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There was a famous shop in Zhongli City called Hé Shàn Táng[1], where customers would line up from one end of the street to the other every day to buy meat buns. The business was so good that their peers were jealous.

In the past, the shop opened at around dawn, with a few large steamers placed at the door, and the aroma of the steamed dumplings could be smelled by anyone in town. But today was a different story, as it was well past the hour, and people had been queuing for hours, but they didn’t open the door, so some of them knocked on the door. Who has ever seen a merchant who is not doing business? That’s unreasonable.

Not long after, the owner wiped his sweaty face and came out with a pained smile, “I’m sorry… I don’t know who has bought all the buns today… Please go and buy them elsewhere.”

As soon as they heard that someone had bought all the buns, they all walked away muttering.

The owner himself was helpless, too. According to Xiao’Er, he had just opened the door early in the morning and before the steamers were set up, two figures came by like a whirlwind, one snatching a steamer basket and running away. He was just about to yell at the bandits when he saw a silver ingot weighing five taels of silver tossed in his path and grabbed it.

He heard the two bandits in front of him shout, “We’ll take all the meat buns, sorry!”

The two people were like ghosts, and it was impossible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young. The boss has been in business in Zhongli City for more that ten years, but he has never encountered such things. It was said that in some places, fox fairies would appear and take away the food and clothing of mortals, leaving behind money and money. So those people who took the meat buns are also fox fairies, right? Eh…….hungry fox fairies.

As for the meat buns, they are already in the stomachs of the two ‘Fox Fairies’ at the moment.

Xuanji was so hungry that she had buried her head and was eating quickly, not caring even if she choked. Next to her, Yu Sifeng is no better than her, holding two buns in one hand, didn’t even frown while eating.

The two of them are really hungry. At first, they were both injured and couldn’t move, so they starved for five days in a cave with no snails or frogs, with nothing but water. Later when Xuanji’s internal wounds recovered, they went out of the cave to pick some wild fruits to eat. But all the flints on their bodies were washed away by the water and the cave was damp, so they couldn’t make a fire to cook. In the end, the two ate wild fruits until they were sick of them, Xuanji was so hungry, she wanted to catch ants to eat. Fortunately, Yu Sifeng had the good sense to drag her out of the cave and fly straight to Zhongli City after recovering from his injuries.

In order not to frighten the people in the city, they flew back to the mountains on their swords and ate all the steamed buns with water from the spring.

Xuanji was so satisfied that she held her protruding belly in her hands, lay down on the stone and hiccupped, saying, “Meat buns are really the most delicious buns in the world.”

Yu Sifeng was not much better, but at least he knew to wash his hands and face in the water, comb his untidy hair, and then beckoned to her, “Come here and clean yourself up.”

Xuanji was too exhausted to move and shook her hand lazily: “Let’s talk about it later… Anyway, there’s no one here.”

He sighed and came over to wash her hands and face, and at the same time combed her unruly hair with water and put wove it into a bun on her head, but it seemed he was not very good at combing women’s hair, as the bun looked dangerously shaky.

“My wound is almost healed, and my power is back. Let’s go and find Linglong and Minyan.”

Yu Sifeng held her bun up and tied it back again and again, and finally lied to himself that it wouldn’t fall apart, so he let go.

Xuanji was originally lazy like a cat who wanted to go to sleep after she had eaten her fill, but as soon as she heard the names Linglong and Minyan, she jumped up and said, “Let’s go look for them right away. Maybe they’re still at Gao’s Mountain!”

Yu Sifeng looked at his muddy clothes, then looked at Xuanji who also looked as if she had emerged from a mud-pit, and found themselves in an awkward state. Both of them looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.

However, the parcels of clothes they had brought with themselves had been placed with the Fang family, and they do not have time to go and change. They only patted themselves clean with water to wash the mud on top, then set out to find the others.

Because they were worried about encountering those demons again, they decided to fly with their swords and fly close to the top of the trees, so that they could escape quickly in case of any emergency.

However, they spent the whole morning climbing Gao’s Mountain, but not only could they not find Ling Long and the others, there was no sign of any demon, not even the cave where Ting Nu went to hide from the rain.

“That day, I seemed to have seen someone set off an early warning signal.” Yu Si Feng searched the cave for a while, but didn’t find a single clue, so he sighed and said.

Xuanji leaned against the wall in a daze and whispered, “It must be Linglong and the others… could they have been captured by the demon?”

Yu Sifeng shakes his head: “Those demons want to kill us for revenge, so they won’t leave us alive. They must have fled after we couldn’t find them. Let’s go to the Tianji Pavilion first to see if the Dinghǎi Iron Chain has been destroyed.”

Xuanji had no choice but to fly with him to the top of Gao’s Mountain. The Purple Fox’s extravagant palace was clearly visible to the eyes. This time they had experience and did not go into the maze.

Yu Si-feng took out his short sword and walked in front, saying, “Stay close, for I am afraid those demons are still inside, we must be careful.”

Xuanji couldn’t find her sword after it was snatched by Zihu, so this time she was holding Yu Sifeng’s sword, which was a bit heavy and not very easy to use.

Soon they arrived at Tianji Pavilion. Yu Sifeng listened intently for a long time, but there was no movement inside. He gave Xuanji a wink, signaling her to come and cover him. He quickly rushed up, with tense muscles and his qi poured into his short sword, prepared to react immediately.

However, there was no one in the Tianji Pavilion. He slowly withdrew his position and beckoned to Xuanji, “Come in……. something is not right here.”

Xuanji looked around after entering and said, “It’s nothing… it seems to be a little brighter.”

She remembered that the Tianji Pavilion was dark and closed, because the Purple Fox kept her body here. But now it’s not dark, it’s bright, and the mountain breeze is blowing in.

“That wall is gone.” Yu Sifeng pointed to the east side, where all the walls had been removed, and that was why it was so bright.

He touched the edge of the wall and it was so smooth that it was as if someone had used a huge knife to cut through the wall very carefully.

“Ah, I remember this wall was originally nailed with iron chains.” Xuanji looked around and finally confirmed that this was the wall with cables and charms attached to it.

Yu Si-feng frowned deeply. By all means, it’s not easy to destroy a sacred weapon like the iron chains, otherwise the imprisoned demon would have been rescued long ago, so why wait so many years? What exactly was the origin of those demons? They were able to remove the walls that were nailed to the cables with ease.

They deduced that the Haiwan Mountain Dinghǎi Iron Chain must have been destroyed, and they don’t know the situation of the other six directions yet, but according to the way those demons work, after Zhongli City, they should be heading northeast. There are many mountainous areas and he has no idea where the Dinghǎi Iron Chain could be hidden.

“Sifeng, do you think the Bi Fang bird used fire to burn them? Burn the wall down.”

Xuanji touched the smooth cut surface and faintly felt some of Bi Fang’s demonic aura.

Yu Sifeng slowly shook his head, “I don’t know, in fact… this is the first time I’ve heard about the Dinghǎi Iron Chains, and I’ve also just learned that… there are so many enlightened demons in the world who have gathered together.”

If the plan of those demons is to destroy the iron chain and save the big demon, should they stop it or not? No… the question now is not whether they should, but whether they can. Now that the five of them are scattered, he and Xuanji can’t fight them at all.

After thinking for a while, he turned his head and said, “Xuanji, I’m afraid there’s something wrong with this matter. We are now nearest to Fu Yu Island in the East Sea, so let’s go find the Island Master. If we’re lucky, Ruo’Yu and Minyan will be together, and they’ll find Ling Long, they’ll go to Fuyu Island first. Let’s go to the Fu Yu Island and meet up with them.”

Xuanji nodded and suddenly thought of something, smiling, “This is the perfect time to confirm the quota for this year’s Flower Hairpin Tournament. This year’s competition is being held at Fu Yu Island, maybe you can meet your fellow disciples. I’m sure the brothers from the Shaoyang School will be there too.”

In his heart, he really didn’t want to see anyone from the Lize Palace. There was no way for him to explain to anyone that the mask had been removed, but it was still crying. After a long time, he whispered, “All right… let’s go now.”

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[1]: 和善 (hé shàn) – good-natured, 堂 (táng) – hall.

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