Chapter 120: Why Stab Me? Stab Her!
“These talismans you use for exorcising demons and evil spirits, how could they possibly work on a fox immortal like me?”
The Fox Great Immortal chuckled lightly, pulling Nan Yuanman closer, her slender fingers gradually turning into a fox claw: “Be good and become my tribute. I won’t let you feel any pain.”
Nan Yuanman had difficulty breathing, her face turning blue and purple. She gritted her teeth and retorted, “You… lie… to… people!”
Don’t insult immortals. How could an immortal casually harm people!
But now neither Xiao Hong nor Xiao Cao were her opponents, and she herself had been caught. Could it be…
Nan Yuanman felt a bit scared in her heart. Was she going to die today?
No!
Nan Yuanman tightly gripped the Fox Great Immortal’s wrist, her blue-and-purple little face rapidly circulating the spiritual energy in her body. Perfection had not yet healed Grandpa, had not yet helped Mother restore her innocence. She couldn’t die!
She! Could! Not! Die!
The golden merit that had been quietly staying in the spiritual platform suddenly moved, turning into strands of golden light that merged into her body along with the spiritual energy Nan Yuanman was circulating.
The Fox Great Immortal excitedly licked her lips, raising her hand transformed into a fox claw, and fiercely stabbed toward Nan Yuanman’s heart.
At the critical moment, Xiao Hong flew in front of Nan Yuanman, grew large, and blocked her claw.
The fox claw landed on the coffin body with a muffled sound, accompanied by a crisp cracking noise. A crack suddenly appeared on the coffin body.
Fox Great Immortal: “!!!”
Before she could fling the coffin away, a furious curse came: “Wicked beast! Die!”
The next moment, a plaque suddenly appeared behind Nan Yuanman and smashed heavily down on the hand the Fox Great Immortal was using to choke her neck.
The Fox Great Immortal’s arm was instantly smashed off by the plaque, and the fingers choking Nan Yuanman’s neck immediately loosened.
Nan Yuanman thudded to the ground, clutching her neck and coughing violently. She looked up tearfully and saw the short figure that had suddenly appeared in front of her. Somewhat surprised, she murmured in a hoarse voice, “Grandpa Hu…”
Grandpa Hu tightly gripped a tattered plaque in his hand, standing tensely in front of Nan Yuanman, staring deathly at the Fox Great Immortal before him, the muscles on his face twitching.
The Fox Great Immortal slowly shifted her gaze to Grandpa Hu. Her already blood-red fox eyes turned even redder. She gritted her teeth and said word by word, “It’s… you!”
“You’re actually still alive… How do you have the face to still be alive?!”
As she spoke, strands of black and red intertwined malevolent qi emanated from the Fox Great Immortal’s body, enough to see that her current state of mind was not stable.
“It’s me, Fox Great Immortal. I know the sins committed by my ancestors are enough for you to destroy the entire Hundred Fox Village, but… these three children are innocent.”
Grandpa Hu’s voice was heavy: “You can’t harm them.”
“Envy-driven white-eyed wolf, what right do you have to negotiate with me?!” The Fox Great Immortal’s voice was sharp: “A hundred years ago, we didn’t find you, letting you luckily escape. This time… you’re not so lucky!”
“If not killing them, then killing you!”
With that, the Fox Great Immortal gave Grandpa Hu no chance to negotiate and directly attacked him.
Grandpa Hu’s legs were trembling slightly. Nan Yuanman rolled up from the ground, grabbed Xiao Hong, and took out the copper coin sword to act, but saw him forcefully insert the plaque in his hand into the ground.
Vaguely, Nan Yuanman saw the words ‘Hundred Fox Village Village Ancestral Hall’ engraved on the plaque in his hand, but soon, as the plaque was inserted into the ground, the scene before her eyes instantly changed.
The riverside turned into the Village Ancestral Hall. At that time, Nan Yuanman was standing at the doorway of the Village Ancestral Hall, surrounded by bustling adults coming and going, their faces full of joy.
“This time I hunted a roe deer on the mountain. I wonder if the Hundred Fox Adult will like it.”
“You’re silly! The Hundred Fox Adult doesn’t like eating these. What she likes most is chicken meat! It’s better to make fragrant chicken meat and offer it to her!”
“Heh heh, this rough man of mine doesn’t know how to cook. Trouble Aunt to help me make it…”
“…”
The people around seemed unable to see Nan Yuanman, chatting while busy with their own tasks. Nan Yuanman also saw clearly that in the Village Ancestral Hall, besides worshipping the ancestral spirit tablets, they were also worshipping something else.
The people of Hundred Fox Village were also worshipping a white fox statue.
Nan Yuanman furrowed her little brows, looking at these passing adults, and tried to recognize that these people should be the villagers of Hundred Fox Village from three hundred years ago.
To thank the fox that had saved them, they built a statue for it, named it Hundred Fox, and every first and fifteenth of the lunar month, they would come to offer tributes and make wishes to the statue.
She watched with her own eyes as the originally ordinary statue slowly gained spiritual intelligence due to the villagers’ persistent worship.
The statue truly believed It was of the Fox Clan. Not only did It protect the villagers of Hundred Fox Village, It was also particularly caring toward the foxes in the mountains, even enlightening a few foxes with some spiritual intelligence, giving them the chance to cultivate into spirits.
As time passed, the first generation of Hundred Fox Village villagers gradually died, and the second, third, fourth… countless generations of descendants gradually lost faith in the statue.
They didn’t believe a statue could truly keep them safe and mocked the older generation: “What era is this? Still believing in these things? If this so-called Hundred Fox Goddess were really useful, wouldn’t our village have become a wealthy one long ago? How could we still worry every day about not having rice to eat?”
The statue couldn’t speak. It just silently waited for its believers, but the believers grew fewer and fewer until two hundred years later…
War broke out frequently, and China suffered invasion by enemy bandits. The villagers of Hundred Fox Village suddenly started believing in the Hundred Fox Goddess again.
The village chief of Hundred Fox Village believed the words of a master who happened to pass by and asked for water, thinking that as long as they ate the fox heart, they would become child disciples under the Hundred Fox Goddess and share the cultivation and lifespan of those foxes.
So… they bared their fangs at those foxes that trusted them.
Deception, imprisonment, heart extraction…
Watching from the side, Nan Yuanman suddenly saw the red fox from her previous dream being captured and having its heart extracted by the villagers. She instantly realized that what she had experienced wasn’t a dream—it was something that had truly happened in Hundred Fox Village’s past.
The villagers of Hundred Fox Village, right in front of the Hundred Fox Goddess, skinned and extracted the hearts of Her clansmen, even eating the hearts of Her clansmen right in front of Her.
It was furious. It collapsed. But It could do nothing.
Because It was the immortal… created by the villagers of Hundred Fox Village.
It could not harm the villagers of Hundred Fox Village.
Perhaps because they killed too many foxes, the grievance produced by the foxes quickly tainted the statue. The statue absorbed the foxes’ resentment and slowly began to change…
“Later, the villagers who ate the fox hearts died suddenly one after another for unknown reasons. Panic enveloped the village. The village chief, afraid he would also die, went to the city and found the old Daoist priest he had met before.” Grandpa Hu’s hoarse voice suddenly came from behind Nan Yuanman.
Nan Yuanman turned her head and saw that the hat on Grandpa Hu’s head was gone, his exposed face still half intact and half covered in fox fur.
Nan Yuanman looked at the fox fur on his face and suddenly understood: “So, Grandpa Hu, you are one of the villagers who ate a fox heart before and survived?”
She still remembered the old grandpa who had been gorging on fox hearts in the Village Ancestral Hall last night—his face had also been covered in fox fur.
“Yes.” Grandpa Hu nodded, raising his eyes to gaze at the ancient house before him: “The Village Ancestral Hall is where she was born. The old village chief, to save himself, listened to the old Daoist priest and blew up the Village Ancestral Hall along with the statue, then asked the old Daoist priest to perform a ritual to seal the nascent Hundred Fox Goddess.”
“The plaque I brought has the suppressive runes left by the old Daoist priest.”
“Perfection.” Grandpa Hu turned to look at Nan Yuanman and pursed his lips: “I know you’re not an ordinary person. The old Daoist priest also left a prophecy, saying that in the future, there would be someone capable who would help us completely resolve her.”
“Now… I’ve already used the runes left by the old Daoist priest to weaken her power. Next, it’s up to you. You can definitely kill her, right?”
Nan Yuanman looked at Grandpa Hu, blinked her round eyes, and a crafty glint quickly flashed through the depths of her eyes: “Of course I can deal with her, but…”
Nan Yuanman suddenly raised her hand, and the copper coin sword in her hand fiercely stabbed toward Grandpa Hu’s waist!
