When Su Wanwan met those eyes, every hair on her back stood on end.
Not because she was afraid.
It was instinct.
Among Fox Demons—especially Fox Demons whose cultivation differed vastly—meeting another's gaze was itself a kind of probing. A single look from the other party could turn over seventy or eighty percent of your foundations.
Su Wanwan instinctively wanted to look away, but her body refused to obey. She just stared straight into those pale eyes.
Only two or three breaths seemed to pass before the Green-Shirt Woman suddenly withdrew her gaze, as if she had finished looking and had no further interest.
"Not even at six tails," she said flatly. "Your foundation is unstable too. No one from the Human Sect properly taught you when you took form, did they? The aura around the tips of your ears and your tailbone is scattered. When you usually hide yourself with your aura, don't you always have to split off half your attention to suppress your tailbone?"
Su Wanwan's heart gave a violent jump.
Every word the other woman said was right.
Whenever she concealed her aura, the part that cost her the most effort was indeed her tailbone. Things other Fox Demons were born knowing, she had to feel out bit by bit on her own, and the methods she figured out were never smooth enough. There was always the slightest bit of awkwardness when she used them. She had always thought only she knew that, never expecting this woman to see through her completely with just a few glances.
"...Yes," Su Wanwan said softly.
The Green-Shirt Woman had no reaction to that "yes." Even her expression did not change. She merely shifted her gaze slowly away from Su Wanwan and let it fall behind her.
Onto Chu Yang.