Master of Ten Thousand Foxes-Chapter 79 - 70: Injustice So Grievous It Smokes

A cloud of red smoke?

What could that be?

New medicinal material?

Bai Mo sat on a sedan chair, carried by four fox disciples, as he braved the cold mountain wind, rushing towards the ruins.

Quanquan Hu led the way, quite excited and a little eager!

Upon arrival, Quanquan Hu guided the master into a dirt pit, pointing at the cluster of red smoke in the soil.

Bai Mo peered closely.

"Oh, it’s quite creepy."

A large cluster of congealed red smoke, forming struggling human hands reaching out from the smoke. Faces of agony and twisted expressions emerged from it, dispersing into smoke then re-condensing.

Quanquan Hu stood beside his master, his fox eyes gleaming with anticipation.

Outside the pit, over a dozen fox heads peered in, their eyes also sparkling with expectancy.

Bai Mo spread out his divine sense, cautiously observing. After a long while, he finally confirmed.

"This... is a piece of clothing!

"It’s a robe!"

He confirmed it was purely for visual effect, impressive looking yet harmless to the body, and offering no benefits.

Taking a step forward, he reached into the smoke, feeling around, grasping the robe itself, and lifted it up.

However, the smoke emitted from the robe was so voluminous that it enveloped Bai Mo’s arm and body entirely.

In the eyes of his fox disciples, their master seemed to be engulfed by the eerie smoke!

Yet Bai Mo could see the world outside the smoke clearly.

"Hmm... a one-way smoke bomb?"

A very magical robe, barely qualifying as an immortal artifact.

Bai Mo tossed the robe to Quanquan Hu beside him.

"It’s safe, go play with it!"

Suddenly he vaguely remembered that there seemed to be discussions about this kind of robe on the Immortal Discussion Forum?

Bai Mo promptly rose on a plume of white smoke, returning to the present world.

...

The daytime at Fox Mountain corresponds to nighttime in the present world.

In the dark house, through a small window, neon signs could be seen in the distance.

Bai Mo settled on the sofa, opened his phone, and went to the Immortal Discussion Forum, searching the keyword "smoke robe."

Not many related posts came up, the first one was the one he had read before.

[Sword Immortal’s Top Equipment, Resentful Ghost Robe]

[A robe worn by my Ancient Immortal Master, damn thing comes with effects, smoke billowing, smoke transforms into human hands or faces, spooky as hell!]

[Wearing that robe, he’s entirely obscured by smoke, can’t be seen from outside]

[A bit like Sena’s E]

This post was already a year old.

Below were replies from a year ago.

[What’s the use of it? What’s the point? Just to look cool?]

[Is this the aesthetic of the Ancient Immortal Dynasty?]

The original poster replied.

[Don’t know. Anyway, my master says it’s a great treasure for a Sword Immortal!]

Bai Mo furrowed his brows, that broken thing is considered a great treasure for a Sword Immortal?

Another relic left by those ancient immortals who ruined themselves?

What mystery does this robe hold?

The disciples seem to like it a lot, leave it to them as a toy.

Continuing downwards, he unexpectedly saw a familiar name in the comments.

Wu Qingyun!

[OP, I want to buy that robe, can you get it?]

This was also a comment from a year ago, back when Wu Qingyun was still unknown. As soon as this comment was made, it was met with ridicule and scolding from netizens.

[Are you stupid? It’s said to be the Ancient Immortal Master’s robe, how capable are you to strip an ancient immortal?]

[Hahaha, so foolish. Judging by the name, it’s a girl?]

At this moment, a heap of new comments appeared, all posted tonight, retaliating against the netizens from a year ago, defending Wu Qingyun.

[You’re the fool here, why insult Qingyun the goddess?]

[She’s not foolish, she’s just devoted to the sword, caring for nothing else]

Ah?

Bai Mo pondered for a moment and understood.

Probably just had a live stream session that garnered Wu Qingyun a bunch of new fans.

These fans came to the Immortal Discussion Forum to search for Wu Qingyun’s name, digging up this year-old post?

Clicking on the forum search bar, he saw that the three characters for "Wu Qingyun" had already become the top trending search.

Bai Mo didn’t know how to comment, closed his phone, and then white smoke rose from his feet, as he returned to Fox Mountain.

...

Fox Mountain, ruins, the Resentful Ghost Robe had already been tossed on the ground amidst the ruins.

In one pit after another, the fox disciples resumed work, shovels lifted high, digging quickly.

Bai Mo circled around, intending to turn and leave.

Suddenly, he spotted Peach Blossom Eyes hugging a stack of stone slabs jumping up from the large pit, carefully placing the stone slabs aside.

There seemed to be words inscribed on the stone slab?

The freshly unearthed stone slab was covered with dirt, making the inscriptions obscure.

Bai Mo casually scanned it with his divine sense...

"Hmm?"

He smiled.

"This is... the recipe for the next potion required to ascend from Sequence Seven to Sequence Six, named... Brain Reviving Soup!"

...

Inside the Bronze Hall, Bai Mo and several fox disciples pieced together the shattered stone slabs like a puzzle.

"Triangle shape, place it here."

"Judging by the texture of the writing, these two pieces fit together."

"The gap doesn’t quite match; it must have weathered and fractured."

Assembling this sort of thing was swift for Bai Mo.

The fox disciples were not slow either. After all, foxes are very clever!

Before long, hundreds of fragments were reassembled, spanning ten meters in both length and width, laid out in the great hall, restoring its former appearance.

Line after line of text, simple drawings on the slab documented the concoction for advancing to Sequence Six, the Brain Reviving Soup.

"Finally found it.

"Time to start researching!"

The fox disciples looked at each other, fox faces breaking into smiles.

With the recipe in hand, their master was one step closer to upgrading!

The comprehensive strength of Fox Mountain grows stronger once more!

These fox disciples might also get another boost!

...

A recipe is like a complicated manual.

Over a thousand ingredients, hundreds of procedures, countless transformations, and the profound pharmacology involved... As a day passed, Bai Mo had figured out the Brain Reviving Soup’s crafting process, documenting it on a tablet.

At night, he lay in the dormitory of Fox Mountain, holding the tablet and pondering the recipe.

"Aoo aoo aoo!"

"Aoo aoo aoo!"

"Aoo aoo aoo!"

Joyful cries resounded from next door.

In the dark dormitory hall, the fox disciples hadn’t slept either. They were gathered together, studying the newly unearthed Resentful Ghost Robe!

This crowd huddled closely together in layers, encircling the Resentful Ghost Robe, each taking a turn to experience it, each crawling inside the robe, feeling the magic of the red smoke!

Every one of them that went in came out with excited howls, bouncing with joy! Leading to a chorus of fox howls, a pack of foxes bouncing with excitement!

Seeing their happiness, Bai Mo grinned as well. The Resentful Ghost Robe’s value to a Sword Immortal aside, its ability to delight the disciples was already very valuable for Fox Mountain.

He continued to look at the tablet.

Though he had grasped the crafting process, he hadn’t fully understood all the transformations and principles within the recipe.

"If it were an ordinary Ancient Immortal, exhausting a lifetime might not fully comprehend this recipe, managing to craft it is good enough."

But Bai Mo was neither an ordinary nor an Ancient Immortal, comprehending this recipe’s intricacies was not much of a challenge for him.