In the freezing snow-covered land, a white fox began moving back and forth somewhat clumsily at first.
Before long, the white fox’s movements gradually became more fluid.
She darted across the snow, occasionally hopping a few times, her fluffy ears and tail swaying along with her motions.
Although the white fox’s body had only died recently, it was deep winter and it had been buried under snow for quite some time, so the whole body had grown somewhat stiff.
Bai Heng was currently controlling this body, making it move while mixing his own blood with the fox’s originally cooling blood to slowly circulate it throughout the body.
At the same time, he used his will to stimulate the heart, helping it start beating again… This delicate internal work took Bai Heng quite some time, but it was ultimately worth it.
As her movements grew increasingly agile, it showed that the entire fox body was slowly regaining vitality.
This long-lost feeling of having a physical body, sensing the warmth of blood flowing within it, and the rhythmic beating of something in his chest… These things that a normal living person usually wouldn’t pay much attention to felt incredibly unfamiliar yet intimate to Bai Heng right now.
Familiarizing himself bit by bit with this body, Bai Heng lowered his head and saw two furry paws stepping on the snow.
The fox head tilted to the side.
One paw lifted gently, revealing a small, delicate paw print in the snow.
Looking at that paw print, Bai Heng’s thoughts turned.
It took him a moment to confirm that it was the footprint he himself had made.
The raised paw slowly lowered again, stepping precisely into the previous paw print.
The fox lifted her head and gazed at the snowflakes drifting across the sky.
The howling wind echoed in her ears.
Her pointed fox ears twitched subconsciously from time to time, shaking off the ice and snow blown onto them by the wind.
Looks like I’ll have to walk on four legs from now on…
Such a sigh from Bai Heng came out of his mouth as several soft whimpers.
A fox, yeah, a fox has to walk on four legs, after all.
Gazing up at the sky, Bai Heng continued whimpering.
Fox, hehehe, a fox. I’ve become a fox, hahaha…
In my previous life—if we can call it that—I suppose I lived as a human decently enough. I didn’t really have any major regrets…
Now I’ve become a fox… I guess that’s fine too.
It’s not bad. It’s much better than that half-dead, half-alive state I was in before.
Being a wild animal also saves me from having to deal with all the complicated human relationships and social niceties.
Overall, it’s not bad at all.
“Ah! Cold, cold, cold!”
Staring up at the sky in heavy snowfall, the wind and snow quickly taught Bai Heng a harsh lesson.
With her nose and eyes stung by the blowing snow, the white fox yelped and shook her head vigorously, leaping and bounding around in the snow.
The snow was falling heavier and heavier.
Bai Heng returned to the spot where she had stood up earlier.
She subconsciously lowered her head to sniff at the snow, then began digging at the accumulated snow with her paws, one scoop after another.
She didn’t know how long she dug, but eventually a stiff fox tail was revealed under the snow.
Bai Heng grabbed the rigid tail in her mouth.
Using all four paws to pull with force, she dragged the fox corpse buried in the snow out into the open.
It was the other young fox. Afterward, Bai Heng continued digging and soon dragged out Little White’s body as well.
Considering it a remnant of his time as a human, and since he had watched them grow up—and now he was essentially half a child of Little White—Bai Heng couldn’t bear to leave their bodies exposed in the wilderness.
Because a large area of the surrounding land had been blasted, the soil was quite loose. Bai Heng didn’t have to work too hard to dig a moderately deep pit.
She dragged Little White and the other fox’s bodies into the pit.
Then Bai Heng went back to the earlier spot and searched until she found the amber that had housed him for over three thousand years.
Bai Heng picked up the amber with her mouth and placed it together with Little White and the others’ bodies.
Then, using her hind legs, she kicked all the loose soil around the pit down into it, slowly burying them together.
After finishing all this, Bai Heng lowered her head and lay on top of the fully covered earthen grave, letting out a few soft whimpers.
Feeling that the soil below was not packed very firmly, she was still a little worried that other carnivores might smell it and find this place.
If that happened, all her efforts would have been in vain.
Raising her fox head and looking around, Bai Heng quickly spotted a rather heavy-looking piece of broken rock.
With only the strength of this fox body and four paws that were far too clumsy compared to human hands, there was no way she could move that rock normally.
But Bai Heng clearly understood that he was not an ordinary fox.
Within his original blood lay a power that transcended the physical body.
Standing up, Bai Heng stared intently at the rock. The tuft of white fur at the center of her forehead suddenly turned a vivid red.
At the same time, the rock not far away slowly rose into the air.
Bai Heng took several steps back, clearing the area above the original pit.
Her entire fur stood on end as her four limbs trembled slightly.
The entire process was extremely strenuous, but Bai Heng gritted her teeth and held her breath, using all her will to guide the large rock.
In the end, she managed to make it land steadily exactly where she wanted.
Not only had it consumed a lot of physical strength, Bai Heng’s consciousness also felt a little fuzzy.
She really wanted to collapse right there and sleep deeply.
However, Bai Heng had a clear awareness that she absolutely could not fall down now.
Otherwise, the body she had finally synchronized with would lose its vitality completely, and he would return to that half-alive, half-dead hazy state.
So Bai Heng forced herself to stay alert and rested for a while leaning against the large rock.
After feeling some of her strength return, Bai Heng gently nudged the large rock with her head, let out a few weak whimpers, and then turned to leave.
Behind the white fox who walked away with her head slightly lowered, a trail of paw prints followed into the distance.
Soon after, these prints were covered by the falling snowflakes.
The sky was dim and gloomy, the ground a vast expanse of white.
Walking in such an environment, Bai Heng quickly lost track of both time and direction.
Fortunately, Little White had raised her children well.
Although Bai Heng’s current body was not particularly strong, it had accumulated a decent layer of fat and thick fur before winter arrived. Walking through the wind and snow, she surprisingly did not feel cold.
However, even if she didn’t feel cold, the previous labor had consumed a massive amount of energy. Her body’s instincts began reminding her—she was hungry!
So hungry!
Bai Heng looked around.
All she could see was endless white snow and bare, withered trees.
In the middle of winter like this, where could she find something to eat?
Shaking her head, Bai Heng continued deeper into the mountain forest.
First, she hoped to find a place that could shelter her from the wind and snow.
As for food, she still had quite a bit of fat to sustain her.
Being hungry right now would actually help keep her consciousness clear.
This long-missed feeling of hunger even made Bai Heng feel slightly excited.
In this excited state, Bai Heng hopped along somewhat cheerfully through the mountain woods. Just before nightfall, she suddenly stopped in her tracks beneath a certain mountain cliff.
Raising her dark fox nose, her naturally keen sense of smell caught a faint trace of blood in the cold wind.
And it was this faint scent of blood that finally made it difficult for Bai Heng to suppress her body’s instincts.
Following that trace of scent, she cautiously crept forward.
At the place where the smell of blood was strongest, Bai Heng found a cave nestled in a crevice between the cliffs.
After hesitating for a moment, she still lifted her paw lightly and carefully slipped inside.
The scent of blood inside the cave was even stronger, so strong that Bai Heng couldn’t use her sense of smell to tell whether there was some fierce beast inside.
Fortunately, a fox’s hearing was also excellent. Bai Heng pricked up her ears and listened hard. After filtering out the sound of the wind, she only heard very faint breathing coming from within the cave.
From this, she judged that even if there was a fierce beast inside, it was most likely an injured one. Perhaps it had been wounded by its prey while hunting?
In any case, Bai Heng felt this was an opportunity to fill her stomach.
Even if there was some risk, she could escape quickly thanks to her agile body.
The cave was quite dim, but foxes were nocturnal creatures, so Bai Heng could see clearly.
Thus, staying low to the ground, she stealthily approached the source of the blood scent.
Suddenly, her ears and tail shot straight up in shock.
The ferocious beast she had imagined turned out to be… a human!