Chapter 9 - Teenager Ni Zhong
Fox Xiao Xian was amid the misty chaos when she felt her body being lapped by the cold rainwater. Hmm, so comfortable, not so hot anymore. Then, it felt like her body gradually became lighter, not like she was lying on the ground.
Eh? Why does it seem like someone is calling out to me, such a distant voice?
Well, who puts what into their mouth? It's so bitter. They don't want to eat, spit it out, and how do you give yourself back to feed? They're not happy.
And who is licking his head? It has been a long time since I had this feeling. It was so good; only when I was a tiny fox cub did my mother lick me and comb my fur.
Why do I hear someone crying? Don't cry, don't cry. Why do I want to cry when you call? But why do you want to cry?
...
"Little leprechaun, little leprechaun ... Are you better? I came to see you."
"Who are you? Who is the little goblin?" Fox Xiao Xian slowly opened her eyes, her eyes slowly focusing before she could see this human teenager in front of her. He had an ink-colored robe and a jade crown on his head, and his eyes were the color of the sky's azure, with a gem-like luster.
"You don't recognize me? You're the one who grabbed me out of the water! Almost didn't pinch me to death."
The teenager smiled prettily, gently looking at this furry little fox on the bed;. However, he had seen countless stunning rare birds and exotic beasts, this fox was so ordinary that it couldn't be any more ordinary demonic beast, but it aroused his interest.
"I don't remember pinching a person out of the water ... I don't know how to play with mud yet." Fox Xiaoxian staggered up and landed on all fours with fur again, eh? You changed back!
"What the ... hell happened to me? Where is my fourth brother? Where's my Master and several senior brothers? Where am I?" Fox Xiao Xian panicked. Is this a dream or real? How is it that there was not a single recognizable one around him? Like a relaxed air, a great sense of fear and loneliness from the bottom of his feet quickly ran through his limbs.
"Don't be afraid, and this is still Feng Xi Jian. Introduce myself; my name is Ni Zhong, that is, the little black dragon you met in the water before, uh, that's what you call 'little loach.'" Ni Zhong was a bit embarrassed; at least he was a proud dragon, yet he was called a loach; it was humiliating.
But to comfort Fox Xiao Xian, he had to continue to tell her, "When you first saw me, I was in the form of a 'little loach,' and you were in the shape of a human cub; now I'm in the form of a human, and you're in the shape of a bit of fox. It's not quite amusing.
The little fox's emotions still didn't ease; the fur all over her body exploded like a round hair ball. She looked at this strange teenager for a moment in horror and said, "I want to see my master."
"Alright then, I'll take you to see him. You're still not well, so I'll carry you there."
"No, thanks."
"Are you sure?"
"Don't. You go away."Fox Xiao Xian couldn't stand this clearly strange but overly enthusiastic state; she would instead icily refuse than be favored for no reason; this kind of intimacy for no reason was too weird, in her opinion.
Crawling and staggering three steps at a time, Fox Xiao Xian finally took quite a bit of effort to leave the room where Fourth Brother was crying and sobbing behind the door. When he saw Fox Xiao Xian come out, he didn't care about the tears and snot all over his face and excitedly pounced on Fox Xiao Xian, crying while looking at his sister, who had risen from the dead. "Xiao Wu, I was wrong! I didn't take good care of you! Don't you be angry? Fourth, brother will never let you suffer again. Wooooooooo~"
"What are you talking about, Fourth Brother? The fourth brother, don't lick me. I'm not too used to it." Fox Xiao Xian was a little confused by the hug. Was this the Fourth Brother who had looked down on himself since childhood and constantly bullied himself? What was all this about?
"Little Five, don't you remember becoming human? I was a little jealous of you at that time."
"Jealous of me? The fourth brother, you've been better than me since you were little; I was the one at the bottom of the family; how could you be jealous of me?"
"Ah, that, because you changed first because I didn't turn into a human. This doesn't matter, Fourth Brother was wrong; never again will I make you suffer and suffer; let's be foxes quite well."
"Fourth brother, haven't I changed back into a fox now? Why are you still crying? I haven't seen you cry yet ..."
Eldest Senior Brother held a bowl of medicine. He looked at the pair of fox siblings, saying helplessly, "Fourth Senior Brother, it's important for you to hurry up and let Little Senior Sister drink the medicine. If you want to self-review, write a review and hand it to me tomorrow."
"Eldest Senior Brother, where are Senior Master, Second Senior Brother, and Third Senior Brother?" Fox Xiao xian drank the medicine while glancing around but could not see these three, then asked, "And what's with the person in my room? How did I turn back into a fox?"
"Uh ... when you had an accident, it happened that I was out running errands and not at home; it was said that you were vomiting blood from your mouth and collapsed to the ground, and your body was as hot as if it was on fire. Luckily, there was that dragon that spat out the dragon pearl in time to save you, or else your little life would have been a whimper. When Master and Second Senior Brother came back, the little black dragon was still regulating your breath and sucking the heat from your body. Currently, the Master Teacher and Second Senior Brother are refining pills for you in the Dan Room, and the Third Senior Brother is giving them a hand."
Fox Xiao Xian nodded; her body was so weak that she drank the medicinal juice and fell asleep on Fourth Brother in a daze. Eldest Brother and Fox Xiaxia made eye contact and quietly left.
The little black dragon Ni Zhong quietly watched from under the peach blossom tree. He is an outsider here, after all; it's good when the injuries on his body recuperate, and his memory can be restored, then he can leave. However, besides his name and the fact that he is a dragon, where is home? What relatives are there? And how did you get injured? Why did he fall here? He couldn't remember how, so he stopped worrying about it and settled for what came. He reached out and picked a peach and nibbled on it.
Master walked out from the alchemy room, looked at his peach tree, then looked at the peach in Ni Zhong's hand, shook his head, and smiled differently. This peach tree of his had made an anti-theft system protected against other immortals and demonic beasts, yet it was still easily broken by the dragons. The chain of contempt in this immortal world is naturally formed, and the bloodline theory sometimes can't be recognized without acknowledging it!
Holding his staff, he slowly walked over to Ni Zhong and sat down together, ''How is it? This peach tree of mine bears tasty peaches?"
"Uh, not bad, tasty!"
"Do you know that no one can pick peaches from this peach tree except me?"
"Oh, so? I don't know you well enough to understand."
"Taking someone's hand is short. Do you want to return the favor?"
"No need to be polite; I used the Dragon Ball to save the little fox. It is not a big deal; eat a peach."
"Hahahahahahaha~ You are an interesting little dragon man. Do you remember how to come to me here in the Kunlun Mountains Feng Xi Jian?"
"Don't remember."
"Then do you remember who you are? Where is your home? What do you do?"
"No, I only remember my name is Ni Zhong. Who are you, Old Goddess?"
"I'm Nanji Immortal Weng, and this small courtyard is my cave. These children are my disciples."
Ni Zhong finished eating the peaches, wiped his mouth, and respectfully got up and bowed to the South Pole Immortal Weng. "Old God Namji Immortal Weng, I didn't recognize you just now, but now that I do, I give you a bow. Thank you for helping me change back to human form."
Nanji Xian Weng narrowed his eyes smilingly and scrutinized the teenager in front of him, also human, eleven or twelve years old appearance, with thick eyebrows, and starry eyes with blue light, eyes as pure as a deep pool at the bottom of the lake and like the starry sky, an ink-black dress, but could not hide the young boy's appearance of youthfulness and youthfulness. I don't know which immortal lost the dragon prince, even so coincidentally fell into the wind Xijian.
In the morning, from the torture platform back to the grass house, not yet into the courtyard door to see the fox Xiao Xian changed back to the original form of the fox, covered with fire, does not rest and not extinguished, the dragon from the pool in mid-air jumped out of the imperial water splash fox Xiao Xian is not enough, but also spit out the dragon beads to absorb the residual heat of the body of the Fox Xiao Xian.
Fox Xiao Xian must suffer this difficulty, which the South Pole Immortal Weng is aware of, but did not predict that it would happen so early; more did not expect the unexpected arrival of the small black dragon actually to save her; it seems that these two inevitably have to have a destiny.
"I but gave you a few pills to help you regulate your breath only, you for the Fox Xiao xian to suck out the karma fire on the body, just the opposite of your water spells, the injuries on your body are also so much better, restored to human form. Now, I also ate my. This can grow mana, prolong life, and immortalize peach. Young man, this luck is good, ah!"
"Thanks for the compliment, Immortal Weng; I've always been okay with my luck. Even if I'm not lucky, I can't remember." The youngster returned with a bright smile. "By the way, Immortal Weng, can I have this peach kernel? It's quite pretty, and I want to make a trinket."
"This is the herb I use for alchemy. What do you want to make?"
"I want to make a whistle, turn around, and make a toy for that little fox." He pointed to the siblings sleeping under the house's eaves, and the look was like an unusual forest where you would see little foxes tired of playing nestled together and napping, a serene and peaceful scene.
"All right. It's yours."
On the second day, the MasterMaster called his disciples to his side. Fox Xiao Xian had recovered quite a bit from her night's rest but was still listless. The MasterMaster instructed Mei Xiangzi, the second elder brother, to take a small medicine bottle from his bosom and give it to Fox Xiao Xian, "This is the elixir that the MasterMaster refined yesterday. It can temper the various forces in your body. You have depleted your previous mana by turning into a human form, so in the future, you must always carry the Spirit Bead of the Giant Bear Mountain God with you, and you can save a life."
"Little Fairy ah! Come here."
"Master."
"For the Spirit Fox Clan to turn into a human form at your age is a law against the heavens, and although it is not your original wish, you will be punished by the Heavenly Dao."
"Then can't I not become a human in the future?"
"Transforming into a human is originally your method of practicing Immortal Law; in the future, every full moon night, the Spirit Bead True Qi in your body will sense the creation of heaven and earth and draw in the essence of the sun and moon to help you turn into a human. If you go against the trend and resist becoming human again with the help of external forces, I'm afraid that it will cause even worse effects on your body, and I'm afraid that I'll be in danger of losing my life."
"Master!" Fox Xiaxia got up and knelt to Master Teacher, "Please save my sister, Master Teacher! You are a powerful immortal, and there must be a way to. "Fox Xiaxia once again remembered the day Fox Xiao Xian collapsed and fell to the ground; she was still not able to rush to her side in time because of jealousy and inwardly blamed herself; what if her sister died like that at that time?
Nanji Immortal Weng used his staff to point in the air; a foot-wide white silk appeared out of thin air, and then countless densely-packed small golden flying insects pounced on the white silk, turning into words in an instant, the white silk neatly folded together into a book, landing in front of Fox Xiao xian. "Xiao Xian, this cultivation secret book, this seven-knobbed Linglong Heart, is specially made for you. In the future, if you follow the secret book and meditate and cultivate every day, it will allow you to reduce your pain during the full moon and maintain your human form for longer. But if you want to completely master the method of changing between human form and fox form and be able to change freely, it will still take quite a few days. You know this cultivation is arduous work, no laziness, no shortcuts."
Fox Xiao xian knelt and bowed to her MasterMaster, flipping through the secret book, which was an introduction to how to be a human being, and there were quite a few scripture incantations in it as well. "Master, I still don't understand why cultivation to become an Immortal has to take on the form of a human. Is being a human really that good?"
"Do you still remember the poem you wrote before you fainted? Reed grows in the sky, and white dew is frost. What a good line! You are but a hundred-year-old little demon; turning into a human is only a few days; many things still need you to realize on your own, and this answer has to be found by you. I can't tell you that much in advance.
After you have rested for another month, you can go down to the mountain to practice! After three lifetimes on earth, cultivating in the mortal world with different identities and forms, and experiencing all the flavors of the earth, you will naturally be able to understand the meaning of being a human being and cultivating immortality. After three lifetimes, if you can still return here on your own, tell me your answer."
"Master!" Shan Xiaohu and Fox Xiaxia spoke in unison, "Can we accompany Xiao Xian?"
Master Teacher shook his head and said, "You can accompany her for a moment, but not for a lifetime, let alone three lifetimes. She must go through this calamity alone; she can only go through it alone, and no one else can help or replace her. Just like my daily dawning experience of the three thunder torture, this is my hijacking; I can only withstand the face, can not avoid more, and can not let others instead.
Sometimes, life seems to be your own, but not necessarily your own. Carry it through; there is another heaven, carry it not, feather the west, hahaha..."
With this look on his Master's face, the eyes of the few people here were pained, and their noses were sore. Especially Fox Xiao Xian, she understands the bitterness and helplessness of her MasterMaster, even if it is such a powerful immortal as MasterMaster; all of them have to go through the tribulation, not to mention this little fox demon of hers.
"Oh yes, the bottle of elixir given to you just now can also help you to dissolve the demonic qi in your body, avoiding the turbid qi of the mortal world from infiltrating and infesting. After descending to the mortal world, your magic power will be sealed. You can't use spells; the form of each life may be human, maybe livestock, maybe ghosts and monsters, this I don't know, it all depends on the will of the heavens, you should be careful in everything. This month, you follow me, and I will teach you some more."
"Thank you, Master."
Ni Zhong sat on a peach branch, humming a little song while slowly carving the peach kernel in his hand. The ruby-like peach kernel gradually turned into a delicate peach kernel whistle in his hands, one knife at a time. After threading the whistle with silk thread, Ni Zhong leaped down from the tree. He played with the whistle as he walked towards Fox Xiao Xian's room, and when he reached the outside of the house, he heard the voice of the Nanji Immortal Weng.
"Little Fox, there is another layer of reason for your journey to the mortal world. Thousands of years ago, the Spirit Fox Fox Demon was authorized by the Heavenly Court to go to the earth to confuse the human monarchs of that life, and eventually, human beings changed their dynasties. However, several ancient true gods were also involved in the war, which was getting bigger and bigger and unmanageable. There were frequent calamities, and the sky cracked. Eventually, Nuwa refined the five-color stone to mend the sky, and her soul returned to the chaos.
This is a significant event in the sky; the court of heaven can not just make a big deal out of it, so they took that fox demon as a scapegoat, punished her souls are not allowed to enter the six paths of reincarnation, the spirit of the fox whole clan also suffered a lot of implicated. In fact, for more than a thousand years, your spirit fox clan's offspring can no longer become humanoid.
Unexpectedly, that year, that fox demon framed the loyal and virtuous dry body of the seven exquisite hearts, but in your body reproduced so that you become a human being. The heavens want to give the Spirit Fox Clan another chance. If you can successfully return, your Spirit Fox Clan's path of cultivation and seeking immortality afterward can be hopeful. This matter must not let your fourth brother know; that child is talented and endowed unusually, but unfortunately, the heart is too heavy and prideful and jealous; if he knows this, I do not know whether it will be another trouble.
The world's cause and effect is subtle and impermanent, a moment of motivation, thought, and reward. Whether it is fate or calamity, I've been immortal for so long that I sometimes can't understand it. But remember, good causes produce good results. When you go to the mortal world, do more good deeds; you are a good boy with a pure nature. You will be able to fulfill the mission entrusted to you by heaven.