The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 1702 - 1698: The Power of the Fox Ancestor

The black giant fox did not respond to Li Jing’s words, instead letting out a wild laugh as its speed of devouring the Seven Emotions increased rather than diminished.

"Stop it quickly! Ordinary citizens have fragile divine souls—too much emotional energy being consumed will damage their wisdom!" Fairy Qinglian exclaimed.

Kongdu Zen Master’s expression also changed drastically, and he hurled the golden alms bowl in his hand toward the black giant fox.

Yuan Tiangang remained calm, casting a glance toward the direction of Qingqiu Mountain before transforming into a stream of light and charging at the black giant fox.

Four black figures shot back and intercepted Yuan Tiangang and the others.

Meanwhile, deep within Tianji City’s earth veins, a mass of black light emerged. Following a surge of changes, it transformed into a black fox’s head, which opened its mouth and emitted a power of absorption.

The emotional energy of Tianji City’s inhabitants surged outward, pouring into the black fox head, though its speed of devouring the Seven Emotions was far slower than in Chang’an City.

In Jianye City’s earth veins, black light flickered, and a massive fox head surfaced as well...

Across the populous cities of Southern Sub-Central Continent and West Niu Hezhou Continent, giant fox heads appeared underground, devouring the emotional energy of the city’s inhabitants.

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In the underground cave beneath Qingqiu Mountain, black light flashed wildly on a tree stump as torrents of emotional energy swarmed out, pouring into the Fox Ancestor statue.

"With this much emotional energy—though most of it is mixed emotions—it is sufficient for the Fox Ancestor to truly awaken! The grand event is complete! Haha, haha!" Chief Strategist You Su laughed maniacally, his face showing a crazed expression as he formed a hand seal and pointed.

The Fox Ancestor statue shot out from the stump with a "whoosh," transforming into black light that soared upward, instantly appearing in the Ancestor Spirit Altar, merging with the Fox Ancestor statue within the altar.

At this moment, Tu Shanxue was bearing the immense burden of the Ancestor Spirit’s power and failed to notice the changes to the Fox Ancestor statue.

Within the altar, the blood-red light of the Fox Ancestor statue abruptly intensified severalfold, sending out more concentrated red radiance. Tu Shanxue, who had initially controlled the power of the Fox Ancestor, now revealed an expression of pain.

Her body swelled and transformed again, and her aura surged fiercely, soon reaching Taiyi Peak, with faint signs of nearing the Heavenly Venerate Realm.

Yet Tu Shanxue’s expression was highly unstable, alternating between agonized groans and eerie laughter, appearing to teeter on the edge of madness.

The blood-red light emanating from the Fox Ancestor statue soon spread across Qingqiu City, and Fox Clan members in the city experienced the same swelling transformation as Tu Shanxue. Threads of blood-red light appeared on their skin, and their aura skyrocketed.

But at that moment, the bodies of many weaker Fox Clan members suddenly ruptured, spraying blood as they dropped lifelessly to the ground, evidently unable to withstand the surging power of the Fox Ancestor.

As these Fox Clan members perished, the blood-red light left their bodies and extracted all their vitality, flying toward the underground cave.

Even the stronger Fox Clan members experienced unstable aura fluctuations, seemingly on the verge of exploding and dying as well.

"Disastrous! The collected emotional energy is too excessive and too chaotic—it truly won’t work!" Chief Strategist You Su’s expression shifted as he flipped his hand to retrieve a silver-patterned disk, forming a hand seal to activate it.

A vast silver array suddenly appeared within the void of the underground cave, layers of silver patterns rapidly spreading, instantly enveloping the entirety of Qingqiu Mountain.

All the surviving Fox Clan members across Qingqiu Mountain vanished into thin air, reappearing the next moment inside the underground cave, including Tu Shanxue at the Ancestor Spirit Altar.

This woman now displayed alternating expressions of joy and rage, her eyes chaotic, clearly fully controlled by the power of the Fox Ancestor, showing no reaction to being transported to the underground cave.

Chief Strategist You Su stomped on the tree stump below him, making the black magic array on the stump emit dazzling light. Countless root-like strands of black light shot out from the stump, piercing into the bodies of those Fox Clan members who were on the brink of collapse.

The chaotic aura of these Fox Clan members suddenly found an outlet, surging wildly toward the black tree stump, circulating within it. Astonishingly, the chaotic energy was significantly calmed.

Chief Strategist You Su joined forces with the Fox Clan members within the array, forming hand seals to activate the black magic array, redirecting these energies back into the bodies of the Fox Clan members outside.

Through this repeated cycle, the Fox Clan members transported in began to gradually stabilize, no longer exploding and dying.

The same held true for Tu Shanxue. Her body was pierced with dozens of tree roots, with the chaotic power of the Fox Ancestor conducting back and forth between her and the black tree stump, slowly restoring her sanity from its crazed state.

At that moment, blood-red light flashed continuously on the cave walls as the blood-colored light groups formed from the fallen Fox Clan members outside darted into the underground cave, chaotically flitting about like headless flies.

Seeing that Tu Shanxue and the other Fox Clan members had stabilized, Chief Strategist You Su produced a fist-sized, bone-white round pearl seemingly crafted from skeletal remains, forming a hand seal and pointing at it.

The white bone pearl emitted a layer of blood-red glow as the blood-colored light groups in the cave shot over, whirling and dancing around the pearl.

Chief Strategist You Su muttered incantations as he formed another hand seal and pointed toward the white bone pearl in his hand. The blood-colored light groups darted out like swallows returning to their nests, merging into the bodies of Chief Strategist You Su’s faction of Fox Clan members in the cave.

Their bodies immediately grew dense fur, reverting to beast-like ancestral forms like the Fox Clan members outside. Yet despite their transformations, the Fox Clan within the cave retained bright and intelligent gazes, showing no signs of losing their minds.

Chief Strategist You Su’s expression relaxed slightly at this sight, as if relieved.

"Thank you, Great Elder. Absorbing the Fox Ancestor’s power through this method is much safer indeed!" The Fox Clan members within the black array looked elated, expressing their gratitude to Chief Strategist You Su.

"It’s just a small trick. Keep running the array and quickly help these clansmen adapt to the Fox Ancestor’s power within their bodies!" Chief Strategist You Su said sternly.

"Understood!" The Fox Clan members responded solemnly, continuing to run the black magic array.

"I must focus on calming the Fox Ancestor’s power within their bodies and cannot attend to other matters. What happens outside, I leave to Your Excellency to handle." Chief Strategist You Su turned to a grey-clothed man beside him and spoke.

"As you wish," the grey-clothed man replied, blending into the ground and vanishing.

Everyone inside the cave was wholly absorbed in the black magic array, paying no attention to Mi Su seated nearby. His eyes were now streaked with blood-red light, resembling the state of ancestral reversion yet showing no signs of beast-like transformation.

Meanwhile, atop Qingqiu Mountain at the Ancestor Spirit Altar, the Fox Ancestor statue, left unattended, gradually dimmed in its red glow.

However, the blood-red radiance emitted by the statue previously did not dissipate and instead continued spreading like rippling water waves, extending beyond Qingqiu City toward even farther regions.

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At this moment, within the allied forces’ stationed place, Shen Luo paced back and forth in his residence, his expression heavy.

The allied cultivators and the Qingqiu Fox Clan had become bloodthirsty in their mutual slaughter; neither side seemed willing to stop. A massive battle seemed inevitable.

Shen Luo had limited goodwill toward the Qingqiu Fox Clan to begin with. After the relentless battles, both sides had torn through any remaining facade of civility. Now, he felt no sympathy for them.

Yet from the attack on Chang’an City to the events in Tianji City, and now the Qingqiu Fox Clan’s sudden assault on allied cultivators, an unseen hand seemed to be orchestrating this entire sequence of events.

Unless he uncovered this hidden mastermind, Shen Luo could not feel at ease. Moreover, Yuan Tiangang had sent him to Qingqiu Mountain for a reason he needed to discern.

At that moment, Shen Luo’s brow twitched as his figure blurred and vanished, entering the Free and Easy Mirror.