Cultivating Through The Game-Chapter 629 - 343: The Little Tail Appears Again

The village residents, peering through the gaps at the window edges, secretly observed the situation outside, each feeling very tense.

They had heard that the demon wanted Young Lord Bai to hand them over in exchange for that girl, which made them a bit worried.

They had seen that girl before, when she first fled here, they had noticed her living in the temple atop the mountain, together with Young Lord Bai.

An Ranshan secretly glanced up at the tiger demon, quickly bowed his head, as cold sweat dripped from his forehead, beads the size of peas rolling down his cheeks.

He was equally filled with worry.

Although Young Lord Bai is a good person, willing to protect their peace, An Ranshan didn't believe that when choosing between them and the girl, Young Lord Bai would lean towards their group.

If Young Lord Bai didn't protect them, they would all die here, devoured alive by the demon.

The jade-faced scholar fox in human form, Young Lord Bai, tried to persuade the tiger demon with words not to harm the young girl tied to the tree trunk.

"Have you forgotten the words real people left when they enlightened us?" Young Lord Bai shouted at the tiger demon.

The tiger demon fell into memory. Seventy years ago, it was just an ordinary tiger, one day chasing a fox, as it was about to catch the fox, an imposing divine figure descended upon the forest.

Feeling the pressure of the real people, most of the beasts and demons wet themselves in fear.

Both it and the fox, having chased around all day without eating, were the only two animals in the forest not frightened into defecation.

Thus, they were enlightened by the real people, who stayed in Cuiwei Ridge for some time, during which they followed them around, eating well and living leisurely and carefree.

Even demons far stronger than them had to respectfully bow down when seeing them.

It wasn't until the real people left that they entered the truly harsh world of cultivation.

The tiger demon busied itself with fights and territory battles all day, while the fox hid away for years, cultivating its spirituality in seclusion.

It wasn't until the tiger demon dominated Cuiwei Ridge that it found out the fox demon's cultivation had long surpassed its own, and it was quite dissatisfied with this, often causing trouble for the fox... 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Derailed thoughts, the tiger demon recalled the words left by the real people when they departed.

The specific details it couldn't remember, as its intellect had just opened back then, and it wasn't that smart yet.

But it still remembered the general meaning.

The reason real people enlightened them was to have them look after a possible future demon child appearing here.

The tiger demon concluded its recollection, poking its head out, scrutinizing the child tied to the tree in front.

It didn't know when the fox brought her up the mountain, but she was somewhat special, outwardly appearing human, yet completely unaffected by the invasion of demonic energy, or rather, demonic energy seemed more like nourishment to her.

That's why the tiger demon said she was a child neither human nor demon.

She clearly looked human but seemed more sinister than a demon, casually absorbing other demons' energy.

The tiger demon withdrew its head, after a moment of silence, suddenly extended its claws, the tips aimed at the girl's delicate neck, sinisterly saying: "Just because you say she is, does that make her so?"

"Besides, the real people left so long ago, surely they've decided that what they're waiting for won't appear here."

The tiger demon moved its claws closer to the girl's neck, the sharp tips piercing into the tender flesh, drawing a trickle of fresh blood.

"I ask you one more time, do you want to protect that food or this little child?" The tiger demon stared at Young Lord Bai.

Young Lord Bai's expression shifted, internally conflicted, with one side holding the mission given by a former enlightening mentor, and the other his firm belief in the path of cultivation.

If he let the tiger demon kill the girl, he would betray the real people who once enlightened him.

If he sent the humans he protected to the tiger's mouth, cracks would appear in his cultivation path; at best, he'd struggle with inner demons; at worst, he'd become obsessed and regress, making further progress difficult.

One was his moral virtue, one was his cultivation path.

No matter which he chose, it would inevitably impact his future cultivation journey significantly.

He cultivated the path of spirituality, advocating going with the flow and comprehending heaven and earth.

But the foundation of the path of spirituality lies in his moral virtue; because of virtue, he appears human and can cultivate the spiritual way.

The tiger demon's move is indeed ruthless, intending to put the fox in a dead end.

The tiger demon is well aware of the fox's cultivation of spiritual path's characteristics.

"Sigh~" Young Lord Bai sighed, looking up at the tiger demon, just about to speak when, suddenly, his expression shifted in surprise, turning to look behind him; a sturdy young man approached.

He simply walked over normally, yet gave Young Lord Bai a feeling of a mountain about to collapse, as if this man was a magnificent, meandering mountain.

An Ranshan noticed Young Lord Bai's movements, instinctively turned his head to see the young man who had asked him for directions walking over.

The villagers hiding in the houses, the Martial Cultivators concealed in the shadows, all watched the young man approaching the cluster of demons.

Some worried the young man would be devoured by the demons.

Some wondered what Lu Yu was up to.

Others thought Lu Yu had lost his mind, considering it folly, offering himself to the demons.

...

Lu Yu stopped at the village entrance, looking at the girl impaled on a tree stump ten meters away, feeling an indescribable odd sensation.

He didn't know the girl, but her face was very familiar, that face uncannily resembled a slightly older version of a tail-end, with at least nine-tenths similarity between the two.