The woman was wearing high heels, and with each step, the sound of the heels hitting the ground was especially crisp.
"This woman looks unfamiliar, just an ordinary person. How could she appear near our Lin Family's Pill Room?" Lin Xinmei narrowed her eyes.
A chill touched my heart, and I softly said, "She is Su Qiang, my cousin."
"Your cousin? But she doesn't have the Spiritual Eye." Lin Xinmei's mouth fell slightly open, even more astonished.
I controlled my expression, "She belongs to the Fox Immortal Mysterious Mirror, her eyes were sacrificed."
"No wonder her eyes look like those of a fox, so bewitching." Lin Xinmei stared at Su Qiang's teal eyes, licking her lips, "Her belly is so big, could it be she is carrying a fox fetus?"
I pressed my lips together in silence, carefully watching every move Su Qiang made.
A cold breath swept past my ear, and Yu Longting came close, chuckling softly, "Both born of the Su family's blood, how can there be such a difference in appearance? One beautiful as a deity, the other too ugly to behold."
"What has Su Qiang done to you that you suddenly call her ugly?" I was annoyed that Yu Longting suddenly came close.
Yu Longting's smile was ambiguous, "I clearly meant to compliment my beautiful wife. Perhaps, wife, it's because you were influenced by the Lin family's bloodline that you are so unique?"
"I don't need Su Qiang to compare with me. Her sudden appearance here indicates that the Mysterious Mirror is also involved in this matter." A dull pain throbbed at my temple, and I rubbed it forcefully.
The clothes Su Qiang wore were none other than my Su family's life and death embroidery; moreover, they were the Grey Immortal Clothes that Xuan Fanyin had worn to control rats.
Currently, Su Qiang, besides being able to control the Fox Clan, could also manipulate rats.
Just then, Su Qiang walked to the grand entrance of the Pill Room, slowly parted her lips, "Lin Huan, do you still plan to stubbornly resist? Tomorrow night is the Ghost Festival; when the yin energy of my Fox Clan is at its strongest, and the art reaches its peak, it will be the end for you, old man."
"Scram, what are you? How dare you be so presumptuous in front of Sect Master Lin?" Behind the thick door of the Pill Room, my mother's voice rang out.
My heart tightened, followed by the mocking and teasing of several Lin Family Disciples, "Just a worn shoe that passed through the Mysterious Mirror, and yet you dare to be arrogant in our Lin Family."
"Even if the Mysterious Mirror himself came here, he isn't worthy enough to carry our Sect Master's shoes."
...
Su Qiang quietly smiled, completely indifferent to the taunts from the disciples inside the Pill Room.
On the staircase, four little foxes struggled, carrying a mahogany official's hat-chair up to the entrance of the Pill Room, placing the chair behind Su Qiang.
Su Qiang lifted the hem of her pure black embroidered mouse robe, revealing her slender and shapely legs, and gracefully sat down on the chair, "Looking at your spirits, you think the Longevity Formation forged with elixirs can suppress tomorrow's Ghost Festival, but you overlook one thing... Hehe..."
Her words suddenly stopped, and she let out a cold, mocking laugh.
"What is it?" My mother's voice came out again, apparently sensing the dreadful truth behind Su Qiang's words.
Su Qiang stretched lazily, "Nothing much, you hide inside, so obviously none of these disciples outside will survive. Hence, I cooperated with Lin Xinmei and tested the waters with a minor effort: I created a Thousand Corpses Formation!"
The three words 'Thousand Corpses Formation' fell, and dead silence engulfed the area near the Pill Room.
The cold moonlight fell, suddenly casting silver light.
The ground seemed to be covered with a layer of glittering, icy frost.
Behind the Taihu Rock, Lin Xinmei anxiously explained to me, "Sister, it wasn't me; it was my twin sister..."
"Hmm," I responded nonchalantly.
In fact, I had never fully trusted Lin Xinmei from the beginning; many of her explanations were just one-sided.
Conversely, her misdeeds were witnessed by everyone.
"You... Can you say that again?" Finally, my mother spoke, her voice choked and stuttering.
Su Qiang half-squinted her eyes, "I'll say it the same way again—unyielding Lin Family Disciples have nearly all died. With the Thousand Corpses Formation, just by flicking my fingers, all of you—tones tonight will be refined."