Was this the trial mission Senior Brother had assigned her?
This is really exhausting.
As the sun slanted westward, Ling'e, dressed in light blue cloth and wearing a disguised face, stretched lazily before a pharmacy with the character for medicine hanging above its door. Her graceful silhouette fell across the moss-covered stone-paved road in the lingering glow of the setting sun.
Passersby immediately cast friendly looks her way. One middle-aged woman carrying a bamboo basket even called out:
"Little Blue, come have dinner at Auntie's tonight!"
"No, thank you," Ling'e declined with a smile. "I still need to prepare the medicinal ingredients for tomorrow. I'm too busy to get away."
The woman quickly acknowledged this, then reminded her to take care of herself and not overwork before slowly leaving.
Ling'e returned to the stone house, shut the wooden door, casually set down several restrictions, and could not help yawning.
By now, the corners of the room, the tables, and the wooden cabinets were all filled with paper packets, each carefully labeled with its category and dosage.
Under the alias Lan Xing'er, she had lived in this town for half a year as a "healer."
Over those six months, she had hunted ninety-nine True Immortal Realm great demons, including several old demons in the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
Ling'e always struck under cover of night. Her Paper Daoists would poison their targets from afar, then burn the corpses to erase all traces before quietly returning. The Demon Race forces in the area swiftly descended into panic.
Though she had personally killed only ninety-nine great demons, she had frightened away half the demons in the region, easing much of Chentang Town's burden.
Tonight, Ling'e would eliminate the final target she had marked, then quietly leave Chentang Town.
To avoid the "awkward" situation of