"But don't worry, this is my contracted beast." Ye Lanshan saw his surprised expression and added another faint remark.
"Girl, this is your contracted beast?" Sikong Kuang was inwardly shocked, his voice still full of disbelief.
"Aren't you going to heal me? Hurry up, stop dawdling, or I'll..." The demon was about to threaten the man when it caught Ye Lanshan's warning glare, so it pouted and sat back down.
Sikong Kuang, both frightened and excited, sat beside the demon to diagnose its injuries. Soon, his expression turned grave.
"What's wrong? Is it hard to treat?" Ye Lanshan saw his solemn face and knew this was indeed tricky.
"Such injuries require a ninth-grade Protection Pill to heal, and we don't have the herbs to refine one. Besides, even I'm not confident I can successfully refine a ninth-grade Protection Pill, as it's already considered a pill closest to a divine pill." Sikong Kuang took a deep breath, a hint of worry in his voice.
"It's just herbs. In the Sunset Mountains, are you afraid we can't find them?" Ye Lanshan glanced outside. She was quite satisfied with this territory; after all, she couldn't keep the people in the space forever. Letting them train here would be a good choice.
"I remember you once refined a divine pill. A ninth-grade pill like that should be easy for you to make."
Sikong Kuang paused slightly, sighed, and said, "That was in the past. Now, even refining a ninth-grade pill is a struggle for me."
Ye Lanshan fell silent, not wanting to dwell on his painful memories. But one thing she hadn't forgotten was helping Yun Di return to the Sikong family. However, given the head of the Sikong family's persecution of them, it seemed she'd have to eliminate him for Yun Di to return smoothly.
She hadn't done anything, so why had a bunch of enemies appeared out of nowhere? Ye Lanshan was irritated and frustrated now. Since she was annoyed, she couldn't let herself be the only one. In no time, she thought of something amusing.
"Mu Xinlian, don't you want revenge?" Her consciousness entered the space and asked Mu Xinlian in a sinister tone.
"Do you have a plan?" Mu Xinlian was brought out of the space by her, still in Shan Luo's form.
"Of course I do." Ye Lanshan picked up another piece of wood to carve a body for her, this time shaping it as a female form.
"What do you mean by this?" Mu Xinlian was completely baffled by her actions.
"What race is it?" The demon looked at Mu Xinlian with confusion, sensing she wasn't human, but none of the races he knew matched her.
"Her? You could say she's a thousand-year-old lonely ghost." Ye Lanshan said casually.
But the others were even more puzzled, especially Sikong Kuang, who had always thought Mu Xinlian was Ye Lanshan's subordinate, never expecting she wasn't human.
"Ghost? What's that? I've never heard of it." Before the demon could speak, the little loli Phoenix chimed in.
"You know everything has a soul, right?" Ye Lanshan asked lightly.
The others nodded blankly. What did that have to do with souls?
"A ghost is formed when a person's resentment after death is too strong to reincarnate, and they end up cultivating over time, eventually becoming a ghost."
"Oh, so it's like the Underworld race?" The demon nodded thoughtfully.
Mu Xinlian frowned at them. She knew a bit about this fiery-tempered little loli, having seen her in the space once, but who were this black-robed man, and this person with two horns, purple eyes, and a purple tail?
"He's not human either, is he?" Mu Xinlian's sharp gaze fixed on the demon, without malice but with some wariness.
"Mm-hmm, that's a divine beast." Sikong Kuang answered her question.
Mu Xinlian gave the demon another suspicious look, stepped forward, and extended her hand, asking, "My name is Mu Xinlian. Would you like to be friends?"
Feeling the coldness from her, the demon extended its hand and replied flatly, "Shangguan Xin."
"Wu Tengyun." Before Mu Xinlian could turn around, Wu Jiao told her his name.
Mu Xinlian nodded at him without speaking, then walked back to Ye Lanshan. But her actions reminded Ye Lanshan that she still didn't know Phoenix's name.
"Hey, what's your name again?" Ye Lanshan looked up at Phoenix, a bit embarrassed. After all this time, not knowing her name made her a rather irresponsible master.
The little loli rolled her eyes at her and said irritably, "Huo Feiyan."
The others gave Ye Lanshan a speechless look but tactfully said nothing.
"What have you been tinkering with all this time? What are you making?" The demon was now curious about the small wooden figure in her hands.
"This is Mu Xinlian's body. Of course, I have to carve it carefully." Ye Lanshan replied nonchalantly, not realizing how shocking this would be.
"No way, you can carve a body?" Huo Feiyan's eyes nearly bulged in shock, and the others nodded in agreement.
"Real or fake? You'll see soon enough." Ye Lanshan dripped a drop of blood onto the carved figure's forehead and drew runes on it with the blood. Only when a golden light flashed did she let out a breath.
Soon, Mu Xinlian emerged from her old shell and slipped into the new one.
"As expected of someone from the Spirit Clan, truly impressive." Shangguan Xin, thinking of something, lost his surprise.
"Spirit Clan? You seem to know them well. Do you know where they are?" Ye Lanshan repeated the words "Spirit Clan," suspecting her master might be among them.
"Of course I do, but you're not qualified to know that yet." Shangguan Xin didn't reveal the Spirit Clan's secrets, and she knew that with her current strength, even if he told her, it would be useless.
By now, Sikong Kuang was completely out of the loop, so he simply closed his eyes to meditate and cultivate.
"Didn't you say you'd help me get revenge? Don't tell me giving me a new body is enough." Mu Xinlian glared coldly at Ye Lanshan.
"Of course not. This body is for you to help contact the Mu family." Ye Lanshan smiled slightly, a calculating glint in her eyes.
"The Mu family? What are you planning? I'm telling you, if you want to use the Mu family as a shield, I'll never agree." Mu Xinlian, no matter what, was once part of the Mu family and wouldn't let Ye Lanshan scheme against them.