"A fox?"
Ji Hehe was momentarily bewildered, but after briefly searching with his Primordial Spirit, he immediately caught on.
"The fox you brought back from Wuling?"
Cheng Xinzhan nodded with a smile.
"That fox belongs to the Yunmeng lineage of the Nine-Tailed Clan. Her ancestors received kindness from Master Xu Jing, forging a connection with Dragon-Tiger Mountain, and their descendants have served the Celestial Master Residence ever since. When I went to the Celestial Master Residence to view the seal, I saw a fox cultivator named Hu Baoxiang guarding the place where the Ancestral Celestial Master's seal and sword were kept. The present Little Celestial Master treated him with considerable respect, so his standing within the residence was presumably far from ordinary. His demonic cultivation was only a hair short of the Fourth Realm. Whether he has entered it now, I do not know. The little fox I brought back is named Hu Baozhuang, Hu Baoxiang's grandniece. She formed her inner core not long ago and is still at the lower three washes of cultivation. Because of her identity, however, Dragon-Tiger Mountain trusted this demon considerably and even taught her Daoist Arts. Later, they sent her to Western Hunan in Wuling to support Soul-Losing Ravine in rising again under a new name, gathering wandering souls and handing them over to Dragon-Tiger Mountain to refine evil pills. I caught her red-handed.
"Supporting the Demon Sect and refining evil pills from Human Souls-exposing those two matters alone would be enough to drag the reputation of Dragon-Tiger Mountain, the leader of the Daoist Ancestral Sect, through the mud." "Dragon-Tiger Mountain really has made more than its share of blunders."
Ji Hehe shook his head with a sigh, then asked,
"Will the fox carry enough weight as a witness? Is there any other conclusive