Ye Lingyue left the town and headed towards Seven Stars mountain, which was just on the outskirts of town.

 Seven Stars mountain was the largest mountain outside of Autumn Maple town. It was more than a thousand feet tall and known in the vicinity as a treasure mountain.

 The northern part of the Seven Stars mountain never saw the sun. It was dry and cold and contained an alarming amount of iron ores. That was the location of the Ye family’s mining area.

 The southern part was just the opposite. There was sufficient rainwater and sunlight. With that, countless precious herbs were abundant there, while all sorts of wild beasts also appeared there from time to time.

 Ye Lingyue’s main goal for this time was to explore the Seven Stars mountain’s southern part.

 Before noon, Ye Lingyue was already standing at the foot of the Seven Stars mountain. She wiped the sweat off her forehead. Looking around, unknown purple wildflowers were blooming all over the mountain and trees towered all around.

 After Ye Lingyue broke through to the third level of body tempering, her hearing and sight had improved a lot. With a twitch of her ears, she could hear the growling of wild beasts from the mountain.

 Opening her luggage, she saw some alcohol ointment, a dagger, a waterproof fire torch, some coarse salt, some dry food, and a bottle of water.

 Water was obtainable. There were countless creaks in the mountain, so finding a water source should be an easy feat. However, as Ye Lingyue stared at the dried food, she realized that she only had enough food for three days at most.

 That also meant that she must start hunting and live off of wild beasts three days later.

 Three days passed in a blink of an eye.

 At the foot of the mountain, a fat and large-eared violent rabbit was currently on a grass patch. As it nibbled on the grass, its ears stood up. It was an elementary herbivore wild rabbit and its meat was delicious.

 Suddenly, its ears moved as if it sensed impending danger.

 The violent rabbit’s forepaws twitched while its strong hind paws stopped moving for a second. Like a mini canon, its body jumped over two feet away and scurried off.

 An agile body suddenly sneakily approached from the side. Muttering a soft cry, the person’s hands grabbed the hind paws of the violent rabbit. She immediately pressed the rabbit against the ground, and after a few struggles, she had rendered the beast immobile.

A blue lightning bolt struck at the rabbit’s crown. The violent rabbit instantly fell back on the ground and stopped breathing.

 “We have meat to eat today.” Ye Lingyue looked completely different from when she just went into the mountains. Her hair was messy while her clothes were dirty, too. The only thing that remained unscathed was her fair and pretty face.

 After she had caught the rabbit, she smiled so brightly that her eyes were barely visible. When she first entered the Seven Stars mountain, she thought that hunting a wild rabbit was easy. However, after a few days, she realized that hunting wasn’t as easy as it seemed.

 Violent rabbits were an elementary, herbivore wild beast. It wasn’t dangerous, but its hind paws were extremely strong. Once it uses all of its energy into a kick, it could smash a muscular man’s rib cage into pieces.

 Earlier, Ye Lingyue had also almost taken a beating from the violent rabbits. Fortunately, after a few days, she had become more agile in hunting.

Ye Lingyue skinned the violent rabbit and split the rabbit meat into two portions. She kept a portion to eat for dinner. As for the remaining portion, she carefully cut it into slices after some pondering, and then she entered Hongmeng Sanctuary.

 In Hongmeng Sanctuary, everything was the same. However, at the place where the Gathering Elemental herb was originally grown, a few more herbs were growing there.

 The herbs were ones that Ye Lingyue found after she had entered the mountain.

 As she decided to spend time on the mountain, Ye Lingyue came up with two goals. One was to enhance her fighting skills, which would then add up to her experience. While the other one was to search for precious herbs and grow them in her space.

 Her mother’s injury needed a fifth-grade pill to treat it. However, if she could take some herbs, they would still be helpful to alleviate her injury.

 After she had entered Hongmeng Sanctuary, Ye Lingyue took out the pieces of rabbit meat.

 In Hongmeng Sanctuary, she waited for a full hour, but she still didn’t catch any glimpse of the little fox-dog.

 “Isn’t it coming out yet?” Ye Lingyue was a little disappointed. In the last few days, she had intentionally harvested all the Gathering Elemental herbs. With nothing to eat, the little fox-dog must be famished.

 Suddenly, there was a noise coming from the white fog.

 The little fox-dog carefully crawled out. Seeing Ye Lingyue, it squeaked and instantly jumped a few yards away.

 Apprehension filled its baby blue eyes.

 “I brought some rabbit meat for you. Eat them.” Ye Lingyue took a step forward.

 The little fox-dog took a step back. However, its eyes were fixed on the rabbit meat Ye Lingyue was holding.

 The fresh rabbit meat smelled enticing.

 Ye Lingyue thought to herself as a friendly smile appeared on her lips.

 She put the rabbit meat by her feet and nodded at the little fox-dog.

 The little fox-dog tilted its head as if it was trying to understand what Ye Lingyue’s nod meant.

 Ye Lingyue silently motivated herself to be more patient. This time, the little thing didn’t run away right after seeing her, so perhaps it would come closer the next time.

 Ye Lingyue turned around and took a few steps back.

 The little fox-dog waited until Ye Lingyue had turned around and left. It then squeaked and rushed in front of the rabbit meat. After taking a bite, it let out a happy squeak.

 It gobbled up a good part of the violent rabbit meat in a short period.

 No one could tell that the little thing had such a huge appetite.

 Eating until its small belly was round, the little fox-dog licked its mouth and cleaned the oil off its claws with its pink tongue. It was still lost in the taste of the meat. After all of that, the little fox-dog slowly returned into the white fog.

 “That little thing probably ate the rabbit meat, right?” After Ye Lingyue left Hongmeng Sanctuary, her attention was still on the adorable little pup’s condition.

 She needed to think of a way to get more rabbit meat by tomorrow. Ye Lingyue then decided to continue walking deeper into the mountain.