"Eldest Senior Brother, your smile looks so sleazy!" Hu Tutu's voice rang out at the worst possible moment.
Only then did Ouyang remember the little tagalong he was carrying on his back. He coughed and said, "Tutu, you're still too young. Don't talk nonsense about things you don't understand."
"Oh..." Hu Tutu murmured, then looked toward the forbidden grounds of the Azure Cloud Holy Land in the distance.
The Azure Cloud Sect truly deserved its place among the nine great holy lands. Its mountains and rivers looked like an immortal paradise.
Mountain after mountain rose in an unbroken sweep of rolling peaks. The winding, treacherous wooden walkways circling their slopes were like ribbons wrapped around green waters and verdant mountains, forming a uniquely beautiful sight; deep within the secluded gorges, mysterious mountain mists rose and swirled.
Those wondrous veils of gauze delicately and gracefully painted a landscape scroll.
It was hard to tell whether people walked through the scenery or the scenery flowed along with them.
"It's so beautiful!" Hu Tutu sighed softly. This place was even prettier than Green Mound Mountain.
Thinking of Green Mound Mountain reminded Hu Tutu of the reason her grandfather had told her to come here.
Hidden among the Azure Cloud Sect's mountains was a priceless treasure belonging to the fox clan: an extraordinary genius of their clan, an eight-tailed Spirit Fox, who lived in seclusion deep in the mountains.
The first peerless genius from Green Mound Mountain to cultivate eight tails in ten thousand years was now cultivating in seclusion on one of these mountains!
Her purpose in coming here was to find this senior and ask him how to fully awaken the power of her bloodline!
But this senior had sworn to remain irreconcilable enemies with Green Mound Mountain for the rest of his life and had changed his appearance. It was only a little over a decade ago, when he broke through the seven-tailed Spirit Fox realm and triggered extraordinary phenomena in heaven and earth-
That the entire cultivation world learned that a mighty Demon Race cultivator actually lived within the Azure Cloud Sect!
Even the Azure Cloud Sect itself had no idea where this mighty Demon Race cultivator was staying within its grounds. In any case, he was their own Attendant. As long as he was strong and came out to help when something happened, who cared whether he was human or demon?
Hu Tutu had come precisely to ask this mighty fox cultivator how to awaken her own bloodline!
Although she possessed the bloodline of the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, many foxes throughout the clan's history had possessed it too, yet had never advanced beyond seven tails in their entire lives.
This mighty eight-tailed Spirit Fox did not even possess the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox bloodline. Through his own efforts alone, he had cultivated to the eight-tailed realm, making him comparable to a Tribulation Transcendence expert.
When the old grandpas on Green Mound Mountain learned of this, they regretted it so bitterly that they slapped themselves across the face at night.
The fox clan had been weak for a long time. Yet because their men were handsome and their women beautiful, they were constantly captured to aid others in cultivation, and were often bullied by both the Demon Race and humanity.
They had finally produced an expert comparable to someone at Tribulation Transcendence, only to end up making him an irreconcilable enemy of Green Mound Mountain.
We've truly let down all our ancestors!
Those elder grandpas on Green Mound Mountain had all grown considerably thinner over those few days.
Hu Tutu had come to the Azure Cloud Sect this time to find that mighty eight-tailed Spirit Fox. Whatever price she had to pay, she had to obtain his cultivation method!
This was not merely for herself, but so the entire fox clan could become truly powerful!
I, Tutu, have to do my best! Hu Tutu cheered herself on inwardly.
Lying in the bamboo basket, Hu Tutu thought for a moment, then mustered her courage and asked, "Eldest Senior Brother, since you often walk around the forbidden grounds, have you ever seen an exceptionally handsome mighty cultivator?"
After all, fox cultivators were often exceptionally beautiful, the sort whose faces were impossible to forget. If her eldest senior brother had encountered him, surely he would remember?
"An exceptionally handsome mighty cultivator?" Ouyang paused in surprise, thought back, then shook his head. "No. I really haven't met anyone more handsome than Bajie and Xiao Bai. Besides, everyone in there is an old geezer who's been alive for who knows how long. What handsome people could there possibly be?"
Ouyang suddenly stopped mid-sentence. He felt there was something wrong with his little junior sister's way of thinking. She was always serving up different dishes depending on the face before her. That would never do.
One day, someone would trick her into giving up her body, and she would still help him count the money!
This sort of education had to start early.
"Tutu, there's nothing wrong with liking beautiful things, but blindly pursuing beauty is a sickness. Do you understand?" Ouyang said earnestly.
"?" Caught off guard by the sudden lecture, Hu Tutu froze, unable to follow.
Ouyang continued, "Some people are all golden brocade on the outside and rotten stuffing within. Nice to look at, but useless. Your second senior brother is handsome, right? He was still wetting the bed at ten!"
"Second Senior Brother still wet the bed at ten? I, Tutu, stopped wetting the bed when I was four!" Hu Tutu exclaimed in surprise.
Who would have thought Leng Qingsong, with that icy face that warned strangers to stay away, was still wetting the bed at ten? I, Tutu, have finally won a round!
"Exactly, exactly! That Xiao Bai is handsome too, right? He used to burst into tears every day over the slightest thing!" Caught up in the moment, Ouyang began spouting nonsense.
"Tutu hasn't cried in ages!" Hu Tutu grew happier the more she spoke. Senior Brother Bai, who was so upright and gentle, actually used to cry over every little thing!
What's this? Compared with them, I, Tutu, seem pretty outstanding!
Her childish competitive streak swept away all the blows Hu Tutu had suffered earlier, and she urged her eldest senior brother to tell her more dirt on her other two senior brothers.
Ouyang's mischievous streak had taken over too. On the one hand, he wanted to build Hu Tutu's confidence; on the other, he was maliciously smearing those two unfilial brats.
There were stories about them not knowing how to wipe after using the toilet and running around the courtyard with their bare bottoms hanging out.
There were stories about them crying and screaming for their master because scrubbing the grime off during baths hurt too much.
There were stories about them competing to see who could pee farther, only to face each other and piss all over one another.
The walkways throughout the valley filled with Hu Tutu's giggles, like the clucking of a little hen.
Meanwhile, back on Little Mountain Peak, Leng Qingsong sneezed hard several times while repairing the roof. Bai Feiyu, standing in a tree, suddenly felt his legs give way and nearly fell out of it.
Both looked at the other at the same time, struck by the same thought: Is this brat cursing me in his head because he couldn't beat me?
Childish!
Both let out a cold snort at once.
"Hmph!"
"Hmph!"
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