From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

"Yes!"

Hu Yuan and Hu Jue responded, then transformed into a golden gust of wind, drifted into the pine forest, drove away the demons, swept away the monsters, and used their monk's knife as a woodcutter's axe to cut a path through the mountains for easier passage.

Before long, the two brothers had traveled nearly a hundred miles when they heard a sweet voice crying out, "Help! Help! Is anyone there? Please come and save me!"

"Brother, listen, someone is shouting!"

Hu Jue fell from the wind, revealing his true form.

Hu Yuan also jumped down, sniffed, and said, "I smell a fox's stench. It's probably not a person, but a fox spirit luring passersby to devour their flesh!"

Chapter 1477 The jade-faced fox in the withered pine forest

"Big brother, are we just going to ignore this?"

Hu Jue inquired.

"Let's go and take a look."

After thinking for a while, Hu Yuan made a decision: "If it has a malevolent aura, it must be a fox that eats people indiscriminately. It carries the resentment of humans. We should kill it and keep its fur to make a warm winter coat."

If she's truly being bullied by other monsters, we'll rescue her, have her lead the way, and rid her of those evil demons, restoring her peace. That would be a meritorious deed.”

"Exactly!"

Overjoyed, Hu Jue followed closely behind Hu Yuan, following the cries for help. They passed through the pine forest and came to a bitter pine tree, where they saw a yellow fox bound with ropes, its limbs tied together. Looking up, it saw Hu Yuan and Hu Jue and cried out, "Two tiger brothers, help! Save me!"

Hu Yuan learned Jiang Liu's skills. Although he did not develop the Eye of Wisdom, he was still able to discern some pure and evil auras based on his own innate talent.

Hu Jue thought so too, believing that the fox was a mountain spirit or monster that was being bullied by other demons in the forest. He was about to untie the ropes binding its hands and feet when Hu Yuan stopped him, saying, "Don't rush, let me ask it first."

"Brother Tiger, save me!"

The fox continued to cry for help.

Hu Yuan stepped forward, examining the fox's aura to confirm that she was just a minor demon before asking, "Where did you come from, fox spirit? Why are you deceiving people here?"

"Brother Tiger, I didn't lie!"

The fox pleaded, "I am Pingping, the daughter of Princess Jade Face, a concubine of the Bull Demon King of Flaming Mountain. I was playing with my brother at home, but for some reason, my brother knocked me unconscious..."

When I woke up again, I found myself at this mountain.

I didn't know where the Flaming Mountain was, so I didn't dare to wander around. I could only look for food and survive here. Luckily, I found the Fire Cloud Cave behind the Dry Pine Stream and stayed there. I was quite carefree.

Unexpectedly, after living there for a while, the thirty local deities and thirty mountain gods within the 600-li-long mountain range changed their nature. They demanded daily offerings and nightly incense, and would beat and scold me for the slightest negligence, saying I had brought it upon myself…

Last night I was so tired that I forgot to offer incense, and the mountain gods found me and scolded me. They then hung me deep in the forest as punishment.

"Brother Tiger, save me!"

Hearing the little fox's pitiful story, Hu Jue was indignant. He stepped over Hu Yuan, untied the ropes binding her limbs, and let her down.

As soon as the fox landed, it released its energy channels and transformed into a human. Its skin was as smooth as cream, its eyes were like twin stars, it wore a dancing skirt, its shoulders were bare, a fan was tied at its waist, and a bow hung on its back. Its body was light and graceful, and its figure was charming. It was truly a jade-faced fox from the mountains, who had cultivated a human body and was sleeping freely.

"Thank you so much, Brother Tiger, for saving my life!"

Pingping kowtowed to the two brothers, expressing her deepest gratitude.

"Get up and come with us to see our senior brother." Seeing her pitiful state, Hu Yuan and Hu Jue exchanged a glance, then transformed into a gust of wind and carried her eastward.

Jiang Liu and his group were slowly making their way along the path cleared by the two brothers when they saw a golden wind blowing through the pine forest, so they stopped.

After the wind stopped, Hu Yuan and Hu Jue landed. Pingping, though out of the wind, was unsteady on her feet and staggered a few steps before regaining her balance. She looked at Jiang Liu and his group, and when she saw Bajie, she was startled and exclaimed, "It's you!"

Bajie looked the young woman up and down, but he wasn't tempted. He just asked in confusion, "Where did you come from, you demon? How do you know me?"

Pingping exclaimed, "Five hundred years ago, you killed my birth mother in the Moyun Cave of Jilei Mountain. I was only saved because I was clever enough to hide behind the cave."

Upon hearing this, Pigsy was not embarrassed at all, but just chuckled: "So you are the daughter of that Jade-Faced Fox Spirit!"

But back then, your old man was just too stubborn!

If he had borrowed the fan back then, Lingshan wouldn't have been able to find any trouble with him openly, so how could his family have been destroyed? Now that you've come to Mount Hao, could it be that the Bull Demon King killed my senior brother, took his root, and greatly increased his cultivation, so he sent you here to guard Mount Hao?

Ha ha!

He has cultivated for five hundred years, but I don't think he has made any progress. Five hundred years ago, he sent his son to guard this place, but his son is wild and wants to eat that old monk.

Five hundred years later, I've put your daughter here to guard this place again... What? Are you, little fox, seeking revenge on me, old pig? Or are you trying to steal my primordial purple energy?"

Mocking me like this, Pingping cursed, "You damned pig-headed idiot! Even if it was my father and mother's fault back then, it's all in the past. Why are you still mocking me like this?"

"Haha! Don't be offended, don't be offended, we were just testing your temper." Bajie laughed heartily, then asked Hu Yuan and Hu Jue, "Where did you two find this little fox?"

Hu Yuan and Hu Jue told them the truth.

"He knocked you unconscious by that kid who started the fire?"

Bajie muttered something to himself, as if he had just remembered something, and said to Jiang Liu, "Brother Monkey, that old ox was probably tricked by his son."

Mentioning this, Jiang Liu was actually slightly speechless, but he didn't feel sorry for the old ox either.

If it were a weak and powerless ordinary person, it would be one thing to suffer such injustice and be afraid of this and that.

But he is the Mighty Bull Demon King!

His physical form was so tall and his strength so formidable, yet his temperament was no different from that of an ordinary person who had reached middle or old age. How could he be considered a cultivator?

It is also because cultivation in this primordial world is too easy. One only needs to suffer in the early stages, refine the golden elixir in the lower dantian and enshrine the relic in the upper dantian, and one can be considered to have attained the Dao. Furthermore, one can improve one's cultivation and increase one's lifespan by seizing other people's spiritual essence and soul. With such convenience, how many people are truly willing to cultivate their mind and nature?

And then there's Red Boy...

His background is absolutely ridiculous!

The last bloodline of the Yaksha King's clan was born from the waters of the Mother-Child River into Princess Iron Fan's womb, and this primordial Princess Iron Fan was, in turn, a disciple of Laozi (the Supreme Lord Lao).

If the Supreme Lord Laozi of this primordial world doesn't die, then who will?

"What? Brother would hurt Father? Absolutely not!" Hearing Bajie say this, Pingping glared at him and scolded, "Father and brother are father and son, how could they kill each other?"

"Father and son? Ha! If that old ox was truly in love with the Iron Fan Fairy, why would he be looking for your mother?" Pigsy chuckled.

"That's not necessarily true, after all, men are often fickle."

Jiang Liu chuckled.

"Brother Monkey, why are you insulting me? Old Pig hasn't done that kind of thing for a long time," Pigsy muttered, thinking the criticism was directed at him.

"I'm talking about Old Niu."

Jiang Liu laughed and said, "Among mortals, there is a kind of marriage called 'two heads big'. For example, a businessman or student has a wife in his hometown, but if he needs to settle down in another place for a living or to become an official, the quickest way is to marry a daughter from a wealthy local family."

This is also the legal wife.

As long as the people don't report it and the officials don't investigate, there's no major problem.

However, the "second wife" in these two types of marriages is often a widow or a young lady from a family without a male head of household. This facilitates the transfer of assets back to the husband's hometown and prevents the husband from being completely controlled by the wife's elders, thus avoiding a life of unrest.

"nonsense!"

Pingping was furious that her father had been spoken to like that. She glared at Jiang Liu and said with dissatisfaction, "You monkey, talking nonsense! How could my father be that kind of person?"

Stop slandering me!

If it's really as you say, why would the Iron Fan Fairy treat me like her own daughter?

"I feel guilty."

Pigsy knew Red Boy's background and had a general understanding of the whole story: it was simply that the Rakshasa woman had given birth to a yaksha and felt guilty towards the Bull Demon King...

The Bull Demon King found a lover, but he couldn't let go of Princess Iron Fan, and every year he would send gold and silver treasures from the Cloud-Piercing Cave to the Emerald Cloud Cave...

As for the Jade-Faced Fox—

They were all beaten to death by him.

The couple, who were caught in a bind and had rather eccentric personalities, felt deeply guilty and had no choice but to raise the daughter of the beautiful fox.

But then again, Pingping is probably not the Bull Demon King's biological daughter, otherwise how could she only have the bloodline of the Jade-Faced Fox?

Chapter 1478 The Narrow Road is Full of Fire

"You! You pig-headed idiot, how rude!"

Pingping, who had been taught very well by the Iron Fan Fairy, could not utter any colloquialisms when spoken to like this. She was so angry that her face turned red and her fingers trembled.

"Only the Bull Demon King himself knows what he was thinking about this matter. Now, tell me about it."

Jiang Liu steered the conversation back to Pingping: "Although you have been saved, as long as you remain on this mountain, you will likely still be bullied by those mountain gods and local deities."

Back when your good brother was guarding this mountain, he captured all the mountain gods and local deities and made them do whatever they wanted, taking away their offerings and incense, and bullying them terribly.

Knowing you're Red Boy's sister, how could I possibly let this opportunity for revenge pass me by?

From a worldly perspective, there's nothing wrong with that.

But since those mountain gods and local deities receive incense offerings, how could they be as petty as ordinary people?

Utterly devoid of morality!

But as long as they don't cause him trouble, Jiang Liu is unwilling to pay them any more attention at this time. He will wait until the Great Dao is completed in the future, and someone will rebuild the system of mountain gods and land gods in this world.

At the very least, those mountain spirits who still act according to their instincts should never again serve as local deities!

And right now—

"I want to go back to Flaming Mountain."

While at Flaming Mountain, Pingping only felt a sense of family reunion, a peaceful life, and no conflict with the world...

After arriving at this mountain, it didn't cause trouble for anyone, freely foraging for food. Even when oppressed by the local earth god and mountain spirit, it had no complaints, remaining innocent and naive...

Having been rescued, he had no intention of taking revenge on the mountain gods and local deities; he only wanted to go home, reunite with his parents and brothers, and seek a family reunion.

"The moon has its phases, and nothing in this world is ever perfect. But since you're going to the Flaming Mountains, which is on our route, why don't you join us on our westward journey?"

After thinking for a moment, Jiang Liu extended an invitation to Pingping.

"These two brothers Hu can fly, can't they just fly me back to Flaming Mountain?" Pingping asked in confusion.

"Looking at your innocent appearance, you seem to be naive and ignorant of the ways of the world. If you don't improve after you go back, your brother will probably find it boring to play with you."

Jiang Liu laughed and said, "Why don't you come with us to cultivate together? When we get home, we might make your father, mother and brother even happier."