The Aloof Immortal Venerable is Pregnant with My Fox Cub - Chapter 12

Chapter 12

The moment her fox tail was pinched felt like a mere illusion, fleetingly crossing Cang Ran’s eyes.

She let out a soft whimper. Her cheeks were flushed, and her narrow eyes were moist. The surrounding air was made stickier by her watery seductive scent.

Cang Ran even began to doubt whether her brain was hallucinating. That pinch on her tail might have been purely imaginary, and perhaps it never happened at all.

She suppressed her rapid breathing, staring intently at Tan Qingxuan’s back, but didn’t see any sign of Tan Qingxuan waking up.

Disappointment washed over Cang Ran. Tan Qingxuan must be sound asleep. She wouldn’t come to help her.

The initial heat had subsided considerably after the faint pinch on her tail. She needed to redouble her efforts to completely quell this wave of heat.

Her brain was muddled by the heat. Her pale cheeks were filled with lust, and her body was more alluring and beautiful than ever.

Her clothes were disheveled. She pressed closer, her well-formed curves pressing tightly against Tan Qingxuan’s slender back.

The contact was too warm and soft. The slightest movement caused friction in places that should not be touched.

Cang Ran groaned and panted softly. Her high nose brushed against Tan Qingxuan’s swan-like nape. Her hot breath sprayed onto it. She softly and gently rubbed against Tan Qingxuan.

After enduring this closeness for a while, the heat wave of her estrus finally subsided temporarily.

Cang Ran let out a long sigh and pulled back her damp tails.

She did not linger in the cave dwelling and went to the largest waterfall on Fox Mountain to clean her sweat-soaked fox fur.

After Cang Ran left, the sweet and provocative seductive scent lingered in the cave dwelling.

The scorching air stirred the heart. Waves of clean, peach-blossom fragrance drifted to her nose, the lustful atmosphere as dense as mist and water.

The strands of hair near Tan Qingxuan’s neck slipped away. Her chest rose and fell. Sweat soaked through her thin shirt. Her cool, jade-like face was now flushed with color.

A continuous wave of heat assaulted her. She tilted her long, pale neck back, her eyes dazed, leaning against the cold wall in a trance.

She had planned to cultivate all night and was prepared for the possibility of the demon cultivator going wild at night. But she had not expected Cang Ran to secretly slip her fox tail into her palm.

She had given Cang Ran’s audacious tail a warning pinch, but Cang Ran instead rubbed against her palm to please her, like a small beast begging for its owner’s affection.

Even without seeing it with her own eyes, she knew that this little demon might be experiencing estrus due to Cang Ran’s suppressed, pitiful sobs.

In the past, she would definitely warn such a little demon to keep their distance.

But today, her usually clear spiritual platform was clouded. Her divine consciousness was also drowsy. Listening to Cang Ran’s soft moans and low sobs, her body was even vaguely aroused by a slight heat.

With her Dao heart in turmoil, the spiritual talisman failed to form. She was held in Cang Ran’s embrace for so long, unable to exert any deterrence or resistance.

Fortunately, this little demon only hugged her and did not take any excessive actions.

For Cang Ran, seeking intimacy during estrus was instinct. For Tan Qingxuan, adhering to her Dao heart was also instinct.

It would take about half a month for her body to recover. She must now find a way to leave this demon realm as soon as possible.

Once she returned to the sect, she would give Cang Ran some spiritual treasures and elixirs, which would settle the karmic debt between them.

Since that night of intense heat, Cang Ran had been well-behaved for several days, practicing diligently, occasionally sewing on her unfinished floral pillow, though she looked a bit listless.

A demon cultivator’s estrus lasts for more than one day, starting intermittently and becoming continuous later on.

Her mood was restless. She held the Yao Yan unique fire in her palm again. Logically, what Tan Qingxuan had said should be correct: the more unique fire she could produce, the stronger it would be.

Therefore, since she could split it into two balls of unique fire, they should be of equal size, not the uneven large and small ones she had managed to pull out through sheer force.

She pinched her brow, frowning in deep thought at the intensely burning unique fire. A sudden inspiration struck, and she immersed her divine consciousness into the unique fire.

The closer she got to the unique fire, the stronger the scorching sensation on her divine consciousness. Since this unique fire was her symbiotic fire, it would not easily harm her. Thus, her divine consciousness quickly probed into the deeper layers of the flame.

It turned out that deep within the flame was a suspended fire seed, shaped like her demon core but much smaller. Her divine consciousness circled it several times, unable to penetrate, and only then did she realize that the fire seed was solid.

Did splitting the unique fire actually require splitting this fire seed in half?

Cang Ran used her divine consciousness as a blade and tried to split it. Instantly, the fire seed retaliated, and a sharp pain surged through her soul. She felt like she was about to be roasted into a fox skewer.

Wuwuwu, so painful, so painful. This path is wrong!

Cang Ran’s eyes were teary. She endured the pain and retracted the unique fire back into her demon core, using her fluffy fox paws to wipe away her tears for a long time.

The feeling now was like she had the key and saw the lock right there, but couldn’t find the keyhole, so she couldn’t open it.

No, she must find it today!

Cang Ran rested briefly and transformed into her human form. She gritted her teeth, placed her finger on her forehead, and forced her divine consciousness back into the unique fire.

This growth cancels that decay, and vice versa. It must be that she hadn’t reached a certain critical balance.

Cang Ran immersed her entire mind into the unique fire’s seed, entering a profound state of Dao with the fire seed.

It turned out that the small ball of unique fire she had split off before was not energy that grew from the fire seed itself; it was a portion of energy she had forcibly cut away from the fire seed.

The unique fire, unwilling to lose its energy, retaliated against her, leading to the exhausting tug-of-war.

Gathering spiritual energy and converging it into a cyclical flow, the fire seed within the unique fire began to spin continuously. After breaking through a certain critical value, that one fire seed suddenly split into two identical fire seeds.

Two balls of unique fire glowed brilliantly in her palm, illuminating her face, stripping away a fraction of the demon’s inherent charm and adding a touch of transcendent Daoist rhythm.

Cang Ran was overjoyed. She wanted to split off a few more unique fires, but she felt a sharp pain from her divine consciousness. She had been severely injured by the backlash just now.

It seemed she could only continue researching next time. Cang Ran retracted the unique fire and used a large tree leaf to fan away the heat on her body.

She had other things to do now. She needed to arrange for a few small demons to pack the prepared spirit herbs into baskets.

These spirit herbs were what she planned to sell in Luofeng City. Although Fox Mountain was not as prominent as the mountains of the other Demon Kings, its natural resources were abundant. The spiritual herbs that city apothecaries would buy were available on her mountain.

Now that spring had arrived, last year’s clothes were old. She needed to go to the city shops to buy a few new outfits and also buy a defensive magical robe for Tan Qingxuan.

The demon realm was currently turbulent. Tan Qingxuan’s body was weak. She was afraid of times she might not be able to look after her, so an extra protective talisman would be good for Tan Qingxuan.

As for why she wasn’t selling some of the rampant wild pine chickens on Fox Mountain, it was because chickens were inconvenient to transport, their price wasn’t high, and they would defecate along the way. Cang Ran preferred to let them roam free on the mountain for the lesser demons to eat.

Spirit herbs were her most profitable source of income. The group of minor demons under her had shallow cultivation and generally couldn’t distinguish where the spirit herbs were or which ones had the longest cultivation time.

Cang Ran was a fire fox with a supreme fire spiritual root and a good sense of smell. She was spot on in finding high-grade fire-attributed spirit herbs.

For some spirit herbs that grew clustered together and were difficult to separate, she would just scoop them all up with her fox paws. After all, the apothecary owner would help her identify them later.

These little demons worked diligently and quickly packed everything according to Cang Ran’s requirements.

Cang Ran looked at the spirit herbs happily, as if she were looking at a pile of sparkling spirit stones.

As she was counting the items, she suddenly felt someone watching her. She looked up and met Tan Qingxuan’s gaze from a distance.

The morning light shone on Tan Qingxuan’s face, outlining a stunningly beautiful, bright silhouette. Her eyes were breathtakingly beautiful.

The gentle breeze blew her robes into elegant curves. Bathed in the light, she looked like a drooping crabapple branch, exuding an ethereal aura.

Cang Ran blinked at Tan Qingxuan and walked towards her with light steps. “What were you looking at just now?”

Cang Ran wore a new hairstyle today, with a silver tassel hairpin slanted in her hair. As her wavy red long hair swayed, it looked exactly like a dancing butterfly in the sun.

Tan Qingxuan had come out to get some air. Her gaze somehow fell on Cang Ran again, and she inexplicably recalled the soft, faint panting sound from that night.

The scorching hot body pressing close, Cang Ran’s forehead lightly resting on her slender neck, the soft lips seeming to have kissed her cold, pale, and slightly pink skin.

She saw Cang Ran’s alluring lips again. A flush involuntarily spread across her earlobes. She forced herself to shift her thoughts away.

Tan Qingxuan folded her arms. Her peach-blossom eyes were very radiant. “Are you going out?”

Cang Ran immediately nodded. “Yes, I’m going to Luofeng City to sell some things, but I’ll be back tonight.”

She quietly used demon magic to pluck a branch of perfectly blooming peach blossoms and presented it to Tan Qingxuan from behind her back.

“This is for you. I saw it was blooming beautifully, so I picked it.”

“The peach tree is splendid, its flowers are brilliant. When a young woman is married, she is fit for the family.”

Cang Ran’s face was charming, her lips rosy and bright, far more vivid and radiant than this bunch of peach blossoms.

Tan Qingxuan’s gaze lingered on the peach blossoms for a moment, then she said calmly, “I’ll go with you.”

Cang Ran was surprised and very happy. “Great! Let’s go together! But you’re still injured.”

After these few days of treatment, several of Tan Qingxuan’s crucial meridians had been repaired by Cang Ran. She could maintain daily activities, and she could slowly repair the rest herself.

Tan Qingxuan had already decided to leave, so she explained, “It’s nothing serious for now.”

Cang Ran sighed in relief. Seeing Tan Qingxuan’s pale face, she was still a little worried. “I have a lot of spirit herbs here. Would you like to look and see if you can eat any? If there are any that are useful to you, just take them.”

Tan Qingxuan’s gaze fell upon them. These spirit herbs were not low-grade, but unfortunately, she was currently weak, lacked spiritual energy to sustain herself, and did not have an elixir furnace. She could not personally refine the Tribulation-Crossing Nourishing Elixirs.

Even the best elixirs could not compare to the essence of the moon refined by the fox demon.

It was just that their desires were different. She was destined to betray Cang Ran’s good intentions.

Tan Qingxuan shook her head slightly. “These spirit herbs are useless to me. Your help with my injuries is enough.”

Cang Ran felt a flash of resentment in her heart. Bad woman, you know that my personal healing is better. Why do you go to sleep so early at night?

However, she wouldn’t dwell on this with Tan Qingxuan. She couldn’t rush it. Since the person was by her side, she could proceed slowly.

Cang Ran said with concern, “I’ll carry you. It will be steadier.”

Tan Qingxuan knew Cang Ran was a fox demon, but she had only seen her small beast form. She hesitated for a second. “No, I’ll crush you.”

Cang Ran directly transformed into her original beast form. She usually transformed into a smaller size to be cute and gain favor with Tan Qingxuan. But when it was time to show off, she was incredibly impressive.

The fiery red, large fox faced the morning sun. Every inch of her needle-like fur glistened. Orange-red spiritual energy gathered on her three beautiful spiritual fox tails, dazzling with color, like a spiritual creature born from the creation of heaven and earth.

Her fox eyes were bright and sparkling, like the most beautiful, shining jewels. She gracefully bowed towards Tan Qingxuan.

“Come up. Luofeng City is a hundred li from here. I am your one-day spirit pet now.”

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