Volume III: The Tomb of the Fox Immortal - Chapter 61: A Conversation Across a Millennium - End of This Volume

Our footsteps did not stop until we walked all the way out of the Fox Immortal's Tomb and reached the location of the underground dark river. As we arrived at the exit, I said to Hu Yue'er beside me, "Senior, there were only the four of us when we came here. If you were to leave with us, it would inevitably arouse suspicion among the villagers. You—"

Before I could finish my sentence, Hu Yue'er waved her hand and said, "You needn't worry about this. Just tell me where to wait for you, but do not make me wait too long."

Hearing this, I nodded hastily and said, "If that's the case, it's even better. Senior, we few still have some matters to attend to. If you go to the entrance of the village, you will see a white van. Just wait for us there, and we will return as soon as possible."

However, Hu Yue'er furrowed her brow and asked, "A van? What kind of thing is that? Is it something to eat, or a carriage?"

Hearing this, I gave a wry smile and said, "Let's do this then: just wait for us at the village entrance."

Only then did Hu Yue'er nod and say, "Be quick about it. I am getting a bit hungry. It has been so long since I tasted mortal food, I am almost forgetting what it tastes like."

I nodded, and then I saw a thin layer of white light emerge around Hu Yue'er. The moment the white light vanished, Hu Yue'er's figure vanished from the spot as well.

Seeing this, the rest of us clicked our tongues in secret. Li Kun walked over to my side, threw an arm around my shoulder, and said, "Old Liu, after this trip out, there's actually an extra female celestial being among us brothers. Have you figured out where to arrange for her to stay? At the very least, she needs a place to live."

Xu Tian said from my side, "Oh right, Old Liu, that Liuyun Shop of ours should be finished being built in a few days. How about this, let's find a place for this fox immortal around the Liuyun Shop first so that she can promptly notify us if anything happens."

Li Kun said, "Old Liu, what if Gao Feng asks you about this? What if that tall beauty flips her jealous vinegar jar?"

I gave a bitter smile and replied, "I'll discuss it with that celestial being later. Since she has arrived in the mortal realm, she needs to have an identity, otherwise it will be troublesome everywhere."

Xu Tian also nodded and said, "Let's study these matters later. Let's head up first, return to the village, and explain everything to the old village chief. I reckon that in a few days, all those villagers from Goutou Village should be returning."

With that, we walked to the entrance of the cave. Li Kun climbed up first, and after Xu Tian and I tied Dagou to our waists with a mountaineering rope, Li Kun slowly pulled Dagou up. Then Xu Tian and I both reached the surface one after the other.

Upon reaching the surface, we all took a few deep breaths of fresh air and exchanged glances. Li Kun sat down on the ground and said, "It feels so good to be alive. This trip was simply too dangerous; we brushed with death several times over. It seems our brothers are destined not to die just yet."

Xu Tian also nodded and said, "Indeed, this trip was truly perilous. We almost got buried in the Fox Immortal's Tomb."

At that moment, Dagou began to regain consciousness. Upon seeing the few of us, Dagou rubbed his head and asked me, "Master, what happened to me? It seems I passed out."

Hearing Dagou call me Master again, a wave of discomfort washed over me. Inside the tomb, he had been calling me Brother Liu all along, but now he reverted to calling me Master. Thinking of this, I couldn't help shaking my head, and then I said to Dagou, "It's nothing, everything is resolved now."

Dagou turned his head to look at me and asked, "Is that headless ghost dead?"

I nodded and said, "The village will be safe from now on, don't worry."

After chatting with Dagou a bit more, Dagou gradually believed it, yet he always felt as if he had forgotten something—as if he had encountered something terrifying, but no matter how hard Dagou tried to recall, he could not remember.

By tomorrow morning, Dagou would completely forget these events, and everything would completely return to normalcy.

The old village chief was sitting on the brick-bed at that moment, smoking a dry tobacco pipe and constantly glancing at the wall clock. Seeing that it was already past seven o'clock, his heart was filled with anxiety, and he couldn't even summon the mood to watch his favorite anti-Japanese war movie on television.

The old village chief softly muttered, "Could it be that something happened to them? If something really did happen to them, then this old man would be a sinner. Those were clearly just a few young lads in their twenties, how could they possibly contend with a fierce ghost? Alas..."

Muttering thus, the old village chief picked up his burnt-out tobacco pipe with a gloomy face, wanting to take another puff. But as soon as he raised it, he realized the pipe in his hand had long since gone out. The old village chief shook his head helplessly, just about to toss the pipe away, when a familiar voice echoed from outside the house: "Village Chief, we're back."

The moment he heard this voice, the old village chief instantly sat up, his hands trembling slightly. The tobacco pipe dropped onto the brick-bed, and he hurried down, put on his shoes, and rushed to the door.

Just as the old village chief stepped out of the house, he saw several young lads and Liu Fang, whose husband had died the day before, escorting three people inward.

Upon seeing the arrivals, the old village chief hurriedly hurried forward. Looking at Li Kun, Xu Tian, and me standing before him, the old village chief's hands began to tremble as he asked, "Three Masters, you've returned. How did it go?"

Having said this, the old village chief finally snapped out of it, hurriedly stepped aside, and said, "Three Masters, please come in. Let's go inside and talk."

With that, the group all walked into the house.

After I recounted the whole origin of the events, the old village chief and the people around fell into a dead silence. Of course, the matter of the fox immortal was naturally not told to the old village chief and the others.

Hearing this, the old village chief and everyone else were filled with endless astonishment. The old village chief said, "The three Masters not only eradicated the skin-peeling ghost and the headless ghost that harmed our village, but also saved the generations of our village's ancestors. On behalf of all of Goutou Village, we kowtow to thank the three Masters."

With that, the old village chief actually dropped to his knees before the three of us. Seeing this, I quickly stepped forward to support the old village chief's body, while Li Kun and Xu Tian beside me also swiftly stepped aside, not accepting this kowtow from the old village chief.

Yet just as I steadied the old village chief, the surrounding villagers actually knelt down before the three of us as well.

Xu Tian and Li Kun were both flustered for a moment. I hurriedly said, "Everyone, please get up. What is the meaning of this? These matters are all what we ought to do."

The old village chief shook his head and said, "Our Goutou Village has been established here since ancient times. But starting nearly a thousand years ago, whenever villagers went up the mountain and returned, they would fall gravely ill. Later on, when people in the village died, no one was willing to help bury them; families could only carry their own dead up the mountain for burial. This has persisted for nearly a thousand years. If not for the three Masters, how would we ever have known that the ancestors of Goutou Village were actually trapped on Mount Goutou? The three Masters are fully deserving of this bow from the villagers of Goutou Village."

When the old village chief finished these words, the villagers inside the house expressed their gratitude to us once more.

After the villagers expressed their gratitude, the old village chief said to everyone, "Alright, all of you head out first. I still have some matters to discuss with the three Masters."

Everyone nodded and filed out one after another.

Once everyone had completely retreated, the old village chief walked over to the large wooden cabinet in the room, opened it, and took out a parcel. Unwrapping the parcel, he produced a small gray cloth bag tied with a black thread string.

Holding the pouch, the old village chief walked over to my side and said, "Three Masters, this is a token of appreciation from all of Goutou Village. We hope the three Masters will accept this item."

Li Kun and Xu Tian also walked over to my side at this moment. The old village chief continued, "Previously, I thought there was only one headless ghost in the village, which is why I offered a price of two hundred thousand. But I did not know there was also a skin-peeling ghost, and moreover, the three Masters saved our ancestors. This great kindness is truly something the people of our village do not know how to measure with money."

With that, the old village chief handed the pouch to me and said, "This item has been left behind for more than a thousand years. The successive village chiefs of Goutou Village have all guarded this object. Whenever a village chief takes over this item, the predecessor always tells him one sentence: if the day comes when someone rescues the villagers, be sure to present this object to them."

Hearing this, I reached out and took the pouch from the old village chief's hand. The old village chief said, "The villagers of Goutou Village have waited a very long time for this moment."

Hearing these words, Xu Tian stared at the old village chief before him with shock written all over his face. Xu Tian asked, "Old village chief, are you saying that this item began being passed down a thousand years ago? And it has lasted all this time simply to await an outsider capable of saving the village?"

The old village chief nodded and said, "That is correct, precisely so."

Hearing this, Xu Tian turned his head to look at me. My heart was likewise shaken beyond measure. What on earth was going on? An item left behind for me by people from a thousand years ago—is this a dialogue spanning a millennium? This was simply too unscientific.

Yet upon a second thought, we had brought a fox immortal out with us; what else could possibly be considered unscientific? The current situation was already unscientific enough.

However, if it dated back a thousand years, that would be the Northern Song Dynasty. At that time, the emperor of the Northern Song was Zhao Kuangyin, so it was also called the Zhao Song Dynasty. That meant the object inside this pouch was an artifact from the Northern Song period. But through this dialogue across a millennium, what would the object in this pouch leave behind for us, and what kind of riddle would it present to us?

Would the contents of this pouch open the door to a new world for us once again? What on earth was the ghost eye that the white fox spoke of? Why did Xu Tian descend into the tomb together with us? Why did this Soul-Slicing Saber suddenly acquire an extra thread of blood? What other functions did the Soul-Suppressing Bell possess? Countless riddles still awaited me to unravel them one by one. What on earth would happen in the future?

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