Let me Touch your Tail

Chapter 16

The scene suddenly fell silent.

The little fox looked at Feng Jin, who glanced at Yan Zhao, while Yan Zhao's eyes were angled toward Heitianba.

Feng Jin's gaze fixed on Yan Zhao, her mouth twitching in disbelief: "Little lover?"

Yan Zhao was thin and scruffy, with tattered clothes flapping in the wind and messy hair falling like a ghost.

Was she blind or was Heitianba's vision failing?

For a moment, she didn't know how to retort.

She hugged the silver fox tightly and snapped, "If not, then just make your move."

"?" Heitianba's face darkened. "You're quite the actor, aren't you? Just a moment ago, you were desperately trying to save this girl, chasing us out of the stronghold, and now you're pretending to be heartless. Don't think I can't see through your intentions! You must be trying to take advantage of my distraction to save her!"

The little fox's gaze toward Feng Jin shifted from shock to complexity as it recalled Feng Jin's unusual behavior today, thinking: So that's how it is.

Feng Jin, speechless, looked coldly at Heitianba: "What do you want from me?"

"Don't you know what I want?" Heitianba demanded harshly. "Feng Jin, I want you to cripple your own cultivation, kneel and call me 'Grandpa' three times, and then hand over the key to the Xuanguang Secret Realm with both hands!"

Upon hearing this, Feng Jin laughed instead of getting angry: "You really have some nerve! Greed knows no bounds!"

Heitianba's demeanor was as expected. He smirked with a sinister smile: "So you refuse?"

The old man's thin fingers clamped tightly around Yan Zhao's throat, causing her to struggle for breath and choke.

"You're not even willing to pay this small price. It seems this little lover isn't that important to you! You cultivators are really cold-hearted and ruthless!"

Feng Jin: "......"

To be honest, Yan Zhao wasn't that important.

If not for her senior sister's insistence, she wouldn't have bothered to chase after her.

"Since that's the case..." Heitianba dragged out his words, "Then I'll just use my cruel methods!"

He tied Yan Zhao to a pillar and reached out with a gesture. The courtyard was immediately filled with the sound of heavy mechanisms clicking.

Then, a rustling sound grew clearer, approaching the courtyard.

The fox's ears twitched, and Feng Jin frowned slightly: "What's that sound?"

Soon, they understood.

Several poisonous snakes crawled out from the corner of the courtyard.

The sound of slithering grew louder and denser. Snakes appeared from all directions, one after another, quickly covering the entire courtyard.

Looking around, they were densely packed, and there were probably more than a hundred.

Under the moonlight, the snakes' scales shimmered with a ghostly purple light, indicating they were not ordinary poisonous snakes but highly venomous spirit snakes that had been tamed.

These snakes had been hungry for days, so they didn't attack Heitianba or Pang Da but targeted Yan Zhao instead.

The hissing of the snakes made the hair on one's neck stand on end.