The blue-haired woman said to Xu Yue, "Pluck off each leaf and swallow it. Remember, don't chew them."
Xu Yue looked at her in confusion.
The blue-haired woman smiled. "This is a Nine Profound Radiant Saint Orchid, an exceedingly rare immortal herb. Eating it will only benefit you. Your younger brother has already taken the Nether Orchid that grew alongside this Nine Profound Radiant Saint Orchid on the same stem. That is how the two of them entered Deep Meditation."
Xu Yue hesitantly accepted it, gazing into the blue-haired woman's beautiful, deep-blue eyes. "Senior, who are you? If this little plant really is an immortal herb, why would you give it to us so readily?"
The blue-haired woman smiled with pursed lips and said, "Someone entrusted me with this."
Seeing that Xu Yue still seemed reluctant to swallow it, the blue-haired woman reached out and clasped both her hands, then pushed them, along with the little golden-green plant they held, toward Xu Yue's chest.
The blue-haired woman said, "Trust me. Hurry and absorb the Saint Orchid's medicinal power. You still have more important things to do."
Star Luo City seemed no different tonight than it usually did.
The streets, bustling with people during the day, were now utterly silent.
Perhaps the occasional bark from the surrounding homes was the only sound in the night.
Yet that very silence inexplicably lent Star Luo City an oppressively heavy air tonight.
It was as though a storm was about to descend.
Suddenly, the barking in the darkness grew frantic, as if those sensitive creatures had already foreseen something.
Amid the frantic barking, dark figures darted across the rooftops. They leaped onward, moving swiftly yet making almost no sound beyond the faint rush of wind stirred by their passage.
These dark figures appeared