Meeting Su Hu's man-eating gaze, a gaze that looked as if it would skin her alive and swallow her whole, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox spoke each word like a bone-piercing thorn, loudly exposing the cruel truth that had been buried for many years:
"Su Hu! You want to find your daughter?!"
Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, her smile hideous and cruel. Her voice was hoarse, yet it rang clearly across the entire field:
"Your daughter, Daji, was devoured by me bite by bite at the very beginning, when she first entered the palace. Her flesh was swallowed, her soul ground away inch by inch!
"Her soul has long since scattered into heaven and earth. Not even her bones remain! Not even the faintest lingering echo was left behind!
"Is this answer satisfactory to you, General?!"
When Su Hu heard the truth, towering grief and fury instantly swept away every last shred of reason!
His eyes were crimson, veins bulging, his chest heaving violently. The pain and hatred in his heart burned all restraint to ash. He gnashed his teeth, eyes splitting with rage, and roared aloud.
"You Fox Demon! You deserve to die!"
Before his words had even fallen, Su Hu gripped the long spear in his hand, his rage shooting to the crown of his head. His figure suddenly exploded forward, flipping straight up onto the city wall. The spearpoint carried a hatred that could destroy heaven and earth as it stabbed viciously, dead on, toward the gravely wounded and powerless Nine-Tailed Demon Fox!
But in the instant before the spear was about to touch the Fox Demon, a black shadow appeared like a sudden peal of thunder!
Beside King Zhou, the masked general who had covered his face year-round and wore black armor stepped through