Fairy, don't let your golden finger chase after me!

Chapter 16: Miss Fox Demon! You don't want your cheat ability to be compromised, do you?

"Ugh... Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no..."

Gu Ziyue ran wildly along the maze-like passageway, the hissing sound of the Black Tooth Dragon's spine growing ever closer behind her.

She then flicked her wrist and threw three wind blades behind her, shredding the two black snakes closest to her.

But even more Black-toothed Dragons surged forward, stepping on the broken remains of their companions.

"Damn it...is this never going to end?!"

Gu Ziyue cursed under her breath and turned into the left fork in the road.

However, after running less than twenty meters, she suddenly stopped. Ahead was a dead end…

Standing before Gu Ziyue was a thick stone wall that connected to the ceiling of the maze, with no other paths branching off to the left or right.

Gu Ziyue turned around abruptly; the swarm of snakes had completely blocked the only exit. Hundreds of black-toothed dragons raised their heads in the darkness.

The eerie green vertical pupils were densely packed together, like countless will-o'-the-wisps lighting up in a labyrinth.

The enormous snake king slowly rose from the center of the snake tide, its jet-black body as thick as a water vat, looking down at the small figure before it with nowhere to escape.

Gu Ziyue leaned against the stone wall behind her, her golden beast eyes suddenly lighting up in the darkness.

"Hmph... Just because I haven't shown my teeth doesn't mean you're all taking me for a pushover!"

"My previous escape... that was a strategic retreat! A strategic retreat, you understand?"

"Don't think I'm really afraid of a bunch of brainless, long-legged beasts!"

Faced with Gu Ziyue's frantic exhalation, the Black-Toothed Serpent King, whose brain was not as big as an octogenarian, immediately opened its blood-red maw and let out a deafening roar, exhaling its breath back at Gu Ziyue.

"roar……"

Gu Ziyue had been waiting for this moment.

"Hmph! You want to yell, huh? You want to yell, huh? I'll show you how to yell!"

Gu Ziyue reacted swiftly, and a blue fireball the size of a millstone exploded in her palm.

She then flicked her wrist, and the fireball, trailing an exceptionally bright tail, accurately pierced into the snake king's wide-open mouth, going straight to the snake king's throat and giving it a nucleic acid test.

"boom!"

A muffled sound came from the mouth of the Black-Toothed Serpent King, and a thick plume of black smoke billowed from its seven orifices.

The Black-Toothed Serpent King froze for a moment, its eerie green vertical pupils widening suddenly, and a deep sense of bewilderment appeared on its ferocious snake face.

Gu Ziyue's move may not seem very harmful, but it is extremely humiliating!

Seeing that the Snake King showed no signs of injury after consuming her Heavenly Foxfire, Gu Ziyue was greatly alarmed.

"Damn it... what kind of monster is this? My Heaven-Burning Fox Flame attack just now would have injured even a Foundation Establishment cultivator, if not killed. This guy's defense is probably comparable to a Golden Core cultivator, right?"

Before Gu Ziyue could think any further, the snake king roared and charged at her.

The thick, jet-black snake, as thick as a water vat, was like a siege hammer forged from fine iron, crashing down with immense force towards the purple-haired girl in front of the stone wall.

Seeing this, Gu Ziyue suddenly exerted force with both legs, advancing instead of retreating, and leaped directly into the air.

Then he stepped on the snake's head and, using the momentum of the snake king's forward charge, slid rapidly backward along the snake's back.

As Gu Ziyue glided, she swung her hands repeatedly, sending six wind blades shooting out in all directions, slicing all the black snakes that tried to pounce from the sides into pieces.

The Black-toothed Serpent King's body slid backward rapidly beneath Gu Ziyue's feet, like a slide, bringing the dead end closer and closer to her.

Meanwhile, things were in a terrible state for the Black-Toothed Serpent King! Its massive serpent head slammed solidly into the stone wall, the impact shaking the surrounding maze structures and making everyone's heads buzz!

The Black-Toothed Serpent King shook its dazed head and slowly turned towards Gu Ziyue, just in time to see the small purple-haired figure land steadily on the tip of its tail and nimbly leap out of the dead end.

Realizing that he had been tricked by Gu Ziyue, the Snake King raised its head in fury and let out a low roar.

As if receiving a command, the snakes on both sides simultaneously pounced on Gu Ziyue like madmen.

Seeing this, Gu Ziyue turned and ran.

At the same time, she sensed the remaining spiritual energy reserves in her body as she ran.

Then, her heart sank instantly.

Even before entering the maze, Gu Ziyue had been tormented by various trials left behind by Sword Saint Xiao Hongchen.

Her spiritual energy reserves were already nearly depleted, and the repeated battles with the Black Tooth Dragon just now only made matters worse.

Therefore, her spiritual power was about to run out.

Ahhh... Xiao Hongchen! If it weren't for you, you old scoundrel, causing trouble in my ancestral secret realm, how could I, Your Highness, have fallen into such a miserable state...

Damn it... I can't linger. I have to find a way to get rid of these black snakes and escape this damned maze as soon as possible, or I'll be trapped here to die!

As Gu Ziyue thought of this, the array plate she had just seen at the corner suddenly flashed through her mind.

Since all the changes in the maze are due to the restart of that array plate.

If I can find the array plate again, will I be able to control this maze?

With this in mind, Gu Ziyue immediately turned around, sensing the scent emanating from the array plate, and sped off toward the fork in the road where the maze array plate was located.

However, she had only run less than thirty feet when she suddenly heard a whooshing sound behind her.

Before Gu Ziyue could turn around, she felt a tremendous force suddenly lash her back.

"puff--"

Gu Ziyue was flung away like a kite with a broken string by the snake king's tail, crashing heavily into the stone wall.

She then felt a sweet taste in her throat, and a mouthful of blood suddenly sprayed onto the floor beneath her feet.

Gu Ziyue struggled to her feet and wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"You beast..."

The vertical, golden beastly pupils burned fiercely in Gu Ziyue's eye sockets, and her fluffy fox ears and tail also appeared on her body.

"How dare you hurt me. Well then, I'll teach you a lesson."

"Hmph! If the situation weren't so dire, I really wouldn't want to appear in such an ugly and vulgar form..."

Then Gu Ziyue transformed herself, revealing her true form as a fox demon, becoming a jade-faced, two-tailed purple fox with a body comparable in size to an adult rhinoceros.

For a normal demon race, to transform into a human, they must at least advance to the Golden Core stage and condense a demon core.

However, Gu Ziyue, who possesses the bloodline of the Demon Emperor, has been in human form since birth.

Therefore, she always regarded her true form as a beast as a symbol of something crude and barbaric, believing that only uncivilized animals would reveal that form.

I am a descendant of the Demon Emperor, how can I be compared to those ordinary demon beasts?

But now that things have come to this, she can't care about any of that anymore.

"Awooo—"

Gu Ziyue raised her head and roared, her golden fox eyes fixed on the snake king in front of her.

Then she opened her fox mouth, and a blazing blue breath burst forth from the depths of her throat, sweeping across the entire passage like a bolt of lightning.

Wherever the blue flame breath passed, the bodies of all the low-level black-toothed dragons around the Serpent King instantly disintegrated into dust, like morning dew and frost exposed to the scorching sun.

Seeing its offspring being slaughtered, the enraged Black-Toothed Serpent King roared and pounced on the Two-Tailed Purple Fox, its black body, as thick as a water vat, coiling around it with astonishing speed.

Instead of retreating, Gu Ziyue advanced, slamming her two huge and sharp front claws down on the snake king's head. The claws tore open the snake king's hard black scales, bringing with them a spray of foul-smelling snake blood.

The Black-Toothed Snake King, in pain, turned its jaws around and bit the Purple Fox's front leg.

Gu Ziyue roared in pain and bit down on the Black Tooth Serpent King's vital spot.

Two tails simultaneously wrapped around the snake's body, and needle-like purple hairs suddenly pierced through the gaps in the scales.

At this moment, the battle between Gu Ziyue and the Black Tooth Serpent King had completely lost its order.

The battle between the two had devolved into a pure, brutal fight to the death between wild beasts.

However, neither Gu Ziyue nor the Black-Toothed Serpent King noticed that in a secluded corner not far from the battlefield, two pairs of cunning eyes were witnessing the bloody battle between the beasts.

The owners of those two small eyes were Dong Mo and Xiao Bai, who had originally planned to turn back to find the array plate to escape the maze, but were attracted by the sounds of fighting here.

"Ah...Young Master, look!"

Xiao Bai tugged at Dong Mo's sleeve and exclaimed as he pointed at the two giant beasts not far away.

"That fox...it's huge! Judging by its size, it must be a demonic beast, right?"

"Oh dear... I see it! Such a big fox, just standing there like that, I'm not blind..."

Dong Mo replied irritably, then quickly gestured for Xiao Bai to be quiet.

"And could you please keep your voice down? If those two monsters find us, we're all doomed..."

"Oh……"

Xiao Bai immediately covered his mouth with his hand and nodded obediently to Dong Mo.

Dong Mo turned his head and continued to look at the distant battlefield, his double pupils glowing faintly in the darkness. He watched the bloody scene of the two-tailed purple fox tearing and fighting with the black-toothed snake king, and felt that the fox in front of him looked strangely familiar.

Hmm? A fox... a demon beast, a fox with two tails...

Most importantly, it appeared in this secret realm.

Dong Mo's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Hiss... Could that fox be Gu Ziyue, the demon princess and nemesis of the game's protagonist Feng Ling Shuang?

Just as this thought popped into Dong Mo's mind, the system panel in front of him popped up at the perfect moment.

[Ding! The system has detected a new victim!]

[Victim: Gu Ziyue]

[Target: Devouring Heaven True Blood]

[Personality: Foodie, aloof, possessive]

Dong Mo looked at the system pop-up and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Good heavens...it really is Gu Ziyue!"