The s.h.i.+ning golden eyes looked up at the girl still stroking it's fur, most of it dyed with varying shades of red . Rong Jian, who had been standing behind Shen Tianyu during the fight, was completely ignored by the girl and beast, making him want to cry . (1)

"Err . . . Is it over?" Rong Jian asked, interrupting the pair . Shen Tianyu nodded . The white wolf was still reeling in shock and didn't seem to hear Rong Jian . Rong Jian had asked this but didn't approach closer, not wanting to disturb the white wolf, instead going to sit at another nearby tree .

"Are you feeling better?" Shen Tianyu asked the wolf as she stroked it's fur . The wolf nodded as if it was human . "That's good . " She replied . "Can you tell me why you are here?"

The white wolf was hesitant but, unlike humans, he knew to repay his benefactor . He had been injured and poisoned by her, but he had attacked first . Like other humans, she could have left him to die but instead, she gave him antidotes to the poison and medicine to stop the bleeding . The only problem was . . .

The wolf let out a soft whine . [How am I supposed to tell you? I can't speak human and you don't speak wolf . ]

"It is fine . Even if I don't know what you are saying, I can still understand at least half of it . " She a.s.sured . She had always been closer to more animals than humans and has the ability to connect to them psychologically . In this way, even if she can't understand the animal, she can feel what they are trying to convey, just like now .

The white wolf then told her his story with Rong Jian sitting on the side, staring at the girl and beast along with another figure up in the trees .

'She always had a way with animals too . . . ' The figure thought .

It was actually a mountainous Snow Wolf but had been chased out by it's clan when it had been falsely accused by one of it's own clansmen . And being an orphan, the older clansmen already didn't like him leeching off them so they used the incident as a good excuse to kick him out . He wondered around for a long while before he found the Forest of Broken Corpses and settled there . This was before Jing Qie was founded and with him looking like a fox, it had soon become the "resident of demonic foxes" . Protective of it's territory, the Snow Wolf had killed anyone that entered, but he didn't think he'd meet Shen Tianyu one day . Someone who could so easily defeat him .

The common Snow Wolf only has one tail, but little did humans know, they could grow more . Similar to the demonic foxes, they grew more tails as their power became stronger . It was easy for them too . However, in exchange for the ease, the limit of the Snow Wolves is only five tails . The fact that Shen Tianyu could harm a Snow Wolf at all should be surprising but she had defeated a three-tailed one at that . One must know that demonic beasts were much more powerful physically than their human counterparts and a demonic beast could easily beat a human at the same level . A three-tailed Snow Wolf was on the level of a Meridians Level Middle Stage martial artist! She was only peak Foundation Establishment Level!

"You couldn't have just happened to decide to reside here . " Meaning: There must be something else here that you wanted to keep . A three-tailed Snow Wolf was pretty powerful, she knew . If he wanted to not be disturbed, he should terrorize the human kingdom . Otherwise, the humans would think it was a pushover . So, the reason it remained so low-key must have been because there was some treasure in the Forest that he wanted to keep hidden away from others .

The Snow Wolf tried to convince her otherwise, but she wouldn't budge . In the end, the Snow Wolf gave up . When it had recovered sufficiently to walk, Shen Tianyu had it guide her and Rong Jian to this "treasure" . It was unwilling, but it begrudgingly agreed after careful deliberation . Rong Jian had stood back from the fight not because he was scared but because he didn't need to worry about the Snow Wolf with his strength . And the Foundation Establishment girl had been able to injure him to such an extent so easily . It could not afford to offend them, especially in his current weak state .

The group of a man, a woman and a beast walked through the forest uninhibited, followed by another black-clothed man . They finally arrived at a gaping cave jutting out from the forest floor . The group of two humans and one beast entered . It was as big as the outside suggested it to be with it's towering ceiling filled with stalact.i.tes dripping water, barely visible to them . Shen Tianyu took out a Night Pearl to replace a flashlight, which glowed brightly enough to cover them and three steps of s.p.a.ce around them . The man in black followed behind them in the darkness of the cave . They all walked down the slanted slope until they were seemingly underground, lower than the opening of the cave they had stepped through . They finally arrived in front of a vast underground chamber .

The sight that greeted the two was absolutely stunning . The whole cave was covered in a soft blue hue . The ground itself was frozen over with ice and there seemed to be a blue glow emanating from it . Just standing outside the chamber was cold enough to make the two s.h.i.+ver . They protected their bodies with spiritual power before going in .

At the sides of the chamber, between the ice and rock walls, they could see white flowers with five teardrop shaped petals on stems with only a single leaf . They all emitted a soft blue glow, creating the soft blue hue in the cave . The Snow Wolf strode in as if he owned the place, and technically he did .

'So this is why . . . ' Shen Tianyu finally had some questions answered at the sight .