Youyou looked up. Ahead of her stood a snow-white bear, staring at her warily.
"I'll ask one more time. Who exactly are you?"
Ice Bear King Xiao Bai asked again, unconsciously lowering the surrounding temperature by several degrees.
He could say with absolute certainty that this suddenly appearing giant flower had not been brought in by Yao Shi.
"I-I'm Youyou."
Youyou answered somewhat timidly, though she had already formed a guess in her heart.
This bear... and that little girl crackling with lightning... they should both be subordinates of that apothecary, right?
Sensing no hostility from her, Xiao Bai withdrew his pressure, and his tone softened somewhat.
"You... should be a plant-type Soul Beast, right? You can speak human language, which means your cultivation has reached the hundred-thousand-year level."
"Y-yes, my true body is Aromatic Silk Beauty."
Aromatic Silk Beauty? Never heard of it.
For the Ice Bear King, who had lived in the Far North for hundreds of thousands of years, he barely recognized any plants from the continent.
Han Xiao, seated atop Xiao Bai's head, still watched her warily. "How did you get in here?"
"Huh?" Youyou froze for a moment before quickly answering.
"Youyou doesn't know either. A few days ago, a human girl came to the Medicine Garden where I lived and asked me for some seeds. Then she seemed to leave a mark on me and told me that if I encountered danger in the future, I only had to call out the apothecary's name to be saved."
A human girl?
Tang Ya's visit had happened before Yao Shi enlightened Han Xiao. The two had never met, so Han Xiao did not know the girl Youyou spoke of.
"So that's how you got in?"
Youyou's pink petals nodded lightly.
"Mhm, mhm. Just now, three bastard