Chapter 1198: Chapter 1171: Cannon Fodder in the Demon Hunting Novel (35)

Anning awakened An Xin.

An Xin was currently in a dormant state, and being forcibly awakened by Anning left her a bit dazed: "Ningning, what’s wrong? Are you in danger?"

"Back when you and I were in the Primordial World, did you collect the essence blood of the Nine-tailed Fox clan?"

Anning asked An Xin.

"Yeah."

An Xin nodded: "When we left that world, I even collected some of the original body’s essence blood. I was thinking that if, in some world, you ever ended up as a demon with a low-grade bloodline, I could use this to change your bloodline so your cultivation would go more smoothly."

"Take out a bit."

Anning said to An Xin.

"Okay."

An Xin took out a bit of Nine-tailed Fox essence blood from her stockpile.

Once Anning got it, she began injecting a thread of the Nine-tailed Fox bloodline into her own veins. Very quickly, she finished converting her bloodline.

While Anning was doing all this, Xiao Yuan had been standing guard by her side the entire time.

When Anning finished converting her bloodline, she once again picked up those stones and carefully sensed them.

Gradually, she felt a sense of intimacy.

She knew that the main body fragments of Stone Girl still had some vitality left.

Anning closed her eyes, dripped some blood onto the stones, and then used her Divine Soul to communicate with them.

After who knew how long, a faint voice sounded in the depths of her soul: "Sister, is that you, Sister?"

Anning hurriedly replied: "Stone Girl, it’s me, your eldest sister."

Anning felt a hint of joy; she knew this was Stone Girl’s emotion.

"I finally waited until Sister came. Sister, I’ll give you the inheritance and the Mana I sealed away."

Anning felt an extra thread of heat appear in her body. Very soon, she detected the sudden surge in her cultivation, along with quite a bit of the Nine-tailed Fox clan’s inheritance, and also some of Stone Girl’s memories.

It turned out that back then, when the Nine-tailed Fox and the pheasant spirit were executed after King Zhou’s death, Stone Girl, who had always been sent by the Nine-tailed Fox to be nurtured in a Cave Heaven Blessed Land, sensed it. Just before the Nine-tailed Fox and the pheasant spirit were scattered into nothingness, she risked everything to seal the lifetime cultivation of those two great demons into her own main body, and also recorded the inheritances of both clans.

Because Stone Girl defied the heavens in doing all of this, by the time she fled back into the cave mansion, her main body had already shattered.

And in that cave mansion, there were some little foxes with shallow fox demon bloodlines that the Nine-tailed Fox had previously placed there. Before Stone Girl went into slumber, she cast a spell so that these little foxes would believe that her main body fragments were the Fox Clan’s supreme treasure, so they would protect them and pass them down generation after generation.

Later, some of those little foxes succeeded in their cultivation, and they really did pass these fragments down from one generation to the next.

After viewing Stone Girl’s memories, Anning also felt Stone Girl’s sorrow.

"Sister, heaven wants to wipe out the Fox Clan’s line. All these years, I’ve been guarding the Fox Clan, watching that whenever one of them has good aptitude and spiritual sensitivity, they’ll run into one calamity or another. After so many years, each generation of the Fox Clan is worse than the last. By now, it’s truly hard for any fox demon capable of cultivation to emerge."

Stone Girl was very heartbroken: "They all say heaven is punishing the Fox Clan because Sister committed murderous sins. But why? We sisters threw the court into chaos under Empress’s orders. As for saying we killed people... the weak are prey to the strong, that’s the Law of this world. We’re demons, why can’t we kill people? Are there few demons who kill people? I’ve never seen their entire clans suffer calamity for it. Besides, how many of our kind have humans killed? I’ve never seen heavenly punishment descend on them. Heaven is truly unjust."

Anning gently soothed Stone Girl: "I understand. You’ve worked hard all these years, little sister."

"I’m not tired."

Stone Girl smiled: "Being able to see Sister again makes me very happy. I’ve passed my Mana on to Sister, and my mission is complete. Sister... we sisters will probably never meet again in the future..."

Before Stone Girl finished speaking, she sank back into slumber.

Anning’s expression held some sorrow.

This Stone Girl was really just like the Stone Girl who had been her younger sister in that other life. Though they were in different times and spaces, Anning always felt the two Stone Girls were the same.

She lowered her head and pieced the fragments together, then said to Xiao Yuan: "I want to visit the Fox Clan."

"I’ll go with you."

Xiao Yuan took Anning’s hand.

Anning shook her head: "I’ll go alone. I want to place Stone Girl’s main body in the Fox Clan’s cave mansion. The Spiritual Energy there is abundant and can nourish her. After she’s been nourished for a while, I’ll think of a way to slowly help her recover."

"Alright."

Whatever Anning wanted to do, Xiao Yuan had always supported her: "After some time, when I go back up the mountain, I’ll see if our sect has any good things passed down. If there’s anything useful, I’ll give it to Stone Girl."

"Mm."

Anning smiled.

She collected the stones and put them away properly, then went straight out the door.

On Hu Sanniang’s side, she had just finished discussing matters with the elder when she saw a little fox demon poke its head in: "Third Lady, there’s a woman outside looking for Third Lady. She says her name is Luo Anning."

Hu Sanniang was so startled she hurriedly stood up: "Where is she?"

When Hu Sanniang saw Anning, she was especially shocked: "Little sister, why are you here? How did you find this place?"

Anning smiled and took out the stones: "I calculated it from these."

"Isn’t this what I gave you?"

Hu Sanniang was even more astonished: "Little sister, come in with me first. Whatever it is, we can talk inside."

Anning followed Hu Sanniang into the Barrier.

From outside it looked like a stretch of dense forest, but once inside, she found birdsong and fragrant flowers, a mild climate, and flowers and trees everywhere—truly very beautiful.

"Your home is really pretty."

Anning couldn’t help but praise.

Hu Sanniang laughed: "Our Fox Clan spent many years developing this territory into what it is now."

Anning watched some birds fly overhead and saw butterflies frolicking among the flowers. In the distance, quite a few small animals were playing around, and she relaxed along with the scene.

Hu Sanniang led Anning into a very small wooden hut.

"This is where I live. Sit down first, little sister, I’ll get you something to eat."

Anning pulled over a raw-wood chair and sat down. Hu Sanniang went out for a bit, then came back in carrying a plate of juicy peaches.

"Have a taste, little sister."

"Peaches?"

Anning’s eyes lit up: "It’s already autumn now, and Sister Hu still has peaches at home? I’m really in luck today."

She took a peach and bit into it, finding it soft and sweet, with juice brimming to the point of bursting—absolutely delicious.

Very soon, Anning finished eating one peach.

She wiped the corner of her mouth before talking business with Hu Sanniang: "These pieces of stone you gave me are the main body fragments of an ancient great demon."

Uh?

Hu Sanniang didn’t quite understand.

Anning explained carefully: "Does Sister Hu know about the Nine-tailed Fox? You should have heard of the ancient great demon Dai Yi, right?"

Hu Sanniang nodded: "She’s the ancestor of our Fox Clan, of course I know."

Anning pointed at the pieces of stone: "These stones are the main body fragments of Stone Girl, the sworn sister of the Nine-tailed Fox. Back then..."

She went over everything once: "I never expected that my body would actually carry the Nine-tailed Fox’s bloodline inheritance. My blood activated Stone Girl’s memories. Stone Girl told me a lot of things, so I came here specifically to tell Sister Hu."