Complete Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox

"Gone?" He Xi asked in confusion. "What do you mean?"

Si Yao poured himself a cup of tea. "Just gone."

There was no way he could tell He Xi that the previous night, during his battle with Sun Wukong, he had melted down and reforged the Silver Blade Flying Dagger, using it as the ideal material for the tip to boost the Blood Spear's destructive power, until it had become one with the spear.

At any rate, he couldn't produce it now.

He Xi fell silent for a long while, gazing into Si Yao's icy blue eyes, which revealed nothing. She seemed to be judging whether he was telling the truth.

In the end, she slowly set the exquisite Dark Silver Long Sword on the table. It landed with a soft thud.

Si Yao looked at the sword and raised an eyebrow. "What's this for?"

"Consider it a gift for our first meeting." He Xi's voice had returned to its usual calm, as though their failed deal had never happened.

Si Yao neither accepted nor refused. He picked up the teapot and filled the empty cup in front of He Xi. The rising steam carried a faint fragrance of tea, easing the tension in the Living Room a little.

The two fell silent again.

Then, amid the delicate stillness, a stir came from the Backyard.

Su Xiao Li and Suo Dun had just finished their daily special training in the Mimic Training Space. They emerged one after the other.

When Su Xiao Li saw the silver-haired woman who had appeared in the Living Room—a woman so beautiful and elegant that Su Xiao Li felt inferior by comparison—alarm bells rang in her mind!

Was this... another woman trying to steal her man?!

Almost instinctively, Su Xiao Li dashed over to the sofa and plopped down beside Si Yao. She even squeezed closer to him, staking her "claim" in a childish but direct way.

Si Yao was at a loss for words. He glanced at the drenched Little Fox beside him, who smelled of sweat after training, and rubbed his brow. "Go shower and change."

"You're covered in sweat."

Su Xiao Li pouted in dismay. "I don't stink!"

Thanks to the modifications from her Super Gene, along with her special Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Super Gene, she didn't smell bad at all. If anything, she carried a faint, pleasant fragrance.

To prove it, she even brought the fluffy White Fox Tail Phantom behind her right up to Si Yao and let him smell it.

Si Yao raised his hand and gave her a crisp Brain Pop.

"Ow!" Su Xiao Li cried, clutching her forehead. At last, she got up obediently and slunk off to take a shower.

He Xi had watched the whole exchange, an extremely odd expression on her face.

This... didn't seem much like the imposing, cold, and indifferent Ancient Old God she had imagined.

Unable to resist, He Xi broke the awkward silence. "What kinds of special Beast Forms do you have?"

She paused, then added, "And can you switch between them? Or can each person only load one? These special Beast Genes must conflict with one another to a great extent."

Si Yao lifted his teacup and took a small sip. "A person can only have one. As for the kinds... most of them were destroyed in the wars of the past. I only have a few left."

"The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox I gave Su Xiao Li, my own Black Dragon Form, the Phoenix, and... the Golden Crow from Earth's legends."

"War?" He Xi had caught the key word. "What war?"

For a moment, Si Yao's gaze turned deep and cold, as if he had fallen into some distant memory. He remained silent for a long while before finally speaking, his voice tinged with faint mockery. "The Civilization Destruction War."

"An internal conflict. A... joke."

Seeing that Si Yao seemed to have recalled something unpleasant and had grown a little distant, He Xi tactfully moved on from the heavy topic. "Then... what can the Phoenix and the Golden Crow do?"

Si Yao answered, "The Phoenix, as the name suggests, has near-immortal Regeneration Ability. It's a vanguard unit, extremely difficult to kill. Even I would have to put in some effort."

"As for the Golden Crow, it's similar to what you call the Light of the Sun. It serves as a long-range artillery platform."

Si Yao's casual explanation stirred up a storm in He Xi's heart. She couldn't help asking again, "Those Phoenix and Golden Crow templates you mentioned... surely they weren't mass-produced?"

Su Xiao Li's displayed power already put her at the Quasi-Third Generation level. The Complete Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox was unquestionably at least at the Third Generation God level.

By that logic, the Phoenix and the Golden Crow had to be equally powerful!

Yet from Si Yao's tone, it sounded as though Super Genes of this level were a dime a dozen.

Si Yao replied calmly, "Not that many. We only had a few tens of thousands back then."

"A few tens of thousands?!" He Xi was utterly stunned by the number.

An army of tens of thousands of Third Generation God-level Super Soldiers? That force could sweep aside any God-Tier Civilization in the Known Universe!

She instinctively asked, "How many of your Black Dragon Forms were there?"

Si Yao shook his head. "My form is a little special. There were only four. The others... are all dead."

"How did they die?" He Xi asked curiously.

Si Yao's gaze turned cold and deep once more. He looked at He Xi and said evenly:

"I killed them."

"..."

The evening breeze carried a hint of chill, dispelling the day's heat.

He Xi's figure became a streak of light as she left Earth without a sound.

For a first formal meeting, it had gone rather well.

Si Yao was much easier to deal with than she had expected. Though he was aloof and his words carried an air of detached indifference, he wasn't an impossible-to-reason-with madman.

As long as no one approached him with malice or crossed some unknown line, he seemed relatively "safe."

Si Yao, meanwhile, was in a rather good mood after seeing He Xi off.

He had gained a great deal from their conversation that day.

Building on the technologies he had already revealed, Si Yao had casually expanded on them as He Xi's questions led the conversation.

Since these "extended technologies" were logical, self-consistent developments of known Shenhe Technology, the top scientist He Xi accepted them almost without a second thought.

And Holy Keisha, who had been "spying" on them from behind the scenes through various channels, had clearly received this "new information" as well.

[ Ding! ]

[Your lies convinced Angel He Xi and Holy Keisha. The existence of the "Phoenix" and "Golden Crow" gene templates has been anchored in their cognition!]

["Stellar Drive Technology" manifestation progress increased to 35%!]

["Infinite Regeneration Technology" manifestation progress increased to 35%!]

["Yuanshi Realm Divine Power · Black Dragon Form" complete manifestation progress increased to 75%!]

["Su Xiao Li · Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox" Super Gene complete manifestation progress increased to 98%!]

[True Points gained: 480,000]

[Current True Points: 5,480,000]

Without even realizing it, the Two Angel Kings had generously given him nearly half a million True Points, greatly advancing the manifestation process of several key technologies.

Seeing that Su Xiao Li's manifestation progress had already reached 98%, Si Yao didn't waste another moment.

As soon as He Xi left, he gave the Seed of Delusion an order.

"Spend one million True Points to complete the final manifestation of the 'Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox.'"

[ Ding! 1,000,000 True Points spent! Beginning final-stage manifestation! ]

At that very moment, Su Xiao Li had just finished showering and walked out in a clean T-shirt and shorts. Suddenly, her body stiffened and she froze in place.

An indescribable warmth, rising from the deepest part of her life, instantly flowed through every limb! The White Fox Tail behind her, which had previously been no more than a phantom of energy, seemed to break through the barrier between dimensions and become real!

Fluffy, soft, and white as snow, the tail swayed gently behind her, with a tangible texture and warmth.

Then came a second, a third... until nine identical, enormous, fluffy tails unfurled behind her like a blooming Snow Lotus!

Su Xiao Li turned around in a daze and reached out with a trembling hand to gently touch the tail within arm's reach. It felt real.

"This... what is this..."

She could feel that the nine tails had become part of her body, and she could control them as freely as her arms.

A sense of power, unprecedented in its fullness and strength, filled every one of her cells.

Watching the scene unfold, Si Yao's eyes flashed with satisfaction.

The complete Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Form had finally manifested.

He slowly exhaled, unable to keep from marveling.

Angels really were walking treasure troves of energy.