"Also, you can bring your friends back, but you need to tell us in advance so that we can prepare the food and games your friends like."
"Okay." If he wasn't worried about keeping his mother waiting too long, he would have told her that the only thing his friends liked to eat was chicken. They could then prepare all kinds of chicken products.
"Then I'll go. I'll be waiting for you to come home!"
"Okay." After giving his reply, the familiar aura around him dissipated before long.
He let out a sigh, put away all the gold bars, and waved his arm. The barrier that had trapped him shattered into pieces.
Just as he saw the sunlight shining on the grass, a loud noise exploded.
He was startled. Concentrating his gaze, he saw that there was a huge hole smashed in his magic formation.
Si Mo: "???" What on earth had happened? He had just had a chat with his mother, and how had his magic formation ended up like this?
Fortunately, he had set up more than one magic formation for safety. Otherwise, the flowers and grass around would have suffered.
Seeing Si Mo suddenly appear not far to his side, the ghost Bai Ronglan glanced at him. "A big event happened while you were gone."
"What big event?" Si Mo asked.
"Look." The ghost Bai Ronglan raised her finger and pointed in the southwest direction, where a human body was lying.
Si Mo looked in the direction the ghost Bai Ronglan was pointing. He immediately recognized it as the human body the little fox had used. But now the body was lying there stiffly, lifeless.
The majestic Dragon God's face turned pale with fright. The pleasant mood he had felt after seeing his mother vanished into thin air. "Did the little fox lose?"
How was that possible?!
He had clearly sent a protective shield to the little fox remotely. Coupled with the jade amulet he had given her, there was no way she should have lost.
"She probably didn't lose." The ghost Bai Ronglan wasn't very sure either. After all, she had only seen her own body fall. She hadn't seen anything else.
But logically speaking, if Ronglan had really lost, Qing Zhi would have proudly announced Ronglan's death. But she hadn't even seen a trace of Qing Zhi. It couldn't be that the two foxes had died together, could it?
"Then where are they now?" Si Mo nervously looked around. All he saw was a strange floating ball in mid - air. "What's that?" He pointed at the ball and asked the ghost Bai Ronglan.
The ghost Bai Ronglan shook her head. "I'm not sure. I only saw the body fall from a high place, and then that ball appeared. It keeps changing in size and floating around. Maybe they're fighting inside it?"
Still fighting? But the body was gone. What could the little fox use to fight Qing Zhi with? Her soul body?
The little fox's soul body should be very fragile. Could it be that Qing Zhi had forced the little fox's soul body out and was torturing it?
The more Si Mo thought about it, the more upset he became. Just as he was about to use his spiritual energy to break open the ball forcefully, he caught a glimpse of the human body not far from the ball out of the corner of his eye. "Have you gone closer to see if your original body is okay?"
The ghost Bai Ronglan shook her head firmly and even took a half - step back resistantly. "The days of basking in the moonlight every day are a bit boring, but it's still better than facing some annoying things. I'm afraid I'll be sucked in if I get closer, so I'd better not."
It's good to be a ghost.
Although she was very worried that her body had been damaged, she didn't want to go over and take a look at all.
Si Mo: "..." Qing Zhi actually thought that such a Buddhist - like ghost would want to snatch the body. She was so stupid.
He frowned, first set up a formation to protect the unknown human body.
Just as he was about to attack the ball, a white light flashed before his eyes. Another deafening noise erupted, and the ball exploded.
The magic formation was on the verge of collapse from the explosion.
When the blinding white light faded, Si Mo opened his eyes and saw a little fox with white ears and a red tail walking towards him with a variegated - fur white fox in its mouth.
Si Mo: "???"
Was there something wrong with his eyes? What on earth was he seeing?
"Ronglan?" He called tentatively.
The white - eared, red - tailed fox dragged the variegated - fur fox in front of Si Mo. It first let go of the half - dead variegated - fur fox in its mouth and then replied to Si Mo. "It's me."
Si Mo took a closer look and only then noticed that there was a big hole in the little fox's ear. Its body was dirty, and its fluffy big tail showed signs of being burned by fire. It looked extremely pitiful. "How did you end up like this?"
The pitiful fox shook its head. "I don't know either. I was just fighting Qing Zhi desperately. I finally forced her back to her original form, and then my soul inexplicably left my body. Fortunately, your protective shield was reliable. It used spiritual power to condense a physical form for me. Otherwise, I would have been completely destroyed."
Si Mo let out a sigh of relief, knelt down on one knee. "It's good that you're still alive. It should be that Qing Zhi did something to the magic formation. When she returned to her original form, it pulled out your soul body."
Speaking of Qing Zhi, Ronglan, who had returned to her fox form, stretched out her paw and firmly pressed down on the struggling variegated - fur fox. "Where does little sister Zhi Zhi want to go?"
"Ah, ah umm—" The variegated - fur fox opened its mouth but couldn't make a normal sound. It glared at Ronglan fiercely with its eyes.
Si Mo was surprised. "Did you make Qing Zhi mute?"
Ronglan nodded her fox head and snorted. "Who asked her to talk nonsense."
"It's good that you made her mute." Si Mo reached out his hand towards the variegated - fur fox, whose appearance was several times more miserable than Ronglan's. He gathered spiritual power in his palm. His golden double pupils were cold and imposing. "You took the magical tool my mother accidentally lost and used it for evil? You've got a lot of nerve!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a small golden hollow ball floated out of Qing Zhi's body and was sucked into his hand.
Qing Zhi was unwilling and stretched out her paw to try to reach for the magical tool. However, she was firmly pressed down by Ronglan and couldn't move.
"Your mother's magical tool?" Ronglan tilted her fox head curiously.
"Yes." Si Mo reluctantly tossed the golden ball up and down a couple of times. This golden ball was as heavy as the three gold bars his mother had given him. It was a pity that it was a magical tool and couldn't be exchanged for money.
"Mother's magical tools always have all kinds of strange flaws. Except for father, whose cultivation is higher than mother's, no one in the family dares to use mother's magical tools." So—although he was extremely poor, Si Mo still gritted his teeth and squeezed the golden ball hard. The golden ball turned into golden powder and flowed down through his fingers. This magical tool was completely destroyed.
"Ronglan!"
Hearing this voice, Ronglan lowered her head to look at the variegated - fur fox whose nape she was holding down. Her fox eyes showed a hint of a smile. "Does little Zhi Zhi want to talk so much that she's willing to use her spiritual power to form a voice just to talk to me? But your spiritual power can't even protect your heart meridian. If you talk too much, you'll die from heart - meridian failure."