"Fine! Since I've agreed to give you the incense, shouldn't you tell me which side today's visitors came from?"
"You..." The little red fox's eyes darted about. She held up three fingers and said with a beaming smile, "Three sticks of incense."
Yu Chen shook his head. The little red fox deliberately puffed up her cheeks in anger and pulled back one finger. "Two sticks of incense."
Yu Chen said nothing, merely gazing at her calmly until she withdrew another finger and said meekly, "One stick of incense. No less."
"You don't need to put on that act. You already guessed it—I could only give you ten sticks at most, couldn't I?"
Yu Chen had no intention of playing along with Hu the Great Immortal Aunt's performance. Fox immortals were clever, but they were also the most cunning. He refused to believe that Hu the Great Immortal Aunt had failed to see through his thoughts.
A fox wore a thousand faces. In the game world of his previous life, countless players who had been drained by fox demons and fox immortals had taught those who believed fox maidens were easy to fool and hopelessly devoted a lesson through their own experiences: if you tried to play mind games with a fox, you would never know when they had sold you off.
If fox maidens, or the clans behind them, openly and secretly offered you prodigies and magical treasures alike, it could only mean that you possessed something they desperately desired. Or perhaps your fate, aura, and spirituality were exceptionally compatible with theirs, making them willing to abandon everything and follow you. Otherwise, the backing behind you was so powerful that they did not dare offend you and only wished to curry favor with you.
Yu Chen clearly had none of