Cultivation Struggles of a Lowly Fox

”You shouldn’t rely on it too much.” Mei scolded Aiko.

”You shouldn’t rely on it too much.” Aiko threw those words back at her, since she understood that Mei liked the overview of her Skills and accomplishments.

Mei coughed awkwardly. ”I’m an adult, so I can use it.”

”I’m an adult, so I can use it.” Aiko crossed her arms.

Mei choked up. ”Hey! You are not an adult!”

”Hey! You are not an adult!” Aiko pouted. Mei was like an oversized child when it came to certain things.

”You-!” Mei glared at Aiko.

”Hmpf.” Aiko looked away pouting. She was not happy with Mei telling her that.

”Just you wait! I will just break this place!” Aiko chuckled sinisterly.

”Auch!” And got immediately smacked by Mei.

”You won’t be able to break this place even with your Evolution.” Mei shook her head.

”Watch me!” Aiko immediately ran outside to collect the necessary Treasures for her Evolution.

The Azure Dragon welcomed it, since he wanted to get out of here and this was part of his plan.

”You have to slowly Evolve, so you can absorb as much energy as possible.” The Azure Dragon said seriously to Aiko.

”I will do that.” Aiko nodded. It was only natural that she would do something that would benefit her.

She had a pile of beads that she would use during Evolution.

The Green Beast Core from the Spider.

The White Beast Core from the fried chicken.

The Blazing Red Breast Core from the Crow.

The colourful Beast Core from the Kitty.

The Ocean Blue Breast Core from the soon-to-be turtle soup.

The somewhat woody brown from the Dragon.

And lastly, the Black Stone.

’Did I forget something?’ Aiko narrowed her eyes, but it should be fine. This should be enough...

”Now remember-” The Dragon wanted to nag Aiko again, but was dismissed by her.

”I know, I know. I will do my best.” Aiko said. ”Protect Mei or else.” Aiko raised her hand and a flag appeared in her hand.

”What is that supposed to mean?” The Dragon was unaware of Aiko’s tendencies. He just heard some stories from her team, but they can’t all be true, right...?

”Let’s just say that your rear and I will get acquainted.” Aiko snorted.

”So those stories were true?!” The Azure Dragon flinched. He was suddenly fearful of this little Fox!

Aiko snorted again, before leaving.

’Am I forgetting something? I hope not...’ No matter how long she thought, this should be all of it, right?

...

Aiko ran away into the mountains. She wanted to avoid harming Mei with her Evolution. They were also connected with Karma, so it should be alright.

Aiko’s Evolution shouldn’t last all that long, so everything should be alright!

Aiko found herself a certain nice place inside the mountains. There was none around which pleased her greatly.

She would be able to peacefully Evolve over here and then come back as a new person!

Aiko smirked and looked at the Evolution Tree.

’There are a ton of Evolutions...’ Aiko narrowed her eyes.

There were all kinds of Evolutions, but not quite what she was looking for...

’Right, I have not hit the right Level yet!’ Aiko narrowed her eyes.

She pulled out some system meat and munched on it.

[Meat x2,685 -> x2,515]

[Level: 530 -> 700 (5th Evolution)]

[System is postponing rewards for lack of Providence.]

Aiko frowned. It seems she wouldn’t get any cool new items until she gained more Providence.

Aiko shook her head and looked at her Evolutions again. She had a lot more Evolutions to choose from than before.

She carefully looked over them, but there was a certain Evolution that was greyed out.

[Divine Witch of Nightmares]

[Species: [Divine Witch of Nightmares Fennec Fox]]

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[Innate Ability: [Little Nightmare]]

Aiko didn’t know what she needed for that, since almost all the information was distorted.

Aiko found this quite fascinating, since everything else was fairly well described.

But Aiko really liked the [Little Nightmare] that the Twins had, so she would settle on this one!

’But where do I put it...’ Aiko didn’t know where she should slap her stats in order to make this thing work.

’My dexterity is the lowest when it comes to base stats...’ Aiko narrowed her eyes.

She slapped 10,000 Stat Points into her Dexterity and it bumped it over 1,000,000 in raw stats.

’Good.’ Aiko smirked as said Evolution was less grey.

’She had to dump another 55,000 Stat Points into Dexterity until the [Divine Witch of Nightmares] finally unlocked.

’I got this!’ Aiko’s eyes shined. She would get her own little nightmares!

*Click*

...

A storm was brewing around Aiko’s location. She was currently undergoing her Evolution.

’This is a lot worse than I expected.’ The Azure Dragon narrowed his eyes and shielded his entire home with a powerful barrier.

”Oi! You lazy bastards! Get to work! We will have company!” The Azure Dragon roared at the lazy Beast Cores.

The Azure Dragon was sure that, with that kind of phenomenon, there might be bastards coming over.

”What is it, you lazy bastard?!” The Black Tortoise yawned.

”Aiko is Evolving. We will annihilate anyone who comes close!” The Azure Dragon’s eyes burned brightly.

”Oh, Mei is alo-” The Black Tortoise wanted to visit Mei, but the Azure Dragon temporarily removed the barrier that shielded them.

The Black Tortoise choked on his own spit and he felt like his intestines were getting pulled out of his body.

”What the fuck?!” The Black Tortoise kept choking even after the barrier was back in place. ”What the fuck was that?!”

The Azure Dragon pitied him for his ignorance.

”Are you sure she is Evolving and not just trying to destroy this place...” The Three-Legged Crow asked cautiously.

”I have prepared enough Spirit Stones inside those mountains that it should offset her consumption for the most part. She also took the beads, which would further help her in Evolution.” The Azure Dragon sighed.

”As you can see. The Heavenly Disaster is already here.” The Azure Dragon sighed. ”As you can see. We have Fire, Wood, Water, Ice, Wind, Lightning and... Metal...?”

Every Beast suddenly turned towards a certain furry creature.

The cat was innocently licking his balls. ”What?”

”You did give her just Wind Element, right?” The Azure Dragon asked.

”There was also a Lightning Element mixed in by accident.” The White Tiger smiled innocently.

”You-!” The Azure Dragon glared at him. ”You mixed metal into it, didn’t you?!”

”I didn’t.” The Cat said innocently.

”What are your claws made out of?!” The Dragon kept glaring at him.

”Metal.” The Cat tilted his head.

”What did you use in order to form the Bead?” The Dragon had veins appearing on his head.

”Paws- Aaaaaah! I guess the Metal Element got mixed in, whoopsie.” The White Tiger chuckled innocently.

”This is a problem, you know! It’s not a laughing matter!” The Azure Dragon roared. ”There are not enough Spirit Stones to feed her Evolution!”

”She will be fine. We went through worse.” The White Tiger shrugged like he was not part of this.

”She is a Fox! She has a smaller Beast Core!” The Azure Dragon smacked that obnoxious cat into the ground.

”Dammit!” The Azure Dragon was upset.

Mei was not as worried. ’I suppose Aiko will feed on the Spirit Crystals.’ She sighed gently. It would be such a shame if that happened, but it can’t be helped, since it’s Aiko who they are talking about...

’She will be fine...’ Mei said gently in her mind, but she still felt anxious. If this Evolution was on the same scale as the one before then it would be a great trouble for all of them...

...

The clouds increased in size and attracted the attention of the Cultivators inside the Secret Realm.

Fortunately, not many approached due to the fearsome aura that Aiko was creating due to the Heavenly Disaster.

There were some brave Cultivators that went against this energy, but they didn’t make it all that far.

So most Cultivators steered clear of that place.

It has been a somewhat peaceful Evolution so far.

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”Sect Leader. We have detected abnormally large amounts of energy in a Mortal World.” A masked person said.

”Send people in and if it’s a Beast, try to lure it over. If it can’t be lured over, kill it.” The handsome man with well-decorated clothes said slowly as he cut yet another leaf from a small tree.

”Yes, Sect Leader, but...” The masked person hesitated.

”What is it?” The handsome man asked slowly.

”The Mortal World is being shielded by the Moon Goddess.” The masked person said cautiously.

”Bribe Mahayana Cultivators to go and contact it.” The handsome man said without a change of expression.

”The Mortal World is completely locked out, Sect Leader.” The masked person replied with even more care.

”Send Immortals into the Mortal World?” The handsome man’s face cracked.

”The World is completely locked out, Sect Leader.” The masked man bowed so that he didn’t have to see that terrifying expression.

”...” The handsome man almost snipped off the whole small tree when he heard that.

”Abolish Cultivation of the people from that Mortal World. They will be forced to descend. Give them enough Spirit Crystals so that they agree to it.” The handsome man was no longer handsome as he had a distorted expression on his face.

”Yes... Sect Leader.” The masked individual was not happy about it, but since this guy was backed by the Golden Palace, his own Sect could not go against him.

”Make sure that you bring whoever is producing that energy to our side.” The handsome man repeated.

”Yes, Sect Leader.” The masked man bowed once again before leaving.

”Even Buddha is running around because of a single Fox.” The handsome man sighed. ”I can’t believe that everyone is so crazy about Foxes. At the end of the day, they are just headless wenches waiting to be plucked.” From his anger, he accidentally snipped the tree in half.

”What a bad day...” The handsome man sighed. ”The purge of the Immortal Beasts is not going well thanks to the damned Dragons! They have to meddle in everything!” He slammed his fist on the nearby table and almost blew away his whole house.

The handsome man glared at the Moon, but could not do anything about it...