Meanwhile, Su Jiu had already pulled the woman out of the mire.
"How did you end up here?" Su Jiu asked bluntly.
The woman froze, seemingly not expecting Su Jiu's question to be so direct. She glanced at the medicinal herbs spilled from her basket across the ground, a flicker of heartache crossing her eyes.
"Would you believe me if I said I came here to gather medicinal herbs?"
Lin Jiaojiao glanced at the colorful herbs scattered on the ground. "Who are you trying to fool? These are all demonic plants! Do you really think we can't recognize them?"
No matter how they looked at it, a female cultivator at only the Foundation Establishment Realm suddenly appearing in a place like this was far too strange, so Lin Jiaojiao made no effort to be polite.
The woman's bewilderment grew more apparent when she saw Lin Jiaojiao. "They are demonic plants, yes, but properly purified demonic plants can also be used as medicine. Didn't you know that?"
That neither harsh nor gentle retort left Lin Jiaojiao choking on her words. Ever since childhood, she had been taught to stay away from anything connected to demons, and slaying demonic cultivators was her unquestionable duty. Where would she have had the chance to learn that Dao cultivators could also use demonic plants?
She pursed her lips and muttered, "I'm not an alchemy cultivator. Besides, I've never seen anyone selling demonic plants in the markets. How was I supposed to know these things could be used as medicine?"
As Lin Jiaojiao's husband, Hu Yucheng naturally took her side. "That said, fellow Daoist, you certainly know a great deal for someone whose Cultivation Level is only at the Foundation Establishment Realm. People at your Cultivation Level rarely know such obscure things, do they?"
The woman