A faint cry for help came from beneath the stone coffin. Qin Liuxi and Meng Lu exchanged glances, then lifted the stone coffin to discover a Fox Fairy sprawled on the ground, barely alive, its once golden fur now dull and lifeless.
In front of it hovered a pale yellow bead—its Demon Core—with two cracks on it, seemingly ready to shatter at any moment.
Meng Lu said, "This is a Fox Demon."
"No, I am a Fox Fairy, the Family Guardian Immortal of the Meng family," Grandma Fox Fairy weakly said. "It was Old Lady Meng who forcibly took out my inner core to give it to her corpse husband, and that's why I'm like this. I was truly blind to have trusted the wrong person."
She let out a mournful cry, tears sliding down the corners of her eyes.
