Li Xiaoyao and Wang Xiaohu didn't return that day. They hurried back three days later, in the afternoon, and judging by their appearance, it seemed they'd actually managed to complete their mission.
Wang Xiaohu's Sky-Splitting Sash was wrapped around a fox demon girl. She looked listless and glared at him through gritted teeth, but there was nothing she could do about it. She was a little fox spirit with fox ears and a bushy tail.
"That was a real ordeal. We worked for three days and three nights, and only earned sixteen sect contribution points..."
"Haah..."
After turning in the mission and collecting his reward from the Lord God, Li Xiaoyao sighed heavily.
"Isn't that because you went and caused trouble, senior brother? If you hadn't entered the ring and beaten Sister Yueru, would all of this have happened?"
Wang Xiaohu immediately complained to his senior brother, Li Xiaoyao. He was still quite resentful about all the things that had happened over the past three days.
"Shh!"
"Keep your voice down!"
Li Xiaoyao hurried over and clapped a hand over Wang Xiaohu's mouth.
"Xiaohu, didn't I tell you? We absolutely cannot let anyone know we went to Suzhou these past three days. Sister Yueru, the Lin Family estate—we don't know anything about any of it. We can't tell anyone, got it?"
"If anyone asks, just say the demon was difficult to subdue, so we had to spend three days dealing with it!"
Li Xiaoyao glanced around. Once he'd confirmed no one was nearby, he leaned close and gave Wang Xiaohu the warning in a tense whisper, hoping to get their stories straight so the other boy wouldn't accidentally let anything slip.
"Okay..."
"But, senior brother! What should we do with this little fox spirit?"
They'd turned in their mission, but