Chapter 11: The Fox Demon Who Will Take the Lives of Your Descendants

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“That was so intense, it really burned my eyes.”

Imagining the Family Prostitute’s figure from earlier, and that bold, seductive position in the middle, Su Wan’s face flushed bright red.

Cang Ye glanced at Su Wan and said, “In human terms, kids shouldn’t watch this kind of stuff.”

“I’m not a kid!”

Su Wan reacted defensively, then caught himself and said:

“Humans?”

Su Wan covered his mouth again.

Cang Ye looked at him, bent over with a smile, and said:

“I’m a man-eating Demon, you know~ That’s a secret. Don’t tell your father or your mother, or else they’ll all be… eaten by me! Hahaha! Hahaha!”

Cang Ye laughed heartily.

His shadow loomed over Su Wan’s face, leaving the boy staring in bewilderment.

Su Wan could only cover his lips and stare blankly, then nodded gently.

“Mm.”

“No!” Su Wan realized belatedly, his small face darkening as he frowned.

“You’re just trying to scare a kid!”

Su Wan clenched his fists and straightened his back forward.

“Mm~ Yes, I am!”

Cang Ye straightened up, glanced left and right, and said with a smile on his face, “You actually figured that out? What a clever and adorable kid you are.”

“Clever and adorable kid?”

Su Wan murmured, furrowing his brows, and asked, “Doesn’t that still make me a kid?”

“You’re the one who said I was scaring a kid. I never said you were one. Kid, come on, keep up.”

Cang Ye said with a chuckle.

“You!”

Su Wan frowned, watching Cang Ye’s steps gradually pull away, then remembered his monthly allowance.

“Hey, wait up! (You blasted adult) Wait for me!”

Su Wan ran forward.

He had just turned a corner together with Cang Ye.

“A monk?”

Cang Ye murmured, halting his steps and raising a hand to offer a distant bow toward the Old Monk ahead.

“Hm?”

Su Wan ran up to Cang Ye’s right side, grabbing Cang Ye’s arm with his left hand, which made Cang Ye glance at him, then look down at the arm gripped between them.

A smile crossed Cang Ye’s face, and he let the brat cling to him for comfort.

Cang Ye led Su Wan closer, his gaze fixed on the altar before the monk as he asked, “Master, what is this…”

“Greetings, fellow cultivator,” the Old Monk said with a smile, then continued:

“I exchanged letters with fellow practitioners nearby and learned there’s a Demon around here. They specially taught me a formation. It requires setting up four altars, activating them in sequence, and then it can track the Demon within the residence.”

“A Demon in the residence?”

Cang Ye looked intrigued, walking with Su Wan up to the altar, gazing at the strand of bloodstained fox fur on the table, and asked:

“If the Fox Demon isn’t in the residence, then what? And what if it is?”

Cang Ye’s task was to catch the Cat Demon, while the Old Monk’s task was to catch the Fox Demon.

As for the last one, the Tree Demon…

Earlier, they’d only agreed to deal with the demons together, but no one had been assigned to handle the Tree Demon.

It was temporarily set aside.

Hearing a topic that seemed related to her mother, Su Wan perked up.

He watched the Old Monk nod slightly and explain:

“If the demon isn’t in the residence, the Fox Demon can’t be found. This formation is specifically for guarding a household. Its weakness is its limited range, but its strength is that as long as the demon is inside, it cannot possibly escape detection.”

‘What?!’ Su Wan thought.

The Old Monk noticed Su Wan’s wide eyes, but only offered a kind smile and added:

“Moreover… with the Fox Demon’s own fur here, we have a clear target. That makes achieving our goal twice as easy. Once the Fox Demon appears, I’ll need your help protecting the mortals in this household.”

“Naturally.”

Cang Ye gave a faint smile and nodded slightly in agreement.

At the same time, he felt a certain child’s grip tighten on his right hand without realizing it.

Cang Ye smiled at Su Wan and said, “Didn’t you want to see demon subjugation? We can stay here…”

Cang Ye turned back to the Old Monk and asked with a smile, “We won’t be in the Master’s way, will we?”

“No trouble at all, no trouble at all.”

The Old Monk only smiled kindly and added, “The other three altars are already complete. Only this one remains, so I’ll begin now.”

“Please, go ahead~”

Cang Ye smiled, then led Su Wan back a few steps and stood aside to watch.

“Hey~”

Cang Ye whispered to Su Wan, asking, “You’re gripping my hand pretty tight, you know that?”

“Huh?!” Su Wan furrowed his brows tightly, then suddenly yanked his hand away as if startled, putting distance between himself and Cang Ye, saying:

“I’m just scared! If there really is a Demon in the residence…”

Cang Ye suddenly crouched down, holding Su Wan’s shoulders, and asked softly, “So do you want me to help the Demon, or help the Master catch it?”

Cang Ye added, “You’re my disciple. As long as you behave and treat me well from now on, I’ll listen to you.”

A smile spread across Cang Ye’s face.

“Why?!”

Su Wan asked in confusion.

Cang Ye replied, “Why what? Because you’re my disciple. As long as you don’t want the Fox Demon to come to harm…”

Cang Ye glanced toward the Old Monk, who was focused on his spellcasting, while the onlookers were equally absorbed in the spectacle.

No one had time to pay them any mind.

Besides, they were whispering their schemes, not proclaiming them aloud.

Cang Ye, still crouched, added, “If you want, you’re my disciple. Even if you wanted to marry a Fox Demon…”

“Slap!“

A small palm lightly smacked Cang Ye across the face.

Su Wan’s face flushed crimson as he said, “I would never… What are you even imagining?!”

Cang Ye blinked in surprise, then laughed.

“I meant if you wanted to marry some other vixen, not the one you were thinking of. I can grant that wish—Fox Demon, vixen, or fox spirit, any will do.”

“Huh?”

Su Wan gasped softly, then his small face flushed even redder, realizing he might have slapped the wrong person.

“I’m… sorry, I… I was wrong.”

Su Wan instinctively lowered his head in apology.

“What did you think wrong? What an adorable child, hahaha~”

Cang Ye smiled gently, ruffling Su Wan’s head and patting his cheek.

Su Wan initially wanted to dodge, shaking his head, but remembering he’d wrongly slapped the man…

He’d just…

Let him touch him a couple of times.

Su Wan’s face burned bright red.

As an “adult,” being casually stroked on the cheek and head by another adult—and a man, not a big sister—was mortifying.

It made him feel like he really was just a child.

After patting his head and rubbing his cheeks, Cang Ye pulled Su Wan into his arms, comforting him gently.

Every time he looked back, every time he looked at Su Wan, at that young face, he saw a vision of his late wife as a child.

He recalled the little moments between his own childhood and his late wife’s, and because of that, his affection for Su Wan grew, filling him with even more tenderness.

But in the end, she too would die… by his hands.

“Ahh~”

Cang Ye sighed softly, pulling Su Wan tighter, as if afraid of losing that vision of his late wife’s childhood, not daring to relax even a fraction of his hold.

“Why are you hugging so tight? You’re squeezing me.”

Su Wan said quietly, but his gaze was fixed on the altar not far away.

He asked again, “Can you destroy that thing? Finding a Cat Demon should be enough. I’m sure Father wouldn’t care about a Fox Demon. It wouldn’t cost its life, at most it’d take some…” descendants’ lives.

Su Wan was too embarrassed to say the rest.