chapter 1

On Qingqiu Mountain, the quiet and peaceful sky suddenly exploded with several thunderstorms, and the white clouds quickly condensed into a mighty tribulation cloud, mixed with lightning and thunder, covering the entire Qingqiu Mountain in shadows and filled with an air of impending storm.

A little white fox ran out of a cave with a piece of chicken bone in its mouth. It stupidly looked up at the tribulation cloud with incredulous shock in its eyes, not even realizing when the chicken bone had fallen.

That’s a tribulation cloud! They actually have a great person in Mount Qingqiu who is ascending to immortality? It’s incredible!

The little white fox didn’t have time to think, and subconsciously ran up with his short legs, like a white lightning bolt weaving through the lush green forest. It wasn’t until it saw the Great One that was in the process of being transformed that it found a rock far up high and jumped on it, sitting nicely and waiting for the Great One to ascend to immortality.

The Great One is an extremely beautiful woman. It has never seen such a beautiful woman in at least 100 years since the birth of little white fox. It was as if her every move could transmit the enchanting nature of her bones, making people fascinated by what they see, and can’t wait to dig out their hearts and soul for her.

But the heavenly tribulation doesn’t appreciate the beauty, and the thunderbolts kept striking one after another in the sky, showing no mercy. The little white fox looked at the Great One, who went from just moving around to giving her all, and two hours later, all the nearby hills, large and small, had been flattened! And it was followed by a moment of tension and a moment of relaxation, deeply experiencing the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

After failing to defeat the Great One after such a long time, the heavens seemed to have been moved to true wrath, fiercely throwing down a giant thunderbolt. A golden light twisted and raging, striking straight at the Great One’s head.

But the Great One is not afraid in the slightest, shaking her body to reveal her true form, nine snow-white fluffy long tails swaying behind her, with a small red mark at the center of her eyebrow flickering with a demonic light. She looked at the giant lightning without dodging, rushing straight up into the clouds to collide with it viciously, literally heading for mutual destruction!

The little white fox jumped up and opened her small mouth in surprise, staring at the Great One’s true form.

The Great One is actually Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox Daji!!!

(Tnote: Daji = she was a mythical fox spirit and concubine of the last Shang Dynasty Emperor Zhou Xin. The original ‘vixen’ that ruined a dynasty, a.k.a Su Daji)

That mark between the eyebrows was a unique feature of Daji! Most importantly, Daji is its ancestor!!!

Rumor has it that Daji turned the human world upside down and was punished for 10,000 years, and the nine-tailed foxes were also restrained from leaving Qingqiu Mountain for even half a step. Since then, Daji had disappeared without a trace, and no one knew where she went.

The little white fox never dreamed that in its lifetime, it would actually see the Ancestor’s tribulation and ascension, and it was so excited that it bounced in place, its eyes smiling.

In a flash of lightning, Daji had repelled the giant thunder and successfully survived the Heavenly Tribulation.

The huge tribulation cloud reluctantly dispersed, a hundred birds chirped and flowers bloomed in the mountains, and beautiful music resounded in the air. The pale golden divine light spilled down from above Daji’s head, and the whole Qingqiu mountain was instantly filled with rich aura.

The little white fox absorbed the aura around it. It was warm and it narrowed its eyes comfortably. Looking at the slowly descending heavenly stairway again, it was both proud and envious, looking at the Ancestor’s holy appearance covered in gilded light. Having become immortal, it really is very different.

When will it be able to cross over and ascend? The heavenly realm must be a wonderful, happy place, right?

It casually swept a glance around, the mighty ascension, there were all sorts of demons coming to watch, including their nine-tailed fox clan, but they all have six tails, five tails, and the weakest also has three tails. At this time they were all anxious to bathe in the divine light below, to soak up the immortal Qi.

The little white fox looked back at its lonely tail, and its ears drooped instantly. It clasped its fluffy tail with its little paws dejectedly and lay down on the stone.

Clearly, it has worked hard and never slacked off in 100 years. It has tried all the methods used by others, but why can’t it gain a second tail? It was born much smarter than others. Why is it so difficult to practice? Now it was so weak that it can’t even touch the divine light, it can only watch as all the advantages were taken by other demons.

That’s its ancestor, not theirs!

So frustrated, so angry!

Its little head rested on two soft claws, and watched its ancestors step up the stairway with eyes full of thoughts — tail, to ascend! Tail, to ascend! Tail, to ascend!

In this instant, it was as if the wish had become its obsession!

After Daji became immortal and was bathed in divine light, her eyes and mind immediately became different and her abilities grew by leaps and bounds. Just before she was about to step into the heavenly realm, her mind suddenly became aware that she still had a very subtle tie to the mortal world. She looked down, raised her hand and counted for a moment, then her eyes fell on the little white fox.

(TNote: counted (with her fingers) = there is some Daoist people that believe fate could be counted in some special way. For more info, please google.)

For 10,000 years, the Qingqiu Fox Clan was dwindling, and she didn’t even know she had a descendant surviving in the world. Although it has been passed down for so many generations, there was only a trace of blood in the little white fox, but even if there was only a trace, it was also her descendant. What’s more, this little white fox looks furry and round, so people couldn’t help but love it when they see it. If heaven allowed it, she really wanted to take it away with her.

She used the divine light from her ascension to cleanse the marrow and clean the bones of her clan as a way to pay back the karma she owed them, but this little white fox was not one of them. Just because the little white fox had her blood in its veins, it was considered by the heavens to be guilty of the same crime, and its cultivation was a thousand times more difficult than that of its clan. One look at the little white fox’s pitiful one tail showed how badly it was constrained. She was the one who implicated the little white fox, and now that she had achieved the Great Dao and knew all this, she naturally couldn’t let her only descendant be killed by the Heavenly Dao.

Heaven’s rules may not be broken, but there’s still room for maneuver. She, Daji never played by the rules. Pondering for a moment, she raised her hand to her brow, and a teardrop-shaped ruby appeared in her palm. She threw it at the little white fox, and hooked her lips. She turned and stepped into the heavenly realm without stopping.

She used a drop of her Immortal body’s purest blood to gift the little white fox a divine chance, as to what kind of chance, it would depend on the little one’s own destiny.

The little white fox stared at something shot in the air with a stupid face, trying to escape, but its body seemed petrified, and couldn’t move. In an instant, the thing hit its head. It closed its eyes sharply; all its fur blew up to a puff. After sensing that it could move, it immediately jumped off the rock and stared up and around in a cautious circle, again and again.

But no, there was nothing!

What on earth hit it just now?

When it looked up again, the Ancestor was gone, and the sky had returned to its original calm, but it couldn’t calm its heart.

It is so clever and lovely, why did the Ancestors hit it???

It felt wronged and wanted to cry.

The little white fox turned around unhappily, and ran away from there. The roast chicken in the cave wasn’t finished yet!

As it passed by the river, it ran over to get a drink to quench its thirst. But when it looked down and saw the reflection in the water, it was suddenly surprised, jumped aside with conditioned reflex, and spat an air blast at the spot where it was standing!

Its mana was weak, and it didn’t have much offensive power when using any of its five spells, only the air blast could be used for fighting. Although the air blast was only a small ball, it still blew the ground out into a shallow pit.

However, there was nothing there, let alone enemies, not even a mosquito.

The little white fox curled its head, looked at the river, and suddenly realized that the reflection in the water just now was actually itself. It quickly jumped over and took a look at the water.

Yes, it’s much rounder than other nine-tailed foxes. It’s young and as cute as a ball, and laughed at as a little Pomeranian puppy. This was itself! There’s no other demon in all of Qingqiu Mountain that looks like it!

But what’s with the red droplet between the eyebrows? It’s been living for 100 years all snowy and white without a single stray hair, okay?! And it’s not going to accessorize itself with jewelry. What is this sudden addition? It had mistaking itself for the enemy!

But it looks like the Ancestor’s, it’s not as good looking as the Ancestor, but it’s the only one in the whole clan that looks like the Ancestor! It was so happy thinking about it.

The little white fox lifted its paw to touch the forehead, who knew that the little paw would hurt from the tip of the gemstone on it!

The little white fox licked its paws in distress, not even knowing what expression to make. Although it can’t even transform to human form or make a facial expression.

At this moment, the ruby between its eyebrows shined brightly. There was a warmth that surrounded it, as if it were back in its mother’s womb, safe and warm, making it comfortable enough to be off guard without realizing it.

This time, it didn’t even have time to react before it saw the calm waters turn into a vortex that instantly sucked it in!

Sucked! It! In!

?????

What the hell?!

At the moment of losing consciousness, the little white fox thought that in his next life, no matter if someone else ascends or becomes a devil, he won’t join this fun anymore, wuwuwu!

The little white fox thought it was ironically doomed, but just for an instant. It actually opened its eyes again. It’s just that the surroundings have become completely unfamiliar. The glossy floor, the creamy soft glow of the roof, the room was not small, but it was empty, with nothing but itself, not even a door or window.

Looking at it carefully, the surrounding ‘walls’ are like magic mirrors, in which human characters and various images were drawn across the ‘mirrors’, as if they were singing opera, performing different comedies and tragedies, which is quite interesting.

The little white fox is also thoughtful, confirming that the house really has no doors or windows and there was no danger, it lied at a corner watching those interesting ‘plays’.

In those ‘plays’ there are people crying, laughing, angry, sad, it’s really the state of human life.

There are also strange looking characters inside, some of them more immortal than the scattered immortals in the mountains; Some of them with short sleeves and shorts, more revealing than their fox illusions in human form; Some wore pearls and jade, more dazzling than all those gems it had collected; Some also had magic, a black thing that could kill someone on the other side with the pull of their finger, much more powerful than its spells….

The little white fox cocked his head, wondering, and curious about the stories in those pictures.

Is this the world under the mountain? Are these different people of different clans? Some of them are very delicate, some are very powerful, but everything they have experienced is much more interesting than its life in 100 years. If only it could go down the mountain, the Ancestors used to cause storms in the world. It didn’t want to emulate the Ancestors, but it really wanted to see what the world was like!

[Su Yuanyuan, do you really want to go to the human world?]

The little white fox’s fur instantly stood up, popped its claws out and jumped up in place. With a threatening low roar in its throat, it showed sharp white teeth, and looked around warily.

[I am the magic treasure on your eyebrow — the Practice Immortality System. You can call my code ‘001’, which means Number 1, the strongest system. I am the most suitable chance for you, born of your heart’s desire. Guided by the blood of the immortal Daji. I have bound your soul, and will assist and urge you to become immortal and fulfill your greatest wish in the future.]

The little white fox’s entire body stayed still and raised its paw to touch the gemstone between its brows, which had disappeared. Through the reflection on the floor, it could faintly see the gem turning into a red droplet mark, imprinted between its brows, as if it had been born with a tiny mark there, making it look many times cuter than it already was!

Good ah!!!

Why does the Ancestor’s mark seem so enchantingly lovely when it’s just a mark?! It’s a nine-tailed fox, and it wants to be beautiful and enchanting too!

Thinking of this, the little white fox felt that it had to correct its name. It immediately looked up and walked gracefully to the middle of the room, and said as proudly as possible, “If you want to help me, you must listen to me. First thing, remember my name, I’m called ‘Su Yuanyuan’, ‘Yuanyuan’ is the one that stands for beauty and jade, not the ’round’ of a ball. Do you remember?”

The room was silent for a moment, and the monotone voice of the system sounded.

[Su Yuanyuan, the Qingqiu’s little white fox, who has only one tail after practicing for 100 years, has the blood of the Immortal Daji, and is extremely talented. But it is difficult to practice because of the connection to the immortal Daji. The greatest wish is to see all of life, to cultivate into a Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox, and to ascend to immortality. Since she grew up worshiping the power of the Immortal Daji, she took on the surname of the immortal Daji, ‘Su’, and was named ‘Su Yuanyuan’ because she was born as a snowy white ball. —This is your basic information, yes.]

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Weeping in rage!!