Zhao Shuning summoned her spiritual power and slowly communicated with Huodou.
"I'm not Ye Xingchen," she said.
Huodou tilted its head, looking utterly bewildered.
"But I'm his relative. Could you please stop following me?"
Huodou blinked its eyes. Imagine, Huodou was an ape - like fire - eating beast, pitch - black all over. But at this moment, it was like a child blinking at you. Wouldn't a chill run down your spine? Anyway, Zhao Shuning couldn't help but shiver.
Thinking that Huodou had understood her words, Zhao Shuning gently lowered her hand and walked towards the exit behind her.
But she had only taken five steps when she heard a strange noise behind her. And there was that juvenile Huodou, following right behind her.
Zhao Shuning sighed and said, "I'm not Ye Xingchen. You've really got the wrong person!"
Then, when Zhao Shuning walked again, the beast followed her, step by step.
"Can't you understand what I'm saying?"
Huodou squatted down, looking aggrieved.
"Forget it, forget it. Please don't make such an expression. I can't stand it."
Zhao Shuning had figured it out. The reason this ancient beast was so clingy to her was that there was something wrong with its mind. A normal beast wouldn't be willing to follow an unknown person like her.
From that day on, there were two figures in the Dark Abyss Land. A little girl walked in front, and a ferocious beast like an ape bounced along behind her.
Since she had no map, it took Zhao Shuning a great deal of effort to climb to a new height each time.
Fortunately, although Huodou was a bit stupid, it knew how to protect its master. When Zhao Shuning was exhausted, it would stretch out its long arm, pull her into its arms, and then run forward at full speed.
After getting along for a while, Zhao Shuning thought that although Huodou was a bit ugly, it wasn't so bad.
She had been in the Dark Abyss Land for nearly a year. When she fell off the cliff, she thought she was going to be buried in the Undercurrent River. But unexpectedly, the heavens still protected her.
Finally, she climbed to the fifth height and reached the teleportation array. To her surprise, the teleportation system had become extremely weak. It must be that the tutor had withdrawn the spiritual power from the teleportation array. Now, she could only rely on her own spiritual power to reinforce the formation and see if she could teleport herself back.
During the five months she had been missing, Zhao Shuning never stopped practicing.
Strangely enough, on her sixth - birthday, although she was in the Dark Abyss Land with no one to celebrate with her, her spiritual power had an unprecedented fluctuation. The source of this fluctuation was the Huodou beside her.
On that day, it brought back a spiritual herb from somewhere.
Zhao Shuning had never seen this kind of spiritual herb before. More importantly, when she was about to refine the herb, a well - made pill fell out from the center of it.
Looking at the luster and saturation of the pill, Zhao Shuning couldn't help but be amazed. Anyway, with her ability as a third - grade alchemist, she definitely couldn't refine such a good pill.
Seeing Huodou's proud look, Zhao Shuning knew that the reason the pill was so well - hidden must be Ye Xingchen's doing. Since Huodou guarded the spiritual herb, no one dared to get close.
It was really embarrassing. As an elder sister, although her age was much younger in this life, her mind was still mature. She had vowed to take care of Ye Xingchen and make up for her past neglect of her younger brother. But until now, she had always been taken care of by Ye Xingchen. Even this pill must have been refined by him to feed Huodou.
Zhao Shuning wanted to clarify one thing. First of all, she definitely had no intention of stealing Huodou's pill. It was Huodou that forced her to take it. When she refused, Huodou even turned around angrily. When Zhao Shuning tried to comfort it, it casually threw the pill into her mouth.
Then, seeing Zhao Shuning choking with a red face and a thick neck, it slapped its long arms and jumped up and down, laughing heartily.
Really, if it weren't for the fact that this little Huodou was just a child and had helped her a lot when climbing these heights, Zhao Shuning really would have liked to beat it up.
After taking the pill, Zhao Shuning immediately felt weak all over.
It was over. This was a pill for beasts. Huodou meant well but did a bad thing. She, Zhao Shuning, was a living person. How could she withstand such a strong medicinal conflict?
Zhao Shuning hugged herself and rolled on the ground non - stop.
The spiritual power running wild in her body hit her whole body again and again.
Zhao Shuning was in so much pain that she couldn't speak. She could only cover her stomach tightly with her hands and keep rolling.
That stupid Huodou thought Zhao Shuning was performing a new trick for it. To encourage her to roll with a bigger arc, it kept making happy cheers and waving its long arms in the air, as if cheering for Zhao Shuning.
Just like this, Zhao Shuning endured the pain for a whole day and night. Her body slowly regained its strength. Just as she slowly closed her eyes, a surge of abundant spiritual power instantly filled her limbs.
What a strange power!
Heavens! How could a pill for beasts have such a great effect on her body?
Zhao Shuning squeezed her hands and felt that her body had recovered a bit.
Realizing her change, Zhao Shuning quickly sat up. Then, she put her hands together and formed a new spiritual seal. Soon, a wisp of flame slowly appeared in her hands. This time, the flame was much more vigorous and its color was much darker.
"Really!"
"Great!"
"Thank you, little guy!"
By sheer chance, on Zhao Shuning's sixth - birthday, although there was no one around her, she still received a new gift. That was the spiritual power of a fourth - grade alchemist.
The promotion of her spiritual power to the fourth grade was something Zhao Shuning had never dared to imagine. She was overjoyed for more than a month. It was not until she saw the weak spiritual power teleportation array on the fifth height that she finally calmed down.
"Bad fortune may be an actual blessing; good fortune may contain a germ of disaster."
"I was happy too soon."