The young girl sighed and continued pouring the Calming Soup into Ximen Baojian's mouth, "So, Master, can I tell Sister Baiyu my name?"

Go ahead... otherwise, it's quite awkward for all of us.

Okay, the young girl nodded, "My name is Qin Miaoyu, just call me Miaoyu."

"Miaoyu, just call her Blabbermouth instead." Yuchi pondered, "Call her Qin Blabbermouth. So cocky at such a young age, she'll definitely be a big blabbermouth in the future. Please give this nice name to other girls."

Next, a boiling hot clay pot smashed directly onto his head, and Yuchi fell face-first to the ground, his legs flailing twice.

Qin Miaoyu's face was calm behind her mask as she walked over to the stunned Qi Baiyu, "Sister Baiyu, rest assured, I have three ways to make this guy disappear. Even if he's at the Foundation Establishment or Core Formation Stage, so what? If he bullies you, just tell me, and I'll finish him off."

It's finish him off... Qi Baiyu helped Yuchi up, "Don't fight, let's discuss the next plan."

Yuchi wiped the medicinal soup off his forehead and nodded calmly, "Yes, let's not drag the plot out. If our lives were written into a book by a storyteller, our mundane daily plotlines would definitely anger the readers."

"Makes sense..." Qin Miaoyu nodded, "So, Master, what should we do next?"

What to do?

It's so tricky.

After a brief thought, Sun Miaoxing said to Yuchi, "Young friend, this is quite troublesome because the evil spirit has already been demonized. If we simply kill her, we won't be able to find the Divine Soul Fragments she has hidden. So you just protect us, and we'll handle these Divine Soul Fragments. Once we've dealt with all the fragments, we'll personally finish it."

After all, this evil being is also from Medicine Master Valley. Letting outsiders handle it is not ideal, which means the valley is here to clean house.

"Alright, I'm quite familiar with this kind of task."

Remembering the past life's experiences, in the games played before, there were many similar plots where you'd fight monsters while these NPCs idly stood by. Then when the NPCs finished their tasks, they'd declare, "Finally, it's over." but truly did nothing but monitor the progress bar.

The current situation seemed the same; he was supposed to protect the Medicine Master Valley people, who were then responsible for collecting the Divine Souls. Ah, the question is, just how strong is the enemy? What if they're unbeatable despite the previous boasting? That'd be rather awkward, right?

"Old Man Sun, I can't use Spiritual Qi down here. Am I supposed to just punch them with my bare fists? I'm not sure I can protect you properly."

The process feels like a quest, but there's no way to restart or redo it. If something went wrong and the task failed, Yuchi himself would probably be fine, given he could teleport. But the old man and the girl could likely not survive.

"No worries, I'll lend you a sword. I'm broadly aware of the situation below, similar things have happened before, so just use this sword for the attack. As long as you keep watch on your surroundings and avoid being ambushed, you can easily protect us with this sword."

When Yuchi nodded, Sun Miaoxing handed over a greenish grass sword. It really looked like a grass sword, resembling a very long and flat aloe leaf, combined with a Peach Branch to form the grass sword. Holding it, it felt quite shabby.

He tried feeling it with the Immortal Stone.

"1.2 million Dao points?!"

His titanium-alloy dog eyes went wide, damn, this sword costs 1.2 million Dao points? The Immortal Sword he exchanged and used until now couldn't compare to this grass sword, it's surely a top-notch weapon, right?!

"This sword is called the Heart-Piercing Sword, crafted by a Valley Master of our Medicine Master Valley. Its blade is made from a leaf of the Sole Lotus, the hilt from Nine-Cycle Peach Flowers, finally bound together with ordinary Green Grass Vine and steeped in special Medicinal Herbs for its crafting."

Yuchi didn't know what that Sole Lotus was, but by convention, anything related to lotuses was probably precious, like the Taisu Barrier-Breaking Lotus, Seven-Life Jade Liquid Lotus, Celestial One Cyan Nether Lotus, Taiqing Red Sun Lotus, or Guanyin's whatnot lotus, all quite rare.

But he knew about the Nine-Cycle Peach Flower. What's the concept of Nine Cycles? According to the world's reckoning of time, it was now the ninth or tenth year of the Ninth Zhou Calendar; then after more than ten years, it would restart to the first year, making one cycle a thousand-year span, so Nine Cycles would be a nine-thousand-year-old peach blossom.

"Seriously?" Yuchi expressed suspicion, a nine-thousand-year-old peach blossom? Could such a peach tree survive without being made into a Peach Wood Sword? How could it be so lucky?