They could clearly determine that the disturbance had originated here, yet they could no longer sense the slightest trace of the aura a Numinous Treasure should possess, as though everything just now had been an illusion.
Just as everyone exchanged bewildered looks, and someone lost patience and proposed tearing down the thatched shed and digging three feet into the ground to find the Numinous Treasure, another strange disturbance suddenly erupted out of nowhere, stronger and clearer than before!
This time, its source pointed unmistakably to the ground in the center of the shed.
Once the disturbance subsided, everyone looked closely at the ground again. At some unknown moment, a silver fox statue about three inches tall had abruptly appeared there!
The statue was cast entirely from silver, its craftsmanship exquisite. The fox looked so lifelike that it seemed ready to come alive at any moment.
Immediately, an impatient Monkey Demon opened its mouth and blew out a gust of yellow wind, trying to sweep up the fox statue and claim it.
But the moment the yellow wind struck the fox statue, it vanished without a trace, like a clay ox sinking into the sea, failing to budge the statue in the slightest.
Since spells did not work, someone decided to try taking it by hand.
A Snow Ferret Jing with five hundred years of cultivation darted out of the crowd like a streak of white light, moving as fast as lightning as it pounced straight at the fox statue on the ground.
Snow ferrets were naturally swift. In the old forests, they could dart past several trees in the blink of an eye.
With five hundred years of cultivation driving it, this snow ferret moved so fast that its silhouette was almost impossible to make out.
Yet just as it