The Fox Demon and the Elephant Demon

After the auction ended, Yan Chihuo instead wandered idly through the city, drawing sidelong glances from many demons. Yesterday, that Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox had made fierce threats. Anyone with a bit more sense would have left before the auction even ended. Even if they had designs on the Blood Jade Coral, they should have departed swiftly once the auction was over, lest the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox intercept and kill them halfway. That was the proper course.

Yan Chihuo browsed the shops of Hundred Spirits City for several hours. Finding nothing worth acquiring, he finally strolled leisurely out of the city.

He did this precisely to avoid that Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox girl. He did not believe that the girl was the only one lying in wait for him. As one of the four great Demon Races of the Myriad Demon Grassland, the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox Clan held considerable power, and this girl's status within the clan was clearly not low. Someone must certainly have been protecting her in secret.

Those hidden protectors definitely had not come to attend an auction for Origin Core Stage and Dao Integration Stage cultivators. Therefore, the girl had most likely secretly informed them and arranged an ambush outside the city, lest he escape.

Thus, Yan Chihuo openly made a circuit through the city. The demons lying in ambush likely could not figure out what he was planning and would instead grow suspicious, wondering whether demons were secretly protecting him as well. That would make him relatively safe when he first left the city.

Just as Yan Chihuo had expected, the Nine-Tailed Spirit Fox girl had stationed an Origin Core Stage fox demon outside the city. But Yan Chihuo's leisurely wandering around the city left both the girl and the Origin Core Stage fox demon uncertain and