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Returning to the cliff top, Xiao Yi Xian steadied her footing and thanked Xiao Yan, then immediately went over to Little Blue, kneeling down to treat the bird's wounds.
She took a few herbs from the medicine pouch at her waist, chewed them up in her mouth, and applied them to the wounds on Little Blue's wings.
Then she took out clean cloth strips and wrapped the wounds round and round.
Her movements were practiced and gentle, soothing Little Blue softly as she bandaged.
Xiao Yan sat on a nearby rock, watching quietly without disturbing her.
After briefly tending to Little Blue's injuries, Xiao Yi Xian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She stood up, wiped the sweat from her forehead with her sleeve, and turned to sit down opposite Xiao Yan.
Her hands were trembling slightly—an instinctive bodily reaction after tension and exhaustion—but her face had regained its calm.
"Thank you for your rescue today, Young Master Xiao. If not for your intervention, I'm afraid both Little Blue and I would have been in mortal peril."
Xiao Yi Xian looked at Xiao Yan with gratitude filling her eyes, her voice sincere and earnest.
She knew that if this youth hadn't appeared in time, she probably would have already swallowed poison by now.
"Just call me Xiao Yan." Xiao Yan waved a hand. "Why did you and it appear down at the bottom?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yi Xian recounted her encounter.
She had entered the mountain with the Ten