Becoming a Fox Spirit from Under One Person

"The profound origin of Heaven and Earth, the root of all Qi. Through countless eons of cultivation, I have attained divine powers. Within and beyond the Three Realms, only the Dao is supreme. My body is enveloped in golden light..."

Zhang Zhiwei rarely recited the incantation of the Golden Light Mantra, drawing golden light from his entire body into his palm.

The Golden Light Mantra is one of the eight great divine mantras of Taoism. It can enhance the spiritual cultivation of practitioners by entering a "righteous" state. When combined with certain ritual incantations, it can generate a kind of golden light that can be utilized.

Zhang Zhiwei had no intention of pursuing the protective golden light or the golden light taking form, but once his cultivation of life force improved, he could make a lot of fun with just a little golden light.

Swish!

A golden light transformed into five blades, drawing a dazzling golden trajectory in the air, bypassing the boulder of the cave, piercing through the curtain-like vines, and swiftly shooting into the cave.

The wind suddenly picked up, carrying with it several screams that echoed through the mountains and fields.

The vital energy of the five people in the cave weakened until it disappeared completely.

Zhang Zhiwei raised his hand in a "please" gesture, still maintaining his relaxed and carefree demeanor.

Chen Ruoan hopped back into the cave, his nose filled with the strong, fresh smell of blood. Even though he had given up eating raw meat and blood for a long time, the sweet, fishy smell still kept arousing the fox's innate desires.

Of the five corpses, the one facing the cave entrance had a golden light shining directly into its forehead, while the one turned to the side facing the cave entrance had a knife slit in the throat, leaving them no room to resist.

Deep inside the cave was a large square bamboo basket, with the gaps between the bamboo strips filled with furry animal hides, inside which were six crying infants.

"Where did you come from?" Zhang Zhiwei brushed aside the green vines at the cave entrance and slowly walked in.

"It has a sinister and malevolent aura, and the smell of poison. To determine which school it belongs to, we'll have to examine the corpse."

Of the five corpses, only the one on the right side of the center of the cave was dressed in white, with large and small bags piled up beside the stone wall, some of which were already stained with blood.

Chen Ruoan tore open several bundles and found several manuals on Gu cultivation techniques, as well as secret books drawn with strange symbols.

"Let me see if this is the same style I've encountered before. Before this, my master took me to quite a few different schools of thought. I've seen many strange and unusual methods, most of which are complicated and tedious. They're not as reliable as simple ones."

Zhang Zhiwei reminisced about the past and casually picked up a book.

Wow~

The sound of pages turning echoed through the cave.

As the page-turning speed increased, Chen Ruoan felt a chill run down his spine, and the hair on his back stood on end.

Zhang Zhiwei maintained a nonchalant expression, seemingly indifferent to worldly affairs, but his pure and obvious killing intent could no longer be contained and was already being released.

The book records the method for creating the church's sacred object, the "Gu Body Holy Child"—

To refine Gu poison using human beings, forty-nine infants with exceptional talents are selected and fed with a subtle dose of known Gu poison, depriving them of their emotions and interests. After seven years, they are taught the art of refining Gu poison within their bodies, causing these children with "poison" to kill each other. The last one to survive means that the refinement is successful.

"Killing, utterly inhumane..."

You can imagine the suffering these babies have to endure from between the lines.

Compared to firsthand experience, human imagination is less than one-thousandth of it.

"The Medicine Immortal Gathering?"

"I really ran into him."

Chen Ruoan turned the pages of the book with his fox paws. Besides the Gu child's refining techniques, the morbid fanaticism towards "Gu" in the Medicine Immortal Society's doctrines was so extreme that it made Linghu's hair stand on end.

This secret society, which has been passed down in Miao territory for hundreds of years, should have been destroyed during Chiang Kai-shek's rule, but it reappeared in the world in 2011. At that time, Chen Duo, the only surviving individual, had already completed the refining of the "Gu Body Saint Child".

A girl who has never experienced life, a girl whose entire nature has been stifled, who can't even excrete independently, who can only be manipulated, and who exudes a poisonous aura, plus Old Liao, who desperately wanted to save her but died because he used the wrong methods...

The root of all the unsolvable mistakes and the tragedy of the two lies in this inhumane Medicine Fairy Gathering.

Chen Ruoan continued to turn the pages, digesting and chewing on the strange secret book along with it.

If you don't understand something, just memorize it and imprint it in your mind.

"Fox, what are you doing?" Zhang Zhiwei tore up the pages of the book in his hand.

"I'm learning, learning these secret techniques."

Why learn things that harm others?

"A highly skilled physician is also a shrewd poisoner, and vice versa."

After Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the other side of the strait, all the research on the "Gu-body Saint Child" was taken there, and the mainland subsequently lacked the ability to solve the problem of Gu-body.

Chen Ruoan thought that if he could keep a few samples, they might be useful in the future.

"I don't understand any of this stuff. All I can say is that you're just a fox with culture." Zhang Zhiwei stopped talking and left the cave.

That secret manual was so strange and unusual that Chen Ruoan couldn't understand it at all.

Trying to figure out those runes is giving me a real headache.

A sudden headache struck, and the wishing tree in my soul suddenly lit up.

A white, lustrous scroll dangled from a branch. Chen Ruoan realized that the runes of the secret manual were actually engraved on it.

"You can also function as a notepad?"

Chen Ruoan opened and closed his eyes, sketching the contents of the secret book. The pattern was gradually completed, and the secrets of the Medicine Immortal Society were engraved on the treasure book, forming golden patterns.

Something unexpected happened to Ling'an Fox.

The treasure tablet absorbed the gold patterns, shimmering and changing from white to blue, then from blue to purple, and finally becoming a bright, golden yellow.

Wow, the golden legend!

"What's going on?"

Chen Ruoan was unaware of what had happened. A thin thread of fate hung down lightly, suspended from the golden treasure scroll.

The highest grade of fate, but the person destined to be with you is nowhere to be found. The precious document hangs on the branch, yet it seems to float in mid-air, visible but untouchable.

"Could it be..."

A bold idea surfaced in Chen Ruoan's mind—

So-called good or bad karma is nothing more than a series of karmic encounters resulting from choices. Some causes are planted in the past, and the effects will manifest in the future, whether it takes a year or two, or a decade or a hundred years.

"Tree, you rascal, can you even foresee the future?"

Chen Ruoan clung tightly to the thread of fate with her fox-like paws.

He recalled a sentence—

"A boy, thirteen or fourteen years old, found a real gun on the street one summer. Because of his youthful ignorance and fearlessness, he pulled the trigger. No one died, and no one was injured. He thought he had fired a blank. Later, when he was thirty or older, he was walking on the street and heard a faint sound of wind behind him. He stopped and turned around, and a bullet hit him right between the eyebrows."

Of course, Chen Ruoan didn't pull the trigger of the gun.

He wondered what kind of good fortune would strike him unexpectedly between the eyebrows in the future.

"The future is promising, so let's cherish every moment."

"Tree, oh tree, I pray for a way to take form through good karma in the future."

Using a fox's body to do things is too inconvenient.