Star Bridge's iron chains slowly unfurl, fire trees and silver flowers bloom everywhere in unison.

The grand manor suddenly shatters into gold and jade fragments, the tall buildings transform into a crimson blaze of Zhu Rong.

The seven-jeweled pavilion is burned into a sky-reaching volcano, the surrounding sky reflecting a sea of red. The immense clamor can be heard from afar, while Feng Menglong, carrying the little fox, encounters yet another problem.

Ji Xiang told him to just run, but where should he run to now?

If he runs too slowly, he fears being caught in the crossfire; if he runs too fast, he'll return to the county town, and Feng Menglong is worried that Ji Xiang won't be able to find them again. After all, this has happened once before, and he doesn't want to taste the rag again.

"If I run back to the county town now, wouldn't I be caught again and taken to that evil Wenxiang Sect temple?"

"But if I don't run... it seems I have no choice but to run!"

Feng Menglong swallowed with difficulty, hiding in the shadows. In fact, the Milong Casino wasn't far from the county town; it was just hidden within the earth realm. So, after running wildly in the earth realm, he suddenly returned to the yang realm, and this return wasn't trivial. Feng Menglong realized he wasn't far from the county town.

Almost at the county town gate!

And now the county town is a sea of fire!

The Wenxiang Sect disciples have begun to kill people!

But the people they are killing are all those Milong gamblers!

It's hard to believe that usually everyone is a neighbor, perhaps even borrowing rice, soy sauce, or vinegar from each other, but in the blink of an eye, the neighbor comes over with a large kitchen knife and kills you, a head soaring into the sky, blood splattering five steps...

The Wenxiang Sect is purging the remaining Milong elements here, and under the banner of the Huangtian Sect, they have once again put on a new disguise.

Feng Menglong has heard of the Huangtian Sect; it was a popular religion during the Jiajing Emperor's reign. Originally, it seemed to belong to a branch of folk magic and was considered a legitimate religion... but not long ago, it seemed that orders to eliminate the Huangtian Sect began to spread to the four corners of the land, and the Huangtian Sect was completely labeled as the White Lotus Sect.

"This is making people take the blame! But it's all just dogs fighting dogs; what about me now? What should I do!"

Feng Menglong watched the Wenxiang Sect disciples shouting the slogan "Taiyin shines light, illuminating the sacred fire" and setting fires everywhere, then chasing down the Milong gamblers. Even the government in the county town was not spared... in fact, the government in the county town had long been corrupted.

The divine beast on the official's robe was even unable to manifest and help him because the official himself had lost the nation's prestige.

And because the Wenxiang Sect disguised themselves as the Dongdacheng Sect, becoming a legitimate religion, their actions in the area were not excessively interfered with by the nation's prestige. Entering the yamen was completely unobstructed, and with a large number of mortal disciples, they used mortal fire to commit great atrocities, which was impossible to stop.

The nation's prestige was exhausted, and the official himself was rushed into the yamen by Wenxiang Sect disciples, hacked to death on the door. He finally reaped the consequences of sheltering evil cults by legitimizing them.

There was still a lot of money in the official's mansion, which was eagerly seized by the Wenxiang Sect disciples. At the end, they had the mortal disciples take torches and burn down the yamen, and also forge a Huangtian Sect blood letter at the door.

"The killer is the Puzhao Bodhisattva, the Fire Lord too!"

The Wenxiang Sect disciples did this entirely at the behest of their Third Master, Xu Hongru.

Xu Hongru had already met the expert from Lishanhe, but that expert had not yet fully arrived in the yang realm. Even using all his abilities, the distance between the two realms was still far away. When he learned that the Milong Casino had been destroyed, that expert instructed Xu Hongru to have them put on the guise of the Huangtian Sect, set fires everywhere, and purge all opposition.

Xu Hongru didn't know what had happened in Shuntian Prefecture, so letting other religions take the blame was the best operation. He had actually thought of it long ago, but this expert had only given him a confirmed scapegoat, and said that this Huangtian Sect would definitely take the blame.

They dared to burn the Forbidden City, let alone a small county town?

Feng Menglong saw the chaotic scenes in the county town beginning to spread to the mountains, as if the Wenxiang Sect disciples were going to find the seven-jeweled pavilion, or perhaps to encircle and kill Ji Xiang...

A group sending themselves to their deaths?

Feng Menglong had seen Ji Xiang's previous actions and wasn't worried at all about these Wenxiang Sect disciples finding Ji Xiang. After all, with that Taoist's personality, he would probably kill anyone who came, regardless of whether they were mortals.

He felt a sound on his shoulder, and the little fox woke up, but was still in a state of bewilderment. He howled and bit Feng Menglong, causing Feng Menglong to cry out in pain and fall to the ground. He took out the talismans he had written himself and began to cast spells on Feng Menglong!

"How dare a mere human strike me!"

Feng Menglong was shocked!

At this moment, the little fox grinned and threw out the Jingguang Curse he had drawn himself!

Jingguang Da...... vanished.

The Jingguang Curses flew out, flashed with golden light, flew randomly in all directions, and then all fell to the ground, ineffective.

For a moment, Feng Menglong didn't know whether to be happy or to feel sorry for the child.

So that's what Ji Xiang meant by a so-called poor student...

"Pfft!"

Feng Menglong almost laughed out loud.

And Hu Xiaoshi also looked "confused" at the talismans he threw out, his mind dizzy, as if he was a little clearer, but still snarling at Feng Menglong, still fervently saying: "You laugh now, in a while the Wenxiang Fox Ancestor will come to help me!"

"Fox Ancestor sits on a lotus platform, fragrance spreads in all directions!"

Then he pounced up to bite people like a puppy. Feng Menglong was bitten and jumped around, accidentally kicking his shoe off, which was torn apart by the little fox, and the smell of the stinky sock instantly went to his head. The little fox's nose twitched, and his face changed on the spot.

His nostrils moved, and he vomited directly, convulsing on the ground.

Huff!

A wave of incense qi drilled out of the little fox's nostrils and disappeared into nothingness. The little fox vaguely woke up at this time.

Feng Menglong was shocked.

The stench offset the fragrance, the stench offset the vixen's alluring scent, which was reasonable... but why wasn't he happy?

Was it really that stinky?

This made him look at his feet, with an urge to smell them.

The little fox shook his head violently, finally seeing the situation in front of him clearly. Seeing Feng Menglong holding his foot, he immediately showed a look of disgust: "What are you doing, so disgusting!"

"Disgusting?! You stinky brat, it's all because of you, my shoe is gone!"

Feng Menglong was furious, and the little fox shook his head, also recalling some of his previous scattered memories, such as the fox demon Taoist daring to touch his chin and face like a puppy, his face immediately changed, and he gagged again.

"I am a noble fox immortal, how could I be bewitched by these monsters! So disgusting!"

After the little fox finished vomiting, his face suddenly changed. He remembered that one of the magical items he was carrying had been taken away, the Beidi Tianpeng Ruler, something that specialized in revealing demons!

At that time, he had told those fox spirits all the names and general functions of his magical items!

"Oh no, oh no! I lost Shizu's magical item! I even told them the function of Shizu's magical item, I'm done for!"

Thinking that after returning, it wouldn't be a problem that could be solved by copying the Jingguang Curse a hundred times, the little fox was immediately flustered and lost:

"I have to go back to that temple and steal back the Beidi Tianpeng Ruler."

Feng Menglong ridiculed from the side: "If you go back, you'll become someone else's lackey again. Daoist Ji said that you can't resist the vixen's scent, that you're bewitched by their alluring fragrance... if you really want to go back this time, remember to bring my socks."