Master of Ten Thousand Foxes

"Calculating the time, it should be executed by now, right?

"Little Mushroom, so, you... do you have anything to say?"

The interrogation room was silent for a long time until Little Mushroom’s hoarse voice finally sounded.

He hadn’t spoken for so long that his words were unclear, and his sentences were disjointed.

"I... I don’t want to die... Some secrets don’t need to be kept anymore...

"Heluo has a Great Treasure Vault.

"The Immortal Thief Stream once had three families that discovered that vault together.

"The entrance is in the underground parking lot of Junle Supermarket in Cangyang County Town."

"Yangpeng Lake was not my senior brother before we discovered that vault.

"The previous senior brother went into the vault and brought out a lot of good stuff.

"But there’s a problem with that vault, a big problem.

"After the previous senior brother came out, his hair turned white, his skin wrinkled, and he lost more and more weight.

"In seven days, he turned into a dried corpse.

"On the eighth day, that dried corpse disappeared.

"The vault door had also changed its place.

"There is no entrance in the underground parking lot of Junle Supermarket anymore."

Song Yin’s voice came from the speaker in the interrogation room again.

"What good things did your previous senior brother bring out from the vault?"

Little Mushroom thought for a long time, panting heavily, his head drooping as if it was too heavy.

This question, he might not really know, or he might not be able to recall, and he just answered.

"He brought out... the item that helped Yangpeng Lake advance to Sequence Six."

...

In the office, Song Yin listened to the confession while tapping on the keyboard to record the intelligence into a document with clattering sounds.

"Heluo Treasure Vault... After the former senior brother of the Immortal Thief Stream explored it, it caused mutations..."

Soon, the Little Mushroom on the screen ran out of energy, his head tilted, and he passed out.

The female secretary behind Song Yin was full of surprise.

"Boss, how did you know the Dark World caught a remnant of the Immortal Thief Stream?"

Song Yin grinned as he sent the intelligence document to the Secret Brain Office and explained while smiling.

"Because the Immortal Committee used big data to find a list of remnants of the Immortal Thief Stream."

"And I personally sent that list to the admin’s email on the Dark World forum."

"Remember, today’s content is confidential. Don’t mention it to anyone."

"Especially not to the Immortal Technique Masters. They mustn’t find out."

Song Yin saw the secretary nod and then looked at the lush flowers growing in the corner of the room.

"He should have heard it too, right?

"But it doesn’t really matter."

...

In the cafeteria.

Bai Mo had just finished getting dinner and sat down with his disciple but hadn’t touched his chopsticks yet.

"Ow!"

Jujube Cake picked up a piece of fried chicken with its paws and tossed it into its mouth, chewing happily with its eyes closed.

Bai Mo picked up his chopsticks and frowned.

"Heluo Treasure Vault?

"Listening to Little Mushroom, there are other good things in that vault? Can it serve as the hope of the Immortal Thief Stream?

"Could it even be possible that the Immortal Thief Stream only stole the edges, and the real big treasures are still inside?"

Bai Mo clicked his tongue, took a sip of seaweed egg soup.

"Although the vault has disappeared without a trace...

"However, let’s add a task for the Fire Toad to patrol Heluo!"

...

Under the dark clouds, the gale howled.

Swoosh...

The small car broke through the raging wind carrying sands and rushed into the excavation site.

Bai Mo sat in the car, sipping hot tea, holding a Copper Plate, and still checking the documents.

[...I saw the Alchemy Furnace that Su Zi Immortal brought back from Douluo Heaven!]

[I have some doubts about whether that is really an Alchemy Furnace?]

[From the size, it looks like a hand warmer for winter]

[And it’s a women’s model, more compact and portable]

[Can it really carry out Alchemy? I remain skeptical]

Bai Mo rubbed the Copper Plate, thought for a moment, and then looked at the next part.

[The Marquis was very happy that the Wine Dance Immortal brought back a big Alchemy Furnace from Douluo Heaven]

[That’s the best achievement the Cyan Moon Pill Palace has had in thirty years]

[That Alchemy Furnace is as big as a pot!]

Bai Mo figured it out... It turns out there are big and small Alchemy Furnaces brought back from Douluo Heaven? And the bigger, the better?

After reading one side, Bai Mo went to look at the reverse side of this Copper Plate.

[...Although the Marquis strongly discouraged it, I still very much want to try it]

[Although some have gone mad in Douluo Heaven, aren’t there successful ones like Wine Dance Immortal?]

[Once successful, one becomes a Master of Sequence Five Grass Pill]

[Isn’t the Immortal Path just like this? Infinite scenery lies on perilous peaks, ascending to high places, perhaps one might see the most splendid clouds or step into an abyss and turn to dust]

[Reflecting on the past thousand years, my Dao Heart is reinforced]

[Let’s give it a try]

Bai Mo smacked his lips, not knowing how to comment.

Then he saw the next piece of document.

[...Marquis gave a lecture today, repeating the taboos of Douluo Heaven]

[She said, Douluo Heaven is a very strange place, and once we enter, we will immediately understand]

[She said that in Douluo Heaven, we must remember firmly, deadlocked, never listen more, look more, or think more, grasp the Alchemy Furnace as soon as you touch it and return immediately]

[She said that if the altar beneath starts to shake, even if you haven’t touched the Alchemy Furnace, you must not linger and return at once]

[She said that once the altar collapses, the worshiper can no longer leave intact, must leave a part of themselves in Douluo Heaven forever]

Bai Mo felt increasingly ominous as he read.

Just as he was about to look at another Copper Plate, he heard the sound of a car stopping with a "swish".

"Have we arrived?"

Bai Mo opened the car door, and together with Small and Big Eyes, Butterfly Knot, and Overalls, stepped out of the car and saw a towering altar standing at the excavation site!

It was like a pillar, like a slender tower, rising straight into the sky.

"Very well.

"Let me go up first and try it out."

Just as Bai Mo was about to climb the platform, he suddenly heard the noise of his disciples in the distance.

"Whimpering!"

"Howling!"

"Whimpering!"

Bai Mo turned his head to look and saw a group of foxes running from afar.

They were all wearing strange green robes and green crowns... yes, green crowns.

Bai Mo grinned, about to laugh, but saw the group of creatures forming into a phalanx at the foot of the Bronze Altar, each sitting down and posing like immortals meditating.

The robes and crowns they wore were made of grass leaves, ugly and clumsy.

The crowns were stacked with thick grass leaves, positioned between triangular ears, and looked even stranger.

But each one of them proudly looked at their master.

"Whimpering!"

"Howling!"

Although they didn’t know exactly what the master was going to do on the altar... according to ritual, there needed to be a team of robed immortals at the altar’s foot.

Bai Mo crouched down, grinning, and helped White Necklace straighten the crown and tugged at Pang Youyou’s grass-leaf collar.

"Very good!

"You shall stay at the foot of the altar and help master complete this ritual!"

As his words fell, a fierce wind arose beside him, and a Fire Cloud formed underfoot!

The Five-Colored Fire Cloud carried him, soaring straight to the top of the altar’s platform.

Passing through the sharp winds and stepping off the Fire Cloud, he stood on the highest platform.

Blown by mountain winds, he saw the clouds above were still far, far away.

Below, the disciples were in character, shaking their heads, as if reciting incantations.

"Whimpering!"

"Howling!"

"Whimpering!"

"Howling!"

Small and Big Eyes, Butterfly Knot, and Overalls, these three, unconsciously donned grass leaf robes and mixed in with the phalanx, "whimpering and howling", speaking in fox tongues, nodding and swaying.

Wasn’t this the so-called monkey wearing a crown?

Bai Mo was about to laugh but met the gazes of Hu Hufeng and Piaopiao Xue looking up.

These two had green crowns tied to their heads, their eyes filled with worry and fear.

"There’s no need to fear."

Bai Mo beckoned downward, smiling to comfort his disciples.

Then, he slightly raised his head towards the heavens and began to chant his knowledge.

"There are infinite types of Immortal Grass, with seven major domains of knowledge, including root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, seed, nerve.

"I once studied Sword Casting Immortal Root, comprehending the principle of root system plunder..."

On this high altar, as he chanted, the sound of others chanting began to ring beside his ears, one layer upon another, like the sound of pine waves.

"There are infinite types of Immortal Grass, knowledge spans six major domains..."

"I once studied Harlan Zhongli, comprehending the principle of plant fruits..."

"I once studied Purple Pottery Millet, comprehending the principle of plant stems and roots..."

Bai Mo ignored these strange voices and continued chanting.

"...Sword Casting Immortal Root, stems grow from roots..."

As he chanted, it seemed the figures around him were emerging, all dressed in wide robes with large sleeves, wearing crowns, earnestly chanting.

Bai Mo still ignored them, continuing to chant.

"...Sieve tubes within stems are unusual, having five thick and six thin, with nerves spreading throughout...

"...Immortal Root nerves are extraordinary..."