Pu Zixuan only knew that before his great-grandfather moved to Lijiang to settle down, he was a native of Henan. He did not want his ancestor Pu Songling to live in Pujiazhuang, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province, further north. All the stories began from there.

In the 35th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, that is, in 1696 AD, Pu Songling, who was 56 years old, was still strong and had been engaged in the work of subduing demons for a long time. At that time, the land of China was in an era of rampant monsters. Monsters who were originally living among the mountains and ridges were hard to find their whereabouts, frequently entering and leaving human society and wantonly invading the people of the world.

One day, a huge monster with a human-faced wolf body broke into the village in Hongzaozhuang near Pujiazhuang and launched an attack on the villagers. Wherever the monster went, countless casualties and wounded in the whole village, and the villagers fled everywhere in screaming. Among them, a mother who was running away with a baby and the man next to him became the new target of the werewolf.

The werewolf's legs and feet were as fast as lightning, and they caught up with three people on the mountain road beside the village. Before the woman could react, the werewolf had already knocked down the woman from behind and held the baby in her mouth.

The woman shouted in panic: "Please let the child go, please!" Although her voice was extremely miserable, the werewolf had no mercy at all. Within a few mouthfuls, the baby had become the object in her belly.

The woman was heartbroken and in grief, she picked up a stone on the side of the road and smashed the werewolf in the head, shouting: "You monster, give me my child, give me my child!"

The werewolf was angry. After swallowing the baby completely, he immediately pinched the woman's neck with his claws. With a little force, the woman died on the spot.

Seeing this, the man was so scared that he collapsed on the ground, trembling and begged: "Don't kill me, please, don't kill me!"

The werewolf threw away the woman's body, raised his claws and was about to attack the man, but Pu Songling, who passed by Hongzaozhuang, happened to arrive and shouted: "Monster, stop!"

The werewolf was stunned, turned to look at Pu Songling, and said in a voice that was neither human nor ghost: "You are the purifying messenger."

When the man saw the savior, he quickly got up and ran behind Pu Songling and begged: "Mr. Liuquan, please save me!"

Pu Songling shouted to the werewolf: "You do many evil things and you should go to the eighteen levels of hell after death!"

The werewolf said with a full evil spirit: "Damn it you, the purifier, as long as you give me your heart, I will let this man go today."

Although the purifying messenger is the nemesis of the monster, there is no necessary restraint relationship between the individual purifying messenger and the monster. Whoever wins to death depends on the ability of both parties. Therefore, the werewolf's provocation to Pu Songling is not overestimating his ability.

There was no more to talk between the two. The werewolf had already raised the demonic power to a sufficient height. After a moment, its red aura spread all over its body, causing sand and stones to fly around. The werewolf opened its fangs and roared, and rushed straight towards Pu Songling.

Pu Songling calmly faced the werewolf and exerted a little force. He saw a sky blue aura gathering in his hands. He raised his hand and a blue light beam was released from his hand, directly piercing through the werewolf's body. The werewolf immediately fell to the ground.

The werewolf spitting blue blood in big mouthfuls and said in surprise: "Such a strong purifying power... who are you?"

"Liuquan lay Buddhist, Pu Songling is the same."

The werewolf said relievedly: "You... turned out to be the famous Pu Songling... I don't know Mount Tai, but being able to die at your hands is considered dead."

Pu Songling asked sternly: "Why do you hurt so many lives?"

The werewolf responded weakly: "Hungry..."

Pu Songling felt sad. In recent years, due to war, natural disasters, and monster disasters, the land of Shandong was in short supply everywhere. Even he had not been able to eat enough for several days. He could understand the situation of this monster, but hurting people's lives was a matter of harming the heavens and reason. He shouted: "You evil wolf, you have injured ten lives in total, and you must go to hell to atone for your sins! After reincarnation, I want you to save twenty lives before you can get rid of it." After saying that, he muttered something in his mouth, and the werewolf cut off his anger at the sound of chanting the spell.

When the villagers saw that the monster was dead, they rushed to thank Pu Songling. Someone took out bacon and sausages as a thank-you gift, and Pu Songling refused them all. Although he was already poor, these villagers' lives were not much better than him. He always believed that God gave him this unique purifying power to uphold justice and eliminate harm for the people, rather than earning money.

On this day, Pu Songling was just going up the mountain to collect herbs. After saying goodbye to the villagers, he continued to walk up the mountain. From time to time, he heard a shrill cry of "quacking", and he concentrated a little, feeling a faint demonic aura.

Pu Songling walked into the woods in the direction of screams and demonic energy. On the ground, a young nine-tailed fox was being pinched by a trapped animal, and sky blue blood was oozing out of the wound.

"Oh, what a cute little monster!" Pu Songling carefully opened the trap and rescued the little fox demon, saying, "Although you are a monster, I can't feel your evil spirit at all. As long as you have never done anything that harms the sky, you should not be punished." After that, Pu Songling held up the little fox demon, cut a hole in his right forearm with his left hand, secretly used the power of purification to transport his blood into the little fox demon's wound, then pulled off a piece of rag on his clothes, bandaged the little fox demon, gently put it in the backpack, and continued to move forward. The little fox demon immediately stopped screaming in pain and laughed "giggled".

At night, during the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling and his wife Liu discussed the future of the little fox demon. Pu Songling suggested: "Anyway, our son is not around, so just raise her as a daughter."

Liu is three years younger than Pu Songling. He has always been Pu Songling's wife's wife. He obeys his opinions. This time he said in embarrassment: "Good, good, but she is a monster after all. Now everyone knows that you are their benefactor to subdue demons. Once you know that you have raised monsters, you will be unable to argue."

Pu Songling smiled and said, "Pure monsters are usually like monsters. You can see at a glance that it takes a lot of demonic power to become human and cannot last long. However, once the monster receives human blood transfusion, it will become a half-demon and maintains a human appearance for a long time. As long as you don't deliberately turn into a monster, you will never be seen through. If you don't believe it, come with me."

The two of them came to the woodshed together and saw that the little fox demon in the back basket had indeed changed into a human form, like a girl about one year old, with only her pointed ears not changing yet. Pu Songling said: "Look, I guess by tomorrow morning, this ear should become a human ear."

When the little fox demon saw the two old people coming, he jumped up and down in his backpack excitedly, and vomited intermittently: "Thank you... Thank you..."

When Liu saw the cute girl, he was so happy that he couldn't stop talking. He thought for a while and said, "I told her that this is the daughter of her cousin's family who fled from Shanxi. I thought of her a name, Chen Shuqing, how about it?"

When Pu Songling heard this, he hugged Liu in his arms with relief: "Shuqing? What a good name! I knew that no matter what I do, you will definitely support me in the end. Thank you, with you, I, Pu Songling, will be worth my life."
Chapter completed!