Li Xiongtian walked to the town with the hunted animal skins and some valuable things on the prey. Maybe it's because of the good relationship I ate yesterday, or because I heard those shocking news.

Although Li Xiangyuan's thin body caused by long-term lack of nutrition is much more energetic today.

"Girl, my brother will go out for a spin and come back in a moment. ”

"Brother, don't be too long, come back early! I'm going to go in and sleep for a while," after saying that, he walked to the boudoir, and muttered to himself: "As long as my father is here, I won't let people sleep well, really, I'm sleepy."

Li Xiangyuan looked at the girl's back dotingly, smiled, and walked out the door.

Li Xiangyuan walked in the snow in the back mountain, but he walked very slowly, and he stopped walking after a long time when he came to the hillside.

He slowly looked up into the distance and said to himself, "Mother, where are you? Father has already told me something, I believe you are still in this world, but why don't you come to see the child!"

"Do you know? Every time you see those children of the same age, there is a mother who hurts, do you know how much the child wants to have a mother who cares, the child dreams of you many times, but every time it is some vague figure. ”

"I have seen you step on auspicious clouds and come to me and my father many times, but every time I wake up, I know that it is a dream, but I feel that it is so real," said Li Xiangyuan, but his face was covered with tears.

Li Xiangyuan wiped away his tears, and looked into the distance with clear and firm eyes: "Mother, my father has already told me about cultivation, and I believe that no matter where you are, when I succeed in cultivating Xuan, I will definitely take you back and reunite our family." ”

At this moment, Li Xiangyuan had already strengthened his belief in cultivating Xuan in his heart, and it was also at this moment that Li Xiangyuan could no longer return to the mortal life of the past. When I first came out of the house, I still had a conflicted mentality, but this time and again, it was a world of difference in my heart.

When Li Xiangyuan got home, he found that the little girl had woken up; Li Feng'er circled around Li Xiangyuan and said, "Brother, why did you just go? Why do you feel that you are different from before?"

Li Xiangyuan knew that this might have something to do with his firm beliefs. But I couldn't tell Li Feng'er, so I smiled and said, "Maybe it's because of good food!"

Li Feng'er pursed her mouth: "The ghost only believes you, don't say pull down" After speaking, he ignored Li Xiangyuan and walked out.

Li Xiangyuan shook his head helplessly, knowing that he couldn't hide it from this smart girl, but he didn't know how to say it, so he changed the topic and asked, "Girl, where are you going?"

"Oh, that's right, the salt at home is gone, I'll borrow some from Aunt Li next door, and I'll pay it back when my father comes back." After speaking, without waiting for Li Xiangyuan's answer, he hurriedly walked away.

Two days passed quickly, but Li Xiongtian did not come. Perhaps the waiting time was the hardest, and there was still no Li Xiongtian on the third day. The brother and sister began to get worried. After all, the outside world is not as safe as it seems. In a blink of an eye, on the fourth day, it was almost sunset, and when Li Xiangyuan's brother and sister were preparing dinner, Li Xiongtian's strong voice came from outside the door: "I'm back!"

"Daddy, are you back?" the little girl excitedly ran to Li Xiongtian's side and took Li Xiongtian's hand and said.

But in an instant, he said with a complaining little look: "Didn't you say that you would come back in two days, why did you only come back today? ”

"Okay, it's all Daddy's, don't you, pay attention in the future, you won't worry about our little princess anymore!" After speaking, she picked up Li Feng'er and gently combed the little girl's hair.

Hearing this, the little girl was willing to give up, but the little girl hugged Li Xiongtian's neck and refused to let go, as if she was afraid that Li Xiongtian would suddenly disappear again.

Although Li Feng'er is still young and can't think about it so much, Li Xiangyuan knows it. If you go to the town to sell animal skins or something, you can go back in three days at most. However, Li Xiongtian did not return until the evening of the fourth day. So he asked, "What trouble did my father encounter on this trip?"

"Something did happen, but it wasn't too much of a problem. In fact, the goods were already sold the next day, and I used the money to buy some herbs for you. But when I was about to walk back, I encountered a strange thing when I passed by the neighboring village of Destroying Dragon Town, so I delayed for two days."

The local villagers said that they don't know what the reason is these days, every time there is a child in the middle of the night, the child cries non-stop, and the next day when the adults get up, they will find that there must be a child with two small tooth marks on the neck, although it is not fatal, but which child is not the heart of the parents? How can it not be distressed. ”

"I also reported to the official, but the town's patrol team came to check for a few days and was stunned to no avail, but fortunately, no one was killed, so it was over. But after the patrol team left, this phenomenon continued. ”

"When I heard about it, I knew it might be some kind of beast at work. After all, I'm a hunter who has been dealing with beasts for many years. ”

Li Xiongtian was about to continue, but Li Feng'er, who didn't know when he got out of Li Xiongtian's arms, came over with food and said, "Daddy, my brother is cooking, what are you talking about?"

Seeing that Li Feng'er had finished the meal, Li Xiongtian said: "Okay, let's come, Xiang'er go over, I'll tell you while eating, I'm hungry after two days of tossing." ”

"Daddy, what did you talk about just now, did you encounter any danger?" the little girl on the side said anxiously while scalding wine for Li Xiongtian. Drinking hot liquor has been Li Xiongtian's habit for many years, that is, he puts a pot of wine in a container with hot water poured on, and drinks it after it is heated up after it is put on for a while.

Li Xiangyuan remembered that when he was very young, his father always drank directly from the altar, and the drink was like a drunken dream, and whenever he was drunk, he held the jar and kept saying something in his mouth: "I'm sorry... It's that I'm useless... Words like that. ”

Li Xiangyuan forgot that he didn't know when Li Xiongtian was not groggy all day, although he drank every day, he didn't drink much, and he drank hot every time.

"It's okay, I'm not in danger, don't worry, girl"

"Oh, that's good"

Li Xiongtian took a sip of wine and said: "I just said that the one who bites the child may be a beast, which also has some basis, first of all, the wound of those injured children is the two small tooth marks on the neck, if it is done by a person, it cannot be so small, and it is impossible not to be known." ”

Li Xiongtian breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Unless it is a cultivator and it is not an ordinary mystic level, but how arrogant a cultivator is to attack human children who have no self-protection ability at all, and those children are pale and soft for a period of time, obviously a symptom of being sucked blood." So I judged that it might have been the work of some kind of beast. ”

"And it's definitely not something that mortal beasts or anything like that can do, although I'm afraid that it will cause trouble, but as a cultivator and as a hunter, my curiosity has been completely raised. Curious to see what it is?"

"Father, have you seen that thing?" Li Xiangyuan interjected.

Li Xiongtian picked up the wine glass and took a full sip: "Of course, but it is also accidental." ”

"I waited for two days and it didn't show up, or I didn't notice it at all. I waited for no hope and just wanted to come back, when I walked at the entrance of the village, a red shadow flashed quickly in the distance, although I didn't see it clearly, but my intuition told me that it might be the culprit of the incident. ”

I crept my way to where it had flashed, and after about half an hour I came to a sand dune with a hollow hole in the back of the dune. ”

Inside, however, lay a fox covered in fiery red, but with a white tail.

It also discovered me, a stranger who had trespassed into its lair. It bared its teeth at me, but it seemed to be so badly injured that it couldn't move, but I couldn't understand why it was injured and why it was sucking the child's blood. ”

"I also know that although I am no longer a mystery, the experience is still there, and the speed that flashed past me just now is beyond my reach, even if I am still cultivating for my father. ”

"This is still the case of being injured, so I know that this fox is by no means as simple as a mortal beast, and it is impossible for a fox to produce a demon beast, there is only one terrible possibility, this fox is a spirit beast. ”

Father, wait, "What are the mortal beasts, demon beasts, and spirit beasts you just said?" Li Xiangyuan said in surprise.

"Oh! these, in fact, there are many kinds of beasts, the lowest is mortal beasts, this category will not pose much threat to people, more docile beasts, such as spotted deer, snow hare, etc., and demon beasts are already aggressive, such as colorful tigers, black-scaled pigs, and so on. ”

"The words of the spirit beast are to have a certain amount of spiritual intelligence, the favorite of the Xuan, the Xuandan of the spirit beast, the flesh and blood have countless benefits to the Xuan, and if the two parties are willing, they can also sign a contract, or raise them from an early age, and the spirit beast will also recognize you as the master and fight with you. ”

"Adult spirit beasts have the power to fight with Xuanzong, your grandfather, who is also the head of the Li family, has a contract spirit beast, you will know it in the future. It's not your father that I can know. After speaking, I didn't know what I remembered, and I missed the dark color of yearning, and I didn't speak. (End of chapter)