Chapter 27 Chapter 27 "Fate of Immortals"

"Your father used to be a bounty hunter, specializing in supernatural cases. That year, he took on a big case, and he couldn't leave him. He asked Yin'er to take you to your grandfather first. It took him a lot of work to figure it out." The culprit of that case was caught, and when he was being escorted, that person told your father that his wife and children would be in danger." "My father won't believe him!" Bai Xiaozhou said eagerly. "That person is not an ordinary person. He can predict the future, and he has never made a mistake." Qu Siqi was startled when he heard this: "Could it be that person is..." Nine-tailed Fox glanced at him, and suddenly chuckled mockingly: "It's really a bad fate."

Qu Siqi's expression changed suddenly, he bowed his head in silence, and after a long silence, he said in a low voice: "Uncle Bai was able to catch him, it's amazing." "Of course, Xiu Jin used to be the best bounty hunter, how many people are jealous of his talent." Nine-Tailed Fox fell into memories again, the smile on her face was as bright as a girl's.Bai Xiaozhou thought, could it be that she treats her father... "The man's words caused your father to be in a mess. After a few rounds, the man escaped, and your father didn't have the mood to chase him. He rushed to find Yin'er and you without stopping. However, he was one step too late after all. You and your father Mother was in a car accident, and he pulled you and your mother out of the wheel of the truck with his own hands."

Bai Xiaozhou was trembling all over. There seemed to be a door in her mind, a door that had been closed for many years, and it was suddenly opened, and vague memories came out of the door. She vaguely remembered that that year, her mother held her hand Her hand was walking in the street market of the small town. She was pestering her mother to eat steamed buns, but her mother couldn't resist her, so she had to buy two for her. Wipe off the scallion and oil juice from the corner of the mouth. Everything is perfect, everything is happy. But a huge shadow rushed towards them, it was a large truck that was out of control, with piercing brakes and screams from passers-by, like a huge monster devouring human flesh and bones.

The last images that remain in her memory are the huge tires and the bloody sky. "No!" She dropped the bronze sword and hugged her head tightly, "This is not true, none of this is true, you are lying!" The nine-tailed fox looked at her distressedly, retracted its nine tails, and slowly walked over, stretching out its hand tentatively, trying to hold her in its arms, but this time, she didn't dodge. "Xiao Zhou, don't be afraid." She patted her on the back lightly, comforting her gently, "It's all over." Bai Xiaozhou remembered this action. In the past, whenever she had a nightmare, her mother would hold her in her arms, pat her on the back, and whisper in her ear: "Don't be afraid, Mom is here."

This feeling reassures her. She gritted her teeth and grabbed Nine-Tailed Fox's clothes: "What happened next?" "Your mother is out of breath. Your father carried you to find your grandfather and saved you." At this point, a complex expression seemed to flash across her face, her eyes glanced at her hands, and then changed She smiled slightly, "You are too young to be without a mother. Your father blames himself and doesn't want to marry again. He and I have known each other since we were young, and we are very good friends. If a friend is in trouble, how can I ignore it?" What's more..." She held Bai Xiaozhou's face in her hands, "My Xiaozhou is such a cute little girl."

Bai Xiaozhou didn't know what he was feeling in his heart at this moment, warmth, surprise, fear, sadness, all kinds of emotions intertwined, he stared blankly at her, unable to say a word. "Why? Because it's not her own, my Xiaozhou doesn't want her mother?" Nine-Tailed Fox asked half-jokingly, and Bai Xiaozhou quickly shook his head: "No...I just..." "I understand, I understand everything." Nine-Tailed Fox patted her on the head, and Qu Siqi hurried up to persuade her: "Don't be sad, cheer up, it's important to find a way to save Teacher Long first."

Bai Xiaozhou froze, turned her head to look at Long Chuxia inlaid in the red stone, she wiped away the tears on her face, "What's wrong with Teacher Long?" Nine-tailed Fox's face changed slightly, and he was silent for a while, pointing to the red stone: "This is the spirit of the mountain." The two looked blank, obviously they didn't know what the spirit of the mountain was.The nine-tailed fox continued: "It is equivalent to the heart of a mountain. Every mountain has one, otherwise the mountain will become a dead mountain, and no living things can survive in the mountain."

Bai Xiaozhou frowned: "Is there something wrong with it?" The expression on Nine-Tailed Fox's face was even more complicated: "Have you already found out?" "I'm just guessing." Bai Xiaozhou said with a sullen face, "Those mysteriously missing mountain dwellers and passers-by entered this cave accidentally, just like the tension we saw at the entrance of the cave, it's not that they sucked out their souls What monster, but this cave, or, this mountain." Qu Siqi's face turned black, it's not that he didn't have this kind of thought, it's just that he was sucked up by the mountain, this kind of thing is unheard of.He still had some lingering fears, no wonder he got tired so easily after entering the cave, it turned out that it was caused by the essence being sucked away.

The nine-tailed fox pointed to the top of the red stone again: "Look there." Bai Xiaozhou looked up and saw that there seemed to be a small piece missing on the red stone, and there were still marks left by chisels on it. Nine-tailed fox said: "That is the soul of the spirit. Every mountain must be able to communicate with the world if it wants to survive in the world." It is often said that absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, the key lies in the soul of the soul, but hundreds of years ago, a Taoist priest broke into the cave and stole it. Since then, Lujingshan has been Start to absorb the spirit from the mountain people. Human beings are the primates of heaven and earth, it cannot be obtained from heaven and earth, it can only be obtained from human beings."

"Then why is it tied to Teacher Long?" Qu Siqi couldn't help asking. "Because Chu Xia has an 'Earth Immortal' physique." Dixian?I seem to have heard this kind of statement somewhere, Bai Xiaozhou glanced at Qu Siqi, Qu Siqi leaned into her ear, and said in a low voice: "I seem to have seen it in a novel about comprehension." Comprehension?A row of black lines appeared on Bai Xiaozhou's forehead. "The so-called earthly immortal physique is what the ancients often called 'immortal fate'. People without 'immortal fate' will not be able to become immortal even if they eat all the panacea and go through a lot of hardships. Humans can absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and practice spells to get twice the result with half the effort." Nine-tailed fox said, "There is a 'fairy fate' in the early summer, and the reason why Hongshi imprisoned her here is that she is regarded as a human being. The medium, through her body, unites with the heaven and the earth, and at the same time..." She paused, lowering her eyes and said, "It also continues the life of all the creatures in the mountain."

Bai Xiaozhou asked impatiently: "How can we rescue her?" "There is no way, unless you get back that piece of fine soul." Hearing this, Qu Siqi felt a rush of blood rushing up, picked up the bronze sword, and slashed at the red stone: "I don't believe it, I can't save Teacher Long if I smash this broken stone into pieces?" The nine-tailed fox was shocked: "Wait a minute!" The bronze sword slammed into the stone with a "dang", knocking a small piece of gravel away, and the surrounding walls of the cave became brighter red, and the bloody water under the feet seemed to have entered a big fish, and was stirred up violently.The red stone beat twice like a heart, and Long Chuxia's body sank even further, almost submerging her lower body. Qu Siqi's face was pale: "How could this happen?" "It's useless." Nine-Tailed Fox shook his head, "How can manpower compete with the forces of nature? No matter how strong you are, you are nothing but ants in front of Lu Jingshan." Before the words fell, a voice came from behind coldly: "What if this mountain is destroyed?" Everyone was startled, Bai Xiaozhou turned around happily, and saw Zhu Yikai standing at the entrance of the cave, supporting Sima Fanti who looked haggard like a zombie.He gently placed Sima Fanti on the ground, leaning against the wall, the broken hair on his forehead was covered with blood on his face, covering his eyes, but Bai Xiaozhou could feel that those eyes were deep and bright. "I said, what if the mountain is destroyed?" His tone was very calm, as if he was talking about the weather. "No!" Nine-Tailed Fox said harshly, "How many mountain people live in the mountain, in order to save her, do you want to let them all be buried with her?" Zhu Yikai raised his eyelids and glanced at her: "Who are you?" It was cold for a while. "She is..." Bai Xiaozhou paused and said with some difficulty, "My mother." A gleam of joy flashed in Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes, and Zhu Yikai looked her up and down in surprise. After a long time, his tone slowed down slightly: "I remember that after the fire, the mountain people all moved out." The Nine-Tailed Fox was furious, and asked, "Don't the non-human beings in the mountains count as the people of the mountains?" Zhu Yikai was left speechless by the question. After a long silence, he sighed, "Is there a better way?" "Let's go." Nine-Tailed Fox raised his head, his eyes swept over everyone's faces, "I want to protect the people in the mountain, Long Chuxia must stay here." Sima Fanti, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his eyes wide, stood up while supporting the cave wall, and said, "So it was you who did it." Nine-tailed fox looked at him coldly, without saying a word, Bai Xiaozhou asked inexplicably, "Boss, what are you talking about?" "Didn't you all find out?" Sima Fan said angrily, "No matter how you go, you can't get out of this cave, because someone cast an illusion!" Bai Xiaozhou turned his head to look at Nine-Tailed Fox in disbelief, his familiar face sank like water.Sima Fanti gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "There has always been a legend in Lujing Mountain that a fox turns into a beautiful woman to seduce passers-by. For the survival of your own clan, you will not hesitate to lead those innocent people into the cave and offer them as sacrifices to this place." Is it a big mountain?" Facing his accusation, Jiuweihu remained silent, and Bai Xiaozhou stared at her without blinking: "It's not true, right? The boss misunderstood you, right?" The nine-tailed fox remained silent. Bai Xiaozhou's body trembled uncontrollably, and there was a dull pain in his chest. The person in front of him was gentle and loving, raised her up, treated her as his own, and gave her all the mother's love. Even so, she still It is a nine-tailed fox, a monster, a monster who does not hesitate to kill people for the sake of the mountains and forests in which he lives. "Xiao Zhou..." Nine-tailed Fox wanted to say something, but he never said it. He finally retracted his hand outstretched in the air, and said with a wry smile, "I have known for a long time that there will be such a day. The daughter I have raised so hard will Look at me like an enemy." These words pierced Bai Xiaozhou's heart like a needle, her throat was sweet and her nose was sore, but she couldn't shed a single tear. She had been longing to find her parents and reunite her family, but she never thought about it. Those who came were no longer the same people as before, no, in other words, she had already lost them. This person is not her mother. Sima Fanti grabbed Zhu Yikai's hand angrily, and said in a hoarse voice: "Destroy this mountain." Zhu Yikai was stunned for a moment, seeing the burning anger in the eyes of the boss, his reason had been suppressed, frightened and soaring these days. Engulfed in anger, Zhu Yikai frowned: "Boss, calm down." "Calm down?" Sima Fanti said angrily, "Don't tell me you want to watch Chu Xia being locked up here all this time, just for these birds and beasts?" In this case, the usual Sima Fanti would never say it. Zhu Yikai looked at Long Chuxia who was embedded in the stone, and then at Bai Xiaozhou who was fighting with heaven and man in his heart, feeling a little at a loss for a moment. Sima Fanti suddenly sneered, and pushed him away: "In order to please Bai Xiaozhou, you don't even want your own teacher? Well, you are really nice." "Boss, it's not what you think." Zhu Yikai was very upset and wanted to explain, but he didn't know where to start.Sima Fanti was also unwilling to listen to his explanation, his eyes were cold, and he gently placed his left hand on his right wrist. He wears a silver bracelet on his right wrist. Zhu Yikai was shocked. Last time he tore off the bracelet, turned into a dragon, and turned those who chased them into idiots. He will never forget the huge figure that night, the shining white The scales seem to have some kind of terrible magic power, which makes people unable to move their eyes away. For a dragon, destroying a mountain is easy. "Boss, stop!" He rushed forward and grabbed his arm tightly, "Calm down." "Go away!" Sima Fanti's eyes were burning, he raised his arm, and grabbed his neck. He didn't expect that the person who couldn't even walk could suddenly burst out with such great strength. His arms were covered with blue veins, Zhu Yikai struggled a few times, but he couldn't break free. The air couldn't get into the trachea, and the lungs hurt faintly. Zhu Yikai's eyes were a little blurry, but fear and sadness arose in his heart. The boss wouldn't really want to kill him, would he? Seeing Sima Fanti go crazy, Bai Xiaozhou and Qu Siqi were startled and anxious, and suddenly they heard Nine-Tailed Fox yelling "No", and there was a rumble of thunder from the ground.Bai Xiaozhou lowered his head and saw the surrounding blood rising in waves, and the air was filled with a strange metallic smell. "That's the blood of the mountains, it's highly poisonous!" Nine-Tailed Fox said, "Hurry up, come out with me, otherwise none of us will be able to get out!" "But..." Bai Xiaozhou turned his head to look at Long Chuxia, the young female teacher suddenly opened her eyes, staring straight ahead, her eyes were out of focus.Sima Fanti noticed something strange, threw Zhu Yikai away, and said joyfully, "Chu Xia, are you awake?" "Let's go." Long Chuxia didn't look at him, opened his lips slightly, and spit out a low and stiff voice from his throat, "Go find... the soul of the spirit..." After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes again, no matter what Sima Fanti said. Shouting, still couldn't wake her up.The red stone began to throb again, and with each throbbing, her body sank deeper, as if being swallowed by a bottomless swamp. Until, completely immersed in it. "Chu Xia!" Sima Fanti rushed forward as if he lost his mind, Zhu Yikai had quick hands and sharp eyes, and he fell down with a knife in his hand.Nine-tailed fox pressed Bai Xiaozhou's shoulder: "Did you hear what she said? The only way to save her now is to find the soul of Jingpo. If she stays here, she can only be buried with her." With red eyes, Qu Siqi also nodded and said, "Xiaozhou, what she said makes sense." Bai Xiaozhou bit his lower lip: "How do we get out?" The Nine-Tailed Fox breathed a sigh of relief, and stretched his tail behind him: "Grab my tail and close your eyes." Bai Xiaozhou buried his face in the fluffy tail, the white fluff is very soft and warm, the strange thing is that it does not have the smell that a fox should have, but a familiar fragrance, like the grass in the back garden when I was a child the taste of.She seemed to have returned to that little house again, lying on the cold rocking chair, shaking the cattail fan, shaking her feet as the rocking chair rose and fell, and then shouted into the house: "Mom, I want to eat watermelon!" .” Her consciousness was a little fuzzy, and she murmured this sentence, the owner of White Tail trembled slightly, a little moved, but finally did not say a word.Bai Xiaozhou was immersed in the happiness of memories, a tear leaked from the corner of his eyes, but a slight smile curled up at the corner of his mouth. For a while, I don't know what night it is. When she woke up, she was lying on a pile of soft straw. The sun shone through the layers of leaves and hit her face, which was soft and warm, just like the small courtyard at home when she was a child.She sat up and found that Zhu Yikai and others were sleeping beside her, but the Nine-Tailed Fox was missing. she left. Without a word, she walked very freely and thoroughly, as if she had never appeared before. There was a bit of astringency in her heart, she felt abandoned by her parents, and when she turned her head, she suddenly froze.Behind her, there was a thin white porcelain plate, on which several pieces of watermelon were neatly stacked, red and sandy, with a faint sweet fragrance.She picked up a piece, and her fingers touched the cold rind, which had obviously been frozen in well water.After taking a bite, the indescribably sweet taste flowed down the tongue and into the stomach, just like the taste in memory.She wiped the tears from her face, and smiled while choking: "Mom, the ice is too much, it hurts the stomach."