been stagnant at the bottleneck of the Transformation Realm for many years. Last night, I heard a dragon's roar at the foot of the mountain, and I immediately had an epiphany. In just a few hours, I transformed into human form...

"Dragon's roar...you heard it too?" Xie Ningqi asked.

Last night, Xie Ning also heard the sound of a dragon roaring from the mountain.

The true dragon is one of the four great mythical beasts, so how could it appear in this desolate and treacherous place?

It is highly likely that someone has mastered the Dragon Elephant Technique to a high degree, and the sound of a dragon's roar can be heard when it is used.

The Dragon Elephant Kung Fu was the most widely circulated and common martial art in the Yan Kingdom, including several techniques such as Dragon Elephant Fist and Dragon Elephant Spear.

This technique has an extremely low entry barrier, but an extremely high potential.

However, the requirements for the practitioners are also very high.

Those who can reach the upper limit must be one in a million, the cream of the crop.

In the past century, only one person in the Great Yan Kingdom has mastered this skill.

I heard that this person died in the miasma-ridden land of the Ten Thousand Mountains while searching for a breakthrough.

How could such a remarkable person exist in such a remote and impoverished place?

The fox demon, Didi, said, "I heard it, last night..."

Before she could finish speaking, the fox demon suddenly fell silent.

Suddenly, its body went limp and it collapsed to the ground, its form transforming into its original form—a pure white fox.

boom!

A loud bang came from the tunnel.

The white fox, who was lying on the ground, was startled and scrambled to its feet, rushing towards the cave entrance.

The bottom to the cave entrance is straight up and down, the cave walls are smooth and there are no footholds, the white fox tried to jump up several times but failed.

Finally, it hid behind Zhou Chu, its furry front paws tightly hugging Zhou Chu's calf.

"There's a demonic aura in the cave!" Xie Ning ignored the fox, drew her sword, and stared into the passageway.

Zhou Chu pulled Xie Ning back: "Go upstairs quickly."

"No!" Xie Ning refused.

"If I kill a monster, I can take its corpse to the government office to claim a reward. I've spent all my money, and if I don't earn some reward money, I won't even be able to go home."

"How much bounty can I get?" Zhou Chu perked up immediately when he heard there was money to be made.

Killing monsters earns you a bounty; isn't that just free money?

Xie Ning pointed to the fox at Zhou Chu's feet:

"It can be exchanged for thirty taels."

The fox shuddered upon hearing this and hugged Zhou Chu's legs even tighter.

"Silver?" Zhou Chu asked.

Zhou Chu knew from the original owner's memories that one coin could buy a meat bun in this world.

One tael of silver can be exchanged for more than a thousand copper coins, so thirty taels of silver...

"Gold!" Xie Ning replied.

"This one in the passageway has considerable cultivation; it's worth at least fifty taels."

Gold! Zhou Chu quickly calculated in his mind.

One tael of gold can be exchanged for about ten taels of silver.

Fifty taels of gold are equal to five hundred taels of silver.

With so much money, you could buy a house in the city and still have a lot left over.

According to memory, the original owner also had a mud-brick house in the village, which was very shabby.

It leaks when it rains and lets in drafts in winter. Zhou Chu had no desire to live in such a place.

"Step back, let me do it!"

Slaying demons is good, I must slay demons.

Every part of a monster is a treasure; its soul can be used to practice its skills, while its corpse can be taken to claim a reward!

While he was up there, Zhou Chu noticed that the mandrill's corpse was missing. He wondered if someone had taken it away to claim a reward.

After we kill this monster, we can go up and search properly.

Zhou Chu stretched his limbs and lifted his foot to walk into the passageway, but was tightly hugged by the fox.

"I know you never harm anyone, so I won't kill you. You can leave now."

In my memory, many people in the village had seen this white fox, but they had never heard of it harming anyone.

Zhou Chu pried the white fox's little paws off his legs, picked it up, and tossed it toward the cave entrance above.

The white fox reacted extremely quickly, grabbing the edge of the hole with its front legs and pushing off with its hind legs, it ran up.

Then it poked its furry head out and looked at Zhou Chu at the bottom of the cave.

Zhou Chu ignored the white fox and strode into the dark passageway.

"I'll go too."

Xie Ning followed closely behind.

"Whoever kills first, gets to keep their kill."

Zhou Chu estimated that the items in the bundle were worth at most a few dozen taels of silver.

He wouldn't miss such a good deal, as killing a powerful demon could earn him a hundred taels of gold.

"I'm the one who discovered this monster," Xie Ning protested. "If it weren't for me, would you have known this monster could be exchanged for a bounty?"

"What do you want?" Zhou Chu noticed something was amiss ahead and suddenly stopped.

"Half for each of us! Ouch!" Xie Ning bumped into Zhou Chu's back.

"I get seven, you get three!"

"No way! Six-four! You get six, I get four."

"I get eight, you get two."

"Is this how you bargain? Why are you lowering the price?" Xie Ning was very dissatisfied.

"Nine……"

"82! 82 it is!"

"Deal!" Zhou Chu said, then held his breath and listened intently to the sounds ahead.

The space at the other end of the passageway seemed quite large.

The rustling sounds kept reaching Zhou Chu's ears, as if many feet were crawling on the stone wall.

Clearly, Xie Ning heard it too, and she shuddered as she said:

"How about... we go back?"