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."


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