What Lou Yunxiao said now inexplicably overlapped with what he had said in Northern Tour City ten thousand years later.
Ning Ke stared blankly at the tall, graceful man.
Something stirred in his heart.
It made him grit his teeth and leap out of Jiu Yuan's arms.
He ran up to Lou Yunxiao, turned around, and yipped at Jiu Yuan.
Anyone could see that he was standing up for Lou Yunxiao.
"You little brat. Now that you've got this boy, you've forgotten all about your big brother. Always siding with outsiders." Jiu Yuan could no longer keep a straight face. He rose with a laugh, walked over to Lou Yunxiao, and tapped the man's shoulder with his Tobacco Pipe. "Come with me."
Then he glanced at Ning Ke. "You too."
Ning Ke bared his teeth at him.
Then he turned back and rubbed against Lou Yunxiao's leg, asking to be picked up.
The difference in treatment could not have been clearer.
Jiu Yuan rolled his eyes. He truly could not understand why that old man Heaven's Way had chosen such a foolish fox, one who loved clinging to men's trouser legs, as the next Nine-Tailed Fox!
And they weren't even his trouser legs!
Lou Yunxiao picked Ning Ke up, and Ning Ke nuzzled his face, earning a smile.
"I promised I wouldn't leave you behind." He gently pinched Ning Ke's cheek. "And I won't break my word."
Jiu Yuan raised a hand, and the hall doors swung open. A You, A Li, and a crowd of eavesdropping foxes all tumbled to the floor, landing in a heap amid cries of pain.
"..."
Jiu Yuan coughed, and the foxes scrambled up and scattered.
Jiu Yuan sighed helplessly.
Sure enough, from oldest to youngest, not one of their foxes could break the