Chapter 6: Lonely Mountain 1

Led by the white dog, Yun Shang continued to move forward with great interest. However, as she walked, she put her hands on the pergola to block the sunlight and her face changed.

- There is a mountain wall ahead, no way forward!

Why is it a dead end?

I was just about to ask the white dog what was going on, but the white dog just kept walking forward as if nothing had happened, and didn't feel anything was wrong at all.

Yun Shang concealed the doubts in her heart and followed the white dog to the front of the mountain wall.

The mountain walls were tall and rugged, with uneven weeds growing in the cracks of the rocks, and a few ugly wild flowers growing in the lower middle.

Yun Shang touched it and found it was rough. It was real rock.

Unless she is a pangolin drilling rig, there is really no way she can get through.

"I can't leave, right?" No matter how calm she was, she really couldn't help it this time.

The white dog ignored her, but took a few steps back, then accelerated and rushed towards the mountain wall.

This action frightened Yun Shang so much that she was stunned. The little white dog flashed past her eyes like a white light, so fast that she had no time to stop it.

She subconsciously closed her eyes and her whole body was trembling, afraid to see the bloody scene.

She didn't understand why the white dog would go and hit the wall for no reason. If it did that, it would definitely not survive.

But after a few seconds, Yun Shang did not hear any loud noise - in fact, she heard nothing except the rustling sound of the weeds in the wind.

Yun Shang slowly opened her eyes, but the expected horrible scene did not appear in front of her. There was nothing in front of her except that clean rock wall.

She was completely confused.

Where did the white dog go?

Just as she was petrified, a white shadow jumped out from the rock wall again.

The white dog shook its head, ran to Yun Shang, and rubbed her ankle affectionately, looking unharmed.

"Oh my god, you're really okay!" Yun Shang half squatted down and touched its head, "You scared me to death!"

The white dog rubbed its head against her hand, its eyes rolling around as if showing off its abilities.

"I understand." Yun Shang looked at the rock wall and then at the white dog. "Is this the entrance to the forest?"

The white dog barked, then turned around excitedly and bit its tail.

"I see." Yun Shang stood up and touched her chin. "I can just rush over like you, right?"

The white dog barked twice again to show its agreement.

"Okay, then you dance first to demonstrate, and then I'll follow you." Although Yun Shang still finds it too magical to believe, it happened right in front of her and it was so real that she couldn't refute it. She guessed that this was probably the legendary sleight of hand or barrier.

After hearing Yun Shang's words, the white dog didn't say anything more and rushed towards the rock wall again at an extremely fast speed.

Yun Shang opened her eyes wide, afraid to miss even a frame of the picture.

This time she saw clearly that the white dog was moving incredibly fast and the place where it crashed was the place where the strangely shaped wild flowers grew.

Its entire body quickly drilled into the rock wall and disappeared like a computer special effect. The whole process took only a few seconds.

It's Yun Shang's turn.

She pressed her temples and clasped her hands to cheer herself up.

Thinking that the white dog was still waiting for her over there, she could no longer be so hypocritical and mentally prepare herself.

Fight!

Yun Shang retreated seven or eight meters, took a deep breath, and rushed towards the place where wild flowers grew at the fastest speed.

Although she had decided to risk her life, she subconsciously closed her eyes out of fear when she was about to reach the rock wall.

The next second, her head did not hit the hard rock with a bang, but she felt a very strange feeling, a bit like her whole body passing through soft substance, which was quite comfortable.

But this comfort did not last for a few seconds, and she fell to the ground in a dog-eat-x state, with a mouthful of mud.

Yun Shang: …

At this moment, she was worried that her three-dimensional facial features had been flattened by the fall.

 "Ooo ...

The joyful barking of the white dog appeared beside Yun Shang.

Yun Shang raised her head, rolled her eyes and spat out the mud in her mouth. The white dog circled around her, wagging its tail, grinning, and sticking out its tongue, looking like it was laughing.

"Don't laugh at me."

Yun Shang got up and wiped the mud off her face and body, then she had time to look around.

This is a dense forest.

The trees were towering into the sky, their canopies like umbrellas, almost blocking out the light above. Because of this, the light here was a little dim.

A path winds forward, leading to an unknown distance.

Yun Shang looked back and saw that there was still a small path behind her and she could no longer see any mountain wall.

The air was filled with the unique scent of the forest - a mixture of soil, rotting plants and animal carcasses.

You can also hear various bird calls and the roar of wild animals coming from the distance.

This overly primitive atmosphere made Yun Shang's just relaxed mood tense again, as if she had entered a huge hunting ground.

Here, if you are not a hunter, you will become someone else's prey.

Yun Shang looked at her empty hands, feeling a little annoyed. 

"Aoao!" The white dog was not as nervous as Yun Shang when he came here. He ran as freely as the wind, and even his fur seemed to be much brighter.

It ran around happily for a while, ran to a big tree, raised its legs and urinated.

Yun Shang: … 

It turns out that this dog is male.

After peeing, the white dog sniffed around, then stopped under another big tree, and then sat down.

"Is the herb there?" Yun Shang ran over excitedly, bent down and checked where it was squatting.

There is a light gray plant growing under the tree. It is shaped a bit like a four-leaf clover, but has five leaves. It smells cool.

The plant was not intact, but scattered, with some of it uprooted and some of its leaves eaten, probably because of the bites of injured wild animals. It seems that this medicine can be taken orally or applied externally.

She took this plant and put it in her space.

"Thank you." Yun Shang touched white dog's head and expressed her sincere gratitude, "If it weren't for you, I really don't know where to go."

The white dog raised its head proudly, wagged its tail, and sat next to Yun Shang. It then leisurely began to lick its fur and groom itself.

Seeing it so carefree, Yun Shang knew that at least for now, they were safe.

Thinking of this, Yun Shang breathed a sigh of relief.

After traveling all day, she and the dog needed a short rest.

"Dog, I didn't expect you to really be willing to come with me and help me find herbs." Yun Shang looked up at the dense shade of the trees, feeling a little touched. "Do you think we can be considered friends in need?"

After hearing this, the white dog tilted its head and thought about it for a while. At least it understood the general meaning. It whined to show its agreement.

"Since we're friends, I can't call you dog anymore." Yun Shang's eyes lit up and asked, "Do you have a name?"

The white dog looked at her with a very confused expression.

"I see. your owner was too lazy to even give you a name. What a joke." Yun Shang thought for a moment and said with a smile, "How about I give you a name? If you cultivate the right way in the future, it would be more impressive to have a name to call you."

The four words "cultivate in the right way" made the dog's black gemstone-like eyes shine even brighter. It no longer cared about its personal hygiene, and rushed in front of Yun Shang, rubbing its body against her excitedly.

The soft fur brushed against Yun Shang's face, which felt comfortable and a little itchy, making her laugh uncontrollably.

"Okay, okay, don't get excited." Yun Shang hugged it and coaxed it, "Naming is just the beginning. Cultivation depends on chance and your own efforts."

The white dog immediately stopped moving and sat obediently in front of her, looking at Yun Shang with its eyes rolling.

"Your fur is completely white, without a single stray hair, so let's call it Bai." Yun Shang looked at it carefully. "If it's Bai, any name will sound nice. Let me think about it. You're so smart, why not call it Bai Rui?"

"Woof woof!" The white dog barked excitedly twice. Although he didn't quite understand the specific meaning of the word, he liked it very much.

"I'll call you Xiaobai from now on, okay?" Yun Shang stretched out her hand towards the white dog. "My name is Yun Shang. From now on, we officially know each other and have become friends."

Bai Rui, who had just been given a name, looked at the hand and quickly reacted. He stretched out a claw and placed it on Yun Shang's hand.

The touch of Xiaobai's foot pad was soft and warm, and Yun Shang felt warm in her heart at that moment.

The woman and the dog shook hands solemnly and reached a pleasant consensus.

"Gugu--"

At this moment, Yun Shang's stomach growled at an inopportune time, and the sound was very loud in the quiet woods.

She looked at Xiaobai awkwardly, rubbed her stomach, coughed, and said frankly: "I'm a little hungry."

To be frank, she is still a mortal body. After a night of fighting and escaping, she has consumed a huge amount of physical strength and calories. It would be strange if she is not hungry.

Xiaobai naturally understood the word hungry. He rolled his eyes, howled twice, and quickly ran towards the depths of the forest.

"Hey...Xiao..." Looking at Xiaobai's receding back, Yun Shang's outstretched hand did not fall down for a long time. This guy is like this every time, his movements are too fast.

Forget it, this kid might be used to running wild in this place. He must be going there to find food for himself, and he means well.

Yun Shang leaned back against the tree trunk and began to observe the situation here carefully.

They were now roughly at the outskirts of the first layer of the forest. The path was flat and from time to time they could hear the chirping of various birds. This was also a place that hunters often came to.

There shouldn't be any particularly ferocious wild beasts in this area after daybreak, otherwise Xiaobai wouldn't have easily abandoned her and run away.

Since it was safe here and they still had to wait for Xiaobai to return, Yun Shang decided to enter Chaos Space, if she can, she want to practice to have a meager strength.