Chapter 35 Young Eagle and Old Fox
Qin Bing was startled. In his haste, he didn't have time to think carefully. A sword energy flew out from his hand, blocking Senior Brother Wei's long sword and asking, "Senior Brother Wei, what are you doing?"
Wei Yunfei's face darkened. "This person is acting very sneaky. He showed up outside the sect in the middle of the night, and he was accompanied by a demonic bird. He's very suspicious."
Qin Bing hurriedly explained, "No, no, Senior Brother Wei, you misunderstood. I know him. He is not a spy, but a disciple of our sect."
"That's not necessarily true. The Demonic Path has sent spies into our Taiji Sect in the past. These people hide very well, often work diligently, and accumulate merits. As their status rises, they become more harmful. For example, today, you, a dignified Foundation Establishment cultivator, were saved by a junior. Your state of mind is bound to be flawed. You must know that you have never been defeated since you established your foundation. If this person regards himself as your benefactor in the future, how will you deal with it? Well, he is just a mere outer sect disciple, and directly..."
Qin Bing felt that Wei Yunfei's words were absurd, but she didn't like arguing with others. She said, "This man is a disciple of Liu Yunzi, an inner disciple, not an outer disciple. Moreover, he saved me once today. If I kill him, my state of mind will be even more difficult to achieve."
When Senior Brother Wei heard that he was Liu Yunzi's disciple, his expression softened. "That's fine. This man is seriously injured. If you give him some pills and save him once, it will make up for it."
Qin Bing thought, how can this be considered offset?
She didn't refute him, but took out a pill from her storage bag and shouted, "I remember your last name is Shi, right?"
Shi Feng struggled, "Disciple Shi Feng..." He began to speak, his mouth naturally opening. Qin Bing flicked her slender hand, and the pill fell into Shi Feng's mouth.
Shi Feng felt the small pill melt in his mouth, and a cool air went straight down from his throat to his abdomen. The injured bones and internal organs all over his body gradually healed. His nameless martial arts method had a miraculous effect on healing external injuries. Combining internal and external effects, he felt warm all over his body, and his qi and blood gradually calmed down.
Qin Bing said, "Your name is Shi Feng? How are you? Are you feeling better?" Shi Feng slowly got up and bowed, saying, "Greetings to the two uncles. I am much better now. Thank you very much." He naturally heard that Senior Brother Wei wanted to kill him just now, but he pretended not to know.
Qin Bing said, "Thanks to you tonight. You still need to recuperate for a few days. Come back to the sect with me."
Before Shi Feng could say anything, Senior Brother Wei interrupted, "No, Junior Sister Qin, we can't return to the sect just yet. That giant eagle suddenly flew away, and its whereabouts are unknown. It's far more dangerous than the black eagle we saw earlier. We must quickly catch up and investigate. Otherwise, how can we report back to the Sect Master?"
Qin Bing said, "Brother, you are right. However, if we bring Junior-nephew Shi with us, he won't be able to keep up with our sword-controlling skills. And if we leave him here, I'm afraid it will be very dangerous in this desolate wilderness with monsters lurking around."
Senior Brother Wei said, "After the giant eagle made such a commotion just now, other monsters would have noticed its presence and wouldn't dare to stay here. Besides, it's almost dawn now. If there's any danger, it can return to the mountain on its own after daybreak. Let's not waste time, let's get down to business!"
Qin Bing nodded, took out a piece of talisman paper from her arms, raised her hand and gently dropped it in front of Shi Feng, saying, "This is an ice arrow talisman. If you encounter a powerful monster, you can crush it to keep you safe. Don't rush back, find a tall tree to hide, and leave after dawn." As she spoke, she flew into the air on her sword. When she finished speaking, she had flown far away, following closely behind Senior Brother Wei.
Shi Feng stood up and saw that the two men were no longer visible. He then took out a few more potions and applied them to the scratches on his body. Although he was seriously injured, he felt much better in a short while thanks to Qin Bing's pills and the nameless technique.
He then recalled the white mist that had surged into his body and quickly searched his entire body, but found nothing. Who was this young man in white? How could he have defeated the giant eagle with a single blow?
Shi Feng was full of questions. He looked around but didn't see anyone.
He did not give up and searched everywhere in the bushes, calling softly, "Senior, senior..." There was no response from the empty forest.
After searching for a while, he found nothing. Shi Feng, helpless, glanced at the sky. It was almost four o'clock. He wasn't afraid of any monsters nearby, but he was truly afraid of the colorful eagle. If it came back, he would be no match for it. He gave up searching for the young man in white, looked up to determine his direction, and headed towards the sect's main gate.
After walking for a while, he suddenly saw a long feather on the ground. It was colorful and fell from the sky when the group of eagles were fighting. Shi Feng was overjoyed. This was an eagle feather, an excellent material for refining weapons. If he used it on his arrows, their power would be greatly increased.
He was not in a hurry to return to the sect at the moment. He searched for feathers all over the mountains and plains. As a result, he found quite a few. As he walked, he suddenly saw two black objects in front of him. Shi Feng was overjoyed, "I'm rich!" It was the corpses of the two black eagles that had fallen here, like two big black rocks.
Shi Feng walked over, thinking of plucking all the feathers from the two black eagles, when he heard a faint chirp. The feathers under one black eagle's armpits fluttered, and a tiny head popped out. It was a young eagle. The young eagle was not much bigger than a chicken, and it was obviously unaware of what was happening. It chirped in confusion, as if wondering why its parents ignored it.
When Shi Feng heard the cries of the young eagle, something in his heart was suddenly touched. He remembered that when he was four years old, after the villagers carried his father's cold body out of the mountain, he cried and pushed his father, asking him why he ignored him.
Shi Feng felt a bitter feeling in his heart. He rubbed his eyes to calm himself down. He walked forward and gently took the baby eagle in his hands. The baby eagle was less than a month old and its body was still covered with fur. It could not stand steadily and was swaying.
Shi Feng gently stroked the young eagle's head, unbuttoned his clothes, put the young eagle in, and looked back at the two black eagle corpses. These black eagles had accidentally saved his life in Wulong Valley. As a gentleman would repay a favor, he would not pluck out their feathers.
Shi Feng wanted to bury their bodies, but the two bodies were too huge and he was unable to do so. Moreover, even if he buried them, the mountain was full of monsters and beasts, which would dig them out and eat them in a short time.
Forget it, Shi Feng shook his head and turned away.
When they returned to their residence in the Sword Forging Valley, the young eagle kept crying. Shi Feng was a hunter from the mountains and knew that the young eagle was hungry. It happened that he had hunted two antlered deer the day before and had not yet cleaned and skinned them. So he removed one of the deer legs, cut it into thin strips, and fed it to the young eagle little by little. After eating, the young eagle stopped crying.
Shi Feng found some hay and rags and made a nest for the young eagle in the corner. After settling the young eagle, Shi Feng felt tired and fell asleep.
I slept until the afternoon, and when I woke up I felt that my injuries had healed a lot.
He sat in the house and thought about the strange thing about the white gas again. He clearly saw the white gas flowing into his body and then disappearing, but he searched his whole body carefully again and still found nothing unusual.
He took out the items from the tiger-head buckle one by one, but found nothing extra. He also checked every piece of clothing on his body, and even stripped himself naked, examining his skin from head to toe, but found nothing unusual. He thought to himself, "What's going on? Is my vision blurry after being injured? No, I can see clearly! Besides, if it weren't for that senior in white, how could the giant eagle let me go so easily?"
Shi Feng thought about it over and over but couldn't figure it out. He thought to himself, forget it, I'm too ignorant. I'd better ask my master about this.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he heard a cold voice saying, "If you go to find Liu Yunzi, I will kill your master." Shi Feng was shocked and jumped up, "Who is it?" There was no one in the room. Shi Feng hurriedly opened the door, but there was no one outside.
Because Shi Feng wanted quiet, his house was located in a very remote place and there was no one around. The Sword Casting Valley was located at the mouth of a volcano, with red soil and rocks and almost no grass growing. Therefore, there was no place to hide around. Shi Feng looked around and concluded that the sound definitely did not come from outside the house.
He returned to the room and searched everywhere under the bed and table. Suddenly, the voice said, "Silly boy, stop looking. Grandpa is inside you!"
Shi Feng's body froze and he said, "What? You, you are in my body?" He suddenly discovered something strange. He could hear the voice very clearly, but there was no sound echoing in the room.
The voice said, "That's right, don't look for me anymore. You have no power and you can't find me at all." Shi Feng said, "Who are you? Why are you in my body?"
He suddenly felt that the voice seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it.
The voice said, "Don't worry about who I am. I'm only staying in your body temporarily, and I'll naturally leave this stinking shell of yours in the future."
The more Shi Feng listened, the more familiar the words became. In a flash, he remembered, "You, you are the four-tailed demon fox." When he was thirteen, he had gone to Hongfa Temple on Lushou Peak at night at the invitation of Taoist Danyang. It was there that Taoist Danyang had trapped the four-tailed demon fox in the Seven-Trick Pagoda. He had been there to hear the conversation between Taoist Danyang and the demon fox, and now he remembered that it was the demon fox who had spoken.
The voice chuckled twice, "Kid, you have a good memory. I am none other than your Grandpa Hu." Shi Feng carefully recalled the scene and asked in surprise, "Senior, weren't you killed by that blood puppet? Are you a ghost?"
Having said that, a chill ran down his spine.
The fox demon sneered, "What ghost? Nonsense! My physical body was destroyed and I just happened to fall at your feet. My spirit left my body and can only stay in your consciousness." Shi Feng asked in confusion, "What does it mean that the spirit left the body?"
The fox demon said, "The spirit is the spirit. The spirit is different from the body, but it must be placed in the body. No matter whether it is human or demon, once the body dies, the spirit will disappear within three breaths. But during these three breaths, if the spirit leaves the body and there is a suitable body, it can also stay in this body."
The more Shi Feng listened, the more shocked and angry he became. "You, are you talking about taking over someone else's body?"
When some powerful monks die, their consciousness and soul invade other monks and forcibly erase and replace the other person's consciousness, so that the body belongs to them. This is called possession of another body. Although the body of the monk whose body is possessed still exists, he is actually dead.
Everyone in the world of cultivation hates possessing another's body. Not only will one die, but one's body will also be enslaved by the other party. Therefore, cultivators would rather self-destruct their bodies than be possessed by another.
The fox demon snorted, "If I had taken over someone else's body, would you still be alive today?" Shi Feng breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Then why did you, senior, inhabit this junior's body?" The fox demon said, "It only took three breaths for your spirit to leave your body. The situation was urgent, so I didn't have time to look for you. And among those present, those two were Jindan-stage cultivators, and you're just an ordinary person. If I didn't enter your body, would I have entered theirs?"
Shi Feng then remembered that when the corpse of the fox demon fell beside him, he felt a faint chill entering his body, but he was only surprised at the time and forgot about it afterwards. Now he thought that it was the spirit of the fox demon that entered his body at that time.
The fox demon continued, "But don't panic, little one. Grandpa Hu is only borrowing your Spiritual Consciousness Palace temporarily. He won't do anything to you. Tsk tsk, you're a freak too. You were born with two Spiritual Consciousness Palaces. Grandpa will only stay in one temporarily, so it won't take up much of your space."
Shi Feng was speechless for a moment, then asked after a while, "What exactly is this Palace of Divine Consciousness that Senior is talking about?" The demon fox said, "The Palace of Divine Consciousness is your mind. The stronger the Palace of Divine Consciousness, the stronger your mental will will be. This has many benefits, and it can help you break through bottlenecks. The same amount of mana will give you greater control and power. But don't worry about these things, you don't have any mana. Besides, although you can do two things at once and are born with two Palaces of Divine Consciousness, your mental strength is really not that good."
Shi Feng asked, "Spiritual thoughts? That's something invisible?" The fox demon said, "That's not the case. You can't hear the voice, but you can hear what I say clearly. That's because Grandpa Hu is speaking to your consciousness. Well, it doesn't hurt to tell you, so that you don't keep talking to yourself. People outside will think you're crazy. Don't talk, close your eyes, relax, and just pretend you're in a dream. I can naturally hear whatever you say in your mind."
Shi Feng followed his instructions, sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and concentrated. Following the fox's instructions, he immersed his mind step by step. In the haze, he vaguely saw a small ball of white light. Gradually, it became clearer and he saw a young man in his twenties sitting in the white light.
Shi Feng had only seen the other person's back before, but when they met face to face, he found that the other person was the most handsome man he had ever seen in his life, with a face like a full moon, sword-like eyebrows and thin beard. The senior brother Wei he had met before was also handsome, but he was far inferior to the man in front of him.
Shi Feng muttered, "So you're so young, Senior." The fox demon sneered, "Your Grandfather Hu has lived for over 1,200 years, more than enough to be your great-grandfather's great-grandfather." Shi Feng was shocked, "You're actually 1,200 years old?"