My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

However, the white fox's hand just wouldn't budge.

The hair on its back is tinged with a floral pattern, as if it were being protected.

The white fox suddenly felt uneasy.

He was not the original being, but merely a spirit transformed from the remains of a body.

Therefore, he wasn't as skilled as a real flower dyer.

"No... I must complete the task my master entrusted to me! My master dislikes men who fail in their duties..."

He kept thrusting downwards with all his might, once, twice, dozens of times.

Finally, there was a "click," the sound of his dagger being knocked away.

"Well!"

Joey stood in front of him.

"Don't bother trying. You can't hit me. I've set up a barrier. You have no way to hurt Hua Ran."

"You...you weren't already unconscious after being stabbed by the master's dagger!"

The white fox tried to run away in an instant, but ended up crashing into a transparent barrier.

"Well, it hurts!"

He swayed and sat down, only to find that there was a dimly lit barrier around him.

"You actually set up a barrier a long time ago!?"

"Of course, it's because I'm waiting for you. Don't worry, you can't get out, but if you tell me everything you know, I might consider making things a little more comfortable for you."

At the same time, Hua Ran's voice came, "My lady, does your abdomen hurt? Ouch... You've suffered this time. I'll take a good look at you later."

"It's alright, it's all healed. I'm just being wary of Zhao Daxian."

Joey did get stabbed, but once inside Hua Ran's original mouth, Joey immediately comforted Hua Ran.

Tell Hua Ran not to cry, and say that she is fine.

She had long noticed that Zhao Daxian was acting strangely. After years of fighting and catching ghosts in the system world and battling with spirits, she had developed a very keen insight.

On the first night, when Zhao Daxian stopped Lu Qianye, the things she said didn't sound like Zhao Daxian at all.

Therefore, the moment the other party injured her, Qiao Yi withdrew all her yang energy, and was injured just like a normal person.

Since the dagger cannot receive yang energy, it is naturally useless.

After being pulled out, Joey used her yang energy to recover.

"Ranran, turn back to your original form. Doesn't your claws hurt from all this reckless behavior?"

"It doesn't hurt~ but... but my wife, you'd better forget about me looking like this~ I'm still quite delicate~"

Qiao Yi didn't reply, but her mind said, "Everyone, take pictures, take pictures from all angles. I can't see Hua Ran's original head right now. Give me satellite view pictures, and then close-up pictures of her face. I want to save this to my screen!"

"I know."

The system was terrified when Joey was stabbed.

Fortunately, everything is going according to plan.

Then Joey glared angrily at the white fox, "Speak!"

The white fox turned its head to the side and said only, "My master will come to save me."

"But the last one who called that woman that way—oh, the male ghost with the butterfly mark on his face—was completely destroyed in the space set up by Zhulong. Are you sure you want to gamble?"

"My master wouldn't do that to me! She was just using them, but she didn't use me. She loves me!"

The system couldn't help but complain.

"Another one with an itchy head, who's developed a love-struck brain."

"Go away, Hua Ran isn't love-struck. He's probably just like me, bound by things from his past life."

Joey grabbed the white fox by the collar, while Hua Ran turned and ran away into the distance.

The enormous fox paws, with each stomp, completely destroyed the surrounding flowers, plants, and trees.

However, Joey used invisibility.

In a secluded and open place far from people, Hua Ran stopped, while Qiao Yi touched the white fox's arm.

The white fox was surprised and tried to resist.

"What are you doing? Even though I'm a derivative, I'm not someone you can just touch... Ah!"

Joey immediately knelt down and touched his leg.

Hua Ran pursed her lips as she listened, and her huge tail swayed slightly.

"My lady... what are you doing?"

"You don't have to worry about it."

"Eh……"

Hua Ran's enormous fox ears twitched again, then drooped down. It looked at its huge paws and the small tree that was now smaller than a chopstick, and then stepped on it.

"My lady... even if you're going to torture him... you can't use that method. Why don't you let me torture him instead? I have many other ways to do it."

Before Hua Ran could finish speaking, a loud cry came from the white fox.

"Ahhhh!"

Joey let out a breath.

"He did indeed have one of your legs with him. I've taken it, Ranran. Now you have two legs and two arms. There are four parts left out of ten."

The white fox was terrified, its voice trembling with tears.

"My...my leg! Give it back, give it back to me!"

He lunged forward, but Joey wouldn't give it to him; instead, she threw him backward.

"Ranran, catch your leg."

"Huh~ There's an unexpected bonus! I didn't even sense my own body; I didn't expect it to be on him."

Joey replied, "I guess it's on him. He's always on the move, which is why you can't feel it. Anyway, we've got one leg back."

Joey turned to the white fox and said, "If you don't tell me, it won't just be a matter of losing a leg. I'll make you disappear completely. Even if that woman finds other parts of Hua Ran, so what? You won't be able to use them."

The white fox knelt before Joey, tears streaming down its face.

He clenched his fist and smashed the dyed fur, crying out, "My legs... my legs! Those are the legs I finally got, the legs I finally had a part of my body!"

Hanazono used a large fox to mimic a human man's sweet, delicate voice.

"What do you mean 'your legs'? Those are my legs! And another thing... is that little bit of force you're using just to tickle me? I can't feel it at all right now!"

The white fox said viciously, "You dismembered yourself, which gave birth to me. Now you want to take my life away from me. You are very powerful. You are a great demon who has lived for ten thousand years. You can survive in the world even without a physical body. Why won't you give me a chance?"

Joey heard something wrong.

"Big monster, ten thousand years?"

This doesn't make sense. One thousand five hundred years is already the previous life. How did he calculate it?

While Joey was thinking, the system said, "Baby, similar systems and indiscriminate attacks have been detected within a two-kilometer radius."

"It's Qiao Zan again!"

Instantly, a huge fireball hurtled straight towards them from not far away.

Hua Ran said, "My lady, don't be afraid. I'm in my original form now, so there's no need to hide."

As she said this, Hua Ran swept her tail and blocked the fireball.

At the same time, mist spread out around them, and when the mist disappeared, the white fox was gone.

Qiao Yi suppressed a sigh of relief. "This Qiao Zan, I just find it strange. What benefits did that woman who looks just like me give him to make him work so hard!"

Hua Ran hissed.

With suppressed resentment and grievance.

"Ranran, where does it hurt?"

"The whole...the whole body..."