Chapter Seven

  The dog in my hand suddenly broke free from me, jumped to the ground in an instant, stood up on its two legs like a human, glanced at Grandpa with a disdainful look, and then turned its head to stare at me.

  "Ignorant mortal."

  A male voice suddenly appeared, sounding somewhat lazy and magnetic.

  I looked around and didn't see anyone appearing in the temple, I suddenly felt very scared, and ran to Grandpa's side.

  "Did you hear? Someone... someone is talking."

  I hid behind Grandpa and stretched out my hand to tightly grasp his sleeve.

  "Haha......" Another burst of laughter, extremely charming and alluring to the ear.

  "Who is it that's secretly manipulating things from behind?"

  I plucked up my courage and shouted loudly.

  Grandpa let out a cry of surprise, knelt down on the ground, and hastily made a kowtowing gesture towards the sky. I blinked my eyes, pouted my mouth, and looked around in all directions, but still hadn't discovered anything unusual.

  "Are you the thirteenth successor of the Xia family's Royal Demon Master?" The enchanting voice sounded again.

  "It's not the little old man, it's her."

  Grandpa replied, stretching out his cane and pointing at me, and also tapping on my head again.

  I rubbed my head with a pitiful expression and turned back to look at Grandpa, crying out: "Why did you hit me again?"

  "Kneel down quickly."

  "Kneel? What's so strange and wonderful about it? Who am I supposed to kneel to?"

  I complained, and Grandpa struck my knee with his cane again. Oh no, I fell to the ground with a thud, and my knee hurt so badly that it was about to kill me.

  That fat dog looked down at me with a scrutinizing gaze and suddenly said disdainfully, "Is that you?"

  "What? Are you talking?" I was shocked all of a sudden. "I didn't expect that there's still a dog demon that can talk in this temple."

  A commotion behind me, I turned around with both hands raised to block the cane, and scowled: "Are you really my grandfather or not? Is this how other people's grandfathers behave?"

  He gritted his teeth and made an effort to hold back, finally withdrawing the crutch from his hand.

  The little dog looked serious, circled around me a few times, and then shook its head.

  Grandfather suddenly became tense and trembled with his voice: "Fox Fairy, what do you think of Lao Er's daughter?"

  Fox spirit? I furrowed my brow and looked at the chubby dog running around beside me, how could it possibly be a fox spirit, at most it's just a fox demon.

  Grandfather's face was very solemn, as if something big was about to happen, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his eyes were fixed tightly on that fat dog, no, it was a fat fox.

  "Hehe...not bad at all." The fox stopped in its tracks and looked up at Grandpa with a cunning glint in its eye.

  "Ah?" Grandpa let out a mournful cry, muttering to himself: "What's the point? That old man has spent all these years raising a little fool. The family line is doomed, the family line is doomed."

  I couldn't help but vomit in my heart, what's the point of having a family if you're not going to support me? I've been practicing demon-suppressing magic since I was young, and I don't know how many hardships I've endured. You just say it's not good enough, and all my years of effort are negated.

  "My life as Xia Qinghe doesn't need a fox to decide."

  I'm furious, standing up from the ground, one hand pointing at the fat fox on the ground, shouting: "You're just a stinky fox, what right do you have to decide other people's lives? If you have the ability, transform into a human form and let me see it. A stinky fox is talking nonsense here, who would believe what you say?"

  "Are you sure you want to see me transform into a human?"

  Seeing that fox's provocative appearance, I couldn't help it and said, "Transform, I'd like to see what kind of appearance you can transform into."

  "Hehe..."

  After the laughter subsided, a puff of white smoke suddenly appeared before my eyes. I covered my nose with one hand, worried that it was playing tricks on me.

  After the white smoke, a man wearing ancient clothes appeared. No, it shouldn't be described as a man, this demon is too big and evil. A woman? It doesn't seem like that either, he has an Adam's apple.

  I furrowed my brow and circled around him, this appearance really seemed like a demon or a monster, in short, not like a normal person.

  "How about it, I'm more handsome than you!"

  He had a smug look on his face, letting me circle around him, stretching out his index finger to gently stroke that long hair, narrowing his eyes and saying: "You silly fool, you even touched my body just now."