Turning his head and looking at the surrounding vegetation, Bai Yuan felt a little bitter in his heart. This wilderness was too real, not like an ordinary fantasy at all.
Looking at the aggressive posture of the spirit fox, it may be impossible to escape, so we can only stabilize the opponent first.
After briefly judging the situation, Bai Yuan secretly glanced at Monk Kongzhi and said with some hesitation:
"Well... I think you are right. Killing for life is a principle that the human race has preached since ancient times. It's just that the behavior is a little bit... excessive."
Bai Yuan chose his words carefully. In fact, he no longer cared about who was right or wrong at this moment. He just wanted to appease the two angry fellows opposite him so that he could escape as soon as possible.
Sure enough, after hearing Bai Yuan's words, the fierceness in the eyes of the Linghu couple also disappeared a lot.
Among them, Gong Linghu raised his chin provocatively toward the old monk and said in a sharp voice:
"Even a little guy passing by recognized what I did, old monk, what can you say?"
However, the old monk Kongzhi did not directly answer Gonghu's question. Instead, he still cast his gaze on Bai Yuan and said without joy or sorrow:
"Since this donor approves the behavior of these two people, he must also feel that the way of heaven is unfair?"
Kong Zhi's voice was not loud, but it frightened Bai Yuan and he did not dare to answer rashly.
The way of heaven is supreme, and practicing and understanding it is exactly the way of heaven. If you question the way of heaven, then you are not questioning your own Taoist heart?
Tao Miaozhen practitioners would not dare to do this, let alone a shallow person like him who has just entered the practice.
'I'm just a little demon who doesn't even have orthodox demon cultivation techniques. Why are you making things so difficult for me?'
Bai Yuan secretly complained in his heart, lowered his head, and replied in a voice like a mosquito:
"I didn't say that. God is the only one who judges everything fairly... Of course, what the two seniors did was right, they were just a little impulsive... They violated something..."
But Bai Yuan's conciliatory words obviously did not satisfy the old monk.
After half a minute of silence, the vast Buddha's light rose from the halo behind the head of the old monk Kongzhi, carrying an aura that calmed everything.
The old monk Kongzhi clenched the beads in his hand and sighed helplessly,
"Impulse is not the reason to explain the lives of hundreds of innocent people. It seems that what I thought was wrong.
The two Taoist friends have deep obsessions and have gone astray. In this case, it is up to the old monk to subdue you with his own hands, and then gradually heal them."
As soon as he finished speaking, the Buddhist beads in the old monk Kongzhi's hand suddenly flung out, and the beads scattered. Hundreds of Buddhist beads were like balls of light. The Buddha's light bloomed and instantly enveloped half of the mountain.
"The Buddha, the King of Light, saves the suffering, saves all the evils of sentient beings, and redeems all the suffering in the world... The Buddha's Dharma is immeasurable...salvation...Hanyi..."
The majestic Buddha's voice came from the void, and all the animals in the mountains and forests who heard the Buddha's voice were influenced, stopped all activities, and knelt in various twisted postures in the direction of the old monk Kongzhi.
Bai Yuan suppressed the urge to kneel down in his heart and looked at the old monk Kongzhi who had transformed into the fierce flames of Mingwang with a horrified expression. He was so powerful even before he made a formal move. If he really got into a fight, his life would not end.
And judging from the posture of the bald donkey, the attack seemed to include him.
"Balu, my husband and I are communicating politely with you, are we really afraid of you?"
When the spirit fox couple saw Kong Zhi take action, they were not to be outdone. The strange and terrifying fox fire rose ragingly. The two spirit foxes joined forces, and the momentum of the confrontation was evenly matched with the Buddha's light.
Seeing that the battle was about to break out, Bai Yuan didn't care too much. He channeled the few demonic powers in his body and ran behind him with his tail between his legs.
When it was just thinking about the old monk's question, although it pretended to hesitate, it was not idle. Taking advantage of the break in thinking, it secretly observed the surrounding terrain.
There are two paths going down the mountain here, one is close to the old monk and the other is close to Linghu. The rest of the place is full of bushes and thorns.
If you want to escape the battlefield quickly, it is undoubtedly the most suitable way to take these two paths. However, the situation is urgent, Bai Yuan did not hesitate to choose the path close to the Linghu couple to escape.
After all, everyone is a fox tribe, and I even followed their wishes and said good things, so I have to let myself live anyway, right?
'Master, save me!'
Feeling the waves of air coming from behind, Bai Yuan felt that he had never missed Chai Jiangcui so much. If there was a master here, who would dare to question him.
Bai Yuan ran away with all his strength. In just ten seconds, he had already ran hundreds of meters away, seemingly far away from the fighting range between the two sides.
But before it could relax, the scene in front of it suddenly began to change again.
A feeling of dizziness hit Bai Yuan, and Bai Yuan instantly fell to the ground weakly. It took several seconds before it regained control of its body.
But when it opened its eyes, it was stunned by the scene in front of it.
It didn't know when it had left the forest and was being imprisoned in a cage made of bamboo strips.
Just when it was trying to figure out the situation, a heartbreaking pain hit it, almost stopping it from breathing.
'This is not my body?'
Looking at the fiery red hair on his body, Bai Yuan was a little surprised. But the limbs of this body seemed to have been broken, and it couldn't move even slightly.
"Sister, are we going to die? When will our parents come to save us?"
A weak and slightly crying voice suddenly came from behind, almost making Bai Yuan tremble.
It squirmed, turned its head with difficulty, and found a young red fox with broken limbs lying behind it.
The little red fox had tears in its eyes, and its whole body could not stop trembling with fear.
Although he didn't know the other person, for some reason, this body seemed to have an inexplicable affinity for the little red fox.
'This... I am not possessed by the Linghu couple, am I?'
These scenes made Bai Yuan's heart skip a beat, and he came up with a bad guess.
"...Don't be afraid, my parents might be on their way here now."
Seeing the frightened look in the little red fox's eyes, Bai Yuan couldn't help but comforted him, although he knew that the Linghu couple might not come so soon.
But now it is all speculation, and there is still a glimmer of hope.
Waiting is always torturous. As time goes by, the little red fox becomes even more spiritless, probably due to excessive blood loss, and Bai Yuan's heart also becomes heavier and heavier.
As the sun set in the west, the door of the courtyard slowly opened, but what came in was not the Linghu couple, but a burly man holding a butcher's knife.
The big man took out a whetstone from the corner, sharpened the knife, and whispered:
"The skins of these two foxes are really top quality. I can exchange them for silver at the market the day after tomorrow, and then I can propose marriage to the swallow.
After so many years, I finally got good luck... Well, I have to go to the mountain temple to pay my respects and thank the mountain god. Maybe the mountain god gave this to me out of kindness after seeing me as a bachelor for so many years..."
The rustling sound of the whetstone and the sharp knife made the little red fox tremble uncontrollably. But Bai Yuan had no time to care about it. The only thing it was praying for now was that it would not die in the story.
Niu Er took a rag, carefully wiped the butcher knife, looked at the somewhat reflective surface, and nodded with satisfaction.
"That's almost it. If you cut it like this, it won't pull the fur."
The bamboo cage was opened, and before the little red fox had time to call for help, Niu Er grabbed him out.
"Sister, save me!"
The little red fox struggled and screamed in fear, but Niu Er, a human, couldn't understand it at all. He thought it was the dying cry of a beast.
"Oh, the little thing is quite capable of struggling."
Looking at the red fox that almost bit him several times, Niu Er raised his eyebrows and stabbed the butcher knife directly into its chest.
The blade slipped along the gap, and the red fox whose belly was disemboweled instantly lost strength and was dying.
Niu Er skillfully manipulated the butcher's knife, and in about ten minutes, he completely peeled off the red fox's fur, and even cleaned the internal organs in the carcass.
Although fox meat is not very tasty, it is meat after all and cannot be wasted.
Bai Yuan watched helplessly as his kind was skinned and boned in front of him, and he felt extremely angry in his heart.
But the weakness of the body gradually turned anger into despair. The little red fox died, and it was its turn next moment.
Seeing Niu Er grab himself, the blood of the same kind even stained its fur, Bai Yuan tried to fight back, but it was still in vain.
The butcher's knife quickly enlarged in front of his eyes. Even though he was prepared in his heart, Bai Yuan's pupils still shrank suddenly.
"dying!"
However, the moment the blade approached, a familiar sword sound like the sounds of nature suddenly exploded in its mind.
Zheng——
The sound of the sword filled the sky, the expression on Niu Er's face froze, the butcher's knife disappeared, and the whole world began to collapse.
Bai Yuan only felt a slight trance, came to his senses again, and was back in the Jushan Building.
‘That sword cry——Water Moon Sword! This master’s back-up plan left in my body?!’
After narrowly escaping from death, the horror in Bai Yuan's eyes has not completely dissipated. Looking around, he saw that all the diners in the building had fallen to the ground and were unconscious, and nearly half of them had lost their breath.
The young scholar on the storytelling table had left at some point, and the entire Jushan Building seemed quiet and strange.