Tidal Rise

Just like Elder Qu Yangzi from the neighboring Demon Sect, One Sword Fox's Dantian was also pierced by a sword and pinned to the wall. Her limbs were hooked by chains, firmly securing her to the ground.

The only special treatment she received was a pot of seemingly endless alcohol, which she exchanged for prison food, and it contained no Spiritual Power.

Elder Qu Yangzi from the neighboring Demon Sect looked forward every day to this woman escaping and taking him with her.

The miraculous thing about One Sword Fox was that her Golden Core was liquid, and her cultivation could fluctuate with it.

Her talent was so rare, so bizarre, and so unpredictable, that even the Transmigrator Xiao Bai would have to call her "Big Sister."

Back during the Sect-State War, simply by drinking a pot of fine wine, her Golden Core cultivation instantly surged to Golden Core Peak, and she didn't know how many powerful figures she randomly killed on the battlefield.

The reason she is still alive today is, firstly, because the Dao Alliance cherishes talent, and secondly...

Legend has it she has connections higher up.

This was the reason Qu Yangzi believed she could escape at any time.

In One Sword Fox's lower abdomen, the Spiritual Pressure distribution from the sword thrust was originally hooked inwards, firmly locking down her Dantian.

Suddenly!

Her Dantian turned into Core Fluid, fluctuating like water along with the sword thrust's Spiritual Pressure.

Like a rising tide, like a falling tide, a wave surged out of her lower abdomen, causing the sword itself to fly backward.

The Spiritual Pressure in the chains did the same, becoming a Tidal Fluctuation, and finally, as the tide fell, the sharp sword that had flown backward and then returned, severed them with a single strike.

Only then did One Sword Fox leisurely get up, stretch languidly, momentarily showcasing her proud figure before immediately hiding it again within her loose hemp robe.

She instinctively touched her waist, only to remember her Personal Sword had been pawned for three thousand Spirit Stones...

She had no choice but to pick up the sword that had been stuck in her Dantian for twenty years, hoping it would fetch a good price.

She reached across the air and took the wine pot hanging from the ceiling, tucking it into her waist.

Just as she was about to take a long-awaited big gulp, she found her disheveled hair getting in the way of drinking, so she tore a piece of hemp cloth from her sleeve and casually tied up her loose hair...

Revealing a breathtakingly beautiful, immortal-like face that was hard to conceal, even stained with straw and dirt.

Seeing One Sword Fox escape without even breaking the wall, the old man next door panicked and quickly said:

"For the sake of this old man chatting with you one hundred and eighty-three sentences over twenty years, please help me. This old man wants to go out and see if my granddaughter has married into a good family..."

Only one hundred and eighty-three sentences in twenty years?

One Sword Fox thought for a moment and said regretfully:

"Hmm, you old man are quite quiet, you haven't disturbed my sweet dreams all these years... Unfortunately, right now I need to ask the Dao Supervision Envoy for my salary for these twenty years. If I take you, a Demon Race member, with me to escape, it will be very difficult to get paid."

Before she even finished speaking, she was gone.

Clang—

Clang—

Clang—

Alarm bells echoed throughout the underground prison!

Along with the sound of urgent footsteps as Prison Officials and Jailers gathered on every floor...

And Qu Yangzi's sigh.

Just as he felt utterly despairing, the sword stuck in his Dantian was suddenly wrapped in black vines.

A slender woman in black silk, shrouded in mist, slowly appeared before Qu Yangzi.

"No need to sigh, Elder Qu's luck is still quite good."

Dao Supervision Palace, Fifth Floor, Internal Examination Room.

Xiao Bai was dumbfounded.

The miraculous divine pill he thought would allow him to escape had completely gone quiet after releasing its Alcohol Scent.

There were no special effects, no Illusion Technique strong enough to cover his escape... only the pervasive Alcohol Scent.

And it smelled ridiculously strong.

He hadn't expected it to really be just a placebo!

Seeing his Dantian about to be cut open, Xiao Bai couldn't keep up the act anymore.

He twisted his body and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Help me—"

The three Daoist Doctors were startled by this scene.

You know, that was an Anesthetic strong enough to make even a Golden Core cultivator fall unconscious!

Qi Shan's command came from inside the Internal Examination Room.

"This is too abnormal, hurry up and do it!"

At this moment, a strange Spiritual Pressure pressed down from below, so heavy that the three Daoist Doctors couldn't hold their knives...

"Why aren't you moving?"

Qi Shan urged.

The Daoist Doctors were also helpless. They thought the Sect Overseer had suddenly changed their mind and was stopping them.

But that wasn't it.

"Sect Overseer, I... I can't move."

They could only hear the short knives in their hands vibrating...

Just then!

CLANG—

CLANG—

CLANG—

The alarm bells echoed throughout the underground prison!

Xuan Shi instantly understood and shouted:

"Damn it, someone's escaping!"

The Spiritual Pressure that had been pressing down on the three Daoist Doctors from below suddenly receded like a tidal wave, scattering with a roar.

CRASH!

A wave surged outwards, shattering five walls of the Internal Examination Room!

The Internal Examination Room collapsed with a bang, taking the adjacent Surveillance Room with it...

A Nascent Soul stage Spiritual Pressure instantly enveloped the entire fifth floor.

Qi Shan drew his sword decisively.

He probably guessed who had escaped!

In the ruins of the Internal Examination Room, Xiao Bai, who was taking advantage of the chaos to put on his clothes, suddenly found his feet lift off the ground. He was grabbed by the collar by a woman and hoisted up.

"Who are you, kid? Where's Master?"

The woman's voice, like a sword cutting through jade, carried the thick, intoxicating scent of alcohol...

Xiao Bai turned his head in mid-air.

So dirty...

No, so beautiful!

Maybe 'beautiful' isn't quite the right word.

It was that rare kind of... heroic spirit.

Her clothes, her hair, her face, all looked as dirty as a beggar's, yet they exuded a faint, pleasant scent of alcohol.

As if she had been marinated in it.

She was very tall. Her loose, coarse cloth robe was missing parts of its front and sleeves, simply thrown over her slender frame with no tailoring or design to speak of.

However, she did have some assets in her figure. A large expanse of white was revealed at the neckline, and the deep, snowy ravine, reddened by alcohol, looked naturally outlined, sculpted by gods and devils.

It made Xiao Bai feel lightheaded.

Her face was still covered in dry grass and dirt. Her coarse, long hair was as messy as thatch, simply tied into a braid at the end with a piece of coarse cloth, done in a hurry.

Her eyelashes were very long, each one like a sword, yet they were tangled together, sticking out in all directions like chaotic swords.

Only the sword and the Yu Hu hanging at her waist were exquisite, not quite fitting her dishevelled appearance.

From any angle, this was an utterly unkempt, sloppy woman.

However, the woman possessed a face of immortal beauty that seemed to have stepped out of a painting.

Her sword-like eyebrows slanted upwards, and a casual glance from her starlit eyes instantly stole one's soul.

In her loose robe and graceful figure, the scent of alcohol mixed with Sword Qi, making her appear lazy and valiant.

In a word: transcendent.

Xiao Bai was stunned.

He forgot to count.

Snapping back to reality, he suddenly realized: The alcohol-filled chocolate Yu Hu gave him wasn't a placebo, but a "Wine Fragrance Fears No Alley Depth" -

Signal flare!

The person attracted by the strange alcohol scent was none other than the one imprisoned in the Eighteenth Floor Underground Prison of the Dao Supervision Palace—

One Sword Fox.

He had to admit, Yu Hu trusted this woman too much. If she had been even a moment slower, he would have had his Dantian castrated and had to scatter his Qi to cultivate again.

Xiao Bai had heard countless stories about how strong and how wicked this legendary woman, One Sword Fox, was over the years, his ears practically calloused.

But only after meeting her did Xiao Bai realize that this woman was impossibly beautiful...

He guessed the Modifier had probably detected this.

Calling me... kid?

Even though he was held like a chick caught by an eagle, Xiao Bai calmly straightened the clothes he had just put on and let out the strongest voice a Qi Refining Cultivator could muster.

"You should call me Martial Granduncle."