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  Shangguan Ce only felt a numbness around the wound on his back, while a cold and eerie aura continuously flowed into his body's meridians from the dark charm, like being bitten by countless ants, the pain was unbearable.

  But in a moment, his forehead was already covered with cold sweat, and his face turned pale. Standing on the rooftop, Xiaobai saw Ouguan Ce's predicament and smiled even more, seemingly taking pleasure in his misfortune, saying: "I didn't expect it, old ghost, you also have today?"

  Shangguan Ce gritted his teeth and let out a cold hum, forcing himself to prop up his body. He said sternly, "You demon, you actually dare to show yourself before me?"

  Xiao Bai let out a hearty laugh, as if he had heard the most ridiculous thing, and with a flick of his sleeve, he floated gently down from the rooftop to land not far in front of Shangguan Ce. Smiling, he said: "I didn't dare come out to see you? Ah, yes, I'm timid, didn't dare see you, so I came out to give you a little gift as a meeting present, and only then did I dare come out to meet with you. Old ghost, you've had me confined in that Mysterious Fire Altar for many years, this time, if I don't properly thank you, it would be unforgivable."

  Shangguan Ce's face was filled with anger, but in his heart, he was actually quite frightened. Back then, in the Xuanhuo Altar, it was mostly relying on the altar's own fire spirit power, plus the remaining Eight Trigrams Xuanhuo Formation array at that time, that they were able to suppress this thousand-year-old demon fox within. Otherwise, with Jiuweitian Hu's cultivation level, he really didn't have the confidence to deal with it.

  It's just that now, with the passage of time and changes in circumstances, the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox has broken free from all restraints. But unexpectedly, she herself was careless for a moment and fell into this demon's sinister plot, suffering heavy internal injuries. It's likely that more than half of her strength is no longer a match for hers.

  At this moment, the wild wind is howling on the desolate land, and the sounds of ghosts wailing and wolves howling are coming from all directions. It seems that in this bleak deep night, countless nocturnal spirits are crying together, with a strong aura of yin energy.

  Inside the temple, Xiao Bai and Shangguan Ce were still facing off against each other.

  Although Shangguan Ce had been secretly attacked and was seriously injured, Xiaobai did not seem to have any intention of immediately taking action against this old enemy. On the contrary, she seemed to be sizing up Shangguan Ce with great interest, like a cat playing with a mouse, her face full of sarcasm.

  Shangguan Ce knew that what he needed most at this moment was to find a safe and quiet place to meditate, recover from his injuries, and suppress the wound. However, with such an unfathomable thousand-year-old fox spirit standing in front of him, it was really infuriating.

  In a fit of anger, Shangguan Ce gritted his teeth and said: "Since you insist on coming to deal with me, why haven't you made a move yet? What's the point of standing there motionless?"

  Xiao Bai smiled slightly and said, "I'm fine, it's okay to tell you, I don't think like humans who always think life is too short. I have plenty of time and don't know how to spend it, so I'll just stand here and watch you slowly. After all, I'm very patient."

  Shangguan Ce's ears were filled with the sound, and he was so angry that he almost had smoke coming out of his seven orifices. This demon clearly wanted to drag him down, knowing that he was seriously injured, yet not giving him a chance to recover. If this continued for much longer, Shangguan Ce would naturally become exhausted from running around, and it wouldn't be necessary for the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox to make a move - he might not even be able to hold on himself.

  Unable to do anything, Guan Zhen knew that he was no match for Xiao Bai's cunning methods. If he fought, his injuries would worsen and it would be difficult to win; if he didn't fight, his injuries would only get worse and dragging it out would lead to certain death. It seemed like all other methods were useless, so he could only flee in defeat.

  It was just a pair of watery eyes that seemed to be soul-stirring, but they made Shangguan Ce look at them with a dead gaze, and even he himself didn't have much confidence that he could escape from Xiaobai's hands.

  This is really hitting a brick wall on all sides and being in an impasse.

  Shangguan Ce's face was ashen, with anger, resentment, fear, and anxiety flashing across his face one by one. Xiaobai watched it all, feeling great joy in her heart.

  She was imprisoned in the Xuanhuo Altar by the people of Fengxiang Valley for many years. If it weren't for Gui Li accidentally breaking the seal, I really don't know if she would have been stuck in that place forever. The hardships and bitterness here are truly hard to describe to others. That's why in Xiaobai's heart, towards Fengxiang Valley's Shangguan Ce and those people, she is extremely resentful. Although after escaping with Guili that day, she had a thorough awakening, but she didn't intentionally go back to look for trouble with Fengxiang Valley. But this time, if Shangguan Ce delivers himself to her doorstep, how can she pretend not to see him?

  Compassion and kindness are what the nine-tailed celestial fox does when she's in a good mood, but she has never been one to forget past grievances or treat others with leniency.

  Thinking of the delightful moment, Xiaobai couldn't help but burst out laughing, and all these years' resentment seemed to have been vented tonight, it was truly exhilarating.

  Shangguan Ce's mood was naturally not as good as Xiao Bai's, on the contrary, his injuries seemed to be getting harder to suppress, and his whole body began to tremble slightly, with a faint blue glow enveloping his back.

  Xiao Bai's smile grew thicker, and Shangguan Ce's panting sound became more urgent. Suddenly, he took a few steps closer to Xiao Bai, who furrowed his brow slightly, with a hint of caution on his face. Although Shangguan Ce was injured and in trouble, this person's cultivation was not ordinary, and Xiao Bai didn't dare to be too careless either.

  It's just an unexpected thing, and it happened in the blink of an eye.

  Only to see Shangguan Ce's face full of pain, his facial muscles bulging, looking like his injuries were severely exacerbated, as if he was about to collapse. His eyes rolled back, and a hint of fear flashed across his face. With a thud, he suddenly knelt down in front of Xiaobai, pleading: "Fox Fairy, spare my life!"

  If it's said that Shangguan Ce's move is a shocking and earth-shaking divine technique, then Xiaobai would probably also be concentrating on receiving the attack; even if at this moment Shangguan Ce suddenly let out a loud roar, and then 30 or 50 top experts from Fengxiang Valley jumped out beside him, Xiaobai could still accept this reality.

  But the old man who suddenly knelt down and begged for mercy in front of her completely overturned Xiao Bai's impression of him, and for a moment, even with her thousand years of Dao cultivation, she was stunned and at a loss.

  It was just a moment of daze, and Xiao Bai had already come to his senses. However, Shangguan Ce's mind was preoccupied with worries, and he didn't hesitate to humiliate himself, all for the sake of this brief moment of emptiness.

  In an instant, the previously feeble Shangguan Ce suddenly transformed into a different person, his entire face radiating intense killing intent and erasing all signs of pain. Even the blue glow on his back was suppressed in the blink of an eye. The icy silver light of Jihancōng Bīng flashed out, like a startled dragon swooping through the air, as it shot up from his hand with a loud "boom" and flew straight towards Xiao Bai's chest.

  Xiao Bai shouted angrily and quickly retreated, his sleeves flying up to block in front of him, forming a wall of fabric. But Shangguan Ce's attack was the culmination of his lifelong training, its power not to be underestimated. A loud "chi" sound exploded, and Xiao Bai's sleeve was instantly torn apart by the Nine Cold Condensing Ice Needles, almost simultaneously turning into ice blocks that shattered and fell to the ground.

  The silvery white light didn't stop at all, and went straight towards Xiao Bai. Xiao Bai's body was still retreating, but the hasty retreat couldn't be faster than Shangguan Ce's carefully planned fatal blow. Just as the deadly light was about to catch up with her body, Xiao Bai's face turned pale, but she didn't look flustered or lose control. Instead, she suddenly clasped her hands together in front of her chest, crossing them and bending them, making a strange gesture.

  "Hmm..."

  A long, mysterious howl suddenly echoed from an unknown place, its mournful and proud cry echoing through the desolate wilderness on a moonlit night, where a white fox sang to the moon.

  In the next moment, Jiuhans' icy aura burst forth in a brilliant flash of light, and a sheet of silver radiance danced across the air, enveloping Xiaobai's entire body within it.

  Shangguan Ce successfully counterattacked, but his face didn't show any sign of triumph. Instead, he gritted his teeth in frustration and discontent. However, being an extraordinary person, after weighing the situation, he didn't hesitate for a moment and immediately flew out, disappearing into the vast wilderness outside the Justice Manor with just a few movements.

  The silver halo slowly dissipated, leaving faint bloodstains on the ground, but Xiao Bai was nowhere to be seen.

  In mid-air, that mysterious fox howl still lingered on and on, only slowly fading away after a long time. Corresponding to it, as if appearing out of thin air, Xiaobai's slender figure once again appeared in mid-air, slowly falling down.

  She lowered her head, looked at the bloodstain on the ground, gritted her silver teeth, and her face was filled with anger. Just now she had been careless for a moment, and hadn't expected that Shangguan Ce would stoop to such base means in order to save his own life, and instead had fallen into his trap, almost losing her life.

  Fortunately, she was not an ordinary person, but a nine-tailed celestial fox.

  The fox has nine tails!

  It cannot be counted!

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  The night wind was cold and came from afar, blowing on my face, with a real chill.

  Xiao Bai stood in the courtyard, composed himself, and then slowly turned around, looking towards that dark little hut.

  She walked in slowly.

  In the midst of the quiet darkness of the old mansion, it was as if the intense and thrilling battle that had just occurred had never happened at all.

  Her figure stood at the door of the house, under the dim starlight of this night, her figure now looked a bit more elusive, and seemed to have added a few points of eeriness. However, it was clear that Xiaobai would not be afraid of this atmosphere like ordinary people, she was originally the ancestor of these evil spirits, if you say that pretending to be a ghost, let alone humans, even if there were real ghosts coming, they might not be able to compare with her, and who knows which one would be scared away.

  At this moment, Xiaobai's bright eyes swept through the dark room, and in the middle of it, she carefully looked at several coffins in the house. In her eyes, a few threads of puzzled gaze flashed by. However, in the end, her attention was still focused on the coffin placed in that quiet corner.

  "Come out, I know you're in there." Xiaobai didn't walk over, just stood there and said faintly.

  No one answered, some were just silent.

  The witch who was hiding in the coffin and couldn't move, I don't know what his mood is like at this moment. He thought he could deceive heaven and earth with his plan, but he didn't expect to be discovered by Shangguan Ce and Xiao Bai one after another. Even inside the coffin, there was actually a living person who came in earlier than him, and he didn't even notice.

  I guess I'll just have to accept that it's probably going to end in failure anyway...

  Xiaobai's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and she took a step forward, but immediately stopped again, looking around the dark surroundings with an even more bewildered expression. It seemed as if there was something in the depths of this darkness that made her hesitant to move forward.

  She fell silent for a moment, then said: "I know your identity. On that day in the Demon-Subduing Cave, you must have seen me too. Since that's the case, we've only met and there's no grudge between us. I just have one thing to ask of you."

  Her voice floated in the house, while outside the north wind was still whistling. Earlier, Shangguan Ce had smashed a big hole in the wall, and now it seemed that quite a bit of cold air was blowing in from that hole.

  After a while, the witch's voice suddenly came from that coffin: "Not bad, I remember you, what do you want to ask me?"

  Xiao Bai raised an eyebrow and stared at the coffin, saying: "Can't you come out and talk?"

  The witch paused for a moment, then said slowly: "I like it this way, you have something to say, just say it."

  Xiao Bai hummed and said: "Alright, I won't waste my breath either. Let me ask you, what is the origin of Tian Huo?"

  As soon as this was said, the witch doctor was visibly startled. After a moment, he said in a low voice: "What do you ask this for?"

  Xiao Bai said faintly, "That day your master agreed to my request, but didn't follow through before dying. I finally found out that there was still you, a leftover, so naturally I came to ask you for an explanation."

  The witch hummed and said, "He is not my master, only Witch Girl is."

  Xiaobai shot back with a smirk: "And what exactly have you been doing all these years?"

  The witch remained silent for a long time before saying, "What I am doing is not for the sake of making all people in the world understand reason."

  Xiao Bai was somewhat impatient and said, "Forget it, I don't care about your reasoning, nor do I want to bother with it. I just want to know my business, are you willing to say or not?"

  The witch again fell silent for a while, then slowly said: "You should know that the five tribes of Nanjiang are the descendants of the witch tribe?"

  Xiao Bai furrowed his brow and said, "How is it?"

  The witch said faintly: "The secret of the witch clan should be inherited by the descendants of the witch clan. That's all I can say, don't ask again."

  Xiaobai repeated the two inexplicable sentences of Wu Yao in her heart several times, but there was no change on her face. She just hummed coldly and said: "Pretentious nonsense!"

  Having said that, she seemed to have made up her mind and took big strides towards the coffin where the witch was. The house wasn't very large, with several coffins scattered around haphazardly. After just a few steps, she came across one, and after another two steps, she would reach the coffin where the witch lay.

  In the darkness, something seemed to be lurking, stirring restlessly, staring straight at Xiaobai's figure.

  Xiao Bai's face was expressionless as she watched, just about to continue walking forward. But in the blink of an eye, her body suddenly spun around, transforming from a slow and gentle pace to one that was swift and fierce, like a rabbit escaping or a bolt of lightning. Her right hand shot out, with long and slender fingers, and grabbed hold of the massive coffin beside her.

  Rumble!

  A loud rumble, the enormous coffin, which looked almost twice as large as Xiaobai's body, was incredibly lifted up by Xiaobai with just five slender fingers!

  And what's even more astonishing is that Xiaobai's entire body immediately floated out of the small house, and with her five fingers exerting force, she was actually holding this massive object in her hand and took it away.

  A huge coffin floated in mid-air, emitting a low hum, "Wooo" echoing softly, casting a massive shadow over Xiaobai's slender body, looking truly eerie.

  Even the wokou in the coffin in the wall corner was stunned by Xiao Bai's sudden and strange behavior.

  The darkness in the room seemed to be disturbed by Xiaobai's strange behavior, and a fierce airflow burst out, emitting an eerie "hissing" sound.

  Only to see Xiao Bai fall into the courtyard of Yi Zhuang, without hesitation, his whole body gathered strength, and a faint white light flashed on his five fingers. His right arm swung violently, and the huge coffin was pulled by a great force, crashing onto the hard stone slab under Xiao Bai's swinging arm.

  Boom!

  A deafening roar echoed far and near, choking dust flew everywhere like water vapor, the entire massive coffin was shattered into pieces, splintered wood chips flying all over.

  Xiaobai had already hidden to one side, and the sharp wooden splinters didn't faze her, but those filthy flying dust particles were something she couldn't bear. And through that thick smoke, suddenly, a violent coughing fit was heard, and after a moment, a figure stumbled out of the dusty cloud, clothes tattered and covered in dust, looking utterly disheveled.

  Inside the hut, the witch only felt her hair standing on end, staring blankly, and there was actually someone hiding in the coffin next to this small hut. For a moment, the witch felt that the surroundings were indeed eerie and suspicious everywhere.

  Just as he inadvertently looked down, he found that the fat man who was in the same coffin with him had a few more sarcastic eyes, and at the same time, there seemed to be a few more relieved colors.

  Outside the courtyard, the flying dust gradually subsided. The person who stumbled out of the coffin was crawling to one side, gasping for fresh air. Xiaobai stretched out his hand and waved it a few times in front of him, fanning away some of the remaining smoke and dust, slowly approaching the person.

  The man turned around and let out a dry laugh.

  Xiao Bai looked at him carefully, suddenly stunned, and exclaimed: "How is it you?"

  That man let out a bitter laugh, seemingly also feeling somewhat embarrassed, stretched out his hand to wipe the dust off his face, and dryly said: "Naturally it's this great immortal me..."

  The person who appeared in front of Jiuweitian Hu Xiao Bai's face was unexpectedly Zhou Yixian, who claimed to be "Xianren Zhilu, Tihekou Shenxiang".