Chapter 158: The Great Squirrel Rescue_1

Chapter 158: The Great Squirrel Rescue_1

“Last time, we left off with the young man from Earth Star who was harmed by a treacherous person, his limbs broken, and thrown down to the bottom of a cliff. Perhaps heaven felt his time hadn’t come yet because as he fell, he was caught by a large tree. Even though several of his bones were shattered, thankfully, his life was spared,” Xu Fan began to recount his tale to Tongtong with enthusiasm.

“But there the young man was, hanging from the tree, unable to move his limbs, unable to find food or water, and with multiple injuries on his body. If he continued without food or drink, he would not last three days without starving to death in that deep forest,” Xu Fan’s words carried a wave of melancholy, which touched Tongtong deeply, causing her eyes to widen, and her little heart was fiercely gripped by the fate of the young man in Xu Fan’s story.

“The young man hung on the tree for three days, and during those days, he thought of many things. What he thought about the most was getting revenge, but now, having hung on the tree for three full days, his body’s energy was entirely drained, and he was on the brink of death. However, at that moment, the young man saw a little squirrel approaching him on the tree.”

“A little squirrel? Was it a cute one with a big bushy tail?” Tongtong asked curiously.

“Yes, exactly that kind of squirrel with a big bushy tail. It seemed as if the squirrel had a sense of spirit, for when it saw the young man who was extremely thirsty and close to death, it hopped and skipped into a tree hollow. After a short while, it brought out a pine nut from the hole and gently threw it into the young man’s mouth,” Xu Fan said calmly as he narrated his past experiences.

Had it not been for that spirit-possessed squirrel, Xu Fan might have perished in the woods, and there would be no story of the Five Directions Great Emperor who later shook Wanfang Tianyu.

“Squirrels are so nice. Tongtong wants to keep a squirrel as a little friend too,” Tongtong said, her small hands cupping her chubby cheeks, speaking with a hint of yearning.

“Thanks to the pine nuts brought by the squirrel and a heavy rain, the young man miraculously solved his problem of food and water and managed to survive on the tree with great fortitude for another seven days.”

“Oh? So the pine nuts from the little squirrel were all eaten up?” Tongtong asked curiously.

“Right, Tongtong is so clever. After all, a squirrel is just a small animal, and those pine nuts were merely its winter storage. For an adult, it was hardly enough food. After only seven days, the pine nuts the squirrel had saved were all gone, and the young man finally lost hope, thinking he was certainly going to die in that forest.”

“Wuwu... I don’t want him to die; Tongtong wants to go save him with pine nuts,” Tongtong, her small eyes brimming with tears, pitifully said to Xu Fan.

He thought the squirrel had mistaken his elixirs for pine nuts, hiding them in its own tree hole, so he quietly followed the little creature and came upon the tree where Xu Fan was hanging.

It was only then that the old Daoist realized that the squirrel had been stealing the elixir to save an injured person in the tree.

Later on, Xu Fan was rescued by this old Daoist, who then used his miraculous elixirs to cure Xu Fan’s wounds. Noticing that Xu Fan had an Immortal Root, the old Daoist took him under his wing and together they embarked on the path of cultivation.

As he spoke, Xu Fan realized that Tongtong had fallen asleep at some unknown point, with only Xu Yixue leaning against the door frame, listening to Xu Fan’s story.

“Where did you read this story?” Xu Yixue asked Xu Fan somewhat skeptically.

Xu Fan seemed to possess a miraculously skilled Alchemy art, and the young man in the story sounded a bit like Xu Fan. However, after careful thought, Xu Yixue dismissed her own idea.

Xu Fan had once been the young master of the Xu Family and had always lived in Dragon City without ever leaving. After his family underwent a misfortune, he had been living a dissolute life in Zhonghai City. Xu Yixue had even seen the decadent Xu Fan when she returned from America, which chronologically did not match up.

It was impossible for Xu Fan to be the young man saved by the squirrel in the story.

“This story, of course, I read it from an online novel,” Xu Fan said with a casual smile, speaking lightly.

“Don’t tell Tongtong these bizarre and strange stories in the future, you should tell more classic fairy tales,” Xu Yixue said with a frown to Xu Fan.

“Aren’t fairy tales also strange and bizarre? They’re just simpler, that’s all,” Xu Fan replied, curling his lip.

“Hmph! Anyway, you’re not allowed to tell those!” Xu Yixue insisted with a stern face to Xu Fan.