My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 428: Triumphant Victory to Grasp the Opportunity

A Nine-Tailed Fox Deity, a Soul Fox Deity, and a Fox Empress came to the aid and saved the Huli Secret Realm from the demon invasion. That was what the local inhabitants knew.

The defense troops returned to the Capital City in glorious victory, celebrating the demon’s extermination in the surrounding cities.

"..." Luna observed the bustling city.

The residents were more or less prosperous because the Capital City was still untouched by the demons. However, it was easy to see the uneasiness and lingering fear of many people, considering that most of them were survivors of the destroyed city who took refuge in the Capital City.

"What will we do?" Lynn spoke in a whisper-like voice.

"Hmm~" Luna replied with a meaningful smile and petted her daughter’s head. She turned around and returned to the guest seat.

"We are eternally grateful for your help, your grace. After our combatants are recovered, we will hunt down the remaining demons to purge the remaining demons from my Huli Secret Realm." Fox King Bai entertains distinguished guests with the best service.

Several servants entered the room and immediately brought many charming high-class dishes.

"We’ve received your gratitude. What we did was based on our master’s command and our conscience. We have a suggestion for you to handle all your problems, Fox King Bai." Luna unfolded her folding fan and placed a pink ticket on the table.

"Please enlighten this junior, your grace." Fox King Bai looked at the pink ticket reflexively and clasped his fist.

"Our master has declared to the world the suppressed kin’s freedom, including foxkin. No one is permitted to exploit the other kin with no regard for life. You should open your land to the outside world, visit Sacred Sakura Holy Land, and join the alliance. Under our master’s sovereignty, no one will oppress your kin." Luna slowly explained her intention, understanding the Fox King would have no other choice but to obey.

"Open our Huli Secret Realm to the outside world?!" Fox Queen Yun gasped in surprise when she entered the room, assisted by her attendant.

Fox King Bai helped his wife to sit beside him, but he was still concerned about the solution suggested by the Soul Fox Deity. "Your grace, is this the best decision for us?"

"Do you have another solution? It’s only a matter of time until the other unruly evil creatures plunder your population as a flock of delicious, easy prey. We won’t convince you further. We will eradicate the remaining demons and wait outside the realm portal until dusk. Think about your choice." Luna didn’t bother to explain more than necessary because she knew the other party was smart at differentiating the good from the bad.

Yuuki and Luna followed and they went towards the palace’s balcony.

"Your grace, we will follow your kind advice. But, may we know your noble name?" Fox Queen Yun wished to hold back the Fox Deities a little longer, but she knew she had no power to do so.

"My name is Luna, and she is my daughter Lynn. As for our nine-tailed fox, she is Gumiho." Luna introduced her team. She almost forgot the introduction!

*Boom!*

A tectonic explosion accompanied by a huge bolt of thunder boomed in the distance, leaving everyone in the city shocked.

"Demon attacks!?" Demon King Bai felt incredibly furious, but a chill spread from his feet to his head. He would be helpless if he had to face another demon army led by a Demon General.

He looked aside, hoping the revered experts could help them once again.

"That’s Vann, our primary troops! Let’s fetch them." Lynn flew out of the palace and sped out of the city.

"Hum, they arrived a little too quickly. Those demons were too weak to hinder our troops from advancing. We happened to bring quite a lot of refugees from the destroyed cities, and I hope you can take care of them." Luna looked back before flying after her daughter to receive Vanessa and their troops.

"Hum." Yuuki just nodded slightly before flying away, leaving the palace.

"We have to catch up with them too." Fox Queen Yun urged her husband to take her as well.

"But, you’re still injured. Don’t move too much."

"Even though my core is cracked and my dantian is destroyed, we have to follow them to receive our savior’s troops. I can start over just fine, but we have to grab this opportunity! They are probably our ancestors who can protect us!"

"..."

Fox King Bai complied with his wife’s request. He took his wife to the city wall to welcome their savior’s troops and the mentioned refugees.

He exchanged several opinions with his wife on the trip. They didn’t understand the ’master’ their savior had mentioned, but they would still follow the suggestion to visit Sacred Sakura and join the alliance unconditionally.

"Hahaha! We only needed two hours. I feel like we bullied them so much because they were too weak and almost put up no resistance." Vanessa laughed cheerfully when Lynn had just arrived to welcome her.

"Fufu, well done, Vann. We eradicated the Demon Generals and slain the Demon King in advance. Everything went according to plan." Lynn put her hands to Vanessa’s as she was happy to see everything was fine.

"Mm, but what about foxkin freedom? Have we managed to give them that?" Vanessa scratched her head as she was clueless about what they needed to do to give the local inhabitants freedom.

"That’s easy to achieve because it’s a diplomatic matter. The Fox King and Queen will decide soon." Lynn replied with an OK hand gesture.

"Then, our task here is considered finished?" Vanessa tapped her chin and looked up. Her expression brightened when she found Luna and Yuuki returned. So, their task could be considered over already.

A few seconds later, Fox King Bai personally invited the brave warriors to a banquet at the palace. A party was soon held and celebrated by all the residents of the city because the demons had been eradicated from their secret realm.

Although rejoicing couldn’t sweep away the grief over the tragedy that occurred, it could at least alleviate the sorrow and flood it with gratitude and the joy of victory.

"We will return to Sacred Sakura soon. Will you come with us or go on your own?" Luna put down her teacup.

"Can we go with you? However... we are still looking for our lost princess. We can’t contact our trusted attendant, and we can’t find them anywhere." Fox King Bai responded politely, but his worry was clearly visible on his face.

His wife still tried to contact Yao via spirit talisman, but every attempt received no response. Several teams had been dispatched to look for Yao and the Fox Princess, but no good news returned.

"Oh, you ordered your people to take your princess out of this secret realm. They have fled far to the west to find a safe place. Our spaceship outside the portal scared her." Luna used her divination to find the mentioned Yao and the Fox Princess.

"Is that true?!" Fox Queen Yun widened her eyes in shock.

"Yeah. You can look for them just fine in the outside world. Your method can never reach them here." Luna reassured the worried fox mother with a smile.

"Thank goodness. Then, we need to handle diplomatic affairs and our willingness to submit under Sacred Sakura’s sovereignty." Fox Queen Yun breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then, let’s go now!" Vanessa wished to return as soon as possible because she had so many stories to share with her master. The food served was good, but she craved her master’s cooking right now.

With that being said, the representatives of the Huli Secred Realm went with Luna’s troops into the outside world.

Fox King Bai and his group followed nervously as it was their first time to venture out of their realm after being sealed for hundreds of years to escape the terrible hunt.

"Milady, we are ready to return to Sacred Sakura." Yusagi reported after preparing everything for their return trip.

"Well done. Have you left any emergency defense mechanisms in case other invaders come to invade this place?" Luna nodded in reply and looked around.

"Yes, we’ve placed two defense formations to ensure no demon invaders enter." Yusagi bowed respectfully.

"You’ll have a lot of work, especially around here." Luna emphasized her words to the Fox King and Queen.

"Yeah, there are a lot of things that need to be done." Fox King Bai understood the hint.

Even though it was said they no longer needed to worry about the fox hunt, they still needed to expand their defenses by utilizing the influence of the Sacred Sakura. However, that would wait until he could see the bottom of this matter by measuring the mentioned Sacred Sakura Holy Land. He also hoped to meet the Fox God, the one these revered experts call master.

After everyone boarded the spaceship, it sped at full speed towards the east, traversing nearly three thousand miles to return to Sacred Mountain in just tens of minutes.

"Holy land..." Fox Queen Yun descended from the spaceship, assisted by her husband, with great awe and admiration for the holy land with abundant spiritual energy waiting ahead.

The forest was lush, and many rare vegetation could be seen everywhere. The surrounding random animals looked friendly, but faintly exuded aura of high-level fierce beasts that was no weaker than 4th Rank.

’If I can cultivate here, I might be able to recover my cultivation in a few years.’ Fox Queen Yun muttered in thought.

At that time, Elysia was already waiting at the mountain peak. Yuuki and Vanessa craved their master’s comfort, but they had to control their urge.