The Fox Comes from Outer World

I just couldn't understand how Xiao Er, who brought me half a jug of wine, could have gotten drunk with my impudent tolerance for alcohol. Not only was he drunk, his ears were also ringing, and his head was splitting. His entire body was so stiff that he couldn't move at all, as though someone had spasmed him.

I opened my eyes in a daze, and the first thing I saw was Second Miss Xiao's dignified and beautiful face. Her face was directly below my line of sight, a few feet away from me.

In a daze, I was stunned for a moment. I was drunk last night, but then I went to sleep. I should be lying on the bed right now. Second Miss Xiao has always been kind to me, so she must have taken care of me all night last night. It's understandable that she would appear by my bedside now, but why does she seem so small, a few meters away from me? Moreover, this distance was vertical and not horizontal.

"Water …"

I felt my mouth go dry, and a burning sensation of thirst burned my throat. I wanted to wave to Second Miss Xiao and ask her to pour me a cup of tea, but I found that I couldn't move my hands at all. I looked down in bewilderment, and a chill came from the bottom of my heart.

I was tied up and hung!

His hands had been cut back to his back, and his entire body had been tied up like a twist by a strange rope, which he then attached to a pillar behind him. My feet didn't hang in the air, because underneath the pillar, around my body, there was a pyramid of firewood, and now my feet were on top of the pyramid.

This was a ravine in the wilderness. The surrounding trees were tall and dense, creating a dense darkness that made it difficult for people to see what was happening in the distance. In the middle of the ravine was a piece of flat land. At the edge of the flat land, there was an eight-seater table and two chairs. In the center of the flat land, there was a pile of firewood pyramid. At this moment, I was tied to the top of the pagoda, while Miss Xiao was sitting on a chair beside the Eight Immortals Table. She was dressed in white, and had a sorrowful expression on her face.

What was going on? lynching? cremation? Or are you going to tie me up and roast me like a fox?

I looked quickly around the room, and then at everyone else — all of them looking serious, not joking; especially Second Miss Xiao, who had been treating me like her own sister. Her eyes were red, and she was glaring at me with a mixture of grief and disgust, as if she were looking at me as her father had killed her.

"Miss Xiao, you, what are you doing?"

I asked, struggling. I'm a Celestial Fox, after all. Even if my magic power is useless, it's still more than enough to deal with mortals. However, this time it was a little strange. The moment my body moved, the rope that was tying me immediately tightened, almost burying itself into my flesh! I sucked in a breath of cold air in pain, feeling a chill in my heart. Ohh, this is a genuine Immortal-Binding Rope! Moreover, it's something that exceeds my magic power! Where did Miss Xiao, a mere mortal, get such a powerful magic treasure? It looks like things are going a bit wrong.

"Hmph, you currently have no mana at all, so you are unable to break free from this immortal binding chains. The more you struggle, the more tightly you will tie yourself to it!" "Since you once saved my third sister, let me advise you – you should just stay there and don't try to escape. If you do this, you might be able to alleviate some of the pain before you die." Second Miss Xiao coldly said to me from a distance.

Die? She wants me dead?

My eyes widened as I looked at her in disbelief. "Miss Xiao, are you drunk?"

She was drinking with me last night, and that was a lot of strength. She couldn't have been drunk, too, so she tied me up now to go crazy, could she?

"Wine?" Do you still remember that pot of wine? Since you like it so much, I'll let you drink it all at once! "

This time, the one who spoke was not the Second Miss Xiao, but another familiar voice.

That voice came from behind the guards. I looked and saw that it wasn't Third Miss Xiao. Her wounds had healed and she could get up now?

I remember when Qing Ling and I left the Xiao family, her injuries from being bitten by a Golden Horned Spider had yet to heal. However, by that time, the demonic poison had already been dispelled, and it was no longer harmful to her life. However, Third Young Miss Xiao was a daughter after all and was raised in a room with a weak body. Even if her poison was cured, she would have to lie in bed for a month before she could get up. She was still in bed when we left, and it was strange to see her out in the open air in this field.

I looked carefully and saw that Third Young Miss Xiao's body was obviously still not fully recovered. She still needed the help of Hock Seng at her side to barely be able to stand firm. She was also wearing a white robe and had a white silk flower the size of a fist on her head. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief and coughed softly, looking very pitiful like a sickly beauty.

However, although Third Young Miss Xiao was delicate, her eyes weren't weak at all. Instead, they were extremely sharp and resentful. She stared at me with a look that matched Second Miss Xiao's gnashing teeth.

"Give her the wine!"

Third Miss waved her hand. Following this order, four to five warriors around her made an exception and brought out jars of wine each. They ran to the pile of firewood beneath me, pulled out the cork, and tipped the wine vat. Immediately, a strong aroma of alcohol filled the air, which assailed my nostrils and made me feel as if my soul was floating. In an instant, my limbs felt even more numb!

"Cough cough, is this wine?" I almost couldn't keep my eyes open, so I asked, squinting.

Third Young Miss leaned forward and replied, "This is an aged peach blossom wine made using the Drunken Immortal Peach Blossom that is unique to our village. How about it? It's delicious, isn't it? It's even more fragrant than ordinary peach brew. Of course, the aftereffects are also more intoxicating. "

Drunken Immortal Peach Flower? I was startled.

As Third Miss Xiao spoke, she took a torch from Hock Seng. "Fox spirit, since you like drinking so much, I'll use this to send you on your way. I won't waste your effort in helping me get the spider silk!"

After she said that, she walked over to the pile of firewood with gentle steps, looking ready to burn me to death. I cried out in shock, "You want to burn me to death? Why?! Miss Xiao, I am your savior! "

Xiao San xiaojie laughed coldly and said with a venomous tone, "Benefactor? I'm afraid you have other plans? "

What do you mean? What did this mean?

As the cold wind blew, the aroma of the wine became even more intoxicating. When I smelled the fragrance, even though my body couldn't move, my consciousness had already fully awakened. So it turns out that the wine that Second Young Miss Xiao gave me last night wasn't some peony wine at all, but that kind of aged peach blossom wine! As long as one was a fox, drinking the Peach Blossom Brewing would cause one's magic power to weaken. Furthermore, the "Drunken Immortal Peach Blossom" that Third Miss Xiao mentioned should be something even more powerful than ordinary Peach Blossom. Did she make me drink this wine to temporarily remove my magic power, then tie me up and burn me to death? Why would they do that?

In order to stall for time, I had to loudly question the third young mistress of the Xiao family. At the same time, his heart was filled with hope for a savior. Although Qing Ling had been very busy recently, she would always rush back late at night to spend the night. It was already near dawn, so why hadn't he appeared yet? Could it be that the young miss of the Xiao family has already tied me up to an extremely secluded place, causing Qing Ling to be unable to find me?

Faced with my questioning, Xiao Sanniang's eyes reddened, and she roared at me, "Why would I kill you? Don't you understand? You're the one who killed my big brother! You murderer, you bastard! Do you want to keep pretending? "