Master of Ten Thousand Foxes

Upon hearing her roommate’s words, she curled her lips in disdain.

Next to her, Li Xiaofang was stretching the facial mask on her face under the nightlight.

Hearing her roommate’s words, she secretly rolled her eyes.

On the empty bed, Pang Youyou and White Claw found it quite normal.

Everyone likes the Master, isn’t that normal?

Of course, there’s nothing strange about that.

Huang Sitong finished her homework, yawned, and went to the bathroom.

Beside her, Li Xiaofang secretly stood up and wandered around the dorm.

Hearing the sound of brushing teeth in the bathroom, and confirming that her roommates were either watching dramas or chatting, not paying attention, Li Xiaofang moved swiftly. She reached for Huang Sitong’s desk, unscrewed Sitong’s cosmetics, flicked her fingernail, and dropped the strange green powder from under her nail into it!

Before Huang Sitong finished brushing her teeth, and before her roommates noticed, she screwed the cap back on the cosmetics and placed it where it was.

Having done all this, she wandered over to stand behind her drama-watching roommates.

"What’s the drama? Is it good, babe?"

"Oh, it’s Frenzy! It’s great, come join us!"

A few girls chattered away, while Pang Youyou and White Claw, up on the top bunk, furrowed their brows, their fox faces serious.

What’s going on?

What did that girl just do?

Poisoning?

The powder flicked from Li Xiaofang’s nails was something the foxes recognized.

It was an herb of Sequence Nine, known as Corrupt Ball Algae. Fox Mountain used it a couple of years ago, but it has since been abandoned. It is highly parasitic and poisonous!

So... is Li Xiaofang a cultivator?

A cultivator on the alchemy path?

Pang Youyou and White Claw exchanged a glance, prepared to report this to the Master.

Then they heard the Master’s voice in their ears.

"Don’t be nervous.

"Adding Corrupt Ball Algae to cosmetics isn’t lethal.

"Just keep monitoring."

The two foxes were puzzled.

Not lethal?

Then why add this stuff to cosmetics?

...

In the Bronze Hall, Bai Mo sat behind the desk, tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"... Adding this Corrupt Ball Algae to cosmetics isn’t lethal.

"But it can ruin Huang Sitong’s face..."

It seems that Huang Sitong’s roommate isn’t a good person either.

...

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.

The planting and excavating on Fox Mountain were proceeding smoothly.

The disciples sent by Fox Mountain to keep watch had changed shifts, and it was again White Claw and Pang Youyou’s turn.

Once again at night, in the dark dormitory, on the empty top bunk, Pang Youyou was examining her crossbody Electric Drill Cactus.

"Ow..."

The Master had upgraded the cactus again!

After consuming the Regenerative New Sprouts, the Master had a new understanding of regenerative powers and upgraded the Electric Drill Cactus, enhancing its recovery capabilities.

Pang Youyou looked at the round cactus, her curiosity piqued... If this thing unleashed its full power, how destructive could it be?

In the dormitory, all six girls were already asleep.

Two were snoring, one was grinding her teeth, and another was occasionally farting.

Pang Youyou and White Claw, wearing the Invisibility Cloak, squeezed together, occasionally passing an Ice Grape from underneath the cloak, savoring it.

...

Under the dark clouds, the wind howled.

On a broken square, the Flowerpot Ancient Immortal and Huang Sitong sat cross-legged on cushions, sitting before the Alchemy Furnace, preparing to refine "Recycling".

Various herbs were already prepared, placed next to the Alchemy Furnace.

Huang Sitong had also memorized the refining process.

"Master, shall I start..."

The Flowerpot Ancient Immortal suddenly interrupted.

"Isn’t that Li Xiaofang from your dorm adding stuff to your cosmetics again?

"That girl, really lacking in character!

"Let me help you think of a way to teach her a lesson?"

Huang Sitong chuckled, holding the Master’s hand.

"No need!

"After all, I’m Sequence Eight, she’s Sequence Nine.

"She doesn’t even know that I also cultivate.

"Her stuff can’t affect me at all."

The Flowerpot Ancient Immortal, this old lady, snorted coldly.

"That’s not right!

"What gives her the right to mess with people?

"She must be taught a lesson!"

Huang Sitong chuckled again, clearly not caring much.

Her roommate was willing to mess with her face, what did that mean?

It meant the roommate recognized her face, it meant the roommate felt threatened by her, it meant the roommate agreed she was a beauty!

This recognition was reason enough for Huang Sitong not to seek revenge.

Besides, Immortal Techniques are all Slaughter Techniques, a casual move would be a heavy one.

By then, even the lightest move could ruin Li Xiaofang’s face?

Wouldn’t that destroy her life?

The Flowerpot Ancient Immortal sighed and pointed at Huang Sitong.

"You, you, you’re one hell of a weirdo!

"You’re also a saint!

"Hurry up and start Alchemy!"

...

In the dormitory, Pang Youyou and White Claw, having finished the Ice Grapes, began eating Golden Plums.

These were plums, a specialty of Fox Mountain, seedless, with thin skin and large filling, all flesh!

A plum popped into the mouth, gently chewed, filling the mouth with a sweet and sour fruity aroma.

While eating, the two foxes tilted their heads back, eyes squinting, faces full of happiness.

They wanted to cheer, to shout!

But their mouths were still full of sweet and sour juice, and they were on a stakeout, not suitable to make a sound.

...

Just like that, a night in the present world and a day in the dream flew by.

In the dream, it was already dusk.

The clouds above seemed darker, denser, and more ominous.

Beside the Alchemy Furnace, Huang Sitong and the Flowerpot Ancient Immortal, guarding a small bowl of steaming decoction, sat cross-legged on the ground.

Several Talismans and Turtle Shell Fragments had also been added in and stewed.

Huang Sitong was exhausted, hunched over, wiping the sweat from her forehead, her voice weak.

"This decoction looks so strange."

The decoction in the bowl was actually layered!

The top layer was a clear soup, and the bottom was a thick silver paste, its texture like mercury. The surface of this paste was extremely smooth. If you brought your face close to the bowl, you could even use the silver paste as a mirror.

The Flowerpot Ancient Immortal remarked.

"In our Yaochi Holy Land, there are a variety of decoctions.

"No matter how bizarre, we have them.

"You’ll see them gradually in the future."

Today the disciple was making this decoction, and she was also exhausted.

In this dream, there weren’t enough hands for Alchemy, so she used her Divine Sense to assist, acting as a helper, fetching ingredients, adding them, stirring, seasoning... after a whole day, her Divine Sense was half depleted, and sweat lightly covered her forehead.

Huang Sitong grinned.

"I hope that Harlan Zhongli has strong enough medicinal effects to help me advance to Sequence Seven.

"That way, it won’t waste our master-disciple effort!"

Huang Sitong was about to speak again when she suddenly sensed the atmosphere was off.

She looked up at her master, only to see her master with a strange expression.

"Master, what’s wrong?"

The Flowerpot Ancient Immortal hesitated for a while, choosing her words carefully.

"Sitong... actually, even if you find the Harlan Zhongli, you won’t be able to eat it..."

Can’t eat it?

What does that mean?

Isn’t she Huang Sitong, the sole heir of Yaochi Holy Land?

"...Our Yaochi Holy Land bears the heavy responsibility of passing on Immortal Grass.

"Millions of years ago, we planted the Immortal Grass, allowing it to spread in this world.

"Today, millions of years later, we venture with tokens, searching, wandering, traversing these millennia-old Immortal Grasses.

"All these efforts are not for us to consume the Immortal Grasses.

"It’s to defeat the Fallen Immortals, avert catastrophes, and save civilization and the Human Race.

"Our mission is to reclaim the millennium-old Immortal Grasses, then offer them to..."

Huang Sitong’s expression was odd.

A bit disappointed, yet somewhat relieved.

"Offer them to whom?"

The Ancient Immortal Master looked solemn.

"Offer them to the Celestial Palace Inheritor!"

...

At four thirty in the morning, it was the darkest before dawn.

Huang Sitong opened her eyes in bed.

She first dressed, then carefully crawled out of her bed curtains, climbing out of bed.

No time to lose, the decoction was ready, so she had to retrieve the Harlan Zhongli immediately!

"There are likely many people watching Song Xiangshuai?

"But they absolutely won’t understand what the Immortal Grass retrieval is about.

"Let them watch, let them observe until the end of time.

"But this morning, I’ll already have taken the Immortal Grass."

She put on her sneakers and quietly walked to the dorm door, cautiously opening it without making a sound, careful not to wake her roommates, and stepped out.

She just didn’t notice the two chubby foxes, wearing the Invisibility Cloak, also followed her, squeezing through the door crack and heading into the corridor.