Cultivation Struggles of a Lowly Fox

Aiko somewhat happily munched on her food, but there were some issues with it.

[You have been poisoned.]

[Origin: Blessed Peaches]

[Type: Emotion Adjusting (Love subtype)]

[It is advised that the user consumes more in order for [Witch Fox Incarnate] to analyse it and create antibodies.]

[[Greater Poison Resistance] neutralised poison in your body.]

[It is advised to turn off [Greater Poison Resistance] in order to create antibodies against it.]

Moon Aiko narrowed her eyes. 'They couldn't be that stupid, right? Especially with such little intensity, everyone would be able to figure it out.'

Li Xiu pursed her lips at the little fox girl, but suddenly she felt a sharp gaze on her.

For some reason, her Junior Sister had returned from the Secret Realm and was glaring at her.

'Why is she glaring at me? She already got her Treasures, especially the [Divine Steel].' Li Xiu could not understand why her Junior Sister was acting like that.

The Saint next to Li Xiu finally noticed something off and looked down.

*Munch Munch*

There, a small Fox was eating the fruit that he so desperately harvested! He also prepared something special in it, since his advances were constantly rejected!

Upset at this situation, he glared at the Fox, but she didn't even flinch. No matter what he did, the little Fox ignored him completely.

'Unforgivable!' He was chosen by the Elders, yet his partner paid more attention to filthy Fox?! 'Unforgivable!!'

Aiko noticed that someone tried to take the plate away, so she grabbed onto it.

Like this, she was lifted high into the air by the Saint.

*Munch Munch*

[Level up!][Level up!]

Well... Aiko didn't really care as long as each bite rewarded her with Levels.

Meanwhile, Mei touched her forehead. She somewhat expected Aiko to become like this, since those peaches smelled very nice, but to think that Aiko didn't care to this extent...

'I will have a throbbing headache later...' Mei groaned.

The Elders were likewise speechless. They didn't expect that little vixen to completely ignore everything.

The Saint tried to shake the vixen off, while holding down the fruits with his Divine Sense, but she just swayed from side to side.

"This is not good for my digestion, could you stop?" Aiko indifferently said to the strange guy.

A vein bulged on his forehead as he glared daggers at her.

Aiko was completely unaffected by him and just-

*Munch Munch*

[Level up!][Level up!]

He suddenly punched forward, intending to get rid of her, but Aiko just tilted her body and that punch missed.

The Elders narrowed their eyes as that vixen dodged all the punches.

"I'm not really into exercising while eating, can we stop this?" Aiko said it with stuffed-up cheeks. She looked like a small hamster with those full cheeks.

Even more veins bulged on his forehead and even more Elders paid attention to this. Yet none of them would move from their place. What was between disciples would stay between disciples... not to mention for some reason some Human Elders were looking at her favourably, which just made them dumbfounded.

The Saint glared at Aiko again and it seemed like his veins would pop any second.

"You really should treat your forehead, it looks like you have worms under your skin." Aiko said as she munched on another fruit.

*Snap*

Something inside the Saint snapped and he breathed out gently. Li Xiu was happy that he finally gave up, when suddenly a torrent formed around his fist.

Li Xiu wanted to block it, but she was still a bit far away from that.

The torrent finished forming as the Saint shouted. "Mountain Crushing Fist!"

The torrent formed into a small mountain instead of a fist and approached the vixen.

Aiko narrowed her eyes. This was a good opportunity to see how much energy would be consumed if she tried to block the fireworks.

The force approached her as Aiko projected her [Moon's Crust], but instead of using it as an omni-barrier, she only projected a part in front of her.

*BOOM*

The wind whistled as the mountain approached the moon's crust. Everyone turned around to see Saint going against a small Fox.

Most of them rolled their eyes, since they didn't believe that their Senior would hurt such a small creature.

*Ding*

The Saint was surprised as his fist was unable to reach the small Fox, but what was even more shocking, was the fact that his fist hurt quite badly.

The only time his fist would hurt like this, was when he challenged the Saint from the West. The same Saint that was just now observing the little Fox with amusement, trying to figure out why he couldn't detect her before.

The Saint gritted his teeth, trying to ask his Elder for help, but...

"I quite like fireworks, but can't you wait when it's night? Doing it like this is pointless, you know?" Aiko munched without pause and spat some juices on his face. 'What a waste, but I want to eat the whole plate before he stashes it away.' Even Moon Aiko was not in her right mind due to the constant levelling. The safest way to do this, would be to stash them away in her tails and run away.

The Saint completely snapped as his face turned ugly colour, but that was not the most humiliating thing that happened.

"Pfft." Li Xiu was holding back her laughter. She didn't expect the previously tiny Fox to become so powerful when she looked away just for a few years. 'Aren't Beasts unfavoured by the Heavens? Pft, as if. If that was the case, there would not be so many monsters around.' She was more and more convinced that humans just wanted to slander the Beasts in order to justify the slaughter and Contracts.

'Heh. I can't believe that the favoured son of heaven would end up like this.' Li Xiu smirked darkly. She was happy that this prick was finally dealt with.

Aiko was confused by their attitude. The Saintesses looked at her with sparkling eyes, while most of the Saints glared at her.

"What? Just because you can't get attention, you are going to glare at me?" Aiko's eyes rolled as she was dissatisfied with their conduct. All the while forgetting what she was currently doing and hanging off of a plate!

The Saint glared at her even more, since the Saintesses looked at her even more favourably.

Suddenly, warm hands wrapped around her body and her body was moved onto someone's lap.

Li Xiu smiled happily as she gently petted the little Fox's head.

Aiko didn't mind, as long as her stomach or back was not touched.

Li Xiu slowly and sneakily pulled up a comb. She was intending to deal with the tangled parts on her head and tails.

She could even hear her Master sigh, how nice~! Li Xiu was overjoyed whenever her cold Master suffered, especially when her Mater favoured this shitty Saint that was next to her.

At some point, she believed that her own Master fell in love with Disciples, while she was constantly chastised for walking around with the boys.

Li Xiu rolled her eyes. "Men are a lot funnier than the poisonous 'flowers'." She accidentally said it out loud.

"Not really, that only applies to you bipedal jerks." Aiko replied.

Li Xiu paused as she looked at the small Fox.

"What? Don't pay attention to me, it feels like your Elders will gauge you apart." Aiko adjusted her seating and stole another fruit with her Divine Sense.

The Saint was even more shocked, since that small Fox had much more powerful Divine Sense than what he had. And he even had a Spiritual Wood Amulet on him!

"That's true..." Li Xiu paused again, but then she resumed the combing.

"You are just going to ignore them?" Aiko was slightly startled. She never encountered such an oblivious person!

"Yeah, it's not like they will do anything to me." Li Xiu shrugged. Her Master was cold and heartless, but would not raise her hand against her.

"You are weird..." Aiko shook her head. "Your position is already bad enough, you know?"

"Why would you say that?" Li Xiu was curious about what this little Fox, called Aiko, would say.

"I mean, they already gave you poisoned fruits, who knows what they will do next." Aiko said without blinking her eyes.

"Eh?" Li Xiu acted surprised, but she already knew about this. She even told the other Saintesses, since she didn't want to be abused by their 'love' later.

The other Saintesses paused. Only now did they realise that the little Fox was eating those fruits, and their bodies stiffened.

"Why are you eating it if it's poisoned?" Li Xiu couldn't understand the thought process of this little Fox.

"It's yummy." Aiko said flatly.

Everyone pursed their lips. She could not understand why that little Fox was so obsessed with such a simple fruit...

"But it will hurt you, no?" Li Xiu tried to understand Aiko a bit better, since she felt like it would be beneficial to her, especially since her system made a note about this Fox in particular.

'I wonder who Fairy Jade Fox is...' Li Xiu narrowed her eyes. 'And why does the system want me to fight her?' She clicked her tongue.

"Not really, I can just tank it." Aiko shrugged and Li Xiu widened her eyes.

'Wait, is she like me?' Li Xiu's heart thumped. She did meet people similar to her, but none of them could understand her and why she didn't want to take part in this mess.

Yet everyone encouraged her and supported her as the 'Isekai Saintess that will overturn the world!'.

She redoubled her efforts in making Aiko like her, since she felt like they could be good friends.

"Eat as much as you want~" Li Xiu would happily coax Aiko.

"Aren't you just offering me poison?" Aiko raised her eyebrows. 'What is wrong with this girl? It seems like she is obsessed with me?!' She could not understand what changed for that girl to be like this!

"Didn't you say you can tank it?" Li Xiu blinked innocently.

"You understood what I meant?" Aiko blinked and Li Xiu flinched.

'I made a blunder!' Li Xiu's lips pursed as she was thinking about what kind of thing she should tell little Aiko. For Aiko to understand her without hating her...