The Sound of Sharpening Knives Outside

"Why is this happening? Why does everyone else get enhancement scrolls, pet eggs, and costumes, while I only get Resurrection Coin? And Resurrection Coin aside, what am I supposed to do once I get to this world? I'm completely unfamiliar with it, and after the system beeped, it's like it crashed... I started without even a dog..."

In the mountains and forests, the little boy chopped firewood and picked mushrooms and wild vegetables, muttering to himself. He looked at the fluffy white clouds in the sky, wiped his face, and wondered if he would encounter a pheasant or something that day.

But then I thought, with my eight-year-old body, how could I possibly catch a ghost's pheasant? Unless I encounter a hanging sheep like De Ye...

Because the little boy was short and weak, he could only cut down some bushes.

Just as the little boy was cutting down a bush, there was a Little Fox in the bush!

It's white, fluffy, and so cute! It would taste great steamed or braised, and maybe even better with some ginger in a soup...

At the same time, the Little Fox was also startled and looked up at the little boy who appeared in front of it.

The Little White Fox Little White Fox to its feet and tried to walk, but before it could stand up straight, it collapsed again, its legs stained with blood.

The Little White Fox looked at the little boy with a slight tremor in its body, chirped a few times, and bared its teeth as a warning.

That's about it.

Bai Yi, now Little White Fox, felt she had done her part and didn't want to continue. So she resigned herself to her fate and lay down in the bushes, watching the little boy in front of her and waiting for his next move.

Looking at the boy her master had found, Bai Yi carefully examined him:

He was fairly good-looking, but perhaps due to not having eaten for a long time, his complexion looked poor, somewhat yellowish, and his clothes were tattered. After all, living in such circumstances, how could he possibly be well-dressed?

Although Bai Yi didn't understand what he was muttering, the guy seemed very happy.

Moreover, even without using her Mind Reading,"Bai Yi could still know what the little boy was thinking.

This was evident from the way he kept wiping the corner of his mouth.

"Holy crap! Fox! Meat! Dinner! Soup!"

Without a second thought, the little boy wiped his drool and, like a philodendron sorcerer, reached out his claws toward the Little Fox.

"Little White Fox, don't be afraid, your brother isn't a bad person."

The next moment, the Little White Fox was caught in the little boy's hand.

Bai Yi had originally intended to make a symbolic twisting motion to show her struggle, but who knew that the little boy was too weak, and it was obvious that this was his first time catching a live animal, so he wasn't very skilled.

Bai Yi was afraid that he might accidentally slip away when she struggled and twisted.

After finding dinner, the little boy didn't hesitate; he picked up Bai Yi, carried the bamboo basket on his back, and ran down the mountain.

Nestled in the little boy's arms, Bai Yi heard his innocent wish. "Hurry home and eat meat! Finally, I'm getting to eat meat!"

Bai Yi wasn't surprised by this; after all, it's normal to have such thoughts when you're that hungry.

But is this the person Master spent ten years finding? He doesn't seem particularly special... Is there anything special about him?

Back home, the little boy put Bai Yi in the cage and then started sharpening Vegetable Knife...

After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the little boy tied Bai Yi up tightly, in a rather strange way, as if he had never seen it before.

But for some reason, Bai Yi felt a strange sense of shame when he tied her up.

The Little White Fox was placed on the vegetable mat, and the little boy picked up the gleaming Vegetable Knife, which still reflected the afternoon sunlight.

"Little White Fox, don't blame me, okay? At worst, you can eat me in my next life."

The little boy raised the Vegetable Knife with both hands, as if about to bring it down.

Bai Yi ignored the little boy and remained calm.

He just thought his master probably had too much free time on his hands; did he send him here just to experience this novel form of bondage?

Just as the little boy's Vegetable Knife was about to touch the Little White Fox's neck, and Bai Yi was about to break through her Spiritual Apertures to leave, Jiang Lin suddenly stopped.

Bai Yi curiously began to read his inner thoughts.

Did he actually find himself unable to bring himself to do it?

Then, for his dinner, the little boy picked up the knife and tried again, but after three attempts, he still couldn't make a cut.

"Sigh... I've never even killed a chicken before, how am I supposed to kill a fox? Besides, the foxes here are quite cute..."

The little boy simply sat on the ground, giving up on trying, but his face showed utter despair.

"Forget it, let's just eat wild vegetables... fox meat doesn't taste good anyway."

The little boy looked at Bai Yi, who was still clinging to the tree stump, and wiped the drool from his mouth. "Hmm! It definitely won't taste good!"

After a long while, he walked over and patted the Little White Fox on the head. "By the way, Little Fox, my name is Jiang Lin..."

"Sizzle!!!"

When a male animal patted her head for the first time, Bai Yi was slightly taken aback. Then she threatened him fiercely, as if a feeling of pent-up anger was stuck in her chest. She almost broke Spiritual Apertures her restraints and used her claws to kill the male animal.

"Oh dear, you've got a temper, huh? I, Jiang Lin, love Little Fox with tempers."

After saying that, the little boy who called himself Jiang Lin kept rubbing the Little White Fox's head, or rather, its whole body was rubbed several times over, for the entire time it takes for an incense stick to burn...

Several times, Bai Yi thought about simply breaking through her Spiritual Apertures to recover her Spiritual Power, and then killing this man.

But Bai Yi discovered that he was desperately suppressing the desire to devour her.

[Or, let's spend a couple more days together.]

With her Spiritual Apertures sealed, Bai Yi was just an ordinary, injured Little Fox, only able to let Jiang Lin hold her on his lap and rub her fur incessantly, as if he wouldn't stop until he rubbed her bald...

Soon, the little boy named Jiang Lin found the cleanest cloth in the room, applied some herbs, and tied it to the Little White Fox's leg.

This surprised Bai Yi. How could an eight-year-old boy know how to use herbs?

Actually, this is the only trick Jiang Lin knows. He learned it in his previous life when he saw a video about wilderness survival on Bilibili...

For dinner, we ate wild vegetables and mushrooms. Occasionally, we could catch one or two Xiao Yu in that little river, but there weren't many.

What Bai Yi couldn't understand was that someone who couldn't even get enough to eat would share his fish with her and even worry that she wouldn't have enough to eat.

This is a really strange person.

For the rest of the time, Bai Yi and Jiang Lin lived together.

The only activity this man named Jiang Lin did at night was look at the stars and talk nonsense to himself.

He talked about all sorts of things, like "brain padding," "thunderbolt four," and "Nezuko"... He'd lived for hundreds of years and still couldn't understand a thing.

I wanted to find out what was going on in his mind, but sometimes I couldn't see anything at all.

To Bai Yi, Jiang Lin's inner world was like the Mist Forest in the western Demon Race World, constantly shrouded in a layer of white mist, making it impossible for her to see clearly.

This was the first time Bai Yi had encountered such a situation since she was a child, and it was also the reason why Bai Yi chose to stay and live with this thin but beautiful little boy.

What frustrated Bai Yi was that the little boy had to have his fur rubbed every morning and evening, and would hug her to sleep when it was too cold at night.

Although Bai Yi resisted for a while, after sealing her Spiritual Apertures and being "injured," Bai Yi, who was just a Little White Fox, could not break free from the little boy's deathly embrace.

Perhaps over time, Bai Yi seemed to get used to it.

Perhaps it was because Bai Yi saw into his heart that he even worried about getting cold at night...

They lived like this for about a week.

For the past week, they had mostly eaten wild vegetables, and occasionally caught a couple of small Xiao Yu. Although they weren't full, they weren't starving either. In their spare time, Bai Yi would listen to the little boy's incessant chatter.

Or rather, it's more like talking to oneself:

"Hey, Little Fox, how far is it from here to town?"

"Little Fox, tell me, with my handsome looks, what if I run into a pedophile in town?"

"Tell me, what is this world like? Did I travel to this place in the wrong way? How did I end up in this war-torn village?"

"Little Fox, can you transform? How about I transform for your master?"

"Sigh... Look at Daji, look at Ah Li, and look at Tamamo-no-Mae... Why can't you transform?"

"Not bad, your wound is almost healed. You should be able to walk now. Do some rehabilitation exercises for the next few days. Oh, by the way, let's give you a name. What should we name you?"

Jiang Lin thought for a moment.

"Er Gou?"

"Chirp chirp!" Without saying a word, Bai Yi turned around and flicked her tail at Jiang Lin's face.

"I don't like her... That Ya Dan? She doesn't like this either?"

"Fox Overlord?"

"Fox One-Blade?"

"Damn it, if you don't like it, you don't like it, but don't grab me... Ouch... It hurts... Let go, do you have any viruses on you...?"

"Chirp chirp!!"

Bai Yi, who had been living with Jiang Lin in the form of Little Fox for a month, jumped onto Jiang Lin's face and kept scratching Jiang Lin.

[What kind of awful names are these! They sound terrible!]

Bai Yi grew angrier the more she thought about it, and even started talking.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong, I'll be serious next time."

Jiang Lin pulled the Little White Fox Little White Fox was tightly covering his face off with a "plop," placed it on the bed with his hands under its Little White Fox, Jiang Lin thought about it seriously.

"I think your chirping is quite strange, it sounds a bit like a sparrow."

"Shrimp!!!"

Bai Yi was so angry she was practically fuming. She stood up on all fours and roared fiercely.

"Etc..."

Just as Bai Yi was about to jump up again, Jiang Lin made a "wait" gesture.

"Or else..." Jiang Lin looked the Little White Fox up and down.

As they watched, Bai Yi flicked her tail across Jiang Lin's face again.

The little boy pulled the Little White Fox's tail off his face, his smile as bright as the sunshine.

"Or, I can call you Jiu Jiu... Jiu Jiu... Chu chu~~~~"

"Holy crap! What's wrong with that sounding? Get down... Ouch... that hurts..."

After that day, Jiu Jiu became Bai Yi's name. Although Bai Yi initially objected, it was the only name he could accept...

Every day, I still go up the mountain to chop firewood, gather wild vegetables, and pick mushrooms.

For an eight-year-old boy, such a life is far too difficult, especially since it is already winter and in a month at most, the harsh winter will arrive.

Even Bai Yi thought that such a little boy would definitely not survive the winter.

Bai Yi wouldn't kill him because he had offended her multiple times, nor would she save him out of pity.

For a cultivator at the Jade Purity Realm, especially a white fox with the bloodline of a celestial fox, the life and death of mortals are simply not worth mentioning.

This is not a so-called superiority, but the most natural posture of a person in a superior position, just as humans do not care how many ants they step on when they walk.

Although I'm curious about how my "Mind Reading" sometimes works and sometimes doesn't work on him, it's just curiosity.

The world is vast and full of Extraterrestrial Demon. This is just one example Buddhist School, and Nine Provinces's no need Demon Race World delve too deeply into it.

The little boy is dead, that's all. They only lived together for a little over ten days, so there's no way there could be any real bond. He was just a Xiao Xiao part of my own journey to enlightenment.

This part is like a tiny grain of sand in the vast ocean of one's long life, utterly insignificant.

There is no need for me to distort his life or death, nor is there any need for me to interfere with the inexplicable cause and effect.

However, to Bai Yi's surprise, the little boy still "talked" to her every day, even though she never paid any attention to him, but he seemed to enjoy it.

This guy even invented some kind of Flying Chess... and insisted on playing chess with him.

Besides that, every night before bed, this guy would inexplicably point at me and say, "Change, hurry up and change..."

Bai Yi initially thought this guy had eaten the wrong mushroom.

Two weeks later, Xiao Xiao snow began to fall from the sky.

Bai Yi's "injuries" have fully healed, and Jiang Lin neither chased Bai Yi Bai Yi away nor restrained her. In Jiang Lin's opinion, if she wanted to leave, she could leave; if she didn't want to leave, he would continue to raise her.

Who knows, things might change someday?

Actually, Jiang Lin was just too bored... Although this Little White Fox couldn't talk to him, at least it could listen to him.

Bai Yi was perfectly aware of Jiang Lin's intentions.

Then I rolled my eyes...

However, Bai Yi still didn't leave, because Bai Yi suddenly had an idea:

[In the most painful moments of hunger and cold, a person's true nature is revealed; will he eat himself?]

Looking up, Bai Yi saw the little boy who was hugging her and shivering as he warmed himself by the fire.

Without realizing it, Bai Yi wanted to take a look...

The next morning... when Bai Yi woke up from her dream, she found that the mattress (Jiang Lin) she was lying on was gone.

Slowly raising my head, I could faintly hear the sound of a knife being sharpened outside...