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Chapter 326 Earth Demon Ginseng Field, Fox Clan History

"So why do we have to become like this?"

Wei Qingye—no, perhaps he should be called Di Qingye—had now transformed into a black fox.

Even though it has transformed into a fox, it still retains its undeniable heroic spirit. It is quite rare to see a black fox swaggering around with a bamboo sword.

Li Ye transformed into a white fox, which displeased him because perhaps white itself possessed a certain holy and strange allure.

He had tried his best to appear more ordinary, but his softly glowing fur and the inherent charm of the fox clan still made him exceptionally dazzling.

Anyway, after walking for a short while, quite a few foxes had already set their sights on them, and some even tried to force-feed them a lot of local specialties...

Both men and women are included.

Even the young foxes would give the food they caught to this "big brother," which suggests that these Earth Wish Foxes are quite friendly.

He looked around at the streets with a strange expression. The streets were full of various foxes setting up stalls and hawking their wares. Most of the things they sold were fruits and vegetables, and meat was rarely seen.

Why does it appear that way in the outside world?

As for Chen Mo, he transformed into a gray fox, and among the three particularly conspicuous foxes—one black, one white, and one red—he seemed to have disappeared, which greatly displeased Chen Mo.

He glanced at Wei Qingye and said, "After all, we are going to the most important ginseng field of the Earth Wish Fox Clan. Although my junior brother and I have already sent out the message jade talisman, it will still take a while for our senior brothers and uncles to arrive."

It wouldn't be good if they found out.

It's better to be careful.

Li Ye agreed, saying, "The axe phantom that appeared in Di Xia's eyes might be an unprecedented spiritual treasure. It will definitely take some effort to find it."

He already had a guess.

That thing might be the "God Axe that splits the heavens and earth," right?

Although it's definitely a counterfeit, you can tell just how special it is just by hearing the name.

The Lotus Lantern and the Heaven-Opening Axe... tsk.

He gazed at the magnificent rainbow-colored cave, quite looking forward to seeing what he would see soon.

However, they hadn't taken more than a few steps.

Di Xia suddenly started trembling, and his big tail popped open.

He whispered, "My lords...they, they've arrived!"

On the street not far away, you can see...

Several brightly colored foxes with exceptionally soft, even flowing fur were swaggering along.

Especially the hair on its head, it was practically flying in the wind.

Despite being just a fox, he exuded the air of an arrogant and spoiled young master.

They looked at the items on the stalls on both sides, picked them up and ate them directly, without caring whether they belonged to someone else or not.

The foxes who set up stalls dared not speak out against their anger.

What's even more infuriating is that they were pointing and making comments while they were eating:
"The flavor of this Earth Spirit Peach is too bland."

"Is it because they're reluctant to use the spiritual spring water, or are they out of spirit stones? How dare they serve up such pickled rabbit meat?"

"Pah, this is awful! I knew your inferior bloodline couldn't produce anything good!"

Clearly, within the Earthly Wish Cave Heaven, the purity of one's bloodline represents everything—

This is not hard to understand. Spirit beasts value bloodlines. Compared to humans who can cultivate as long as they have a spiritual root, spirit beasts with impure bloodlines are much, much weaker than their own kind.

In the Spirit Race, where strength reigns supreme, the stronger naturally occupy the higher positions. Through generations of inheritance, bloodline has come to hold the highest position.

The few fox-clan playboys suddenly seemed to sense something.

They looked this way.

The first thing you see is Di Xia trembling.

The one that seemed to be the leader, a blue fox with fur as deep as blue jade, laughed and said, "Oh, isn't this little brother Di Xia?"

I just said that.

He suddenly noticed the white fox that Li Ye had transformed into.

Not only him, but the remaining few fox clan playboys also noticed Li Ye.

Just a little bit different.

Li Ye almost wanted to punish them with a bolt of heavenly lightning.

Unexpectedly, their expressions immediately turned serious, and they bowed very carefully.

“This…brother.”

"You must be a direct descendant of the Mother Goddess!"

"Such beautiful fur, so gorgeous..."

Wei Qingye and Chen Mo, who had been holding their hands and about to make a move, exchanged a glance, then smiled with interest and watched the show with their arms crossed.

Li Ye: “…”

He gave a forced smile.

Or we might as well just make a scene.

Let's skin and gut these things first. Anyway, the Heavenly Nail of Jianmu has already been driven in, so this cave is not going to escape us.

Fortunately, he did so before he could make a move.

The blue fox finally regained some of its senses and bowed respectfully, inviting, "Brother, your pure bloodline will surely awaken the treasure sealed within the lotus pond."

Even if you only acquire a sliver of its power, you will surely be able to roam the world freely!

Oh?
Li Ye was no longer angry.

If we could just take the things away first, we wouldn't have to waste so much effort.

Moreover, he always felt that these foxes were being too attentive.

Are you trying to scheme against him?
Or.

A thought struck him, and after observing the blue fox carefully for a while, he immediately understood what was going on.

Then he smiled slightly, his fox-clan-like peach blossom eyes tilting slightly upwards, shimmering with a bright, watery charm, yet without a hint of coquetry. Instead, they seemed like sunshine pouring down, bringing clear skies everywhere: "Alright."

Then the few spoiled fox clan members surrounded him and led him forward, their words filled with flattery.

They're from the fox clan.

Both bloodline and appearance are quite important.

However, after Li Ye transformed, he possessed both the pure spiritual energy and celestial appearance that came from the heavens, making the other two True Immortals mere foils.

However, they weren't angry and continued to communicate using their divine senses:
"These foxes don't seem to have any malevolent spirits, and they don't seem to be bad people."

"So the evil deeds committed by the Earth Wish Fox Clan outside have nothing to do with them, or is there some hidden story?"

"It's probably related to that treasure. If they keep causing trouble for outsiders, it must be to alleviate the internal conflicts within the clan."

To be honest, they weren't nervous at all.

I even felt a little relaxed.

This mood persisted until several fox clan playboys led them to a vast ginseng field.

This is the ginseng field.

They planted only earth ginseng.

The ginseng roots with human faces sensed someone approaching, their eyes slightly shifting. They came from all directions, and their convergence created an indescribable sense of dread.

Logically speaking, the ginseng field should be the place with the most pure spiritual energy, but it is full of earth demon ginseng, which, as the name suggests, can gather a trace of demonic energy.

What's even more unbearable is the pervasive stench of body odor in the air, like wisps of smoke, clinging to all the earth demon ginseng and extending to the deepest part of the ginseng field.

Li Ye deliberately frowned slightly.

When he first subdued the Earth Demon Ginseng, he saw that it was controlled by "body odor," but he never expected that so many others were also being controlled.

With so many Earth Demon Ginsengs, even if each one only produces a tiny bit of demonic energy, the combined effect would be no small matter.

Blue Fox noticed the change in Li Ye's expression and boasted:
"Hehe." "Brother, you must have just finished your cultivation in the secret realm."

"This is the most important place for our Earth Wish Fox Clan. The treasure left by our ancestors would have been dormant long ago if it weren't for the offerings of these Earth Demon Ginseng."

He seemed to become increasingly excited after arriving here.

It couldn't wait to grab Li Ye's... paw, and then it ran forward on all fours.

His power seemed to be related to wind and space. A whirlwind surrounded him, and after a moment he arrived at a lotus pond surrounded by smoke, or rather, body odor.

The lotus pond was about nine acres in size, and it was planted entirely with a jade-colored lotus, which stood tall and graceful like lamps. But in the very center of each lotus seedpod, the flesh and soul of a fox were burning...

It's like lighting a sky lantern.

The foxes all had their arms outstretched, embracing the sky.

A wisp of fire was burning faintly overhead.

The fuel is their trapped souls and the essence of their bodies.

The firelight was exceptionally bright, almost resembling the light of the Lotus Lamp, but within its compassionate glow lay a lingering, inescapable aura of darkness.

Countless lotus lanterns and countless foxes surrounded a stone at the very center of the lotus pond, on which an ancient axe was stuck diagonally, radiating an indescribable terrifying power.

It seemed that even the heavens and the earth trembled under its spiritual pressure.

That is, when Li Ye looked at the axe with "surprise".

Blue Fox suddenly made a move.

The sharp claws viciously reached out and grabbed directly at Li Ye's head, or rather, the top of his head.

If this is implemented, they'll definitely be dragged out and have their brains splattered.

But the moment he made his move, the surrounding demonic energy suddenly seemed to have found its master, transforming into countless thorny vines that bound the blue fox tightly.

"you……"

Blue Fox was terrified and immediately tried to detonate his demon core.

But the demonic energy had already invaded his body, and he had no control over his body at all. He could only lie limply on the ground, looking at Li Ye with horror.

"So you're Di Xia's brother, right?"

"Um...and your parents too."

Li Ye pointed to two foxes in the distance that had been set ablaze with lanterns. One was red and the other was light blue. Although they were just foxes, one could still see their "robustness" and "femininity".

Others might not have been able to see the deeper layers, but after Li Ye arrived here, he controlled the demonic energy and also sensed their bloodlines. Sure enough, they were exactly the same as the blue fox and Di Xia.

“You’re not a member of the fox clan, are you?” Blue Fox quickly calmed down and said with certainty, “You are a cultivator from the Four Seasons Sect.”

"Correct."

There is nothing to hide.

"I am Lingye Zhenren of the Four Seasons Sect."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the bizarre lotus pond, pondered for a moment, and then spoke again: "You have been using flesh and blood and souls as wicks to sacrifice or paralyze that axe, haven't you?"

Blue Fox's feelings were complicated at this moment.

To be honest, he was actually very happy.

The situation inside the Earth Wish Cave Heaven is completely... "frozen," and it's not something he can shake with a little effort.

Over the years, in order to protect his troublesome younger brother, he has even done some evil things that he himself did not want to do, and made his brother hate him so much.

But what could he do?

There is always a reason why someone is pitiful – he was pitiful for losing his parents, but he became hateful because he had to become an accomplice.

If this isn't done, his brother's bloodline will be discovered sooner or later, and he will definitely be sent here to be made into lamp wicks as well.

Thinking of this, he closed his eyes.

Then he revealed everything he knew.

In terms of decisiveness alone, the brothers are indeed quite similar.

Li Ye finally understood why the Earth Wish Fox Clan could travel freely across the land.

This ability is a gift from the axe in front of him.

A replica of the daylily-shaped axe.

That was the predecessor of the legendary Heaven-Opening Axe, and it has an inseparable relationship with another precious treasure, the Lotus Lantern.

The ancestor of the Earth Wish Fox once accidentally swallowed the wick of the Lotus Lantern. Although it was eventually resolved through some means, a trace of the Lotus Lantern's divine power remained in its bloodline.

The ancestor of the Earth Wish Fox obtained a replica of the Daylily Mountain-Splitting Axe through some means, originally intending to leave his descendants with at least a means to save their lives.

His descendants were initially quite promising, but later they wanted to study the magical powers of the mountain-splitting axe. As a result, they accidentally triggered something unknown, and with the terrifying power that erupted, they actually cleaved open a spatial passage.

The entire Earth Wish Fox Clan, along with the Earth Wish Cave Heaven, was thus stuffed into the Dao Fan Realm, which had only recently been created.

Logically speaking, the world at the beginning of creation should be full of treasures and blessed lands, a time when spiritual energy is at its peak.

However, in order to prevent their disciples from becoming complacent upon arrival, the founders of each sect locked all the spiritual energy in the earth and various places, requiring arduous cultivation to obtain it.

It should be noted that the cultivators of various sects at that time were all veritable cultivators from the upper realm, yet even they had to exert tremendous effort to barely manage to cultivate the Dao Fan Realm.

I only did a superficial job.

But the spirit foxes were carrying the Xuanhua Mountain-Splitting Axe, which was powerful enough to split the heavens, making it incredibly easy for them to dig deep for treasures.

So they happily began their search for treasure, which was as plentiful as radishes in a field—they could pull out a whole bunch of them with ease.

but……

Such things, which were almost equivalent to getting something for nothing, aroused the dissatisfaction of the Axe Spirit, which began to resist helping the Earth Wish Fox Clan to excavate the spiritual objects contained in the earth.

But it's obvious that the Earth Wish Foxes have already tasted the benefits, and they've long considered this axe their own. Since it won't obey, they'll just find a way to make it obey.

The Earth Wish Fox, who came from another world and had connections with the Gnostic School, quickly came up with a method—to sacrifice the demonic energy of the Earth Demon Ginseng along with lamp wicks made from pure-blooded members of its kind.

While being numb, they pleaded for its favor.

In this way, one can obtain a continuous stream of power from the Xuanhua Mountain-Splitting Axe.

The Earth Wish Fox can then run rampant in this world.

The idea was good, but how could a machete that had been paralyzed not undergo some kind of change?

As a result, the spiritual creatures produced by the Earth Wish Spirit Fox, which should theoretically be a blessed land built with countless treasures, became fewer and fewer—the number of high-level spiritual creatures increased, but the number of spiritual creatures needed for daily life decreased.

Even if they were willing to be so wealthy as to feed spirit creatures to ordinary foxes, ... that would be too much for them to handle.

As time went on, the number of newborn spirit foxes actually decreased, and even if they were born, they couldn't be raised to adulthood.

Left with no other choice, the fox clan had to go out and search for spiritual creatures.

However, something went wrong, and the fox clan, who were supposed to obtain spiritual items through trade with the outside world, suddenly started causing trouble in various places.

As a result, it became a persistent problem that everyone wanted to beat up, yet could never be eradicated, making cultivators from all sects hate it with a passion.

Having learned all this, Li Ye seemed thoughtful.

He always felt that it was somewhat different from the mythology he was familiar with, as if many things had been mixed in with it...

The predecessor of this thing, could it be considered the predecessor of the Heaven-Opening Axe?

It sounds like their social class is quite different.

So, did this blue fox lie, or... did their ancestors intentionally embellish their image?

Or is there something he doesn't yet understand?
To be honest, he didn't completely believe what the other person said; there might be some problems with the myths passed down through generations.

However, there is one thing he is certain of.

He looked at the replica of the daylily-shaped axe and said with certainty, "You want Heaven to destroy you, don't you?"

The axe that cut the daylily remained silent for a long time.

He finally let out a weary sound.

"Correct."

(End of this chapter)