At dawn, a ray of sunlight illuminated the entire fox plain.
Many of the nine-tailed foxes had already gotten up. The older, more composed white foxes mostly lay down to rest among the wild grass, while the little foxes chased each other, laughing and playing. Their laughter echoed throughout the entire fox plain.
Liuli opened her eyes to the rising sun and mumbled sleepily, "Um... it's dawn."
"It's dawn!" Liuli's eyes widened suddenly, and she said urgently, "No, I have to go back quickly, otherwise Li Molin will definitely scold me if I get back late!"
Sakura looked at Ruri with amusement and asked with a smile, "Are you leaving, Ruri?"
"Mmm!" Liuli nodded emphatically, her little face scrunched up as she said, "No, no, it's too late, Li Molin is definitely going to scold me..."
Yingmo smiled and shook her head, saying, "That young master Li can keep you in check."
"I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm leaving, Grandmother!" Liuli stood up and was about to fly away.
"Liuli!" Yingmo called out to Liuli, her face full of meaning, and asked with a smile, "Liuli, in my opinion, that Young Master Li most likely likes you. What about you, do you like him?"
Liuli stopped abruptly, shaking her head vigorously like a rattle-drum, and said, "I don't like him, how could I possibly like him, that bastard!"
Sakura smiled and shook her head, saying, "By the way, Ruri, the pair of tigers you were most concerned about before you went out have become demons. They can talk now. Didn't you keep saying you had questions to ask them?"
Liuli was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed with joy, "They can finally talk?"
The tigers that Yingmo mentioned were the same pair of tigers that adopted Bailing more than 30 years ago. Because she wanted to know where Bailing was, Liuli kept unconsciously wondering why they hadn't become demons yet. After repeating this so many times, Yingmo asked her why she was so eager for the two tigers to become demons, but she refused to say no matter what.
"I'm off, Grandmother!" Liuli was overjoyed. She quickly said goodbye to Yingmo and flew into the forest at great speed.
A flash of white light appeared before Yingmo's eyes, and Liuli had vanished. She shook her head and chuckled, muttering, "That girl..."
Liuli arrived in the forest and flew into the dense woods with ease. She avoided the large trees along the way and soon arrived in front of a low mountain.
It was still early morning when Liuli flew straight to the cave in the low mountain.
Inside the cave, two tigers were snuggling together, still asleep. Liuli walked over and kicked the male tiger's heavy body, sending it flying to the side. She then squatted down in front of the female tiger.
The male tiger was kicked away in a daze, and instinctively let out a roar. But when he landed on the ground and saw Liuli clearly, he felt a chill in his heart and couldn't help but shrink back.
The tigress was awakened by the male tiger's roar, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Liuli.
It chuckled softly, its voice still languid, and said, "Liuli, it's been a long time."
Liuli was overjoyed. She exclaimed, "You've really cultivated into a demon! You can really speak now!"
The tigress laughed and said, "Yes."
Liuli asked impatiently, "Then tell me, where did my Bailing go?"
A thoughtful look appeared in the tigress's eyes, and she replied after a moment's thought, "That little boy... was taken away by an old monk."
"An old monk?" Liuli asked疑惑地, "What does that old monk look like?"
"Let me think, let me think..." The tigress pondered seriously for a long time, then stretched out one of her front paws and moved it back and forth in the void in front of her. After a while, streaks of white light formed a human face in the air.
The tigress tilted her head, looked at the human face, and pondered, "Hmm... this should be it, yes, that's it!"
The face formed by the white light was somewhat blurry, but it was vaguely visible that it was the appearance of an old monk with white eyebrows and a white beard. He looked gentle, with a smile on his lips, and nine ordination scars on his head.
Liuli had a vague feeling that she had seen this old monk before, but she couldn't remember where she had seen him for a moment. She frowned and fell into deep thought.
After a long while, a look of realization suddenly appeared on Liuli's tightly furrowed face, and she said, "That's right, I know who he is, he's the little monk's master!"
“Then…then…” Liuli frowned and muttered, “He is the little monk’s master, and also the one who took Bailing away…”
Suddenly, a thought flashed through Liuli's mind. She remembered Shichan's eyes, which resembled those of a lark, and he recalled Shichan's words—"This humble monk was picked up by my master and brought up the mountain..."
"Yes, yes... the little monk is my lark, the little monk is my lark!"
Boundless joy filled her heart. It turned out that the lark she had been longing for was Shi Chan, and that Shi Chan, whom she loved most, was her lark!
Liuli was overjoyed. She hugged the tigress's head with both hands, pounced on her, and kissed her hard, saying, "Thank you so much!"
With that, she turned and rushed out of the cave, shouting with wild joy as she ran, "I'm going to find the little monk! I'm going to tell him that he is my Bailing!"
"Hmph! If it weren't for this annoying old monk, my Bailing would always be by my side. Why would I have to go through so much trouble liking this little monk?"
"That annoying old monk!"
"..."
A white light, accompanied by Liuli's loud shouts, traveled far away and disappeared into the dense forest in the blink of an eye. The forest returned to silence once more, except for the chirping of birds and the faint roars of wild beasts.
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