In the past, when Xiao Liu saw Liu Yunqing, he couldn't help but show off his big teeth.

When Liu Yunqing opened the door today, she didn't see Xiao Liu's smiling face; instead, she looked somewhat puzzled.

"Zhenru, was that the witch doctor grandfather just here?"

Liu Yunqing opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound, so she could only nod.

Xiao Liu immediately noticed something was wrong and frowned, saying:

What's wrong with your throat?

Liu Yunqing didn't speak, but let out a helpless sigh through her nose.

She truly couldn't believe that these methods used on ordinary people could one day have such a positive effect on her.

The usually silly Xiao Liu suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Incredulity flashed in his eyes. Just as he was about to say something, Liu Yunqing covered his mouth.

"Walls have ears."

After making sure Xiao Liu was quiet, Liu Yunqing didn't notice the other's reddened ear tips and quickly wrote these four words on his hand.

Xiao Liu controlled his pounding heart and, with disbelief, wrote the character "巫" (witch) on Liu Yunqing's hand.

Seeing Liu Yunqing nod, Xiao Liu looked even more confused, indicating that he found it hard to accept.

Liu Yunqing smiled faintly, not convinced that Xiao Liu had to believe her. She turned around and poured Xiao Liu a cup of tea, then dipped her finger in the water and asked Xiao Liu on the table what she wanted.

Xiao Liu suppressed his thoughts, took out a few medicine bottles from his pocket, and was about to speak, but instead wrote on Liu Yunqing's palm instead.

"I will regulate your body and nourish your bones. If successful, I will guide you in your cultivation. This is a secret."

Liu Yunqing was somewhat surprised, yet also touched.

The magnetic field between people is very strange.

Liu Yunqing didn't stay in Sun Valley for long, and during that time she didn't see many people, except for the few who brought her back from the riverbank.

Of those, Xiao Liu and Xiao Jiu spent the most time with Liu Yunqing.

Xiao Jiu Wu Lingling is a typical pampered little princess. She has a lively and cheerful personality, and everyone cares for and warms her. She is a very nice person.

Xiao Liu actually spent far less time with Liu Yunqing than Wu Lingling, but Liu Yunqing felt that Xiao Liu was very sincere towards her.

Liu Yunqing didn't try to speak ill of the witch doctor to the Wu family because she knew that everyone would choose to believe the witch doctor and not her.

But what Xiao Liu did tonight gave Liu Yunqing a different perspective.

She felt that Xiao Liu would believe her.

Liu Yunqing stared at Xiao Liu for a while, then thanked him sincerely before accepting the medicine bottle.

Finally, before Xiao Liu left, Liu Yunqing still gave him a final reminder.

"This is a secret between us."

Xiao Liu was taken aback, then broke into a bright smile, finally revealing the large, unseen toothbrush that had been hidden when they arrived.

Liu Yunqing said this partly because he was afraid that Xiao Liu would tell others, which would provoke the witch doctor to take action again. He was also afraid that the witch doctor would find out that Xiao Liu had helped him and then take action against Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu's happiness stemmed purely from Liu Yunqing's words, "the secret between us."

However, these are all minor details, and whether Liu Yunqing knows them or not is not very important.

The important thing is that she needs to seize the time to save herself.

Even if Xiao Liu trusts Liu Yunqing, Liu Yunqing will not completely depend on another person for his fate.

As soon as Xiao Liu left, she opened the medicine bottles to check them, and then used them according to the method Xiao Liu had taught her.

The medicine in the bottle was not a pill, but a powder made from various medicinal herbs. It was not for ingestion, but for bathing.

After using it two or three times, Liu Yunqing felt that his sticky, stagnant body, which was like that of an ordinary mortal, had loosened up slightly.

In addition, in the days that followed, Liu Yunqing often received food from Xiao Liu.

Liu Yunqing felt a strong, mysterious, and scorching power emanating from the food.

To avoid being detected by the witch doctor, Liu Yunqing has been staying indoors every day, locking herself in her guest room and acting as if she has suffered a severe shock.

Liu Yunqing wanted to keep a low profile, so she stayed indoors.

But those who care about her still come to visit from time to time, such as Wu Lingling and a few other people who brought her back.

Those who doubted her initially thought she was just having a momentary lapse of judgment and stopped paying much attention to her.

Three months passed like this.

Tonight, it's time for Xiao Liu to bring her medicine again.

As agreed, Liu Yunqing heard a soft knock on the window and knew that Xiao Liu had arrived, so she got up to open the window.

However, Liu Yunqing was startled by the smell of blood that came through the crack in the window.

"Xiao Liu, you're injured? How did you get hurt? What happened?"

Xiao Liu, covered in blood, didn't answer Liu Yunqing's question. Instead, he gave her a tired smile and placed several medicine bottles in her hands.

Just as he was about to say a few words of advice to Liu Yunqing, he noticed that candlelight had been lit not far from the guest window before he could even speak.

"Grandpa Chief!"

Upon seeing the leader, Xiao Liu was startled and blurted out.

"What are you doing!"

As the clan leader spoke, someone quickly walked up to Liu Yunqing and snatched the medicine bottle from her hand.

The clan chief took the medicine bottle, casually opened one and looked at it, then walked up to Xiao Liu and slapped him across the face.

"You traitor! How dare you call me that?"

After saying this, he glanced at Xiao Liu, who was covered in blood, and his eyes showed heartache again. He turned to the witch doctor who was standing beside him and said:

"Please help Xiao Liu bandage up first."

The witch doctor maintained his usual kind and gentle demeanor, bowed in agreement, and then, as if he couldn't see Liu Yunqing, began to focus on bandaging Xiao Liu.

Meanwhile, the Sun Valley patriarch kept his eyes fixed on Liu Yunqing, calmly walking towards him before speaking:

"Outsiders, they really are wolves in sheep's clothing!"

"How dare you seduce Xiao Liu into betraying Sun Valley to steal medicine for you!"

"Guards! Take him to the ancestral hall; I want to deal with him personally!"

After saying this, the Sun Valley patriarch turned and headed towards the ancestral hall.

Because Liu Yunqing was unable to speak, she had no chance to refute him.

When she heard the clan chief say that Xiao Liu had stolen all those medicines, she felt a pang of unease. The feeling of wanting to speak but being unable to was truly agonizing.

"Grandpa Chieftain! Grandpa Chieftain! Please spare Zhenru!"

"She's not a bad person! She probably didn't know that the drug couldn't be given to outsiders, which is why she accepted it!"

Liu Yunqing didn't know what punishment awaited him in the ancestral hall, but seeing Wu Lingling's reckless pleas, he knew it was definitely not an easy ordeal.

As Liu Yunqing shook her head at Wu Lingling, she wondered to herself, "Could I just kill her?"

The road to the ancestral hall was quite a distance away. Along the way, Liu Yunqing searched for a way to turn the tide, especially when he saw the shaman's merciless, mocking smile as he looked at him.

When Liu Yunqing looked over, the witch doctor's expression didn't change at all, but his eyes were full of mockery.

Kneel down!

Just as Liu Yunqing was about to glare back, a force came from behind, attempting to force Liu Yunqing to kneel at the entrance of the ancestral hall.

The moment Liu Yunqing's knee hit the ground, the entire ancestral hall suddenly shook!