Fish swimming around the world

Jiang Fan also took the initiative to propose another item, selling grain and grass to the Hu family at 50% of the market price, and he could bear half of the grain and grass consumed by the Hu family in future battles with the barbarians.

Hu Guanshan was very satisfied with this. The food and grass problem was definitely the biggest dilemma for this big family. The Taibai Mountains are located in a bitter cold land, and their grain and grass output is very little. They have to rely heavily on hunting and gathering, and most of the rest rely on external purchases. However, after living in seclusion for three hundred years, they are very economically distressed. The mountain products obtained from hunting and gathering It is difficult to support such a large family.

Therefore, all members of the Hu family who are capable of working, including soldiers, have to spend most of their time working to obtain food. With Jiang Fan's support in food and grass, the Hu family can breathe a sigh of relief.

There are a lot of things, and the two sides have reached agreements on many specific issues, so I won’t go into them one by one.

In the end, Jiang Fan happily accepted the twelve plates of mountain treasures presented by the Hu family and asked for fifty demon pills.

The fact that the Hu family has so many demon pills is that, interestingly enough, apart from the fact that part of it comes from hunting demon beasts that wander outside the cloud pool, the largest part is indeed the contribution of the demon beasts that die naturally or accidentally every year in the cloud pool. When many monsters are on the verge of death, they often crawl out of the cloud pool before death. Their fur becomes the main material for the Hu family's clothing, and a crystal called a monster crystal from the brains of the monsters is harvested by the Hu family. Come to refine the demon elixir.

The demon pill can only be called a treasure to demon cultivators, and is completely useless to other martial arts cultivators, so it has no economic value to the outside world. For more than 800 years, the Hu family has kept at least tens of thousands of them in addition to meeting their own needs.

Hu Guanshan waved his hand and wanted to give Jiang Fan five thousand, but he refused, saying that keeping this thing in the Hu family to cultivate strong men would be more useful than giving it to himself. When he asked for this thing, he mainly wanted to give it to the old guy and Sun. Don't do research.

Of course, we can't talk too much in this mere banquet. Later, Jiang Fan will appoint someone to contact the Hu family to discuss the specific details. Jiang Fan had already thought about this candidate, and there was no surprise that it would be Meng Chanjuan.

After the general discussion was completed and everyone was happy, Jiang Fan finally calmed down and wanted to ask important questions about Tianhu.

"Brother Hu's ancestor carries the inheritance of the Sky Fox. I wonder if Senior Hu Yue has said anything about the origin of the Sky Fox?"

Hu Guanshan pondered for a moment, and finally revealed the origins of Patriarch Hu Yue and Tianhu.

A thousand years ago, Hu Yue was born into an ordinary hunting family in Taibai Mountain. On that day, Hu Yue, who was just eighteen years old, was hunting in the mountains when he suddenly saw a white light falling from the sky.

Hu Yue was curious, so she groped her way to the place where she fell, which happened to be on Baiyun Peak.

What he saw in front of him shocked him. It was a snow-white fox, but its tail was completely broken and its body was covered in wounds. It was too miserable to look at.

The white fox was dying, but it kept trying to crawl towards Yunchi.

Although Hu Yue didn't understand the reason, as a hunter, he knew that many beasts would go to a specific place before they died. Seeing that there was no hope of treatment, Hu Yue felt pity and carried the white fox to the water of Yunchi, hoping that it could rest in peace.

A long time later, one day Hu Yue accidentally came to the vicinity of Yunchi because of chasing a monster beast, but was suddenly led into the illusion. Then, just as the high priest said, he succeeded in practicing in the illusion.

The specific situation is unknown, but it is known that his cultivation level skyrocketed after he came out, and he became one of the most powerful people in the world. From this, he began to respect Tianhu and regarded himself as a servant of Tianhu.

Later, Hu Yue set rules in the family and passed down some things orally. Strangely, he did not leave any written information.

According to the information Hu Guanshan heard from his ancestors, ancestor Hu Yue once said that the sky fox is a spiritual creature born and raised by the earth, and is the head of all monsters. Three thousand years ago, heaven and man came, and the human world was in catastrophe. As the sacred beast of Kunlun Mountain, the sky fox once fought with heaven and man. After that, the golden dome collapsed, and the whereabouts of the sky fox are unknown.

It was not discovered again by Hu Yue until a thousand years ago. It was only after Hu Yue entered the world that it became clear that the time when the two met happened to be after the end of the Third Holy War between Heaven and Man.

"In other words, Tianhu may have participated in the first and third holy wars?" Jiang Fan was surprised. Three thousand years ago, Tianhu's lair was at the Golden Summit of Kunlun. This confirmed the unofficial history mentioned by Meng Chanjuan. It also showed that the Kunlun Fault was related to the holy war between heaven and man three thousand years ago. However, there has never been a record of Tianhu personally participating in the war. It was a mistake by the Hu family. Pass, or for some other reason.

Hu Guanshan shook his head: "Later generations recorded that on the day of the Holy War between Heaven and Man, the sky was covered with dark clouds, covering thousands of miles. There were thunder and lightning, and the blood was overwhelming. It seemed like a war broke out, but no one saw it clearly."

Dark clouds were pressing down, thunder and lightning flashed, and the blood was shining in the sky...

Jiang Fan was shocked. He seemed to have heard these words before...

Before I had time to think more, I heard Hu Guanshan continue: "However, there is a strange thing..."

He pondered and said: "The ancestors once said that although Tianhu is the leader of all monsters, it seems to be related to a certain supreme being. He has seen fragments of the illusion. The supreme existence accompanied Tianhu when he was young, and they seemed to be related to each other. rely……"

Jiang Fan's head buzzed, and he couldn't help but think of those fragments. The young man in white used wild fruits to lure the palm-sized fox from the tree hole. One person and one fox grew up together, and later they seemed to be fighting side by side in the dark clouds covering the sky. Finally, The sky fox cuts off its tail, falling like a meteor...

"So, the ancestors guessed that the Sky Fox and the Demon Emperor may not have the same meaning. The Sky Fox is the Sky Fox, and the Demon Emperor...may be the supreme existence."

Jiang Fan was stunned, and suddenly remembered the words of the high priest, the world and the sky, the Sky Fox and the Demon King have been one since ancient times.

Are the two statements contradictory? Or is there something else? For example, does she mean that the two have been a group since ancient times?

If the Sky Fox and the Demon King are really two different terms, could it be that the Demon King is the man who accompanied the Sky Fox to grow up? Only Jiang Fan felt that... how could the relationship between the two be very similar to that between the Spiritual Person and the Spiritual Companion in the Spiritual Sect...

Turning her head to look at the High Priest, she did not say anything. In this situation, Jiang Fan could not ask.

"Then, the ancestor said that those years were too long ago, and it was impossible to know when they were, but it can be confirmed that it was farther than three thousand years ago, because the Sky Fox three thousand years ago was already a complete body, and in the fragments that the ancestor saw, it had been growing since childhood."

Jiang Fan quickly sorted out the timeline in his mind. Three thousand years ago, at some unknown time, the Sky Fox met that man, and then there was the first Heaven and Man Holy War, and then Hu Yue met the Sky Fox, and not long ago it was his turn to meet the Sky Fox. This spanned at least three thousand years. Is it possible that the two foxes are indeed not the same? For example, descendants or something. .

Jiang Fan felt that it was very likely. After all, the illusion created by Xiao Bai was full of memory fragments, and it was very likely that the inheritance was incomplete due to the change of bloodline.

If we push it back further, according to the Records of Strange Beasts in Mountains and Seas, the Great Wilderness Classic and folk legends, the legend of the Sky Fox began eight thousand years ago. No matter how outrageous the Sky Fox was, it was impossible for it to live for eight thousand years...

Afterwards, Hu Guanshan said a lot of descriptions of the Sky Fox by the ancestors, but the fragments were messy and could not form a line. Jiang Fan was confused and shocked, and his head was more of a mess.