Hu Li’s plan seemed simple and brutal, yet it was a foolproof strategy he had devised after contemplating all night. He would conceal his aura, strike to kill Xu Lai in an instant, take his head, and use a Teleportation Array to return to Sakura Country in the blink of an eye. Who could do anything to him then?
As soon as Hu Li spoke, his foxy features morphed into the face of a seductive beauty, so captivating that anyone who glanced at her could no longer look away.
"Hello, could you tell me how to get to the school infirmary?" Hu Li asked, stopping a male student who had been stealing glances at him. He smiled sweetly. "I seem to be lost."
"I’ll take you there!" the male student quickly offered. He secretly took a whiff of the beautiful woman’s fragrance, feeling as if he were floating on air.
He even pretended to casually support Hu Li by the arm. "Be careful. The paths at our school are slippery. It would be terrible if you fell."
"Then I’ll be in your care, classmate," Hu Li said with a coy laugh.
"Hey, you must be a Dongli student too, right? We’re classmates, so there’s no need to be so formal," the male student chuckled. "I’m Qiao Lezi from the Department of Management. And you, beautiful?"
"I’ll tell you when we get to the infirmary." The beauty that was Hu Li blinked, exuding an unparalleled charm.
This scene turned the surrounding men green with envy. Damn it! That wretched boy got to her first, when they also could have had a chance to get close to such a beauty! How hateful! At that moment, the waters of West Lake were the tears in their eyes.
As Hu Li walked the short one-kilometer path to the infirmary, he had already stolen the hearts of countless men along the way. After all, he was a Fox Spirit. But who would have thought he was also a man?
Ah, the base nature of the Human Race.
Hu Li sighed inwardly but kept a smile on his face.
When they arrived at the infirmary entrance, Hu Li leaned in close to Qiao Lezi’s expectant face and whispered into his ear, "Actually, I..."
Is she going to say ’I like you’? Qiao Lezi was ecstatic. To be hit on by a beauty at first sight... was his spring finally here? That old fortune-teller at the school gate wasn’t lying after all!
Hu Li paused for a long moment before finally finishing his sentence. "...am a man."
After speaking, Hu Li looked on expectantly, waiting for the human before him to show an expression of shock, fear, annoyance, or anger.
But Qiao Lezi only stared at Hu Li blankly for a long time.
A cross-dressing... master!?
Qiao Lezi’s expression grew even more excited. "Isn’t that even better!"
Hu Li was utterly baffled.
The Fox Spirit was dumbfounded. Have the tastes of the Human Race really become this terrifying? It’s one thing for the youth of Sakura Country to be hopeless, but how has Hua Country, an ocean away, become so depraved...
"Get lost, you’re disgusting!" Hu Li kicked Qiao Lezi away with one foot.
Then, he flicked his long hair and entered the school infirmary, his eyes immediately landing on Xu Lai in the corner. Just as he was about to approach, a group of old men and women surrounded him.
"Here to see a doctor, student? Let me take your pulse..."
"Get out of the way. This is a female student. Go get Old Lu. Don’t you understand that men and women shouldn’t have physical contact?"
Hu Li’s face darkened. This group of seniors was far too enthusiastic. If he hadn’t already spotted Xu Lai, he would have thought he’d walked into the wrong place.
Xu Lai glanced up from the Hua Country geographic magazine in his hands before lowering his head again. "Get him a veterinarian," he said calmly.
Li Shouzhong, Yan Gui, and the other doctors looked at each other in bewilderment. A veterinarian seemed a bit much.
"You saw through my identity?" Hu Li asked, stunned for a moment.
"The stench is so strong I could smell it from three miles away," Xu Lai remarked blandly.
Zhou Feng and Liu Nanwei shot each other a look, both gasping internally. That was an incredibly harsh thing to say to a female student.
But to everyone’s surprise, Hu Li dropped his female illusion and reverted to his male form. He sneered, "I was planning to dispose of you without a trace, but you actually saw through my disguise!"
On the surface, he remained calm, but inwardly Hu Li was shocked. His disguise was flawless, yet it had been penetrated at a glance. The Son of the Divine Gate truly is something else!
Hu Li gestured for him to proceed, all the while secretly scanning the surroundings for any hidden experts. After confirming that there were no formidable beings within a five-kilometer radius, his gaze grew increasingly arrogant.
Xu Lai stood up and walked outside. In response to the worried expressions from Liu Nanwei and the others, he simply smiled. "It’s fine. I’ll be right back."
The two of them arrived at the dense, lush forest on the mountain behind the school. Hu Li squinted his eyes and said, "You might not know who I am, but—" ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novel-fire.ɴet
"You must be here seeking revenge for that snake," Xu Lai said, sensing the same aura from these two monsters. Besides, the Sea Demon Beibei had mentioned that the sea snake had a senior martial brother, so the other party’s origins were easy enough to guess.
Hu Li nodded. "Since you already know, I’ll... see you on your way!"
Before his voice had even faded, his body vanished from its spot, reappearing behind Xu Lai in the next instant. Hu Li’s palm transformed into a white, furry claw that swept violently toward Xu Lai’s neck, carrying enough force to split a mountain!
Yet Xu Lai didn’t even try to dodge.
In Hu Li’s eyes, he was either scared stiff or simply couldn’t react in time.
However, the claw, infused with his Divine Sense attack, never touched Xu Lai. In the space of an inch from Xu Lai’s body, it was stopped by an invisible barrier. The impact sent a powerful backlash through Hu Li. A mouthful of blood surged up his throat, but he forced it back down.
He staggered back dozens of steps and stared at Xu Lai in disbelief. "What... What is your Boundary!"
Hu Li was confident that even a human expert of the Divine Gate Realm couldn’t have withstood that claw without activating their Boundary. And since there were no fluctuations of Spiritual Power in the area... that meant when Xu Lai hunted his junior martial brother She Jiu, he hadn’t relied on the Flower Fairy at all—it had been his own power!
This human, barely twenty years old, wasn’t in the Divine Gate Realm. He was far higher!
"It’s a pity you’re a fox. The meat isn’t very good," Xu Lai said, tapping his chin with some regret. "That sea snake would have made a delicious meal, but Xiao Hei ruined it."
At that moment, Hu Li felt as if his scalp was about to explode. In his eyes, Xu Lai was no longer prey whose head could be taken at will.
Without hesitation, he retreated more than ten meters, pulled a Jade Pendant from his robes, and crushed it. The void around him twisted as the Teleportation Array activated.
Hu Li said coldly, "Xu Lai, the next time I return to Hua Country, my Master will surely flay you and pull out your tendons!"
His figure grew blurry, rapidly fading from sight.
Xu Lai smirked. "Did I say you could leave?"
Hu Li laughed too, his expression full of mockery. "Idiot, this Teleportation Array cannot be stopped even by a peak expert of the Divine Gate or a Demon King. If I want to leave, who can possibly stop me!"
Xu Lai snapped his fingers.
Hu Li’s mocking smile froze on his face. The entire expanse of space and time around them had been locked solid.