Along the way

The sounds that followed never stopped.

Faced with that incessant chatter, Jia Xitong felt like her head was about to explode.

She dared not look back, but dragged her eleventh senior brother's body along the markings.

On the other side

Everyone came out together, and they were all very anxious when they couldn't find Old Eleven and Little Raccoon.

They were worried that Little Bucket, being a bear, would easily get lost, so they specifically assigned Old Eleven to keep an eye on him. Now, not only is Little Bucket gone, but Old Eleven has also disappeared along with it.

A group of people rushed to take their two junior apprentices back for medical treatment.

They were even more anxious about where Xitong and Lao Shiyi had gone.

They split into two groups: one to take care of Huo Rui and Niu Chuanchuan, and the other to re-enter the cave to search for Lao Shiyi and Xitong.

It was under these circumstances that Jia Xitong met her eldest brother and the others in the passageway marked by her eleventh senior brother.

"Senior Brother!"

Her mind felt like it was about to explode.

The puppet, no longer under the control of its soul, fell straight forward, nearly crushing the listless raccoon in its basket on its chest.

"Small bucket!"

"Eleventh Brother!"

The people who came each carried one and ran outside.

The remaining fellow disciples peered out of the cave and saw two people being carried out from outside rushing toward them.

"What's wrong?"

"It was fine just now!"

"Never mind that for now, let's quickly take them back to that small town not far away."

The eldest brother gestured for them to take all the wounded back, and in the middle of the night, he roughly pried open the door of the only pharmacy in town.

Far away from that mountain

Jia Xitong's mind cleared up.

She sat alone in the basket, lost in thought, her mind blank and her whole body exhausted.

"Is Xitong injured anywhere?"

The eldest and second eldest brothers looked over at her and picked up their small baskets to give her a full-body checkup.

Jia Xitong looked down at her own body.

Um……

There's too much hair, it's almost invisible.

And it's fine if you don't touch the fur, but if you do, the wound under the skin will hurt. If a whole group of them come to check, wouldn't that be excruciatingly painful?

"I'm fine, but let's check if Eleventh Senior Brother is alright first."

Jia Xitong squatted in the small basket, looking listlessly at her eleventh senior brother. She didn't know why he had suddenly fainted out of nowhere.

"It's nothing serious, just a blockage caused by blood stasis from the impact. A couple of acupuncture needles will do the trick."

The old doctor, who was pulled out of bed in the middle of the night to save a life, said.

Then he went to take the pulses of two other people.

The second and third senior brothers were assigned to find an inn that was still open. Jia Xitong squatted in the basket on his back, yawning incessantly, while the other brothers also looked exhausted.

Just then, the eldest disciple arrived with a sound transmission talisman.

Shang Yanting's voice came through his communication talisman.

"Small bucket".

"Um?"

Are you alright now?

"good."

Are you injured?

"No, no."

Jia Xitong held the senior brother's communication talisman and said that she didn't want her senior brothers and Shang Yanting to worry, but she didn't know that he had already arrived.

Everyone had just moved into the inn when Shang Yanting arrived.

Weary from the journey, I arrived in haste.

The first thing I asked my senior classmates was, "Where's the fine bucket?"

Jia Xitong was already half asleep when she heard Shang Yanting's voice and woke up. Then the basket containing her was handed to Shang Yanting.

Jia Xitong squatted in the basket on her back and looked at him.

She hadn't even had time to change out of the gorgeous dress she'd specially chosen for the banquet, and a strand of hair had already peeked out from under her jade crown.

Shang Yanting was also looking at her, but after a moment, he looked away.

"Senior Brother, please settle the other senior brothers, Niu Chuanchuan, and Huo Rui. Xitong and I will be leaving now."

"Ah, okay, okay."

The eldest brother nodded with his hands behind his back, "You've come all this way, so you should all rest well. Your fellow disciples will take care of things here."

Shang Yanting didn't hear what came after that at all.

He passed by the inn's counter, then tossed a piece of gold onto it, saying, "Please prepare some hot water."

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There were only the two of them in the inn's room.

As soon as Shang Yanting walked in, he smelled a strong stench of blood. The raccoon's fur was not only matted, but also a shade darker in color.

"Still saying you're not injured?"

If he hadn't come in person, I would have actually believed it.

Hot water from the inn was quickly brought up and placed outside the screen in the room.

Shang Yanting poured hot water to scald the towels, then glanced at the raccoon still crouching in the basket. "Should we use the human form or the bear form to clean the wound?"

ah?

Jia Xitong paused for a moment, then quickly made her choice.

"Everyone! Everyone!"

Jia Xitong jumped out of the basket on her back and then obediently ran behind the screen.

A cloud of smoke rose outside

Jia Xitong poked her head out from behind the screen, "Dear host, please don't come any closer."

Shang Yanting: "...How can I apply the medicine for you if I don't come over?"

"I can apply the medicine myself."

Jia Xitong looked at the wounds on her body, the fine, dense wind blade wounds, so fine that they were almost invisible and she could not feel any pain.

However, this situation only lasted for a short while.

The moment she stepped into the bathtub, blood immediately gushed from the wound. A stinging sensation instantly spread throughout her body from the water-soaked wound.

"Hiss! Hiss hiss hiss!"

The pain made her instantly lose all sleepiness.

"Does it hurt a lot?"

Shang Yanting's voice came from very close behind the screen.

Jia Xitong abruptly pulled her legs out of the bathtub, then casually put on a white robe.

Hearing the voice behind him, Shang Yanting couldn't help but step over the screen and saw Jia Xitong wearing his undergarments, completely covered up.

"Ouch! Ouch! This really hurts!"

Jia Xitong couldn't help but exclaim, "Dear host, please find a doctor to take a look at me!"

"...Go to bed."

Go to bed.

"Host, I'm in a lot of pain right now. Is this some kind of erotic thing?"

"...What are you thinking? You're talking nonsense."

Upon hearing this, Shang Yanting couldn't help but rub his forehead. "I meant for you to come to bed so I could apply the medicine to you."

"Ah... Oh oh oh."

Jia Xitong nodded upon hearing this, realizing that she herself had misunderstood.

Because of her injuries, she walked very carefully. She finally managed to climb onto the bed and then lifted the robe from her thighs.

"Honey, do you have any painkillers? My legs hurt the most!"

The moment I put her in the hot water, I almost sent her to her death.

Shang Yanting ignored her, but got up, filled a basin with warm water, and gently wiped her down with a sterilized towel.

Then, he took out a white jade medicine bottle.

They scooped out a milky white ointment and applied it to her legs. Instantly, a cooling sensation washed over her, and the pain vanished.

"Wow! I feel this medicine is really good!" Jia Xitong stared at the ointment he was holding.

"I know, don't move."

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