"You're the ugly one! Your whole family is ugly! Ugly freak, you're looking for death!"
Xiao Hu roared in anger, her eyes about to split. She was the unique Fox Dragon in the entire world, the most beautiful, how could she be ugly?
"Look at your dark heart, your smelly appearance, your ferocious and disgusting brain. If you say you're not ugly, then who is?"
Compared to Xiao Hu's fury, Bai Sheng Yi was extremely calm.
Xiao Hu suddenly raised her head, her small eyes disbelieving, "You knew I was lying to you all along?"
Bai Sheng Yi nodded, "You had too many flaws." Whether it was the clean clothes she wore in the dilapidated thatched hut, or the fact that she touched the poisoned palace gate without any ill effect, everywhere pointed to the fact that she, the guardian of inheritance, was problematic.
"So you've been watching me make a fool of myself? You've been playing with me?" She glared resentfully at Bai Sheng Yi, wishing she could tear her apart.
As she thought this, she acted upon it. Her hair, which had been burned off by fire, regrew wildly, attacking Bai Sheng Yi. At the same time, her fingertips grew sharp nails, and she clawed forward.
But she missed! Bright flames surrounded Bai Sheng Yi, burning all the black hair to ashes.
"My hair!" Xiao Hu clutched her hair, her eyes red with anger, "Bad woman, you're finished! I will make you pay the price!"
With that, she let out a long howl, completely different from before. It was high-pitched and clear, like a dragon's roar yet also like a fox's cry.
The black dragon circling the mountain peak dispersed into black smoke, then solidified beneath Xiao Hu. Its black scales reflected an ominous cold light.
"Fox Dragon?" Bai Sheng Yi raised her eyebrows in surprise. No wonder. No wonder she felt that Xiao Hu's soul was incomplete, and the black dragon's soul did not seem like that of a true dragon. So, both of them were flawed.
"You actually know me?" Xiao Hu was surprised for a moment, but soon a malicious grin reappeared on her face, "But what does that matter? I won't go easy on you because of this! Bad woman!"
As her voice fell, she let out a skyward roar, her sonic waves carrying powerful attacks that pierced the clouds, causing the palace to instantly collapse.
The black dragon, with a flick of its tail, lunged directly at Bai Sheng Yi!
Legend had it that Fox Dragons were not the offspring of foxes and dragons, but celestial beasts created by ancient immortals using the rare earths of the bright moon. Therefore, Fox Dragons were beautiful and charming, powerful and pure, ranked alongside unicorns, Ming Yang Fiery Phoenixes, and White Luo Moon Lions as the Four Sacred Beasts. It was just unknown why this Fox Dragon within the True Eye Talisman was not only split in two but had also fallen into demonic cultivation.
Like cultivators, once a demonic beast falls into demonic cultivation, it can only practice demonic energy and is not tolerated by heaven and earth. As far as Bai Sheng Yi knew, only the extreme west had a large number of demonic beasts and demonic cultivators. So, where did Fu Ying Tian find this Fox Dragon?
"Granny wants to see what this legendary Fox Dragon is capable of too."
Bai Sheng Yi leaped up, drawing a jade-green circle in the air with her Reincarnation Brush, blocking the sonic waves. She swung the Heavenly Mechanism Sword again.
"Spring Magpie First Sword, Blooming Flowers!"
Flowers bloomed and spun out of the flames, instantly falling like dense raindrops, all striking the black dragon. The black dragon let out a pained cry, tumbling in mid-air, almost throwing Xiao Hu off.
Bai Sheng Yi's gaze was cold, but her movements did not stop.
"Again! Withering and Flourishing!" The Heavenly Mechanism Sword fit her mind perfectly, like her own left hand, making it exceptionally smooth and satisfying to use. She pointed her sword at the Fox Dragon, her posture like that of a celestial being, her robes flowing like clouds and jade. The long sword, carrying the rules of time, swept out, flipping the massive black dragon over!
The black dragon seemed unable to hold on, transforming into smoke again and returning to the continuous mountain peaks.
Xiao Hu, caught off guard, fell from the dragon's back, furious and enraged, "You are simply seeking—"
Before she could utter the word "death," she saw the white jade palace before her gradually lose its ethereal and pure aura, reverting to its original gloomy appearance.
"What did you do!" she exclaimed, her eyes wide with terror. The white jade palace was formed by her demonic power. If the palace could no longer be maintained, it meant not only that the black dragon was in trouble, but also that her demonic power was failing.
"Guess?" Bai Sheng Yi smiled and recalled the Heavenly Mechanism Sword, then swung it out again. She didn't even use the third sword. With "Withering and Flourishing," the palace directly turned into ruins, vanishing into wisps of black smoke.
"But I think you won't be able to guess, because you're not a real Fox Dragon, are you?" Bai Sheng Yi raised her eyebrows, her sword light once again aimed directly at Xiao Hu. This time, it wasn't at her chest, but at her head.
Xiao Hu stood there dumbfounded, "You found out..."
As the sword tip touched her ferocious face, her body began to dissipate bit by bit. In a short while, she turned into black smoke that rose into the air, merging with the black smoke of the palace. They intertwined, eventually transforming into a black ancient book. The so-called inheritance was, in fact, Xiao Hu herself. The reason she couldn't understand how Bai Sheng Yi could turn the palace into ruins was that, as an ancient book, she was unable to perceive the existence of time rules. She was a book, a legacy. No matter how much she yearned to become a person, she could never be one.
"Because you couldn't become human, you devoured part of the Fox Dragon's soul, becoming half a fox. But because of the Fox Dragon's resentment, you fell into demonic cultivation." Bai Sheng Yi reached out, and the ancient book fell into her palm. On the cover, the five golden characters "Tian Fu Tong Yang Lu" flickered past.
"The book is not wrong." Bai Sheng Yi's gaze deepened, and a wisp of Dragon Chasing Star Fire "hissed" and ignited, consuming the entire ancient book. Dragon Chasing Star Fire could burn souls. In a short while, a scream came from the book, and then the entire book gradually shed its blackness, revealing yellowed paper and ancient, incomplete pages.
Bai Sheng Yi opened the first page. "I, Fu Ying Tian, unintentionally found this book and cultivated the art of Celestial Talismans, but my lifespan was limited and I achieved nothing. Alas! Alas!"
"All my achievements come from this book. Feeling that my end is near, I attach all my life's learnings to the front of this book for future generations to study. For the sake of the academy, and for those destined to enter, I have set up the Nine True Talisman trials, with a strand of the Fox Dragon's soul guarding it. If you obtain this book, you may take the book and the Fox Dragon with you without performing the ritual of apprenticeship!"
Upon closer inspection, the first third of the pages of "Tian Fu Tong Yang Lu" were indeed newer than the latter pages. Bai Sheng Yi did not study the book here but got up to leave. The black dragon seemed to have merged with the mountain peaks, its appearance and aura as a Fox Dragon completely gone. Perhaps Fu Ying Tian never expected that the Fox Dragon soul he left for future generations would be half-devoured by the ancient book, and the remaining half would not last much longer.
Indeed, as Bai Sheng Yi took a step, the black dragon let out a mournful cry, and along with the mountains, it vanished into the sky. Immediately after, the thatched hut, the palace gate, and so on, also disappeared one after another. Bai Sheng Yi felt a powerful force push her, and in the blink of an eye, she was outside the True Eye Talisman!
...
Inside the True Eye Talisman, Qin Si, supporting the familiar female cultivator he found, his expression changed slightly.
"I just sensed A Yi's presence!"
Qian Ying: "Where?"
Qin Si's expression was strange, "Outside the True Eye Talisman?"
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's hurry out. This broken talisman, no wonder it's the treasure of Talisman Peak. It almost destroyed my clothes..." She didn't want to stay here for another moment.
Qian Ying mumbled, then suddenly saw the female cultivator she was supporting's eyelids flutter.
"Oh? This woman seems to be waking up."