
And this was the current Shen Xueyue. Standing with his trembling body agitated, both of his hands broke out in cold sweat as he squeezed the ends of his clothing cloth right in front of a woman who was either old or young, either, where the woman had three extremely sinister eyes and strange bone-white horns on both sides of her head.
The woman had very long hair that almost touched the ground in soft mint blue. The third eye is red and has no sclera because it is entirely blood red. While the pupil of the other two eyes, it is light lavender colored and almost similar to the white color of the sclera. Is the woman in front of him blind? Inner Xueyue. Because the woman's focus was like a blind man. Not at all blinking.
"Are you afraid to see me?" crush the woman with a soft and melodious voice, capable of making everyone's heart sleepy. Unlike the face that is beautiful but scary because of the three eyes of different colors. The woman smiled warmly.
"ah! I-I-ll" Shen Xueyue felt a little guilty for looking at the woman in such an exaggerated manner.
The woman still smiled gently not hurt, condoning Shen Xueyue's disrespectful actions towards her. In any case, this was the first time for an ordinary human like Shen Xueyue to see his other form of human figure out there.
"Shen Xueyue?" call the woman. Xueyue looked at him attentively. Not far from the woman's side, old lady Chu Yan stood looking at her. Behind Shen Xueyue, there was the figure of Zhu Guang and Lu Guan who had arrived from the human world accompanying him. The two accompanied her to meet the Goddess whom she knew from Zhu Guang in her nickname as Goddess Bai Huli. "I am calling you to this realm not without reason."
"Eh?!" Zhu Guang and Lu Guan glanced at Shen Xueyue silently as Xueyue gave a stunned shriek.
Bai Huli took a deep breath, exhaling slowly before returning to speak, "Destiny Princess Shen Xueyue who has the same name as you, as well as the owner of the body you are occupying has already reached her limit. And his soul was not the original owner of that body either. From here, can you catch what I mean?"
"Hm... M-maybe.. A little, hehehe.." His chortle was dry while scratching his non-itchy cheeks. In fact, he was a little dazed when he heard Bai Huli's words.
"Gtt!" zhu Guang's laughter was restrained. And Shen Xueyue could only glance at him sharply with annoyed bulging cheeks. However the man again normalized his expression when suddenly Bai Huli looked at him sharply as a warning.
Lu Guan was still as Shen Xueyue had known him back then. Stay calm and quiet. That makes him a woman's dream man. Unfortunately, Xueyue had her own criteria and Lu Guan was not her criterion. If Xueyue did not have the criteria on her life partner, Lu Guan would definitely be the first candidate before she chose Zhu Guang.
"That means that the body you occupy is your real body."
"Ah?! How did that happen?" shen Xueyue exclaimed stunned.
"This world, and your previous world are different. This world is not recorded in history. You certainly know that because you're learning about archaeology. I of course know all the things you've been through all this time, and it came from Zhu Guang as well as Lu Guan who always looked after you almost twenty-four hours a day so that at any time they could always report it to me." Bai Huli said, trying to explain in as much detail as possible. Shen Xueyue was shocked to learn a fact about her two best friends.
Does that mean that for 24 hours in a week Zhu Guang and Lu Guan always pay attention to it? How did that happen? Don't you think his secret didn't escape the scrutiny of both? Suddenly Shen Xueyue turned her head carefully and watched the two with a look of horror eyes, her body shuddering in horror involuntarily. However Lu Guan and Zhu Guang acted as if they knew nothing. They just shook their heads at a glance, looking at him like a fool who knew nothing.
Lu Guan and Zhu Guang were actually just monitoring Shen Xueyue's activities which were routinely seen and not included in Xueyue's own personal life. So even though the two were always watching, there were certain times where Xueyue got her own privacy activities without having Lu Guan and Zhu Guang supervise.
"But that's not what I want to confirm to you. Except for" Bai Huli got up from her throne, walking slowly closer to Xueyue who spontaneously stiffened her body from nervousness. As Xueyue blinked once, Bai Huli was already right in front of Xueyue's eyes at a very close distance.
Just as suddenly Xueyue moved back involuntarily, and Xueyue's face in a scowl held her breath. Bai Huli with her gentle and graceful movements aligned her face right before Xueyue's face. He touched Xueyue's neck chin as if propping it up. Her light lavender eyes narrowed Igu stared fixedly at Xueyue's eyes. It made Xueyue feel her body and scalp suddenly numb, she was also unable to move her body as she pleased.
"You... It really is very similar to my grandson Bai Feng." Bai Huli said. Xueyue's auditory senses twitched comically when she heard a name that seemed no longer unfamiliar to her. But he did not know where he had heard the name. Bai Huli's voice contained a very deep sadness when mentioning the name of her favorite grandson.
Xueyue wanted to ask, but her tongue suddenly felt faint and she could only gasp open her lid without being able to make a sound.
"You are the reincarnation of my grandson Bai Feng's own soul, he has chosen to be you but not in this world he can be reborn. He had to accept the punishment for having given up his life several times just to save a man he loved. Which he shouldn't have done because of his tribe's rules. It caused his soul to split into pieces and the souls were reincarnated. But Bai Feng's reincarnated souls could never last more than twenty years. So as to be able to make his souls reassemble into one, I asked Zhu Guang and Lu Guan to collect them. Including your soul before all of Bai Feng's souls united in Princess Shen Xueyue's body." Bai Huli sighed in despair.
"The soul that is reunited will experience rebellion. Cause all souls to fight for control of Shen Xueyue's daughter's body. In the end your soul wins. And the rest of the souls will fall asleep in your body."
For a while, Xueyue still did not want to believe what Bai Huli had said. But looking back that he was in this world caused by the interference of the woman before him and also his two best friends who turned out to be a demon, he could not help but believe this strange incident.
Bai Huli continued to speak impossible nonsense, but inevitably, Xueyue should be able to accept it. It lasted for quite a long time when Bai Huli told her the true origin of Xueyue.
"And... This is why Empress Yun Xieya can give birth to you. Originally, it was supposed that Empress Yun Xieya would give birth to a baby boy."
"Is it because of the mantou cake she accidentally ate while she was pregnant with Shen Xueyue's daughter?" xueyue asked interjected. He subconsciously glanced at the figure of Chu Yan behind Bai Huli before looking back at Bai Huli in front of him.
Now she knew, who the shabby old granny had met Empress Yun at that time.
"That's just one of them. But the truth is, behind all the events that happened, empress Yun Xieya herself was an indirect descendant of the human crossbreeding with the nine-tailed fox spirit. Yun Xieya had no idea that in fact his mother was one of the descendants of the fox spirit tribe that incarnated into a human to captivate the King in Shuixiang kingdom." Bai Huli again paused only to pick up a nearly depleted supply of oxygen. "Although the fox spirit blood flowing in Yun Xieya's body was very weak, yet he was still a half-foxy human. Merely, he did not have the ability to develop the strength of his fox spirit tribe."
"Am I not the same? It's even a very small chance of me having pure fox spirit blood, isn't it? My father was a human, my mother was half a fox whose blood from the fox's descendants only flowed very weakly. How can I become a fox spirit with pure blood?"
Lu Guan was stunned for the first time when he heard Shen Xueyue's rebuttal. His lips muttered Xueyue's name in a surprised tone. Zhu Guang was no longer surprised. In his heart, believing that the blood of his master Bai Feng alone was what made him thick and pure mysteriously.
"Bai Feng's blood is on your blood even though your mother only has weak fox spirit blood. All of that could happen. Nothing was impossible if Bai Feng wanted it. That's what a mantou cake that your mother carelessly ate." Shen Xueyue choked for the first time. "The kue mantou brought by Chu Yan, will actually be dedicated to one of the daughter-in-laws of the Hu Peng family who cannot give children. But Chu Yan accidentally dropped the mantou cake when he was hit by a carriage transporting your mother and the mantou cake ended up in the stomach of empress Yun who was pregnant with you back then."
The old woman named Chu Yan shook her head while sighing in frustration when recalling the events of a few years ago. At his first meeting with Yun Xieya. "That cake means nothing to an ordinary woman. The effect will only make it fertile and accelerate the process of making children. But if the mantou cake was eaten by humans who had demon spirit blood despite being very weak, the effect would even be very unexpected. It was like a magic lamp where you could rub it and something came out from inside the lamp. That something will grant you the one request you want. However, the difference is that the desired demand must be stronger than the demand desired by others for itself. But on the other hand, the effect of the cake could resurrect the pure bloodline of a mythical spirit beast."
"For example... My father wanted my mother to give birth to a baby girl and my mother wanted a baby boy?"
"like that. And the pure blood of the fox spirit could only rise to the baby he was carrying. Your mother will not be able to resurrect her again." Chu Yan's grandmother said. "If your father's wish is stronger than your mother's, then you will be born as your father wishes, if your mother is stronger, it will be the opposite. But if the desire is equally strong, then the two desires will fight each other and there will be no results other than a series. As a result, the two desires will coexist forever. And your father's will is stronger than your mother's."
"It... Very complicated." Xueyue muttered involuntarily with a face expression that was hard to read. Even he subconsciously scratched his head that did not itch.
The explanation from Chu Yan and Bai Huli slightly gave him a headache. But he was quite capable of understanding it. At least he understood what had happened to his appearance all along.
"And Xueyue's. You're actually incarnating as a fox demon spirit right now." Bai Huli's fingers formed a sword pose before she tapped Xueyue's forehead gently, creating a dazzling white light before Xueyue's body suddenly shrunk to a small size. Xueyue was not even aware of the change.
In the next instant, Xueyue's fists stared at the flat-faced figure of Bai Huli suddenly becoming taller and looking like a giant in her eyes.
"Hey! Why are you growing taller like a giant?!" xueyue. But he suddenly closed his lips with a surprised expression holding his breath. "Eh?! What's wrong with my voice?"
"Pff! Pfffft..fft.... Haha....!!" the curse laughter that came out from Zhu Guang's lips exploded upon seeing Xueyue's changed figure. Lu Guan slightly gasped before he could only hold back an amused smile at Xueyue's extremely adorable change before his expression turned flat again even though it was a waste.
"Hey!! What the fuck?! Why are you two also giants?!" as Xueyue spoke again, she even ignored her voice that turned into the typical voice of a five-year-old child. He looked back at Zhu Guang who continued to laugh out loud.
"Haha....!! You ⁇ , you... Pfftts.. Haha...." Zhu Guang pointed at Xueyue's figure and tried to explain what had actually happened, yet he could not bear to continue laughing.
"You, what are you?! Speak the truth, rotten deer!!" Xueyue snorted in annoyance when she saw that Zhu Guang had yet to stop laughing. In the end, his gaze fell on Lu Guan who was trying hard to hold back his smile.
"Guan Guan? You either?" Xueyue looked at Lu Guan in disbelief. Lu Guan shook his head softly with a flat but thin smiling face that only he knew, whether he was smiling or not. That made Xueyue even more upset. But suddenly, for some reason, he felt an intense itching around his face and all over his body. And there's something troubling his ass that's somehow touching the ground.
With a slow motion, Xueyue lowered her gaze about to see the current situation. He felt that he was actually sitting on the ground. And yet he lowered his gaze, his eyes were already wide-eyed as he tried to raise his hand.
But as a result, Xueyue was shocked by the dense white hairy legs of a dog. Xueyue tried to move her hand towards the left, and the hand she was trying to move was the same as the hairy leg she was looking at right now.
"Fur! What is this fur?!" Xueyue patted her face, then the head, then the ear that was supposed to be beside her face had now turned into above her head. His eyes increasingly glared at the terrified horror every time his hand switched places.
"What's going on?!" Xueyue circled around looking at her backside body. And he found something even more shocking. "TAILS!! GOOD GOD! WHAT'STHIS?! WHAT'S THIS?!"
"Haha!! Holy hooch! Xueyue, you're so funny! Haha...."
"Gdh..." Lu Guan could not stand it anymore and he exploded even though he was still trying to keep his laughter from exploding. Xueyue was indeed truly adorable with her new figure.
"YAAARRRGHHH!! GET MY BODY BACK TO HOW IT WAS! I DON'T WANT TO BE A FOX!! GIVE ME MY BEAUTIFUL FACE AGAIN!!"
Xueyue's body started to lose balance due to too much swirling around. With eyes beginning to twitch, Xueyue lost her footing and she was like a staggering drunkard. Before finally...
BRUGHY!!
"Aiii... I think I want to hug him. Tch! She's too adorable. Yes, Lu Guan." chirped Zhu Guang staring hungryly at Xueyue's new figure who had now turned into a snow-white furry fox, at the tip of the pointed ear and the tip of the tail is orange red. His eyes were the same as his eyes that had red lines as if eyeshadow.
Bai Huli walked so gracefully flying over, she slightly crouched down and took the unconscious body of the Xueyue Fox that was sprawled on the ground very gently. The woman carried him in the folds of her left hand and the other hand rubbed the fine fur on Xueyue's body full of affection.
"I'll take care of it. Lu Guan, Zhu Guang's. Still the same as before, the two of you I order to become Xueyue's personal bodyguards. Enter the palace with the identity of a soldier. Without your help, Xueyue would be very difficult to reorganize her new form in the future." Bai Huli gave the order impliedly through one brief look at the figure of Chu Yan who received the order in a deep bow before the old woman stepped down to do her duty. "you must guide him and keep an eye on him."
"Good Goddess." said Zhu Guang.
"And..." Bai Huli glanced at the two through her shoulders without intending to turn around, "there will be a Taoist priest coming to the Xueyue pavilion on the orders of King Shen Jinglong."
The facial expressions of Lu Guan and Zhu Guang instantly received a shock that left him jolted for a moment. They understood what to do when the priest came.
"The Taoist Priest would not reveal about Princess Shen Xueyue's soul disappearing because that soul had been replaced by the original soul. It would not jeopardize his fate. But his destiny, which was a fox demon spirit at the moment, would be very easily known due to Xueyue's ability that had not been able to suppress his change. Of course you know what you're supposed to do, right?"
"Certain Goddess. We understand."
"good. Let me take care of Xueyue first. You can leave now."
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The night is getting late in the demon world. When Xueyue started to enter the other world where old lady Chu Yan came from, it was already dusk. And now, it changed into the night when Lu Guan and Zhu Guang came out of the cave of the residence of Goddess Bai Huli.
But when examined again, the world in Hou kingdom and the spirit world has a significant difference in time and space.
Time in the spirit world rotates faster than time in the human world. If in the spirit world it changed days, in the outside world it only walked for one second. If the spirit world were to spend two days, in the human world it would only take two seconds not even two seconds.
Xueyue's departure can be said to spend months or even years living in the spirit world, but it only spends a few hours in the human world. That's what makes all things mystical tend to age hundreds of years faster than the human world.
The change in Xueyue's form required almost two weeks of recovery. In order to perfect the change in Xueyue's form that would be able to change that form, Bai Huli performed a kind of ritual behind closed doors that only herself and Chu Yan were in the altar room to carry out the ritual.
The ritual could not be disturbed by anyone so even the altar-room had to be sealed from the inside by Bai Huli with a seal that was complicated enough to not be easily destroyed.
"Lu Guan, you think... Is everything gonna work? Xueyue was clearly just an ordinary human being."
Lu Guan did not immediately respond to Zhu Guang. He also seemed to be busy with his own way of thinking. "If I don't remember wrongly, when Xueyue's body was injured and bleeding, the scent on her blood had a very strong rose scent. Unlike the half-human half-stealth Fox descendants, their blood was too weak that the scent was not as strong as Xueyue's."
For a moment, things became quiet. "Did you remember, when we first managed to find Miss Bai Feng's reincarnation?"
Zhu Guang was silent before replying, "we follow a very strong fragrance spreading in the air. And found Xueyue was the one who gave off the scent."
"Just right!" lu Guan said, "perhaps for ordinary humans in the modern world, the scent Xueyue caused appeared because she was wearing perfume. But for both of us, it's definitely not just perfume. It was the scent of pure blood belonging to the noble fox that only Miss Bai Feng had."
"If my guess is not wrong, far away in the land of Hou, there are some countries that need us mythical creatures as their life partners." hearing Zhu Guang's curse, Lu Guan chuckled.
"Do you think we're part of that mythological creature? Heh!" the man involuntarily laughed softly. And Lu Guan's hardness rubbed off on Zhu Guang who was also laughing.
The Hou Country had another realm where the fox demon spirits had lived for centuries. And Bai Huli herself was the Queen of all demons as well as the spirit that lived in the realm. Whether a deer demon like Zhu Guang, or a red-crowned white stork like Lu Guan, all fit into the rules of Goddess Bai Huli. Although the Fox is not part of mythology and is only known as a spirit, the Fox has always been known as the most beautiful spirit.
Meanwhile, in the Shandian kingdom located in the south, bordering the territory of the Hou kingdom, there are also other realms that are inhabited by the mythological creature Suzaku bird, it is often referred to as the Vermilion Bird. It looks like a Phoenix.
In the eastern part, inhabited by the mythological animal of the Azure Dragon. In the West, there are mythological animals of the white tiger. And the North, of course the Black Tortoise.
The four mythological animals are legendary mythological animals that have been famous for centuries that guard the four gates of the world. West, north, east, and south. They live according to the conditions of the seasons that often occur in each region.
While the territory was inhabited by the spirit Fox, it was surrounded by a vast stretch of territory. Where the territory is protected by four legendary mythological animals. That means, the fire kingdom's territory went into the south gate. It is guarded by Vermilion Bird.
Since Xueyue had just awakened the pure blood of the Nine-tailed Fox bloodline, she needed a very long time to be able to grow her tail.
While in the ritual room, Xueyue's body was floating in the air in a condition that was still unconscious. The tail grows from one tail to nine. It appeared to measure whether the Fox would have the chance to develop to its nine tails, or only partially. Dan Xueyue had a chance to become a pure noble-blooded Fox capable of growing nine tails later.
Approaching the final ritual, Xueyue's tail returned to its first form. It was only one tail, and its body slowly fell onto the altar stone very gently.
Bai Huli propped up her suddenly staggered body as she opened her eyes.
"Queen!" Chu Yan with a blink of an eye moved beside Bai Huli's body, helping her to stand up.
Bai Huli simply shook her head softly, holding back Chu Yan's hand that held onto her body. "I'm fine." Chu Yan was unable to say anything and simply stared at his Queen heartily.
The graceful woman smiled blandly at Xueyue's deeply asleep body, as Shen Xueyue's body moved on a slant with her head moving restlessly, Bai Huli's heart felt a warmth. Especially when Xueyue was delirious in her sleep with her lips twitching cutely. His sleep movements that were in the shape of a Fox were like a sleeping cat scratching its chin. Xueyue snored softly.
Chu Yan realized the silent glare of his Queen who was staring at Xueyue full of longing. Shen Xueyue would never be Miss Bai Feng. And miss Bai Feng was also not Xueyue even though she was indeed reincarnated into Xueyue.
But Miss Bai Feng's cheerful Xueyue figure made Chu Yan realize that Bai Feng's soul was still deeply attached to Shen Xueyue.
"Queen.." call Chu yan lirih.
"Observe him, Chu Yan. The two demons will not be able to withstand the surge of power from the Taoist priest for a long time."
"The Queen's servant."
"And... After Xueyue woke up, teach her how to transform into the appearance she wanted. Teach also how to use illusions on someone." after Chu Yan replied confidently, Bai Huli let out a tired sigh. The woman massaged her temple which suddenly throbbed and her gaze suddenly blurred. "I will rest and restore my strength. Don't let anyone see me for now. I left everything in the palace to you during my setback."
"Good Queen."
In one wave of hands, Bai Huli disappeared from the ritual room. Leaving behind the figure of Xueyue as well as Chu Yan.
Chu Yan turned his head to look at Xueyue at a glance, before he turned around and walked out of the ritual room.
When Chu Yan walked out of the ritual room, Lu Guan and Zhu Guang who were waiting in front of the door stood face to face with Chu Yan. Without them asking, their gazes were already capable of being read by Chu Yan. "I'll go find some medicinal plants. When Shen Xueyue woke up, wait for me to come home and watch Shen Xueyue."
"Good Elder." Zhu Guang said briefly, while Lu Guan simply lowered his head as a salute.
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To be Continued....