The team marched forward in a mighty procession, and Tu Nian and Bo Qiu followed behind the team, chatting and walking slowly.
It had been a long time since he had gone out leisurely like this. Tu Nian felt it was quite fresh at first, but after walking for about two hours, the novelty wore off and he felt a little bored.
Bored, Tu Nian picked up a spiritual fruit, wiped it, and stuffed it into his mouth, saying incoherently, "Aside from spirits and spiritual plants, there's no one else along the way. Food and drink are all at the mercy of fate. Why did Master choose this route?"
"That makes sense."
Bo Qiu explained, "For a large-scale trip like the Spring Trial, without magical instruments to carry people, people usually travel on foot. And if so many cultivators were to all walk among the common people, it would inevitably cause unrest."
"Therefore, to avoid such situations, most sects choose to walk along forest paths like this when they go out for training."
“That makes sense.”
The spiritual fruit was not ripe and was so sour that it made his teeth ache. Tu Nian answered him perfunctorily with a grim face and smacked his lips wildly.
After a while, she recovered from the sting of the spiritual fruit and continued, "I really find this strange. Even if my Tushan bloodline was exposed, those men in black wouldn't have to go to such great lengths to find me. Since they knew my identity, why not just come to Jixue and capture me directly? Wouldn't that be a happy ending for everyone?"
Bo Qiu looked at her amusedly. "From what you said, you really want to be taken away by them."
Tu Nianbai glanced at him and said, "I don't understand why these people do this."
Bo Qiu raised his eyebrows, "It's very simple, because they don't know that you are the one who possesses Tushan's bloodline."
Tu Nian was stunned, "What do you mean?"
Bo Qiu said slowly, "Those people came here following Tushan's power. As long as they want, whenever you use Tushan's talismans or formations, they can find your location."
Tu Nian was surprised, "Is there such a saying?"
Bo Qiu said, "But they probably didn't anticipate that every time you used Tushan's power, it was only a flash in the pan, which is why they always failed."
"That's not right."
The more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong. Tu Nian turned around and stood in front of Bo Qiu, frowning and staring at him. "Why do you say that as if you are very familiar with these people?"
Bo Qiu arched his eyebrows and teased her, "I never said I wasn't familiar with them, it's just that you never asked me."
"ha!?"
Tu Nian was shocked and exaggeratedly dragged out his tone, "What do you mean I didn't ask? It seems you, a dead fox, find it interesting to see me busying around, right?"
She was so angry at Bo Qiu's indifferent attitude that she felt dizzy. The more she spoke, the more hysterical she became. At the end, she grabbed his collar and said, "Please, you are an elder after all. Can you do something about it?"
It was obvious that she was very angry, and the flesh on her face was trembling. Looking at her frustrated look, Bo Qiu found it really funny, so he couldn't help but raised his hand and pinched her.
"Bo! Qiu!"
Tu Nian was furious and stretched out his arms to hit him, but unfortunately he was too short to reach him.
Bo Qiu was afraid that she would really make him ignore her, so he finally let her hit himself a few times symbolically. However, with his small arms and legs, she was afraid that if she hit him, it would only be her own hands that would be hurt.
"Okay, okay."
Coaxingly, he took her wrist and leaned over to smile at her, "I was just joking with you. Although I had doubts about the identities of those people before, I was ultimately able to confirm them only after visiting the Demon Clan and asking Yuwen Futu."
"Otherwise, if I had known earlier, I would have put the Buddha Lotus Stone on you long ago."
Tu Nian was furious and difficult to appease. She struggled to shake off his hand and said, "Even if you only found out later, it's been over a month since you returned from the Demon Tribe. Isn't that enough time for you to explain to me?"
Bo Qiu looked innocent and said, "I was planning to tell you when I got back, but you've been busy with the trials since I got back, leaving early and coming back late. How could I have the chance?"
Tu Nian opened his mouth and looked away guiltily, "Even so, if you mention it to me, I will definitely not disobey you."
Seeing that her anger had subsided a little, Bo Qiu struck while the iron was hot and said, "Good things are never too late. It's not too late to talk about it now. After all, you have escaped from the sect now. Isn't it just right to explain the news to your master when you return?"
After a moment's silence, he spoke again: "If we keep dawdling here, we'll be behind the team."
In the end, his rationality prevailed. He glanced at him and said in a muffled voice, "Speak more carefully."
"It's natural."
Bo Qiu smiled and began to tell the story.
The truth of the matter is always so surprising. When Tu Nian heard him say that under the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, there was another branch of the clan besides the Tushan clan, he was shocked.
"Wolf?"
It is no exaggeration to say that she had never heard of this clan after searching through all the books in the collection.
"That's normal."
Bo Qiu said, "Although both the Tushan and Lang clans are descended from the Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, the former's inheritance of luck is far beyond the latter's reach. Therefore, the cultivation world has never given this clan much recognition."
Tu Nian was a little confused when he heard this, so he pulled him and said, "Wait a minute, didn't you call yourself the ancestor of Tushan? How come this nine-tailed fox is not you?"
"Please have some common sense, please."
Giving her a look of disdain, Bo Qiu said, "My original form is the Red Flame Fox, a spiritual beast. The Nine-tailed Sky Fox is a divine beast."
Tu Nian was confused again, "Spiritual beast, divine beast?" How do you classify them?
Bo Qiu took a deep breath, forcing himself not to knock her on the head, and patiently explained, "Spiritual beasts are superior spirits, born with consciousness, surpassing ordinary spirits. Divine beasts, on the other hand, are superior to spiritual beasts, born to meet the needs of the times, and possess the ultimate power to manipulate the origins of heaven and earth."
"Like that Bai Ze. He is a divine beast that knows everything in the world from birth and controls the lifeblood of all things."
Tu Nian said "Oh" as if he understood, and said: "But why did you go to the Demon Tribe before? If you want to know anything, just ask him, right?"
"That's not what I meant..."
Bo Qiu held his forehead with his hand. "What he grasps is the trend of things. He can't know the details unless they are closely related to him personally."
"That's right then."
Tu Nian finally figured out what he said.
Thinking about it this way, when Bai Zhu was explaining the history of Bi Hai, he had indeed only talked about the general situation. When she asked about the details, he always hesitated and couldn't explain clearly. At that time, she thought Bai Zhu didn't want to talk about it, but now it seems that he really didn't know.
After explaining the difference between divine beasts and spirit beasts, Bo Qiu continued, "The reason I call myself the ancestor of the Tushan clan is because after the Nine-tailed Sky Fox ascended to heaven, I inherited some of his abilities. I then passed these abilities on to his descendants, who are now known as the Tushan lineage."
Hearing this, Tu Nian suddenly had an idea, "According to what you said, could it be that the Lang family also..."
"Yes." Bo Qiu confirmed her guess: "Besides me, there is another spirit beast that has inherited the ability of the Nine-tailed Sky Fox. That is how the Wolf Clan came into being."
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