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I Just Want to Live a Good Life, but I Surpassed the Protagonist – 93 Spirit Foxes
“Before we knew it, Young Master Hualianchen is already 20 years old. Five years ago, the Great Elder predicted on his deathbed that Young Master Hualianchen would not live past 20, and our clan would also suffer a disaster soon after. Now it seems that the Great Elder was dying and his stargazing ability was wrong.”
“The Great Elder has led our clan to avoid humans for hundreds of years. He has never made a mistake. On his deathbed, he was also reluctant to leave us and wanted to find a way out for us, but he could only sigh that fate was hard to defy. Regardless of whether the prophecy is wrong or not, we must not forget what the Great Elder has done for us.”
Some of the foxes spoke human language. They looked noble and beautiful. Their cultivation was not too high, but they possessed remarkable spiritual intelligence. The Gold Core cultivator quickly recognized that they were rare spirit foxes.
These were top-grade spirit pets!
The Gold Core cultivator’s name was Bao Longtao. At this moment, his emotions were extremely, but his reason told him not excited to act rashly. Because Bao Longtao discovered that there were several Gold Core late-stage spirit foxes squatting on the high ground. He, who was only at the Gold Core early stage and alone, was no match for them at all.
Bao Longtao roughly counted. There were at least a thousand foxes present, and there were more than a hundred snow-white spirit foxes. If he could capture all the spirit foxes and sell them to those great sect disciples… He could not even be bothered to calculate how many spirit stones he could get. He only knew that he would become rich and famous.
“Hmm?” Suddenly, a fox looked over here. Bao Longtao immediately shrank his head back into the grass. He felt that he seemed to have been discovered. He made a prompt decision, used a tool to eliminate his smell, left a hidden mark, and immediately ran back.
Not long after, two Gold Core early-stage spirit foxes came to the grass where Bao Longtao had been hiding. They sniffed around and one of them said, “Why do I feel like there’s a human smell?”
“It does seem like there is, but ordinary human cultivators shouldn’t have the ability to break through the formation set up by the Great Elder. Otherwise, they would have already broken in during the past few decades. The place we are at now is a place where Gold Core cultivators can’t enter and Nascent Soul cultivators disdain to come.”
“Just in case, let’s report to the patriarch.”
The two foxes returned to the bonfire. Because they were currently in the middle of a birthday ceremony, they decided to report it later.
A snow-white, handsome, and tall fox stood in the center of the group of foxes. It was the protagonist of this party, Hualianchen.
Hualianchen was the son of the current patriarch. He was 20 years old, which was considered young in the spirit fox clan. Today was his coming-of-age ceremony.
Several elder spirit foxes led the prayer to the fox god. Then, a group of foxes bowed down to the bonfire and chanted something like gratitude to the fox god for protecting them. Afterwards, the patriarch gave Hualianchen a special flower wreath and put it on his head. The coming-of-age ceremony was officially over.
After the coming-of-age ceremony, some young female foxes began to flirt with Hualianchen, but Hualianchen did not even look at them. Not to mention that they were not spirit foxes, but just ordinary spirit beasts. Even if they were spirit foxes with equally noble bloodlines, Hualianchen was still young and did not want to be tied down by a family so early. He yearned to become stronger and yearned for the outside world. He did not want to be like his elders, who stayed in this place for decades or even hundreds of years because they felt it was unsafe and kept changing places to stay.
Hualianchen felt that was not truly living, but merely existing.
The last time he took his sister out, Hualianchen was punished, but he did not feel that he had done anything wrong. Instead, he became more determined to become stronger quickly and leave this place to embrace the colorful world outside.
“Patriarch, we just discovered…” Hualianchen looked at the bright moon in the sky, wondering where to go next time, when he suddenly heard his two uncles talking to his father.
Because Hualianchen had just received the flower wreath, he was relatively close to the elders, so he could hear them very clearly.
The two uncles meant that they had discovered traces of suspected humans, but they could not determine if they were humans.
“Humans? It’s impossible for them to come in, right? Even if they did come in and discovered our existence, it’s impossible for them to not make any noise.” The other uncles and aunts beside the patriarch began to discuss.
“It’s better to be careful. Where did you find them?”
Soon, a group of spirit foxes arrived at the grass. The human smell that the two Gold Core early-stage spirit foxes had been unable to determine had now completely disappeared.
“That’s strange. Was it an illusion?”
“It’s very possible. You’ve all been patrolling recently and haven’t had much rest. Now that the coming-of-age ceremony is over, that fellow Hualianchen should have calmed down a bit and won’t run around( luàn pǎo) recklessly. You guys should rest well.”
“A single fox is an illusion, but two foxes having the same illusion is too coincidental.” Hua Liangchen, who was following behind, spoke up.
It recalled the young cultivator who had saved it. At that time, the other party had said that if their tribe discovered even a trace of human aura, they should immediately relocate without hesitation. At that time, Hua Liangchen had found it very strange, but now it seemed to have come true, and Hua Liangchen was also a little uneasy.
“You still have the nerve to say that. If you hadn’t snuck out, would we have had to work so hard?” The two foxes laughed and scolded. They still doted on Hua Liangchen and did not blame it for taking its younger sister out. They were just afraid that if something like this happened again, they would lose both of them.
“I can apologize to my uncles later, but there’s something I have to say now.” Hua Liangchen recounted in detail what had happened at that time.
As for why it didn’t say anything when it came back that day, it was because the other party’s words were very strange. Secondly, it didn’t want the elders to know that it had stepped into a trap and was almost caught by a human.
However, there is a big difference in the results between saying something early and saying it late.
This time, Hua Liangchen’s words were not recognized by the elders.
“Why are you always lying, kid? Do you really want to go outside that much?” “It’s so dangerous outside. I really don’t know why you young people want to go out.”
“I’m not lying, it’s true!” Hua Liangchen was very nervous because it had been saved, so it still trusted that human relatively more, not to mention that a similar situation had really appeared now.
“You’re still lying? Such a lame excuse. You can tell it was made up on the spot.”
“You’re already an adult, don’t act like a child anymore. You should be more mature.”
Faced with the doubts and reprimands of the elders, Hua Liangchen began to feel overwhelmed. It regretted it. If it had known, it should have said it when it came back that day, so that it wouldn’t be treated as a lie now .
At this time, a fox with soft and white fur and a smaller body walked over. It let out a very delicate female voice, “My brother is not lying to everyone.”
For this petite fox, the elders clearly had much more love in their eyes. They didn’t even bother to wonder whether Hua Liangchen was lying or not, but instead explained the trouble of relocating.
“Relocation is not an easy task. First, we need to choose a location. Then, we need to set up a magic array to prevent humans from discovering us. If we want to relocate safely, we’ll need at least a few months of preparation.”
“That’s right. You guys are still young and don’t know. Besides us, there are other spirit foxes living in other places. We migrated from somewhere else. The whole process was very difficult. Although the Spirit Nether Mountain where we live is Rich in resources and spiritual energy, it is also very dangerous. Five years ago, the Grand Elder left us. Without his excellent astrology skills, we haven’t been able to decide where to relocate for a while now.”