378: Chapter 388 Falling into the Demon Realm! A Talkative Little Fox Demon and a Cold, Mute!

" ( ˉ ▽ ￣ ～ ) Tch~ How unlucky!"

A slightly rough voice rang out, filled with unconcealed dissatisfaction: "To think someone who fell out of the Void Realm turbulence didn't die; this kid's life is truly tough!"

"Hmph! A loss is a loss! Stop making excuses here!"

The crisp, cheerful girl's voice from before rang out again, laced with a hint of triumph: "Hurry up and hand over the Beast Essence! A bet is a bet!"

Su Xuan finally struggled to open his eyes.

The moment he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a fluffy, snow-white tail, happily swishing back and forth above his field of vision.

Su Xuan instinctively tried to mobilize his Divine Sense to condense golden characters to ask about the situation, but was shocked to discover that the immortal power within his body had been exhausted to the extreme.

His Meridians were completely empty; he couldn't squeeze out even a shred of immortal power.

In his current state, he could barely maintain his most basic bodily functions.

Roughly estimating, if he didn't have a high-grade Medicinal Pill to assist in healing, relying solely on this heavily injured body to recover on its own would take at least a hundred years!

"How about... I just find an opportunity to get myself killed, and have Dad descend directly to pick me up?"

This thought involuntarily popped into Su Xuan's mind. But in just an instant, he suppressed the idea.

He hadn't reached a desperate situation with zero chance of survival yet; it wasn't worth being that embarrassing.

Moreover, the more isolated and helpless the environment, the more it could temper his heart of a killing god!

"Here! Take it! You little money-grubber!"

The rough-looking youth beside him took out a few Beast Essences with a pained expression, but his mouth remained unforgiving: "All you think about is earning Beast Essences! What's the point? Sooner or later, aren't you still going to be sent to the Primordial Divine Mountain?!"

Upon hearing the four words "Primordial Divine Mountain," that snow-white tail, which had been happily swaying, suddenly stiffened.

"Fat Tiger! If you say that again, I'm going to beat you up!" The crisp voice instantly turned cold, revealing a hint of undisguisable panic and resistance.

"Bai Qiuqiu! I'm speaking the truth! This is the will of the Primordial Divine Mountain, which our entire Monster Realm cannot defy!" the tiger-Yao youth called Fat Tiger retorted loudly.

"Who says so? I just won't go!!"

The girl shouted stubbornly. Just as the atmosphere was becoming somewhat tense, a little Yao nearby suddenly pointed at the ground and shouted:

"Stop arguing! This person has opened his eyes!!"

The arguing came to an abrupt halt.

The next second, a group of young Yao Race members with beast ears and horns swarmed over. They looked at Su Xuan as if he were a rare animal, their eyes filled with intense curiosity.

Through the gaps in the crowd, Su Xuan saw the girl with the snow-white tail clearly.

She had a pair of playful white fox ears, skin whiter than snow, and her exquisite features revealed a sense of worldly innocence.

"Hey, who are you? What is your name?"

Bai Qiuqiu leaned forward, crouched down, and stared at Su Xuan with a pair of clear, large eyes, her fox tail behind her unable to help but start wagging again.

Su Xuan: "..."

"Where are you from? Where are you going?" Fat Tiger also leaned his big head over and asked.

Su Xuan: "..."

It wasn't that he was acting aloof, but that he really couldn't speak.

As the possessor of the [True Word Dao Body], as long as he didn't speak, he would continue to accumulate the True Word BUFF within his body. Once he broke his silence, the power he had accumulated for nearly a hundred years would be wasted.

He hadn't even used it to kill the Demon Commander, so he certainly wouldn't use it in this place!

Now that his immortal power was exhausted and he couldn't use Divine Thought to write, he could only be a complete mute.

"He's so strange, why doesn't he talk?"

"I think he must be a mute, right? And look at how heavily injured he is; Sister Qiuqiu just used her wood-element Origin Divine Ability for a long time to barely keep him alive."

"What a pity! He's a person who fell in from the outside world! If he can't talk, how will we know what the outside world looks like?"

The many little Yao discussed it all at once, their eyes filled with regret.

This was the fringe area of the Monster Realm. The entire Monster Realm actually belonged to the jurisdiction of the [Primordial Divine Mountain].

The Primordial Divine Mountain was self-sealed all year round; outsiders could not enter at all, and the Yao Race inside could not get out.

For some reason, the original strongest of the Primordial Divine Mountain, the Great Emperor Xuanwu, had gone missing.

Now, the one remaining in the Primordial Divine Mountain acting as king was the Azure Emperor of the Azure Dragon clan!

The Azure Emperor had a violent temperament; not only did he seal off the Monster Realm, but he also regularly demanded that the various Yao Race tribes below offer up Yao with excellent talent to go to the Divine Mountain for "Deity Sacrifice."

And Bai Qiuqiu was the very sacrifice unfortunately chosen from this generation of the Yao Race.

Precisely because of this, she extremely longed for the outside world.

Even just listening to stories of the outside world was a luxury for her.

"Stop arguing, all of you!"

Bai Qiuqiu clapped her hands, interrupting the discussion of the crowd of Yao, and decisively issued an order: "Fat Tiger, give me a hand, carry him back to my Immortal Cave!"

"Sister Qiuqiu, bringing a strange human of unknown Origin back to the Fox Race territory—if the Elders find out, will it really be okay?" a little Yao asked worriedly.

"As long as you keep your mouths shut tight, it'll be fine!!"

Bai Qiuqiu waved her little pink fist, then carefully helped Fat Tiger carry the blood-covered Su Xuan.

...

Half an hour later, in a hidden and cozy Immortal Cave behind the Fox Race territory.

Su Xuan was laid flat on a stone bed covered with hay and animal skins.

"You just bear with the pain for a moment, okay? I'll help you treat the wounds on the outside."

Bai Qiuqiu brought a basin of clear water, took a few herbs and chewed them into pieces in her mouth, then carefully applied them to Su Xuan's wounds that were deep enough to see bone.

"My name is Bai Qiuqiu. Since you can't speak, I'll just call you Little Mute."

"Little Mute, is it very dangerous outside? You've suffered such heavy injuries; you must have been pursued by a very powerful enemy, right?"

"Actually, it's quite good that you landed here. Although we can't get out, at least we don't have to fight and kill every day..."

Su Xuan lay quietly on the stone bed, looking with deep eyes at this little Yao fox who was busy around him, chattering non-stop.

Since he was young, everything he had experienced was either the clashing of blades or the roars of demons.

He was encountering such undefended tranquility, and such a noisy yet pure creature, for the very first time.

Although his ears were buzzing, his heart, which had been eroded for years by the boundless killing intent of the [prison-suppressing ming king armor], felt a trace of peace without him realizing it.

Just as Bai Qiuqiu was preparing to continue sharing her battle achievements of beating Fat Tiger today.

Outside the Immortal Cave, a heavy sound of footsteps suddenly came.

Bai Qiuqiu's fluffy fox ears suddenly pricked up, and her face instantly turned somewhat pale.

She hurriedly pulled over a large animal skin, covered Su Xuan on the stone bed tightly, and then quickly ran toward the cave entrance.

"Qiuqiu, come out."

Outside the cave, a voice filled with a bit of vicissitudes came; it was the Clan Chief of the Fox Race.

"Clan Chief..." Bai Qiuqiu forced a smile and walked out.

"Did you go to the back mountain to play wildly again today?" The Clan Chief's voice carried severity.

"There isn't much time left; the messenger from the Primordial Divine Mountain will descend soon. From today on, you must set aside one day every week to go to the ancestral grounds at the back mountain with me to learn the etiquette of the Deity Sacrifice!"

"Clan Chief... I..." Bai Qiuqiu's eyes were slightly red, her fingers tightly pinching the corner of her clothes, but in the end, the words of resistance could not be spoken, and she could only respond in a low voice: "I understand."