Becoming a Fox Spirit from Under One Person

Chen Ruoan followed the sound and darted away, her little paws crushing the thin snow between the branches. Then she turned around a rocky cliff covered with ice and slid into the crevice of the cave.

Inside the cave was a huge, round creature—an adult giant panda.

Its thick, fluffy black and white down, speckled with frost and snow, and its round, plump body, nestled among the ice shards, made it appear both simple and steady.

Its two short, thick front paws were gripping a large bamboo tube. It held the bamboo tube to its lips and shouted. The deep, resonant question it had just uttered was amplified by the bamboo tube.

"fox!"

"Where's the fox?"

General Shi Tie peeked out in confusion, when suddenly he was patted on the back.

"Stop fooling around, I'm busy!"

Chen Ruoan transformed into human form and struck several times heavily with his palm.

clap clap clap!

"Aren't you annoying me? Can't you see I'm teasing the fox?"

The panda turned around and saw a boy with an umbrella, smiling and looking at it with ill intent.

More importantly, the boy had fox ears on his head and a large, unhidden tail twirling around his waist.

"Master Chi You is actually a powerful being in the Transformation stage!?"

"You, you, you don't come any closer! I'm telling you, I'm really good!" The panda completely dropped his previous pretense. "Just tell me how to settle this. I'll go to the Cold Arrow Bamboo Forest and dig bamboo shoots for you, okay?"

Oh no, there are no bamboo shoots in the forest in winter!

"Please don't hit me! I was originally a polar bear, but I was beaten so badly that my eyes are black and blue, which is why I look like this. Please have pity on me and don't hold it against me."

This panda has the potential to be a solo comedian.

With such a small amount of courage, how dare you come out and scare the fox?

Chen Ruoan was momentarily at a loss for how to be angry, the soft, plush feel of patting the panda still lingering in her palm.

Those who can become elves are usually good at maintaining their fur.

It is said that since his previous life, Chen Ruoan had always wanted to pet a panda, but the threshold for being able to touch the black and white glutinous rice balls was still too high.

Chen Ruoan touched the panda's arm.

"Um... I'm male," General Shi Tie said in a panic.

"What are you afraid of? I'm male too."

Chen Ruoan seemed to recall the feeling of furry things again. It's a pity that pandas are only cute and cuddly when they are young.

As they grew up, their looks became less outstanding.

Chen Ruoan remembered that in her previous life, she had to queue for a long time during holidays and finally saw the pandas she had been longing to see in Chengdu. However, what impressed her most was not their cuteness, but their big yellow-green poop.

Um···

Do you have a name?

"Jinbao," the panda replied.

"You chose it yourself?"

"The host family took it."

Is it true that people in Sichuan used to be able to raise pandas?

Chen Ruoan then asked, "And your master? Has he passed away?"

"Thank you for asking. My master went out and didn't return even after I gained Qi and became a spirit. My master's son also starved to death. With nothing left, I hid in the mountains. There were many people in the front mountains, so I moved around in the deep mountains. In the winter, the mountains were covered in snow and ice on one side and the bamboo was evergreen on the other, so I didn't go hungry."

After Jinbao finished speaking, the Yin Qi hidden in the fox's belly began to surge wildly.

Ghost Boss Zhao Shanhai pleaded in a mournful voice, "Master, please let me out. I have questions for that panda."

If memories of the past are slowly eroded by the winds of time, then the time spent raising a panda is a vivid and indelible highlight in one's life.

Zhao Shanhai appeared, but his soul, formed from Yin Qi, had long lost its original human form.

Jinbao stared at him, puzzled, until Zhao Shanhai mentioned that it had climbed over the fire pit and gotten a big scar on its bottom from the iron pot.

"Are you the master?"

"That's great. If I had known you became an elf too, I wouldn't have been so sad back then."

"I..." Zhao Shanhai was speechless for a moment.

When asked about his wife and children, Jinbao replied that after Zhao Shanhai left home, it was winter, and the grain was taken away by the "masters" above. Zhao's wife and son had nothing to eat, so Jinbao went to the cold arrow bamboo forest to dig up bamboo.

But people can't digest bamboo, it has no nutritional value whatsoever, and it can't satisfy their hunger at all. The mother and child gradually starved to death.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Shanhai burst into tears. The giant panda then added insult to injury: "Why did you leave home in the first place?"

"I...I want to find some unusual seeds that can survive in the cold mountains..."

"In that case, it's already here."

Jinbao moved his round body around the winding tunnel of the cave and came to an open area.

Chen Ruoan followed slowly, and the scene before her eyes suddenly changed.

Outside the cave, the desolate landscape was still bitterly cold and covered in snow, but inside, there was no trace of the chill of midwinter.

Although the sky is not visible here, a faint glow permeates the air, nourishing the land where flowers bloom in abundance, rare and exotic plants grow in profusion, each one lush and vibrant with life.

The air is filled with the fragrance of flowers and the sweetness of grass, a truly refreshing and delightful place, a secluded paradise, a secluded haven from the world.

If you don't count that conspicuous green poop in the corner.

"What is this?" Zhao Shanhai remained stunned.

The panda explained, "I don't know. You all left, and I was heartbroken for a long time. Later, I became a spirit, and I could make some plants survive. I can hide things so those men can't find them, but the hungry people outside can't find them either. They're always fighting, so I'm afraid to go out."

"Jinbao!" Ghost Boss cried even harder.

Chen Ruoan transformed back into a fox and jumped into the flower field, gently sniffing the flowers.

Without a doubt, this is an "innate supernatural power" born from the cultivation of Qi by the spirit.

Pandas eat a lot and excrete a lot; their feces are full of undigested bamboo fibers and seeds. When these fall into the soil, they fertilize the land and nourish insects and microorganisms, feeding the small animals and insects in the forest…

This supernatural power probably originated from this.

But what's the principle behind it? How is it done?

The fox humbly sought advice from the panda.

Jinbao lifted his right foreleg and patted the soft area above his belly, close to the last few ribs.

"When I want the flowers and plants to grow, this spot gets warm, and then it goes..." The panda pointed to the poop in the corner.

Um--

The supernatural power is great, but the way it's expressed is a bit lacking.

Chen Ruoan thought for a while and concluded that the panda was probably pointing to the liver.

The methods of using Qi must first activate one of the five elements of Qi, and the corresponding manifestations of the techniques are given according to the attributes of metal, wood, water, fire and earth.

The fox flipped through the shaman's notes recorded in the treasure book.

If I can make good use of the Qi of the liver wood element, strengthen the vital connection with the plants, and guide the vital energy to one place, can I then control their growth?

Chen Ruoan gently raised her fox paw, softly protecting a delicate wild grass. A wisp of warm, clear liver qi emanated from her body and slowly wrapped around the grass stem.

His golden eyes shone with a faint light as he focused intently on capturing the faint trace of life, guiding the Qi to slowly gather.

The wild grass trembled slightly, a fresh and light rhythm spreading from the palm of my hand, vivid, lively, and with a touch of shy cuteness.

By gently guiding the Qi, this little plant can undergo a vibrant transformation, turning towards the sun and towards good fortune.

Holding onto a sliver of life may not be as spectacular as "manipulating clouds and rain," but it is still quite wondrous.

A rudimentary understanding of wood-elemental magic.

The fox's paw reached forward, and the wild grass gently wrapped around it.