Chapter 1: Fox Xiaoxian was born, and her whole family cried in scandal.
The heavens and the earth are in a state of chaos. The spirit of heaven and earth creates all things. Between the lofty mountains is a not-so-conspicuous Biehua Mountain; a nest of spirit fox cave is in the hill. At this very moment, a mother fox is in labor, and the protagonist of our story, the little fox, is about to be born.
With a mournful wail, the mother fox, who had already given birth to four cubs, was already exhausted, but the severe abdominal pain told her that there was still one left to be born, and while she was gasping for breath, she was brewing up the idea of giving birth to this last little thing.
The father fox circled the mother anxiously. What should I do? What if the mother fox dies from the pain? If the mother dies, the cubs won't survive either. Why don't I bite the smallest one to death and pull it out of the mother fox's body?
Thinking here, the father fox's heart directly bites the past; at the same time, the mother fox also makes all the strength, so a pull, a small, wrinkled, black little thing out of her neck wrapped around the umbilical cord, almost suffocated, coincidentally, the father fox bite, to cover the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck bite off, the smallest of the litter of a cub was born.
Although the other four fox cubs did not open their eyes, by instinct, have been wriggling for the mother fox under the body to find the first milk, and the smallest one seemed to be dead, nothing, no movement, no barking, and no movement. Fox's mom and dad, busy with a few other children, came over to look at the smallest thing: Fox's mom, wow, cry.
"What, what is this? Is this a lump of rotten fur?"
"Oops! Our Spirit Fox clan has always been born with beautiful fur and handsome looks. How could we give birth to such an ugly monster today!"
"If I had known that we would end up with such a thing, it would have been a waste of effort! I'm so angry!"
"Forget it, wife, don't cry; I'll see if this guy is dead; if not, I'll throw her out of the cave and let her fend for herself!"
"Woah~Woah~Ah~" the smallest little fox, at this time, broke out into a huge cry. She had finally come to life. Fox parents heard this cry and can not help but soften their hearts, although still sighing, thinking ugly little five has disgraced the spirit fox clan; after all, appearance in the spirit fox clan is a top crucial key event, but still left her a life, did not throw out.
Time flies, and this litter of five little foxes have grown up a lot. In accordance with the usual practice, each fox up to the age of 10 is given a name. At the time of the little five, mom and dad are slightly disgusted to give her a clown's name, which is also true to its name. Upon hearing this name, her older siblings laughed.
Little Five refused, protesting in a thin voice, "No! I don't want to be called Clown; I want to be called Little Fairy; my name is Fox Xiao Xian (Little Fairy)!"
The eldest brother scoffed, "My silly sister, if you can be called Fairy, then we'd all have to be gods!"
The other one also said, "That's right, in this forest of ours, besides the bat tribe, the spirit snake tribe, and the reptiles, you're really considered the ugliest. How can you still have the nerve to call yourself Little Fairy."
Seeing the two older brothers squeezing their little sister so much, the third sister still made peace, "Forget it, isn't it just a name? It's just a symbol; if she wants to call it that, let's call it that! Father and mother, you can just let Xiaowu be. Anyway, we all call her Little Five at home, so let her call her whatever she wants to when she goes out."
Fox's mom and dad were really too lazy to bother with this little one, so they acquiesced. Fox's dad squarely said, "Several of you remember, from today onwards, with a name, you are no longer ordinary beasts; what flows in you is the blood of the Spirit Fox Clan. Although we are not as good as the nine-tailed white fox clan and the six-tailed Xuanfox, the fox clan is also considered to be counted; you have to start learning to cultivate, wait until the age of 1000 years old sheds this body fur, cultivate into a human body, you can also learn more profound spells if the natural talent is enough, but also industrious enough, the future will inevitably ascend into the immortal, cultivate the right fruit."
"Father, father, why aren't you and mother immortal yet?" The oldest four asked in a whiny voice. This question would have been Papa Fox's most taboo question, but this oldest four Fox Xiaxia was his couple's favorite child, so he didn't blame them. He sighed and said:
"I and your mother, when we were young and playful, did not properly cultivate, and then the qualification gradually deteriorated, and wanting to achieve the Dao to become immortal again is even more difficult. So ah! You all give me a little bit of interest; do not fool around and be playful; from tomorrow onwards, I will go to the teacher's place to go to class!"
The fox cubs were very excited, especially the youngest, Fox Xiaoxian, "Father if I study hard and cultivate well, won't I become beautiful and realize father and mother's ideal of ascending into immortality?" Fox Xiaoxian asked.
Father Fox glanced at Fox Xiaoxian and hummed, "You! You're incompetent and lack innate talent. I'm lucky if you don't cause trouble for me. You can't do it, die."
Father's words were like a dipper of cold water poured on Fox Xiaoxian's hot heart. Fox Xiaoxian felt aggrieved and took a walk alone outside the fox's cave. She always felt that it must be her own bad self that caused her father and mother to dislike her like this. She walked over to the creek and took a picture, and what she saw was indeed a fox with a confused, skinny coat. Compared to the family's other counterparts, who were either all fiery red or snow-white and flawless, she had a very chaotic and disordered color scheme of red or red, black or black, yellow or yellow, and it was almost impossible to see her features, so even if she were thrown into the mountains and wilds and compared to the ordinary foxes that hadn't yet developed their spirit, she would still have to be considered ugly.
"What are you doing?" A voice asked coldly.
"Oh? Fourth brother, huh? I'm looking in the mirror."
"Well, you should look and see what kind of good you are. You didn't know shame just now, and you dared to call the name Xiao Xian to contradict father. When you were born, you almost hurt your mother to death alive; you are a calamity and don't deserve to live in this family. In the future, if you dare to make your parents angry again, I will not spare you!"
Old Four turned around and left after he finished speaking, leaving Fox Xiaoxian alone, flattening her mouth in aggravation.
"The original father and mother do not like me because of this, the original I am so unlucky ... "The same as the parents' children, why are the older brothers and sisters highly loved, while they are like an extra existence? The young fox Xiao Xian does not understand how to think. Maybe it was really because he almost killed his mother, or maybe he was too ugly and nasty to become the fox cub that his parents were so proud of. In that case, wasn't it true that if he became beautiful, learned something, and eventually cultivated immortality and ascended, he would be able to receive his parents' love?
Although siblings in the same family do compete with each other, naturally, there will be some who are favored and some who lose favor; the oldest four foxes, Xiaoxia, are the most favored, and bullying is inevitable. But Fox Xiaoxian has a unique gift, which is the style of optimism; that is, their heart is big, and even if she encounters great difficulty, often a long breath of air, she also does not care.
Fox Xiaoxian was by the small river, so she took a long breath, looked at the bright full moon in the sky, and silently made a vow: "I, Fox Xiaoxian, although I am only a small spirit fox with crude qualifications now, I will definitely work hard on my cultivation, and someday I will ascend to become an immortal and fulfill the ideals of my parents, and I'm sure I'll be the pride of my parents!"
In the days that followed, the fox cubs learned various skills from their husband and elders, such as hunting, digging holes, avoiding attacks from natural enemies, observing and breaking the mechanisms set up by hunters, storing enough food in the summer and fall seasons in preparation for winter, and at the same time, they also had to learn some elemental spells and cultivation skills.
The Spirit Fox clan is good at disguise and change; transforming into other animals or plants is not difficult for them at all, and some with higher cultivation levels can also transform into human beings. However, many of the foxes who have mastered this technique, because of their shallow moral skills and lack of determination, many of them have gone into evil ways and have even plagued the world. I am afraid the most famous is the fox demon transformed into Daji; of course, her final fate is known to all; her counter-example was the spirit fox elders many times used the little foxes to do the subject so that they understand that to cultivate immortality is the right way, whoever is not in the right state of mind to escape into the evil way will be expelled from the six paths outside the cycle of reincarnation, and then there is no possibility of survival.
Fox Xiaoxian was very hardworking and serious in the process of school, but she needs to be more competent and innately insufficient. The skills that the rest of her siblings could easily learn, Fox Xiao Xian always had to pay twice or even three times as much time to master simply. Fu Zi is an old fox who has failed to cultivate immortality. It's rare to see such a "stupid" person like Fox Xiao Xian, but she is so determined to study hard that it's not right to scold or praise her. Whenever he saw Fox Xiaoxian practicing alone, he watched from afar, sighed, shook his broken bushel fan, and left.
Fox Xiaoxian, despite her hard work, was always on the lower end of the classroom scale and made little progress. The several older siblings were indeed all gifted and intelligent, with a beautiful appearance, and they often wondered why they were from the same mother as such an ugly and stupid sister. Although the family conflict is constant, it is only inside the family quarrel; once the sister is outside of other students' shame when the older siblings can not sit idly by.
Spring and fall, the seasons change, and in the blink of an eye, the fox cubs grow to 100 years old, and it is time to go out to practice.
This day, the little foxes are still laughing and joking while practicing their own changes in the law. The oldest and the oldest two are the most mischievous and have the highest qualifications. They turn into wolves and deer for a while and then turn into eagles and swallows, fight from the ground to the sky, and then jump down from the sky into the water. The oldest just turned into a huge catfish; the oldest will change into a giant python to wrap around, but how to help the catfish is too slippery; the oldest fled. ...
The third sister has become increasingly beautiful; she knows she is beautiful, but she also loves beauty, so she never refuses to change into unattractive things. Even if the change is also into a flower, into the moon, into a butterfly or peacock, she more and more believes that beauty is the most important, especially her such a naturally beautiful fox, as for the cultivation of ascension to immortality she does not care too much, and now try to practice but for the sake of the face, eternal youth.
The old fourth fox, Xia Xia, is the same nest of five foxes born in the appearance of the most beautiful, a snow-white shiny fur without a trace of color, and even in the sunlight glittering with silver shimmer. Looking at a look of honest and good boy appearance, in fact, the most devious idea. He takes advantage of the third sister, is not prepared, and suddenly calls her. When the third sister turned back, he turned into a mirror; the mirror reflected the third sister's fiery red fur and shapely body; just as the third sister beautifully viewed their own appearance, the mirror suddenly turned into ferocious and ugly fangs of the wolf pounced on the third sister. The third sister screamed in fear and fled; fox Xiaxia changed back to its original form and rolled on the ground with laughter.
Although the fifth fox, Xiaoxian, had been practicing diligently over the years, she had always made slow progress in both her appearance and spell cultivation. At this time, she could only recite incantations to transform into small trees, grasses, flowers, bees, or whatever, but she was very good at hunting and cooking, so she often cooked and played for her mother or other elders within the family. In the eyes of her parents and older siblings, it was already good enough for her to be an ordinary fox. As for cultivating immortality or anything else, no one had ever even had such hopes.
"Children!" Fuzi and Father Fox were watching the battle from the sidelines, and although they always had serious expressions, they also showed some appreciation. Hearing Fuzi's shout, the group of young foxes attending school in the clan gathered around to listen to Fuzi's teachings.
"Today is an important day. There are already those in your group of students who have reached the age of 100. Any fox that has reached the age of 100 is no longer an ordinary fox but a demon that absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon and transforms into a mountain spirit, and from then on, you will need to travel down the mountain. When you reach the age of 1000, you will be able to transform from a beast body into a human body and become an Earth Immortal ..."
Every little fox that was about to go out and travel was very excited, and Fox Xiaoxian was naturally the same. Although she was very clear about her current abilities, she was always optimistic, thinking that she couldn't attain immortality at the age of 1000 anyway, but she could at the age of 2000, right? Need to achieve 3000 years old? There would always be that day anyway. Thinking of this, Fox Xiao Xian grinned.
Before the trip, the fox father and fox mother called the children to the side with a thousand instructions: must be careful of a creature, that is, hunters.
"Don't take this seriously," said Mother Fox with a serious face, "You remember Little Flower from the next village when you were little, don't you? The one we played with. He once got lost and fell into a hunter's trap, and his paw was caught in a big trap, which broke his paw, and he fainted from the pain. His family was anxious and crazy, looking everywhere, and then found him when he had been hunter-skinned; he was covered with blood and dying. In the end, his old man went crazy and turned into a tiger to fight with the hunter, and the result was also that the hunter, an arrow, shot a blind eye. Little flower also did not save back ..."
"Hey, child's mom, you shouldn't scare the children so much that they don't dare to go out. But you have to remember, after you go down the mountain, you will be out of the boundary set by the old ancestor, and you will have to face a world of cruelty, bloodshed, and deception, and you are still fox bodies, and humans like our fox fur the most to make clothes, so you mustn't take it lightly, remember, remember!"
"Father and mother, since humans are so bad, why do we still cultivate into our bodies?" The oldest asked in disbelief.
"Humans are the spirit of all things and all spirits. Many of the cultivation techniques, dharma seal postures, and moves to use weapons can only be accomplished in a human form, and attaining immortality is also inevitably a matter of taking on a human form. Although humans are not all bad people, they have to be guarded against. You may enter the living environment of humans after you come down the mountain. You must act according to the opportunity, do not be reckless, and do not gullibly believe in the flowery words of humans."
Hearing all this, Fox Xiao Xian opened her eyes wide; she was confused; why did she have to go down the mountain to practice when it was so dangerous? Why would this creature called human beings be so tremendously dangerous? Could they have three heads and six arms, have infinite strength, or be able to change in a thousand ways and move instantly? Fox Xiao Xian wasn't afraid; only the curiosity in her heart was aroused; she was looking forward to seeing what the human ones were really like with her eyes. She looked at her own flowery paws, which she couldn't distinguish from the exact color, thinking, I'm afraid she won't be liked by anyone with a fur color like this, right? It would save her from being captured and skinned to be made into clothes.
Saying goodbye to their parents, the little foxes went their separate ways, constantly changing their shapes, sometimes looking like foxes, turning into bunnies, and sometimes into birds of prey as they traveled through the jungle.