She arrived as expected.
During this time, she had wandered to the Northern Region and felt the tremendous and terrifying heartbeat beneath the Red Lotus Hell.
She had also been to the Southern Territory to witness the many forms of life there that the Northern Region had never seen; she even left her footprints on the edge of the beaches of the Ashen Sea.
"If it hadn’t been for that human, her life would have been fulfilled."
Qing JiuYu’s expression was filled with resentment.
Tang Xian had guessed what had happened. This was the turning point of the story.
Qing JiuYu would never speak of any sweet aspects of that romance.
Because the affair had reached its conclusion. No matter how tender and heart-rending the love between Qing Jiuyun and that human had been during the process, it was nothing but a handful of salt sprinkled on a rotting wound.
"Xiaoyun took on the form of a human and traveled many places, and finally, she met a human. Naïvely, she thought they were of the same kind.
The human was adept at deceit with sweet talk. They fell in love quickly.
One could hardly imagine a human and a fox having a child together.
In truth, during their time together, she came to know the identity of that human. She knew that they were from two different worlds.
But she didn’t change her original intention; she still loved that human."
Xiaoyun’s thinking was stupidly laughable. It was no big deal if she didn’t become a nine-tailed fox, she could just be human instead.
Before Tang Xiaojiu was born, she had said this to me.
She naively thought she could always pretend to be human. Oh, this silly girl... she didn’t know that during pregnancy, foxes simply couldn’t maintain a human appearance.
After the joy, she showed her sharp teeth and claws; her beautiful figure became monstrous and terrifying in the eyes of her beloved.
Xiaoyun, this idiot, thought humans were the kind of creatures that would reciprocate equally if one gave to them.
But the man chose to flee in the end. Perhaps for the rest of his life, he felt disgusted by that event?
Just as you said, they lived in two different atmospheres. Only, the one wearing the mask wasn’t Xiaoyun.
Until the very end, the man never took off his mask.
And so he left Xiaoyun to live alone, becoming a scandal of our fox clan.
Inside her, she carried an impure life. She couldn’t lie nor had the ability to; under the elders’ questioning, she revealed her experience.
The fox clan was outraged, she was the anomaly who lived contrary to the atmosphere.
The elders consulted the tribunal, and the tribunal’s sages gave them the Heaven Star Grass.
The elders said that by consuming this grass, the fetus inside her would die.
As long as this impure life perished, Xiaoyun would no longer be a disgrace to our clan.
But ever since the man fled in fear, Xiaoyun had transformed from a woman longing for love into a mother.
No mother would abandon her own child.
The elders wanted to enforce it forcibly, but Xiaoyun, risking a rift with the fox clan, insisted on saving the child.
She begged me to ensure the child lived.
I never thought my loyal guard of many years would be so foolish.
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She volunteered for exile, heading to the Ice Helmet Mountain Range of the Northern Region, never to return. This was one of our clan’s punishments all along; she only hoped her child could return to the fox clan someday.
She had never asked anything of me before, and it was the first time I saw such an intense plea in the eyes of this silly sister.
I thought to myself, enough was enough. Perhaps, my efforts couldn’t change the views of my own kind.
But as long as Xiaoyun’s child grew up, once her offspring took over the clan, those humiliations would be forgotten by history.
And her mother could then return from the Ice Helmet Mountain Range with her head held high.
So, I agreed to Xiaoyun’s request and also convinced the elders to let Xiaoyun keep the child, on the condition that as punishment for the blasphemy against the fox clan, she would be exiled to the Ice Helmet Mountain Range.
Although the elders were reluctant, they consented due to my insistence.
In the months that followed, I stayed in the Ice Helmet Mountain Range, accompanying Xiaoyun.
I only wished for more time.
If only we had a little more time, any regretful past could be buried.
But I miscalculated one thing.
No matter how powerful a creature is, when it becomes a mother, it must go through a trial of death.
Even though we are nine-tailed foxes, one of the most powerful creatures in the world, at the moment of childbirth, we become extremely vulnerable.
The creator granted us powerful vitality and regenerative abilities, as if they were suddenly removed.
Or perhaps, this process is what it means to pass on a legacy?
On the day Xiao Ni was born, Xiaoyun’s life force was unprecedentedly weak, and it continued to wane.
Her time had come.
I’ve experienced the death of many clan members, but I never had to say goodbye to someone who gave life during the birth of a new one.
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Xiao Ni was born.
I thought I would despise this life, but when I saw how tiny she was, I seemed to understand the reason Xiaoyun and I had spent these few months together in this cold land.
Xiaoyun, at death’s door, finally saw light in her eyes when she saw Xiao Ni.
I’ll remember for the rest of my life what happened then.
Xiaoyun probably knew she didn’t have long to live, and with her last breath, she transformed back into a human once again.
She was still as beautiful, like a flower on the verge of wilting.
Incredibly, Xiao Ni also transformed at that moment.