The king was really angry now and roared loudly, "You brat, you are too arrogant! Just because you are a cultivator, you think I'm afraid of you? The chosen sect is nothing but a rubbish sect. Do you think I don't know that?"
Xiao Kai took a few steps forward and beckoned, "Come on, let's have a try."
The king screamed, and his huge body pounced forward. He had demon techniques but didn't like using spells, he always felt that his physical body was his strongest point, and in reality, his status as the top expert of the 18-hole alliance was based on his physical body.
His sharp claws were almost about to pierce Xiao Kai's chest, but suddenly everything flashed before his eyes, and that annoying kid vanished without a trace.
The king, with rich combat experience, though surprised, didn't panic. He immediately swung his arms backward, having a height of about three meters and each arm's length being more than one and a half meters. With this sweep, it was almost impossible for anything within a radius of two meters to dodge.
But this sweep also failed. When the king turned around, there was still nothing in front of him.
This time the king was a bit scared. He shouted and raised his claws. A hazy light emitted from his claws, which instantly swelled to twice their size, and then he swept downward. This time the speed was not only twice as fast as before, it was almost impossible to see clearly.
This was the king's famous move, the "King's Splitting Stone Hand", which was said to have the power to split rocks and mountains. Unfortunately, this time, the king missed. Xiao Kai seemed to have disappeared in the air. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't capture a glimpse of him.
Suddenly, the king realized that something was wrong. He found that his tiger demons, one by one, were looking at him with a very strange expression...it was a mix of worry, fear, and a little...compassion?
"Why are they looking at me with compassion?" The king was about to ponder this question when he felt a gust of wind near his ear and a voice laughing, "Are you going to attack or not?"
"Ah!" The king nervously shouted, swinging his arms frantically. His King's Splitting Stone Hand was close to reaching its peak, with immense power. The hall then shook and roared as the marble flooring soared up.
He trained his King's Splitting Stone Hand for almost ten minutes. The more he practiced, the more scared he became. He felt that Xiao Kai's presence was everywhere, and sometimes he could even feel his breath on his neck, and sometimes he even said a few words. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't grasp even a hint of Xiao Kai. These short ten minutes felt like a thousand years for him, and his horror intensified to the point of being uncontrollable.
In the eyes of others, Xiao Kai never disappeared. He seemed to be stuck to the king's back like a leaf, always maintaining an equal distance from the king, no more and no less. His body seemed like a weightless shadow, floating behind the king. This kind of body style, whether considered as a cultivation technique or a demonic technique, had reached a terrifying level.
The king roared and finally stopped, panting heavily. He didn't care whether he would be attacked, and slumped in his chair.
As soon as he sat down, he felt a cold wind on his neck, and a voice laughed, "Are you still not going to fight?"
"Ah!" The king nervously shouted, wildly waving his arms, and in an instant, all his courage and hot blood were washed away by a cold air. He slumped on the chair, and miserably said, "I admit defeat, I really surrender."
Xiao Kai's voice became severe, "Then let go of me!"
The king obeyed without resistance, and the invisible restrain was released.
With the restraints removed, Xiao Kai reappeared, still standing in the original position, motionless. Even his limbs maintained the appearance of being bound, but at this moment, the king dared not to even have a single crooked thought.
He didn't know that Xiao Kai's nervousness was far above his.
As soon as he was bound, Xiao Kai immediately realized that things were not good. Fortunately, he acted ingeniously and immediately intimidated the king with his words, then used an invisibility spell for the first time. Since his body had no energy, the king couldn't sense his presence at all.
In fact, Xiao Kai was extremely nervous, with a talisman in his hand. As soon as the king showed a sign of attack, he was going to use his talisman.
Xiaoyue and Xiaoxin rushed up, one left, and one right, tightly grabbed Xiao Kai's arms, and the excitement in their voices couldn't be hidden any longer: "Master, you're amazing!"
Xiao Kai laughed lightly, thinking to himself as he looked at everyone: "With the formidable strength of this person, perhaps he doesn't even care about these achievements." Little did they know, Xiao Kai had just calmed down his nervousness and now felt a bit emotionally drained.
Tianwang sighed and said, "If there's anything the sect master has to command, feel free to say it."
Xiao Kai nodded, "Okay," then he turned to Hu Yunyu and said, "You speak."
Hu Yunyu spoke very politely, given the Hu family's weak position, Tianwang was too powerful: "Tianwang, our fox clan is weak and does not dare to have too many expectations. This visit is out of necessity. We only hope that Tianwang, being of the same demon clan, can, out of great mercy, present the cold jade bed to us. This would allow our fox clan to continue, and we will forever remember your great kindness."
"The cold jade bed?" Tianwang gave a bitter smile, "There's no such thing as a cold jade bed; it was destroyed several days ago."
Hu Yunyu's face turned a bit pale, "But at dusk five days ago?"
Tianwang nodded, his eyes filled with confusion, "That day's incident was truly a once-in-a-lifetime for me."
After a long while of daze, Hu Yunyu's face turned even paler, almost devoid of color, muttering to himself, "It's over... It's over... Could it really be the end of the fox clan?"
Tianwang's face also turned somewhat pale, he said softly, "You only know that it's the end of the fox clan, but you don't know that my tiger clan's days are also bleak. If this goes on, before long, my tiger clan will also perish."
Even though Hu Yunyu was feeling low, he was still amazed, "Isn't the tiger clan the most powerful of the Eighteen Caves?"
Tianwang chuckled, but it was clearly self-mockery, "Powerful? What good is being powerful? The spiritual energy in this world is decreasing, and the places suitable for monsters to cultivate are also diminishing. Your fox clan has a yin constitution and can absorb spiritual energy through the cold jade bed. We, the tiger clan, are naturally hot-tempered, even though we have a cold jade bed, we can't use it at all. The only thing we can do is to collect treasures that are useful to us and seek suitable places for cultivation, but most of these treasures and lands belong to others, so we can only continue to rob and occupy, because if we don't, we simply cannot multiply."
This three-meter-tall man laughed a bit desolately, "Do you think we enjoy bullying the weak? We're just trying to survive."
Hu Yunyu was stunned for a long time, finally sighed softly. Suddenly, she felt that the Tianwang in front of her was not as terrifying as she had thought.
"But I also know that we can't go on like this," Tianwang's expression became resolute again. "The few spiritual veins and precious lands in the world have already been divided up by the sects. If we monsters want to survive, there's only one way, and that is to seize their land and plunder their treasures. So, I've long been determined to practice the last level of the Tianwang kai inscription, no matter what. Only then will I have a chance to fight those self-righteous righteous cultivators!"
After speaking, he suddenly remembered that today he was easily defeated by a righteous cultivator who was said to belong to the first garbage sect in history, and couldn't help but look at Xiao Kai with a desolate expression.
Xiao Kai took a deep breath, feeling a bit desolate as well. He had come with the intention of punishing the strong and evil. He never expected that the ferocious and fierce tiger clan leader would also have a helpless side.
Thinking about this, it seemed that his bullying of the weak and deceit for elixirs could be excused - after all, everyone had the right to survival.
"Let's go back," Xiao Kai said to Hu Yunyu, "since the cold jade bed has been destroyed, there's no point in staying here."
Hu Yunyu nodded, then sighed, "Whether or not to go back, it doesn't matter much."
The fox den had been completely destroyed by the snowstorm. Over the past few days, they had been living in a temporary underground residence, and from now on, with the cold jade bed gone, the fox clan's path to prosperity had been cut off. The only thing they could do was to cherish the remaining limited lifespan. The lifespan of monsters was not unlimited, and if they could not continually break through in their cultivation, they would eventually die.
Tianwang suddenly said, "If... you don't mind, you can stay here with me." He looked at a surprised Hu Yunyu and then smiled, "You can rest assured, I won't force you to do anything."
Hu Yunyu looked at his somewhat fierce tiger head for a while, then suddenly smiled, "Good, then I'll bother you."
These two demons had originally been at odds, but after this exchange, they seemed to feel a connection due to their similar suffering, and the psychological distance between them suddenly narrowed.
The matter came to a close at this point, although the issue of the demons' reproduction had not been resolved. However, Xiao Kai was not a national leader responsible for solving the people's food problems, so he took his leave. Hu Yunyu, along with the old and young women of the fox clan, escorted him to the roadside, bidding a reluctant farewell.
"Xiaoyue, Xiaoxin, in the future, take good care of the sect master. Remember to... and remember to... and also remember to..." Hu Yunyu gave all sorts of instructions to the two little girls for nearly half an hour, making Xiao Kai, who was standing several meters away, smile bitterly. He was also a new and idealistic youth of the 21st century and understood that it was neither a feudal society nor a slave society. He had no intention of having these two little girls, but sometimes circumstances were compelling. The relentless bombardment by the entire fox clan over three days and nights eventually led to his surrender. He couldn't understand why, in this day and age, there were still people who were willing to become servants of others, and after being accepted, they looked so happy. Was it perhaps because he had exchanged the life of Hu Xiaoyue for the elixir?
"Sigh, perhaps the way monsters think is different from that of humans," Xiao Kai glanced at the two pretty fox girls, Hu Xiaoyue and Hu Xiaoxin, who were standing not far away, feeling troubled. "How to handle living with two young women in the same room, what if Xiaozhu finds out..."
"Master, let's go," seeing Hu Yunyu leave, Xiaoxin immediately rushed over joyfully, tightly hugging Xiao Kai's arm, pressing her soft chest against Xiao Kai's arm without hesitation.
"Yes, I really want to visit the human world with the master," Xiaoyue also eagerly hugged Xiao Kai's other arm. Her chest may have been a bit smaller than Xiaoxin's, but it felt just as good. Hu Xiaoyue was actually a fox who had been cultivating for a thousand years, making her an "old fox", but she had always been focused on cultivating in the fox den and had never seen the world outside, and had hardly seen men, so in terms of mentality and habits, she was as innocent and naive as a teenage girl.
"We can't go back as a trio, that might be a problem," Xiao Kai frowned as he took out some crumpled banknotes from his pocket, "I don't have enough money."
"Tsk, what use are those things," the two girls smiled at each other, flanked Xiao Kai on both sides, then suddenly they soared into the sky. Xiao Kai's screams mingled with the laughter of the girls and the sound of the wind, and the three figures tightly joined together quickly disappeared into the distance.
S City, No. 8, Zhangyang Road.
With a "click", Xiao Kai opened the door and turned to beckon, "Come in, we're home."
"Yes, Master." The two little foxes hopped in joyfully. Suddenly, they exclaimed together, "Wow, who are you?"
"I haven't asked who you are!" A girl puffed out her cheeks and stood up from the sofa in the living room, her white clothes exuding a strong youthful aura, looking extremely innocent, probably due to just waking up, her eyes still a bit blurry as she wiped the corners of her eyes, then opened her mouth, letting out a big yawn.
Xiao Kai couldn't speak, his mouth agape.
But Hu Xiaoyue and Hu Xiaoxin reacted quickly, they ran over and made a bow, saying in unison, "Greetings, Mistress!"
Upon hearing this, Ning Qing was taken aback.
"When did you become my girlfriend?" Xiao Kai shook his head, trying to gather his thoughts. "We... haven't really had anything happen between us, right?"
"Of course something happened," Ning Qing's face suddenly turned red, her voice lowering, "That day, if it weren't for you saving me, I would have... I would have..."
"But that doesn't mean you have to be my girlfriend, right?" Xiao Kai tapped his forehead, "But you've already seen everything about me," Ning Qing said firmly, "Apart from marrying you, I have no other choice."
Xiao Kai chuckled, "Come on, Miss Ning, don't joke with me. It's not a feudal society anymore, you know."
"I don't care," Ning Qing pouted, sitting on the sofa, "Since you've seen everything about me, you have to take responsibility." She suddenly shed two tears, "I knew it, you don't like me at all, you like someone like them," she couldn't help but glance at the two little foxes standing respectfully in front of her.
Perhaps due to their fox lineage, the two little foxes were undoubtedly true beauties. Both were wearing short skirts, showing off their snow-white legs and curvaceous figures. The way they carried themselves was significantly different from Ning Qing's innocent demeanor.
"Madam, please don't misunderstand," Xiao Xin explained quickly, "We are just the master's servants, you don't need to bother about us."
"Master? Servants?" Ning Qing was stunned for a moment, then tears welled up in her eyes, "I understand now... sniff... Xiao Kai, you are such a jerk... You must be role-playing, these two... these two, they must be the call girls you found... sniff, I've been waiting for you for so long, and you're out fooling around, you owe me an apology!"
"Madam, this is your mistake," Xiao Yue said urgently, "Throughout history, having multiple wives and concubines is a common thing for men. Considering master's loyalty, he is already very devoted."
"You're talking nonsense!" Ning Qing immediately retorted, "Who said having multiple wives and concubines is common? It's the 21st century, it's all about gender equality, one man, one wife!"
"You can't just talk without thinking," Xiao Yue replied, "I understand human society, even Confucius believed in male superiority..."
"Oh my, you are quite the expert!" Ning Qing retorted, "Do you think this is a period drama? Let me tell you, it's the 21st century!"
Xiao Kai was at a loss for words, unable to respond to Ning Qing's accusations. While Xiao Yue's understanding was still from a thousand years ago, Ning Qing believed the two little foxes were call girls but he couldn't confess to their true identity. It seemed this confusion could only continue as it was.