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

Qiao Yi immediately picked up Hua Ran.

At this moment, Hua Ran's clothes were loose and baggy, revealing her fair shoulders, and the handprints on her legs contrasted sharply with her fair skin.

"It hurts... My lady, my legs hurt so much..."

Even Inugami had never seen anything like this before.

But soon, the bluish-purple handprints on Hua Ran's legs turned red, becoming the color of blood.

And it moved upwards, reaching his knees as he spoke.

"My knees hurt so much..."

After thinking for a moment, Qiao Yi bit her tongue and spat blood onto Hua Ran's knees and calves.

A strange scream rang out, and the handprint quickly escaped downwards.

Finally, two pale hands appeared, ending in the earth.

Inugami grabbed it.

"What are you?!"

"Help...help me...help us..."

The sound was mournful and pitiful, but the next moment, countless pale hands emerged from the ground.

The dog god was startled; there were so many that he couldn't count them all, and they all appeared at once, then let out a miserable cry.

"Help...help us..."

Joey had seen these hands before in that village where time had passed, but there weren't as many as there are now.

Is this... is this getting closer to the center of that monster?

"Where exactly are you? And what are you doing grabbing the flower dye?"

"If we don't catch him... how will you save us..."

As soon as the words were spoken, countless pale hands emerged from the soil and rushed toward Hua Ran. The ground where Qiao Yi and the others stood quickly rose into a small hill, but this hill formed a mouth, about to swallow them up.

Hua Ran could certainly unleash a terrifying aura to intimidate them.

But he... didn't.

She even shrank into Qiao Yi's arms to make herself look particularly weak, and tugged at her clothes on her shoulder to prevent others from seeing it.

What if they have a female ghost in their possession?

He insists on upholding male virtues!

The dog god was agile and quickly and nimbly arrived at Joey's side.

"Why are you still holding him now? The yin energy he emitted before was more than all the hands here combined."

Hua Ran frowned, then said softly, "My lady, my legs hurt... Ouch... It hurts so much... It hurts even if I straighten them a little..."

"Alright, alright, then you can stay snuggled up in my arms. Don't worry, I can suppress these things without using my hands. But I'm wondering, don't these guys know that even if they capture you, I can rescue you and leave them alone?"

Hua Ran's little head rested against Qiao Yi's chest, listening to his wife's heartbeat.

He was really scared when it suddenly shrank and tried to disappear.

So at this moment, even just being in his wife's arms, he felt at ease.

As for asking the wife to save him, go to hell, stop playing around.

As Joey drew her long-lost Foundation Sword, the flaming greatsword plunged directly into the ground. At the same time, Hana Ran raised her hand and made a golden lotus seal, striking Inugami directly at his heel.

The dog god stumbled and fell headfirst into the ground.

"Uh-huh!"

Its two little legs kept kicking outside.

Hanazon heard Inugami cursing at him, but he pretended not to hear it.

The hill flattened, the white hand vanished, leaving only a foundation sword stuck in the ground, flaming, with a finger left by the white hand still embedded in it.

It feels out of place... very out of place.

When those souls of the hands first cried for help, they should have already known what kind of person Joey was. The more anxiously they cried for help, the less likely Joey was to save them.

Then why do they still do this?

Just then, a girl's voice came over.

"Sisters...what are you doing? A fox? A fox spirit?! And fingers...ahhh!"

Joey turned around and discovered that the little girl could see through the spell she had set on Hua Ran. Ordinary people couldn't see Hua Ran's fox ears and that ghost finger.

Clearly, Hanazono also noticed this problem.

He no longer nestled in Joey's arms, but nimbly stepped down and stood in front of Joey.

"who are you?"

The girl stumbled back several steps and fell to the ground, rubbing her eyes frantically.

"No way...no way! Am I dreaming? Wake up, wake up!"

She actually slapped herself.

Hua Ran crossed her arms, a glint of green light flashing in her eyes.

"You have a strong yang energy about you. Who are you? What is your purpose in coming to this place?!"

He casually pulled the dog out, and the dog immediately started cursing.

"You vixen, your leg doesn't hurt at all, you're lying..."

When he turned around, he saw the girl, or more precisely, he saw a birthmark on the corner of her mouth, and he instantly pounced on her.

"Sister, sister, what are you doing here? The timing is wrong! Even if you were to be reincarnated now, you should only be a baby. Fetuses usually develop their souls in the last month or two, so you couldn't possibly be a young girl!"

The girl was so frightened that she burst into tears.

But Joey was pinching her chin.

"Sister? You mean, she's that Taoist nun from Shiqiao Village... Could there be something wrong?"

Inugami shook his head, "Impossible!"

He reached out and touched the little girl's lips, saying, "This is the mark I left, there's no mistake. Only I know the mark I left with my canine teeth, and you were there that day too. You saw me kiss her and bite her!"

Joey approached Inugami and knocked the little girl unconscious with a single blow.

Inugami glared angrily at Joey.

Joey said, "The best way to protect her is to prevent her from causing a disturbance. Now is the perfect time, so I'll tell you everything about your sister."

Hua Ran snorted, came behind Qiao Yi, knelt down on the ground and massaged Qiao Yi's shoulders, while looking at Inugami with a threatening look, telling him not to do anything to hurt his wife.

Otherwise, he would kill even this little girl!

Qiao Yi recounted everything that happened between her and the snake spirit at the Su family mansion.

"In other words, in this situation, you, my sister, are the only one who knows what the villain behind this looks like."

Hua Ran asked, "My lady, can't we read her memories during the trial? We can find out what the villain looks like so we can take precautions."

Joey had wanted to do the same.

When I knocked her unconscious, Joey had already used Judgment, but the system gave an error message.

The screen displayed, "The trial was not conducted within the defendant's normal timeframe; therefore, the trial is invalid."

“I must examine her memories while she is in a normal state. So the best protection is to keep her from knowing right now.”

As she said this, Joey raised her hand and touched the girl's tightly closed eyes again.

“She has already developed spiritual awareness and the ability to see ghosts. I’m temporarily sealing these off so she can’t see those miscellaneous things, but the more I do this, the more I need to find out the truth about how this village turned her into a girl.”

Hua Ran's fox ears twitched, and suddenly, he turned around and saw the man standing on the hillside.

"My lady, it's that male ghost with the butterfly birthmark on his face, the one from the underwater secret realm!"