An Li said gently, "Take good care and recover."

Gradually, more and more people came to the medicine house.

An Li kept herself busy.

When tired, she would rest for a while in the lounge chair in the courtyard, a place that always reminded her of Hot Spring Island.

Back then, Senior Brother Bai would mimic the setup of Kuye Sword Master of Red Leaf Island and place a lounge chair in the courtyard. Whenever he was tired, he'd lie down, rocking back and forth, humming a tune.

Wandering around, she began to miss Senior Brother Bai.

Even though Senior Brother Bai never truly existed.

However, Senior Brother Bai was eternally perfect in her heart, unchanged by anyone, even... not by Song Yan.

Just then, the sky suddenly flashed with a green light and blood-red rainbow, startling An Li. She looked up to see an eerie young man and a Divine Maiden in blue floating in mid-air.

They were precisely the Formless Ancestor and her once good sister.

She hurriedly knelt in respect, saying, "Greetings, Ancestor."

As her words fell, the Formless Ancestor abruptly raised his hand, and a dense glow shot from the Beast Bone Soul Banner. Like a blood-red light covering the sky, it pierced through a patient's body in an instant and extracted their Divine Soul, drawing it into the Soul Banner.

An Li was stunned, urgently saying, "Ancestor, have mercy, Ancestor have mercy, they are all innocent cultivators, all innocent..."

Whoosh!

Another blood light shot into a female cultivator patient holding her shoulder in an attempt to flee, pulling out her Divine Soul.

Without a soul, the female cultivator's body fell from the sky, her eyes wide open, staring dead at An Li's direction.

An Li's eyes turned red, her voice trembled as she pleaded repeatedly, "Ningxin Sister, they... they are all weak, even if Ancestor takes them, they are of little use. Please spare them, they... they all came because of me..."

As she finished with an "ah," her eyes were already bloodshot.

Some patients and cultivators who accompanied them were attempting to flee by using artifacts, but the sky suddenly rained down blood light like a birdcage, piercing through bodies and snatching away Divine Souls.

The remaining patients, cultivators trembled, curling up inside the rooms, casting terrified glances at An Li.

The medicine boys were utterly at a loss, frozen on the spot with cold limbs.

The Divine Maiden in blue tapped her tiny foot, seemingly emerging dreamlike from the water cloud, then landed in front of An Li.

Choking on her sobs, An Li said, "Ningxin Sister, please let them go, alright? I... I'll be very good... I'm willing to do anything, as long as Song Yan appears, I will definitely play my role well. Just let them go, alright?"

The Divine Maiden in blue bent slightly, lifted An Li's chin with her fingers, looked at her tear-stained face, and laughed, "I finally understand what that rogue boy likes about you."

An Li said, "He no longer likes me."

The Divine Maiden in blue giggled, "That's only what you think."

An Li was taken aback.

The Divine Maiden in blue laughed, "As for your request, Sister is sorry but cannot grant it. How can us juniors interfere with what the Clan Leader wishes to do?"

As she finished speaking, blood light again descended mercilessly upon the remaining cultivators.

An Li roared angrily with an "ah," her fingers slightly together, a Flying Sword flashed out. She looked toward the high-up Clan Leader, intending to risk her life to stop him.

But she could not rise; the Divine Maiden in blue was before her, the terrifying oppressive force like a heavy mountain pressing down on her, rendering her immobile.

In the next instant, the blood light broke through the dwellings, destroyed the medicine fields, knocked over the medicine racks, obliterating patients, medicine boys... all life, then helped to roll captured living souls into the Soul Banner.

The Formless Ancestor glanced at the Divine Maiden in blue, saying, "Ningxin, the role of this bait is diminishing, take her somewhere else to try instead."

The Divine Maiden in blue respectfully acknowledged with a "yes," then said, "Congratulations, little An Li, you can go to another place to heal and save people again."

An Li panted heavily, her eyes reddened as she glared at her.

The Divine Maiden in blue laughed, "Oh, still angry?"

An Li stared blankly at her; Ningxin Sister, once pure and noble as a Divine Maiden in her heart, had completely changed her appearance at this moment. Though she still smiled and remained beautiful, beneath this facade lay a sinister, evil soul.

Tang Ningxin looked at her expression and couldn't help but chuckle gently, tenderly wiping An Li's tears, then said, "Such a pure little lamb is truly pitiful, no wonder that rogue boy liked you."

Up high, the Formless Ancestor transformed into a blood-red rainbow and flew away once more.

He'd been busy harvesting everywhere these days.

The rest was left for Tang Ningxin to handle.

Watching the many corpses, Tang Ningxin said, "Little An Li, don't say Sister didn't take care of you, I'll give you the time of an incense stick, quickly bury the people, past the time... there'll be no waiting."

An Li's hands and feet were cold, motionless, while Yu Xuanwei, who had respectfully knelt upon the Ancestor's arrival, hastily rushed over and pulled An Li.

An Li sniffed hard and fiercely wiped away her tears, beginning to bury those medicine boys, patients who died because of her... with reddened eyes.

Just then, not far away, two rainbow lights fell.

They were a pair of Dao companions.

The woman, eyebrows pure, dressed in simple white, held a dark green umbrella, the shadow cast upon landing deep and mottled, upon closer inspection it seemingly was shaped like human silhouettes.

The man, physically strong, filled with grandeur, walked with the posture of a soaring dragon and leaping tiger.

Once they arrived, the woman closed the green umbrella and came to An Li's side, silently accompanying her in burying the bodies together.

The man, meanwhile, went to Ningxin Ancestor's side, saying, "Ancestor, the Soul Threshold at Cold Stream Valley is about to erupt, should we make any arrangements?"

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