"Shisi Niang knew she wouldn't survive this tribulation. She didn't want to drag you down with her before she died," the white fox murmured.
"So she's a well-read fox spirit who understands the ways of the world!" Hearing the white fox call herself Shisi Niang, Hao Shuai laughed again.
Hao Shuai said this because, before the Song Dynasty, "niangzi" referred to an unmarried young woman. It meant the same thing as "young lady" did today.
The white fox calling herself Shisi Niang meant that either she or her family had read books and been to human society. That was how she got that name.
"Please don't make fun of me, Young Master. You should leave at once," the white fox urged.
Hao Shuai ignored her and glanced up at the tribulation clouds. "Too late~~"
Boom~~
As soon as he finished speaking, a thick bolt of lightning, three or four times more powerful than the previous one, struck toward Hao Shuai.
The tribulation lightning's power had multiplied several times because that was simply how the laws of Heaven and Earth worked. It was also why no one dared to help another person through a tribulation lightly.
Just as the seventh bolt was about to hit Hao Shuai, his dark green Daoist robe billowed without a breeze. A glowing Tai Chi diagram appeared out of thin air above his head, radiating white light and auspicious energy.
"Boom~~" With a heavy crash, the thick bolt of tribulation lightning slammed into the enlarged Tai Chi diagram. Thunder roared and lightning burst in every direction, but the diagram and the bolt canceled each other out.
"How is that possible??" The sight left the white fox stunned.
It wasn't just the white fox. The ill-intentioned onlookers lurking nearby, waiting for a chance to act, were so