The fox didn't understand what Chen Yijin meant. "What else? There's only so much spiritual energy in total, and everyone wants it. With supply outstripping demand, it's only going to get thinner and thinner. How could it possibly become more out of thin air?"
"Little fox, you really should go out and see the world." Before Chen Yijin could even speak, Bei Shitao said with a hint of sympathy, "If you were to go out and see the world, you would realize how few people practice cultivation these days. Everyone is busy working, and their daily lives rely on water, electricity, and gas. Not many people use spiritual energy."
Perhaps in the age of foxes, cultivating immortals was a common phenomenon.
But in today's society, it is just a wishful thinking and an unrealistic dream.
People are very busy nowadays and don’t have much time to dream.
Bei Shitao guessed that only a small number of people with special abilities could use spiritual energy. Most people, like herself, didn't even know how to draw the energy into their bodies.
The fox probably understood what Bei Shitao meant, but it still had a question: "But even if fewer people use spiritual energy, it's still being consumed. Now that spiritual energy is so thin, the spiritual veins must be almost exhausted. Even if spiritual energy increases on its own, it still won't be enough for everyone to use."
"If there is no spiritual energy, we can use renewable energy such as water power, electricity, and gas to create spiritual energy. This is the power of technology." Shen Yijin said.
To put it simply, spiritual energy is a kind of energy. Shen Yijin has learned about the energy in this world and found that people in this world are very good at converting one type of energy into another.
Since we can use wind power to generate electricity, we should also be able to use these renewable energy sources to generate spiritual energy.
Using technology to create spiritual energy is a direction that the fox has never thought of. It doesn't even know what technology is.
The fox was stunned: "So, I still have hope of becoming an immortal?"
Shen Yijin gave the fox an affirmative look in return.
"Well, until the spiritual energy becomes abundant again, I will be your gatekeeper fox. After hearing what Shen Yijin said, the fox suddenly felt that it would not be difficult to make the spiritual energy abundant again. It had already begun to imagine what it would do after becoming an immortal when the spiritual energy was abundant.
"Great!" Bei Shitao cheered, took the fox from Chen Yijin's arms, and stroked its fur excitedly.
Bei Shitao is no longer angry about the fox putting her in the doll, which indirectly led to her being swallowed by the giant python.
With a fox guarding the door, she doesn't have to worry about whether the security door is burglar-proof or not.
When bad guys come, let the fox trick them into leaving and directly trick them into surrendering to the police station.
Not only does it give you a sense of security, but it also helps the police catch bad guys, killing two birds with one stone.
Bei Shitao's technique of stroking the fox's fur was not as skillful as Chen Yijin's, and the fox felt uncomfortable being touched.
It pushed Bei Shitao with its claws: "Let me go quickly, or I will regret it!"
After hearing this, Bei Shitao really stopped stroking the fur.
She smiled and pulled the fox's cheek: "Little fox, why did I get swallowed by the giant python? Have you forgotten?"
The fox stopped struggling and looked away, still trying to argue: "What are you talking about? I don't understand you."
"Don't play dumb with me! You made me dirty and stole the dinner I bought for Yi Jin. From now on, you will not only have to guard the door, but also be responsible for cooking! Don't worry, I will find a teacher to teach you, and I guarantee that you can become a top chef after you finish learning." Bei Shitao forcibly straightened the fox's face and said while staring into its eyes.
The fox was devastated: "Domestic foxes never cook. You ask me to cook. This is pet abuse!"
Bei Shitao: "Can you compare with ordinary foxes? Ordinary foxes can't talk or form formations!"
In the verbal battle between Fox and Bei Shitao, it was unsurprising that Bei Shitao won.
Knowing that it was about to be forced to practice cooking, the fox spread out its food on the ground like a pancake. For a moment, it even thought that it would be better to stay in the puppet and not come out.
Shen Yijin and others had stayed in the barren mountains for too long. In a few hours, it would be almost dawn.
The two of them didn't bring much luggage to City X. There was nothing to pack in the hotel except one or two changes of clothes.
Chen Yijin discussed with Bei Shitao that they would not return to City X and would go directly back to the villa, leaving the hotel staff to deal with the things in the hotel.
Bei Shitao and Shen Yijin had the same idea. It was very troublesome to go back and forth, and she didn't want to make another trip.
After discussing it, the two of them walked down the mountain.
The fox lay on Shen Yijin's shoulder, touching Shen Yijin's cheek with its tail from time to time.
"If you keep making trouble, just walk away." Shen Yijin was annoyed by the fox.
The fox reluctantly retracted its tail and looked around. "By the way, don't you think we've been going in circles?"
Chen Yijin had discovered long ago that the waterfall was not far from the Fox Fairy Temple. Normally, they should be able to see the outline of the Fox Fairy Temple by now.
But now, there is still lush vegetation in front of me, and the sound of the waterfall behind me is still so clear, as if I can return to the waterfall by turning around.
Chen Yijin: "Didn't you find this barren mountain? Don't you know what the situation is now?"
The fox sighed, "I don't know. I just have a hunch that I should come here to break the seal. That's a fox's sixth sense, you know. I've never been to this mountain before."
When it just came out of the doll's body, it was scared when it saw that the face of the bronze statue in the fox fairy temple looked exactly like its own.
The fox was sure that he had never been to this barren mountain, but there was a fox temple on the mountain.
Until now, the fox has not figured out why this happened.
Bei Shitao was a little tired from walking. She panted and asked, "What should we do? Can we still get back to the villa before dawn?"
"It depends on the situation. I think it would be good if we can go back at noon." Chen Yijin couldn't calculate anything and couldn't give Bei Shitao an accurate return time.
When Chen Yijin entered the mountain, she knew there was something wrong with it. Now they were going around in circles. Maybe the mountain was trying to keep them and didn't want them to leave.
The fox tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Why don't we go back to the Fox Fairy Temple first? At least we can rest there."
"Okay." Shen Yijin agreed.
After changing their destination, the two men and the fox walked down the mountain again and no longer circled in the same place.
They returned to the Fox Fairy Temple safely.
The fox jumped down from Shen Yijin's shoulder, sniffed its nose, and frowned: "Someone came here after we left."
A mountain that has been abandoned for a long time and no one has entered it for a long time.
How could it be such a coincidence that after Shen Yijin came, another person also came to this mountain and entered the Fox Fairy Temple.
"Yi Jin, are you being followed?" Bei Shitao guessed.
Shen Yijin shook her head: “Before I entered the mountain, I didn’t notice anyone following me.”
There are not many people in this world who have higher cultivation than her. If someone really followed her, Shen Yijin would have discovered it long ago.
It was the first time that Bei Shitao had seen the interior of the Fox Fairy Temple from a human perspective. She looked around and suddenly exclaimed, "Why is there a photo here?"
An old photo lies quietly in the fruit plate offered in front of the bronze statue of the fox fairy.
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