Flames, blood, and sword energy wrapped around the white-clad youth.
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My name is Zhao Yuling.
I am the Saintess of the village beneath White Phoenix Mountain.
It's said that there are countless monsters outside the village.
If I were given another chance, I would never have followed Dabai out of the village that day.
A woman with a fair face, now covered in grime, held her mouth, trembling in the corner.
At this moment, Zhao Yuling's heart was filled with regret.
Since young, she had always listened to the elders of the tribe, practicing the techniques that every generation of the village's saintess must learn.
Keeping watch and maintaining discipline every day.
Yet that day, Dabai, the spiritual dog she had raised for three years, seemed to have caught a scent and led her somewhere in the mountain.
She indeed followed Dabai and found an extremely precious thousand-year-old ginseng.
Consuming it could even save thirty years of arduous cultivation.
