My practice narration is weird.

Chapter 391 This Fox Doesn’t Want an Afterlife, Just the Present
The sun is shining brightly, casting its warm rays on the roof.

A little white fox was squinting its eyes, enjoying the sunbath boredly, its furry tail swaying slightly behind it, gently turning the pages of a book in front of it.

The book is an ancient one. The words on it are not very beautiful, and the records are not very detailed. Most of them are some miscellaneous records of Qingqiu.

Ever since the Qingqiu foxes severed contact with humans, without the fox mother who would snuggle into the scholars' beds to learn knowledge at night, the cultural level of the tribe naturally plummeted.

Without education, one cannot write, recognize words, or read books.

It is indeed difficult to find some records in Qingqiu.

Bai Lu was reading a book from the collection of her father, Mr. Hu Sanye.

From an unknown fishing fox to his current level, Uncle Hu's story is truly fascinating and he is naturally cultured.

Unfortunately, Bai Lu didn't have much feeling about her father's struggle history. She looked through it for a long time, but she only remembered one sentence: "The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish."

However, there was a short note that caught Bai Lu's attention.

"There is a sacred tree in Qingqiu, named the Bitter Love Tree. The sacred tree is spiritual and can help living beings reincarnate and continue their relationship. A human and a demon fell in love, but the demon has a long lifespan, while the human has a difficult lifespan and can only live for sixty years..."

"So the Bitter Love Tree is coveted by both humans and demons. All the lovers in the world travel thousands of miles to Qingqiu and make a vow under the Bitter Love Tree."

"There was once a love-struck demon who traveled through thousands of years in the mortal world to search for his lover. As time went by and the world went up and down, he finally met the one he had been destined to love again..."

Bai Lu's eyes lit up as she watched.

It's a warm and touching little story.

Yes, the bitter love tree in Qingqiu was so famous in ancient times, why is it gradually withering now?

and……

Bai Lu tucked in her tail, ran downstairs, and found her father who was drinking tea while shaking his feet.

"Dad, let me ask you a question. Why did Qingqiu cut off contact with the human race in the first place?"

This problem has actually troubled Bai Lu for a long time. About a hundred years ago, the Qingqiu fox tribe, which had close contacts with the human race, banned any contact with humans and even forbade humans to set foot in Qingqiu.

"do not know."

"..."

Bai Lu was silent for a moment. She felt that her father knew all this.

So she took out the book and opened it page by page.

"Also, the Bitter Love Tree in Qingqiu was so good, but why did it wither and die? You also wrote this..."

Mr. Hu San took a glance, with some surprise in his eyes, but he still asked.

"Shouldn't you be practicing? How come you still have time to read these miscellaneous books?"

"I'm already in the fifth realm!"

"It's only the fifth realm. In the past I would have praised you a few words, but now, don't you see that Miss Lu is in the sixth realm?" Mr. Hu said leisurely.

Bai Lu rolled her eyes around but said nothing.

Well, practicing is actually a very boring thing.

Especially the hurdle from the fifth realm to the sixth realm.

If you sit there for a long time, you may not gain anything and often no feedback can be seen.

Mr. Hu seemed to have known this already. He gently put down the teacup, took the book back from Bai Lu's hand, and casually threw it aside.

"The bitter love tree is dead, it's not a bad thing."

"why?"

Bai Lu thought that Mr. Hu San would not answer her, but unexpectedly he said something that puzzled her.

"Why? Just the Bitter Love Tree, how many resources does it take to cultivate it? How much blood and energy does Qingqiu have to spend every year for it?"

"But the bitter love tree can allow people to reincarnate and continue their relationship..."

Hearing this, Mr. Hu San suddenly smiled and shook his head.

"Can reincarnation and continuation of fate be used to make a living? But the cost and resources required to continuously cultivate that increasingly powerful sacred tree can really be used to make a living."

"Speaking of which, no one knows who in Qingqiu started to cultivate this sacred tree, and no one knows why. No records about the sacred tree have been passed down... At least in my opinion, if the only function of this sacred tree is to reincarnate and continue the relationship, then it really is a waste of countless years of resources."

Does it turn out that the sacred tree consumes resources to cultivate?
The withering of the sacred tree and the civil strife over the past century...

“So the internal strife in Qingqiu is also because of the sacred tree?” Bai Lu looked a little stunned.

Mr. Hu hesitated for a moment, but when he thought that his daughter had already reached the fifth realm, he finally spoke slowly.

"Just as you disagree with your father now, the same is true in Qingqiu. Some people want to continue cultivating the sacred tree, even if it takes countless resources to cultivate it, while others do not want to, thinking that this is a thankless task. Although Qingqiu is rich, its resources are not unlimited."

Bai Lu thought for a while and said hesitantly, "Isn't it the idea of ​​planting a sacred tree passed down by a celestial fox ancestor?"

Mr. Hu San smiled faintly and corrected him.

"So what? After being in the world for so long, what our ancestors said must be right?"

"We don't know why our ancestors asked us to cultivate this sacred tree, but it's definitely not just for the useless reincarnation. Our ancestors really weren't that bored... But the tree is getting bigger and bigger, and it consumes more resources. If more resources are consumed, the foxes won't get any resources. Qingqiu is so rich, why did your father have to go fishing on an empty stomach in his early years?"

"So naturally, some people are dissatisfied with the sacred tree, and internal strife is bound to happen sooner or later, but it happened a little faster than I expected."

Mr. Hu Sanye said in a leisurely tone.

Obviously, he was also dissatisfied with the sacred tree.

Bai Lu was silent. She was born into a royal family, so from her perspective, she naturally had no idea of ​​how miserable her father's early years were.

"Then why did they cut off contact with humans in the early years..." Bai Lu asked.

Her vision in the past was too narrow, but today, she wanted to make everything clear.

Cut off contact...

His fingertips tapped lightly on the teacup, Mr. Hu's eyes were calm, he pondered for a moment, and then spoke slowly.

"There is a story in my book about a lovesick demon who wanted to continue his relationship with a human. After a thousand years, he finally found the person to continue his relationship with."

"Have you read this story?"

Bai Lu nodded, looking pleased, with a gleam in her eyes, and responded.

"Of course I saw it. This relationship..."

"Very desirable?" Uncle Hu chuckled.

Eh? Isn't it?
There was confusion in Bai Lu's eyes.

"I long for it... But that story is just a fairy tale in Qingqiu, a fairy tale told by a mother to her young child under the sacred tree."

Mr. Hu Sanye spoke slowly but calmly.

"The ending of this story is that the infatuated demon found the person who continued the relationship with him, but in the end he killed the person and even the entire clan of the person, thus ending the relationship."

Mr. Hu's words reached Bai Lu's ears, and then there was only astonishment in Bai Lu's eyes.

"why?"

"Because the person who renews the relationship will not retain his memory, you can't guarantee that the person who renews the relationship will fall in love with you again, and the person who renews the relationship with that monster has fallen in love with someone else." Mr. Hu San said slowly.

"A relationship that spans a thousand years sounds beautiful, but it is actually just torture for the person left alone in the world... Moreover, he needs to sacrifice half of his own realm when renewing the relationship. He was originally a demon king, but after the renewal of the relationship, he is just a small demon king. As soon as humans let go, he passed away, but his former enemies and opponents came one after another, swarming in. He hid from place to place, and spent a thousand years in the ups and downs of life and death. He may have relied on only the obsession of love in his heart. But when he finally found the person who renewed the relationship, he found that she was panting and groaning in the arms of someone else. What do you think the result would be? At that moment, should we persuade him to be magnanimous?"

"This kind of thing actually happened a lot, but the ones that are sung are all good things. Old friends passed away, some people changed their hearts, and some people were alone in the ups and downs of life. The results they faced were also unknown. After all, only a few people could truly continue their relationship. So later on, they were forbidden to interact with humans."

Mr. Hu paused, then continued.

"Reincarnation sounds wonderful, but it's not true. You can't guarantee that your continuation partner won't fall in love with someone else, and you don't know when your continuation partner will appear...

More importantly, are you sure that the person you are with is the one you once loved?"

Bai Lu was stunned. She could accept the previous words, but not the last sentence.

"What do you mean?" she asked puzzledly.

Uncle Hu waved his hand. "This is just a guess from your father. The people who are bound together by the Bitter Love Tree rely on a certain aura imprinted in their minds to recognize each other. But when a person dies, he is dead. The so-called reincarnated person, even if he has a recognizable aura..."

"Could that aura be created by the sacred tree? Or, could it be that even that person was created by the sacred tree?"

"After all, is it true that Qingqiu has cultivated a sacred tree for so many years since ancient times, and it has only a meaningless and useless continuation? If it can create a human being, perhaps it will be of some use."

Is this so...

Bai Lu was silent. She still longed to become the Red Thread Fairy of Qingqiu in ancient times one day.

Mr. Hu Sanye raised his eyebrows and looked at his daughter's silence, thinking, "My fantasy is shattered just because I told the truth?"

He thought about it, was he saying something too serious? Was it too much of a blow to Bai Lu who was in the midst of a passionate love affair? After all, his daughter didn't seem to be very smart.

So Mr. Hu coughed lightly and spoke slowly.

"It's not that serious actually. The Bitter Love Tree has many benefits. What I just said was just speculation..."

"Do not."

Bai Lu raised her head, there was no sign of loss on her face, instead her eyes were quite bright.

"It doesn't matter. This fox doesn't expect any afterlife."

“I’m only concerned with the present moment.”

(End of this chapter)