“If it weren’t for that busybody Golden Core cultivator who came looking for death, my Blood Sacrifice Array would not have been delayed until now.” The Blood Fox sneered and flung out his tail, sweeping away the spirit sword stuck on the array, and the Blood Sacrifice Array once again began to gleam with white and red glows. “But this is alright too. After my son’s resurrection, as long as I devour the both of you, I can at least complete my Core Formation immediately. Hahaha!”

　　“Stop!” Streams of blood seeped out from the Blood Sacrifice Array, spreading quickly in all directions with most of it spreading towards the small town. Lonemoon panicked and said, “Blood Fox. If you dare to massacre the town, my Blackheaven Sect will never let you go.”

　　The Blood Fox’s laughter grew louder. “Blackheaven Sect? So what? There’s only two of you here, plus one less than qualified civet cat. As long as I kill all of you, who would know that I was the one who set up the array?”

　　“Hey…” Suddenly, a voice rang out. Shen Ying, who had been silent till that point and was within the formation array, raised her hand. “You seem to have forgotten about me.”

　　“Who are you?!” Shocked, the Blood Fox turned back abruptly. When had this person entered? Was there such a person there before? Moreover…

　　“Why are you not affected?” She could move around freely in the ancient Spiritual Annihilation Array! How was that possible?!

　　“Shen Ying!” Lonemoon was delighted. Holy shit! He had totally forgotten that this cheat had also come along. “Quick, destroy this Spiritual Annihilation Array!”

　　“What array?” Shen Ying looked around. How do I destroy it?

　　“This thing on the ground that’s glowing!” Lonemoon shouted loudly. “You just have to use the spirit swords fallen on the ground nearby to slash at some of those drawings on the ground!”

　　“Oh.” Shen Ying conveniently grabbed a sword from the ground.

　　“You wish!” The Blood Fox’s eyes bulged as his fox tails directly targeted Shen Ying. But just as his tails were about to impale her, she suddenly turned back and grabbed the tails, twisting them into a bundle and stopping them from moving another inch forward.

　　The Blood Fox was shocked. He wanted to retract his tails, when Shen Ying suddenly pulled with great force and blood immediately splattered out. The Blood Fox’s remaining six tails had been pulled out in one go.

　　The Blood Fox broke out into sad and shrill cries. Unable to maintain his human form, he tumbled about the array in pain.

　　“Oh man. It broke off!” Shen Ying appeared surprised as she tossed away the long fox tails in her hands. “I didn’t use much strength though.”

　　Lonemoon: “…”

　　Yi Qing: “…”

　　Civet cat: “…”

　　I suddenly feel I’m not needed!

　　Not bothering with the fox anymore, Shen Ying picked up a sword and moved directly towards the glowing array, and then slashed at the ground with the sword, sticking half of it deep into the earth. A breaking sound was heard as cracks immediately surfaced from the array and the glow grew much dimmer, but it had still not entirely fallen apart.

　　All Shen Ying could do was to continuously push the sword deeper into the ground. After a while, she felt like that was inconvenient, so she stood up and raised her leg with the intention to stomp the sword into the ground; thus, it was with much force that she stomped on it…

　　With a great rumbling noise, not only the array, but also the surroundings shook tremendously. The ground immediately split apart creating long fissures the width of an arm’s length. The array had been completely destroyed, and the white glow it was giving off faded.

　　Lonemoon: “…” You can just smash everything with a single stomp. Why bother with swords!

　　Yi Qing immediately relaxed. The previous sensation of constraint had disappeared, and even the loss of Spirit Qi had ceased. But just when he stood up, the fox demon on the ground transformed into a cloud of red smoke in an attempt to flee.

　　Yi Qing conveniently used a sword move to transform and direct dozens of spirit swords to pin the demon on the stone wall so that there was nowhere for him to escape.

　　“Master, how should we deal with this fox demon?”

　　Shen Ying looked at the Blood Fox who was half dead on the stone wall, and a trace of uncertainty flashed across her face. She was just about to speak, when Lonemoon stepped forward and said, “There’s no need to ask. This fox demon wanted to massacre the city—the death of such a frenzied and unscrupulous demon won’t be regretted.”

　　“Hmph, just… kill me if you want!” sneered the Blood Fox. His body was bleeding out ceaselessly, yet he remained fierce. “My only regret is that I didn’t manage to kill those mortals in the town to avenge my wife and son.”

　　“You truly have no remorse!” Lonemoon was about to end its life.

　　However, Shen Ying suddenly said, “Hold on a second, not so fast.”

　　“No way, Shen Ying.” Lonemoon pulled at her sleeve. With a face filled with disagreement, he asked her in a low voice, “Don’t tell me you sympathize with this demon and want to let him go? That Fiendish Cultivator wasn’t evil in nature so it was understandable to let her go! But this fox demon obviously emanates an immensely bloody aura. He’s bloodthirsty in nature, so he could harm way more people in the future if released.”

　　“No, I just haven’t thought through some stuff. Aren’t you all curious…” She pointed at the Blood Fox who, despite having all his tails pulled out, was still subconsciously protecting that dead infant with his broken tails. “The one on his tail. Is that really his son?”

　　“Probably. Why would he risk his life otherwise?” Lonemoon replied.

　　“But didn’t he just say that the kid was born from a human?”

　　“Yes! He just said so.” He nodded. “He fell in love with a human being. He is a demon and with the demonic aura he possesses, there was no way he could live with the human. This is why there’s a saying that humans and demons take different paths. Humans have always been afraid of demons, so it’s very normal to discriminate against a human in love with a demon. And that’s exactly why he wanted revenge on the people in that town.”

　　“Humans and demons really can have children?”

　　“Guess… so? Isn’t there one here?”

　　“Aren’t their reproductive systems different?”

　　“Oh…” This was a question he really had not considered. So after all that thinking, this was what she actually wanted to ask?

　　“You see, theoretically, different species are controlled by different gene structures thus will have varying reproductive methods and also reproductive rates, hence the mixing of genes among species will be controlled and restricted, so different species will not be able to procreate together.”

　　“Uh…” Why did it suddenly become so scientific? He studied finance previously, not biology. She couldn’t understand him at all. But… for some reason, it sounded logical. What was going on?

　　“Separate reproductive systems have resulted in restrictions, thus humans and animals cannot procreate. So then…” She tilted her head. “Where did that kid come from?”

　　Lonemoon and Yi Qing: “…”

　　After half a minute, everyone turned back to look at the fox demon on the wall, and suddenly his fur seemed to look a tinge greenish.

　　(⊙ o ⊙)

　　Nevertheless Shen Ying continued to ask with a serious look, “Hey. Are you sure… you’re the biological father of that kid?”

　　Blood Fox: “…”

　　A while later…

　　Pu!

　　The fox spewed a mouthful of blood. His mouth twitched but not a single word came out. After a moment, his head dropped to the side and then he breathed no more—he had suffocated himself to death.

　　Lonemoon and Yi Qing: “…”

　　Their two gazes turned back onto Shen Ying.

　　“Why are you all looking at me?” Shen Ying paused. “Did I say anything wrongly?”

　　Lonemoon: “…” Holy shit, I don’t even know where to begin.

　　Yi Qing: “…” Same here.