Hu Li step into the Hong family's home. The flowers start to bloom suddenly. The dog that they keep comes running and greet her. She smile and pick up the little puppy. They walk inside the house. A few servants who seen her before they bow so did the rest. Hu Li hear the coughs in a room. She hand the puppy to one of the servants. At the same time, the servants gather at the yard. They look at each other and ask who is the guest. Why is she walking around without shoes. The two servants who follow the master up the mountain thinks she must be the caretaker who is living in the temple. They talk as they stand there.
Hu Li enters the room with Hong Bang and his son. She see a bucket of blood and vomit beside the bed. Hong Hong looks pale and tired. He is breathing like he is dying. She sits beside Hong Hong and touch his hand. He soon breath normally. He open his eyes and smile.
"Jie Jie, you are here."
"Hong Hong. How are you feeling?"
"Now i feel good. That past few days i feel terrible."
"I will try to make you feel better. Don't think about things that will upset you."
He look at her with his small eyes. He look across to see his son and grandson.
"I don't have anything that will upset me. Your visit to me, brings me joy."
Hu Li continue to generate warm energy into him. Hong Hong smile.
"I don't now why i am feeling hungry."
"Father! That is good! Should we cook something for you!"
"I want a simple bowl of noddles. The dish that give me hope."
"I go now."
Hong Bang run out with his son in his arm and call his servant to cook a warm bowl of noddles. While Hu Li look at Hong Hong.
"Hong Hong ... do you have any wish that you want it to be done but yet it is not granted yet."
Hong Hong look at her beautiful face. His eyes move to stare at the ceiling then back at her.
"I wish... You will stay and be my family member."
"You are asking for the impossible."
"I know but you need a family and i want my descendants to be your family. Brother Bai Lu will have a place to go home too."
Hu Li look at the man who had aged so much over the years. She and Bai Lu will live forever but he and his offsprings will die one day like all humans.
"If you wish, i can be your family guardian. I can live with your descendants but they have to understand that i am different. I will bless each of them but they cannot ask for the impossible from me. They cannot wish for things that is beyond my ability. They cannot ask for evil to be done."
"I understand."
"They also have to accept the temple of the great white fox in their heart. I am finding a way and a place to move the temple when the time is correct. "
"I will ask Bang'er to find a bigger piece of land. Buy it and built our house and temple there... "
He cough but it he feels much better compare to the last few days. He look at the fairy that he knows and pat her little hand.
"You may be older than i am but i am older in terms of body age. I feel like a grandfather looking at the eldest grandchild. Feeling worry for you. All your life, you have lived up the mountains all alone. Watching over the village and the lives of others. I don't know if you have a real family or not but i would like to be your family."
Hu Li smile and pat his winkle hands. At that moment a bowl of noodles comes in. The old man is happy to see it. He sits up and drink the broth first and later the food in the bowl. Hu Li return to her temple before the sun rises. She looks at the temple from a distance. White and majestic in appearances. She have to save it no matter what the price is.
Hang Bang climb up the mountain to the temple on the next two days. He said that his father had inform him to look for a suitable place for the temple and a house to build in. Unfortunately there is no where to found. He left saying that he will continue to search for a suitable location. That night, Bai Xuan appeared and they sit under the tree to talk.
"Since you have complete the task on hand, you are free to go."
"What will happen to the temple and the tree?"
"They will go down with the mountain."
"Go down?"
"Destroy."
"Master, can this be undone?"
"Why? Have you feel attached to this place?"
"Yes. Sort of. I have lived so long here. It is my ... another home."
"So ... Hu Li if this place to be keep in the human realm, it needs to be holy at all times. If anytime, you are sway by evil ... It will become a breeding ground for those spawn. Can you, will you say that you will remain the same for the next thousands of years? This realm will last longer as the void and the cosmo."
Bai Xuan sigh and look far away. She whisper softy.
"In this case, i will grant you the ownership of this mountain area. You will be the new mountain god. Thus you will have the power to move the temple anywhere with in this area."
Bai Hu Li look at Bai Xuan and smile with gratefulness. She stand up and bow to her.
"Hu Li i will let the earth god to know of this. I know that you want to take care of a particular human clan which is living below the mountain area. This will be good. They are generations of kind people. Your blessing for them will be good."
Hu Li nod her head and smile.
"Another thing i have to tell you. It's Bai Lu. He have complete his mission. He have gain more knowledge and power as a half beast and half human. He have a form of a Kun. For the next hundred of years, he will have to becomes a Peng. It will be painful."
"What is a Kun and Peng?"
"Kun is a whale that swims in the sky. Fei will accompany him when they are out. As he grows, he will cover half the sky. While a Peng is when he evolved into a bird. He will be the same size as a Kun's final stage. He will be bigger and brighter than Fei. He will be ... lock away. His human skin will be gone by the time of the Peng. His life will end as a human as Peng. Thus, he will be lock away. Why am i telling you this, is because, in the future, you might have to make the decision when to lock him away. Demons will want him as a Peng on their side, he will be dangerous and chaos will descend on heaven and earth. Do you understand? Hu Li?"
Hu Li who is listening with her fox ears is tearing that one day she have to lock her only son away. She stand up and goes down on her knees.
"Then Bai Xuan, please lock us together."
Bai Xuan look away and tap her fingers on her knees. She look down at Hu Li who is kneeing down. She reach out and touch the white hair that is floating in the air.
"Tell me that when the time comes. It's too far into the future when it happens."