Chapter 2 Moonlight
The two of them didn't know what was going on behind them, but walked back for more than ten miles with chatting and laughing. At this time, it was the sunset again, and they happened to walk back to the stream where they met.
Over the past few years, the two have already formed a habit. This place is the place where they meet and the place where they part!
"Brother Lin, the teacher promised to perform the crown ritual for us. Doesn't this mean we can..."
The two stood beside the stream, and Ning Wan said in surprise.
"Yes! It's been two years, and I'm finally going to see the teacher!" Lin Xi replied in an ordinary manner. How could they not know that since the mysterious teacher agreed to celebrate them, it means that the teacher will appear in front of the two in true form. He will even tell them his identity!
"The teacher is a savage man, and I don't know what kind of person he is? You and I can meet the teacher in this side. It's such a blessing in this life!"
"The teacher is definitely not an ordinary person. I still remember that when the teacher said that when the influence of the chaotic times over the past two thousand years has been lost, many classics are lost and the rituals are incomplete. The rituals are only recorded in the ancient Book of Rites. Today, even the royal family may not have a complete ritual. However, the teacher's tone just now has to crown us according to the ancient ritual system!"
Lin Xi replied thoughtfully that the two of them often talked about this mysterious teacher, but they could never be sure who the teacher was?
After hearing Lin Xi's words, Ning Wan also showed a look of thought. However, he sighed that he was not as far-reaching as Lin Xi thought.
And at this moment, Lin Xi suddenly spoke again. A sentence shocked Ning Wan and blurted out: "I guess the teacher will leave after the ceremony..."
"Well? The teacher is leaving here?" Ning Wan asked quickly, but there was not much disbelief in his expression. He knew that Lin Xi would say this, so naturally it was not aimless!
"The teacher lives here, and with his talent and knowledge, it is impossible for him to live in this small town on the side for a long time. Moreover, the teacher has never asked about our ambitions for two years, but today I suddenly asked. In addition, I live in the mountains all year round, and I have some special feelings about the things around me. I feel that the teacher does mean to leave!"
"Since the teacher is leaving, is Brother Lin considering going to Chaodu with me? It is easy to learn from you and me. It is easy to enter the "Taixue Cathedral". The teacher teaches our strategy. If we don't enter the court, wouldn't it be a pity?"
Ning Wan was deeply convinced of Lin Xi's judgment. Instead, he raised this question that he had said many times. In the past two years, Ning Wan has asked Lin Xi this more than once!
"I...let me think about it again!"
As Ning Wan expected, Lin Xi still answered the same way this time. Looking at Lin Xi's lingering and struggling look in his eyes, he didn't continue to say anything.
"Then let's see you and my brothers farewell today first, see you here in seven days!" Ning Wan bowed slightly. Lin Xi also replied with a bow, and the two of them parted, and they made an appointment to see you in seven days.
Seeing Ning Wan's back disappearing on the path, Lin Xi sighed slightly. Then he slowly walked towards the stream. Just one meter away from the stream, Lin Xi suddenly kicked hard. Then a gray shadow flashed by. In an instant, Lin Xi's figure appeared on the other side of the stream, and this place belongs to the Black Mountain, the place of the demon clan!
At this time, the sky was dark. The deeper the Black Mountain, the more strange the rocks were, and the big trees with curved branches grew in conjunction with their roots.
Lin Xi went towards the depths of the Black Mountain. At this moment, he gently tapped the ground. Every time he hit the ground, he jumped several feet away. Lin Xi, which jumped between the rocks, seemed not a human, but a wild beast that had been running through the deep mountains and old forests all year round. Lin Xi flew between the rock branches, but his clothes were not hung at all. He just jumped all the way. After a stick of incense, Lin Xi stopped under a smooth cliff.
The cliff wall here is as smooth as a mirror, with a cliff wall of more than ten feet high, and even a single grass has not grown on it. It is just that scratches on the cliff, as if they were scratched by sharp claws. The smooth mountain wall is like a natural chasm lying in front of Lin Xi.
Ning Xi looked at the top of the cliff and suddenly accelerated toward the cliff. When he approached the cliff, Lin Xi jumped and rose nearly one meter high. Then he turned his fingers into claws and grabbed the mountain wall suddenly.
Just under Lin Xi's grab, five scratches appeared on the mountain wall, and Lin Xi's body rose up again with the power of this grab. After more than ten times of this, Lin Xi appeared on the cliff with the power of his claws.
There was another scene above the cliff. A stone cave about five feet wide and half a meter high appeared on the top of the cliff, and there was a faint flash of fire in the cave.
"Mother, the baby is back!"
Lin Xi suddenly smiled and couldn't wait to shout at the cave. No one could have thought that the cave on the cliff would be his home.
Lin Xi walked into the cave. Although it was late autumn now, a warm breath in the cave made him feel relieved. The space in the cave was not big, only three meters in a radius. There was no furnishings in it, except for a bonfire in the corner and a spring water as thick as a thumb on the stone wall. There was only a snow-white fox in the entire cave!
The snow-white fox sat against the stone wall. It stepped back and stood cross-legged, but it sat cross-legged like a human. When Lin Xi walked into the stone cave, the fox, which was sitting cross-legged like a human, suddenly opened its eyes. The fox's eyes were clear and showed more complex emotions. The eyes did not look like a beast at all, but the look that a real talent should have!
"Xi'er, you're back! Are you hungry? Grill that pheasant and eat it!"
The fox looked at Lin Xi, his eyes full of love. At this moment, what he said from his mouth was human words...
Speech people's words, have the same living habits as humans, and the same eyes as humans. This is a demon fox that opens his wisdom!
Lin Xi felt warm when she heard this. Although his adoptive mother was indeed a demon fox, the fox mother brought Lin Xi up with her hand. Although she was not the same, the fox mother really regarded him as her own. Every time Lin Xi returned late, the fox mother always prepared food such as pheasants and rabbits, waiting for Lin Xi to return. Even when Lin Xi was ten years old, the fox mother found human clothes and taught Lin Xi the human language, and asked him to go to Heishui City from time to time to integrate into humans. This is why Lin Xi was not out of place with the human race.
"Mother, the teacher asked us to go to the thatched cottage in seven days and will hold a crown ceremony for us."
When he picked up the pheasant with a bite from his neck next to the fire, Lin Xi walked towards the fountain water while talking about what happened today.
"Yes, Xi'er will be twenty soon. According to human customs, Xi'er will be an adult soon!"
The fox mother's eyes were loving, and the light of wisdom was shining in her eyes. She also knew Ning Wan and the mysterious teacher, because no matter what happened, Lin Xi would always tell the fox mother. Lin Xi also knew in her heart that the fox mother's wisdom had long surpassed beasts, and even ordinary humans were not as good as the fox mother!
Lin Xi skillfully broke the pheasant and pulled out the feathers. She washed it with the spring water, and put the pheasant on a wooden stick. Then she put it on the fire and roasted it. From time to time, Lin Xi also grabbed some powder from some small stone jars and sprinkled it on the pheasant. These powders are the most commonly used seasonings for humans.
After a while, the pheasant was baked to golden yellow, and a strong meaty aroma also overflowed from the cave.
"It's so fragrant, Xi'er's craftsmanship is getting better and better." The fox mother said intoxicatedly when she smelled the scent of the pheasant.
"Mother likes it, and from now on, the child will roast pheasants for his mother every day!" Lin Xi tore off a chicken leg, walked to the mother of fox, and handed it to the mother of fox.
The fox mother stretched out her front paws to grab the chicken leg. Listening to Lin Xi's words, there was a hint of contradiction in her eyes. The front paws she grabbed the chicken leg were also sent to her mouth like a human being, and gently bite the chicken, looking extremely gentle.
One person and one fox ate a pheasant like this, and no longer spoke during this period. The atmosphere seemed extremely depressing for a moment.
"How are Xi'er thinking about it?"
Finally, the mother of fox was the first to break the silence and asked.
Lin Xi approached the mother of fox and knelt in front of the mother of fox. His kneeling was just a habitual action. Because his adult body is now much taller than the mother of fox. Only kneeling is just parallel to the mother of fox.
"The child can't bear to leave his mother..."
Lin Xi raised his head, his pair of agile eyes met the fox mother's eyes full of lovingness, and said in a low voice.
The fox mother stretched out her front paws and gently stroked Lin Xi's face. Although the fox claws were sharp, Lin Xi felt that the gentlest palm in the world was stroking herself!
"But the child is a human after all. He must make a decision after all!" The fox mother sighed, and her eyes also showed a helpless look that only humans could have.
Lin Xi has always been contradictory and hesitant, which is his human identity. Now that he is about to become an adult, he must make a choice between humans and demon races. Either return to human society and be a normal person, but in this way he has to leave his mother who has raised him for twenty years. Or Lin Xi completely chooses the demon race, but the consequence is that as a human being in the future, he will fight with his similar human races!
Since ancient times, the shemale and demon clans have been incompatible. Over countless years, the two clans have experienced endless wars. I don’t know how many creatures have fallen because of this, and the two clans have no possibility of peaceful coexistence!
"Forget it, there are a few days left, Xi'er will consider it again! No matter what Xi'er decides, mother will not blame you!"
Seeing Lin Xi silent, the fox mother was also very sad. She stopped asking questions, but instead spoke to comfort her.
Then there was nothing to say for a night, and each person and a fox sat opposite each other. Lin Xi was sleeping cross-legged, while the mother of fox was practicing cross-legged.
In the second half of the night, a moonlight as big as a bowl of water suddenly appeared on the cave, ignoring the mountain, directly shooting into the cave. The moon poured down and shot straight on the mother fox. The mother fox's eyes were slightly opened, and then her mouth opened, and a round and round bead of egg size with a faint light was spit out. As soon as the bead appeared, the moon seemed to have accelerated its speed instantly, like a stream of water that seemed to be sucked into the beads.
Chapter completed!