It was really a small white fox, with a small body and a small tail. Because it had run to the top of the mountain in the wind and snow, the whole little fox looked very embarrassed, and its claws were cracked from walking.
It holds a small heart-shaped leaf in its mouth.
It scooped up a bucket of water with this small leaf, held it in its mouth and protected it all the way to the top of the mountain. It was unknown how much it spilled along the way, and Shao Yin was not even sure how many times it tried before it succeeded. When it reached the top of the mountain, there was only a small drop of water left on the leaf.
And it gave her this drop of water.
At that time, Shao Yin's intelligence was just beginning to develop and she was still ignorant. Before she could see the little white fox's appearance clearly, it had already turned and ran away.
From then on, Shao Yin knew that the little fox would often come to the top of the mountain.
It would come to the top of the mountain once a day, holding a small piece of leaf with spiritual spring in its mouth. It would start climbing in the early morning, reach the top of the mountain at about 3 p.m., rest for a while, sometimes take a nap, and usually start to go down the mountain at 5 p.m. It was unknown whether it could return to its residence before dark.
The walls of Snow Lotus Peak were steep, with many places only wide enough for footing. Even gods could hardly reach the top. Shao Yin simply couldn't imagine how this little fox could place its tiny paws on the difficult-to-climb cliffs and climb up step by step.
As the days of delivering water went by, the little white fox had more and more wounds on its body and looked more and more miserable. It was not difficult to imagine that it often slipped off the cliff and was covered in bruises, but it still came up every day.
It was not easy to transport the spiritual spring. Sometimes the little white fox dragged its wounds and finally climbed up with leaves in its mouth, but there was not even a drop of water in the leaves. It could only circle around the leaves in fear. After looking for a long time and finding that there was really no water, it lay down beside the spiritual spring sadly, sobbing helplessly. But it stumbled back with its wounds and came up again the next day.
Shao Yin was originally a medicinal lotus that could not develop any intelligence. A drop of spiritual spring water could only give her a vague consciousness. If she wanted to be watered into a fairy lotus, she would need a lot of spiritual spring water.
But as Shao Yin received more and more water, her consciousness became clearer and clearer.
She couldn't move, but she could observe with her spiritual sense. She often quietly observed the surrounding environment or looked at the little white fox.
She guessed that there should be a rare spiritual spring on the hillside of this snowy mountain, which gathered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and helped all things to cultivate and transform, but it was not easy to water the spiritual spring. The spiritual water that the little white fox handed her should have come from there.
In addition, she found that the little white fox had abundant spiritual energy. Although this mountain was a spiritual mountain, it was cold and the environment was too harsh. Apart from the medicinal lotus transformed by the spiritual energy, including herself, there were no other creatures. There might be some spiritual vegetation in places with less ice and snow, but there were no animals. This little white fox was the only living thing on the snowy mountain. It was probably also a spirit fox nurtured by the spiritual energy in the mountains, but it had no spiritual intelligence.
It is clearly a fox spirit but it has no intelligence.
Moreover, Shao Yin didn't understand why it was willing to climb up with so much difficulty to water itself when it clearly had no intelligence.
There is an extremely severe snowstorm in the snowy mountains every forty-nine days.
But on days like this, the little white fox would still come up again in the wind and snow, even though it was impossible for it to successfully deliver water in such weather.
One day, when the little white fox came up to deliver the spiritual spring, it happened to encounter a snowstorm that occurred rarely in a thousand years, which almost blew away all the snow lotus in the ice pond.
Shao Yin opened the pistil and let the little white fox hide in her lotus heart. Then she closed the petals tightly and protected it between the flowers and leaves in the wind and snow. She fed the little white fox her own lotus pods and lotus roots, and managed to survive three days and three nights, finally saving the little white fox.
The next day, when the little white fox came to the top of the mountain with a leaf in its mouth, Shao Yin was able to speak.
She said to the little white fox, "Don't pour the spiritual spring water on me anymore. Drink it yourself. It will be much easier for me to become an immortal. If you drink it yourself, it will be faster."
“Awooooooooo!”
The little white fox held the leaf carefully in its mouth, and its cheerful cry was unclear. Then it lowered its head and happily poured the preserved spiritual spring water into Shao Yin's lotus heart.
Shao Yin had no choice but to let it water the plant.
The little white fox did not drink the water from the spiritual spring itself, but poured all the spiritual spring water it could get on Shao Yin's lotus heart.
They stayed together like this for nearly five hundred years.
Until Shaoyin was finally watered and became an immortal.
As an ancient medicinal lotus, she was watered by spiritual springs and was able to change her fate against the will of heaven. Once she was transformed into a human, she became an immortal. She did not have the soul of an ancient god, but had an ancient body.
Because her original form was extremely rare and precious, she was also highly respected in the Nine Heavens, and once she transformed, she had the power of an ancient god. Therefore, Shao Yin hid the little white fox in the heart of a lotus in the ice pond, moved the entire Snow Lotus Peak where she lived to the Nine Heavens, and settled in a corner of the East Sky of the Nine Heavens. She usually studied medicine, took care of the little white fox, and searched for ways to make the little white fox become an immortal, wanting to repay her gratitude.
As an ancient medicinal lotus, Shao Yin was born with the talent to cure diseases and save lives. Since she had awakened her spiritual wisdom, she naturally understood the principles of medicine and pharmacology, and was very good at integrating them. Eight thousand years ago, the medical knowledge in the fairy world was still simple, and there were not many medical immortals. It didn't take long for Shao Yin to gain a reputation in the Nine Heavens.
But as her medical skills improved and her cultivation level rose greatly, when Shao Yin wanted to help the little white fox become an immortal, she discovered that it was missing one of its souls and one of its spirits.
Xue Li was shocked when she heard this and repeated, "One soul and one spirit are missing?!"
Shao Yin held the teacup in her palm and nodded calmly, "Not bad."
She said, "Every creature in the world is born with three souls and seven spirits. Only when they have both souls and spirits can they be clear-minded. If they lose their souls, they will be insane. The little white fox is clearly a spirit fox nurtured by heaven and earth, but it only has two souls and six spirits. Although it is also lively and well-behaved, it is not a problem for it to be a spirit animal, but it is impossible for it to develop intelligence."
Xueli perked up unconsciously and asked in surprise: "How could this happen?"
Shao Yin paused, and the memories of that time were brought back.
She was also surprised when she first discovered that the little white fox only had two souls and six spirits.
No wonder it knew to climb to the top of the mountain to give her water. It was so spiritual, but it never gained intelligence and became an immortal.
Shao Yin said: "It's hard for me to say the exact details. According to my deduction, it may have passed away once before, and its past life is unknown. But even if it had a past life, it should not be very old. After years of wandering in the chaos, it was transformed into a little white fox again in the spiritual energy of Snow Lotus Peak because it had no evil thoughts. But the original soul and spirit had dissipated, so it didn't gather together. Only two of the souls and six spirits are left, and it became like this."
Xueli asked hurriedly: "What should we do then?"
Shao Yin sighed softly and said, "It's very difficult."
Shao Yin was also shocked when she found out that the little white fox was missing one soul and one spirit.
Even if she was born with a natural knowledge of medicine and could cure all diseases, she was not able to deal with this situation. In the fairy world, there is no poison that cannot be cured, no injury that cannot be healed, only souls are determined on the day of birth, one more or one less is impossible. If she wants to replenish the little white fox's soul, she must take the soul of another person to make up for it.
This is a very evil sorcery.
Shao Yin thought about it and decided to use her own soul and spirit to replenish the little white fox's soul.
Xue Li was horrified when she heard this and said, "Taking souls and replenishing souls, isn't this the way of the demons?!"
Shao Yin shook her head and said, "Taking away the souls and lives of others for your own use, harming the living and reviving the dead, is considered evil. But if you use your own body to save others, without harming the health of others' will, taking the body of the dead and the blood of the living to save others' lives, it is considered healing the heart."
Shao Yin said, "Besides, I am originally a medicine lotus, and I should not have a soul. My soul was originally given by the spiritual spring it attracted, so using my soul to repair its soul is the most appropriate. At that time, I also felt that this move might not necessarily lead to death. After all, I am originally a medicine lotus. Since the spiritual spring can give me a soul once, it may not be impossible to have a second time. Even if I fail, it is just a repayment of favor. Therefore, I decided to repair the soul in the spiritual spring on the mountainside, made full preparations, and then repaired its soul."
Xueli was horrified and asked, "Did it succeed?"
Shao Yin smiled and replied, "Of course it was successful."
Xueli was relieved to hear the answer, but then she felt stupid. If she hadn't succeeded, how could her aunt still sit here and talk to her
Shao Yin paused, and her thoughts drifted back to a thousand years ago.
After the little white fox's spirit and soul were restored, it immediately formed a fairy body because it had obtained Shao Yin's fairy soul. However, the newly restored soul was still fragile. Although it had a fairy body, it still took a thousand years for it to have a vague consciousness and intelligence, and another thousand years before it could finally transform into a human body.
Shao Yin said, "From then on, we lived together on Snow Lotus Peak. Because she was melted from the ice and snow, I named her Xue Xin. After Xue Xin gained spiritual wisdom, she became very afraid of the cold for some reason. She would shiver with fear in winter and sometimes even couldn't move. Her fear of the cold is different from that of ordinary people. Most people really feel 'cold', but she is 'afraid', just like you are afraid of thunder. As an ice pond snow lotus, I am not afraid of the cold, so I can't quite understand this feeling, but because of this, I found a way to create the 'Snow Melting Technique' to help her get rid of the cold in winter."
"After learning the snow-melting technique, Xue Xin's fear of cold has improved a lot."
"She and I studied medicine together in Snow Lotus Peak. She worked very hard on medicine. But because the soul-replenishing thing is against the way of heaven, Xue Xin is destined not to go out to see people. So usually I receive visitors and patients in the outer palace, or go out to collect medical books and magical herbs, and Xue Xin stays in the inner palace to study medicine. The two of us often discuss medicine together."
"Unconsciously, the reputation of Xuelian Peak has grown day by day, but outsiders only know that there is me in Xuelian Peak, and never know Xue Xin. In fact, at least one-third of the immortal arts prescriptions we usually use to treat diseases and save lives come from Xue Xin's hand. I feel very guilty about this, but when I asked Xue Xin, Xue Xin answered me like this—"
Shao Yin paused for a moment, took a sip of tea, and repeated, "Xue Xin said, 'Since life and death are already under your control, why bother about fame and fortune? No matter who cures the patient, if one more person is cured, there will be one less life and death separation in the world, one less separation of flesh and blood. I wish there would only be joy in the world, no sorrow.'"
The woman's clear voice was still ringing in her ears, causing Shao Yin to lose consciousness for a moment.
In fact, Shao Yin also asked her why she went through so much trouble to use the spiritual spring to irrigate herself, and Xue Xin's answer was similar.
Xue Xin said, "I don't know for sure, but your attainments in medicine are different from others. I vaguely feel that if a snow lotus like you who can cure all diseases can be transformed into an immortal, it will definitely change the outcome of many things. At least many loved ones will no longer be separated by Yin and Yang due to illness. Sometimes death is fine, but I'm afraid that the people left in the world will be very painful and sad."
Xue Xin felt a little sad when she said this, as if she was feeling guilty and worried about someone.
Shao Yin was in a trance for a moment before she came back to her senses and looked at Xue Li.
Xue Li was blinking at her, the white ears on her head moving unconsciously, and it was obvious that she was nervous about every word she said. Xue Li's facial features were very similar to Xue Xin's, and even their hobbies and personalities had many similarities.
Shao Yin couldn't help but touch Xueli's head and said, "By the way, there is one thing I want to explain."
"Um?"
Sydney tilted her head.
Shao Yin explained: "Xue Xin and I share a soul and live together. She has been kind to me and I have also been kind to her. Although she became spiritually intelligent much later than me, we have known each other for a long time. If we count from our immortal age, there is not much difference between us. Any other relationship is not suitable, so we became sisters. I am the elder sister and she is the younger sister, so..."
Xue Li interjected in confusion: "So?"
Shao Yin said: "... So I really am your aunt."
The author has something to say: Q: Speaking of the similarities between mother and daughter’s preferences and personalities, then Fairy Xue Xin, don’t you like eating radishes either
Xue Xin (lively) who has not appeared yet: "No, I ate it! It's my daughter's father who doesn't eat it! And I'm not a mythical beast, just a fox born in the snow with only one tail. The nine tails also came from my father!"
Changyun: ... (The fox father who was suddenly sold)
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