Upon discovering the truth, the fox spirit was also quite shocked.
However, that look of shock lasted only a very brief moment before vanishing from her face.
Before long, the corners of her lips actually curled upward into a smile.
"It seems I really can't underestimate you."
"That key you just forged was quite well done."
"Even the ripples it produced were part of your design, weren't they?"
"I have to say, watching those ripples spread through my body, I genuinely believed I was free."
"Completely fooled by you." The fox spirit spoke to
"You're too kind." Chu Feng shamelessly cupped his fists in return, showing not a shred of embarrassment—quite the opposite, he looked thoroughly pleased with himself.
"Then how did you know that no one had successfully unsealed this lock for me before?" the fox spirit asked.
"That's easy to guess. If someone had successfully unsealed it for you, you wouldn't be standing here, and I never would have encountered you," Chu Feng said.
"You're quite bold," the fox spirit remarked.
"What makes you say that?" Chu Feng asked.
"You were working entirely on guesswork, with no proof whatsoever, yet you dared to go through with it. In reality, you were gambling."
"You were even gambling that as long as you didn't unseal the lock, I wouldn't be able to harm you," the fox spirit continued.
"Even if it was a gamble, the process doesn't matter—only the result does."
"Even if it was a gamble, at the very least, I won," Chu Feng said with a grin.
"Little one, what's your name?"
"I'm not telling you."
"How cautious of you."
"No matter. I've memorized that face of yours."
"I will find you. And when that day comes, don't you dare cry."
As the fox spirit spoke, she flipped her palm, and from its center, an object drifted outward.
It was a mass of black light.
Hummmm—
Suddenly, the sphere of light expanded, transforming into a spatial gate.
This gate was not sealed—through it, one could see what lay beyond.
At a glance, it appeared to be the entrance to an entire world.
And within it stretched a sky full of stars—the vast expanse beyond the heavens.
"Where are you going?" Chu Feng asked.
"To go experience this world properly."
With those words, the fox spirit began walking toward the spatial gate.
But the moment she stepped through, she turned back to look at Chu Feng.
"You'd better pray that I don't find you."
After delivering those words, she flashed a phantom-like smile.
That smile was so beautiful, so captivating.
Yet seeing that bewitching grin sent a chill through Chu Feng's heart.
It was a smile of extreme danger—a warning, a threat, but perhaps more so a reminder.
A reminder of what terrible things would happen the next time they met.
And once the fox spirit stepped through the spatial gate, it closed immediately.
"That fox spirit really had quite the collection of treasures."
"What she gave me earlier was probably nothing but junk."
"But she had literally just stripped off all her clothes—where on earth did she hide all those treasures?"
"Sigh, a fox spirit is a fox spirit. Truly cunning to the last."
The reason Chu Feng sighed like this was because he could tell that the spatial gate the fox spirit had just opened was no ordinary artifact. That treasure's power was anything but simple.
It was more like a teleportation portal, and the distance it could span was extraordinarily vast.
Most impressively, no matter how far the destination, the moment she stepped through that gate, she would arrive in an instant.