Chapter Twenty: The Mysterious Girl

  In the next few days, Helian Nu finished his training tasks and left in a hurry. Helian Shang thought that Helian Nu was just being playful as a child, but he had been diligent in recent days, completing his self-assigned training tasks with precision. He also made some progress in practicing the Xuanbing Seal, and returned early every day. So, Helian Shang didn't bother him anymore. The adult Tianlang even started to neglect the little wolf that was always with Helian Nu, enjoying the sight of the two little ones being inseparable like brothers.

  On this day, Helian Shang got up early and opened his eyes to look towards the corner where Helian Nuo usually slept. As expected, only a bed of animal hide remained. Helian Shang let out a helpless sigh, picked up a crudely made short bow by the bedside, and prepared to hunt some wild game.

  Out of the Heavenly Wolf Cave, in the gentle morning sunlight, He Lian Shang couldn't open his eyes. He squinted and took a long stretch, breathing in the fresh forest air, then comfortably opened his eyes.

  "Huh?", Helianuo suddenly let out a low hum of surprise, as if he had seen something unbelievable. He raised his left hand to rub his eyes, and then looked forward again...

  In front of the Heavenly Wolf Cave, the huge stone that Helian Jian had loved to sit on was already reduced to powder, leaving a large empty space. At this moment, in this empty space, there was only a simple rocking chair standing alone!

  It's called a rocking chair, but upon closer inspection, the coarseness of the craftsman's handiwork is still visible. The entire rocking chair is made from woven bamboo strips, but the strips are not tightly woven together, with some areas having more or fewer strips than others, resulting in an uneven surface that doesn't look comfortable to sit on.

  However, Helian Shang sat up, the short bow that was originally held in his hand was casually thrown to the ground, and the uneven surface of the rocking chair made him frown. But this expression was replaced by a smile in an instant.

  Khalan's eyes narrowed in satisfaction, and under the gentle sunlight, two lines of clear tears flowed slowly down from his eye corners...

  Yes, He Lian Chuang shed tears! The normally cold-blooded and unfeeling He Lian Chuang actually shed tears!

  And the source of all this, the creator of the rocking chair, Helian, did not know that his casual move would bring such a big shock to Xiao Shu. He just thought that Helian's usual habit of sitting on a giant stone was gone, and he had an obligation to make a chair for Xiao Shu, nothing more.

  At this moment, Helian is excitedly walking on the road to Yuhuang Tree. In a secret corner along the way, Helian took out a 50cm tall large wooden cup from an extremely ordinary withered tree. After careful examination, it turned out that it was 70-80% similar to the large wooden cup in the little girl's hand that day. It turned out that Helian thought the previous cup was too small, so he made one that was roughly the same size as the little girl's wooden cup. Every day, he used a small cup to collect Yuhuang liquid from Yuhuang Tree and poured it into the large cup. After more than ten days, it had accumulated almost full. Helian didn't dare bring the wooden cup back to Tianlang Cave, so he hid it in a secret tree hole along the way. Today, one look at the large wooden cup and it's almost full. He immediately put the large cup on his back and rushed to Yuhuang Tree, preparing to fill the large cup today and find an opportunity to return it to the little girl.

  "That little girl said something about how hard it was to collect those Jade Dew Drops, but I think she's just not smart enough, only knowing how to search one by one. Look at me, I've collected more than her in just a few days! Next time we meet, I'll definitely mock her good, and if she has a good attitude, I might even reluctantly teach her my secret technique. You have to help me tease her then, Dumbbell!

  He Lianuo swung his arm as he walked, imagining with glee how shocked the little girl would be when she found out that he had collected a whole cup of Jade Dew Drops in just a fraction of the time it took her, and how she would beg him to teach her his secret technique. The small wolf running beside him heard He Lianuo's request for help in teasing the little girl, and couldn't help but show a smug expression on its long face, nodding repeatedly in support."

  One wolf swaggered towards the Jade Phoenix Tree, just about to cross over the last wild wisteria blocking its path, when it suddenly heard a hurried and urgent beastly howl coming from ahead. The sound was thick and low, unceasing, clearly not something that could be produced by a lower-ranked soul beast.

  He Lian quickly grabbed the little Tianlang wolf that was about to pounce, took two quick steps forward, and pushed aside the branches in front of her to quietly look towards the Jade Phoenix Tree. Under the tree, a giant tiger with a mottled coat was facing upwards, letting out a long roar. The sharp white teeth in its open mouth were as sharp as knives, and its thick tail whipped back and forth on the ground, kicking up clouds of dust. The giant tiger occasionally stood up on its hind legs, and its front paws clawed at the tree with great force, clearly enraged.

  He Lian saw this scene and couldn't help but feel a little surprised. After all, the location of the Jade Phoenix Tree was very secretive, and even a wild rabbit wouldn't be able to see it on a normal day. How did this giant tiger manage to get in?

  Following the giant tiger's gaze, a little girl in animal skin was seen clinging to the tree trunk, her face pale with fright, and a large wooden cup on her back. The giant tiger and the little girl were at a standoff, the little girl didn't dare come down, and the giant tiger couldn't climb up either.

  "Little girl?", Hélène couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice, seeing that the little girl was indeed on the tree. To be sure, Hélène had been waiting for her all these days, who knew that this little girl would disappear without a trace? Just when Hélène thought that her plan to collect the Jade Phoenix Liquid for the girl would come to nothing, the little girl suddenly reappeared, albeit in such a sorry state.

  "This girl is really unlucky, the last time I saw her was when she was scared by a thug and didn't dare to move on the tree, this time she was chased up the tree by a sixth-order giant tiger. Fortunately, the giant tigers in this world are the same as before and can't climb trees, otherwise the little girl would probably not just be pale with fear."

  Looking at the giant tiger under the Jade Phoenix Tree, which was almost frenzied, Helian No furrowed his brow. Although Xiao Tianlang was a quasi-sacred beast, it was still young and could only fight against four or five-stage soul beasts at most. This six-stage giant tiger was not something that the little wolf could contend with. His own Xuanbing Seal had some achievements, but after all, it didn't have any powerful techniques to support it, so it couldn't exert much power. It seemed that he could only use his wits and not rely on brute force. After thinking for a moment, looking at Xiao Tianlang's silver fur and the eager expression in its eyes, Helian No smiled slightly, and an idea came to mind.

  The giant tiger under the tree was still frantically scratching and clawing at the ground, losing patience it stood up several times swinging its huge paws trying to grab the little girl. Alas, the jade phoenix tree although not tall, just happened to make the giant tiger unable to reach the little girl. The giant tiger tried several times in vain and had no choice but to give up, yet still unwilling to let go of the little girl, so it lay down under the tree, patiently waiting for the girl's physical strength to run out and fall from the tree.

  Suddenly, a long howl echoed through the forest near the Jade Phoenix Tree, startling countless birds into flight, filling the sky with their shadows. The colorful butterflies that were collecting nectar from the flowers on the tree danced in the air, like delicate flowers blooming in the sky. A giant tiger that was lazily lying under the Jade Phoenix Tree suddenly sprang up, looking around nervously, its body trembling with fear. The majesty contained in the howl was too much for the sixth-stage tiger to withstand. Just then, the tiger caught a glimpse of a silver figure flashing through the nearby grass. Silver? Could it be...? The tiger's last shred of hope was crushed by that flash of silver, and it abandoned its long-awaited prey on the tree, fleeing in another direction without even daring to look back.

  "Hahaha", after the giant tiger ran away without a trace, the wolf's howl suddenly stopped, replaced by a burst of loud laughter. He Lianuo walked out of the grass with Xiao Tianlang, swinging his arms and legs, it turned out that the howling sound just now was made by Xiao Tianlang, although he was young, after all, he was a real sacred beast bloodline, so the howling sound naturally also had the sacred beast's unique majesty, plus the faint silver shadow, finally managed to scare away the six-stage giant tiger who was far stronger than them.

  The little girl on the tree saw the giant tiger abandon itself and run away, and the owner of the whistle also did not show up. Just about to let out a breath, she saw a boy who seemed to have seen before walking out with a big swing, still laughing loudly in his mouth, behind him, a small fat wolf followed closely.

  The girl, seeing this, hastily grabbed the tree trunk beside her, and her expression was even more helpless than when she faced the giant tiger just now.