Chapter 385 — Target Candidates for Plundered Talents (Thanks to 'My Name Is Wang Laoji' for the Silver Alliance Leader!)

Under everyone's gaze, the jade gradually turned black. At that sight, the old woman's expression shifted at once. "Damn—this is bad. Qu Ling is at risk of having her identity exposed. She's in grave danger right now."

As the old woman's words fell, many faces changed.

"What do we do?" Ji Feng spoke at once, his voice grave.

The intelligence agents of the Tenth Bureau had means to destroy all their own memories in a moment of crisis, ensuring their identity was not leaked and their companions were not exposed, so that the mission could continue—but the agent herself would surely be in immense danger.

Qu Ling—though he was not familiar with this comrade of the Tenth Bureau, it was now plain that her situation had reached an extremely dangerous point.

Shi Cen's expression changed. "This person..."

This person was Qu Lishi's daughter, wasn't she?

"I'll go save her."

"This is part of the mission too."

Shi Li said, "You all wait here for word. Don't worry—I won't be exposed."

Shi Jin summoned the Gem Cat with almost no hesitation and headed over to the Legendary Ruins with it. These tasks could all be interrupted, but Qu Lishi's daughter could not be allowed to come to harm in the Celestial Fox Kingdom.

……………

Outside the Legendary Ruins.

The Celestial Fox Legion, tens of thousands strong, stood arrayed in neat formation together.

Among them, one woman was in utter turmoil within, having realized that something was about to go very wrong.

Since coming to the Celestial Fox Kingdom, she had never joined any official power—precisely because the risk of exposure was too great. But this time, because the Martial Emperor Legendary Ruins were of such grave importance, she had been forced to take the risk, using every connection she had to enter the Celestial Fox Guard and probe for more information.

Though she had anticipated this moment, Qu Ling was still somewhat afraid.

Her heart was pounding, thump-thump, thump-thump.

Her mental fortitude was good, but the totem-tier Fox God stood high in the sky, looking down at them, and behind it stood one Overlord Fox after another.

Under that oppressive weight, even Qu Ling, a top-tier master, could scarcely draw breath.

"Hahahaha, looking for spies, are we?" Off to the side, the Black Goat Totem, who had flown along with them, watched this adorable crowd of humans and gave a snickering laugh.

Beside it, the Legend of Baichuan wore a blank expression, his gaze fixed mostly on the illusory relic gate that joined heaven and earth.

How to crack that relic—that was what concerned him most.

Unfortunately, after all these days, the Sky Fox Kingdom still had not managed to break the legend-tier sealed relic.

And more unfortunate still, they had yet to find any good means of breaking that seal.

"You..." Beneath the Fox God's stare—by some method or other, its gaze settled on a middle-aged beast tamer in one of the legions—the man sweated profusely, his pupils filled with dread.

"No, no, spare me, great Fox God, have mercy!!!!"

The middle-aged man let out a shrill scream as a telekinetic force dragged him high into the air; then, still screaming, he fell unconscious and was flung to the ground by the Fox God.

"A mole from the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom?" The Fox God's expression turned ugly. It had roused itself from slumber only rarely, and now everything was a heap of troubles.

That lapdog of mine actually dared to plant agents in my territory?

Its gaze moved on to a woman standing with a fox at her side; the moment its eyes fell on her, the middle-aged woman turned ashen with fright.

Just like the middle-aged man before her, the woman was instantly dragged out, her memories extracted, and then tossed aside.

The next instant, a pale-faced young man was hauled out as well and thrown away.

Watching all this, the Black Goat Totem and the Legend of Baichuan had the corners of their mouths twitching.

Just how many moles does your Sky Fox Kingdom have?!!

Under the Fox God's repeated searches, six moles were soon unearthed, and the expressions of the Sky Fox Saintess and the Overlord Foxes all turned grim.

Son of a bitch.

Before long, the Fox God's gaze settled on a young woman of about twenty, a squad leader of the Sky Fox Guard. Her expression was ordinary, composed and self-possessed, and she looked at the Fox God with utter devotion.

"You play the part well."

The Fox God said coldly, turning its eyes to Qu Ling. That single sentence nearly brought Qu Ling to tears.

The Fox God's psychic power rippled outward and enveloped her.

And Qu Ling seemed to have accepted her fate, her face full of despair. Fortunately, though, she knew her memories had a self-destruct mechanism, and that her identity would not be exposed.

Still, about to die as she was, Qu Ling remained utterly despairing...

Bzzzt!

The psychic force swept over her—and just then, behind Qu Ling, a spatial rift tore open, releasing a surge of powerful psychic energy that deflected the Fox God's force and made its expression change. Then a hand reached out from the rift and yanked Qu Ling into another space.

In that instant, the Fox God, the Sky Fox Saintess, the Black Goat Totem—even the assembled Overlords—all turned pale with shock.

The Fox God especially flew into a towering rage.

"A space-attribute Totem————" The Black Goat's eyes were full of wariness; it could only feel that this Sky Fox Kingdom was a veritable den of dragons and tigers.

"Since you've come, don't think of leaving————" Upon reaching totem-tier, a transcendent life could optimize its race and create its own skills, and every totem-tier being had more or less mastered some means of countering space attributes. The Fox God was naturally no exception.

Though it felt its own mastery of space fell short of this Jiaqi who had rescued the spy, the Fox God still instantly erupted with its full power to intercept the rescuer.

Within the alternate space, Shi Jin and the Gem Cat, who had pulled Qu Ling inside, both wore rather panicked expressions—though not excessively so.

"Fly with confidence, Catty, I have the Dragon God's protection, I'll protect you, there's no way we die!"

To keep Catty calm at the wheel, Shi Jin kept comforting it.

The Gem Cat, meanwhile, was cursing up a storm. And at that moment, the most bewildered of all was Qu Ling. Looking at the white alternate space she had been inexplicably dragged into, at the gray-robed old man holding her, and at that transcendent-race Gem Cat, she was utterly lost.

BOOOOM!!!!

"Holy crap————" The Gem Cat had no mind for Shi Jin now. As space quaked, its scalp went numb. "Hold on tight, we're flooring it!!!"

Rumble rumble.

Cracks appeared in the alternate space, and the tremendous shockwave sent humans and beasts alike spinning head over heels. A moment later, the Gem Cat burst out laughing.

"Hahahahaha, little fox, you think you can tangle with your big sister Cat? You're a hundred years too green... Well? How's my driving—"

The instant the Gem Cat pulled clear of the legend relic's vicinity, it broke into smug laughter and turned to Cen Yu and Qu Ling, ready to claim credit.

However...

It stared in silence at the ashen Qu Ling. "Little girl, where's that old man?"

Qu Ling was dazed. "Yeah... where is he..."

Gem Cat: ????

The Gem Cat's eyes nearly burst from its skull. Such a big living person—and you're telling me he's gone???

"Where is he!!!"

The Gem Cat shrieked, all nerves and alarm.

Then, abruptly, it fell silent. Danger—there could be no danger. Even if it were killed in a single instant, Shi Jin would not suffer the slightest scratch. Did they think the Dragon God's Protection was just for show?

A nasty premonition suddenly crept over the Gem Cat.

At that same moment, the Fox God and its retinue were seized by a similar premonition.

They had no mind now to bother with the spatial totem from before, or the spy that had been rescued.

BZZZZT!!!!!