Fast Travel: After turning into an animal, the villain asked me to be his wife

In the dense forest, a little fox ran swiftly, following the scent left by Xie Linyuan in the air.

It ran and stopped intermittently, and the scent of Xie Linyuan in the air grew stronger, but the closer one got to him, the stronger the lingering stench of blood became.

Yu Zhen sensed something was wrong. Her four little paws frantically thrashed about, and the stench of blood grew increasingly nauseating.

Just when she thought something had happened to Xie Linyuan, her vision suddenly cleared.

She appeared on a cliff and looked down. There was a platform below the cliff, but she only glanced at it before quickly backing away.

There was nothing unusual about it; the platform was completely covered in blood, and the thick stench of blood was emanating from it.

The little fox twitched its ears, moved closer to the ground, and tried to get a better look.

But she spotted Xie Linyuan at a glance.

He was dressed in white, covered in blood, with bloodshot eyes, looking at the "immortals" around him who were called "cultivators".

All the people wearing the same robes as him were lying on the ground, lifeless. Those people... must have been Xie Linyuan's senior and junior brothers.

White clothes stained with blood, corpses stretched down from the platform, and beyond that, Yu Zhen could no longer see them.

Xie Linyuan is the only white-clad person still alive.

[Could this be the villain's past memories, when the Sword Sect was wiped out?] the system suddenly said.

The little fox nodded: [That must be it. This must be an illusion designed to target Xie Linyuan. I just didn't expect it to be so devastating.]

Little Fox: [Logically, the Sword Sect should have a sect leader with considerable strength, so why...]

System: [According to the setting, Xie Linyuan's Sword Sect is just a small sect, but it does have a Nascent Soul stage sect leader to keep the surrounding cultivators in check. Unfortunately, the Sword Sect leader failed his tribulation.]

System: [Coincidentally, the matter of the ancient scroll that the Sword Sect had previously obtained was exposed, and the resulting clash led to their great calamity.]

The little fox looked nervously at the people below: [What should we do now?]

System: [As long as he can break free from the illusion, there shouldn't be any major problems, right?]

The little fox looked at the scene below with some nervousness, feeling rather pessimistic.

Xie Linyuan's condition is too bad, and... this is the manifestation of his deep-seated obsession, so it may not be so easy for him to break free.

He was surrounded by three or four people who were clearly cultivators from other sects, one of whom was also wielding a sword.

Yu Zhen was worried, so she simply sneaked down the side path.

Although she knew that everything in front of her was fake, it felt so real that her heart was constantly in suspense, fearing that Xie Linyuan would really be hurt.

As she got closer, she heard what the swordsman was saying.

He had a somewhat gloomy appearance, and the gleaming sword in his hand was pointed at Xie Linyuan. He said, "Xie Linyuan, hand over the secret scroll, and I will spare your life."

Xie Linyuan's white clothes were covered in blood, and Yu Zhen couldn't tell whether the blood was his own or someone else's.

He seemed to have completely forgotten everything that had happened before he came to the secret realm, and his eyes were filled with boundless hatred as he looked at the cultivator in front of him: "You're dreaming."

"Brother Baili, no need for nonsense. Don't you really like his sword bone? Extract his sword bone, then search his soul. Are you afraid you won't find the secret scroll?" The red-clad man standing next to Baili Xun said with a wicked smile.

Even though she was desperately trying to tell herself that everything in front of her was an illusion, Yu Zhen still couldn't suppress the hatred in her heart.

So it turns out that Xie Linyuan's sword bone was removed by this "Brother Baili".

Baili Xun smiled and said, "Changxi, don't you also want his physical body?"

As soon as these two spoke, the people standing next to them looked Xie Linyuan up and down, as if he were already a fish on a chopping board, and began to whisper among themselves.

"He seems to have another nickname, something like Qinglin Jun. This kid seems to be quite talented. Our Medicine Sect can also refine him into a medicine man."

"Being a furnace or cauldron wouldn't be bad either."

"..."

Yu Zhen grew increasingly angry as she listened, and even her attempts to force-hypnotize her into believing it was a hallucination were no longer working.

She stared unblinkingly at Xie Linyuan, who was using his sword to support himself and avoid falling: [No! I can't let him be picked over like this, I'm going to kidnap him!]

The system was stunned: [Host, you're a fox now, how can you kidnap him? Besides, this is all fake, not real!]

System: [Wouldn't it be better if you waited for him to come to his senses on his own?]

Little Fox: [No! I'm too angry! I can't stand it anymore! What if he doesn't come to his senses!]

Little fox: [Even if it's fake, I...I still want to save him!]

The fluffy ball shook its body, and saw that the guy named Baili had already swung his sword at Xie Linyuan, shamelessly saying, "This sword bone is the most useful to me. I'll take it first, and the rest are up to you."

A gust of sword wind swept past, about to slice through Xie Linyuan's spine.

Xie Linyuan bit his lip tightly and tensed his body.

"Idiot! Don't you know you should have hidden?!"

Just as he was about to endure this immense, as if-existing pain, a hairy white figure appeared in front of him.

Xie Linyuan's eyelashes were stained with blood. He looked at the creature after hearing the sound.

Is this... a fox?