"This Nine Hearts Immortal Tea possesses the remarkable ability to clear the mind and brighten the eyes. It truly is a rare delicacy..."
After the birthday banquet.
Fang Xi sat beneath the peach blossom tree and brewed himself another pot of Spirit Tea.
Cultivators were all sly old foxes. Even among the different races, there were plenty who hedged their bets on both sides.
Now that they had come all this way to congratulate him on his birthday, he naturally had to leave them a way out. The Demon Race, for instance...
The two foxes, one large and one small, had incredibly smooth fur.
He could cultivate the Fox Race more in the future.
Yet he had no idea that Little Fox Su San was currently in the fox den, biting the corner of her clothes and regretting everything...
"Ying ying ying... I'm so stupid..."
Little Fox Su San thought of the ten-thousand-zhang Azure Dragon she had seen today, then remembered Grandmother's—or rather, her elder sister's—instructions. She nearly burst into tears.
She knew her own circumstances best. Even though she had already reached the Void Returning Realm, advancing to the Body Integration Realm would be exceedingly difficult.
Who could have imagined that, in its later stages, the Divine Path would actually produce powerhouses no weaker than Body Integration or even Great Ascension Cultivators?
"If I had agreed to serve Master earlier, would that mount just now have been me...? Ying ying ying..."
Little Fox was utterly without tears to shed.
One had to know that competition among pets and mounts was also fiercely intense.
As far as she knew, Master already had at least one Little Mysterious Tortoise with extraordinary talent by his side...
She had never expected that one wrong step before would lead to falling behind at every