Chapter 1235: Nine-tailed Celestial Fox

Tu Shan Yu, as the ruler of a nation, managed to evade his lecherous hand at the crucial moment. Simultaneously, a small curved dagger suddenly appeared from her sleeve, which she used to attack him.

Chi Wen easily dodged, then deliberately took a deep breath. "Such a fragrance! A beauty truly is a beauty."

At this, Yan Xuehen frowned and said, "This guy is really annoying."

"He is quite shameless indeed." A hint of coldness also appeared on Yun Jianyue's face.

Yu Yanluo nodded in strong agreement. As women themselves, Chi Wen's teasing of Tu Shan Yu clearly offended them as well.

A worried expression involuntarily crept onto Zu An's face. Chi Wen was already a Grandmaster. Although he seemed to have only recently broken through, he was a Grandmaster nonetheless.

Tu Shan Yu, on the other hand, was merely an eighth or ninth-rank cultivator. Moreover, the Fox Clan was not known for its combat prowess. She definitely couldn't win this fight on her own.

Fortunately, at this moment, a series of sharp shouts rang out as the Qingqiu Royal Palace Guards arrived, immediately joining the battle to assist Tu Shan Yu.

Among them were a few older individuals, likely Fox Clan elders.

With their assistance, Tu Shan Yu finally managed to stabilize herself.

Standing in the center, she directed her companions to set up a formation, and the two sides fought to a relatively even standstill.

"Strange. Tu Shan Yu's leg movements and dodges were clumsy several times. Does she have an injury on her leg?" As a Great Grandmaster, Yan Xuehen's eyesight was exceptional. Although it wasn't obvious, she immediately spotted several flaws in Tu Shan Yu's movements.

If it were her fighting, these flaws would have been fatal.

Zu An's old face flushed. To speak of it, he was the culprit. Last night, because of the Fox Spirit's widespread reputation, he had assumed Tu Shan Yu was a mature woman like Empress Liu Ning, and showed no tenderness. After a night of intense passion, the fact that she could still fight now was a testament to her exceptional physical resilience.

"Not just that, I've been waiting for her to use her enchanting arts. Legend has it that Qingqiu's enchanting arts are incredibly powerful. Even if her cultivation isn't as high as Chi Wen's, she could greatly reduce his desire to attack by using them. His speed and strength would also be affected. In a battle between masters, the difference is often marginal, and these effects could create many opportunities. Why isn't she using them?"

Yun Jianyue also offered her assessment. As a master of enchanting arts herself, she wanted to seize this rare opportunity to observe and learn, but the fact that Tu Shan Yu wasn't using them was frustrating her to no end.

"Perhaps they're difficult to use during a battle?" Yu Yanluo asked, thinking that such arts were most effective in everyday situations, and that an opponent would surely be on guard once fighting began.

"Of course, they're difficult for ordinary practitioners to use during battle, but someone like the Qingqiu ruler must have mastered them to perfection. She should be able to use them with every gesture, so there's no distinction between normal times and combat." As a master of enchanting arts, Yun Jianyue had considerable authority on the subject.

Yan Xuehen said, "She mentioned this morning that she wasn't feeling well and couldn't even see us off. Could that be influencing her?"

"Impossible, unless she just lost her virginity last night, in which case she might not be able to use her enchanting arts for a short period." Yun Jianyue wasn't afraid to share this weakness of enchanting arts with them; after all, enchanting arts were useless when fighting Yan Xuehen or herself.

Hearing her words, the three women's hearts suddenly stirred. They looked at Zu An with strange expressions, remembering the romantic tribulation the fat Taoist priest had mentioned earlier.

Zu An's expression grew awkward. He wanted to explain but didn't know how, because they had indeed guessed correctly.

Fortunately, Yun Jianyue then said, "But how could that be?"

The other two women also dismissed the idea. Zu An had been behaving with exemplary male virtue since yesterday, and the Qingqiu ruler hadn't spoken a single word to him the whole time. How could anything have happened?

Even if they admired Zu An, they didn't believe he could get the dignified Qingqiu ruler to voluntarily come to his room in the middle of the night after only one brief meeting.

Zu An's expression became a little unnatural. If they found out the truth, wouldn't they skin him alive?

Thinking of last night's intimacy, his heart couldn't help but flutter. At the peak of their passion last night, Tu Shan Yu's furry tail and ears had emerged.

In his previous life, he had seen such things online and had always been curious whether they were prosthetics or accessories, so he picked them up to examine them.

Little did he know that his touch elicited a series of delicate cries. It turned out that the tail and ears were the fox maiden's most sensitive spots.

However, for someone like Tu Shan Yu, who had achieved considerable cultivation, these fox features had long been hidden, only involuntarily revealing themselves during moments of intense passion.

She repeatedly begged for mercy, shaking her tail constantly to evade him, but this only made Zu An find it more novel, making it even less likely for him to let go.

In the end, with him gripping her tail and stroking her ears, Tu Shan Yu utterly melted into a yielding, watery form...

Just then, a gasp of alarm sounded. Chi Wen sneered, "This king is tired of playing. The game ends here."

With that, he opened his mouth wide. It grew larger with the wind, eventually transforming into something like a large water vat.

Zu An's eyes widened. No wonder his mouth looked so strange; he possessed this ability.

Chi Wen simply took a deep breath, and immediately, violent winds raged across the field. Many of the fox guards were unable to stand, swaying unsteadily.

Tu Shan Yu constantly moved within the formation, barely helping her subordinates maintain their footing.

At that moment, a burst of wild laughter echoed, followed by a sudden intensification of the suction from the large mouth.

The fox guards linked hands, struggling to maintain their balance.

However, their clothes couldn't withstand the force.

With sounds of tearing fabric, many of their garments shredded and were sucked into the large mouth.

A vast expanse of pale skin was revealed, accompanied by the mortified cries of the fox maidens.

Only Tu Shan Yu and a few other higher-cultivation individuals in the field managed to keep their clothes intact.

But even they were struggling to protect themselves in the fierce wind, let alone help others.

Realizing he couldn't rip Tu Shan Yu's clothes off with this move, Chi Wen closed his large mouth. He then surveyed the panicked fox maidens' alluring figures, making a clicking sound with his tongue and revealing a wicked smile. "Tsk tsk, why do these clothes have such a strong musky smell?"

"Utterly shameless!" Yan Xuehen's face turned frosty from afar.

Yun Jianyue's phoenix eyes also blazed with fury. "The Dragon Clan has truly fallen this far."

Yu Yanluo, meanwhile, pulled Zu An's hand. "Ah Zu, let's help her..."

Before she could finish, Tu Shan Yu on the other side erupted in fury. She muttered to herself, and behind her, a snow-white fox appeared as a spiritual manifestation—a fox with nine tails!

Zu An felt a jolt of recognition. This manifestation was so familiar; he remembered that Daji also had a skill to summon a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, and its appearance was almost identical to this one.

Yu Yanluo's expression, however, changed. "Oh no, that's a forbidden fox clan art. With Tu Shan Yu's current cultivation, she might not be able to control it."

It was like their Medusa Clan's forbidden art; even for her, casting it once was incredibly strenuous, almost costing her life.

Sure enough, Tu Shan Yu's face instantly turned pale, and the nine-tailed fox manifestation behind her flickered, appearing as if it could dissipate at any moment.

The fox elders nearby changed their expressions. "Your Majesty, no! You'll lose your life!"

But facing the Fox Clan's legendary forbidden technique, Chi Wen dared not be careless. A flash of green light enveloped his body as he transformed into his true form: a monster with a dragon's head and a fish's body. He charged directly at Tu Shan Yu.

Tu Shan Yu gnashed her teeth, ready to fight him to the death, but unexpectedly, her blood and Qi surged, and she spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. The nine-tailed fox manifestation behind her instantly vanished as well.

Her heart turned cold. If she hadn't been ravaged all night yesterday, leaving her body sore and her state severely diminished, she wouldn't have failed to sustain even one summon.

Chi Wen was already attacking with supreme power. His momentum was unleashed; even if he wanted to stop, he couldn't.

To think that after experiencing the happiest night of her life yesterday, she was now facing death today.

She instinctively glanced in Zu An's direction, a hint of reluctance in her eyes.

However, as far as her gaze could reach, his figure was nowhere to be seen.

She gave a self-deprecating smile. Had he run away early when disaster struck?

No wonder her mother had told her long ago that men couldn't be relied upon.

She didn't even have the energy to feel resentment, only a heart ashen with despair, preparing to embrace death.

But suddenly, a familiar voice rang in her ear: "Look out!"

Immediately after, she felt herself enveloped in a warm embrace. She looked up in a daze, her cheeks instantly flushing.

This man had cultivated her body repeatedly last night; with their faces so close, how could she not recognize him?

With one arm, he encircled her waist, pulling her behind him, while his other hand moved to meet Chi Wen's attack.