Everyone turned their doubtful eyes toward Taishang Laojun.
Taishang Laojun smiled. "That is indeed the case. This fox demon and I do have some history. I met him when I had only just begun. Back then, he was a little fox, while I was merely a living being who had just started cultivating."
Everyone nodded. It seemed that this was true.
Although the two had known each other for quite some time, their relationship could only be called ordinary. They had used each other, with no deep friendship between them. Most of it had been about mutual interests.
He used you, and you used him. The two made use of each other to accomplish their own goals.
After the Ancient Heavenly Court fell, contact between Taishang Laojun and the old fox became far less frequent. It could almost be said that they hardly kept in touch anymore.
As for Taishang Laojun's Immortal-Binding Rope, he had discovered it in the Three Realms long ago and searched for it for many years. Later, the rope accidentally fell into a sea of fire. Laojun found it difficult to enter that sea of fire, and only that Red Fox had the ability to do so, so he asked the Red Fox for help.
In return for helping him, Taishang Laojun granted the Red Fox a benefit: the Red Fox would not suffer Sky Thunder punishment and could live peacefully in the Three Realms.
Thus, the Red Fox cultivated for all those years, continuing for ten thousand years without suffering a single bolt of Sky Thunder, and survived in peace.
As everyone listened to the story of Taishang Laojun and the old fox, they nodded in understanding. So that was how it was.
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