Text 112 Changing shapes and shadows, turning the soul
Li Jingliu looked around, but did not see the foxes, but after a while, he saw more pedestrians on the street, except for the old and the young, both men and women. They seemed to have come out of the ground, stiff and dilated pupils, like dead bodies. As the night grew darker and the moonlight gradually expanded the earth's coverings, the men seemed to regain some vitality, their eyes filled with vitality, and their movements gradually softened.
How could the city lord here not find out about such an obvious anomaly? Li Jingliu said secretly, could it really be because he couldn't do anything to the fox as he had heard before?
Then, the resurrected corpses turned to the dwelling and walked step by step, each step, their bodies were more alive, and before they walked to the dwelling, their movements were almost indistinguishable from those of the living. Then, Li Jingliu saw the mother and son before welcoming the man who knocked on his door with relief, and the middle-aged man was a living person except for his sallow face and aggrieved expression. The vitality of a living person surged in his body, Li Jingliu looked at the others, most of them were like this, the people in the door greeted the people outside the door with joy, and occasionally even with gratitude to the fox in the words.
Li Jingliu jumped on the beam of the house with the shape of a fox, opened the thatched roof, and quietly looked down, after the mother and son in the house got close to the middle-aged man, he took out an incense burner out of nowhere, and suddenly, a strange aroma spread in the room, the fragrance was depressing, and the smell made people dizzy. He bit the tip of his tongue lightly, concentrated and continued to look, the middle-aged man actually inhaled all the dull aroma as if he was enjoying it, and Li Jingliu saw that his nostrils were dilated, and he was extremely greedy.
At the same time, the appearance of the middle-aged man suddenly began to change, his body gradually shrank, and finally, he turned into a yellow-haired fox, the fox showed a hideous look to the mother and son who were still close a moment ago, he stuck out his tongue, his eyes were fierce, and he made a fierce voice towards the mother and son. The mother and son were also strange, and did not feel afraid, but tried to do their best to appease the fox who was suddenly furious. After a long time, the fox finally calmed down after tearing the boy's coat and leaving a few scratches on the woman, and he swaggered out the door to look at the other houses in the street, which seemed to be the same.
After the foxes gathered in one place, they walked towards the mountains north of the city one by one, the latter holding the tail of the previous one, and a long series of foxes of different colors walked silently among the mountains, the shadows of the trees swept over them, and the broken moans came from the fine dead leaves under their feet, which looked thrilling in the silence of the night. There seemed to be something in the mountains, and a faint transparent glow came from there.
Li Jingliu gritted his teeth in the spirit of getting to the bottom of the matter, jumped down from the beam of the house that was hidden before, and fell behind the last fox, biting his tail with a stiff face, a fox smell with the smell of dry fur rushed straight to his nose, and he had to think of himself as a fox in his mind, with the same movements as the fox, and did it with difficulty. Who knew that after sucking this mouthful, Li Jingliu's nose was sour, and he almost burst into tears. After this incident, it became the thing he admired the most in his life, think about how many people in this world can have the courage to hold a fox's tail?
I don't know how long it took to come, finally, the foxes walked, it was the appearance of an altar, the noise of withered vines around it indicated that this place had been abandoned for a long time, at this moment, there was a huge white fox squatting in the center of the altar, almost the size of an ordinary tiger, eight slender and smooth long tails swaggering behind him, he was facing the sky on his back, and he was spitting a bead in his mouth, but this bead was exactly what Li Jingliu had seen during the day, those foxes were spitting beads at the setting sun, but now the white fox in his mouth was several times larger than before, the appearance was round, and it was full of clouds and treasure lightγ Around the altar stood six stone tablets, only half a man high, on which were vividly depicted in the form of foxes, and time has not deprived them of their expressive power, they are still vivid.
This is not a fox pill. Li Jingliu has seen Huo Yan'er's fox pills, almost all of them are colored, and the fox pills themselves do not glow. The fox demon has said to the moon dan, but the moonlight can temporarily attract daylight, which is a trick for the fox demon to save his life when he encounters evil, and some fox demons use this matter to repay their gratitude, and only at that time, the fox pill will be vaguely covered with a layer of borrowed halo.
All the foxes who came from the bottom of the mountain seemed to be demented, made a circle around the white fox, and looked up at the orb in the mouth of the white fox and did not move. No, Li Jingliu had to follow the appearance of the fox demons, pretending to squat down, and looked up at the white fox like an idiot.
To say that Li Jingliu will be a little anxious, the effect of the illusion is time-limited, before, he copied as long as the fox, how long he could transform, it would be close to the night, and this unlucky ritual did not know how long it would last, he regretted being so reckless to follow the mountain.
The white fox swallowed the orb for a while, but transferred the orb to the head of the first fox, and the fox seemed to be greatly favored, and was overjoyed, and after a while, a halo overflowed from the orb, and flowed onto the fox, and the fox's throat moved, and spit out a small piece of transparent debris, which also carried a cloud like a orb. The white fox just looked at the crumbs, and the crumbs slowly rose as if they were being lifted by an invisible hand, and finally merged into the orb above.
But the white fox was obviously not satisfied, his glowing eyes were slightly towards the fox who bowed his head, and the fox who bowed his head suddenly trembled like chaff, he lowered his head and coughed as hard as he could, and finally, spit out a small piece of bloodshot crumbs. Then, as if the fox had been stripped of its muscles, he froze to the ground, and the white fox did not look at him, but walked up to the second fox, and repeated the previous action, and the second fox behaved much better, and he spat out a round bead, small and transparent, and the color was much better than before. The white fox is rewarded with a general reward, rubbing the second fox with his head.
The fur that came into contact with each other suddenly shone brightly, enveloping the second fox in its entirety, and the second fox perked up, let out a happy moan, and ran down the hill.
In the next string of foxes, some were rewarded by the white fox, some were punished, and some foxes that could not spit out debris were directly torn apart by the foxes that swarmed around them at the behest of the white fox. As the time got closer and closer, Li Jingliu became more and more anxious in his heart, and he couldn't spit out anything.
Finally, when the white fox arrived in front of Li Jingliu, there was not a single able-bodied fox around them, and the corpses of the fox were scattered on the altar, and a certain languishing fox was still struggling unwillingly. The white fox glanced at Li Jingliu lightly as before, as if asking him why he didn't move.
Li Jingliu coughed decently for a while, but suddenly took out a frost and frost horn talisman, aimed at the white fox and prepared to paste it, he was extremely glad that he still had so many life-saving charms, even if he couldn't kill the white fox, it was always no problem to trap him for a while, but the white fox seemed to understand his mind, and restrained him before he made a move.
The white fox looked at Li Jingliu with strange eyes, his fur glowing, and his eight long tails swaying slightly behind him. Li Jingliu only felt his soul tremble, everything around him was in a trance, and he involuntarily began to resist in the depths of his spirit, the direct consequence was that he remained awake, watching his body float up completely uncontrollably, and what was even worse was that he found that he couldn't move, as if his whole body was not his own, completely out of control. Then, the effect of the illusion was lifted, and his human form appeared in front of the fox.
The white fox looked at him strangely, controlling him to turn around in front of him, as if thinking about the purpose of his visit. After a long time, the white fox said: "Human, your purpose?"
"There's no purpose, I've heard from other monks that the fox demon here is beautiful, so I'll take a look. Li Jingliu looked sincere, and he couldn't wait to dig out his heart and lungs to prove that what he said was true. He had already determined that as long as this white fox was willing, he would not be able to resist a finger from others at all. Now all he can rely on is that the white fox may be afraid of the demon clan's killing catastrophe.
All monks have to cross the tribulation, and demon cultivators are no exception, and high-level demon cultivators of the same level can generally kill human monks of the same level in seconds. It is precisely because of this that the Heavenly Tribulation of Demon Cultivation is more difficult than that of humans, and at the same time, their Heavenly Tribulation is made more difficult because of their actions.
Demon cultivators cannot kill, once they kill, the difficulty of their heavenly tribulation begins to rise, and the retribution of killing foreign races is twice that of the same race. Not only that, but the fairy world also has a special position dedicated to recruiting and killing demon cultivators. Like the eight-tailed fairy fox treated other foxes before, he didn't kill, at most he only hurt his own clan, and it was because of this that Li Jingliu had a dependence mentality.
The white fox listened to Li Jingliu's words, frowned, and said, "Human beings are indeed cunning, however, I have lived for so many years after all, don't try to deceive me." The white fox seemed to see through Li Jingliu's thoughts, and continued: "I really won't kill you, but there are still many hungry foxes in this mountain, and they can't eat enough for a little bit of food during the day." "Those at the foot of the mountain are all fox demons, and the transformation techniques of fox demons should be beautiful in the eyes of humans.
Li Jingliu was silent for a moment, and finally sighed: "Okay, let's get straight to the point, I'm here to find the soul book." β
"Soul book? Not here. β
"Dare to ask where is around?"
"There are no soul books in the city, you can change places. "Look at the white fox, he is ready to send him away.
Li Jingliu only felt that his body was loosened, and the control seemed to be back in his hands, and he was about to leave, but he heard the white fox say: "Don't come again, and don't leak the things here, it's not good for you." β
Li Jingliu thought about it, and simply continued to ask: "What's going on with the people under the mountain? What do they spit out?Why did they become foxes?" Li Jingliu knew that according to common sense, if this series of questions continued, the white fox would have enough reason to kill himself, but for some reason, he just had a premonition that the white fox would not attack the cultivators, and Zhou Laoqian's words before also confirmed this.
The white fox's tail wagged, smiled strangely, and said, "It won't be good for you to know these things that have nothing to do with you. However, if you really want to know, it doesn't hurt to tell you. β
"Can you tell me directly how to turn those foxes back into humans and you never harass them again?"
"Human, come and see these murals. "This human is very interesting, if you have to get rid of him, put it later. Immediately, the white fox led Li Jingliu to the six stone carvings, and Li Jingliu saw that the murals were vivid and vivid. The first depicts a helpless little fox, crouched in a large pit, looking at it with moist eyes that look longingly. A young man with a bookcase on his back was walking towards him, but the young man's face was blurred.
After Li Jingliu finished reading it, he understood that these stone carvings told a strange story, to the effect that the boy rescued the fox, but then he was attacked by a group of monsters for some reason, and the body of the boy and the fox fell together, and then a crystal clear ball emerged from the fox's corpse, and the ball was covered with clouds. But it is the bead that the white fox swallows. The bead circled over the fox and the boy for a while, but suddenly disappeared into the boy's body. Then the boy sat up, but changed to a fox face. The boy who woke up looked around, and grabbed the corpse of the fox, and swallowed it with hair and bones, his mouth was huge, and it didn't look like a human at all. Finally, the boy disappeared into the sunlight, and the shadow of the fox dragged behind him.
"Do you understand?" asked the white fox playfully.
"In the end, did the fox replace the boy, or did they merge into one?" Li Jingliu couldn't understand here.
"You misunderstood. Think again, it's still early in the morning and you have a lot of time to think. The white fox seemed to have few people talking, and showed a strong interest in communicating with Li Jingliu.
Li Jingliu looked at the stone carvings carefully, the young man's face was very blurry, but Li Jingliu looked at it more and more terrifyingly, what was on the young man's face? It looked like there was nothing, but the more he looked at it, the more strange the appearance made Li Jingliu shudder, these murals are all vivid, it seems to be a realistic style, but the realistic state of this young man's face is really a blurred state.
It's so vague, it's still a person, isn't it?
He looked carefully again, it seemed that the fox looked at the young man's eyes with tears, and the next one, the young man's corpse seemed to be still bubbling with a slight black gas, and he thought about it in his mind for a moment again, but came to a completely different conclusion.
This should be a conspiracy, the fox was put into the pit by the boy, the human-like boy intended to take the fox out, but those strange-shaped monsters came out of the blood of those teenagers, under the boy's plan, the fox died, but the spirit in the fox's body entered the boy's body.
"It's ...... This fox was framed, right?" Li Jingliu hesitated.
"Do you see that?" the white fox nodded, spit out the round orb again, and said, "This is the treasure of my fox demon clan, Mingxin." It has always existed in the direct blood of my patriarch. Hundreds of years ago, our clan was severely damaged by a group of demons and almost wiped out, and the only bloodline of the patriarch, you also saw, was killed. β
"Who's that boy?"
"Boy, do you look like a teenager?" the white fox sneered: "Human beings are shallow, don't you ask what kind of heart is hidden in things that look like human beings? That's the demon race, derived from countless monsters and demons, and these demons are summoned by those people under the mountain." They take the treasure of our people and harm my people, everything is retribution, isn't it?"
"How did the treasure come back to you? As far as I know, the demons will not perish. Their lives are always transformed in other forms. "Is what the fox said true? Is it even true that the stone carvings here?
"It's true that the demons won't perish, but they can't withstand time, the existence of all demons is limited by time, and the human hearts under the mountain are getting emptier and empty, they forget about it, and the demons derived from their hearts will naturally disappear. It is precisely because of this that I was able to get my mind back. And the previous Mingxin was divided into countless small pieces because of the relationship between the demons, all of which were integrated into the bodies of the people under the mountain, and now I turned them into foxes, but in order to make it easier to get back the original things of my fox clan, Mingxin and the fox's body are more compatible, and it is easier to spit it out. β
Li Jingliu thought about it, and a trace of indignation gradually appeared on his face, human beings are really disgusting! He said silently in his heart, the white fox saw this, and showed a slight look of satisfaction, but then, this appearance was replaced by his usual sneer.
"You humans are like this, but although our clan is angry, it can't be like you, after all, our clan still has a catastrophe, otherwise ......" The white fox continued to sneer, but Li Jingliu had already heard his words, the white fox had turned into an immortal, even if he fought to the death with the cultivators in this city, it would not be difficult to completely destroy the north of the city.
β...... I'm sorry. Li Jingliu really felt some shame in his heart.
The white fox really understood his intentions, and the eyes that were originally glowing and not like creatures suddenly regained some of the true colors of a fox, and his warm and moist black eyes looked at Li Jingliu, and said, "I received your apology, it's not your fault, you're just for your kind." Then go down the mountain, and when all the hearts are taken back, I will take my people with me. Our people have no intention of staying in this filthy place. β
Li Jingliu looked at the white fox, suddenly bowed to him, and then left Edgeworth.