Chapter 47
Running aimlessly, the fox's claws broke the trees and its tail made the sand fly.
When the wild dogs in the mountains saw her, before they could run away, they were pierced by Nian Qing who flew over and torn into two.
She yelled and screamed, causing the birds to fly away and the animals to be disturbed. She made the forest night a complete mess. She was venting her anger, wanting to die from exhaustion, never to see tomorrow again.
Nianqing ran to the river, saw the surging stream, and could also see his own face clearly through the surface of the river.
Her face instantly turned ferocious. She frantically tore her clothes and scratched her face. She didn't want to look like a human anymore. She wanted to be a monster! She wanted to be Gu Luoyan's enemy and never see her again!
Nian Qing's mind moved, and his whole body transformed into a fox.
There was murderous intent in her eyes, and her three reddish-brown tails caught the wind and turned into a cyclone.
The grass collapsed under her weight, and the nightingale looked into her eyes and fell silent.
She wanted to eat Gu Luoyan. She wanted to eat her eyes, her heart, every bone of hers!
She wanted Gu Luoyan to never say that kind of words again, and she wanted to be with Gu Luoyan forever.
Eating her might be the easiest way.
The fox ran down the mountain, determined to taste human blood that night.
After being driven out of the military depot outside Mingjing by Gu Luoyan, Nianqing never returned to Mingjing. She walked out to an unnamed mountain, wreaking havoc and venting her anger.
Now I'm back at the foot of the mountain. It's a small village. There are no lights in the houses, probably because it's late at night and the villagers are all asleep.
The fox walked in, her eyes fixed on the house closest to her. Her body turned into smoke and slid in through the hole in the paper-covered window, but she reappeared in an instant.
The fox's tail stretched out and covered her mouth and nose. Three corpses lay neatly on the couch in the room.
A man, a woman, and a child.
They had been dead for a long time, so long that Nian Qing couldn't even detect the smell they emitted.
The smell was not the stench of a corpse, but the faint smell of death left on the body after a person lost his soul.
It was very strange. The fox jumped onto the bed in one step. The person who lost his soul could not enter the reincarnation, nor could he be taken away by the dead.
They seemed to have died in their sleep, passing away peacefully. The fox scratched with its claws and saw two almost identical small wounds on the sides of the three people's necks.
Nian Qing took one look at the corpse, and her sudden desire to eat human flesh vanished. Her body turned into smoke, and she moved to the next house, and then the next. Each time, the result was the same.
This village has become a dead village. The entire village has been drained of its blood and souls, unable to rest in peace.
There was no need to think too much, Nian Qing knew it must be the work of a monster.
The strange empathy that she had developed from spending so many days with Gu Luoyan began to play tricks on her heart again.
After seeing the miserable state of the entire village, Nian Qing felt a little uncomfortable.
After a moment, he came to his senses and questioned himself.
Where did my pitiful compassion go when I set fire to the armory that day?
She was so upset and restless that she couldn't find peace for a moment.
Finally, the fox leaped up, turned into green smoke, and never stayed in the village again.
The next village is not far away.
But before he got close, Nian Qing smelled a demonic aura.
At this moment, I am standing on the roof of the thatched house and looking out into the village.
The intuition of a great demon flashed in her mind, and in just a moment, she locked onto the location of the demon.
The fox emerged from the green smoke and saw a very simple living room in front of him.
The three tails became fluffy and bigger and got in through the broken window first.
The spider with a huge belly was about to bite off the little girl's finger when a reddish-brown fox tail came from the window and strangled it like a snake, separating its head and body.
The locked wooden door was finally opened.
The fox stood by the door and looked into the house.
Spider silk hung from the beams to the corners of the house, and the only thing in the impoverished house was spider silk. On this side, there was a woman, bound in a cocoon made of spider silk, crying bitterly. When she saw the fox enter, her expression revealed despair.
The three-tailed fox demon walked towards the unconscious little girl, and the woman bound by spider silk struggled even more violently.
The fox looked down at the petite body, its mouth opened, revealing its teeth.
The woman made a whimpering sound from her covered mouth, tears and blood began to flow from her eyes, her body trembled, and she was almost collapsed.
A breath of divine air blew out of the fox's mouth and blew onto the little girl. The finger on her tender little hand that had been eaten by the spider quickly grew back.
The fox curled up her body with its tail and placed her next to her mother.
This scene seemed familiar. Nianqing remembered that she had saved a mother and daughter in the same way in front of the Lao Niang Temple.
The fiery fur began to fade, and a human figure emerged from the fox's body.
The fox ears and tail did not disappear. She stood in front of the woman and beckoned her fingers, and the spider silk cocoon that trapped the woman fell away like water. Then it wrapped around Nian Qing's fingertips again, becoming a piece of clothing woven from spider silk.
She whispered to the woman who was finally able to breathe, "I'll give you the child. I won't eat anyone."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and was about to leave. She heard a thud behind her. Nian Qing turned sideways and saw the woman kneeling down in front of her, crying and thanking her.
The fox's expression froze for a moment, and then waves of emotion began to rise in his heart.
Nian Qing walked out the door and leaped into the air. The mother's voice continued, "Fox Fairy, your life-saving grace will never be forgotten by us, mother and daughter!"
"Tsk—" Nian Qing smacked his lips irritably.
Then she remembered what Gu Luoyan had said to her: "How could you trample on their lives?"
People are so complicated.
Nian Qing had originally thought of walking away, but in the end, he couldn't let go of the bright look in his mother's eyes as she expressed her gratitude.
So she turned around and landed back in the village, following the scent until she came to a well.
She kept muttering, "Send the Buddha to the west," as she turned over and jumped into the well.
There was still water at the bottom of the well, and when Nian Qing jumped down, it splashed and soaked his entire body.
Looking further ahead, just as she had guessed, there was another world in the well.
Nian Qing swam over and reached shore, where sticky spider silk clung to the soles of his feet.
Blue fireflies began to light up in her eyes, her fingers formed a Zen gesture, and she twisted her fingertips. The spider webs and silk around her floated like duckweed, dispersing to the corners.
Nian Qing took a step forward, and the three tails swung along with her. The thing hiding in the deepest part shrank back, not daring to look at her.
Until Nian Qing said, "Come to me."
The rustling sound was accompanied by the sound of sand sliding.
On the top, a huge spider hung upside down and crawled in front of Nian Qing. It was different from the one he had seen in the village. It was bigger and more ferocious. Half of a human body grew on its front head, and it already had the initial ability to transform.
The blue in Nian Qing's eyes suddenly faded, and the upside-down monster in front of her fell to the ground. The monster finally turned over, its huge spider body hunched, and its half-human face also showed a flattering expression:
"Sir, I don't know how I have offended you." She spoke not very fluently and her voice was hoarse.
The figure looked like a woman of about thirty years old. Nian Qing thought to himself that she must be a two-hundred-year-old demon.
She lost her patience and asked, "Did you release the spiders in the village?"
The witch answered yes.
"Why don't I see you visiting more families?"
Spider Woman chuckled and said, "The children of families with male children are afraid of being beaten to death, so they don't dare to go. They have to pick on the lonely and lonely families. After all, there won't be anyone to ask for an explanation after they finish eating them all."
She tried to move forward, but saw Nian Qing's pupils narrowed to slits. She dared not move forward and could only say, "If you like this village, my lord, I will leave... I will not disturb your pleasure at all."
Nian Qing suddenly asked her, "Did you also go to the village fifty miles east?"
Spider-Woman shook her head: "No, no, no, I... I don't have that ability. If I really ate so many people, I would have been able to transform long ago."
She followed Nian Qing's words and believed that she had not said anything to anger the fox, but somehow, she saw that the murderous intent of the person in front of her was getting deeper and deeper.
The spider demon began to retreat, a cold look on his face.
She leaned down and lowered her voice: "In that case, I'll go first..."
Nian Qing stepped forward again and said to her, "Did I allow you to leave?"
Spider-Woman busily spun silk and hung herself up. On the bank of the well lay a gigantic web she had woven.
She retreated quickly along the spider silk, but the fox demon kept pressing forward, seemingly leaving her no chance to escape.
Instinctively, she could vaguely sense the immense hostility of the fox demon before her. The fox's magical power must be superior to her own, so saving her life was paramount!
The scattered spider silk extended again, trying to block Nian Qing's way.
Nian Qing's body suddenly turned into green smoke and instantly moved behind the spider monster through the holes in the spider silk.
The claws extended, and it swung forward. The spider's two hind legs broke immediately, and her half body suddenly twisted around. The witch opened her mouth and spit out spider silk.
The spider silk it spit out was much stronger than the surrounding spider silk, and it also contained some paralyzing toxins. Nian Qing was unable to dodge, or perhaps she didn't even want to dodge, and was directly entangled in the spider web.
A smug look crossed the Spider Woman's face. She stretched out her hands, no longer caring about her severed limbs. Spider silk condensed from each of her fingertips, densely wrapping Nian Qing like a cocoon.
The huge spider web around her began to close in, and she laughed wildly.
The spider silk is poisonous. I think the fox wrapped in layers of poison, no matter how powerful it is, has fallen asleep by now.
"Finally! I've finally gotten what I've been waiting for!" The spider demon laughed even more crazily. "If I can eat this fox demon, I'll definitely be able to transform!"
Most of the spider eggs at the end of the well had hatched and were crawling along the web. They were the monster's mouth, trying to devour Nian Qing bit by bit.
The five fingers of the human body were still releasing spider silk, but the hands and feet of the spider body below began to crawl towards the cocoon.
Compound eyes grew on her face, with dizzying magic power, and she was about to eat the fox.
When the witch arrived in front of her, a small hole opened in the spider silk cocoon, and the little spiders crawled in and gnawed at it diligently.
She also bit off the fox's neck without any hesitation and sucked the blood and flesh inside.
Ah, what a wonderful feast!
If I eat you, I will become a human. I want to eat ten, not a hundred people. I want to become an immortal and never enter the cycle of reincarnation again!
At the end of the meal, the witch's head fell to the ground.
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The blue in Nian Qing's eyes never faded. She sat on the spider web, supporting her chin with one hand, and watched boredly as the spider dismembered and ate her body.
The little spider passed through Nian Qing's arm and was placed in front of the Spider Woman. Then it entered through the opening on the surface of the cocoon and began to eat the spider demon's belly.
Ah, how wonderful!
Nian Qing's face showed disgust. Only after she saw that the spider demon had finally died did she descend from the hanging spider web.
She clapped her hands, as if shaking off some dirt.
Nian Qing walked out of the well. The surrounding spider silk moved towards the spider's corpse.
Spider silk stuffed into her stomach and became her new flesh and blood.
Nian Qing flew out of the well. As she flew through the air, she murmured, "Sure enough, I'd rather be a human than a demon."
She suddenly remembered the angry words he said to Gu Luoyan when they parted ways: "Gu Luoyan, I hate you."
Now I hate myself even more. You are absolutely right.
A monster is a monster, and it is not a human being after all.
But I will move closer to you, and I will learn to be a "human being".
The three-tailed fox was flying in the night and suddenly felt wronged.
Her voice was low, and some words were carried away by the cold wind:
"Gu Luoyan, you are not allowed to leave me."
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