I asked Chen Yan why she brought a swimsuit. Was it for a swimwear show in the snow?
Chengyan, feeling awkward, told me the reason.
As it turns out, she was not good at geography and only knew that the northeast is cold, but did not know when it gets cold. She thought that since the temperature in our city is still suitable for wearing long sleeves, it probably isn't cold in the northeast either. It was as if she could swim in the Songhua River in the northeast, wearing a swimsuit and taking a selfie for her friends.
When I heard her words, I burst into laughter. It's freezing cold, and she wants to swim in the Songhua River? You'd turn into an ice sculpture just walking from the riverbank to the water!
Chengyan made a big joke, and Huang Xin also laughed at her folly.
This embarrassed Chengyan, and her face turned red.
"Alright, go change your clothes, and I'll go heat up the fox blood. I'll have it ready in half an hour!" Zhulong carried the basin of blood into the house.
Because there was a stove burning in the room, with the fire burning strongly, and the temperature of the fox blood not being low, it was easy to reach a temperature of about 40-50 degrees.
After twenty or thirty minutes, the temperature had reached a suitable level.
At that time, Chengyan changed into a swimsuit, shivering, and came out of the inner room to meet us.
Just meeting her, my hopes were dashed... I had originally wanted to see a swimsuit show, but Chengyan was wearing a full-body swimsuit made of sharkskin, covering her from the shoulders to the ankles. How could it be called a swimsuit?
"It's a little cold."
"Cold? It's almost time to put on autumn clothes, and you're still cold? Go, stay in the room."
Disappointed that I didn't get to see the swimsuit show, I waved at Chengyan with a disgruntled expression.
Obediently, Chengyan climbed the small stairs and stepped into the wooden tub, sitting down. The fox blood, with its enchanting color, just reached her shoulders.
The sight of a beauty sitting in bathed fox blood was truly captivating.
The temperature of the fox blood began to rise, and when the first wisp of smoke appeared, Zhulong sealed the stove with its lid.
With no air in the stove, the fire would slowly extinguish itself. Before it was completely extinguished, the residual heat in the stove would ensure the fox blood's temperature didn't dissipate.
"It's so hot, so hot."
I watched as Chengyan endured for a while before finally complaining softly.
Zhulong said that she had to endure the heat; this was the fox blood starting to take effect, opening her pores.
After a few minutes, the smell of the fox blood began to spread, a slightly pungent fragrance permeating the room. When fox blood dries, it releases some essence. Dissolved in a large amount of water, it becomes a natural perfume, used by the princesses of Thailand. But as the saying goes, "too much of a good thing." The excessively strong smell of the fox blood began to turn unpleasant. Huang Xin furrowed his brow, pinching his nose.
"It's so hot, so hot... It's so hot!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Chengyan erupted with a strange howl, sounding like an old lady with an extremely hoarse voice.
Both Zhulong and I knew: the fox spirit was about to be drawn out by the fox blood.
Veins began to appear on Chengyan's face, her forehead was covered in sweat, and her eyes revealed an indefinable wildness.
"Is Chengyan alright?" Huang Xin was very concerned for Chengyan, asking me anxiously.
I reached out to silence Huang Xin.
In theory, with a spirit fox presiding over this, and with a Northeastern fox king by my side, we should have been able to contain the situation.
"It's so hot... so hot! Ah!! Ah!!"
Suddenly, Chengyan let out a loud howl.
Following that, there were two loud bangs.
The yin-yang crown hanging from her neck shattered. The two heavenly beads vanished without a trace, and the demon-conquering scepter hanging from the black rope turned from an ancient bronze color to green with a layer of rust on its surface!
When the heavenly beads shattered and the demon-conquering scepter rusted, the effect of the yin-yang crown suppressing the fox spirit would disappear. This is what the "Witch" who sold me the yin-yang crown said.
Now it seemed that the fox spirit was manifesting.
"Quick, summon the spirit fox." I said to Zhulong.
Zhulong, with confidence, clapped twice in succession.
Smack! Smack!
"I, Zhulong, humbly request the appearance of the spirit fox!"
"I, Zhulong, humbly request the appearance of the spirit fox!"
"I, Zhulong, humbly request the appearance of the spirit fox!"
He said it three times in a row, but the spirit fox did not appear at all.
Could it be... did the spirit fox... as Zhulong said last time, refuse to appear once it saw the black fox? Was it that afraid this time?
"I, Zhulong, humbly request the appearance of the spirit fox."
Zhulong clapped his hands again, but the confidence he had exhibited earlier had vanished, and his voice now carried a tremor, clearly unable to handle the fox spirit within Chengyan.
"Hahaha!"
Chengyan suddenly erupted into an eerie laugh, and then she raised her hands, which had already grown full of fur.
The fur was matted with blood, indescribably terrifying.
Her nails also grew long and bright red.
The fox spirit has truly shown itself.
"What's wrong with the fox spirit?"
"It's finished, afraid it's been subdued by the fox spirit inside the girl." Zhulong looked at me and said, "This time, you have to take action yourself, cross the 'yin' and 'yang', and have a conversation with the fox spirit."
"I can only talk to her, but I don't have the ability to deal with her." I was also feeling anxious.
Zhulong said that there's no need to deal with her, just ask what this fox spirit desires, and satisfy her.
There's no way out. Now that the fox spirits have been subdued, if I don't use my ultimate ability, I'm afraid we'll all be finished here.
Just as Cheng Yan's face began to grow fur, the foxes outside were lamenting endlessly.
I thought, if Cheng Yan's whole body is covered with fur, when the fox spirit shows its true form, we'll be in deep trouble.
"Alas, I'll delay for a while before saying anything."
I mentioned at the beginning that our family has a special ability to communicate with 'yin' people, an ability that I haven't used many times in my career.
It's... the inherent gift of our family of 'yin' people to communicate with spirits!
A gift that no other 'yin' people have.
I took a deep breath. There's no fear now, the fox spirit showing itself in fox blood, it's unlikely there won't be killing.
I have to give it my all, win or die!
I said to Zhulong, "Uncle Zhu, come, help me open the spiritual eye, I can't do it myself."
"Okay!"
Zhulong nodded and took out a small knife, placing it against my forehead.
"Open... the... spiritual... eye!"
Zhulong let out a long and deep shout, extending the tone, and the blade on his hand shimmered.
Instantly, a small cut was made on my brow, and blood flowed down from it.
"Li Ge." Huang Xin was at a loss at the sight.
I waved my hand, indicating that she shouldn't speak. At this moment, the blood flowed out rapidly, I felt my face extremely hot.
Huang Xin exclaimed, "Li Ge, your face."
Yes, my face. In fact, I knew that the blood flowing from the wound on my brow wasn't random, it was flowing according to a pattern.
In the end, there would be a pattern drawn by the blood on my face.
This pattern, I've seen it with my own eyes when my father and grandfather performed "opening the spiritual eye".
This pattern is called "Becoming Another Shore".
I closed my eyes and let the blood flow freely, reciting repeatedly, "When day and night meet, Another Shore blooms; the portal of life and death will open, allowing rebirth."
As I chanted the song of "Becoming Another Shore", I heard Huang Xin's surprised sigh.
I knew that the "Becoming Another Shore" on my face was changing shape.
"Becoming Another Shore"... has opened.
The temperature on my face dropped from extreme heat to near freezing, and suddenly, I saw everything inside the house from my forehead.
The spiritual eye... has opened!
I saw that Cheng Yan had actually fainted in the tub, and there was a woman in a red robe standing beside her.
The woman was charming, and as the robe slipped down, she revealed her round shoulders.
She leaned against the tub, licking her long, crimson nails.
Suddenly, she realized that I was looking at her, and she turned her head sharply, showing me her shiny canine teeth.
"Dare to ask, esteemed fox spirit, what makes you possess my friend's body and refuse to leave."
At this time, I wasn't representing myself, but rather the family of 'yin' people, so I couldn't show any weakness!
"Yin people, is this your friend?"
"She is indeed my friend."
I said respectfully.
"Alright, I'm going to kill your friend to avenge the slaughter of our seven-people family."
The fox spirit's expression turned angry.
I said, although your grudge is great, it's not committed by my friend. Justice has a source, debts have a debtor. If you want to kill, go find the actual enemy.
The fox spirit said she was too lazy to find the enemy and since she's currently possessing my friend's body, she'd put the blame on her.
I said when did you fox spirits become so reckless, we, the people of the northeast, respect the wild spirits in all seventy-seven roads, and even more respect the fox spirits. We admire your fox clan's principle of "I don't offend unless offended, if someone offends me, I'll repay tenfold"; that's real respect!
The fox spirit waved her hand and said she doesn't care, what could I do against her?
This is no longer simply a spirit possession by a fox, she clearly doesn't take our 'Yin' people seriously, I'm definitely not going to back down.
I made a fist and said, "There are countless 'Yin' people in Northeast, who can deal with your fox spirit, and they are not few in number. If you remain stubborn, I will unite the countless 'Yin' people from the Northeast to easily vanquish you, fox spirit."
The fox spirit burst into laughter at my words, then she bared her teeth and said that the court has ceased to exist, the 'Yin' god tribe of 'Yin' people has disbanded hundreds of years ago, and she mocked me for acting like a big shot.
As she spoke, the fox spirit stood up and walked towards me step by step with a graceful yet menacing air.
She found my summoning of 'Yin' people annoying, and she decided to kill me first to avoid my continuous irritation with 'Yin' people.
At the same time, she also threatened to kill me, then kill everyone present, and then harm the entire family of Cheng Yan… creating chaos!
The fox spirit's killing intent was too strong.
I stared at her and said that if she took one more step forward, I would activate the heavenly eye and we would all die together.
The fox spirit burst into laughter once again, saying that if my ancestor Li Changfeng were here, even if he uttered a single word, she wouldn't dare to move.
Indeed, my ancestor Li Chengfeng was the founder of the 'Yin' god tribe, and his 'Yin' techniques were unparalleled, so subduing a small fox spirit was natural.
The fox spirit's attitude was extremely arrogant as she reached my front and reached out to grab my neck.