The prince's personal bodyguard

Bai Xinyin really appreciated this little fox. She helped her up and listened to her talk about the difficulty of cultivating immortals.

It is really difficult for foxes to become immortals. Not all foxes can cultivate to become immortals. Generally, only black foxes, spirit foxes, and nine-tailed foxes can do so.

Moreover, cultivating immortals requires both fate and spiritual energy, and avoiding various hunting methods by humans. Mei Jiu is a nine-tailed red fox, which has more spiritual energy than ordinary foxes.

Foxes must first learn to speak before they can cultivate immortality. Before learning to speak like humans, they must first learn bird language. They must not just learn one kind of bird language, but must learn all the bird languages ​​in the world and master them thoroughly. Only then can they make human sounds. If they continue like this, even if they are very talented, it will take hundreds of years.

Then they will take an examination before the Goddess of Mount Tai, which is held once a year. Only foxes that pass the examination are qualified to practice immortality.

It is even more difficult to cultivate into a human form. This process depends on the different talents of the fox. It is not about absorbing human yang energy, as that will not lead to any positive result.

Every day, one would face the moon to practice Yuan Dan, standing like a human, breathing into the air to absorb the essence of the moon. From a distance, it looks like one is worshipping the moon, hence the folk saying that foxes worship the moon.

Some foxes need hundreds or thousands of years to cultivate into human form, and the process is very long. Some people say that the inner elixir of fox spirits can cure all kinds of poisons, and eating it can increase one's Taoism by a thousand years, and it can also bring people back to life, so many practitioners will capture foxes that are cultivating, and take away their inner elixir while they are cultivating. If they lose their inner elixir, the foxes in human form will lose all their power and return to their original form.

If a fox that has cultivated into a human form does something bad, it will be punished by heaven and be reverted to its original form, and all the efforts of thousands of years will be wasted. Therefore, most foxes that want to cultivate will do good deeds and accumulate good karma, and generally will not do bad things. Some bad things are deliberately framed by bad people.

Mei Jiu is a fox with a very high level of understanding and is very spiritual. In fact, she had already cultivated into a human form four hundred years ago.

That year, Mei Jiu was picking spiritual herbs on the edge of a cliff. After picking and eating this spiritual herb, if she could avert one more calamity, she would be able to cultivate and become an immortal. Mei Jiu was very happy, so she was a little too proud of herself and slipped down the cliff accidentally. At this time, she held on to the edge of the cliff with both hands and shouted for help.

A young boy who went up the mountain to chop wood passed by and heard the cry for help. He saw a girl falling off the cliff, but was not surprised. He quickly reached out his hand and rescued the girl.

Just when the little fox was about to express his gratitude, the rocks on the edge of the cliff loosened, and the young man who was standing on the edge and had not yet come over slid down along with the rocks on the edge of the cliff.

The little fox was rescued but his benefactor fell down. Feeling extremely guilty and sad, he stumbled all the way to the bottom of the cliff to look for his benefactor.

When the boy was found, he was discovered to be covered in blood, his tendons and veins were broken, and he was lifeless. The little fox felt guilty and blamed himself, and was very sad.

The little fox carried the boy's body back to the cave, surrounded it with ice and placed it there. She went to the fox elders for help, but they were helpless. She then traveled thousands of miles to ask Taishan Goddess for help. Taishan Goddess told her that everything was determined by heaven and that she could not go against it. However, she still gave her a thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum because she was kind and pitiful.

The little fox was extremely sad and returned to the cave in tears. He crushed the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and fed it to his benefactor. Then he spat out his own Yuandan, split it into two, and passed it to his benefactor's mouth.

Her benefactor was saved, but she lost hundreds of years of cultivation. She returned to her original form as a little fox and hid in the mountains to continue her cultivation.

In a blink of an eye, she practiced in Baiyun Temple for another four hundred years, and only transformed into a human form again when she met Bai Xinyin. The little fox felt that this was the fate between her and Bai Xinyin.

Bai Xinyin's heart was moved when she heard this. She felt that this little fox was affectionate and loyal, so she decided to keep her by her side.

Mei Jiu was very happy and said, "From now on, you are my master. I know you are a woman, so I will help you dress more like a man. Please don't doubt my ability, Master."

Bai Xinyin thought to herself, just don't turn me into a real man, thank you!

"My master will go down the mountain in a month. I will wait for you at the intersection where you must pass when you go down the mountain!"

After saying this, he turned around and was about to leave, but then turned back and said, "Master, don't choose to go down the mountain on July 15th. Go down the mountain after that day."

"Why?"

"On July 15th, the gates of hell are wide open, and there will be unnecessary trouble."

"Okay!" It would only be a matter of one day later, Bai Xinyin agreed.

Mei Jiu turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared in an instant.

In Prince Rong’s Mansion, every morning is the day when Mu Yunxiao reads the letter on time.

Ever since Qingyun strongly requested Bai Xinyin to report her whereabouts herself, the daily letters have been written by Xinyin herself.

When happy, I reply with four small characters with flowers in them: everything is normal; sometimes I reply with two cursive characters: normal; sometimes I am just too lazy and just put a “√” and consider it passed.

Mu Yunxiao looked at the letters, feeling sweet in his heart and smiling: Even if you only reply with a symbol, I feel that you are always by my side, and I feel at peace!

On July 16, Bai Xinyin bid farewell to all the masters and went down the mountain.

True Man Jiuyang stood there for a long time, looking at Bai Xinyin's receding back.

As expected, Meijiu was waiting for her at the intersection at the foot of the mountain. As soon as she passed the intersection, she met Zixuan, A'Luo and the others.

"Little vixen!" Before Bai Xinyin could introduce Mei Jiu to everyone, Ah Dai started shouting first?

Eh? How did Ah Dai know that this beautiful woman was a fox? He didn't tell her in advance? Could it be that all beautiful women are vixens in his eyes?

Zixuan and A'luo looked at Bai Xinyin and shook their heads, indicating that they were not aware of the situation.

Mei Jiu looked at Ah Dai and said with a smile: "Who am I? I am Kunlun Qingluan, how did I become such a miserable bird?"

This time everyone was shocked! Pinch me, pinch each other!

"Some things are better not to be mentioned! It's better not to be mentioned! Let's go, let's go!" Ah Dai flew to the front, looking quite cool and carefree.

On the way back, Mei Jiu told Bai Xinyin about Ah Dai's origins: "Ah Dai is also known as Kunlun Qingluan. In ancient times, it was a divine bird that often accompanied the Queen Mother of the West. It was also the Queen Mother of the West's messenger. There is only one in the world. Qingluan is one of the five phoenixes. According to legend, it is one of the nine chicks bred by the phoenix and the phoenix. It is not very powerful in combat, but has a high level of spiritual awareness."

"The blue phoenix is ​​beautiful and elegant, but lonely. Because it has never found any other birds of its kind, the envious eyes of other birds do not add to its glory, but instead add to its troubles."

“I just don’t know why this ancient mythical bird ended up in the mortal world and became like this?” Mei Jiu also expressed her doubts.

Bai Xinyin glanced at Ah Dai, who looked indifferent. No wonder this bird was so smart.

"Then how do you know it is Kunlun Qingluan?"

"Its head is purple-red, its eyes are blue, and it exudes a strong spiritual energy, which you mortals cannot sense..."

Oh? So that's how it is. The people were moved.

"Don't underestimate us foxes. To cultivate to become immortals, we have to take exams every year. We learn a lot of knowledge, which is even wider than the exams for humans. For example, in the field of immortal studies, we know the origins of various immortals, from ancient times to the present, and the connections between them. If you can't pass the test, you can't cultivate to become an immortal."

Mei Jiu did not want to hide her identity from everyone, and everyone sighed after hearing it.

Only Ah Dai looked mysterious and kept his mouth shut, and no one asked him any further questions.

Baiyun Temple is located between Yaowang Valley and Kyoto, and it only takes three or four days to get to Kyoto.

After a day's journey, everyone discovered that there were a lot of people heading to Kyoto today. There were a lot of cars along the way, more than ever before, and they were puzzled.