The Aloof Immortal Venerable is Pregnant with My Fox Cub - Chapter 32

Chapter 32

She immediately found a hidden spot with Tan Qingxuan, concealed her aura, released her divine consciousness, and secretly checked who the newcomers were.

The voice coming from the forbidden area was exasperated. It turned out to be Ye Ze.

“You told me not to chase the fox spirit and to find a way to approach the Icy Wolf and steal the treasury key, but the Icy Wolf wasn’t seduced by me at all. She even slapped me, knocking out several of my teeth!”

“You also said to come here to find a suitable weapon, and that even without the key, I could still enter the treasury and get the remaining half of the spiritual fungus. I listened to you! Look at my leg and my face now! I was almost bitten through by a giant crocodile!”

“My leg is crippled, and my face is ruined! If I still can’t steal that half of the spiritual fungus, my cultivation path will be completely destroyed!”

A dark-green thumb ring floated in mid-air. Listening to Ye Ze’s furious complaints, the old man in the jade thumb ring remained composed and calm.

“You possess great destiny. Only by enduring what ordinary people cannot endure can you obtain what ordinary people cannot. Skin and flesh are merely external things. If you lose them, you can still heal them with heavenly materials and earthly treasures. What difficulty is there?”

“As long as you merge the two halves of the spiritual fungus, you can step directly into the Nascent Soul stage, or even reach the Ethereal Separation stage. Others cultivate for thousands of years and don’t have the destiny you possess. You have the proper spell, and you have gained my true teachings. Is all of this not enough?”

Since coming to the demon world, Ye Ze had been listening to the old man tell him to endure, endure, endure! How long had he endured already!

He didn’t know there was a prettier fox demon here before, but this old man made him humble himself and serve a wolf demon. The cultivation he had painstakingly accumulated was nearly absorbed by that wolf demon.

Fortunately, he was lucky enough to finally stumble upon the place where the One-Armed Ape was healing, and he happened to overhear the Icy Wolf’s private conversation with the One-Armed Ape.

He knew the spiritual fungus was already in the Icy Wolf’s hands and that a key was needed to open the treasury. He relied on his glib tongue to pry some secrets about her sister from the wolf demon. He thought he could use the opportunity to seduce the Icy Wolf and obtain the key.

He never expected the Icy Wolf to be so unappreciative. She even beat him up. If he hadn’t escaped fast enough, he would have nearly lost his life today.

After fleeing in such a wide circle, the old man was now trying to trick him into getting the Giant Spirit Hammer, saying it could smash open the secret treasury with one blow.

He had narrowly escaped death today, and his body was almost a cripple. Even if he got the hammer, how could he enter the secret treasury?

“You better not be lying to me again! I’m already this miserable. If I can’t get that spiritual fungus, you won’t have a good ending either!”

Ye Ze’s mouth was full of blood. He poured a large bottle of pills into his mouth, crunching them fiercely. His eyes were bloodshot and red.

“If you weren’t so anxious, you wouldn’t have ended up like this. I did not lie to you. The banquet held by the wolf demon and the leopard demon yesterday was clearly a trap. You have already seen that they are close to fighting each other.”

“When that happens, who will be concerned about you? As long as you seize the opportunity to sneak in and steal the remaining half of the spiritual fungus, everything will be perfect.”

Ye Ze chewed a large pile of pills, swallowing them mixed with the fresh blood in his mouth. His neck and forehead were bulging with veins. Hearing the old man speak this way, his eyes almost spit fire.

“Like being chased around like a dog today? Don’t you know I almost died!”

The old man’s voice, however, was more certain, with a hint of cunning hidden in his old, damaged voice.

“Hehehe, you are a person of destiny. You can turn any danger into safety. Even if everyone else dies, you will not die. You will definitely succeed. You will become superior to others, Ye Ze.”

Ye Ze finished the pills. His body seemed to have recovered a little as the medicinal effects slowly took hold. He leaned against the cliff wall to recover his strength.

“I will believe you one last time, Senior!”

Hearing this conversation, Cang Ran’s heart rate suddenly accelerated. The male protagonist really hasn’t given up. It turned out he was still plotting against her.

He wanted to steal the One-Armed Ape’s half of the spiritual fungus, and he was actually able to find the location of the treasury. Even more incredibly, when he couldn’t get the key, the old man in the jade thumb ring could think of another way to help him.

Who exactly is this old man? How can he know so much and possess such great mystical power? Is he a god, a demon, or a devil?

All of this was startling. If someone told her that she would definitely succeed, she would find it laughable. Are you a Heavenly Grade Divine Seer?

But if she were the male protagonist, listening to this senior, succeeding again and again, even through thousands of dangers, and even if she didn’t possess the required tool, the other party could find another way to help her solve the problem.

This could no longer be described as just terrifying. It could only be called Mystical Power, a great mystical power that was difficult to obtain beyond normal cognition.

She couldn’t help but look at Tan Qingxuan, only to find that Tan Qingxuan looked at her with some confusion. She was truly too shocked and couldn’t help but transmit a message to Tan Qingxuan.

“Did you see just now that there was a human cultivator talking to an old man in there?”

“Is that human cultivator your acquaintance? What is the old man?”

“Not an acquaintance, an enemy,” Cang Ran was too anxious and continued to speak to Tan Qingxuan, “The old man, he is the jade thumb ring! Didn’t you see him?”

She noticed a hint of confusion in Qingqing’s eyes, as if she hadn’t noticed the old man. Could it be that only she could see him, and Tan Qingxuan couldn’t?

“No,” Tan Qingxuan answered very certainly.

Goosebumps suddenly erupted all over Cang Ran’s body. It was true that only she could see him.

Why could she see and hear him? Was it simply because she wasn’t originally from this world?

But why didn’t she see the old man last time? Was it because the old man wasn’t communicating with Ye Ze in the sea of consciousness then?

The old man was also not from this world, so Qingqing couldn’t see him. But why could she see Qingqing and Ye Ze, and also the old man in the jade thumb ring?

They could also see her. So, could the old man in the jade thumb ring also see her? Would he also want to erase her?

Cang Ran’s heart had never beat so fiercely before. It was as dense as a drumbeat, exactly the same as the last time she faced the pressure of death, but it made her feel even more alarmed and frightened, as if a catastrophe was imminent.

Tan Qingxuan noticed that Cang Ran’s face instantly turned white, and her eyes flashed with various emotions of doubt, shock, and fear. She couldn’t help but immediately embrace Cang Ran and quickly took her away from that area.

They returned to Fox Fox Mountain. Tan Qingxuan pressed Cang Ran into a cross-legged position. She raised her hand and placed it on the back of Cang Ran’s heart, soothing the turbulent spiritual energy within her body. She repeatedly whispered in her ear: “Focus your mind, guard your heart.”

Cang Ran felt the spiritual energy within her body violently surging. Just that instant, it almost scorched her body with extreme pain. Only under the continuous guidance of the gentle golden spiritual energy did her entire body’s spiritual energy finally become calm and peaceful.

Tan Qingxuan didn’t know what old man Cang Ran had just seen, only that Cang Ran was on the verge of falling into inner demons.

What kind of enemy could cause Cang Ran to immediately generate inner demons to this extent?

The stray hairs on Cang Ran’s forehead were drenched in cold sweat. Her body seemed to have lost all its strength. Her lips were pale. Tan Qingxuan immediately embraced her and gently stroked her sweaty back, again and again.

“Don’t be afraid. I am here, Cang Ran.” Tan Qingxuan’s voice was extremely soft, and she patiently comforted her repeatedly.

Cang Ran’s fox ears drooped. Her entire body was tense like a bird startled by a bow. She shrank into Tan Qingxuan’s embrace, trembling repeatedly.

Her throat nervously swallowed up and down. She was still very, very scared, so much so that she reverted to her original form.

Tan Qingxuan pulled her into her arms, embracing her even tighter and deeper, as if to completely envelop her body: “Don’t be afraid. I’m here. No one can hurt you.”

The furry little fox, which had been warm before, was now completely cold. Even her three tails were stiff.

She didn’t know how long she held Cang Ran. As the afterglow of the setting sun shone on them, the little fox seemed to slowly warm up, returning to her usual temperature.

Cang Ran’s ears were still twitching, and all her fur was matted with sweat. She shivered slightly.

That feeling just now was more terrifying than seeing a ghost in broad daylight.

She knew she wasn’t originally from this world, but suddenly, there was something in this world that only she and the male protagonist of this world could see. That was more chilling than seeing a ghost.

She knew for a fact that she was not the male protagonist. She absolutely did not have the good luck to win every gamble, nor was anyone secretly protecting her. So why could she see the old man?

For a moment, she even doubted her own reality. Only when Tan Qingxuan held her, embracing her again and again, did the warmth of her body tell her that she was a real, living person.

She had her own thoughts, her own soul, and her own physical body. She was a living creature, so there was nothing wrong with her.

The old man only had a soul body and no physical body, so he was the one with the problem.

The old man couldn’t kill her, nor did he see that she was a problem. The old man’s current target wasn’t her, but the thousand-year spiritual fungus.

She was just a little fox. She wasn’t blocking anyone’s path. Everything she did was just to live better.

Cang Ran repeatedly told herself to calm down. Her body felt cold, and her fox paws were still trembling.

Those warm hands started helping her again, rubbing her cold paws, making them all warm.

Her little paw pads were rubbed until they were hot and securely held in the palm of a hand, firmly telling her not to be afraid.

She looked at the person in front of her. It was the person she had become familiar with over the past few days. It was Qingqing, whom she loved and who was unattainable.

Cang Ran couldn’t help but open her mouth and softly call out, “Qingqing.”

Tan Qingxuan looked at the little fox’s moist eyes, which were filled with concern: “I’m here.”

Cang Ran extended her two paws: “Hold me again.”

Tan Qingxuan embraced her once more, holding her very tightly. Her nose was filled with the faint sandalwood scent on Tan Qingxuan, which made her feel very safe.

Cang Ran buried herself like this for a little while longer. Her mind finally calmed down.

In this situation, thinking the opposite, it was actually a good thing. Fortunately, she went looking for Ye Ze today and was able to overhear that conversation.

The enemy is in the open, and she is in the dark. She happened to learn all of the enemy’s motives and the possible future developments. This was the heavens helping her in a subtle way.

She now had the opportunity to make her own choice: confront the male protagonist from the original book or be a shrinking coward and pretend she knew nothing about today’s events.

It was hard to say whether she could beat the male protagonist with the old man’s help. Hiding wasn’t shameful. She had hidden before. At worst, she could just move away from the Canglan Mountain Range again, like before.

Fleeing wasn’t shameful. Life is precious, but if she always hid, she was afraid of the male protagonist even without the thousand-year spiritual fungus. Could she hide like this for the rest of her life?

She had escaped again and again. Would Qingqing have to flee with her again and again? The enemy would only grow stronger. Sooner or later, she would have nowhere left to hide, and she wouldn’t be able to protect Qingqing.

I can’t run anymore. If the heavens had eyes, they should let her win once. She didn’t want to lose. She didn’t want to be a fox who only ran for her life her entire life.

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