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After Lu Renkui finished teaching, Caihua fell into a deep sleep, but Xiaobai on Caihua's body became alert.

Xiao Bai first crawled out of bed, and after confirming that Caihua was fast asleep, he transformed himself into a white wolf, warily watching the bushes about sixty meters away from them.

In Xiaobai's eyes, there was a human head in the moving grass, swaying up and down, and the aura around it showed that the person was powerful.

Xiaobai leaned forward, adopting an attack stance, and looked warily at the person who seemed stronger than her—she wanted to wait for that person to emerge from the bushes, preferably with their head sticking out first, so that she could subdue them in one fell swoop.

After waiting for a long time, the figure in the grass finally made a big move.

The figure swayed unsteadily, making it impossible to discern her features except that it was a woman. She stood up, supporting her head and stretching, muttering something under her breath. Turning around and seeing Xiaobai, she instantly snapped to attention, straightened up, and drew her weapon.

Fang Yuancheng was once again urged by her senior brothers and sisters to take on a disciple today. She was already annoyed by the urging. When she was annoyed, she would drink. After drinking, she liked to go down the mountain and wander around to sober up. Because when she wandered around down the mountain, she would not run into anyone from the sect, and she would not cause trouble for them when she was drunk. In this way, she would not be grabbed by the ears and scolded by her senior brothers and sisters.

"Today was another day I got drunk and slept at the foot of the mountain," Fang Yuancheng thought to himself, yawning as he got up from the bushes.

Fang Yuancheng felt like something was watching her. At first, she thought it was her master, Lin Yuqing, who had come down to find her—after all, she was usually the first to notice that she was not in the sect. She turned around and was about to greet Lin Yuqing when she found a white wolf staring at her with its eyes glowing green.

Fang Yuancheng sobered up instantly.

Fang Yuancheng summoned his pill bottle, took out his natal pot Yao Shan Pot, and shook his body to send out a signal talisman—he was currently a chef and alchemist, and didn't have the ability to deal with such a large spirit beast.

"What the hell?" Fang Yuancheng thought. "Weren't all the spirit beasts with bad tempers near the sect blasted away by Hong Lanying to the three mountain peaks? How come there's such a big wolf here? And what's that next to the wolf... a child?!"

Fang Yuancheng calmed himself down and looked at the child beside the white wolf. The child was peaceful, and there was no blood around him; he didn't know if the child was asleep or unconscious.

Near the child were two other children, already awake, sitting huddled together, trembling, on the smooth stone that served as their seat. They seemed terrified of the white wolf.

This guy's target looks like me. Fang Yuancheng held the Yaoshan Pot and looked around at the white wolf, trying to find an angle to throw the pot so that it would knock the white wolf unconscious. That way, she could take the three children and run away first.

However, there was something strange about this white wolf, Fang Yuancheng thought. He didn't smell any blood on it; instead, it had a pleasant fragrance. What kind of wolf was this? Was it trying to eat meat today after eating grass before? If this wolf really did eat grass, then did he no longer need to run away with the child? No, he still had to retrieve the child from under the wolf's belly first; maybe it would be having a good meal today!

Lotus Spirit Xiaobai looked at the woman in front of her, who was holding an iron pot in one hand and something that looked like a hammer in the other, and realized she wasn't wrong—this person was no decent human! Who would be sleeping outside in the middle of the night like that! And casually carrying around a hammer and a pot! And she even looks like a tree!!

The little master is currently extremely weak and still asleep. The other two are not only weak but also very scared, so only Little White can go now.

"As soon as she comes over, I'll bite her arm, then knock her unconscious, and show her to my little master tomorrow," Xiao Bai thought to himself.

Fang Yuancheng was thinking: As soon as this wolf makes a move, I will immediately throw the medicine bottle in my hand to stun it, and then fly over to smash it with the Yaoshan Pot until it is dizzy. That should be safe.

The two stood there, one human and one spirit, watching each other warily, waiting for the other to make the first move.

Wen Meiying and Wang Li, who had woken up long ago, regretted their competitiveness for the first time—if they had known they would encounter wolves if they had climbed so fast, they would not have climbed so fast in the first place.

Wen Meiying had intended to think of Ye, but when she opened her eyes, she saw something white standing not far from her. Upon closer inspection, she realized it was a wolf!

As Wen Meiying hurriedly backed away, she accidentally woke up Wang Li as well.

Wang Li, who was woken up, wanted to curse him out, but Wen Meiying covered her mouth before she could even make a sound. When she was fully awake, she saw the big white wolf in front of her.

Both were speechless with fright. In the darkness, illuminated by the night-shining lamp, they saw a figure standing in the shadows: disheveled hair, each strand seemingly possessing its own will, tangled and disordered, with many strands sticking straight up. The face was covered in ash. Combined with the darkness, they could barely make out the figure's features. The clothes were wrinkled and filthy, making the person look like a madman.

Wang Li and Wen Meiying wanted to run, but their legs were shaking so badly they could barely stand. They had no choice but to wait until the man and the wolf started fighting before trying to escape.

A cold wind blew in the evening, and the mountain wind was especially chilly at night. Winter was approaching, and the biting wind gave the two of them goosebumps. They began to regret not pulling the blanket over themselves when they retreated. Now the blanket had fallen to the ground, and they dared not move and could only endure the cold.

The three people and Ling stood frozen in the cold wind, each waiting for the other to make the first move.

As she turned over, the light from the night-blooming cereus lamp shone into her eyes, and Ayaka woke up a little. In her drowsy state, she reached out to touch the spot where Shiro was sleeping, but found nothing.

Ayaka was startled. Although her mind was still a little foggy, she fought off her drowsiness and felt around the area again, only to find that Xiaobai was not in bed.

Ayaka was now truly awake. She threw off the covers and sat up, only to find a white wolf standing beside her.

At first, Ayaka was startled and instinctively wanted to run away, but after taking a closer look, she smelled the fragrance of lotus flowers and realized that Shiro had turned into a wolf.

"What's wrong, Shiro?" Ayaka asked while stroking Shiro's fur. She looked in the direction Shiro was looking and, with the help of the Night Star Insect Lamp, discovered that there was another person standing there.

That person looked rather strange; anyone who didn't know better would think he was some wild man who had escaped from somewhere. Through the nearest night-blooming cereus lamp, Ayaka could barely make out that the style of the clothes the person was wearing resembled those of the immortal who had led them there.

Caihua hesitated for a moment, then finally mustered up the courage to ask, "Are you an immortal from the Huaiyu Sect?"

Fang Yuancheng saw that the little girl next to the white wolf had woken up. He was tense and was about to throw the bottle of pills in his hand when, unexpectedly, the little girl was startled at first, but then calmed down.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Fang Yuancheng was about to put his idea into practice when the little girl suddenly opened her mouth and asked the white wolf a question. Then, the little girl actually started touching the white wolf.

Fang Yuancheng was taken aback, then he realized—the white wolf probably mistook her for a bad guy in order to protect the little girl.

The young girl looked at Fang Yuancheng carefully again and asked him if he was an immortal from the Huaiyu Sect.

Fang Yuancheng answered yes.

The little girl then whispered something in the white wolf's ear, and the wolf instantly transformed into a small snake, coiling around the little girl's neck. The two children in the distance remained frozen in place, as if they had been frozen senseless.