Moon Rabbit

"Little Fox, close your eyes."

Sitting outside the farmhouse, Su Yan, who was about to fall asleep from the massage, suddenly heard Sister Xi say something behind him. Before Su Yan could react, Sister Xi had already covered his eyes.

In the blizzard, a group of people dressed in thin clothes walked in the snow without fear of the cold wind.

Step by step, they approached the small farmhouse that Sister Xi was looking at. The bone-chilling wind and snow in the Northern Territory of Xia Yu seemed to be afraid of this group of people. They walked around them very smoothly, and the wind and snow did not fall on them.

Sister Xi stood up from the rock and placed Su Yan on her shoulder. She covered the little fox's eyes with her left hand and held a lantern in her right hand. The orange-red flame gradually lit up in the lantern, lighting the snowy world under the blizzard.

"You guys… It's time to go."

Sister Xi said calmly. The sky changed because of her words. The weird wind appeared in the sky and swept to the ground, turning into a dark snowstorm tornado that corroded flesh and bones. A group of tornadoes appeared out of thin air and attacked the pedestrians in the snowstorm.

The golden sword formation and the crimson flames soared into the sky as if ready to break out of the weird wind formation. 

However, the pervasive cold wind penetrated their limbs and bones in a short while. Between heaven and earth, their flesh and blood gradually eroded and vanished, leaving only their primordial spirits, which had lost the defense of their physical bodies, vulnerable to attack by the chilly wind.

Sister Xi placed the lantern and candle at the entrance to produce an attractive force that absorbed the souls.

The souls that had a physical form turned into lamp oil under the ravaging of the lantern-shaped spiritual artifact and melted into the white candle.

The lantern in Xi's hand was not a particularly precious magic tool. It was merely a tool for torturing people made by the Southern State's evil cult followers. It was a kind of lamp that used the soul to fuel flames. Sky Lantern.

Because of Xi's strength and the nurturing of spiritual energy, the originally ordinary magic tool evolved into a spiritual tool, giving birth to a lamp spirit.

Xi summoned the dark beast wind to stop the wind, and the wild blizzard dissipated.

There were no pedestrians or houses on the road.

Everything had stopped in the howling wind except for a particularly eye-catching iron cage. 

A red-eyed rabbit with a red mark on its forehead and slightly yellow fur on both sides of its cheeks was squatting in the iron cage, looking at Xi, who was walking over with a soul-burning lantern.

"Pa!"

Xi lifted the lantern and smashed it on the iron cage. The restriction and the power of the array formation tried to counterattack. Nevertheless, in the face of absolute power, the lantern broke the iron cage's restriction into pure spiritual energy and let it escape without leaving any traces.

"Alright."

Xi moved her hand from Su Yan's eyes and sealed his five senses with a secret technique. When Su Yan opened his eyes, he saw a big pink and white rabbit squatting in the iron cage with a frightened expression.

"This is our afternoon tea?"

Su Yan leaned on Sister Xi's shoulder and looked at the frightened rabbit. He looked at Xi in confusion.

Xi didn't let Su Yan watch the battle. A battle that could destroy one's flesh and bones and destroy one's soul was unsuitable for underage members of the beast race to watch, even if their parents accompanied them.

Therefore, in Su Yan's perception, he felt that Sister Xi had stood up from the rock and walked less than a hundred steps before releasing her left hand, covering her eyes, revealing a fat little rabbit.

Su Yan thought Xi was covering his eyes because she had found a silly rabbit in the rat trap. She covered his eyes and teased him like a child. He didn't know that a battle between high-level cultivators had just taken place here.

"It's a precious moon rabbit. You can't eat it."

Sister Xi reached out and pinched the rabbit's ear. Then she lifted the rabbit out of the cage. She glanced at the moon rabbit and said, "If it does not listen to me, I will make it our dinner."

Hearing this, the moon rabbit trembled even more violently.

"Moon rabbit?"

Su Yan looked at the rabbit in Sister Xi's hand and widened his eyes in curiosity.

Sister Xi glanced at Su Yan and walked back to the main city of Xia Yu. She smiled, "Hmm... moon rabbit is on good terms with us nine-tailed foxes, and I came here to pick her up. The nine-tailed fox and moon rabbit have a very deep relationship... The nine-tailed fox, the moon rabbit, and the three-legged Golden Crow had once belonged to the same faction and were subordinates of an original lifeform."

"The Nine-Tailed Fox faithfully protected the Goddess, serving as her trusted guardian against all forms of evil. The Three-Legged Golden Crow assumed the responsibility of overseeing the affairs of the ancient Eastern Region, ensuring the smooth governance of the country... The moon rabbit, known for its insatiable appetite, resided under the Goddess's care, as it possessed exceptional skills in refining medicinal pills. Their deep bond of friendship made it impossible to disregard the moon rabbit's presence."

"Oh... I see."

It turned out that the nine-tailed fox was not alone. She could still find the moon rabbit and the three-legged Golden Crow to be with her.

Su Yan looked enlightened.

"I feel it was getting worse. Do I have to hide in the Black Dragon race's territory, as my aunt said?"

Just as Su Yan was Grandma Fox's hand warmer, everyone in the brothel was in a mess.

They looked for him everywhere. Even though Jiao Nanwu dived into the river, they still couldn't find Su Yan.

His aunt's face had already turned completely black. Huayu was explaining what had happened to the girls.

Su Yan's disappearance could not be blamed on Huayu because aunt could sense everything. The guy who stole Su Yan was not like Huayu, who used drugs to hide his scent and smell in advance. The guy who stole Su Yan directly took him from Huayu's shoulder.

Even his aunt couldn't detect the intruder, let alone Huayu, whose cultivation was inferior to hers.

"Uh… Huayu, don't move."

Coming up from the river, Jiao Nanwu, who was wringing her dress, saw something out of the corner of her eye. She hurriedly called out to Huayu, who was contacting the Ten Thousand Flower Pavilion girls through the voice transmission jade. 

She took two steps forward and brushed away Huayu's long hair that was originally draped over her shoulders and ankles, revealing her fair back that showed beautiful lines.

After the light chestnut hair was swept away, everyone immediately saw the black words that appeared on Huayu's back.

It was written, "I'm borrowing the fox for a while. I'll return him before dinner."

The inscribe was Xi.

Everyone was speechless.

"Borrowing him for a while? We're from the Ministry of Rites, and we never do borrow business!"

Aunt felt a wave of anger rush through her head, and she raised her hand to repeatedly slam the table. Huayu turned her head in shock and looked at the words on her white back. She did not know when they left the inscribe, and her face was horrified.

Although she was angry, everyone was relieved to know where Su Yan had gone.

"Uh… Brother Zhou, did we come at the right time?"

As soon as they arrived at the brothel's entrance, they saw the shopkeeper smacking the table with a furious expression. Wen Juntong and Zhou You, who had originally wanted to swagger into the brothel, quietly shrank back to the door and peeked inside as if they were thieves.

"It's not the right time, no matter what time it is..." Zhou You's face darkened.

"Brother, I don't recommend you to do this. The shopkeeper will beat you to death!"