A dazzling rainbow light suddenly appeared, and the red rope on Chu Xiaotian's left hand immediately lit up. A spiritual barrier spread out in front of him. He withstood the blow and was knocked away.
"Chu Xiaotian!?"
Even Himeno Suzu and Inagaki Shinoa also saw the rainbow light, and were shocked when they saw Chu Xiaotian being blown away.
Chu Xiaotian took two steps back, and the spiritual barrier on his body cracked. He looked at the nine-tailed fox slowly getting up in the shrine with a surprised look on his face.
"Wait a moment!"
Chu Xiaotian immediately spoke out to stop the other party.
Does this fox have such a bad temper?
"You don't have spiritual equipment, but you have such huge spiritual power?"
After the nine-tailed fox stood up, its narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and it stared at the human boy in front of it with some vigilance.
Chu Xiaotian said: "I'm just here to have a chat, don't do anything."
At this time, the nine-tailed fox turned his head and looked at Inagaki Shinoa.
Seeing this, Chu Xiaotian said to the girl: "Inagaki, your fox is looking at you, please help me explain."
"ah?"
Inagaki Shinoa was also startled after hearing this, then she looked around and asked, "Where is the god?"
"Right there."
Chu Xiaotian pointed forward.
So Inagaki Shinomaa looked at the unchanged shrine. Although she couldn't see anything, the scene that happened before was really visible to her eyes, so she prostrated on the spot.
"Lord Kami, I am the shrine maiden of the Inagaki family. Please calm down. Mr. Chu has no ill intentions."
Seeing the girl's sincere look, the nine-tailed fox's attitude also changed obviously. It turned back and looked at the young man over there.
"Why are you looking for me?"
Chu Xiaotian did not answer the question immediately. Instead, he looked at the two girls who were at a loss and said, "Wait for me, I want to talk to it."
Inagaki Shinoa and Himeno Suzu looked at each other and understood what Chu Xiaotian meant. Besides, they couldn't see the god, so they avoided it first.
The shrine maidens also retreated and left at Inagaki Shinoa's signal.
At this time, the nine-tailed fox lay down again.
Chu Xiaotian walked forward and he sat down on the spot.
"You are special."
The nine-tailed fox looked at the human boy in front of him and said: "Obviously he is so young, but he is so calm when he sees me. He also possesses a very huge spiritual power."
Chu Xiaotian didn't pay attention to this, but asked: "I saw a being very similar to you at my house, but it was a bull beast. Do you recognize it?"
He was curious about what seemed to be a connection between the two.
"Cow beast?"
The nine-tailed fox's narrow eyes blinked, and then he said: "I have no impression."
do not know?
Chu Xiaotian was stunned. After thinking for a while, he asked: "The Inagaki family is said to have a history of five hundred years. Have you been around for five hundred years?"
"It has been more than eight hundred years since we became conscious."
The nine-tailed fox looked at the human boy with a meaningful look in his eyes, as if he was despising the latter. He really underestimated him.
Chu Xiaotian noticed it but didn't pay much attention to it. However, he was still very surprised that this fox was over 800 years old.
"What else are you talking about?"
Hearing this, Chu Xiaotian was also startled. He asked, "Why do you feel so happy?"
The nine-tailed fox said: "After all, I haven't talked to anyone for a long time."
When Chu Xiaotian heard this, he immediately cursed: "Then you just attacked me without saying a word? Are you sick?"
The nine-tailed fox immediately said unhappily: "Human, I was disturbed and woke up when I was sleeping soundly. Don't you understand when you get up?"
This guy also knows how to wake up angry...
Chu Xiaotian also opened his eyes, and he couldn't help but ask: "Besides me, who was the last person who saw you?"
"Why do we say that?"
The nine-tailed fox glanced at him and just lay on his paws.
Not to mention pulling him down.
Although I am indeed a little curious.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Xiaotian asked: "The reason why the Inagaki family can develop into a ghost-slaying family must have something to do with you, right?"
This is what he is most curious about. If the nine-tailed fox is the root of the Inagaki family's strength, then other ghost-slaying families may also have this reason.
It's not that I want to solve anything, I'm just simply interested in the birth of the ghost-slaying family.
In response to the boy's question, the nine-tailed fox also glanced at him and finally said: "Five hundred years ago, I got married to a human and was granted spiritual power. Perhaps it was because of that spiritual power that the Inagaki clan became
powerful."
This nine-tailed fox is the source of changes in the Inagaki family.
Judging from the look on Inagaki Shinoa's face, she obviously didn't know about the existence of the nine-tailed fox.
So do other ghost-slaying families have existences similar to the nine-tailed fox?
Although this is a possibility, it is not completely certain.
But it was almost enough to understand that. Although Chu Xiaotian did not fully understand the nature of these two beasts, the nine-tailed fox and Arakawa's cow, he had a general idea of why ordinary people could not see them.
Whether it is a nine-tailed fox or an ox beast, they have perfectly integrated with the shrine and the land beneath their feet. It is probably only in this world of integration that they are difficult to detect.
Once you leave this world, you can be revealed to the world.
Bang.
At this time, the sound of fireworks came from behind.
Chu Xiaotian turned his head and looked around, seeing some fireworks rising into the sky in the distance.
He remembered that he heard Himeno Suzu mention it when he was shopping today. There will be a lot of activities in Nara in the past few days, including the fireworks festival. Today is probably just a small event, and the main event will be two days away.
There was movement behind, and it turned out that the nine-tailed fox was getting up.
The nine-tailed fox walked to the torii gate and looked into the distance. After staying for a long time, it took steps and walked out of the shrine.
Wow.
The red and white brilliance swirled around the nine-tailed fox's body, gradually surrounding it, and finally overflowing with light. After a moment of dazzling, a little girl of about ten years old wearing a loose red and white robe stood there.
Seeing this, Chu Xiaotian was also stunned. He walked over and couldn't help complaining: "800-year-old old woman, you actually turned into a little girl?"
The little girl glanced at him, then continued to look at the fireworks rising in the distance, and spoke slowly.
"In a few days, there will be another fireworks festival."
The atmosphere is a little different.
Chu Xiaotian lost the interest in joking. He came to the little girl's side and looked at the fireworks in the distance together. After a long time, he spoke.
"What do you call it?"
"Xiaoyu."
Chu Xiaotian asked: "Did you get it yourself?"
Xiaoyu said calmly: "Someone gave it to us, and it lasted five hundred years."
I see.
Probably maintaining this little girl attitude is also to commemorate the first encounter with that person.
Chu Xiaotian looked at the time on his phone and said, "I'm leaving."
"oh."
Xiaoyu's attitude was very cold, she just looked at the fireworks in the distance and didn't care that the boy was leaving.
Chu Xiaotian glanced at her and then walked down the mountain.
But later, Chu Xiaotian was scolded by Ji Yeling.
Because Chu Xiaotian forgot about Ji Ye, the latter was left alone on the mountain. In the end, he didn't have time to catch up with roll call and was lectured by the teacher.