Qin Fengming's eyes flickered as thoughts raced through his mind.
"This Qin can now tell you, Senior, that the Crimson Fox Rat is unharmed and quite safe. However, she is no longer in the Human Realm," Qin Fengming said slowly, looking straight at the ferocious beast.
"You are certain the little princess is unharmed? Could you have captured her, and have her with your true body even now?" Mu Sheng was exceptionally meticulous and instantly caught the deeper meaning in Qin Fengming's words.
Qin Fengming nodded slightly. "Your guess is not far off, Senior. Back when this Qin was still a Qi Gathering cultivator, I bought a small beast at an auction in a marketplace. That beast was the Crimson Fox Rat. At the time, no one in the marketplace recognized her, and they merely sold her as a docile spirit beast with no offensive abilities."
"You ascended to the upper realm a thousand years ago, but how long had you cultivated in the Human Realm before ascending?" The enormous beast's gaze grew solemn as he asked again in a deep voice.
Clearly, even now, Mu Sheng remained clearheaded.
He needed to establish beyond doubt whether the Crimson Fox Rat Qin Fengming spoke of was the one he sought.
Although the likelihood of two Crimson Fox Rats appearing in the Human Realm was exceedingly small—so small as to be virtually impossible—how could he rest easy without being certain?
"This Qin cultivated to the Integration Realm in the Human Realm and remained there for roughly eight or nine hundred years," Qin Fengming answered without hesitation.
"Eight or nine hundred years? You reached the late Integration stage realm in just eight hundred years in the Human Realm?" Qin Fengming's words made the beast's eyes fly wide open.
Although he had never traveled