Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 196 Nine-tailed Fox
On the hill.

Yinggu used her loach skills to cling to the top of a paulownia tree.

Looking from this high place, she could clearly see the camp below, which was piled with dense food and fodder.

Just now she and Huang Sixi reached an agreement to ride on the Divine Condor together and go to Shanxi.

But before leaving, Huang Sixi was going to launch a surprise attack on the Tartar camp. She was worried that Huang Sixi would be trapped in the camp, so she followed him and hid alone on the hill outside the camp. If Huang Sixi's attack on the camp failed, she could help Huang Sixi evacuate.

When Huang Sixi mentioned the Tartar camp earlier, Yinggu thought it was the base for the Tartars to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, with thousands of troops stationed there.

But when she flew to the front of the camp, Yinggu realized that this camp was just a place for the Tartars to store grain.

Right now, the Tatars and the Southern Song Dynasty are confronting each other along the banks of the Huai River. The real elite Tatars are all gathered on the shore, which is the front line of the battle.

In order to ensure that the soldiers on the front line had enough food, the Tartars built several granaries behind the Huai River to transport grain to the front line.

The Tartar camp that Huang Sixi attacked this time was actually one of the Tartar's granaries. There were only two or three thousand soldiers stationed there, and most of them were civilian laborers transporting food.

Since it is a wartime granary, the defense must be extremely strict, and there are strong walls built around it. Even if the enemy sends tens of thousands of troops to attack, they will return empty-handed.

Of course, this is only for ordinary combat methods. Since ancient times, attacking and sieging cities has always been a big problem.

However, Huang Sixi can launch air strikes by riding on the Divine Eagle.

No matter how impenetrable a fortress is in this world, it is nothing but a decoration in front of the Divine Condor.

Even when the Divine Eagle carried Huang Sixi and flew over the Tartar grain camp and circled around the camp, the Tartars in the camp did not notice anything at all.

This allowed Huang Sixi to openly observe the garrison posts and the distribution of food and fodder in the camp.

It was a coincidence that it was the beginning of winter and the Tartar generals in the granary were used to enjoying themselves, so they ordered their subordinates to transport several carts of charcoal into the camp so that they could get charcoal to keep warm.

Huang Sixi saw the right opportunity and waited for the charcoal cart to pass between many granaries. He suddenly swooped down, pushed the charcoal cart next to the granary, then took out a tinderbox and began to fan the fire.

In the Tatars' food and fodder camp, in addition to the rice and wheat warehouses, there were also haystacks several meters high. These haystacks were used to feed the military horses and were the lifeblood of the army.

Unfortunately, in order to facilitate transportation, the haystacks are all extremely dry and will burn violently at the slightest spark. If they encounter charcoal fire, once they start burning, it will be impossible to extinguish.

Soon, as a raging fire rose from the haystack, the rice and wheat granary was also ignited, and the large camp soon turned into a sea of fire.

The Tartars in the camp were in chaos, carrying wooden buckets to try to put out the fire. Although they had prepared sufficient water near the granary, how could they put out the fire in the haystack with just manpower and pouring buckets of water?
At this moment, Yinggu, standing on the treetop, overlooking the scene of the burning granary at the foot of the hill, greatly admired Huang Sixi's methods.

She thought to herself, "There are thousands of Tartars stationed in this camp, but once the fire started, the thick smoke blocked their direction. They were running around like headless flies. I'm afraid most of them will be burned to death in the camp."

When the fire first started, the smoke was not thick, but the Tatars did not dare to flee, and most of them were carrying wooden buckets to put out the fire. By the time they realized that the fire was out of control and tried to flee the camp, the smoke had already begun to spread over a large area, and they had no chance to escape.

However, the Tartar generals in the camp were all delicate and frail, and as soon as the fire broke out, they fled quickly towards the camp gate under the protection of their personal guards.

Although the entire camp is a square building, it is not a city after all. It only has a camp gate on the east and west sides.

Yinggu surveyed the battlefield from a high place and discovered that a large group of Tartar troops, accompanied by several generals in luxurious clothes, were trying to break out towards the east gate in a panic, but their whereabouts had long been monitored by Huang Sixi, who immediately led the Divine Condor to intercept them.

Another small group of people rushed towards the west gate. Yinggu was hesitating whether to rush down the hill to stop the Tartars at the west gate, but she saw that Huang Sixi had already assassinated a group of Tartar generals at the east gate cleanly and neatly, and then abandoned the soldiers and flew over the camp on the Divine Eagle, rushing towards the west gate.

Seeing this, Yinggu thought: "This time, Master Huang came to attack the Tartar camp in order to deal with those girls. As long as the generals in the camp are killed, they will not send people to search the mountain, and those girls will be completely safe! It doesn't matter whether all the soldiers are annihilated!"

The generals leading the troops of the Jin Dynasty were all Tatar nobles. Once they died in the camp, the soldiers would be charged with failing to protect them. Even if they escaped, they would be punished in the future.

Therefore, as long as Huang Sixi cleans out the Tartar nobles, the entire camp will be wiped out.

After the destruction of this camp, no one would care about the experience of the dozens of Tatar cavalrymen who were ordered to loot the village earlier. No one would avenge those dozens of Tatars, and naturally no one would send troops to search the mountain.

Then more than ten girls can live a peaceful and stable life in the Taoist temple.

When Yinggu thought about this, Huang Sixi had already finished the fight and was riding on the Divine Eagle to fly over the side of the hill: "Madam, come down quickly!"

Yinggu immediately jumped down from the treetop and leaped onto the eagle's back. She sat side by side with Huang Sixi and flew towards the north.

After traveling for dozens of miles, the Divine Eagle passed by the Taoist temple where more than a dozen girls lived.

Huang Sixi did not let the Divine Eagle land, but only asked Yinggu: "Can the food you stored in the Taoist temple be used for half a year?"

"Ok!"

Seeing that he was concerned about the livelihood of the girls, Yinggu smiled and said, "Although this Taoist temple is built on the top of a cliff, there are natural springs on the mountain, and flowers, fruits and millet are grown. Even if the food in the Taoist temple is eaten up, they will not starve. At most, they will have nothing to wear!"

Huang Sixi looked carefully and saw that in a garden on the hillside below the Taoist temple, more than a dozen girls were squatting in the woods pulling out weeds, obviously cultivating the land.

They are very hardworking and know that they cannot live off the land. Even though they are still worried, they still remember to do farming.

The Divine Eagle carried Huang Sixi and Yinggu and circled around the Taoist temple, neighing from time to time.

When the dozen girls heard the eagle's cry, they all showed joy on their faces. However, they were in the garden and could not see the divine eagle's location for a while, so they stood there and looked around.

Only the woman with her hair tied up trotted all the way to the top of the mountain, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the Divine Eagle.

Huang Sixi casually patted the eagle's neck and said, "Okay, brother eagle, let's go!"

The divine eagle let out a loud cry and flew away with Huang Sixi and Yinggu on its back.

The woman looked at the back of the Divine Condor with tears streaming down her face.

Head all the way north.

It flew intermittently during the journey, and three days later, the Divine Eagle arrived at the Shaolin Temple in Songshan, Zhongzhou.

Huang Sixi let the Divine Eagle land in a dense forest outside the temple, and he sneaked into the temple alone.

Yinggu sat on the eagle's back and waited for about half an hour. Suddenly, she heard a fierce shout: "The thief dared to steal treasures in the Sutra Library. Don't let the thief get away!"

"The thieves stole our four volumes of the Lankavatara Sutra. Those are the original Sanskrit volumes of Bodhidharma. We must get them back even if we have to die!"

"Not good! The villain injured Master Tianming, the master of the Dharma Academy. Everyone, be careful. The villain is very powerful. Do not fight him alone. It is best to attack him in groups!"

"Hurry up and chase him! The thief has escaped from the temple!"

Hearing this, Yinggu saw a figure approaching from afar and suddenly it was right in front of her. She turned her head and saw that it was Huang Sixi in front of her, holding a stack of Buddhist scriptures in his arms.

Huang Sixi had just stood on the eagle's back, and he didn't even need to say a word. The eagle flapped its wings, and with a "whoosh!", it soared into the sky from the Songshan Mountains.

Yinggu looked down and saw hundreds of monks gathered in the square in front of Shaolin Temple. They held sticks and Zen staffs, looked up at the Divine Eagle in the sky, and shouted in unison: "Shameless thief, come down if you dare!" "You have the ability to steal the Buddhist scriptures, do you dare to leave your name behind?"

"..."

Huang Sixi, however, turned a deaf ear to all the insults. He just sat cross-legged, unfolded the "Lankavatara Sutra" and read it page by page.

Yinggu was shocked when she heard the Shaolin monks' shouting and cursing. Shaolin Temple was known as the most famous sect in the world, and even though the monks joined forces to attack Huang Sixi, they were unable to do anything to him.

"Sir, you made a special trip to Shaolin Temple just to steal their scriptures?"

Yinggu was originally going to head north to Shanxi. When she was halfway there, Huang Sixi suggested that she stop by Shaolin Temple. Since Shaolin Temple was located on the bank of the Yellow River and only separated from Shanxi by a river, it was completely on the way, so Yinggu readily agreed.

But Yinggu could never have imagined that Huang Sixi went to Shaolin Temple just to steal scriptures.

Huang Sixi kept his eyes fixed on the Lankavatara Sutra and said, "How can this be called stealing? I was just borrowing it!"

"Borrow?" Yinggu pursed her lips and smiled: "Sir, if you were to lend it to me out of courtesy, why would the bald monk from Shaolin Temple want to kill you?"

Her enemy, Master Yideng, was a monk, so she had no good feelings towards monks and called them all "bald donkeys".

Huang Sixi said in a clear and logical manner: "Monks do not engage in production. All their property comes from almsgiving. The Shaolin Temple was built with money and food provided by the common people, so the Shaolin Temple is the common people's common wealth! I am also one of the common people. I took a scripture from the Shaolin Temple. At most, I borrowed it. How could it be stealing?"

This is absolutely a fallacy.

But Yinggu agreed: "My Lord, you are right. The monks' food and clothing are all provided by the people. Let alone taking away their scriptures, even if you take away all 72 Shaolin Kung Fu skills, it is only natural!"

Yinggu did not object to Huang Sixi's proposal, but was extremely curious about the Lankavatara Sutra.

Huang Sixi traveled thousands of miles to the Shaolin Temple. He did not take any other Buddhist scriptures but borrowed the Lankavatara Sutra. There must be other reasons for this.

Yinggu also turned her gaze to the "Lankavatara Sutra", but after reading it for a long time, she still couldn't understand what it meant. She suddenly lost interest and stopped paying attention to it.

Shortly after leaving Shaolin Temple, the Divine Condor carried the two into Shanxi, and Yinggu began to closely monitor Zhou Botong's movements.

Whenever they passed through a town, Yinggu would let the Divine Eagle land and go to the town to inquire about the news.

After only a few days, Yinggu successfully found out the whereabouts of Zhou Botong.

There is a Black Dragon Pond in southern Shanxi, where a strange beast called the Nine-tailed Fox lives. Since fox blood can heal internal and external injuries, martial artists from all over the world come here to hunt foxes.

Yinggu heard from martial artists that two great fighters once fought near Black Dragon Pond. Both of them were extremely skilled in martial arts and could walk in the water as if it were flat ground. Their martial arts skills had reached the highest level.

Yinggu asked the Divine Eagle to go and look for it.

That afternoon, the Divine Eagle finally found Zhou Botong's trace outside the Black Dragon Pond.

When Yinggu saw Zhou Botong, she was anxious to meet him, so she jumped off the eagle's back and landed at the Black Dragon Pond.

The noise was so loud that Zhou Botong was chasing Qiu Qianren. When he heard the noise from behind, he stopped immediately. When he saw Yinggu's face, he was shocked: "Ah! Noble... Noble Concubine, why did you fall from the sky?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Botong turned around and ran away: "I'm sorry for you, sorry for Emperor Duan, I can't see you again, and you don't have to chase me..."

"Botong!"

Yinggu saw him turn around and run away, crying and shouting as she chased after him: "After you left Dali, I encountered other setbacks. Just listen to me tell you about this experience, and it won't be too late to leave me later!"

After Zhou Botong had an affair with Yinggu, he immediately fled Dali. He was unaware that Yinggu was pregnant and had given birth to his son.

If he knew that Yinggu had suffered so much to give birth to his child, he would definitely not hide from Yinggu anymore.

But at this moment, he just wanted to escape and was unwilling to listen to Yinggu's narration of the details.

Huang Sixi circled in the air on the Divine Eagle, overlooking Yinggu and Zhou Botong chasing and fleeing. Suddenly, he swooped down and blocked Zhou Botong's way.

Zhou Botong was stopped by the Divine Eagle and could no longer escape, so he could only meet Yinggu.

Huang Sixi did not inquire about what the two talked about. When he saw Zhou Botong showing guilt and bowing to Yinggu to apologize, he thought that the misunderstanding between the two had been resolved, so he immediately led the Divine Condor away.

When passing the edge of Black Dragon Pond, Huang Sixi suddenly found a group of martial artists who were working together to pull open a large net, and a pure white little animal appeared in the net.

Huang Sixi immediately signaled to the Divine Eagle: "Go save that white fox!"

The Black Dragon Pond was originally a large lake, but due to the drying up of the water source, it became silted up year by year and formed a large swamp of accumulated sludge.

The area within several miles of the Black Dragon Pond was filled with mud more than ten feet deep. No matter how strong your martial arts skills were, you could not stand there. Boats, rafts, and rafts would sink as soon as they entered.

Only the nine-tailed fox is small and light, with thick feet and fast running speed, so it can easily slide through the mud. It regards Black Dragon Pond as its home.

All the martial arts heroes in the world know that the nine-tailed fox is a spiritual beast, and they all want to capture it. However, since they cannot cross the Black Dragon Pond, they can only stare at the nine-tailed fox and sigh in despair.

However, there are also talented people in the martial arts world. They figured out the greedy nature of the Nine-tailed Fox, so they set up a stove outside the Black Dragon Pond and smoked and roasted pheasants and ducks. They used the scent of chicken and duck to lure the Nine-tailed Fox away from the Black Dragon Pond.

Once the nine-tailed fox reaches the land outside the pond, it can be captured in one fell swoop.

The white fox figure that Huang Sixi saw was the nine-tailed fox that was captured by the martial artists.

The Divine Eagle swooped down, tore the fishing net into pieces in an instant, grabbed the Nine-tailed Fox with one claw, and then flew into the air again.

After reaching a high altitude, the divine eagle raised its claws and threw it upwards, then its body dropped slightly. Huang Sixi on the eagle's back was already level with the nine-tailed fox. He stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and the nine-tailed fox was already in his palm.

This little fox has been running close to the ground since birth. Now it is being carried high into the sky by the Divine Eagle. It is so scared that it trembles and curls up in Huang Sixi's palm without moving.

Huang Sixi stroked the fox's head and laughed: "You and Brother Eagle are both spiritual beasts. From now on, stay by Brother Eagle's side. It will keep you safe!"

When the nine-tailed fox saw Huang Sixi's gentle movements, its fear gradually subsided. It raised its head and neighed at Huang Sixi, showing its flattering attitude.

Originally, Huang Sixi rescued the Nine-tailed Fox just out of convenience, and he did not expect the Nine-tailed Fox to provide him with any help.

When Huang Sixi began to track down Huang Rong's whereabouts, he slowly discovered the magical uses of the Nine-tailed Fox.

Yinggu once revealed to Huang Sixi that Huang Rong was also in Shanxi. After escorting Yinggu to reunite with Zhou Botong, he immediately rushed to the area where Huang Rong appeared.

The nine-tailed fox has an extremely sensitive sense of smell. It can track people. As long as it smells someone, it can catch up even if they are hundreds of miles away.

The nine-tailed fox will play a crucial role in whether Huang Sixi can quickly find Huang Rong's whereabouts.

(End of this chapter)