Chapter 3: Escape from Life and Encounter a Giant Bear by Chance
"Aiya, I say you two, what is more vigor ah?" Shan Xiaohu was a bit anxious; he now only thought of hurrying to escape, as what would happen later was better than being locked inside the cage.
"That's right, Fourth Brother, let's listen to his plan before we make any plans, okay?"
The hound squinted at Fox Xiao Xian, "Hmph, count on you to know what you're doing." Then, he gave a rough outline of the plan in his mind. It turned out that he had also discovered that the cage, the capture net, and the chain holding him were all very similar to those made by the Binding Immortal Lock.
This Immortal Binding Lock should not have appeared in the mortal world, not to mention being refined into so many forms, for ordinary birds and beasts is just a little stronger, but for demons and immortals, with this Immortal Binding Lock, spells and actions will be restricted. But why would someone do this? How did he know he would catch divine beasts and demons in this forest?
Although everyone could not come up with an accurate inference, now, to hurry up and leave this place, they could only reach an alliance and escape together.
Fox Xiaxia quietly flew to the tool table used by the hunters. The various tools here also more or less have traces of the Binding Immortal Lock refining, so he carried a long saw blade over, and with Fox Xiaoxian, he started to work together to help the black dog saw open the chain. The black dog did not renege on his word. With a bite of the lock of the cage, his incredible biting power instantly shattered the iron lock; Fox Xiaoxian and Shan Xiaohu hurriedly ran out.
"Alright, this place is not a good place to stay. Hurry up and escape!" Before the black dog could finish speaking, he only saw Fox Xiaoxian and Single Little Tiger separately open a few other cages and the small animals that were locked up fled in a hurry. The several dogs watching the door were awakened at once and barked furiously, and the hunter in the thatched hut got up at the sound and ran out.
"You guys hurry up and go, and I'll hold them off." Fox Xiaxia was usually raised to look like a cockney boy but didn't expect to step forward at the critical moment. His illusion technique was the best used amongst the spirit fox clan of his age, and he instantly transformed into a vast owl. His two wings flapped and rolled up a fierce wind; the thatched roof of the hunters was almost lifted off amongst the flying sands and stones; a few of the mortal hounds were calling out and dodging in all directions. The captured animals and Fox Xiaoxian also took the opportunity to flee in all orders.
Fox Xiaoxian and Shan Xiaohu could no longer tell south-east and north-west, just running wildly. The black dog that escaped together just now was nowhere to be found; he didn't leave any words behind; no one even knew what he was really called; he just got separated. Fox Xiaxia flew into the sky while looking for Fox Xiaoxian. Finally, a few of them escaped to a mountain pass, took advantage of the moment of dawn, hid their form, and transformed into two pieces of mountain stone. Shan Xiaohu couldn't turn into a rock; it wasn't his specialty, so he had no choice but to shrink his body and hide behind a mountain rock.
"I say this, Tiger, what do you lynxes know? You can't even change a rock?" Fox Xiaxia sneered.
"Do you think I am, you, foxes? The lynx clan's specialties are tracking techniques and controlling rain and snow; the most I can do is change big and small; I can't change into anything else."
"Alright, alright, Fourth Brother, Little Tiger Brother, you guys stop bickering. Hurry up and rest; we still have to continue running for our lives after sunrise!"
The black hunting dog escaped from the hunter's tiny yard, ran to the top of a nearby high mountain, howled a few times to the stars in the north, and suddenly, the clouds gathered, and a small general flew down from the sky. The little general flew to the black dog and bowed respectfully, "Heavenly Officer Xuanmo, you have made us search so hard since the last battle with the demon tribe Yinghai. Erlang Shen realized that he couldn't find you back, so he ordered all of our generals to look for you everywhere in the four seas and the eight wildernesses, but we couldn't find any traces of you. You have been gone for 500 years. How could this happen?"
Roaring Dog Xuan Mo had now regained his human form with a black tunic, a slender body, dark skin, and a majestic aura. This hound, who had followed Er Lang Tian Shen around in ancient times and made significant achievements, had long since cultivated immortality and attained Taoism. However, he was a canine, and his seniority was extremely high, so he naturally received the young Heavenly General's obeisance. "This is exactly the reason why I came to find you. For hundreds of years, I have been driven by the mortal hunters as an ordinary hunting dog because I have been chained by the chains made by the Binding Immortal Lock, sealing my mana, so I could not return to my master in time. I have just recovered my mana now, and I can't use heavy magic yet, so help me find out who on earth can bring the Binding Immortal Lock to the mortal world and also make so many shapes of tools with the Binding Immortal Lock, and go around letting the hunters capture mountain spirits and geomancers? Even I, an immortal beast, was trapped for so long?"
The little heavenly general answered and led the order to leave. Xuan Mo stood alone on top of the mountain, looking at the eastern sky whitening, a round of red sun slowly rising. In these ten million years, the flow of seasons has been unchanged for eternity. He has seen it countless times but never gets tired of seeing it; at this moment, he can still be deeply impressed by the incredible power of the God of the Sun. Yes, he wanted to go back to the Heavenly Court and the master's side. But why, at this moment, did he actually have a thought: what about those little goblins? That unimpressive little fox, is she safe?
When this thought appeared, he himself could not help but be surprised. For tens of thousands of years, his only mission was to be loyal to his master, Erlang Shen, to assist him on the battlefield, to quell the calamities, and to maintain the stability of the six realms. He wasn't a demon or a monster. Although he was in the form of a dog, he was actually a phantom of his master's magic weapon and didn't have any rich emotions; what was wrong with him this time? Why would he care about an unrelated demon? Moreover, he had subdued countless demons and devils and had never seen a few demons and devils that weren't bad, so why was this little vixen kind?
"It must be her charm technique that is at work; a demon is a demon; if I don't recover them this time, it doesn't mean that I'll be soft when I see them again next time. It's better to go and investigate the matter of the Immortal Binding Lock first!" With that, he took a flying leap and transformed back into his original form to tread on clouds, heading straight for Zhuo Yi City, the king city of this world in the mortal world.
The warm sunlight sprinkled the valley and also shone on the rocks that Fox Xiaoxian and the others had changed into, and after resting briefly for a few hours, these three little goblins had all recovered quite a bit.
"Gurrrrr ~ gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrr~"
"I say Shan Xiaohu, your stomach is growling like a drum," Fox Xiaoxia continued to tease.
"Still talking about me! Aren't you growling? As if I'm the only one who's hungry. If you're capable, don't let your stomach growl!" Shan Xiaohu sneered back, not letting up in the slightest.
"Alright, alright, I'm convinced. Let's find something to eat! There must be a lot of delicious food in this valley." Fox Xiaoxian said.
This is a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. A curved river slowly flows out from the valley, forming a fan-shaped plain. The valley's forest rises, the water and grass are abundant, the morning mists are not yet dispersed, the birds are clamoring, and all kinds of living creatures grow at will in this paradise of peach origin. Last night, Fox Xiao Xian and the three of them only cared about running desperately, coupled with the fact that they couldn't see clearly at night. At this time, I was on the cliff looking down. This valley was gorgeous.
"We lynxes are capable hunters, and I am one of the best in our clan. You guys watch!" Shan Xiaohu used his big ears to sense the sounds around him and suddenly leaped into the air to bite a pheasant quickly.
Fox Xiaxia grunted, full of concern. "What's wrong with that!" He hid his figure, quietly approaching a hare hare. This tiny beast is the most sensitive, with long ears constantly listening around to prevent natural enemies. But I did not expect the fox Xiaxia to sound at all; not waiting to react, it had been killed in the mouth of the fox.
On the scene, the fox, Xiao Xian, did not take the initiative to attack but transformed into a small squirrel, waiting for the prey's door. Sure enough, a snake was fox Xiao Xian changed squirrel attraction, spitting letters want to eat a mouth; I did not expect to open his mouth to bite the squirrel of the moment, but fox Xiao Xian chewed back and swallowed into the belly.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk," Shan Xiaohu shook his head, the long hair on the tip of his ears also shaking with him, looking at Fox Xiaoxian with a face of incredulity, "You This little fox looks like it's not pretty, how is it that this kind of ruthlessness, ghosts have many ideas ah! We're just ordinary hunters, but you're so good at using illusions!"
"Don't look at her with a harmless face. In fact, within our family fox cubs, she has the most devious ideas." Fox Xiaxia mocked Fox Xiaoxian as she burped and flossed her teeth while clenching her back teeth.
"Hmph, don't listen to my brother's nonsense. I'm the ugliest looking in our family, the weakest and smallest in body, and the worst student, so how come I have a lot of ghost ideas?"
"Ai ai, side by side, I want to listen to gossip, you tell me." Single Xiaohu's curiosity came, and he poked Fox Xiaxia with his paw and fawningly smoothed the fox tail hair. With a face full of smiles, he waited to hear the story.
"Ahem, that is to say that it was a dark and windy night ... ah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah, the beginning started wrong."
Fox Xiaxia cleared her throat, "I'll retell it. One day, we didn't know how to run into a small monster on the mountain, black head, and black face, not too big in size, but also always sneaking into people's homes to steal food. At first, none of us cared. Anyway, there was a lot of food; whoever's little cubs took and ate a little bit of what, it didn't matter to everyone. But this little monster was strange, always stealing food from our homes."
"One day, a few of us had just returned to the fox hole from school at the Husbandman's, and Old Five, oh, that's her, was in charge of cooking supper. She said mysteriously that she would invite a new friend to dine with us, and so she would have a feast. Thinking that someone from the next village was coming, Mom and Dad agreed. But after waiting and waiting, we didn't see Laowu bring the food up, nor did we see the so-called 'guest' appear. So Lao Pi asked me to look for her, but it turned out that she was burning a big pot in the back kitchen, and there was a big sack next to it, and something was whimpering inside. And guess what?"
"She caught that little monster?"
"Well, resourceful! The child is teachable. The question is, how did she catch it? And what was the reason for cooking that pot?"
"I, I, I did it for our family's revenge; that little black blind man stole and ate so many sweet potatoes and corn and even ate all the rabbit meat I had tanned before; how can we survive the winter? How are we going to survive the winter? Fox Xiaoxian reddened her face, but her face was covered in mottled colored hairs, so it wasn't too obvious that she was blushing.
"Listen, our Spirit Fox Clan has always been kind-hearted and spontaneous, not too concerned about gains and losses; look at our Old Five; he's ruthless!"
"It's not what you said! Don't you talk nonsense! I found this little black monster a few days ago; it was minimal and stupid. Seeing my family have delicious food, they ate it vigorously. The other day, I went to cook and saw it stealing food again; I wanted to bring it to the dining table and feed it properly while teaching it not to steal. As soon as I called it, it ran away and ran to a tree. It jumped up as hard as it could, not bothering to look at me, and plunged into a hornet's nest in the tree. It fell in pain, and the hornet's nest was brought down. I saw that it was just right, so I put it together in a sack and carried it home."
"And the cauldron was?"
"To help it burn down the wasp's nest! I didn't want to be stung by the wasps."
"And the little black monster?"
"A little black bear less than a year old. I guess it got separated from its mother and came to our Bieva Mountain by mistake."
"Did you cook it later? Steamed or braised?" Shan Xiaohu opened his round eyes wide with an incredulous face.
"Burn your big head, and I used that pot of hot water to bath it. By the way, my fourth brother brought it to Mom and Dad's place with me; the little black bear was our guest; it was eating honey and bee pupae at that meal, so let's just say that it paid back what it had stolen from us before."
The three little demons were basking in the sun while eating fruits with their round bellies to consume their food. As demons, they will not be like ordinary beasts and birds, and they need to run for survival all the time, non-stop hunting. They have begun to inhale the essence of the sun and the moon for life, hunting is just a few months to come to once to play the teeth, and to the realm of cultivation of immortality to achieve Taoism, they can even many years no longer eat and drink.
The three little friends were chatting and playing when they suddenly heard a commotion at the foot of the mountain.
There was a murderous aura hidden in the peaceful scenery. A few birds of prey were suddenly startled, many small animals desperately fled in all directions, and a giant black bear was also struggling to escape. It continuously let out roars of anger, wanting to deter its enemies while doing its best to help the other animals around it run.
An arrow from the bear's left eye straight into the needle from the back of the head out, another arrow through its heart. There are several respectively rooted in its body .... A giant bear is just like being shot into a considerable hedgehog.
The hunters' horns sounded heavy, and several human beings with bows, arrows, and lances ran from all around and surrounded the giant bear. Their bodies were dressed in clothes made of animal fur, hats woven with delicate feathers, and the weapons in their hands were decorated with ivory and rhinoceros horns.
"Boss, we've been chasing this bear for days! It's finally been killed!"
"That's right, this bear's skin will be used to make rugs, bear hearts and bear bile will be used to make wine to drink, and a few of us will cut off the bear's head and turn around and hang it on the gate of the cottage, so awesome!"
They said something else, looking very excited. One rolled over and dismounted from his horse, taking out a short golden knife towards the giant bear. Just as he was about to plunge the sharp knife into the bear in preparation for digging out its heart, the big bear suddenly opened its right eye, which was filled with anger and disgust, and in just a blink of an eye, the bear put forth its last strength to bite off the man's arm, which was still holding the knife.
The human wailed in agony, and the bear finally breathed his last. At this moment, the earth suddenly rumbled, the sky turned dark clouds, people panicked, and the animals did their best to run in all directions. Fox Xiaoxian was shocked by the situation; they were angry and hateful; they did not understand why human beings did not hunt to fill their stomachs just to decorate the gate of the cottage to kill this considerable bear; this was not an ordinary bear, but the gods of this valley. They also didn't understand why the bear didn't bite off the man's head but only bit off a hand.
Now, I can not care about thinking; the whole valley is shaking, and the sky suddenly falls. Goose feather snow, originally a peaceful and lush valley, quickly turns into silver. In the snow and wind, you can still hear the roar of the giant bear; the mountain god is angry; it wants to punish these stupid and greedy humans. Between the earth shaking and the mountain rolling stone with a torrent of snow and ice whistling toward the people slapped, the ground cracked a few vast cracks. Temperatures plummeted, and the hunters quickly froze, some becoming statues in the wind and snow while others fell into the crevasses and were swept into the mudslides.
When the mountain god's anger gradually subsided, the three little demons, who had taken it all in, ran to the corpse of the giant bear, which turned into a boulder, and its spirit bead precipitated out, emitting a golden glow while its soul gradually floated up into the air, rising with the wind and snow. According to the customs of the demon race, the three little demons reverently kneeled and saluted the Giant Bear Mountain God, sending it off on this last journey. The spirit of the giant bear looked at the three little demons and spoke, "Children, you must be careful of humans in the future and help them as well. Take my spirit beads with you and go all the way north over the ten great mountains to find the holy mountain Kunlun, and go and find a Nanji Immortal Weng for me!"
With tears in their eyes, the little goblins kowtowed a few times to the Giant Bear Mountain God and raised their voices to the sky three times. Although they didn't know why the giant bear chose the three of them as messengers to find the South Pole Immortal Weng, they still accepted the bear's commission, listened to the call of fate, and started a brand-new journey, flying towards the Kunlun Mountain, the holy land of the Immortal World.