Inside the simple green-tiled house, a girl’s sorrowful voice rang out.
“It’s already been ten days… Ahhh! So annoying!”
Su Mumu paced back and forth in distress. In the tiny room, her movements appeared exceptionally eerie.
Behind her, a snowy-white, fluffy tail swayed gently.
On a night ten days ago, Su Mumu had stayed up all night playing games, just as she always did. That night, her fox character had secured several penta-kills.
How cool and impressive those plays had been… but fate was simply ridiculous!
When she woke up from her sleep, her world collapsed!
She — Su Mumu, a socially anxious girl who stayed at home every day playing games and surfing the internet — had actually turned into a fox girl without any warning!
“If I had known, I wouldn’t have chosen the fox or gotten those penta-kills… Argh!”
Su Mumu roared toward the ceiling.
Suddenly, the phone on her bedside table rang.
The phone in this world was a square piece of crystal. Once injected with strange dao runes, it possessed the functions of a modern smartphone. Su Mumu had no idea what kind of dao runes they were.
Oh, it was a call from her best friend.
Su Mumu pinched her throat and coughed twice. After adjusting her state, she answered the call.
“Hello — ?”
“Mumu? Do you still have a cold? Your voice is so hoarse,” Jiang Mengxin’s voice came through the phone.
“Yeah… it’s miserable. I can only stay at home during this time,” Su Mumu said.
“That’s a shame! I wanted to hang out with you since we haven’t met in so long…”
“…I’ll end up infecting you.”
“That’s fine, I’ll share your joys and sorrows! We can even sleep in the same bed ~~,” Jiang Mengxin said in a playful tone.
“No teasing your Lord Mu!” Su Mumu curled her lip.
“I’ll tease you if I want to.”
“Fine, fine. Sooner or later, I’ll teach you a lesson.”
Jiang Mengxin was Su Mumu’s only good friend. It was a bit embarrassing to admit, but from childhood until now, she had only ever had this one friend…
“Is your body really okay, Mumu?” Jiang Mengxin’s voice sounded clearly worried.
“Well…” Su Mumu frowned. She paced over to the full-length mirror and examined the unfamiliar face, fox ears, and tail. She muttered uncertainty, “It’s fine… I think?”
“I should take a leave of absence to come stay with you!”
” — What!? Mengxin, don’t you have a mission tonight? How can you take leave!” Su Mumu grew nervous.
“Sigh! This mission is very difficult. It’s a monster at the peak of the second heaven realm… I heard it almost broke through the gates of the immortal sect! The sect is taking it very seriously. If I can contribute…”
Jiang Mengxin’s voice trailed off dejectedly. “I might be able to save my course credits.”
“Just take it slow,” Su Mumu comforted her.
“I know… but I’ve been working hard for almost a year now, and I’m at the bottom of the rankings every time I go on a mission. I feel like a lot of people are dissing me behind my back…” Jiang Mengxin’s voice became smaller and smaller.
This wasn’t good. Her best friend was about to spiral into self-doubt again. She had to coax her quickly.
“You can definitely do it, Mengxin! I’ve believed in you since we were kids! Win a huge victory tonight and slap everyone’s faces! Tell them that the great top student Mengxin has returned!” Su Mumu raised her eyebrows, her voice full of passion.
The other end of the line was silent for a long while.
Only then did Jiang Mengxin regain her fighting spirit. “Okay! I’ll blow that monster apart with one punch! I’ll return in triumph to marry Mumu!”
Su Mumu curled her lip. “Little girl, call me Lord Mu.”
“Fine, fine, Lord Mu ~~”
“Ugh, how disgusting. I’m hanging up.”
“Hahaha.”
Jiang Mengxin’s playful laughter lingered before the call went to a busy tone.
Su Mumu’s mood became melancholy.
The Changsheng immortal sect was located on the edge of the central state, situated on a massive, boundless low hillside.
Rumor had it that this slope was once an Immortal’s mausoleum. Of course, there were also rumors that this place was once the entrance to a fairyland…
The Changsheng immortal sect hated monsters the most, and it was the only reliable monster catcher sect in the central state.
In the current world, most monsters were boundlessly violent and caused chaos among the common people.
Therefore, every month, the Changsheng immortal sect would send out students to subjugate monsters, which served as a monthly exam for them.
Whether one’s grades were good or not depended on the number of monsters subjugated or the difficulty of the mission.
As for Su Mumu, she hadn’t intended to study hard or participate in the monthly exam from the very beginning. As for why…
Are you kidding? Fighting to the death with monsters!? Me? Can I actually do that?
Su Mumu decided to just coast through her studies. Anyway, she was only in her first year, and there were still two years left until graduation!
The problem now was…
How on earth was she supposed to turn back into a human!!!
She couldn’t keep looking like this forever. If someone from the immortal sect found out… she would definitely be captured and killed!
Su Mumu put on a mask of agony. Helplessly, she picked up her phone and began searching for information.
[What should I do after turning into a fox girl?]
[Answer: Just be happy! You’ve hit the jackpot…]
No, no! Su Mumu gritted her teeth.
[Can a human suddenly turn into a fox girl? Seeking in-depth analysis!]
[Answer: Theoretically, it is impossible for the human race to turn into the monster race. In today’s world, due to the restrictions of the heaven and earth rules, it is extremely difficult for the monster race to take human form.
Humans possess more acute divine sense and spirituality but lack physical strength and vast spiritual energy reserves…
These are exactly the things monsters are unwilling to give up… Thus, even fewer monsters are willing to transform. Combining various factors, fox girls do not exist.]
Fox girls do not exist…
Su Mumu stared fixedly at those six words on her phone. After a long silence, she had no choice but to re-edit her text.
‘How should I search?’
Anyway, she had to find a way to change back to human form first!
[Can a monster perfectly cultivate a human form?]
[Answer: It is impossible for the monster race to perfectly cultivate a human form.
Once a monster chooses to take human shape, they will inevitably leave behind obvious characteristics, such as: ears, a tail, or beast claws…]
Seeing this, Su Mumu continued editing her text.
[After a monster takes human form, can they hide their characteristics?]
[Answer: Theoretically no, but one can take a monster-suppressing pill to suppress monster qi, which can temporarily hide the characteristics.]
Su Mumu’s eyes lit up.
‘Should I… give it a try?’
She would go out and buy some materials for alchemy…
Due to her long-term truancy, Su Mumu had spent some of her idle time studying alchemy. Although her level wasn’t high, she could still refine simple pills.
But would this method actually work? ‘Besides, I’m not even a monster…’
However, if she just kept waiting like this, she probably wouldn’t change back. She had already waited ten days… Moreover, there was almost no food left in the house. She couldn’t just starve to death, could she?
Besides, if she kept hiding like this, her best friend would eventually come to visit… At that time, would her best friend even believe her explanation?
‘ “Listen to me, I turned into a fox girl because my fox character got a penta-kill and then I went to sleep…” Like hell she’d believe that!’
Her appearance was completely different now, and even her hair had been bleached white…
Moreover, even in the one-in-ten-thousand chance that Jiang Mengxin believed her, she couldn’t keep hiding like this for three years!
Sooner or later, others in the immortal sect would find out. When that time came… it would be even harder to explain, and she would even implicate her best friend!
Her friend’s credits were already pathetically low; she couldn’t make her sad anymore!
The look of hesitation on Su Mumu’s face gradually faded. She stopped her pacing, narrowed her eyes, and looked at the setting sun outside the window. The dim yellow glow of the dusk hit her face.
It was beautiful, yet determined.
“It’s time to head out…”