The village beauty and me!

"What is that?" Chen Huan squinted, focusing his gaze.

However, because it was too far away and the woods were lush with vegetation, it was impossible to see anything clearly.

I initially thought someone was catching cicadas in the woods late at night.

It's the hottest time of summer now, and every night a large number of cicada larvae emerge from their burrows in the woods, molt, grow wings, and begin their short lives.

People from this village and several surrounding villages also take advantage of this rare opportunity to go into the mountains to hunt.

In the past two years, the price of this thing has been getting more and more expensive, reaching about eight or nine cents per piece.

If you catch them well in one night, one person can catch one or two hundred.

It used to be a decent source of income, but because so many people were arrested in such a concentrated period of time, almost no one has been going into the mountains lately.

"Maybe someone got a bargain," Chen Huan glanced at it again and guessed casually.

But the more I looked at it, the more something seemed off.

The light deep in the woods kept flickering in the same spot.

  

A minute or two has passed; someone who really wants to catch cicadas would never stay still.

Driven by curiosity, Chen Huan finally couldn't resist and decided to go into the woods to take a look.

There's an old saying: "Looking for a lamp can make a horse run itself to death."

The original meaning refers to a light that appears not too far away in a quiet wilderness or forest, but may actually be quite different from what one perceives.

This is the situation Chen Huan is currently facing.

From the outside, it looks like you've only walked a little over a hundred meters into the woods.

But now, if you calculate carefully, it's been about three or four hundred meters from the riverbank to here.

But the flickering light ahead remained visible, yet unattainable.

"Is it really that weird?"

"I refuse to believe I won't see your true face." Chen Huan simply sped up.

After walking another fifty or sixty meters, we finally got close to that pulsating light.

At the same time, Chen Huan also saw clearly what it was.

The scene before him caused his pupils to dilate suddenly. He quickly stopped moving forward, hid behind a tree, and dared not even breathe.

He muttered to himself, "Damn, there are so many strange things happening lately."

"I believe I received a divine inheritance, and today I actually saw a fox spirit cultivating."

It's no wonder Chen Huan said such a thing.

About ten meters ahead, on a huge blue stone platform, sat a large fox with soft fur sitting cross-legged.

Having grown up in the mountains, Chen Huan had seen many kinds of animals, including foxes.

But he had never seen anything so big before.

Even when sitting there, it feels like it's half a person tall.

Even more bizarrely, the fox was closing its eyes and raising its head, constantly swallowing and spitting out a ball of light.

Or it could be described as a bead that shimmers like a fireball with different luster.

"A fox spirit refining elixirs!" Chen Huan recalled a legend he had heard from the village elders.

It is said that foxes that have lived long enough and suddenly become intelligent and capable of cultivation will develop a certain level of spiritual power after years of cultivation.

Then, an inner core is formed within the body. Whenever the moon is full, the fox cultivating immortality will find a place with abundant spiritual energy and continuously swallow and exhale its inner core while facing the moon.

It is used to absorb more and faster spiritual energy from heaven and earth, thus enhancing one's cultivation level.

I never expected that I would actually run into him today.

However, after looking at it carefully for a while, Chen Huan felt that the legend seemed to be somewhat exaggerated.

There was no obvious surge of spiritual energy around the large fox.

Moreover, the fire bead that was supposedly spat out, which was like an inner elixir, looked more like some tangled hairs that were covered in phosphorescent fire and burning.

"Trying to scare me with your ghostly act?" Chen Huan couldn't help but mutter.

Unexpectedly, the big fox had a keen sense of perception. Its ears twitched, and it suddenly opened its mouth and swallowed the fireball.

It bared its teeth and barked twice at Chen Huan's location.

Chen Huan clearly sensed the threat.

He simply stepped out from behind the tree. "What are you looking at?"

The big fox stopped howling, staring with its pair of small, green eyes, its expression unreadable.

I guess he was a little confused.

Suddenly, he turned around and jumped off the huge bluestone platform, disappearing from Chen Huan's sight in the blink of an eye.

Chen Huan suddenly felt a pang of regret, wondering why he hadn't acted sooner and beaten that big fox.

With such fine fur and such a large size, it could easily sell for at least ten thousand yuan.

Ordinary people who see this scene or this creature would probably only feel fear and apprehension.

But in Chen Huan's eyes, these were just bright red banknotes.

"What a wasted trip, damn it." Chen Huan was slightly frustrated.

I subconsciously took two steps forward because the blue stone platform in front of me looked rather strange.

It appears to be naturally formed, yet it is relatively flat, like a natural place for cultivation.

"That fox really knows how to pick a spot," Chen Huan remarked as he approached the bluestone platform.

But then he discovered that the closer he got to the bluestone platform, the more the spiritual energy in the surrounding world gathered together.

"Is it really that amazing?" Chen Huan jumped onto the bluestone platform, his eyes widening in surprise.

This place is like a spring, a spring that draws in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

As long as you stand or sit close to the bluestone platform, the spiritual energy of the surrounding world will continuously and actively entwine around your body.

The internal energy cultivation method seemed to realize this and began to circulate on its own.

"Interesting." Chen Huan sighed and simply sat down cross-legged, ignoring the passage of time and immersing himself in cultivation.

About half an hour later, Chen Huan felt that the spiritual energy around him seemed to have returned to normal.

Even if he actively absorbs and pulls, it won't have a good effect anymore.

"Is there a time limit?"

"No wonder that big fox insisted on cultivating in such a conspicuous place; it really is an ideal location," Chen Huan muttered to himself as he examined himself.

He discovered that in such a short time, the stagnant true energy in his body had completely dissipated, and his cultivation level had also improved slightly.

Having benefited from this, Chen Huan then began trying to find out the principle behind the gathering of spiritual energy in this place.

Among the inheritances he received was knowledge about feng shui and metaphysics.

Upon careful reflection and analysis, a conclusion was quickly reached.

This bluestone platform is in a uniquely advantageous location, forming a natural spirit-gathering array with the surrounding mountains and earth veins.

In other words, the spiritual energy of the surrounding world will always be drawn towards this place.

The reason why the spiritual energy is so rich and abundant today is because it has been accumulating for a period of time.

According to Chen Huan's estimate, this scale would form almost every month, repeating itself endlessly.

"I wonder how many years this thing has been here. That big fox must have discovered this secret, which is why it grew so big and even formed an inner core." Chen Huan jumped off the stone platform and casually touched it.

I also squatted down to check if there were any signs of artificial construction.

As soon as I squatted down, I suddenly smelled a unique scent in my nostrils.

"This is……"