Chapter 1: This Is Your Husband’s Head!

“It’s over…”

In the twenty-first century, somewhere along a mountain cliff in China, a man’s icy voice drifted through the air like mist. Wherever it passed, it left a trace of despair behind.

“The legend of you two demon-fox thieves ends today at last!”

As he spoke, the man gazed down at the girl who was still struggling beneath him and continued arrogantly, “What’s wrong? Refusing to accept it? Do you really think you’re some peerless phantom thieves, some nine-tailed spirit foxes? Let me tell you this: in the eyes of a demon-binding master, you’re nothing but petty thieves who brought death upon yourselves! Today is the end of you!”

“To use such a despicable method… and you actually think you have something to be proud of? Human thinking truly is impossible to understand…”

The fox-demon girl finally managed to speak, her voice filled with scorn.

The torrential rain poured without end, lashing her body mercilessly. Yet she had long since grown numb to the pain. Helpless, she lay sprawled across the cold, muddy ground, her entire body caked in filth. The pale cheeks that had once been flawless were smeared with mud, and her long silver hair had become hopelessly disheveled. Her vacant, lifeless eyes were slightly open as she stared at the arrogant man standing upon her. She wanted to break free, but she no longer had the strength.

After all, she had already been poisoned.

Everything was the result of this man’s treachery!

But she could not understand… Why had this happened?

The fox-demon girl was named Mingxi. For years, she and her childhood sweetheart, the fox-demon youth Xuanyuan Feng, had made their living by stealing the government’s treasures and selling them off. After all, thievery was a fox’s natural talent. Over the years, the government had been completely unable to deal with this pair of peerless thief lovers and could do nothing but watch helplessly as its treasures were stolen again and again.

After all, how could human intelligence possibly compete with that of nine-tailed spirit foxes?

It was simply that she had never expected the government to hire a demon-binding master specifically to deal with this “thieving couple.” Still, when soldiers came, they would be met by generals, and when water came, it would be blocked with earth. The government had sent no shortage of people to capture them in the past, but which of them had not returned empty-handed?

This time, according to the plan she and Feng had made, they were supposed to flee in separate directions and then use their spiritual power to deal with the humans. They should have escaped successfully, just as they always had…

This could not have happened!

How could this… how could this have happened?!

Wait! Where was Feng? This man had come here to deal with her, so where was Feng? Could it be that…

No. Impossible!

Feng’s spiritual power was so formidable. How could he possibly have fallen into the hands of a man like this?

Where on earth was Feng?

“Heh… Are you looking for your husband, little fox?” the man asked with a cold laugh.

The intense mockery in his voice sent a chill through Mingxi to the bone.

In the dark, rainy night, she could not make out the man’s face. She could only vaguely see him take a spherical object from behind him. The aura emanating from it was so familiar that Mingxi was stunned.

“W-What is that?” Mingxi suddenly asked in a trembling voice, despite having been too weak to speak before. “What is it?!”

“…It’s your husband’s head!”

Mingxi shuddered violently. Her emerald eyes, which had been only slightly open, flew wide. Those jade-green eyes were already filled with despair.

The man curled his lips mockingly, clearly taking great pleasure in the expression on Mingxi’s face.

Despair now consumed the heart of the girl, who had already been poisoned and was on the verge of death.

He especially enjoyed admiring this expression on the faces of demons who had infiltrated the human world as they awaited death. With exaggerated generosity, he hurled the head toward her. It struck the ground beside Mingxi’s head, allowing her to see clearly that the man who had been loving her only moments ago was now dead, his body reduced to a shattered ruin.

Horror, despair, and agony filled Mingxi’s heart, piece by piece.

After a long while, the dying fox-demon girl whispered in a hoarse, despairing voice, “My name is Mingxi… The man you killed… was my fiancé, Xuanyuan Feng… Do you know? We had planned to leave this place after stealing the Jadeite Tear. And tomorrow… we were supposed to be married…”

Amid the rolling thunder, her voice sounded exceedingly faint, but the demon-binding master before her still heard every word.

To him, words steeped in such despair were a triumph—a source of pleasure.

“But I never expected… that you would destroy… everything!” Mingxi’s voice now held nothing but resentment and hatred as she glared fiercely at the towering man with her emerald eyes.

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