The Fox

Ye Yan was in a daze. He forgot something very important. The internal storage! With it, why did they even need to cry and run around with baskets of soil on their backs?

Immediately, he asked everyone to put the baskets of soil on the ground and walked to the baskets. Everyone was curious about what he was going to do, but what happened in the next second made them cry out in disbelief.

After Ye Yan confirmed the direction of the baskets, he raised his hand and waved it in the air. With that, the soil on the ground turned into several streams of light and flew into his body.

"What happened?!" Everyone was immediately shocked by Ye Yan, pointing at him at a loss for words.

"Don't worry," Ye Yan explained to them with a smile, "This is the storage space given to me by the Supreme when he showed his divinity. It can hold a lot of things. However, I'm the only one who can control this space. Once I lose my vital signs, everything in this space will turn into ashes."

To expose the existence of the system, Ye Yan had to shift the blame to the "Supreme". He seemed to have done the same last time. However, after hearing Ye Yan's explanation, everyone's eyes were filled with yearning.

Looking at how they yearned to have such a space, Ye Yan had some thoughts. Could he make them something like a storage bag?

The system replied: Copy, over!

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for activating the item synthesizing function. This function is a system gift and is very useful. The host may synthesize and obtain countless items, as well as mysterious treasures. As long as the host has the materials, the host can synthesize anything!]

The considerate system was here giving him benefits again. It was on point and on time every time, which made Ye Yan very satisfied. Although he wanted to figure out the synthesis function now, he had to solve the soil-digging problem first. The house was more important!

With the internal storage, they did not need to take trips to move the soil back. They only needed to dig them out and fill the baskets. As such, everyone immediately returned to the mountain spring and began to work again with great enthusiasm.

After all, they were quite curious to see what the sect's buildings would look like, so they had to start work early. The group of people worked in full swing, and after digging for a full hour, they finished their work. Ye Yan waved his hand, and more than 30 bamboo baskets of soil turned into white light, put away into the internal storage.

"Let's go! Time to return to the sect!" Ye Yan announced with a big smile, and everyone also packed up their things to set off.

Suddenly, a strange feeling rose in Ye Yan's heart, making him tense.

"Something's wrong. Everyone, be on alert. Don't move!" As if he had found something, Ye Yan jumped to the front of the crowd, closing his eyes to search for something carefully.

It was an aura. Ye Yan felt a familiar aura, which was exactly the same as the demonic aura on Mrs. Liu that day. It was that fox!

"It actually escaped?" Ye Yan unleashed his aura to sweep the nearby space. Suddenly, he felt an abnormal disturbance somewhere.

"I've found you!" He smiled and disappeared in the next second, rushing in that direction.

In just three breaths, Ye Yan came to a lawn and struck out a palm. Bang! A muffled sound rang out, and in the next moment, a fox flew out from the grass!

The reason why Ye Yan dared to attack without any scruples was that he knew that the fox was not very strong. It had just broken through to the Qi-forging Realm. After sending the fox flying, he strode forward and grabbed it by the neck before it could react.

All this happened in a flash. Everyone only saw a blur in front of their eyes and Ye Yan had already flashed to a place. When he came back, he had a fox in his hand.

"There's something wrong with this fox..." Chen Geng, who had broken through to the Qi-forging Realm as well, muttered to himself before anyone else could react. He also noticed the fox's abnormality. When the rest of them heard this, they all looked at the fox with curiosity.

This fox looked different from ordinary foxes. It didn't have grayish-brown fur, but soft white fur. It also seemed more dignified than the others, and it looked especially intelligent.

Ye Yan held the fox's neck and walked straight to Liu Kan, "This is the demon that harmed your mother."

Hearing this, Liu Kan's emotions fluctuated for a moment, but he quickly suppressed them. He looked at the fox and said, "Sect master, can you let it tell why it attacked my mother?"

Ye Yan scratched his head. He didn't know the language of beasts... But then he thought of the spell synthesis function, which could probably be used to create a communication spell.

"Wait, I'll think of a way," After returning to the sect, Ye Yan locked the fox in a bamboo cage and forbid anyone to get close to it.

After that, he went into the small house alone and asked everyone to cultivate under the shade of the willow tree. It was strange, but the root willow had grown a lot in the past few days. It was now so thick that seven or eight people were needed to hug it.

On the other side, Ye Yan opened up the spell synthesis panel in the small house and began to place the materials. First was the wood and ink. He opened the internal storage and moved them into the respective grids.

What caught his attention was that there was not much of the inch-long fragrant ancient ink that the system had given him. He had used up the last bit of it to create the current spell. The next time Ye Dahai went to the market, he would have to ask his dad to buy him some ink.

Next was the spell core. Ye Yan entered some thoughts on beast language communication and started the synthesis.

[Ding! The spell, Beast Language, has been successfully synthesized and has been automatically sent to the internal system. Please check it yourself.]

As the mechanical voice fell, Ye Yan felt a comfortable feeling all over his body, and then countless beast language skills appeared in his mind.

This was not due to anything other than the automatic study mechanism the system had given him, which allowed him to immediately learn the spell.

After learning it, Ye Yan walked towards the fox. The fox was dissatisfied with Ye Yan's attitude towards it, so it had already left a gift: poo.

As soon as Ye Yan walked near the cage, he pinched his nose, "Really, this is too dirty..."

"Be honest with me," He said to the fox, "Let me ask you, did you absorb someone's human qi a while back? Why did you do that?"

The fox was very surprised. It suddenly realized that it could understand this human's words. Could it be that it was gifted with the ability to communicate with all living things?

"Yin!" After thinking for a while, the fox let out two fierce cries. With the help of the Beast Language spell's translation, Ye Yan understood the whole story.

This fox had just gained sentience when it was caught by someone while foraging for food on the mountain. It was a coincidence that Mrs. Liu bought it and brought it back, thinking of eating it, which thus resulted in later trouble. Ye Yan sorted out his thoughts, at a loss whether to cry or to laugh. He told the fox to wait for a while, then came to the root willow.

"That's about it. How do you want to deal with it?"

Ye Yan told Liu Kan the fox's words and let him decide how to deal with it. Well, whether it was stewed or roasted, both seemed good. However, Liu Kan's choice was not within Ye Yan's expectations again.

"Forget it, let it go," Liu Kan thought for a moment and said kindly, "We were wrong in the first place, and this was not its intention. It's not easy to develop intelligence, is it? I'll just treat it as fate."

Hearing this, Ye Yan was speechless, but he didn't object. Why not do a good deed? He went to the bamboo cage, opened it, and let the fox out.

"This is a good place! Human, I'm not leaving!" The first sentence the fox said when it came out made Ye Yan's face turn black.