To be honest, Lu Yuan had never expected Xiao Yan to have Little Fairy Doctor lead the team.
After all, whether it was Little Fairy Doctor's personality or her role, neither made her suited to leading a team—at least, not under the current circumstances.
Strictly speaking, Little Fairy Doctor had the type of personality that seemed pure on the outside but was dark underneath.
She looked like a white lotus.
Her purity needed no explanation.
Neither did her kindness.
Yet in truth, she was a black-hearted lotus.
Her scheming nature needed no explanation.
Neither did her ruthlessness.
Although this personality was related to Little Fairy Doctor's childhood and upbringing—after all, in an environment like Green Mountain Town, and under the circumstances she had faced, excessive beauty was not a blessing but a sin. She had needed strength or something else to escape disaster. Little Fairy Doctor's background had made it virtually impossible for her to obtain cultivation techniques through ordinary means. All she could use was the seemingly kind disguise she wore, making friends far and wide and building goodwill to deter those with malicious intentions. Still, the fact that she was outwardly innocent yet inwardly dark was indisputable.
So, taking a step back.
Xiao Yan's starting point had already been extremely high.
One only needed to look at Little Fairy Doctor to understand.
Little Fairy Doctor's background had been that of an utterly ordinary commoner family.
It was certainly better than Zhu Chongba starting with nothing but a bowl.
At the very least, Little Fairy Doctor had never been reduced to begging.
Yet Little Fairy Doctor had found it difficult to access cultivation techniques. She had worked painstakingly at a medical hall for so many years, and in the end, she had only risen to prominence through the opportunity