"Master, I just went to take a look. That Rongku Daojun seems to have some real skills. The cultivators sent to her have all been healed."
On Qunyu Mountain, the distance was pitch black. The stars in the sky were like beans, but the illumination arrays set up with various spirit stones and precious ores on the mountain illuminated the entire Qunyu Mountain as if it were daytime, bright and clear.
After Demon Lords Ao Ming, Yue Ling, and others perished, the remaining demonic cultivators were no longer a threat. The disciples of various sects battled for three days and three nights, and everything finally ceased.
Xuan You and Qian Ying personally oversaw the cleanup of the battlefields of Qunyu Mountain and Baiye City. All the injured sect disciples were uniformly sent to Qunyu Mountain.
Although the righteous cultivators won this war, they also paid a heavy price. Major sects such as Qianyao Pavilion, Yueqing Mountain, Xuannü Sect, and Shenqi Mountain suffered heavy losses, with many disciples perishing and countless more injured.
Seeing the situation, Bai Shengyi, ignoring Yue Bufan's hesitation, threw herself into the treatment of the wounded.
However, because she had been away from this realm for fifty years, many disciples were not familiar with her. Initially, they questioned her medical skills. But later, when everyone saw her one hundred percent cure rate and the top-grade spirit pills and medicines she produced, their doubts were dispelled.
A few days prior, cultivators began specifically requesting Bai Shengyi for treatment instead of the alchemists from Dongyang Mountain, which displeased the alchemists who had always been highly sought after and flattered.
Among them, the sect leader Dong of Dongyang Mountain was the most affected, as the cultivator who specifically requested Bai Shengyi had run away from him.
That cultivator was a demon cultivator from Qianyao Pavilion. His meridians had been severed by a demonic cultivator during the battle. Sect Leader Dong felt that demon cultivators had tough skin, so he treated him with a simpler method. He did not expect the demon cultivator to be so unreasonable and went to Bai Shengyi without a word.
What's more, he made a big fuss about it.
Sect Leader Dong lost face and naturally could not swallow his pride. He turned and ordered Dong Lanyu to investigate Bai Shengyi's strength.
"But it's also because the injuries there are not severe. Otherwise, how could she have healed them so easily? If you ask me, her skills are nowhere near yours, Master. You are the only ninth-rank alchemist here!"
Dong Lanyu, while busily serving Sect Leader Dong, said sarcastically and pouted.
"Lanyu," Sect Leader Dong reprimanded with a stern face, though his words were mild. "Don't talk nonsense. Rongku Daojun is, after all, known for her swordsmanship and not skilled in alchemical healing, which is normal."
After speaking, he turned to the waiting patient and said, "Little Daoist friend, I apologize for the spectacle."
The female cultivator waiting for treatment wore white clothes stained red with blood, her demeanor was delicate. Sect Leader Dong found her somewhat familiar, but could not recall where he had seen her.
However, he quickly dismissed this peculiarity. In his eyes, a junior cultivator with a bone age of less than five hundred was likely just a junior seeking medical treatment, not someone he needed to pay much attention to.
Sect Leader Dong smiled kindly and said, "Lanyu, go wait for Rongku Daojun. If she cannot heal that demon cultivator, then call me."
"Master, why be so kind? If you ask me, that demon cultivator was so rude to you, it wouldn't matter if his hand was crippled."
Dong Lanyu was about to leave angrily, but Sect Leader Dong's smile became even more amiable.
Just then, a gentle voice suddenly asked, "What if Rongku Daojun heals him?"
Sect Leader Dong and Dong Lanyu looked over to the source of the sound and saw the white-clothed female cultivator, who had been lying on the couch waiting for treatment, suddenly sit up. Her eyes, clear as autumn water, stared at the two without any intimidation.
Dong Lanyu swallowed and said first, "It's impossible! Little junior sister, you don't know, that darn Rongku Daojun is just attention-seeking. How could she be as capable as my Master!"
He chuckled, then changed his tone, "May I ask which sect you are from, little junior sister? You are so beautiful, how come I haven't seen you before..."
As he spoke, he walked closer and closer to her, closer and closer.
Just as he was about to reach the female cultivator, with a "plop!" he tripped his left foot over his right and fell to the ground.
The white-clothed female cultivator, Lan Xuerou, retracted her hand that was forming a seal and said softly, "Daoist friend, please be mindful. I don't like people getting too close to me."
"Presumptuous! Do you know who I am? Do you still want my Master to help you heal?"
Dong Lanyu got up from the ground and shouted. Then he remembered he was on his Master's territory and quickly said to Sect Leader Dong, "Master, look! This woman actually made a move against me and doesn't take you seriously at all!"
Sect Leader Dong neither spoke nor reprimanded Dong Lanyu, standing aside and watching coldly. The smile on his face, however, faded.
Seeing his demeanor, Lan Xuerou understood the sect leader's intentions.
She said, "If Sect Leader Dong insists on thinking that way, this junior has no choice."
Sect Leader Dong frowned tightly. "You did unprovokedly attack my disciple. Little Daoist friend, as long as you apologize to my disciple, this matter will be over."
Even though Lan Xuerou was usually good-tempered, she was somewhat angered at this moment.
She turned and walked outside.
Dong Lanyu said sternly, "If you don't apologize, then none of the disciples from my Dongyang Mountain will treat you!"
Lan Xuerou laughed in anger and said, "Then I'd like to see if the disciples of your Dongyang Mountain encompass all the alchemists in the entire Shenqi World."
As she spoke, she had already walked outside.
Lan Xuerou was unlike the demon cultivator from before. As a direct disciple of Yueqing Mountain who often traveled outside, she was both gentle and responsible, and had made friends everywhere. As expected, within a short while, several people greeted her.
"Junior Sister Lan, have your injuries been healed?"
"Xuerou, how are you recovering? Is the medical skill of the Sect Leader of Dongyang Mountain good?"
Inside the house, Sect Leader Dong and Dong Lanyu were stunned.
Sect Leader Dong turned and asked Dong Lanyu in a deep voice, "Idiot, who exactly is this female cultivator?"
Looking at this cohesion, it was likely something only a direct disciple of a first-rate sect could possess!
Dong Lanyu felt wronged. If his Master didn't know Lan Xuerou's background, how could he possibly know?
Fortunately, when the disciples sent the injured over, they would also meticulously create a statistic. Dong Lanyu hurriedly went to find the statistics book. Upon opening it and seeing the words "Yueqing Mountain," he was dumbfounded.
"Mas... Master..."
Sect Leader Dong also saw it, his expression becoming even more unpleasant.
At this moment, Lan Xuerou's gentle voice also came from outside: "Sect Leader Dong of Dongyang Mountain won't treat me, so I'll ask my Uncle-Master Bai for help."
Sect Leader Dong watched as another patient walked towards Bai Shengyi's place, so enraged that he overturned all the medicinal ingredients in the alchemy furnace onto the ground.
"Useless idiot! What have you done!"
"Master, please calm your anger! Your disciple knows his mistake!" Dong Lanyu knew he had made a mistake and immediately admitted it, saying many pleasant words to appease Sect Leader Dong.
Sect Leader Dong said sternly, "Go, do as I say. Wait at that Bai Shengyi's place, and if she can't heal the person, then call me over."
As soon as he finished giving the order, he heard an unusual sound from the sky. Bai Shengyi hurriedly ran out from a nearby room.
"Uncle-Master Bai..."
Lan Xuerou only had time to call out before seeing Bai Shengyi leap up and disappear from her spot. Simultaneously, the Mountain Master of the peak, Daojun Qianying, Sect Master Xuan, and the Crown Prince of the Demon King's Palace also appeared.
"What is that? Is the sky falling?"
Dong Lanyu walked out and saw the stone of the floating Universe Secret Realm growing larger and larger, even pressing down on the highest peak of Qunyu Mountain.
Lan Xuerou narrowed her eyes and said softly, "The sky isn't falling, it's the secret realm, and it's falling downwards."
No, to be precise, more and more of the hidden secret realm was emerging, and this part was, at a visible speed, squeezing down from the sky of the Shenqi World.
In a moment, the starry night sky was completely obscured by dark, heavy mountain rocks.