Chapter 122: Nan Yuanman Wants To Kill Me
Nan Yuanman’s hair on top of her head stood on end, and she instinctively felt that this golden chain was not something good. She gripped the copper coin sword in her hand tightly and slashed fiercely at the golden chain.
Faint golden light appeared on the blade of the copper coin sword, and when it collided with the golden chain, the originally extremely tough golden chain emitted a crisp cracking sound.
The chains binding the Fox Goddess’s tail and limbs broke with the sound, and as if they had life, they quickly burrowed back into the plaque of the Village Ancestral Hall.
Nan Yuanman held the copper coin sword and poked at it fiercely again and again, but the plaque was like an exceptionally hard meteorite. She poked at it for a long time but couldn’t crack it.
The Fox Goddess lay miserably on the ground, staring blankly at her dissipating hands, letting out low laughter from her throat. The laughter grew louder and louder, filled with endless sarcasm: “Hehehe… hahahaha!! So that’s how it is! So that’s how it is!”
So all their elaborate schemes were aimed at the Wish Power on Her body!
Indeed, a god’s Wish Power, if one could absorb even a trace of it, could greatly increase the cultivation of these greedy humans, saving them over a decade of cultivation!
The villagers of Hundred Fox Village were merely pawns being used!
The Fox Goddess’s body gradually shrank, transforming from the form of a fox into a human shape. Her eyes flashed with ruthlessness, but…
Were her, the Fox Goddess’s, things so easy to take?!
She suddenly raised her hand and thrust it forcefully into her own chest, pulling out a heart glowing with colorful light from inside.
The Fox Goddess’s small face was pale as she looked at the shocked Nan Yuanman: “Hey, child, for the sake of finding you somewhat pleasing to the eye, I’ll give you a gift.”
She flung the heart toward Nan Yuanman. The heart shrank in mid-air and quickly flew toward Nan Yuanman’s brow center.
The plaque beneath the Fox Goddess seemed to smell the aura of Wish Power and shook violently. Countless golden chains burst out like dogs smelling meat, rushing straight toward that Colored Glazed Heart.
The Fox Goddess snorted coldly and shattered the chains with her remaining Malevolent Qi.
The Colored Glazed Heart quickly merged into Nan Yuanman’s brow center.
Nan Yuanman raised her small chubby hand and covered her head in complete shock.
The Fox Goddess laughed freely: “Hahahaha! All your efforts for nothing! A century of scheming comes to naught! Child, take care and grow up safely!”
As her words fell, her body went bang and turned into stardust, dissipating.
At the moment the Fox Goddess dissipated, countless fox souls wobbled into appearance in this space.
The Ghost Gate slowly opened.
The foxes knelt distantly toward Nan Yuanman’s direction before lining up to enter the Ghost Gate.
Once the foxes’ souls had completely entered the Ghost Gate and it closed, a dull, unusually rough fox stone statue rolled to her feet.
Nan Yuanman blinked her eyes, picked up the fox stone statue, wiped it with her clothes, and carefully put it into her small shoulder bag.
She also stuffed the Village Ancestral Hall’s plaque into Xiao Hong’s body. Only then did the surrounding dark space gradually fade, revealing the dilapidated Village Ancestral Hall covered in spider silk.
Nan Yuanman didn’t even glance at the Village Ancestral Hall, turned around, and ran out wailing: “Grandpa! Grandpa! Something’s wrong! A heart went into my brain! I’m gonna die!”
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At that moment, the Hundred Fox Village Village Chief, who had been pierced by Old Master Nan and had his heart crushed, no longer looked human on the outside. He looked more like a product generated from combining a fox and a human.
He stared blankly at the azure sky, with countless memories flashing through his mind. He remembered that at the beginning, he hadn’t been so greedy.
It was just that the enemy invaders were too powerful. News would occasionally come from outside of some village or another being invaded and massacred by the enemy invaders. He was too afraid; he was really too afraid of dying.
That was why, when that old Daoist Priest passed by his doorstep and begged for alms, he couldn’t help but beg him for a way to survive.
Thinking back now, that Daoist Priest didn’t seem like a local one at all. After all, which local Daoist Priest was covered in runes?
He had been truly desperate at the time and believed his words, actually making a move against the foxes that had protected them for nearly a century.
The foxes’ hateful gazes and their pained appearances when their hearts were taken—he still remembered them clearly to this day. But it was as if his eyes were covered by a ghost; his heart and eyes were filled only with the desire to live, to achieve longevity.
After truly following the method given by that Daoist Priest and eating the Fox Hearts, he could indeed feel he was different. His eyesight was better, his strength greater, and his hearing and sense of smell more acute.
But good times didn’t last. The Fox Goddess turned into Malevolent Qi and began her Revenge on the villagers. One after another, the villagers died suddenly for no apparent reason.
Afraid of death, he sought out that Daoist Priest again.
He still remembered to this day how that Daoist Priest looked at him with a half-smile and said, “I have a way to help you escape the immortal’s pursuit, but can you pay the price I demand?”
What had he said back then? Something like, he could pay that price.
So…
He cooperated with the Daoist Priest and killed all the villagers of Hundred Fox Village who hadn’t escaped in time, hadn’t died, and hadn’t joined him in his crimes.
Over a thousand people, all killed.
The Daoist Priest refined part of the villagers’ souls and took away their bones, suppressing the Malevolent Qi-transformed Fox Goddess. Of the entire village, only he survived.
Later, he took in people who fled to this place due to the chaos of war and rebuilt Hundred Fox Village, living steadily for over a century.
He had originally thought he could continue living so steadily forever.
But time passed too long, the seal loosened, and the Fox Goddess escaped.
Anomalies also appeared on his body. His fair skin became aged, and fox fur gradually grew on his face, as if he could no longer maintain human form like a fox demon.
He feared that the Fox Goddess would find him and kill him.
The longer he lived, the more he feared death.
So… he decided to strike first, making the worst decision of his life.
He found out who had taken away the Fox Goddess and used special means to check Meng Xi’s itinerary. He recommended Hundred Fox Village to the Program Group, luring Meng Xi here.
He had originally thought resolving the Fox Goddess again would be easy, but who knew… it would attract a monstrous freak carrying a Purple Zombie.
The Hundred Fox Village Village Chief suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood, filled with resentment and unwillingness in his heart. He glared viciously at Old Master Nan, who had taken out his heart: “If I had another chance… I… would absolutely not…”
“Pfft!”
The Hundred Fox Village Village Chief’s head tilted, and he completely stopped breathing.
His soul had just appeared,
Old Master Nan stared at the pitch-black heart in his hand, swallowed his saliva, a hint of greed flashing in his purple eyes. Just as he was about to secretly stuff the heart into his mouth, Nan Yuanman’s wailing voice came from behind: “Grandpa, I’m gonna die! I’m gonna die!”
Old Master Nan’s body stiffened. He instinctively hid the heart behind his back, turned his head to look at the lively Nan Yuanman, sniffed hard, and tilted his head at her in confusion.
Her life force was strong, no smell of blood, no injuries—why was she going to die?
Nan Yuanman pointed tearfully at her head: “Just now, a really big heart went into my brain. Am I gonna die?”
Old Master Nan: “!!!”
He quickly pulled Nan Yuanman over and gave her an exceptionally thorough check.
At the same time, Feng Langqing arrived at Grandpa Hu’s house. He was about to knock when he noticed the wooden door was ajar, so he pushed it open while greeting: “Grandpa Hu, sorry to bother you. Did Yuanman come looking for you just now?”
The small courtyard inside the door was empty.
Feng Langqing called out several more times with no response. He scratched his head: “Is no one home? Did Yuanman go to ask other villagers about the Village Ancestral Hall?”
Feng Langqing didn’t linger, turned to leave, and was planning to go to the village to find Nan Yuanman when a Program Group staff member ran over hurriedly: “Qing Bro! Something happened at the riverside!”
“Jiang Xinxin says Yuanman is trying to kill her!”
