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

"My lady! What...what's going on?"

Hua Ran rushed to Qiao Yi's side, trying to pull the severed hand off, but she couldn't budge it no matter what she did.

That severed hand was very strong.

Hanazono was unable to exert any strength due to an injury to her abdomen.

It was at this moment that the surrounding scenery changed.

The dim environment transformed into a mountain landscape.

Spring is in full bloom, flowers are in bloom, and there are small bridges and flowing water.

Joey paused for a moment, "This village is so beautiful."

There were no signs of corrosion from the blood rain; it was a place of birdsong and fragrant flowers, quiet and comfortable.

Then, a man and a woman ran past Qiao Yi and Hua Ran.

The woman let out a disgusting laugh.

"Why are you running away? You have to obey today, whether you like it or not. I'm already being kind to you. Your wife is dead and you still have a child. What are you pretending to be, this pure and innocent young man?"

The man cried as he retorted, "I promised my wife I would remain celibate for her for the rest of my life!"

Suddenly, the man slipped and fell into the fox's underground palace.

At that time, the Fox Palace had no shelter and no open temple outside.

It was simply a shrine to the severed hand.

In the next scene, Hua Ran blocked Qiao Yi's eyes.

He even tried to stick his furry fox ears to Joey's ears.

"My lady... don't look, don't listen, they are... they are doing that kind of thing..."

Hua Ran herself blushed a little.

Joey raised an eyebrow, unable to resist making a sarcastic remark.

What's going on?

This prompted Hua Ran to lightly pinch Qiao Yi's arm.

"That...that thing you did to me...oh, you're so mean!"

Joey coughed.

Why does it feel like I deliberately lured him?

But soon, Hua Ran's body trembled.

"Oh dear, that wicked woman, she... she raped and murdered that man..."

She only discovered that the man had been strangled to death after she had satisfied herself.

As the scene shifts again, Hua Ran lowers her hand from covering herself and snuggles into Qiao Yi's arms.

He whispered, "My lady, my wound hurts a little. May I snuggle up to you?"

Joey hugged him tightly, letting him lean his whole body against her.

The two continued watching, finding the woman's behavior utterly outrageous.

She hurriedly ran out.

"The fox spirit killed someone! He killed someone!"

"The fox spirit seduced me, transforming into a handsome man to lure me down to the underworld, intending to have sex with me! When the village's widower discovered this, the fox spirit killed him!"

From that moment on, blood rained down from the sky.

The corpse in front of the shrine suddenly opened its eyes, which were only white.

A dark aura emanated from him and was absorbed by the severed hand in the shrine.

At the same time, a huge, dark green claw emerged from the hole behind the shrine and dragged away the man's corpse.

Joey understood.

"A man who died unjustly fulfilled both the conditions for the fox spirit to absorb yin energy and the opportunity for the monster to devour spirits."

The balance begins to break here.

Later, strange things began to happen frequently in the village.

Some people just passed by the Fox Palace and fell seriously ill with a high fever that wouldn't go down, literally burning their minds.

Some people even glanced at the fox palace during the day and felt something calling to them, causing them to fall to their deaths.

Over time, this village became a place where one could enter but not leave.

The white-robed priest also entered at that time, spreading rumors.

They say it was all the work of a fox spirit punishing them.

They began carving patterns, creating a series of sinister cases.

The villagers of Shiqiao Village became increasingly selfish. Even when the white-robed priest said that a woman needed to marry the fox spirit to appease it, they would always encourage other people's daughters to marry the fox spirit, all for their own benefit.

As long as you don't die in your own home, you can close the door and pretend nothing happened.

Some people knock the little girls unconscious, put them in a coffin, and let them scratch at the coffin lid after they wake up.

Some, like the original owner, were simply stabbed to death and placed in a coffin.

The Taoist nun who was protecting souls died because the white-robed priest stabbed her in the back of the heart with a strange dagger.

"Ha, the entire Stone Bridge Village was tricked by the White-Robed Priest, but he deserved it!"

The scene then shifts back to the fox's underground palace.

Joey felt that it wasn't just her palms that were cold, but her entire arm.

The system issued an alarm.

"Baby, the yin energy from this severed hand is trying to erode your entire body!"

Qiao Yi looked at Hua Ran and said, "Let go and hide over there."

"Wife master?"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine."

When Qiao Yi had just transmigrated, the fox statue had emitted a fox phantom to attack her.

Looking back now, it must have been a fox phantom created by the severed hand.

Joey had already pinched her own palm raw with her other hand.

A large amount of blood gushed out and was slapped directly onto the severed hand by Joey.

The severed hand instantly emitted charred smoke, trembled violently, and even let out a painful roar.

The rough yet delicate voice made Joey pause.

"You severed hand, you still have your own consciousness?"

Joey took a deep breath.

"By the whims of fate, you gained consciousness because of the villagers' evil intentions and wanted to absorb more, but unfortunately you cannot control yourself, so I must seal you away."

As the blood had completely soaked the severed hand, Qiao Yi put two fingers together and drew a diagram resembling the Bagua on the severed hand.

The blood that flowed out of Joey also flowed into the eight directions of the diagram, forming a blood array.

Hua Ran watched from the side, her eyes narrowing slightly before revealing a hint of surprise.

This is a very high-level technique.

And it seems like I've seen him before.

The severed hand trembled incessantly, hissing and emitting smoke.

Eventually, it stopped moving and lay in the small box.

But her skin remained plump and delicate.

This made Joey feel uneasy.

However, the system says that, according to monitoring, the snow has stopped and the rain has ceased in Shiqiao Village.

The dark clouds that had formed a ghostly face dispersed, and the sky outside was clear. The fox spirit's yin energy suppression was no longer present.

"Baby, this means you have successfully sealed it."

Just then, the ground suddenly shook.

Hua Ran clutched her stomach and rushed to Qiao Yi's side.

“My lady… something terrifying moved.”

"I feel it."

A loud "snoring" sound came from below.

Qiao Yi steadied herself and took Hua Ran's hand, saying, "The timing is perfect. From now on, don't leave my side."

Hua Ran nodded.

He could barely suppress the warm smile in his eyes.

Don't leave your side... This is the first person to say this to me.

Joey began to meditate, focusing her mind and calming her spirit.

She used her consciousness to tell the system to begin gathering Yang energy and unleash the Foundation-Setting Sword.

Soon, Joey drew the sword formed from yang energy from behind her again and planted it in front of her.

Hana felt the surrounding temperature rise significantly.

Then Joey reached out and pressed the base, and the flames spread out to the maximum extent, not only scorching the entire fox dungeon, but also covering the surrounding rocks with a layer of flames.

"My lady... what is this?"

"Doesn't that monster like high sunlight and high heat? Since the natural temperature wasn't right, I used fire to give it that!"