Becoming a Fox Spirit from Under One Person

"I...am praying to you?"

Madam Xu looked at the fox, then turned to look at Zhang Zhiwei. Seeing the Taoist nod, she realized she had misunderstood the relationship between the fox and the Taoist.

Before marrying into the Xu family, Madam Xu was also a young lady from a prestigious family. She had read books and had read some strange tales. She knew what it meant when a fox spoke. Disregarding the Xu family's reputation, she immediately knelt down in front of the table.

"Fox spirit, Taoist priest, I want to find my child, at any cost."

"I have heard your wish. However, this time the situation is special, and you will have to come with me."

The karmic entanglement is incredibly accurate in its direction, but the exact location it falls on requires the person involved to go there in person.

Chen Ruoan had no choice but to use Madam Xu as a "compass".

"I'll go, I'll go!" Madam Xu waved towards the door and immediately summoned four strong men.

Four people were waiting in the courtyard, carrying two small bamboo and wooden sedan chairs.

Zhang Zhiwei glanced at it and laughed, "Is there even a share for this humble Taoist?"

"If ordinary bandits kidnapped children and wanted to extort money, they would have already come knocking on the door. Since no one is asking for money, it's most likely that some extraordinary person from the martial arts world wants the child..."

Waaaaah...

Madam Xu choked up halfway through her sentence.

These words were heard from the strange man under the overpass. If the perpetrator wasn't after money, then he probably wanted to use infants to practice evil magic.

"Master, you should save your energy to deal with the bad guys."

Zhang Zhiwei's stamina far surpassed that of ordinary people, but he couldn't let the delicate Madam Xu travel with him, so he sat comfortably in the bamboo sedan chair.

The path led to the southwest, so the group headed in that direction.

Taking advantage of a break in their journey, Chen Ruoan asked Madam Xu a few more questions.

According to the woman, Mr. Xu was a well-known local tycoon who had married several wives and had several daughters, but he only had one son, which caused him to spend a lot of time and effort on the case of his disappearance.

Despite using all his wealth and power, including police stations, government offices, community organizations, and chambers of commerce, the Xu family patriarch still had no clue whatsoever and was still running around begging for help these past few days.

The Xu family's young master went missing the day before yesterday. He was an infant in swaddling clothes. He disappeared without a sound, right before everyone's eyes.

If there were any clues, the only one was the traces left next to the bed where something had crawled.

It looks as if it was stolen by a snake.

However, there are folk tales about wolves stealing children, so this is the first time a snake spirit has entered a house to steal a person.

"The art of beast taming, a beast master?"

Zhang Zhiwei glanced to the side and saw that Chen Ruoan, that black fox, was not riding in the same sedan chair as him, but instead nestled in the arms of the beautiful woman.

Ignoring Zhang Zhiwei's strange gaze, and without any attempt to conceal it from Madam Xu and the sedan chair bearers beside him, Chen Ruoan simply replied, "Witches and Gu masters also have similar methods."

Wizards ride spirits, and sorcerers manipulate living poisons; both are inextricably linked to living beings.

"Witchcraft masters are blessed by Heaven, and most of them consider themselves superior, arrogant and disdainful of such things. As for Gu masters, what do they need children for? To refine Gu?"

"That's why I say you're still inexperienced, young Taoist priest. Never define an individual by their profession."

Among the sorcerers, there were also arrogant and domineering playboys like Wang Bing; moreover, there were precedents for using infants to refine poisons.

The Medicine Immortal Society, which has been practiced in the Miao region for nearly a hundred years, worships "Gu" and carefully selects forty-nine infants to cultivate and refine them into "Gu-bodied Holy Children" using extreme methods.

The Medicine Immortal Society was bought off during the Xinhai Revolution more than a decade ago, becoming a force for retaliation against the old regime, and was subsequently targeted by the new government. To prevent the church from being destroyed, some believers scattered throughout the country, and their activities were no longer limited to the Miao region.

"The ghost child of a sorcerer, or the Gu child of a Gu master..."

"We'll have to wait until we see it to find out exactly what it is."

Chen Ruoan sensed that the group of people who stole the babies had not gone far. The dark line hanging in the sky became increasingly clear and discernible, landing in a deep mountain forest on the outskirts of Andong City.

Hearing the conversation between the fox and Zhang Zhiwei, the sedan bearers were so frightened that they dared not breathe and unconsciously slowed their pace.

Once outside the city, traversing the rugged mountain road, the sedan chair carriers were somewhat worried.

"Madam, we can't go any further, or Master will be angry."

The mountains of today are not the same as they used to be; who knows what kind of monsters and demons you might encounter?

"It's all for finding the young master, sir, there's no reason for you to be angry."

Madam Xu was stubborn and insisted that the sedan chair bearers continue on their way, their faces full of bitterness as they hurried on in silence.

"That's all for now, you can go back."

When they reached the halfway point of the mountain, Chen Ruoan's words were like a pardon to the four of them. Madam Xu didn't dare to say anything more and had no choice but to return to the city with her servants for the time being.

Zhang Zhiwei habitually gathered his Taoist robe and sensed several unusual qi energies within the mountain.

A few cries of a baby reached Chen Ruoan's ears.

"Nothing major has happened yet."

"It's time to make a move."

Zhang Zhiwei didn't reply, but just kept rolling up his sleeves.

The human traffickers chose to hide in a cave, the entrance of which was hidden by huge rocks and vines, making it extremely difficult for ordinary people to find.

The cave was narrow and cramped, and there was a frail infant inside. Under these special circumstances, Zhang Zhiwei's thunder magic was actually less effective.

"I'll go first." Chen Ruoan walked out. "If we don't know the situation inside the cave and give them room to retaliate, they will definitely use the babies to threaten us, and then the situation will be disgusting."

Be careful in everything you do.

"Don't worry, no one will make things difficult for a fox."

It might seem strange to have more people in the mountains, but having an extra fox is a perfectly ordinary thing.

Chen Ruoan took light steps and walked around to the boulder, peeking her head over the hanging pale blue vines.

"who!?"

The slight commotion immediately attracted the attention of the people in the cave. Chen Ruoan arched his body and, following the stereotype of a startled fox, activated his "Spinosaurus" form.

hiss!

"Damn, that scared me! It's just a lost animal!"

The man relaxed his guard and sat down against the cold stone wall.

The cave was dark, but fortunately the fox had excellent night vision and memorized the location of the people and the layout of the environment.

Chen Ruoan leaped back to the mountainside and used his claws to draw a simple distribution map for Zhang Zhiwei.

"There are five people in total. Two are deepest inside, one is guarding the cave entrance, and the remaining two are standing on the left and right sides of the middle, near the outer edge. You can turn golden light into blades, right? We only have one chance..."

Chen Ruoan marked the layout, along with the estimated depth and width of the cave.

Zhang Zhiwei seemed to understand the fox's unspoken meaning and raised his hand to make a stop gesture: "Wait a minute."

"You mean, I have to use 'Golden Light Transforms into Blades' to instantly kill the five strange beings inside the cave, with no visibility and behind boulders and vines obstructing my view, without harming any innocent bystanders?"

Is it difficult?

Chen Ruoan had never been an Outcast, so of course he didn't know how difficult or easy this series of operations were.

"It's not difficult," Zhang Zhiwei said, shrugging.

"Then what are you so surprised about?"

"I want you to know that if I weren't Zhang Zhiwei, your demands would be extremely unreasonable."

Hearing this, Chen Ruoan couldn't detect any resentment in the words, but she could sense a hint of arrogance.

The implication is that he's just Zhang Zhiwei, after all.

"Stop arguing and just take action."

Let me see once again the true value of being the number one player in the Chinese server in the future extraordinary world.