Chapter 1230: Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox

Tu Shan Yu was, after all, a monarch. At the critical moment, she dodged his disrespectful hand, and simultaneously, a small curved dagger suddenly appeared from her sleeve, striking towards him.

Chi Wen easily evaded, then deliberately took a deep breath. "What a fragrance," he chuckled. "A beauty is truly a beauty."

At this point, Yan Xuehen frowned and said, "This guy is truly annoying."

"He is indeed a bit shameless," Yun Jianyue added, a trace of coldness appearing on her face.

Yu Yanluo also strongly agreed. As women, Chi Wen's lewd behavior towards Tu Shan Yu clearly offended them as well.

A hint of worry appeared on Zu An's face. Chi Wen was already a Grandmaster, and though he seemed to have only recently broken through, he was a Grandmaster nonetheless.

Tu Shan Yu was only around eighth or ninth rank, and the fox tribe was known for not excelling in combat. She definitely couldn't defeat him alone.

Fortunately, at that moment, a series of sharp cries rang out as the Qingqiu Royal Guard arrived, immediately joining the fight to assist Tu Shan Yu.

Among them were several older individuals, likely Fox Clan elders.

With their assistance, Tu Shan Yu finally stabilized herself.

She stood in the center, directing her companions to set up formations. For a while, the two sides fought evenly.

"That's strange," Yan Xuehen murmured. "Tu Shan Yu's kicks and dodges seem sluggish several times. Does she have an injury on her leg?" As a Great Grandmaster, her eyesight was exceptional. Despite the subtle nature of the flaws, she immediately noticed several weaknesses in Tu Shan Yu's movements.

If it were her fighting, these openings would have been fatal enough.

Zu An's old face flushed with heat. Truth be told, he was the culprit. Last night, due to the prevalent reputation of 'fox spirits,' he had mistakenly assumed Tu Shan Yu was a mature woman like Empress Liu Ning, showing not the slightest tenderness or pity. After a night of intense passion, her ability to fight now was a testament to her excellent physical resilience.

"Not just that," Yun Jianyue added, "I've been waiting for her to use her enchanting arts. Legend has it that Qingqiu's enchanting arts are incredibly powerful. Even if her cultivation isn't as high as Chi Wen's, she could greatly diminish his desire to attack using these arts, and his speed and strength would also be affected. In a fight between masters, every advantage counts, and these arts could create many opportunities. Why isn't she using them?"

Yun Jianyue also offered her assessment. As a fellow master of enchanting arts, she wanted to seize this rare opportunity to observe and learn, but the fact that Tu Shan Yu never used them was driving her crazy.

"Perhaps they're difficult to use during combat?" Yu Yanluo asked, thinking such arts were most effective in everyday situations, and that an opponent would certainly be wary once a fight began.

"Of course, for ordinary practitioners of enchanting arts, it would be difficult to use them. But for the Qingqiu Monarch, her mastery must be profound enough to cast them with every gesture, blurring the line between ordinary times and combat," Yun Jianyue, also a master of these arts, spoke with authority on the matter.

Yan Xuehen then said, "She mentioned this morning that she was unwell and couldn't even see us off. Could that be affecting her?"

"Impossible," Yun Jianyue scoffed. "Unless she just lost her virginity last night, in which case she might not be able to use her enchanting arts for a short period." Yun Jianyue wasn't afraid to reveal weaknesses of the enchanting arts to them, as they were useless when fighting against Yan Xuehen anyway.

Hearing her words, the three women suddenly had an idea. They looked at Zu An with strange expressions, recalling the 'romantic misfortune' the chubby Taoist priest had mentioned earlier.

Zu An looked embarrassed. He wanted to explain but didn't know how, because they had indeed guessed correctly.

Fortunately, Yun Jianyue quickly added, "But how could that be possible?"

The other two women also dismissed the thought. Zu An had been behaving very modestly since yesterday, and the Qingqiu Monarch hadn't exchanged a single word with him. How could anything have happened?

Even if they admired Zu An, they didn't believe he could make the dignified Qingqiu Monarch offer herself to him in the middle of the night after only meeting once.

Zu An's expression became somewhat unnatural. If they knew the truth, wouldn't they skin him alive?

Thinking of last night's intimacy, his heart fluttered. As passion deepened last night, Tu Shan Yu's furry tail and ears had emerged.

In his previous life, he had seen similar things online and had always wondered if they were attached or part of the body. So, he picked them up to examine them.

To his surprise, touching them elicited continuous gasps. It turned out that the tail and ears were the most sensitive spots for a fox woman.

However, for someone like Tu Shan Yu, who had achieved cultivation, these fox features were normally hidden, only involuntarily appearing during moments of extreme passion.

She begged for mercy repeatedly, shaking her tail and trying to escape, but this only made Zu An find it more novel and even less likely to let go.

In the end, with her tail squeezed and ears stroked, Tu Shan Yu completely melted into a puddle of soft flesh...

Just then, a gasp of alarm came, and Chi Wen scoffed, "I'm tired of playing. The game ends here."

With that, he opened his mouth wide. It grew with the wind, eventually transforming into something like a giant vat.

Zu An's eyes widened. No wonder his mouth looked so strange; he possessed such an ability.

Chi Wen inhaled sharply, and immediately, a fierce gale erupted across the battlefield. Many of the fox tribe guards lost their footing, stumbling and swaying.

Tu Shan Yu continuously moved within the formation, barely helping her subordinates maintain their balance.

At that moment, a burst of wild laughter echoed, followed by a sudden increase in the suction force from the large mouth.

The fox tribe guards all linked hands, struggling to hold their ground.

However, their clothes couldn't withstand the force.

*Rip!*

A series of tearing sounds filled the air as the garments of many shattered and were sucked into the large mouth.

All that remained was a sea of pale skin, accompanied by the mortified cries of the fox women.

Only a few, like Tu Shan Yu, who had higher cultivation, were able to keep their clothes intact.

But even they were barely holding on amidst the gale, let alone helping others.

At this point, Chi Wen realized he couldn't rip Tu Shan Yu's clothes off with this move, so he retracted his large mouth. As he surveyed the panicked fox women's graceful figures, he clicked his tongue, a wicked grin spreading across his face. "Tsk tsk," he muttered, "why do these clothes have such a pungent smell?"

"Utterly shameless!" Yan Xuehen's face was frosty in the distance.

Yun Jianyue's phoenix eyes also blazed with fury. "To think the Dragon Clan has fallen to such a state!"

Yu Yanluo, meanwhile, tugged on Zu An's hand. "Ah Zu, let's help her..."

Before she could finish, Tu Shan Yu on the other side erupted in fury. As she mumbled to herself, a manifestation of a pure white fox suddenly appeared behind her, and to their astonishment, the fox had nine tails!

Zu An felt a jolt of recognition. The manifestation looked so familiar; he recalled that Daji also had a skill to summon a Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, and its appearance was almost identical to this one.

Yu Yanluo's expression changed. "Oh no, this is a forbidden technique of the Fox Clan. With Tu Shan Yu's current cultivation, she might not be able to control it."

It was similar to their Medusa forbidden arts; even Yu Yanluo herself struggled to cast it once with her cultivation, nearly costing her life.

Sure enough, Tu Shan Yu's face instantly turned pale, and the nine-tailed fox manifestation behind her flickered, as if it could dissipate at any moment.

The surrounding Fox Clan elders' expressions changed. "No, Monarch, don't! You'll lose your life!"

However, facing the Fox Clan's legendary forbidden move, Chi Wen dared not be careless. A flash of green light enveloped his body, and he revealed his true form: a monster with a dragon's head and a fish's body, charging directly towards Tu Shan Yu.

Tu Shan Yu gritted her teeth, ready to fight him to the death, when suddenly her qi and blood surged, and she spat out a mouthful of fresh blood. The nine-tailed fox manifestation behind her instantly vanished.

A cold despair filled her heart. If she hadn't been thoroughly exhausted all night yesterday, leaving her body sore and her state greatly diminished, she wouldn't have been unable to sustain even a single summoning.

Chi Wen was already attacking with supreme power. His momentum was unstoppable; even if he wanted to halt, he couldn't.

To think that after experiencing the happiest night of her life yesterday, she would face death today.

Subconsciously, she glanced in Zu An's direction, a hint of reluctance in her eyes.

But as her gaze fell upon the spot, his figure was nowhere to be seen.

She gave a self-mocking smile. Had he run away at the first sign of trouble?

No wonder her mother had told her years ago that men couldn't be relied upon.

She didn't even have the energy to resent him; her heart felt dead, and she prepared to embrace death.

Suddenly, however, a familiar voice rang out in her ear: "Look out!"

Immediately afterward, she felt herself enveloped in a warm embrace. She looked up dazedly, and her cheeks instantly flushed.

This was the man who had tirelessly toiled over her body last night. With their faces pressed close, how could she not recognize him?

With one arm, he encircled her waist, pulling her behind him, while his other hand moved to intercept Chi Wen.