"Demonized people! The demonized people are here?" Bai Hanfeng sat up abruptly and asked nervously.
The soldiers who had just woken up also tensed and looked at him.
Bai Zhantian stood by, searching for Bai Ran's whereabouts for a long time, unable to stop his worry.
Hmm?
He noticed the pills beside him. Were they left for him by Ran Ran?
He opened the pills and then quickly covered them up.
Bai Zhantian's heart almost leaped out of his chest in fright. A sixth-tier pill???
"No! There are so many demonized people's corpses on the battlefield!" the soldier pointed towards the border, his voice trembling.
Corpses?
So many demonized people's corpses?
Bai Hanfeng, along with Bai Zhantian and the awakened soldiers, rushed to the front lines and were stunned.
Across the vast land, tens of thousands of demonized people lay scattered, dead as they could be.
Bai Zhantian swallowed. No way...
Bai Ran was missing, the pills left behind, the demonized people dead...
"Father, could this be?" Bai Hanfeng looked at Bai Zhantian, his face full of disbelief.
Bai Hanfeng had also noticed Bai Ran's disappearance and the pills. He had initially thought they had just left secretly, but upon seeing the ground littered with demonized people's corpses, he considered this possibility.
Bai Zhantian excitedly stroked his beard and nodded at him. He hadn't expected Ran Ran to be so powerful...
Bai Hanfeng was taken aback, then burst into hearty laughter, "Hahahahaha!"
"This little girl! She truly escaped a disaster!"
The surrounding soldiers were also shocked by the scene. The blood of the demonized people had not yet coagulated, indicating they had died recently.
Someone, taking advantage of their drunken state, had repelled the demonized attackers? Protected them?
Hearing General Bai's words, they finally understood.
A warmth spread through everyone's hearts, and gentle smiles appeared on their faces.
Even the iron-blooded warriors could be moved to tenderness.
The Vermillion Bird's speed was incredibly fast. Within a day, the three of them arrived at a corner outside the Azure Dragon Kingdom.
Bai Ran put away the Vermillion Bird, took out a disguise pill, and swallowed it, transforming into an ordinary-looking woman.
She then took out two more and handed them to Qin Mu Bai and Fang Tian Hui.
"Why do we need to disguise ourselves?" Qin Mu Bai asked, confused.
Fang Tian Hui glanced at him. "Sister Bai became famous during the Four Kingdoms Competition. If we don't disguise ourselves, will we be targets?" As she spoke, she swallowed a disguise pill.
Qin Mu Bai suddenly understood and disguised himself as well.
Bai Ran led the two into the Azure Dragon Kingdom and found an inn to stay in.
"You two stay here and cultivate. I'm going out," she said to them.
Fang Tian Hui nodded, no longer pleading for Bai Ran to take her along as before, because she knew she was still too weak.
Bai Ran left the inn and walked onto the street.
To obtain spirit stones, going to the academy was out of the question. Her strength was too unique and outstanding, and she might be recognized. It seemed she had to find another way.
Suddenly, a burst of angry shouting erupted from ahead, where a crowd had gathered.
"Your Hundred Herbs Hall's pills killed someone!"
A woman, holding a child, knelt on the ground, crying with tears and snot.
"My child, how can you be so unfortunate! These black-hearted people at Hundred Herbs Hall actually sold such deadly pills!"
The onlookers felt unbearable pity.
"Did Hundred Herbs Hall really sell such pills?"
"Look, something happened, is it fake?"
"Alas, poor child."
...
"You are making baseless accusations! My Hundred Herbs Hall has a century of reputation! We never engage in fraud."
The shopkeeper of Hundred Herbs Hall was furious, glaring at the woman before him, yet helpless.
"Then how do you explain my child? He's still in a coma!" the woman clutched the little boy in her arms tightly.
The shopkeeper lowered his head, clenching his fists.
The pills were definitely not the problem, but he was not a doctor, how could he know the child's condition?
"Hundred Herbs Hall belongs to the Alchemist Guild! If you don't believe me, feel free to take the pill for examination!"
The Alchemist Guild?
Bai Ran, standing in the crowd, raised an eyebrow, very interested.
"The pill has already been eaten, where is the pill to examine?" the woman cried heartbrokenly, tears streaming down her face.
Bai Ran pushed through the crowd and walked in.
She squatted down and examined the little boy's condition.
"Who are you!"
The woman, seeing the woman holding her child's hand, became instantly nervous.
Bai Ran slowly stood up. "The child is fine. He just choked."
Choked?
The woman was a little stunned upon hearing this. Did this woman understand medicine?
"Doctor."
As soon as she called out, wanting Bai Ran to help, she saw Bai Ran pick up the little boy and pat him upside down.
"Cough, cough!" The little boy, after being patted, coughed out a round pill that fell to the ground.
The woman quickly took her child and looked him over.
"Such a large pill is a bit difficult for small children to swallow. It should be divided into two parts to swallow. If it were any later, this child would have suffocated," Bai Ran said.
The woman watched her child gradually wake up in her arms.
"Thanks to this lady."
"So he just choked."
"It seems there's no problem with Hundred Herbs Hall's pills."
With Bai Ran's appearance, public opinion shifted once again.
"Doctor, thank you so much." The woman, holding her child, repeatedly thanked Bai Ran and then apologized to the shopkeeper of Hundred Herbs Hall.
"Shopkeeper, I'm truly sorry. I was mistaken."
The shopkeeper of Hundred Herbs Hall's anxious heart finally settled. "It's alright. As long as the child is safe."
The woman left with her child. The shopkeeper saw Bai Ran was about to leave and quickly called out to her.
"Miss! Wait!"
Bai Ran, with her back to him, curved her lips into a smile.
"Shopkeeper, is there anything else?" she turned around and asked.
"If it weren't for Miss's timely intervention, my Hundred Herbs Hall would have found it difficult to explain itself, and our reputation would have been ruined."
Bai Ran did not refuse and followed the shopkeeper into the Hundred Herbs Hall.
"Miss, please speak freely. Anything in Hundred Herbs Hall can be given to you."
The shopkeeper poured Bai Ran a cup of tea and said with a smile.
"Then I won't be polite. Does Hundred Herbs Hall have Ice Leaf Grass?"
"Ice Leaf Grass? Miss, are you perhaps an alchemist?" the shopkeeper asked, his eyes widening.
Bai Ran nodded, seeing the shopkeeper scratch his head sheepishly.
"I'm sorry, Miss. Ice Leaf Grass is truly rare. We don't have it in stock."
"However, the Alchemist Guild must have it. Please wait, I'll write a letter for you to take." He turned and went into the room, then took out paper and a brush and wrote it out eloquently.
In a short while, he finished.
He handed the letter to Bai Ran. "Miss, please don't mind."
"It's fine."
Bai Ran accepted the letter and left Hundred Herbs Hall.
She looked at the letter in her hand, and the corners of her mouth rose. The Alchemist Guild, huh.