Not a deity, she said, but did Zhao Yichen have any other choice at the moment? The possibility of entering a contract with a demon crossed his mind but what else could he do to save himself in this situation?
'I agree.' Zhao Yichen replied mentally. 'So please, save me.'
Since it had already turned out this way, he could only accept the consequences of his action by making a deal with the devil.
A sinister laughter was followed, as if she was deeply pleased with his answer.
"Then bleed more for me, my sweet human and I shall grant you your wish."
F*ck. What did she mean he had to bleed more? Couldn't she see that he was already dying from blood loss? She was really a devil, wasn't she?
As his blood seeped into the ground below him, the ancient seal, where he happened to lie on started to crack. An earthquake followed, startling the four men who kidnapped Zhao Yichen. They struggled to keep standing and held onto the boulders for support.
"What's going on?! Why's the ground shaking?"
This wasn't the first time they were here. In fact, they were already accustomed to the mountainous terrain as people rarely came to this place. Many travelers were lost here, unable to return home. That was why it was normal to see dead bodies and skeletons in this area.
What better place to hide Zhao Yichen's remains? This place was perfect.
A gust of wind followed, with the blurry fog, they could hardly see a fox spirit emerging from the ground where Zhao Yichen's limp body lies. Zhao Yichen struggled to open his eyes but with his remaining energy finally depleted, he allowed himself to succumb into the darkness.
So in the end, he would die? He shouldn't have put his faith in a demon. How naive he was to fall under such a trick again? Shouldn't he have learned his lesson the first time he was betrayed, leading him into this situation?
As if weeping for his impending death, the dark sky allowed the heavy rain to pour down, drenching everyone and everything in its wake.
On the other side of the Qingqiu mountain, the fox spirit possessed the dead body of an eighteen year old woman who was pushed to death by her cousins. Her eyes suddenly opened and the fox spirit found herself lying on some rock below the cliff.
How many centuries had it been since she was sealed by those hateful members of the Li family? The fox spirit wasn't sure, but she didn't want to think of the past at this moment.
Her legs were fractured, even her right arm was broken. Using the faint magic the fox spirit had left, she healed the wounds and injuries of her host. This body will do for now. So long as this body wouldn't reject her, there shouldn't be any problem with her mingling with humans.
She slowly stood up and looked at the clothes she was wearing as she tried to delve into the memories of the poor girl who had recently lost her life. Suddenly, foreign memories that didn't belong to her flooded her mind. The fox spirit then realized that the world this woman lived in was far from the life she had in the past.
The dead woman's name was Shen Minyao. As the rain soaked her entire body wet, a sinister smile crossed on the lips of the gentle girl who was considered by everyone as trash.
Ah, this girl was so stupid. How can she allow other people to bully her, leading to her death? The fox spirit thought. Since she had now possessed Shen Minyao's body, she would make sure to get even with all the people who hurt and bullied the girl in the past.
Thankfully, Shen Minyao's body was untouched and because she had just breathed her last breath before the fox spirit possessed her body, it was easier for the fox to ingrain herself into this human body. The fox had a snippet of how to live in this modern world and was curious to see it with her own eyes.
'Interesting,' she chuckled inwardly. 'It seems like this old lady needs to learn more about this world.'
However, before anything else, she should return to that place to save the human who made the contract with her. She might not be a benevolent spirit like the other mountain guardians, but since the man released her from the seal, she owed him her freedom.
"Ah, I probably should head back to my new Contractor." She mumbled to herself, a little surprised that Shen Minyao had a nice voice.
"Well then. Let's see if this body could keep up with my pace." Shen Minyao flexed her right hand until long nails were unsheathed. A foxy smile crossed her lips and she leaped from one branch to another, making her way back to the place where her fox spirit was sealed.
When she returned, she saw the same four men hovering over Zhao Yichen's half dead body, trying to see if he was truly dead this time.
"He's dead right? Boss won't be pleased if we don't make sure he's dead."
"Well, we can just put another bullet through his head to make sure." The other one laughed, kicking the side of Zhao Yichen's body but the latter didn't respond. His eyes were blank, slowly slipping to his death.
"Now, now. I can't allow you to do that to my Contractor." The fox spirit in Shen Minyao's body said, revealing her presence to the four men.
The four men were confused to see a young woman here and couldn't understand what she was saying. Was she one of those who lost their minds and went crazy because they couldn't find the way out of Mountain Qingqiu?
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"Little girl, are you lost? Do you need help?" One of the men asked her, striding towards her with the intention to seize her. Since she had seen what they had done to Zhao Yichen, then they couldn't allow her to continue living.
Who knew what she would say to the police once they helped her get out of this maze-like mountain range of Qingqiu. It was better for them to silence her for good than give her a chance to jeopardize their mission. It was a pity that her beautiful face would be put to waste, but she could only blame herself for sticking her nose into someone else's business.
The fox spirit, who now possessed the body of the dead girl, Shen Minyao, looked at him through her eyelashes. The rain continued to pour, causing her clothes to clung tight on her body.
As a fox spirit who had lived for centuries, she could sense the malintent aura swirling around the four men near her Contractor. Ah, as expected, humans were as fickle as she remembered. They were stupid beings with great ability of self-destruction.
"You are mistaken. I'm here for that man, mister." Shen Minyao lifted a finger and pointed to the almost lifeless body of the man who broke her seal. "That little one is mine."
The man stopped on his tracks and looked at her with contempt.
"You want me dead?" Her seductive, alluring voice reached their ears. "Then let me see if you are capable of killing me." The young woman licked her lips, her eyes turning golden yellow with vertically slit pupils.
She flexed her right hand again, showing her sharp, long nails to her willing prey. The men froze still, finally sensing danger emanating from the young woman in front of them.
"Hmm, Contractor. Do you mind if I get a quick snack? I promise this will be a quick one." She told Zhao Yichen, who was almost at his limit now. He couldn't possibly hear what she was saying as he had already passed out from too much blood loss. A few more minutes and he would surely depart from the world of the living.
Since the fox spirit had been sealed for ages, her hunger for human's life essence was at its peak. While others of her kind preferred to consume infants' and priests' livers, this fox spirit wouldn't mind preying on this kind of scumbags.
Their livers might not have the quality of taste she was accustomed to, but it should be safe enough to satiate her hunger for now.
"M-monster!" The nearest man in front of her stuttered and stepped back, but it was too late for him as Shen Minyao leapt forward, slashing her sharp claw through his middle section in one move.
Blood spurt from his stomach as he fell unconscious on the wet ground. The three other men watched with wide eyes, that had an obvious sense of terror, as Shen Minyao dug her right hand into the large wound on his stomach and fished out his large liver from it.
She took a bite from it and her beautiful face contorted with disappointment. What kind of lifestyle do people have these days? His liver tasted terrible. Although she had eaten livers of alcoholic men in the past, she had no idea that people's quality of life would degenerate over time.
The three remaining men wondered if they were hallucinating or not. The person who should be dead tonight was supposed to be Zhao Yichen, but why did they feel that they were the ones being hunted instead?
No matter what, they cannot allow themselves to suffer the same fate of their fallen comrade. They took their guns and fired, aiming at the young woman, but she was too fast… way too fast for their human eyes!
Shen Minyao's body was like every human's, but because it was now being possessed by the fox spirit, her basal instinct as well as her physical attributes were heightened. She easily dodged the bullets and leapt forward to attack the remaining men.
Once they realized that they had run out of ammunition, they threw their useless guns and ran for their lives. They never thought that they would encounter such a dangerous creature in these woods. They all thought that the legend surrounding the area was just a trick to keep people away from the mountain.
"Oh, do you want to play hide and seek? Now, that's more like it!" Shen Minyao's face broke into a wide grin as she chased the three men in the thick jungle of Qingqiu. She had to admit these men were good as they knew where to go. They certainly did not run like headless chickens.
Too bad though, she knew Qingqiu like the back of her hand. There's no place here that she was unaware of. Every trail, every cave, even the stream that ran through the mountain range, she knew them all by heart. As the mountain's guardian, how can she not know the secret passages to reach certain areas?
So how could they think that they could outrun and outwit her? They must be deluding themselves to think that they could get away from her so easily. Anyway, since they brought her Contractor here, allowing his blood to break the seal that had trapped her for ages, she should at least give them some credit.
Shen Minyao narrowed her eyes and caught a slight movement to her right. Even if the rain was able to wash away their scent, she was still able to find out where they were hiding.
She slashed her claw behind the thick bushes, impaling the second man's chest with it. A shrill scream echoed within the forest, informing his other comrades that he was found and killed. His lifeless body hit the ground as the young woman pulled out her second meal of the night.
She then found the other two just as fast as she did the second one. Sighing to herself, Shen Minyao finished her snack swiftly, knowing that her Contractor was waiting for her return.
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