"Are you lost little one", asks the Buddhist master.

"No, I am not", answers the lost one.

"Then, where are you going", insists the master.

"To the cycle of reincarnation", says the soul.

"But pay attention to the road ahead lil guy, this is not the right path", says the wise one.

"Really? But isn't that the place I should go?"

"Not at all! You're just running in circles! This is the right way."

Saying that, the master points to a different direction and urges the little soul to go on that path. The little bubble of light listens and goes down the mountain in the direction pointed by the monk. Little it knows that a new beginning will start from that moment forward.

The master looks at it while he descends the abrupt path and exclaims: "This soul was a white fox just about to reach immortality when it suddenly died from the wound of an arrow. It does not seek revenge, instead it quietly goes back to be reincarnated. What a pure soul, I hope it has more luck in its next life!"

It quickly goes down and flies into the village.

"This must be the place that master told me to come, it looks so shabby! But why don't I see other friends around?"

The little thing was expecting to see many other fellows there but no one else was around.

"This is how the reincarnation place should look like", it questions itself when suddenly the door at a well built house that was near opens and is swallowed inside. Here a young woman was just giving birth and the people around her were very agitated and they were running from corner to corner.

"Miss, hang in there", some of the other women said to the woman that was barely keeping her eyes open.

"How is she still a Miss", our friend questions itself while floating through the room and "what am I doing in this place".

Suddenly the bubble of light is dragged into the woman's womb and it screams in the same time with the one who was giving birth but no one can hear a word: "let me out, let me out", "I have to go to the reincarnation hall" but no one gives it attention.

At the last scream of the woman, the baby is out of the womb but is breathless. The people around definitely see how the newborn slowly changes its skin colour to black and gives no sign of life.

They do not dare to tell the mother about the condition of the baby because they are afraid not to worsen her condition too. In a second a miracle happens and the child starts breathing and also his skin turns white again. Everyone is in tears and finally announce the birth of the child to the mother who is desperately trying to search for her newborn in the people from around the bed's arms.

"It's a girl, it's a girl", a person who midwifed the entire process happily yells in the room and everyone inside approve.

"What they're happy about, it's just a human childbirth, nothing special about it. Oh...I'm finally out of that woman's stomach! I have to go to the reincarnation hall fast, otherwise I may miss my chance to get a new existence and I will wander like this until I completely vanish from the world. My soul will gradually weaken day after day, night after night and I will completely disappear because a soul can not exist without a physical body! I don't want this to happen to me! I will not allow my existence to vanish like the ash blown by the strong winds."

The agitated conscience tries to move out of that place but realizes it can not freely move anymore, that it is already in a body and it is actually in the newborn child's body.

"How is this possible", the little soul asks itself. This is not the reincarnation place, right? Why am I questioning myself, no one can understand the crying of a newborn to give me proper explanations. Did that monk lie to me? Ahhh....you lied to me, you stupid monk! You're just a big lier! (But I know that the monks can't lie and they never lie!) What is going on here? I just was reincarnated like this?! In this human body?! Oh...no,no,no, but the humans have a very short life. At least if I could live for ninety years in this fragile body, that would be highly appreciated. And why I keept my intact conscience? I should have forgotten my past existence by now, I should have forgotten everything and everyone. Ahhh....someone please tell me what the hell is going on? Tell me that this is just a dream, tell me that I was never shoot by that arrow, tell me that I have become an immortal and I'm staying now next to the heavenly emperor, pouring tea for the mighty ruler of immortals. Sigh...! No answer back. How unlucky I am. What can I do? This is the worst nightmare ever! At least I am pretty, it is very important for a little fox to be beautiful. No matter in what shape I am reborn, it must be a good looking one! I am the most outstanding little white fox among all the foxes in this world! My skin is smooth, my fur is white and pure like the snow. No one can question that!"

"This is me, Su Qin,

a white fox from the fox clan!

I can't believe I am reborn in this weak body!

What am I going to do?

I think I have to wait some years until this body matures to be able to leaves this place and continue my cultivation."

Five years later....

The people from our village keep telling my parents that I am a monster because I have an abnormal strength for a five years old child and I was born with a peach flower sign on my forehead. Sometimes when I lose control of my emotions, my eyes turn from their original yellowish brown colour to light purple and everyone gets terrified even though they're beautiful. Of course that I'm not a normal human child because a fox's soul is trapped inside this body but what do they know! Sometimes I am asking myself if I am possessing this body or it is my own. My mother doesn't believe a word they say and love me unconditionally but my father is a bit sad when he looks at me.One day my father comes back home with an old monk. He's the same monk I've meet before I was reborn, damn monk, he pointed into this direction and look what happened! I'm trapped in this body!

I really want to tell him a few words but I can't speak, my lips are sealed since my birthday, they say I am a mute. "Mute" is the word describing a person who can not speak in the human world, so no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to make a sound. It's been five years and I haven't spoken a word.

The monk looks at me, touches my head and then sighs looking at my parents.

"I'm afraid there's nothing I can do to help! This child is not like any ordinary person.She has great potential for cultivation since birth because of her powerful yin energy.The only thing you can do is to send her to a cultivation sect.", says the monk to my parents.

"But is our only child, how can we send her away?"

"It's for her own good and yours! This is her destiny, you will see her later if the fate allows it. This is just a poor monk's advice, you don't have to follow it if you don't want but it will only bring more troubles and in the weak shape she is right now, she won't be able to defend herself."

My parents, after a long time of thinking, decide to follow the monk's advice and send me to Mt Tai Shan.They pack my things and the next morning when the monk passes though our village, they place me in his care until we both reach Mt Tai Shan. Here he intends to enrol me to one of the cultivation schools from Mt Tai. What a pain in the ass, I suppose that I can't leave this place until I become powerful enough to run away. This damn monk really wants to imprison me for life on this isolated mountain. I'm a fox spirit, why should I learn taoism? I just want to cultivate and ascend immortality, who cares about the human world and their affairs.

I have no time to deal with their problems!

I, Su Qin, was about to ascend when that stupid human shoot that arrow and killed me. He wasn't even an experienced hunter, it was only a ten years old cultivator from one of these ridiculous sects and now I have to become one of them.

Maybe this monk actually hates me or he hates the rest of the creatures that are not humans . From what I remember, our clan of foxes didn't intervene in the human affairs since ancient times. We only live in seclusion, deep in the mountains and forests, not hurting anyone. Any fox who breaks this rule is harshly punished by our elders, so no one dares to commit crimes in the human world. We have no grudges with anyone, we either live in hidden places or we are wandering creatures.

"The monk takes good care of me on the way to Mt Tai Shan. He's almost like a caring mother and this thing gives me shivers on my fox tail.

I swear on my fox tail that I am not going to travel together with a monk as long as I still have to live in this world. If this monk's tenderness can make me bumps on my skin, then what can I say about the coldness of the taoist masters toward the creatures of my kin. They're so ignorant that they can't make the difference between evil, good and a passer by! For them all the nonhuman creatures are evil and must be sealed or killed, we all enter in the same category, "demons", as if every nonhuman creature will harm the human world sooner or later.

At least the monks have more compassion but he still wants to hand me over to some people like that even though he knows that I am not human but just got inside one."

Suddenly, the monk starts talking, cradling the crying child in his arms.

"Shuuu...shu...shu...., stop crying little fox, I know that you're upset on me but this is for your own good! This child was already dying, it could not have been saved by anyone. At least in this way his parents will not have to suffer the pain of separation and you will be reborn into this body. It's a win to win situation! But I have to send you to Mt Tai Shan because you're not an ordinary human and without proper guidance you can harm the ones around you if you go astray one day. Once you grow up, your fox powers will also awaken and this can create problems. Don't worry, my friend on the mountain will take good care of you! He will be your new master from that day on, so be a good girl and don't mess around too much! He can help you continue your cultivation to reach the immortality stage.This is what you always wanted, right?"

Hearing these words, the little fox calms down and stops crying.

"Hmmm....,I hope you're right you dilly-dally monk! I don't want to find myself imprisoned into a nine level pagoda or my 'core foundation' to be shattered into thousands of small pieces and discarded through the three realms. That way I will not be able to ever reincarnate."

After a long journey, the monk finally stops at the entrance of the mountain and leaves the newborn before the gates.

"Why are we stopping now, old monk? Why did you put me down from your arms? The ground is cold in comparison with your arms!"

The eyes of the child were intensely looking at the monk with curiosity inside them.

"I have told you that I'll bring you to Mt Tai Shan and here we are. This is Mt Tai Shan."

"Don't tell me that are you going to leave me here alone in this wilderness? What if some wild beasts eat me? All of your efforts until now will be wasted like that! Nooooo!!!! You stupid old monk!!! I don't want to be eaten by something frightening! Please take me back into your arms! I beg you! I won't say you're stupid anymore!"

While the child keeps crying, the monk sends a message into a flying lotus flower inside the mount's barrier of protection.

"I can't trespass the barrier of the mountain, only the members of its sects can do it, so I'm going to send them a message to come and pick you up from the gates. This huge bell will keep you safe from dangers, so stop crying and obediently wait here! (he forms a bell of energy with his power and places it over the baby) We must part here little one. If the fate will allow us, we will meet again in the future! Take care!"

Saying these words, the monk leaves and disappears through the forest.The child keeps crying more angrily that before but no one can hear that because the monk is already far away in the distance.

"You stupid monk, you stupid monk, I don't want you to leave me here alone! What if they're not coming? What am I going to do then? Come back! Don't leave me...."

Exhausted because of all that struggle, the little life falls into a deep sleep under the warm light of the bell.

Meanwhile, a master from a sect from Mt Tai Shan receives the pink lotus bud that opens into his palm and reads the monk's message. He fastly asks his youngest disciple, Su Jianci, to go and find the baby in front of the gates.

The young boy, hearing that he will have a junior sister soon, enthusiastically bows in front of his master and runs down as fast as the thunder, actually creating a thunderstorm around the mountain and messing up every senior that was passing near this thunder.

In front of the gate, he find the baby girl shielded by a golden bell. When he touches it, the bell shrinks and turns into a small one, attaching himself at the baby's right hand. He takes the sleepy newborn in his arms and goes back to his master. He does not reaches his master's place and the baby suddenly wakes up because of his fast running. The little fox opens her eyelids widely and her eyes become so big that they could go out of their orbits. She can not believe that she's meeting this person again.