Xiao Li

## Appearance

The little girl that was kneeling at the youth's side was shabbily dressed, her thin body was all skin and bones. Her hands that supported her on the ground showed cracked fingernails filled with blood and pus, just one look at her gave people a feeling of unbearable pain.

This little girl was still young, only ten years old, but coupled with possible long term malnutrition, it had left her looking thin and small, giving her the appearance of a seven or eight year old child.

## History

He Xi met her for the first time when he saw her in front of Ji Sheng Hall begging to save her brother who was injured and was dying, however doctors told him that his brother's injury was incurable, leaving her in pain and despair. .

However when everyone had given up, He Xi stepped forward and healed her brother's injury leaving her forever grateful to her.

## Background

After her brother was healed by He Xi, she used her innate don to find her and along with him convinced He Xi to allow them to become his servants, however her brother had to separate from her in order to first avenge his enemies of her family, leaving her under the care of He Xi.

She is not actually a human, but a Nine Tailed Spirit Fox, an ancient beast that came to the mortal world accompanied by her brother, however her species is hunted by humans and when found none of them has a good ending, which leaves Xiao Li in a constant state of despair and fear of being discovered.

## Trivia & Story

* She has an innate gift that allows her to communicate with animals.
* Due to the appearance of Cang Mountain's secret territory and the consequent influx of countless high-level martial artists into the area, she used the Smokescreen Technique to hide He Xi's patio and protect everyone.
* In order to save everyone on He Xi's patio she used the  empty spiritual barrier is a technique that belongs to Nascent Soul stage martial artists, however to maintain it, she had had to sacrifice one tail, which she had cultivated with great difficulty, preventing her from maintaining her complete human form, thereby revealing her true identity.
* On account protecting the patio and everyone in it He Xi gave her a bottle of Ninth Secluded Spirit Spring’s water so that she could at least restore her human form.
* To protect the courtyard of He Xi and the people in it, she decided not to flee and ended up being captured hostage, however her true identity was discovered and she was skinned alive to get her skin.
* With the help of the Thousand Leaf Flower that the group of ants and insects that helped to avenge Xiao Li left behind, He Xi managed to reconnect the skin of his body that had previously been removed, but even so she was still losing her spirituality and dying, seeing this He Xi without hesitation formed a life and death pet contract with her, something that had not been seen for thousands of years, as there were no advantages, as they would now share life and death.
* He Xi gave her two alternatives that she could follow if she wanted to become stronger, one was for her to leave He Xi and go to the forest of the magical beast where there is an abundant amount of enchanted energy for her to cultivate, the second alternative was boss her to the Desolate Desert Realm's Black Desert, where she should fight and slay the magical beasts and refine their inner nuclei and turn them into enchanted power to cultivate, however this method can generate murderous thoughts in her. In the end she chose the second alternative.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 166 - The Ancient Beast
2. ↑ Chapter 165 - Nine Tailed Fox
3. ↑ Chapter 167 - Lost A Tail
4. ↑ Chapter 168 - Courtyard Protection
5. ↑ Chapter 377 - A Hundred Times More Painful That Dying
6. ↑ Chapter 381 - Replenishing Bone and Growing Flesh Efficacy
7. ↑ Chapter 382 - Life And Death Contract
8. ↑ Chapter 411 - Letting One's Self Become Strong