Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 113 - 88: Autonomous Armor, Bull Shield!

Moments later, the Bull Shield stopped trembling violently, only emitting a faint blue smoke, gently pulsating, seeming somewhat dazed.

Quanquan Hu jumped forward, smirking mischievously as he reached out to touch its horns.

Weren’t you just a bull? Now you can be touched freely!

Over a dozen other foxes also jumped forward, reaching out to touch it. Soon, they left several black-clawed prints on the Bull Shield.

White Claw dragged the shield out of the hole and directly plunged it into the potion barrel for a thorough transformation!

Big Head burrowed into the hole, digging out the Shepherd’s Skull. Surprisingly, this small skull was plated with copper and engraved with bird and beast inscriptions, looking very exquisite. He threw it into the potion barrel for transformation as well!

...

In West State City, it was the dead of night.

In the pitch-black room, only the distant neon lights shone through the window.

White mist rose, and Bai Mo walked out from it, sitting on the sofa and lighting up his phone screen in the dark environment.

Once the phone regained signal, he searched for more information on the Bull Shield.

After some operations, he indeed found it on the Immortal Discussion Forum!

[Sword Immortal Top Equipment Guide: Bull Shield]

[My Ancient Immortal Master’s self-regulating armor is so cool! That shield forever flies around his body, automatically blocking attacks coming from all directions.]

Self-regulating armor?

Now that you mention it, it truly is!

Below, there were replies from some wacky netizens.

[Your self-regulating armor is very powerful, but if I bring out flies and mosquitoes, how would you deal with it?]

[I asked the Ancient Immortal Master; flies and mosquitoes won’t be deemed dangerous, so the Bull Shield won’t block them. But horseflies will! The Bull Shield is afraid of horseflies!]

Um... seems kind of reasonable.

Below, he saw another reply from someone familiar.

Looking at the username, it was unexpectedly Wu Qingyun herself.

[I want the Bull Shield, can you sell it? Name your price.]

Below was a slew of replies, with taunts and jests.

[He really wants to sell it to you, but his Ancient Immortal Master doesn’t agree]

[Can you detach the Ancient Immortal Master’s shield? Hahaha]

Bai Mo also smirked.

He remembered a while back, Wu Qingyun had appeared in the forum asking for the Resentful Ghost Robe. Now, for the Bull Shield, Wu Qingyun once again popped up saying she wanted it. This girl was indeed straightforward, asking for what she wanted without hesitation, somewhat not too bright.

...

As dusk settled in the mountains, the fierce winds grew stronger.

The grand hall of the Fox Mountain dormitory was still pitch-black.

The fox apprentices glared with dark red eyes, divided into two groups.

One group formed inner and outer circles, watching the Bull Shield!

They saw the shield being soaked in the potion barrel, slowly bubbling, gradually undergoing transformation.

"Whimper! Whimper!"

"Howl! Howl!"

The foxes pointed, gestured, and chattered in fox language.

They discovered that the Bull Shield seemed not only to be transformed. Soaked in this potion, many seams on the shield’s surface were slowly narrowing and healing. The roughness on the shield’s surface seemed to be washing away, gradually becoming smooth. Even the shield started to emit a faint glow.

Indeed, the potion prepared by the master was not simple!

...

The other group of apprentices gathered behind the master, watching him paint murals.

They saw the master using a tree branch dipped in the potion to draw on a large stone slab. The potion was corrosive, and the branch dipped in potion carved into the slab as easily as carving into tofu, leaving strokes effortlessly.

Bai Mo’s hand was exceptionally steady; with just a few strokes, he could outline a chubby fox on the slab!

"Howl! Howl!"

"Whimper! Whimper!"

The apprentices watched intently, grinning and howling excitedly.

They saw the master’s brush turn, drawing a sword in front of the chubby fox’s paw.

The apprentices suddenly realized the master was drawing a sword manual!

Looking back at the chubby fox drawn by the master, it indeed seemed to move.

In the fox group, Flying Legs frowned and remarked that the painting looked familiar; wasn’t it the sketch from the diary they found?

Indeed, Bai Mo at this moment was drawing the sword technique from Wu Qingyun. Although somewhat not too bright, when it comes to swordsmanship, she really has a knack.

Now, Bai Mo adapted her sword technique based on the fox apprentices’ physique and traits, illustrating it on this stone wall for the apprentices to observe, learn, and practice.

In his hand, the tree branch was both steady and nimble, and with just a few strokes, he sketched out a series of chubby fox claws, each gripping a sword, to show the apprentices different gripping techniques.

With a few more strokes, he sketched out two chubby fox legs, which were for showing the apprentices the step technique.

Then he sketched out a fox tail, to demonstrate to the apprentices how to balance and integrate the tail with their movements.

As the master drew, the apprentices watched along.

Fluffy little heads moved with the master’s hand.

Pairs of dark crimson eyes followed the movement of the master’s brush.

Bai Mo painted image after image, filling an entire stone wall, finally depicting all the techniques learned from Wu Qingyun.

"Very good, that’s all.

"These are swordsmanship techniques given to us by others.

"Just leave them here. If you like, you can look at them, play with them, learn them.

"But... don’t let it affect your sleep time!"

...

The sky was clear, the sun shining brightly.

The streets of West State City were bustling with traffic.

But the mall by the roadside was not as lively as usual; instead, its doors were shut, and warning tape was put up, keeping tourists and the hustle outside.

Inside the mall, all the shops had suspended business, making it extremely empty, even somewhat eerie.

Dozens of Immortal Technique Committee members were divided into teams, checking each floor.

Bai Mo, along with Zhang Shan, Lu Yang, and Yu Tingting, was inspecting the fourth-floor food court.

"How could living people just disappear in the mall?"

"They might not have disappeared in the mall." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"But they all definitely came to this mall."

It turned out, there were suddenly seven reports of missing children in West State City yesterday, all having gone out to play and not returned. The matter seemed strange, so it was consolidated and handed over to the Immortal Technique Committee. After thorough big data searches, it turned out all seven children had visited this mall!

Bai Mo, as an experienced expert, was invited to help with the investigation.

The task was to find the missing children or discover traces of them.

The task reward started at two thousand, with no upper limit, depending on the final difficulty of the task...

At this moment, White Gloves was following behind the master very diligently, wide-eyed like a fox, looking around everywhere, at the floor, the corners of the walls, the ceiling, now and then pouting and sniffing the air, as if trying to detect scents. Although it was just a fox, its sense of smell wasn’t much stronger than that of humans, let alone a police dog...

Suddenly, the phone vibrated. It was a new message in the public channel for this task.

[The missing persons count has been updated to twenty-three]

[Not only students but also adults]

Students who didn’t return home that day would be immediately noticed. But missing adults might not be reported until several days later.

[Through big data investigation, they’ve all visited Qingyuan Mall]

[Committee Member Wu Qingyun is rushing to the scene; everyone, please continue the search with urgency and exercise caution]

This scale of missing persons was significant enough to qualify as a major case, warranting the involvement of Sequence Eight’s Wu Qingyun.

Bai Mo and Zhang Shan exchanged glances.

Having experienced many cases, they were quite resilient to such incidents.

But twenty-three...

"Twenty-three? That’s quite a number!"

Zhang Shan frowned.

"I wonder if these people are still alive?"

Suddenly, Bai Mo’s phone rang. It was the general commander of this operation, Committee Member Gu Lin.

"Expert Bai Mo, please come to the fifth floor immediately.

"We’ve found a suspicious location, and we need your Immortal Beast."

They needed an Immortal Beast?

Bai Mo immediately headed to the fifth floor with White Gloves. Zhang Shan and others followed as well.

...

Guided by directions, Bai Mo reached a secluded corner on the fifth floor, where Committee Member Gu Lin and a group of people were already waiting. Several dog-like Immortal Beasts were staring intently at the secluded corner or, more precisely, the dead end in that corner.

Committee Member Gu Lin welcomed Bai Mo.

"Expert Bai Mo, I remember your Immortal Beast can dispel evil and misfortune, correct?

"Please take a look at this dead end."

In the corner, the dead end only featured a single closed brine shop, looking dark and gloomy.

Gu Lin took out a small wooden doll and tossed it into the dead end.

With a soft whoosh, the doll flew into the dead end, seemingly passing through a water curtain, causing the air to ripple slightly. It disappeared into the curtain, leaving the dead end empty, with no sign of the doll that had just been thrown in.