"However," he added after a beat, turning around gracefully to face Bai Huiqi, "my teaching is not without conditions you must obey."
Bai Huiqi felt a frown trace on his face, lips pulling down ever so slightly. "Conditions?"
"Truthfully," he hummed, head tilting heavenward, "it is more of a single condition than multiple."
"Oh, then… What condition?" Bai Huiqi's eyes narrowed, feeling a slight premonition settle in his gut.
The nine-tailed fox spirit gave a brief shrug, then lit a fire on the small stone and sat cross-legged on the flames that danced around him. It disturbed Bai Huiqi, just how unperturbed Hu Lijing appeared.
"It should not be difficult." The fox spirit mused lightly, resting his cheek on his palm and elbow on his folded leg. "Under ideal, or well, normal circumstances, might I add."
"And what are they?" Hu Lijing smiled on hearing a small trickle of impatience in the younger fox's—usually timid—voice.
