Becoming a fox fairy from Liaozhai

Chapter 759 Woke Up
"you know me?"

The old man's eyebrows twitched, and he smiled, saying, "I don't know him. I'm just wondering why you are here, since this is the Yu Mansion. Where did the young master and young lady of the Yu Mansion go?"

"You don't know me?" Gong Mengbi showed some surprise on his face. It's not uncommon for people to lie in front of him, but it's rare in this situation.

The old man smiled wryly: "I really don't know him."

"Ok."

Since the problem cannot be solved honestly and simply, Gong Mengbi doesn't mind using more complicated means.

He looked directly at the old man and asked slowly, "You don't even know me, so how dare you use the fox book to start a rebellion, steal my true Dharma, steal my inheritance, and spread it to the secular world, creating evil causes and creating bad karma. Aren't you afraid of the consequences and retribution?"

The old man said, "I have a connection with these young men and women, so I took this opportunity to enlighten them. I didn't intend to steal the Dharma. It was just a coincidence."

"What kind of fate and coincidence is this? Tell me about it."

As Gong Mengbi was speaking, the courtyard of the Yu Mansion had already distorted like an illusion. Fine and dense sparks fell from the cracks in the sky like rain, and gorgeous flames bloomed from the cracks in the bricks and stones of the Yu Mansion courtyard.

The entire Yu Mansion seemed to be an iron cage locked in a fire prison. The flames had clearly seeped in from the cracks, but the old man in the iron cage seemed unable to see the blazing flames at all.

"My fate with these young men and women was hundreds of years ago. Due to fate, we had many entanglements. Hundreds of years later, they were reborn here again. It happened that the kid from the Zhang family got the Fox Book, so I took this opportunity to guide them into Taoism and end that fate."

"Hmm?" Gong Mengbi was a little surprised, because this sentence made him unable to tell whether it was true or false. Due to his high sensitivity to cause and effect, it instead triggered some kind of feeling in him.

Gong Mengbi said suspiciously, "You use the fox book to lead people into Taoism, but you are forcing them to grow. You are not trying to help them achieve enlightenment, but to destroy their practice. So, you had a deep hatred hundreds of years ago, and you would not let them go even if they were reincarnated."

The old man chuckled, there was no smile in his eyes, which only moved the wrinkles on his face, making his tough and cold face look a little sinister and weird.

"This has nothing to do with you, sir. But I would like to ask you, where did you hide these young masters and young ladies?"

Gong Mengbi laughed and said, "Aren't they worshipping the moon and submitting to it?"

"What?" The old man's heart skipped a beat and he looked around. The whole courtyard looked like a mirage, and the moon in the sky had turned into a fox with a mocking look in its eyes.

"When was I hit?" The old man immediately summoned his magical power, causing a strong wind to sweep across the entire courtyard.

A strong wind swept through, and the rockery, flower gardens, pavilions and walls were all scattered like quicksand. The fox spirits in the sky turned into surging flames, covering the entire sky, and their surroundings had already been enveloped by flames.

Foxes came out of the flames one after another, some lay on Gong Mengbi's feet, some stood up and danced in front of him, some transformed into graceful fox beauties walking with umbrellas, some transformed into tall and mighty fox warriors drawing swords to subdue demons, some transformed into hunchbacked fox old men playing with their grandchildren, and some transformed into boys and girls running and jumping.

Those thousands of appearances were all foxes, appearing and transforming at will. Gong Mengbi's figure was completely unclear in the flames.

"What a fire!" The old man's body felt like it was on fire. The flames rose from within him, burning his internal organs so much that he felt severe pain. The flames gushed out from his pores and turned into countless fox hairs. It seemed that he himself was about to turn into a fox made of fire.

"What kind of magical power is this?" The old man shouted, "What on earth do you want to do?"

Gong Mengbi's voice sounded faintly: "Whatever hatred you have from past lives, it really has nothing to do with me, but since you used the Fox Book to set up a trap, how can I not teach you a lesson?"

Even without asking, the old man knew that there would be no peaceful resolution, so he let out a loud shout, and fire gushed out from his body. It was a red flame wrapped in charred smoke, just like black fire, gushing out of his body, squeezing out all the flaming fox hair on his body, which fell to the ground and turned into little foxes and ran away.

The old man was engulfed in black fire, with red light flashing in his eyes. He looked everywhere for Gong Mengbi's true form, but he couldn't find Gong Mengbi's true form at all. He could only see countless foxes in the flames with all kinds of mocking and cunning looks.

The old man said provocatively: "The so-called fox book is nothing more than the shallow Taoist method of animal cultivation. If you take such a thing seriously, it shows that you are nothing more than that."

Gong Mengbi's voice came from the sky, saying: "If you can escape from my grasp, you can't argue with me again."

The old man raised his head toward the sky and saw a fox god as tall as a mountain, with the moon at its back and nebulae around its body. A tail made of fire hung down, and it felt like a doomsday cloud pressing down on him.

The old man's eyes were bloodshot and he was filled with endless fear. He didn't understand when he had fallen into such a magical power.

Just when the fox tail was about to sweep the old man away, the entire world of fire suddenly solidified.

An illusory voice rang in the old man's ears. The voice came from far away and then near, from imaginary to real, and said, "Brother Xinjue, how come you were captured in a dream when you were still undecided?"

Only after a word of advice did the old man understand.

Yes, it was clear that he had noticed during the chess game that these idiots were still unwilling to accept his help, so he resorted to Taoism and wanted to lend a helping hand, but suddenly his real body appeared here - it turned out to be a dream.

"wake up!"

The sound was like thunder in the old man's ears.

The world of fire in front of the old man gradually became transparent. Through the firelight, he realized that those idiots were still trying to surrender in the courtyard, and his spirit was actually just trapped on a stick on the altar.

He met Gong Mengbi's gaze. Gong Mengbi's eyes were calm, as if he was looking at a fly that had landed in a cup.

"What a magical power, it's a pity that you missed it!" The old man was shocked and angry, ashamed and hateful. Following the voice calling his spirit, he suddenly broke free from the incense and candles.

In the moment before his eyes fell into darkness, the old man seemed to still see Gong Mengbi's eyes always looking at him, but he had clearly broken free from the magical power that bound his soul in the dream, so why could he still be seen by him?
Gong Mengbi watched the old man disappear into the Heart Fire Illusion, and said with a little regret: "It's really unfortunate that he woke up."

He sighed in the Mingyue Mirror, so Shao Huzheng also heard it, and said: "Although it is a pity that this beast escaped, there are two of them, and Mingfu Huzheng almost caught him alone, which has opened my eyes."

Gong Mengbi emerged from the Mingyue Mirror. The mirror still reflected the scene of the Yu Mansion courtyard. The candlelight on the altar that trapped the old man's spirit had turned from dark green to ordinary red.

"Escape? He just woke up, he didn't escape."

Gong Mengbi smiled and stroked the Moon Mirror with his hand. The scene of the Yu Mansion courtyard disappeared like white sand, revealing the real scene of the Yu Mansion - these anxious young people were still trying to find the answer in the Fox Book.