Song Wen shook his head and did not take the Hidden Soul Jade Zhou Siyi offered him.
"This item is no longer of any use to me."
Song Wen slapped the spirit beast pouch at his waist, and the Nether Fox suddenly appeared.
"Master, you finally let me out. Your spirit beast pouch is far too small—it's suffocating being cooped up inside."
The Nether Fox's voice rang in both Song Wen's and Zhou Siyi's minds at once.
Zhou Siyi looked at the Nether Fox and asked, "Junior Brother Wu, is this your spirit beast?"
Song Wen nodded. "This is a Nether Fox. Hidden Soul Jade is made from the brow bone of a third-rank Nether Fox."
"Could it be that you intend to kill it and take its brow bone?" Zhou Siyi asked in astonishment.
At those words, the Nether Fox's fur instantly stood on end, every hair bristling like a gigantic hedgehog.
It bared its fangs at Song Wen.
"Human, you promised me that as long as I served at your command for a hundred years, you would not kill me."
In its fury, the Nether Fox no longer called Song Wen Master, instead calling him human.
Song Wen glanced at the bristling Nether Fox and ignored it, speaking instead to Zhou Siyi.
"There's no need to kill it. Signing a spirit beast contract with it and keeping it in a spirit beast pouch can likewise conceal my soul fluctuations."
Song Wen had only discovered this after subduing the Nether Fox.
Otherwise, he would already have killed the fox and taken its bone.
As for the promise between him and the Nether Fox, it was merely a promise, not a soul oath.
"Is what you say true?"
Zhou Siyi seemed somewhat worried, as though afraid that Song Wen was