"Whats that Youhuo Mountain, where is it?!" Bai Xiang sat down on a withered tree branch with a thud, facing the vast green forest, and let out a mournful howl.
She picked up the purple shell hanging from her waist and said, "Old shell, I cant find the way, I dont want to go."
The purple shell opened and closed, sighing as it said: "Young master, after you transform, go to the Floating Mountain of Yu to pay respects to the Supreme God Xuan Cang as your teacher. This was the old masters final order before he passed away, you must definitely go."
Bai Ling quickly knelt down to the old turtle shell and exclaimed: "Old Turtle Shell, did you hear that? Its not that I dont want to go find that ghostly floating mountain, or worship that god. Its just that I really cant find the way! Ive been wandering around this haunted forest for half a month now, and I havent even seen a single persons shadow. Im going crazy!"
The old shell was met with a moment of silence. His young master, Bai Yun, was the little princess of the White Dragon clan, the only remaining white dragon in this world. Back when the White Dragons were exterminated, only the smallest princess was still in her egg and hadnt hatched yet, hidden away by the old clan leader in the Luoshui Spiritual Cave, thus managing to survive. As the most loyal servant of the White Dragon clan, he had always shouldered the responsibility of taking care of the dragon egg young princess. After much difficulty, he finally waited for the dragon egg to hatch, and the young princess was able to transform from a dragon into a human. But somehow, he felt that the young princess wasnt quite like what he had imagined.
In his imagination, the little princess who had just been born should be a sweet and lovely girl, soft-spoken and cute, not like this now.
Bai Ling took off her white boots, grasped the bootstraps and turned them upside down, pouring out two small pebbles before throwing the boots to the ground. She muttered under her breath, "Damn it all, cant even recognize the road or find people, stupid."
Old Shell: “......” Although the voice is indeed soft and gentle, why does this tone sound wrong? Old master, its me who has wronged you, I didnt teach the little princess well!
"Shell old man, take out the rules now, what should we do?" Bai Ling threw the purple shell in her hand, "Anyway, my father is dead, he cant see it, who knows if I have gone to worship, lets just not go and calculate."
She didnt want to go in the first place, if it wasnt for Old Turtles constant nagging that gave her a headache, she wouldnt have left the Luoshui border at all. Her sense of direction was bad since her previous life, and this life as a dragon is no exception, but without a map, just saying to head southeast, she got lost after walking for a while, not even knowing which corner of the world shes in now.
Old Turtle was still trying to struggle, saying in a tone like coaxing a little kid: "Little Master, maybe well arrive soon, otherwise you can transform into a dragon and fly over, its much faster that way."
Bai Ling covered her face, no kidding, she could transform into a dragon shape, dragons can fly, but she couldnt, because she was acrophobic. Can you believe it? After transforming into a dragon, her fear of heights didnt improve one bit, and instead became even more severe. The first time she flew in dragon form, looking down at the water surface, her entire body and four claws were soft, feeling like she was going to faint, dizzy and nauseous, wanting to vomit. Later on, she directly splashed into the water and never flew again, usually only walking when in dragon form.
Thanks to the dragon having claws, otherwise she would have had to slither on the ground like a snake.
"Old turtle, give up, I wont fly, even if Im trapped here to death, I still wont fly."
The old turtle was heartbroken, as the last dragon of the White Dragon tribe, his little master had such beautiful scales and a smooth figure, but couldnt fly! Can a dragon that cant fly still be called a dragon? This question had already pained him eight hundred times, unfortunately, to no avail.
A dragon and a turtle shell fell into silence.
Suddenly, a figure flashed by in the woods. Someone?! Bai Lings eyes locked onto the figure, and she was instantly energized. "Old Turtle Shell, look! Theres someone over there!" She jumped up and excitedly chased after them.
She walked with a light and silent step, the trees and grasses in the forest automatically avoiding her due to the aura around her, and soon caught up with the figure in front.
He looked like a person, but was hunched over, wearing tattered burlap sack-like clothes, with disheveled hair and looking dirty. If you didnt look closely, youd think he was some kind of wild animal in the woods. He seemed very flustered, not paying attention to his surroundings, and rushed headlong into the forest, as if being chased by something terrifying.
"Hey, big brother in front, wait a minute!"
The figure was startled by the sudden sound and stumbled, rolling into a thorny bush.
Bai Ling didnt expect him to react so greatly, and hurriedly ran up to help rescue him from the thorny bushes. Just being poked by the thorns once, Big Brothers entire image looked even more miserable, with scratches and bloodstains on his head, face, and hands. After Bai Ling pulled him out and took a closer look, she discovered that this brother really had a unique appearance.
His half face had a tumor-like texture, one eye was squeezed together, and whats even more frightening was his upper lip, from the bottom of his nose to that block was missing, exposing his teeth outside, very strange. If it were an ordinary person, they would have screamed at the sight of him, but Bai Xiang didnt, in Luo Shuis place there were a few small monsters, their transformation wasnt successful, they looked weird and she had gotten used to them.
"Are you okay?" Bai Xiang asked with a humanitarian spirit, but the brother stood there stupidly, staring at her blankly, his eyes not even blinking. After a while, he suddenly knelt down with a thud and kept kowtowing to her, wailing and crying, "Goddess, please, please save me, tell me... why do I have to live in this world... please..."
His surname is Lu, and his name is Linsheng, because his mother gave birth to him in a forest. In the village of Pengjia at the foot of the mountain, there are dozens of households with the surname Peng, but only he has the surname Lu, because his mother was a woman bought by a drunkard from a previous village who didnt know where she came from, but after being bought for only a few days, the drunkard fell into the water and died. Lus wife became a widow, and everyone in the village could bully her, and Lusheng is the product of someone bullying Lus wife.
When he was just born, he looked like this. Everyone who saw him said, "That looks like a monster, Lus wife cant have given birth to such an ugly creature, its scary."
Lu Nangzi died later, and Lu Linsheng grew up alone in that broken house. No one in the village took care of him, so he followed a few dogs in the village to pick up food to eat, even sneaking into peoples pigpens to steal pig feed to eat, and miraculously grew up like this. He was always the object of other peoples teasing and bullying.
From a child who only knew that his stomach was hungry and wanted to eat, he grew into a young man who understood what it meant to be humiliated. He suffered greatly because he could not escape the ridicule and beatings. Because he had grown up eating pig food and dog food, he could only live like a pig or a dog.
Pain, resentment, every time he was beaten and scolded by the young people in the village, he would have liked to kill them. But he didnt dare, having been beaten since childhood, facing those fists and feet, subconsciously only feeling afraid, only curling up into a ball waiting for them to finish beating him.
He thought the days would pass like this, but last night, he killed someone. Peng Si Shus youngest son, Peng Youfu, was one of the people who liked to bully him the most. He had used stones to break his nose bridge, knock out his teeth, and even kicked him into a pond, hitting his head with a bamboo pole, almost drowning him. Whenever he was in a bad mood, seeing him would make him want to beat him up to vent his anger.
Yesterday, Peng Youfu had some wine and staggered past the door of his small hut. He had managed to beg for some food, but just as he was about to eat, Peng Youfu came over, kicked his food to the ground with one foot, and laughed as he kicked him hard in the belly.
"With something as ugly as you, are you even worthy of being human? Are you even worthy of eating what humans eat?"
He said he was unworthy of being human, but whats so great about being human anyway?
Lu Linsheng didnt know what happened, he just felt a blank in his mind. When he came to, he had already used the nearby firewood to beat Peng Youfu to death. The broken head was bleeding red and white stuff, the person who was laughing and kicking him earlier was now lying on the ground, silent.
He killed someone. Lu Linsheng revealed a fearful and eerie smile, as if an evil spirit on his face was terrifying. He was both frightened and delighted, dragging the corpse into the mountain under the cover of night, walking deeper into the mountains. He wanted to find a place to bury the body, he couldnt let anyone discover it, as long as no one found out that he had killed someone, then nothing would happen to him.
No, nothing will happen, no one will know he killed someone.
He came to the depths of the mountain, and buried the corpse in a large pit. His body was covered with mud, and his hands were full of it. As he prepared to return to the village, an enormous fear that had been lurking within him suddenly enveloped him, causing him to walk forward in a daze, his body trembling uncontrollably.
Until he was stopped by a crisp voice, he shuddered and fell into the thorn bush. When he came out of the thorn bush and saw clearly who had stopped him, Lu Linsheng was stunned.
He had never seen anyone as beautiful as this, not even the county magistrates daughter he had glimpsed from afar in the county town. Her eyes were clear and bright, her skin was white as snow, she wore a white dress with silver patterns that shone softly in the sunlight, and her whole person radiated light, just like... just like a goddess who didnt exist in the mortal world.
Is she a fairy? Lu Linsheng thought, she must be a fairy, and fairies know everything, she must know that he killed someone.
Fear, dread and a kind of indescribable resentment that had been suppressed in his heart finally overwhelmed him, causing him to kneel on the ground and cry out in anguish. He didnt even know what he wanted to say.
Bai Ling, who didnt know what was going on, was scared to death by the big brother in front of her who was wailing loudly. Whats wrong with him? Tears were flying everywhere, and he was crying so pitifully.
She was a bit dazed, could only squat down, took out a handkerchief to help the person wipe away tears, "That, you first wipe away your tears, lets have a good talk, okay?"
After a while, Lu Linsheng stopped crying and knelt on the ground with a silly face, staring at Bai Ling with wide eyes.
"You... arent you an immortal?"
"Its just a dragon."
"You, how did you end up here? No, no, what instructions do you have?"
"Pretty good, brother," said Bai Ling immediately: "I want to ask the way, Im lost here, can you take me out?"
Lu Linsheng hung his head in shame, covering half of his face with his hand, nodding repeatedly: "Okay... okay, Ill take you out."
They walked one in front of the other through the mountains, Bai Ling and Old Turtle Shell whispering to each other. Old Turtle Shell said: "Young Master, you must be careful, humans are full of bad people, who knows, they might see how good-looking you are and do something bad."
Bai Ling: "If hes a bad egg, Ill turn into a long strip and scare this turtle grandson to death on the spot."
However, Lu Linsheng took her all the way out of the old forest. When she saw a wisp of smoke at the foot of the mountain, Bai Xiang excitedly cheered, "Thank you, big brother! Youre really a good person!"