"You deserve to die! I'll kill you!"
Feeling his gaze fall upon her, the Nine-Tailed Fox Demon, who had been gazing up at the moon and chanting under her breath, suddenly lowered her head.
Her pair of eyes, glowing with an eerie green light, fixed on Luo Yi. With difficulty, she forced out words steeped in venomous hatred.
"May the Fox Immortal manifest and slay this vile—who massacred the Qingqiu Mountain clan..."
Before she could finish her venomous words, however, she felt an immense, surging pressure envelop her whole body. No matter how fiercely she struggled, she couldn't utter the final word.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"
A gentle breeze swept across the hillside. The Nine-Tailed Fox Demon's soul, which had been about to curse Luo Yi at the cost of her own life, scattered in the wind and vanished completely.
"Congratulations, host, on slaying the remnant soul of a Nine-Tailed Fox Demon at the Heavenly Human Realm. You have gained 1,000 Energy Points."
Looking at the prompt that appeared on the system Panel, Luo Yi curled his lip in silent exasperation. "What was that supposed to be? With strength like that, she still dared to come after me. She was practically asking to die!"
Despite his words, he quietly grew more vigilant than ever.
When one was at a critical juncture in breaking through to the next realm, the worst thing was interference from outside forces.
At best, the breakthrough would fail and leave one gravely injured, making further progress in the future all but impossible. At worst, one would die and have all one's efforts turn to ashes.
Fortunately, the one who had quietly followed him, waiting to sabotage him during his breakthrough, had been nothing but a fox's remnant soul.
He didn't dare imagine what might have happened if