Silence.

  Dead silence.

  The black dog leader shouted in anger, “Hu Jiu, what are you doing?”


  Ming Shu raised her eyebrows at the black dog leader. His expression was hideous. He looked as though he wanted to eat Hu Jiu alive.

  Hu Jiu just stared intently at the powder she sprinkled.

  Ming Shu didn’t know what they were doing. She pulled Hu Jiu up.

  “Yao Luo, let me go……” Hu Jiu was agitated when she realized that Ming Shu didn’t care about what she did. “You will die soon. If I were you, I would leave immediately. You……

  “Ahhhhh—!”


  Hu Jiu’s painful cries caused the black dog leader to stop in his tracks. The shapeshifters who hadn’t died stopped and looked over too.

  The atmosphere was weird.

  The black dog leader was furious. He stared at the ground as though something was going to come up.

  There was a hint of worry and excitement in his eyes too.

  That powder couldn’t be seen by the naked eyes anymore.

  Ming Shu let go of Hu Jiu and looked at the direction where the black dog leader was staring at.

  Hu Jiu lay on the ground. She couldn’t care about the pain in her body. She muttered as she looked at the ground, “Why…… why is there no reaction at all? How can it be?”


  “What are you all looking at?” Ming Shu took out her dried sweet potato slices and questioned Hu Jiu after taking two bites.

  Hu Jiu’s eyes were red. She glared at Ming Shu angrily.

  Ming Shu leaned back slightly and shielded her potato slices.

  “What did you do?!” Hu Jiu screamed in a shrill voice. “What did you do!?”


  Ming Shu was puzzled.

  Hu Jiu questioned her, “Why…… why isn’t he coming out? What did you do to him?!”


  “He said that the moment I summon him, he will appear. It’s you…… what did you do?”


  Ming Shu ate her snacks as she came up with her own storyline.

  After a while, she clenched her right fist and knocked her right fist into her left palm. “I know.”


  Hu Jiu and the black dog leader looked at her simultaneously.

  Ming Shu answered them in a serious tone, “You must have used the wrong method.”


  Hu Jiu: “.……”


  The black dog leader: “.……”


  The clansmen from the peacock tribe: “.……” Something was wrong with that answer.

  The fire in the woods was still burning. Half the sky was red and the entire valley was lit up. Hot air blew at them.

  On the battleground……

  One side failed to summon something while their opponent tried to help them by finding an explanation.

  Ming Shu replied, “Your posture might be wrong. Why don’t you change your posture and try again? Maybe you should be more sincere. The other party might not be able to feel your sincerity when you lay on the ground just now.”


  The black dog leader: “.……”


  Hu Jiu: “.……”


  Ming Shu continued, “Maybe the signal is not good. Why don’t you try again?”


  The black dog leader: “.……”


  Hu Jiu: “.……”


  Ming Shu blinked. “Wrong? Let me think……”


  She didn’t know how to help. She had seen many summoning spells before. There were all kinds of ways to summon something.

  Ming Shu said, “Summoning spells normally require blood, right? Why don’t you try using your blood?”


  “Are you crazy?” The black dog leader couldn’t control himself anymore. He said what the rest of the shapeshifters were thinking.

  The anger that he had harbored disappeared with the help of Ming Shu.

  “Maybe……” Ming Shu smiled.

  Ming Shu tilted her head slightly. She looked right at the black dog leader and expressed her curiosity. “So, what did you all want to summon just now?”


  The black dog leader wanted to explain. But, his eyes lit up suddenly and he stared intently behind Ming Shu.

  Ming Shu turned back to have a look. Wind was starting to form on the ground. It carried the dust up and formed a mini whirlwind.

  The black dog leader was extremely excited. It showed on his face.

  Ming Shu stepped on the mini whirlwind. Before the whirlwind was fully formed, it was stopped.

  If she didn’t stop it now, what was she waiting for?

  The atmosphere was awkward.

  Hu Jiu was so angry she couldn’t say anything. Her entire body was shaking.

  The black dog leader glared at her furiously. Ming Shu didn’t know if he was angry because the thing was not summoned or because of Ming Shu’s actions.

  Either way, he was furious.

  “Oh……” Ming Shu broke the awkward atmosphere. “Are you all still going to fight? If you are not going to fight, you can help me put out the fire.”


  The black dog leader wanted to run away, but he was caught and dragged back by Ming Shu. She slammed him onto the ground.

  “Why are you running away?” Ming Shu smiled at him. “There are tasks waiting for you.”
……

  One hour later, all the shapeshifters were thrown into the valley.

  They caught Nie Fan in the mountain.

  He wanted to fight with Ming Shu when he saw that Ming Shu had captured Hu Jiu.

  However, he soon got subdued by Ming Shu using realgar.

  “This fire was started by you all. Hence, you all are responsible for putting it out.” Ming Shu ate the food that Wen Nuan prepared and pointed at the fire with her chin. “After you all put out the fire, plant trees. You can go back after you finish planting trees. Every beast is responsible for taking care of the forest.”


  The shapeshifters: “.……” .

  Even with so many of them, they couldn’t subdue her.

  Ming Shu tied up their leaders and fed them some beast spirit herbs.

  Then, she asked the rest of the shapeshifters to put out the fire.

  If they dared to run away, she would kill their leaders and then destroy their tribe.

  Ming Shu promised that she was not just saying empty words. She asked them to think about the leopard tribe.

  It was hard to start a fire but difficult to put it out. Luckily, there were many shapeshifters so they managed to stop the fire from spreading.

  If they knew that this was going to happen, they would never dare to start a fire.

  After settling this business, Ming Shu had something more important to do—


  The little demon.

  If the little demon hadn’t lost his memory, she would applaud his disappearance.

  However……

  He had no memory now and he seemed quite stupid……

  What if he got bullied by someone?

  There was a problem here.

  Where did he go?

  Ming Shu thought for a while and left the valley.

  The air was warm. She walked a long distance before she felt the coldness in the air.

  Moonlight shone down and formed a layer of white frost on the ground.

  The stars shone brightly.

  The scenery was amazing.