"The scent of pills."
No matter how slow his reactions might be, at the very least, at a time like this, Xiao Yan knew perfectly well what he should and should not say.
Precisely because of that, his answer did not seem slow at all. In fact, it could even be called quite swift.
"Oh, so it was the scent of pills—"
Yao Wan nodded slightly. It was hard to tell whether she approved of Xiao Yan's answer or simply had no objection to his will to survive.
"Let's go. In any case, she comes from a major power like the Pill God Clan. If we really talk about it in the future, she might even be our competitor. Shall we go say hello?"
Grabbing Xiao Yan by the fingertips, Yao Wan walked forward and immediately spoke.
"Competitor?"
Yao Wan's words more or less reminded Xiao Yan that for existences like them who had ascended from a Lower Plane, joining a power did indeed come with quite a few problems.
In other words, naturally, that meant—
"—Who's there?!"
The moment Dan Qing sensed someone approaching her, her heart abruptly jolted. By the time she belatedly turned around, the two of them had already stepped within ten paces of her, and only then did she realize that she had not noticed them at all.
"Dan Qing, it's been a while, hasn't it?"
Yao Wan gazed at Dan Qing's somewhat stunned and surprised eyes and expression with a faint smile, then spoke first.
"—It's you."
Although she had traveled alone through the Great Thousand World and had seen countless people, existences like Xiao Yan and Yao Wan still left quite a deep impression on Dan Qing.
"Dan Qing, it seems you're still searching for medicines?"
"The Shang Continent has countless Spirit Medicines.