Zhu Yanyi watched Wang Guitian’s hurried approach and said, "What do you think she will do when she sees the truth here?"
"Unimaginable," Ouyang Tianyun said seriously. "You must know, a gu master values his gu bugs as much as we value patients and herbs. Losing them feels hollow, but worse, it hurts deeply. Raising gu takes immense care."
Indeed, though Zhu Yanyi disliked gu raising, she knew it was hard. Whether flower doctors or poison doctors, raising gu required money, effort, and extreme caution. One mistake meant starting over. Few could do it.
Zhu Yanyi looked at the approaching Wang Guitian. "Do you think she is connected to a poison doctor?"
Gu raising had different types. Some, like in Country T, were simple. But poison doctors raised gu for both harm and healing, though their character was questionable.
"Possible," Yan Aohan said seriously. "Whether he is a poison doctor or not doesn't matter. What matters is knowing where he learned this skill."
"True," Zhu Yanyi nodded. "But if she did terrible things, I don't know how to punish her."
Doctors kill without blood, but Zhu Yanyi couldn't plan murders. She wasn't that level.
Yan Aohan rubbed Zhu Yanyi's head. "If you don't use your truth powder, I can use soul searching. You just need a medicine person. Soul searching is easier. If she becomes a fool, it doesn't matter. Smart people are harder to handle." He decided her fate.
Zhu Yanyi agreed. She needed a medicine person to find good herbs for humans. Smart people were useless for this.
Cultivators had hard hearts, hard against evil. If Wang Guitian hadn't hurt anyone, Zhu Yanyi wouldn't blame her. But now? She didn't believe she was innocent.
Wang Guitian returned to Wangjiagou. Entering the village, he froze.
She looked left and right. The familiar pine trees, camphor trees, and dawn redwoods were there. She hadn't lost her way. This was Wangjiagou. The stone paths and steps remained. But the houses were gone. The land was empty, as if the buildings were just a dream.
"What is happening?" he shouted. Was he hallucinating? He bit his finger. The pain told him he was real. This was Wangjiagou. But everything was gone, even traces of their lives.
She panicked, running to where her home stood. No house. No home. The earth pit remained, but the stored items were gone.
"Who did this? Who? Bastard!" he cursed.
"Stop shouting. It won't help," Zhu Yanyi said, removing the barrier. She stood on a tree, looking down at Wang Guitian.
Hearing her voice, Wang Guitian turned sharply. she saw the person on the tree. "You did this."
"Sort of," Zhu Yanyi said. Binglan was hers, and she was Binglan's master. So Binglan's actions were hers. She had given the order.
"How did you do it?" Wang Guitian asked, curious despite his loss. He couldn't believe anyone could do this.
"Is it hard? No," Zhu Yanyi smiled. "For you, maybe. For me, not at all."
She grinned proudly. "I really want to know how you feel now."
"Did you do all this just to see my reaction?" Wang Guitian asked.
Zhu Yanyi looked natural. "Yes. You didn't know? Too bad. You're right. I did this to see your feelings. People say going from nothing to something is joy. What about something to nothing? I wanted to see if you feel failure."
"Where are my gu?" Wang Guitian didn't want to chat. He cared about his things.
Zhu Yanyi smiled. "You ask? I want to say I took them, but I didn't. I just did a small trick to destroy them, like burning. But their value was better than burning." As food for Binglan, they had some worth.
Wang Guitian narrowed her eyes at the girl. Seeing the cinnabar mole on her forehead, she paused. "Are you the Little Divine Doctor from the capital?"
Zhu Yanyi patted her cheek. "Oh my, I have a common face? Everyone recognizes me?"
"Ani, your cinnabar mole is your mark," Yan Aohan appeared, tapping Zhu Yanyi's forehead helplessly.
Zhu Yanyi touched her mole and sighed. "So that's it. I thought I was just a common face anyone could recognize."
Wang Guitian frowned. Why did every topic miss the point? But one thing was clear: this person was the Little Divine Doctor.
Thinking of her identity, Wang Guitian was shocked. she didn't know her medical skills well, but her reputation was real. Her deeds had proof. Her skills were genuine. Realizing this, her heart turned cold and sank deeper.