I'm a thankful fox in Tokyo

Chapter 179 Yang and Qizhe
"The old man will go."

Sakuzo put his hands in Yamabushi's sleeves, put on a bamboo hat, nodded to Higashino Yu, and strolled away leisurely alone, walking very slowly, as if waiting for the other monsters.

"Ha, Fox, you better work hard at training, or if you can't beat me next time we meet, you'll have to drink three glasses of wine as punishment!"

Badger Chiyo was carrying a wild sword and picking her teeth with a toothpick while laughing.

"I am practicing in this mountain. If you need any help, you can come to me." Shu said, with a smile on his green-faced, fang-toothed ghost face.

Heihachi smiled kindly and shook hands with Higashino Yu. "I am leaving now. I hope the next opportunity to meet you will come soon."

Before leaving, Qilang hesitated for a moment and said to Dong Yeyu: "Be careful of demon exorcists, don't trust them."

"Qi Lang's sincere words, I'll take note of them."

Dong Ye Yu answered seriously, then looked at Zukan and other monsters.

"If you have free time in the future, you can come to the Inari Shrine in Kita-Ayase, Edo. The priest of that shrine is on good terms with me, and the messengers and gods are all very friendly. You only need to say that you are a good friend of Higashino Yu."

Although these six are monsters, they have good moral character and the demeanor of ancient knights. They practice Qi cultivation hard on weekdays. They are not comparable to those monsters who practice cultivation by eating people. If a righteous god without a divine messenger encounters them, he will probably want to take them in.

"Okay, I'll come and ask you for a drink someday when I pass by Edo!"

After a brief farewell, the monsters carried their weapons with luggage hanging on their weapons, caught up with Shuzo, talked and laughed, and strolled together on the makeshift pier.

The bright colored lights of the festival swayed in the cool night breeze, and the raccoon cats and monsters bowed in greeting.

There were a few raccoon cat monsters holding lanterns leading the way in front. They quickly passed through the torii gate and disappeared into the peach forest in the middle of the night. Only dots of lights were left flickering in the peach forest bathed in the silver-gray moonlight.

At this time, most of the monsters in the festival had dispersed. The raccoon cat monsters stood on tiptoe and looked at the backs of the people who were leaving for a while. They didn't look very sad. They smiled and yawned and went back to the temporary gathering place to rest.

Dong Yeyu stood on the stage of the cocktail party and stared at the direction where the six monsters left. For some reason, a feeling of sadness surged in his heart.

It is entirely possible that he is wrong. He is actually a reincarnation of a human being. His memory has not been erased, and he still identifies himself as a human being.

I have been practicing for nearly twenty years and still have no awareness of being an immortal. It is natural for me to have such delicate emotions.

Or is it that the monsters are just too slow?

After this separation, it might be several years or even decades before we meet again.

Dong Ye Yu sighed, drank the spiritual wine in the cup that was filled with stars, moon, light and fire, and looked at Tao Dong beside him.

The raccoon cat girl in a beautiful kimono also turned her head. Her clear eyes, which were filled with starlight, seemed to understand something. The corners of her mouth first curled up in a somewhat depressed arc, but soon she revealed a smile.

Dong Yeyu touched the raccoon girl's head and said, "It's time for me to go too."

Tao Dong pursed her lips and hesitated for two seconds, "But what about your money? The more than 20 kan are still in my hot spring hotel."

"It's not easy to carry those divine coins in the mortal world, so I'll keep them at your house for now. As I asked you before, if there are any rare treasures that meet my requirements in the demon market in the future, please buy them for me first. If not, then I'll trouble you to write me a list of the goods every week. If you need money urgently, you can also borrow from them."

The hot spring hotel is located in a shrine. Now that the gods have been rehabilitated, there should be no foolish monsters coming to steal.

After saying this, Dong Yeyu prepared to change his clothes - it was not close to Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel and he had to climb over several mountains.

If I don't transform, it will probably take a long time to run back, and the mountain paths are difficult to walk on, and the kimono on my body will probably be damaged after walking this distance.

This piece of clothing carries Taodong's feelings for his father and is no different from the yukata in Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel.

You can't just run around naked in the woods, can you?
If it is seen by some hiker, the urban legend of naked men in the mountains will probably begin to spread in this area of ​​India and the west.

Taodong looked at Dongye Yu's back, feeling a little anxious. He hesitated for a moment on his furry little face, then gritted his teeth, as if he had made a decision.

She called out, "My Lord."

The raccoon cat girl had a premonition that after the white fox left, he might not come back to this remote place for many years.

"Huh?" Dong Ye Yu turned around, a little confused.

"I have decided to inherit my family's hot spring hotel and continue to open a store on Xiashan Mountain!"

The raccoon cat girl's voice was so loud that it suppressed the other raccoon cats' laughter and chatter, and so loud that it seemed as if the entire fairyland could hear it, like white mist flowing down the Milky Way and quietly rolling in the distance.

Many raccoon cats smiled.

"Good! Very motivated! This is how a raccoon girl should be. Come on!" The raccoon monsters laughed.

Dong Yeyu smiled and said, "I heard from Santaro Tanuki that this is good, it means you have walked out of that dark period. There are still many years to come for you to enjoy. Now the water god of Hishizawa seems to be going back to his duties, and the fairyland will get better and better."

"So, can you be the first customer in my store tonight?" Tao Dong walked over with small steps and asked hopefully.

"Are you ready to open so soon?" Dongye Yu was a little surprised at the raccoon girl's efficiency. It is not easy to manage an entire hot spring hotel by oneself.

"Yes! The facilities in the hotel are actually intact, and the electrical appliances are not damaged. I have cleaned the store carefully in the past two days. Yesterday, I asked Aunt Narcissus to transform and go to the town to pay the electricity bill. It's ready and can reopen!"

"Is this so"

Tao Dong's hot spring hotel is located in the bamboo forest on the hillside of Xiashan Mountain. It is less than half an hour away from Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel, so it doesn't matter if you go there and have a rest.

This move was mainly due to the consideration that the inn was located outside the fairyland, and the guests were a mixed crowd, including monsters and mortals.

Mortals are fine. Although Taodong's cultivation is still shallow, he has received a full set of basic education from the raccoon cat, so he has no problem scaring mortals with illusions.

It’s different with monsters. Even in a shrine, you can’t avoid being harassed by monster guests.

Yuanjun is a dragon god with an arrogant personality, so he may not necessarily take action.

Going there by myself can also be regarded as a warning to the many monsters around Momogo Town.

Dong Yeyu hesitated for two seconds, looked at the raccoon girl with a nervous look on her face, and nodded with a smile: "Then please take care of me."

Tao Dong saw that he agreed, but at the moment, he barely suppressed his excitement, blinked his eyes, bowed and said: "Welcome!"

Then he prepared to leave the fairyland. Dong Ye Yu changed his clothes and turned back into his original form of white fox.

Taodong repacked her bag and changed back to her original form - a raccoon cat the size of a Samoyed, with a floral bag tied around her neck that was much bigger than her body, looking a little funny.

Dong Ye Yu took a few steps and looked back. Tao Dong was following him swiftly on his four short legs. His round little ears were shaking in the wind, and the big bag on his back was bouncing up and down, with a red lantern on it swinging back and forth.

Tao Dong saw him stop, looked up at the white fox that was as big as a tourist bus with some confusion, and asked, "Master Dongye, what's wrong?"

Dong Yeyu smiled, looked behind him, and gestured, "Come up."

"Eh? Is that okay?"

Tao Dong was stunned for a moment, stood up, rubbed his little paws, spoke quite politely, and came closer.

Seeing Dong Yeyu nod, he carefully pulled Dong Yeyu's hair and asked, "Will it hurt?" Dong Yeyu shook his head, "No, it's just like the hairpins that girls wear when they dress up. Well, maybe the feeling is even weaker."

"Then, Master Dongye, shall I come up?"

Tao Dong then felt relieved, and hurriedly grabbed Dong Ye Yu's long fox fur and climbed onto his back. The whole cat sank into it like a big flea.

She lay in the soft, dense fox fur, moving her limbs slightly as if swimming, and took a deep breath with her face in it.

"Are you ready?" Dong Ye Yu asked.

"almost!"

Tao Dong's body froze, and he hurriedly moved the bag in front of him, tied the fox fur beside him around his waist like a rope, and held the red lantern in one hand to avoid getting lost in the white fog.

"I'm ready, Master Dongye!"

"Hold on tight."

The white fox chuckled softly, leaped a few times, and disappeared into the depths of the peach forest.

“Is it really hot spring water?”

Dong Yeyu was soaking in a rather primitive hot spring bath made of stone, with a white sweater covering his forehead. He was leaning on the edge of the bath, a little surprised.

"Yes! According to my father, Xiashan is actually a dormant volcano that has not erupted for hundreds of years. The hot spring in my house is directly connected to the natural hot spring on the mountain. Therefore, we had many guests before, and many mortals also came here because of its reputation."

Tao Dong said as he sat in the outer corridor, which was brightly lit by incandescent lights.

She held a mirror in her left hand and the emerald green leaf used for transformation in her right hand. She kept picking it up and putting it down above her head. Seeing that it was a raccoon face every time, she couldn't help feeling frustrated.

"Oh, I saw it online. It's a mysterious natural hot spring hotel on Xiashan Mountain that doesn't allow overnight stays."

Dong Yeyu casually glanced at his phone, then carefully placed it on the shore away from the pool.

"Aren't you going to hire a clerk to help? I'm afraid you can't handle it all by yourself."

"My shop is small, but it's okay. Master Dongye, how did you train? You can actually fight against gods. I learned illusions in no time, but I can never completely transform."

"You are still young and have not practiced for long, so your magic power is a little too low. Let me teach you a guiding method, but you are not allowed to teach it to others. Listen carefully."

"Ah? Please, please wait a moment!"

The raccoon girl's hurried footsteps were heard from outside. After a while, she came back and said, "I'm ready. Master Dongye, please teach me!"

Dongye squinted his eyes lazily and casually taught the guiding method to the raccoon cat girl - although it was just the guiding method he understood, simple and crude, it was still a great way compared to blindly following his nature to refine the moonlight.

The raccoon cat girl is naive and doesn't know what this means to the monsters, but Dongye Yu teaches her because she has a simple mind and good character.

This is what is meant by "the Dharma cannot be passed on lightly". Otherwise, look at Ueda Kagemasa, who killed people and gods at the same time. The higher his cultivation, the more serious the damage he caused.

As he spoke, he looked up at the night sky.

The night sky on earth is not as dreamy as the one in the fairyland. It seems much colder, but more real. Countless diamond-like stars are hung on the black velvet curtain, and a crescent moon hangs in one corner.

The stars and the moon are bright, and the river is shining in the sky.

Early the next morning,
Seeing that Taodong was still sleeping, Dongye Yu wrote a message on a sticky note and left the hot spring hotel carefully.

When we returned to Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel, we met a few demon hunters who were about to leave in the small parking lot outside. They used to dislike each other, but now they all said goodbye with a smile.

Even though Xianxiang Dongye Yu seems to be invisible this time, his Shikigami's performance is quite impressive. A demon hunter does not believe in all things belonging to himself. As long as it is power that can be used, it is considered the demon hunter's strength.

Therefore, the fox shikigami is powerful = Higashino Yu is powerful.

Moreover, after Uda Kagemasa was killed, he appeared in time to go to the shrine and rescued the imprisoned Jinguji Nobuaki and others. He is a powerful demon hunter worthy of making friends.

Although I don't know why he is wearing clothes that look like those of a raccoon monster.

Dong Ye Yu returned to his room, packed his luggage, and quickly left Xiaoli Hot Spring Hotel. While waiting for the bus at the bus stop, he saw Ren Shu, who was returning from a journey, from afar. His big bald head reflected the morning light as if it had been waxed, and was quite conspicuous.

It is said that the monk was shot by a pistol before, but he just went to a small hospital in the town to have the bullet removed and was discharged after a simple bandage. He traveled around the area these days, visiting temples and worshipping Buddhas wherever he saw them.

Dong Yeyu saw that his face was ruddy and his divine light was inside, and he was a little curious, so he greeted him: "Master Renshu, where are you going?"

"Amitabha, I just came back from Puxian Temple in the north of Yinxi City, and I want to go to the hotel to rest."

Renshu clasped his hands together and bowed to Dongye Yu.

"Master Dongye, are you ready to leave? The mountains and waters here in Taoxiang Town are beautiful. Why don't you stay for a few more days? How about you and I go hiking together?"

"Master, I appreciate your kindness, but my school schedule is tight, so I have to go back to Tokyo." Dongye Yu declined.

"That's a pity." Renshu said regretfully.

"Master, have you heard about the situation of the Ueda family since you came back from the city?"

Dong Ye Yu asked. He had basically turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside these days and had no idea about the follow-up of the incident, but he asked about it during casual chat.

Renshu hesitated for two seconds. "The demon hunters who are caught will basically have their demon hunter certificates revoked, and their magic skills will be confiscated. They will then be judged based on their crimes. The tribesmen who don't practice magic will not be implicated, but they will still be monitored."

"So, the Ueda family will probably be relegated to the mortal realm forever."

Dong Yeyu sighed: "But this can be regarded as the Ueda family's own fault."

When Renshu heard this, a look of compassion appeared on his rather upright square face. He clasped his hands together and sighed.

“All sentient beings possess the wisdom and virtues of the Tathagata, but due to delusion and attachment, they are unable to attain it.”

As he spoke, a bus in the distance drove to the station and stopped. The driver opened the door and looked at Dong Yeyu.

"Master, let's say goodbye now. Take care."

"Dongye Dongye, take care."

Dong Yeyu said goodbye to the monk and got on the bus briskly. The aging bus started shakingly and only stabilized after it accelerated.

There weren't many people on the bus. For such an early bus, there were only some elderly people preparing to go into the city.

I found a seat by the window in the back row, sat down, opened the window, and let in the morning breeze filled with a faint floral scent. The air was still full of the scent of spring.

This volume is finished. Although it is not divided into volumes, this can still be considered as one volume, haha.

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