The Sect Leader Has Taken in a New Female Disciple

This sudden transformation left Zhou Qing momentarily stunned.

But as he looked at the three people’s outrageous demeanor, he merely shook his head and then slowly turned around.

At the end of the alley, blood-red ripples suddenly emerged on the green stone slabs.

An enchanting woman, draped in a crimson silk dress, walked gracefully with spiritual light. The nine-tailed fox pattern embroidered on her hem seemed to move like a living thing.

She played with a cyan jade smoke gun between her jade fingers, and wisps of purple spiritual mist entwined the gun barrel.

With each step she took, the bells hanging from her waist emitted a sound that captivated the heart and spirit.

"So, are these three your subordinates?" Zhou Qing’s eyes narrowed slightly.

The woman seemed lazy, yet around her faintly swirled the shadows of nine foxes. Judging by her aura, she was unmistakably at the mid-stage Spirit Severing Realm.

Lu Yaoyao pursed her lips, eyes full of disdain.

The two seniors of the Lu Family were also of the nine-tailed Fox Race, yet they were dignified and elegant, not at all like this seductive display.

The enchanting woman’s vermilion lips parted, exhaling spiritual mist with an intoxicating aroma: "Young man, you have a discerning eye～"

Her voice seemed both distant and near, imbued with mesmerizing power. Her smoke gun lightly pointed at the three men, "These three incompetent ones are indeed under my tutelage. After all..."

Her eyes glanced meaningfully over the storage bags, "The stolen storage bags all bear their owner’s soul seals, with their cultivation, they cannot possibly break them open."

"Boss!" Upon seeing Yun Jiumei appear, the three immediately straightened up, their eyes glinting with pride.

Yun Jiumei cast them a brief glance, then fixed her gaze on Zhou Qing.

She took a gentle puff from the smoke gun, her vermilion lips parting as a cloud carrying fifty top-grade Spirit Stones slowly drifted over.

"By your attire, young man, you don’t seem to be a local." Her voice was alluringly sultry, "Consider this a gesture of friendship from me, how about it?"

Lu Yaoyao’s eyes widened, incredulously staring at the Spirit Stones suspended in the air.

This seductive fox was incredibly generous?

To offer fifty top-grade Spirit Stones just like that?

Zhou Qing remained utterly still, a flicker of blood-red light appearing in his eyes, his pupils suddenly splitting into a pair of eerie blood-colored heavy pupils.

Under the Power of Breaking Illusion from the Heavy Pupils, wisps of black mist unexpectedly entwined the surface of those seemingly translucent Spirit Stones.

They wriggled like living things, and faint hissing sounds could barely be heard.

"Hmph!"

Zhou Qing snorted coldly, as power of thunder suddenly appeared in his right hand, purple-gold lightning interweaving into a dense net of thunder in his palm, enveloping the Spirit Stones.

Yet, to his surprise, when the Power of Thunder touched the black mist, it emitted a "sizzling" corrosive sound.

Instead of being dispelled, the black mist was instead reversing towards him along the thunder light.

This poison was specifically tailored for the Spirit Severing Realm.

Zhou Qing’s eyes grew colder, his right hand suddenly clenched into a fist.

The violent power of thunder erupted instantly, transforming into a purple-gold Thunder Dragon that swallowed all fifty top-grade Spirit Stones.

Amidst the blinding electric light, the Spirit Stones along with the black mist disintegrated into powder, filling the air with a scorched scent.

A glimmer of pain flickered in Yun Jiumei’s eyes, almost imperceptible, but it vanished quickly.

She lightly shook her smoke gun, covering her mouth with a coquettish laugh: "Young man, you’re really wasting precious resources～ Those were top-grade Spirit Stones, how could you just destroy them like that."

"The Spirit Stones were genuine," Zhou Qing said coldly, a flash of cyan light in his hand, the rusty Tetanus already poised in front of him.

"But I’m not sure how much material you used to concoct the poisonous bait; I’d be afraid of having the fortune to get them but not the life to spend them."

Upon hearing this, Yun Jiumei was momentarily stunned, then burst into a fit of laughter.

She leaned lazily against the alley wall, as if the nine-tailed fox pattern on her crimson silk dress had come to life, roaming across the hem.

"Hoo——" She took a deep drag from the smoke gun, exhaling a string of smoke rings from her parted vermilion lips, which transformed into skull shapes in the air before slowly dissipating, "It seems I underestimated your insight, young man～"

Her eyes shimmered, "Fifty top-grade Spirit Stones, for the Spirit Severing Realm, it should’ve been just the right amount—not too little, not too much, and not enough to raise suspicion."

She suddenly straightened up, nine fox shadows behind her faintly visible: "I am genuinely curious～"

"How did you see through it?"