In midsummer, the days are extremely long. The four of them waited until around nine o'clock in the evening, and then the sky gradually became dark.

Zhao Laowai looked at the sky, and then said to Li Chen and others: "It's almost time. Now I will do this to look for traces of the old fox."

As he spoke, he stood up, came to the altar, closed his eyes, stamped his right foot on the ground, turned his right hand into a sword finger, and dragged his left hand to his chest. He completed the whole set of movements in one go, and chanted in his mouth: "The Taishang God has infinite adaptability.

Exorcise evil spirits and enchantments, preserve your life for life, gain access to immortal spirits, wisdom will last forever, your mind will be at peace, your three souls will be eternal, your soul will not fall, and you will be as anxious as the law!"

After reciting the incantation, Zhao Laowai picked up the mahogany sword, danced two sword flowers back and forth, then stuck a piece of yellow talisman paper on the altar and stood it up to his chest.

Qing paused for about ten seconds with his eyes closed, and then said: "With my god, call up to the jade girl, and take the ominous photo. Climbing the rock crack, wearing a seal. Wearing a canopy on the head, walking on tiptoe, holding Liujia on the left.

, Youwei Liuding. There is the Yellow God in front, and Yue Zhang behind. The divine master kills without avoiding the powerful. He first kills the evil ghosts, and then kills the night light. Why the gods don't subdue, and how can the ghosts dare to take the lead? Hurry is like a law!"

As soon as he said the command word, the yellow talisman suddenly burst into flames, which was very miraculous. Then, Zhao Laowai shook his peach wood sword, and the talisman's fire was fixed in the air: "Boy, get ready.

Come on, let's follow this fireball in a while, it will take us to where the old fox is." Li Chen nodded, and stood up with Bai Lingling and Qin Yue, staring closely at the fireball.

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Zhao Laowai turned his right hand into a sword finger again, held it with his left hand, and shook his hands in front of his chest. Suddenly he glared sharply, his fingertips instantly touched the ball of fire floating in the air, and shouted loudly: "

Lead the way!" The fireball heard the sound and slowly floated out of the courtyard.

Zhao Laowai said: "Hurry up and follow me. This fireball waits for no one. If you lose me, this trick will be in vain."

The fireball wasn't flying very fast, but it didn't go through the door and floated directly along the top of the wall. Li Chen had no choice but to jump over the wall with it.

Bai Lingling and Qin Yue were actually able to jump over together, but due to the girl's reserve, they did not jump with Li Chen and followed Mr. Zhao around the courtyard gate to chase him out.

Li Chen followed the fireball closely and found it particularly interesting. The fireball seemed to be someone's conscious mind. Whenever it reached a fork in the road, it would stop first, as if it was identifying the direction, and wait until it was determined.

After that, it continued to drift forward.

Li Chen felt something special, so he asked Zhao Laowai: "Uncle Zhao, does this fireball have its own mind? Why does it feel like it knows the way?"

Zhao Laowai shook his head and said: "It's just a talisman, how can it have its own thoughts? I just used the talisman to attract the spiritual energy of the world, and then extracted a trace of the smell left by the old fox, and borrowed the talisman.

Use the spiritual energy to locate the old fox, so that you can find its traces."

Bai Lingling also asked: "Then why do you have to light the talisman? Can't it still be used without lighting it?"

Zhao Laowai said: "That's different. This fire has a fire spirit. The aura between the fire spirit and the heaven and earth can rely on each other and make it fly. That's why this talisman paper has not burned out after burning for so long.

The reason is complete. Another important point is that when the spiritual power in the spell is used up, the fire can gradually become smaller, which can also remind the caster."

"Oh!" Bai Lingling said, "I thought I lit the talisman on fire just to look good, but it turns out there are two other reasons."

Zhao Laowai said: "Every action in casting a spell is necessary for its own reason. You can't do it just because it looks good, otherwise it will be meaningless."

As he spoke, the talisman fire floated to a hill, and then circled twice in the air. The flames immediately dimmed, and then turned into black ash with a roar and dispersed.

Zhao Laowai said: "The spiritual power on the talisman has been used up, but we have found the location of the old fox. It should be in this area. Let's search separately. In this way, I will go around this hill and look to the left. You three

Little guy, go to the right and shout if you find it."

Not to mention how Zhao Laowai was looking for the old fox, Li Chen and the other two people hadn't walked very far when they suddenly saw a black hole about half a man's height on the lower right side of the hill.

Bai Lingling twitched her nose twice and said, "I smell a lot of irritation. I guess that old fox should be here."

Hearing what she said, Li Chen seemed to smell a smell, and he asked half-jokingly: "Lingling, you are also a 'Fox Fairy', why don't you have that smell on your body?"

Hearing what he said, Bai Lingling's face turned red and she said, "Didn't you hear what Uncle Zhao said, these foxes are not raised by foxes and ghosts, so if they are strong in yang energy, they will naturally have a taste.

For example, I am a white fox, and my body does not lack Yin soul, so I have no taste."

In fact, Li Chen knew the truth behind this, but he was just teasing Bai Lingling. Qin Yue said at this time: "Lingling is so innocent and cute, how can you still bear to tease her? You really have a heart."

Li Chen said: "If you don't say anything anymore, I'll call Uncle Zhang to come over."

Before he could shout out, Qin Yue grabbed him and said, "Don't shout yet. Foxes like this, which are more than a hundred years old, are the most cunning. If there is any danger, they will run away immediately. It will be difficult to find them then. This way

, I'll call Uncle Zhang over, you and Lingling are watching here, if the old fox runs out, you can still shout in time."

Li Chen thought that this was also a solution, so he nodded to her and said, "Okay, you go and come back early." Qin Yue nodded and started walking in the opposite direction to find Zhao Laowai.

Li Chen asked Bai Lingling: "Lingling, do you think you can fight the old fox inside?"

Bai Lingling thought for a while and said: "Generally, the old foxes who can cultivate fox jade must be at least two hundred years old. Their round light technique is very powerful. I don't dare to say that they will definitely be able to defeat them."

.I’m talking about people like us who rarely have disputes.”

Li Chen asked: "Then if it sees you, will it recognize you as one of its kind?"

Bai Lingling said: "You shouldn't be able to tell, because I am completely human now, but my soul is still in the shape of a fox. But this is not certain. If the fox jade of this old fox is thicker and thicker, it should be visible.

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Li Chen then asked: "By the way, what exactly is the fox jade you are talking about?"

Bai Lingling said: "Whether it is a human or an animal, if you practice breathing and breathing Qi for a long time, particles of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will form inside. Buddhists call them relics, and Taoists call them inner elixirs. And because we foxes lack the Yin soul,

, if the yin and yang are not balanced, the elixir cannot be practiced, and the texture of the particles is similar to that of stone, so it can only be called jade."

Li Chen suddenly realized it and said, "Then it looks like what's in your body must be the inner elixir."

Bai Lingling said: "I have been practicing in ancient tombs since I was a child. The yang energy has been smoothed out long ago and the yin energy is sufficient, so I can cultivate the inner elixir. Now that I have obtained the nine-turn golden elixir on Guanyang Mountain, the province

After doing a lot of qi-taking exercises, the inner elixir has been refined long ago, and it is much purer than ordinary foxes. Otherwise, I would not have been able to cultivate into human form so quickly."

Before Li Chen could speak, suddenly, bursts of red light flashed out from the black hole. Li Chen and Bai Lingling looked at each other, as if they had reached a consensus, and got into the black hole one after another.

The black hole didn't look very big from the outside. If you didn't know better, you would have thought it was a dog hole. However, after entering, it became wider and wider, and its shape was like a trumpet. The two of them didn't go far.

You can now stand up, and it is getting wider and wider. Even if two people walk side by side, it is not a problem.

"What on earth is this place? Why does it seem to be a place where people live?" Due to the faint red light, the things inside can be seen clearly. Li Chen found that this should be a stone chamber, just like a martial arts novel.

It's like a secret room for martial arts practitioners.

"Is this a place where experts from outside the world live?" Li Chen asked.

Bai Lingling looked around and said: "This may have been a place where people lived in the past, but it probably isn't now. If your guess is correct, it must be the place where the old fox practiced."

At this time, the red light flashed even more fiercely. Li Chen and Bai Lingling followed the direction of the red light, and saw in a large stone room a large red-furred fox about half a man tall.

It sat like a human in the middle of the ground, and the piece of broken jade was placed flatly in front of it.

It sat cross-legged on the ground with its two hind legs, its two front paws wrapped around its abdomen, its head slightly raised, and its eyes closed tightly, as if it were an old monk in meditation. The flashes of red light came from its mouth.

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Bai Lingling whispered to Li Chen: "This old fox must be swallowing fox jade to absorb the essence of the moon, reduce the yang energy, and then combine it with the broken jade to make the inner elixir."

Hearing what she said, Li Chen was a little anxious and said: "Then stop it quickly. If it releases the evil spirits in the broken jade, things will be bad. Maybe we will all die here."

Bai Lingling said: "Don't be anxious. If we act now, the old fox will definitely run away, and we will have no way to catch up with it. We should wait until it spits out the fox jade before taking action. Then we will be sure.

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As soon as Bai Lingling finished speaking, she saw the big red-furred fox's big mouth open, and then a crystal with edges and corners, like a gem, shining red slowly rose up from its throat!
Chapter completed!