190: Chapter 190 Life, Creates Life

Mo Zixing sighed.

He activated his Movement Technique, and with a flash, he stood silently beside Hu Jiuying.

Sensing his approach,

Hu Jiuying's tail, which was hanging behind her, twitched slightly, and only then did she slowly recover from her immense grief.

She raised her hand to quickly wipe away the tears on her face, took a deep breath, and forcibly suppressed the emotions in her heart:

"Thank you."

She looked up at Mo Zixing and said sincerely,

"If it weren't for you, sooner or later, I would have completely turned into a mindless monster."

"There's nothing to thank me for."

Mo Zixing waved his hand, not paying much mind to it.

After all, in a sense, it was he who had personally killed almost the entire Celestial Fox clan.

Hearing her thanks now made him feel rather embarrassed.

Thinking this,

he noticed that Hu Jiuying's gaze was still drifting involuntarily toward the direction of the Celestial Fox clansmen's corpses.

And there, the soul-devouring sword Ling Lin was stormily absorbing the remaining Divine Soul from the pile of Celestial Fox corpses.

Mo Zixing coughed lightly.

It seemed a bit inappropriate to let Ling Lin devour her clansmen's Divine Soul right in front of Hu Jiuying.

Thinking for a moment, he chose to step in front of her quietly.

He used his own body to completely block the scene over there.

If it wasn't good to do it in front of her, then he simply wouldn't do it in her presence.

"The Clan Chief had long predicted the fall of the Celestial Fox clan."

Hu Jiuying collected herself, lowered her head to look at the blood covering the ground, and said with a voice full of exhaustion:

"He said that the yin sha energy in the depths of the Yin Mountain would become increasingly dense, and our Celestial Fox clan would bear the brunt of it; no one could escape."

"I was mentally prepared long ago… I thought… I could accept it."

She forced a smile that looked worse than crying and raised her hand, igniting a pale purple companion spirit fire:

"When I first met you, I wanted that companion spirit fire because it is rumored that a mature companion spirit fire has the miraculous effect of burning away yin sha energy."

"At that time, a considerable portion of my clansmen had already been invaded by the yin sha energy."

"I thought that if I could get the companion spirit fire, I might be able to save them."

Her gaze dimmed, and her voice grew lower and lower:

"But as you can see, the companion spirit fire couldn't help my other clansmen; it could only barely suppress the yin sha energy in my body, allowing me to stay conscious for a while longer."

"I watched them lose their minds one by one, tearing at each other, yet I could do nothing."

Hu Jiuying's voice choked slightly:

"If you hadn't helped, I fear not even I, the last one, would have been left."

"At least you are still alive, so the Celestial Fox clan is not considered extinct."

Mo Zixing reached out and patted her shoulder gently:

"Life will create life. Your existence has already defeated the prophecy, hasn't it?"

He turned around and gazed at the rolling Yin Mountain range in the distance, looking earnest:

"If you want to revitalize the Celestial Fox clan, then first live on well."

Hu Jiuying looked up, staring blankly at Mo Zixing's back.

Tears welled up uncontrollably once again.

She sniffled hard and finally revealed a heartfelt smile:

"Mm, I know!"

"I will definitely live on well and will never let the Celestial Fox clan go extinct like this!"

"By the way, it's embarrassing to say."

She scratched her fox ears, feeling a bit shy:

"I still don't know your name."

"Mo Zixing."

"Mo Zixing…"

Hu Jiuying whispered it once, firmly imprinting the name in her heart:

"I've remembered it."

Mo Zixing didn't say anything more, just beckoned toward the distance.

The well-fed Ling Lin's sword body trembled.

The black mist surged a few times, turned into a black beam of sword light, and returned to Mo Zixing's side.

At this moment, the aura radiating from Ling Lin was more than a notch stronger than before.

Her sword body was still trembling slightly; clearly, having just absorbed the Divine Soul of the Golden Core Eighth Level, her power had not yet fully stabilized.

Mo Zixing gently stroked the blade with his fingertips, inputting a strand of gentle spiritual energy to help her calm her aura.

"Thank you, Master."

Ling Lin's ethereal voice rang in his mind.

Mo Zixing looked down at the sword and brought up the System information interface.

The interface showed that the rank of the soul-devouring sword Ling Lin had officially risen from Crystallization to Golden Core Low Grade.

It seemed that the Divine Soul of the Golden Core Eighth Level Celestial Fox Elder was indeed a great tonic for her.

He didn't know what rank she would need to reach before she could truly take human form.

He pulled back his thoughts and turned to look at Hu Jiuying:

"Leaving your clansmen's bodies like this will easily breed more yin sha energy."

"You should cremate them yourself and see them off on their final journey."

Hu Jiuying nodded without speaking.

She walked to the side of her clansmen's corpses and arranged them one by one.

With a light flick, the spiritual fire in her palm landed on the foremost corpse.

The faint flames slowly ignited, burning upon the corpses with a soft crackling sound.

She closed her eyes and softly chanted the ancient blessing incantation of the Celestial Fox clan, her voice gentle and sad.

The firelight reflected on her face.

Half bright, half in shadow.

When all the clansmen's corpses had turned to ash, Hu Jiuying carefully piled the ashes together.

She dug a small pit with her own hands and buried them.

"Are you done?"

Mo Zixing looked at her slender figure and said:

"I still need to make a trip to the depths of the Yin Mountain. Are you coming with me?"