Cannon-Fodder Heiress Turns the Tables by Fortune-Telling

Yun Ran reached into her bag and pulled out a small bottle, pouring out a brown pill with a faint fragrance.

With a rather rough gesture, she grabbed the lynx's neck, easily pried open its mouth, and shoved the pill in.

Xuan Chu watched Yun Ran's simple and crude actions, and his brows slightly furrowed.

Unable to help himself, he wanted to say, at least show some respect to the Mountain Spirit, but at the scent of that brown pill, he swallowed his words.

His nose was quite sharp, and he could clearly smell the faint aura of blood in the pill, a very potent blood aura.

Recalling the Coiling Dragon Formation he saw during the Xuanmen Competition, Xuan Chu roughly guessed that the brown pill likely contained Dragon Spirit Blood.

Given the Mountain Spirit's current weak condition, even he had no good way to save it.

But with Dragon Spirit Blood, things were different.

Baji almost acted instinctively when he saw Yun Ran giving the Mountain Spirit a pill from its source.

However, seeing that Lord Envoy didn't move, he forcibly restrained himself.

A few breaths later, Baji suddenly turned his head, staring at Yun Ran in astonishment.

Just now, he sensed a familiar aura, the long-missing Mountain Spirit's aura that vanished almost fifty years ago.

"You... you..."

Seeing Baji stammer several times without saying anything, Yun Ran didn't mind; her reason for coming here was for the sealing matter.

Saving this Mountain Spirit, which was about to perish, was just incidental.

Ginsengfruit, holding onto the lynx, could clearly feel that its previously cold body was now showing signs of warming up.

Knowing the pills refined with Dragon Spirit Blood were effective, Ginsengfruit hurriedly said: "Master, give it a few more."

To the others, it seemed a bit like Ginsengfruit was being childish, wasting such a valuable thing.

Xuan Chu's gaze fell on Yun Ran. He was a bit curious whether Yun Ran would give this little apprentice a hard time.

Yun Ran directly tossed the bottle into Ginsengfruit's hands: "You're taking care of this lynx, feed it yourself!"

Saying this, Yun Ran disdainfully looked at the fur on her hands left from grabbing the lynx's neck.

Everyone: ...

Was this valuable pill just given away like that?

No wonder this little apprentice seemed wasteful, but it turned out the master wasn't much different.

Ginsengfruit cheerfully took the bottle and nodded repeatedly: "Don't worry, Master, I'll take good care of it."

In the middle of the ancestral hall stood a not-too-big, not-too-small stone statue, emitting some Mountain Spirit aura, and without much guessing, one could tell it was likely the proxy of the Mountain Spirit's essence.

Baji didn't initially think much of Yun Ran, such a young girl, but now it was different—with such precious pills, Yun Ran gave them without hesitation.

Now, in Baji's eyes, Yun Ran's status soared, almost standing side by side with Xuan Chu, the Lord Envoy of Heavenly Dao Village.

Seeing Yun Ran's gaze fall on the statue, Baji eagerly introduced: "This was left by my ancestors, used when the Mountain Guardian and the Mountain Spirit bond."

Saying this, Baji directly cut his hand that looked like a dead tree, letting his blood drip onto the statue.

In an instant, the statue lit up.

"The statue lighting up means gaining the Mountain Spirit's approval, successfully bonding with the Mountain Spirit, and receiving the bonding mark.

Unfortunately, the legacy of the Mountain Guardians ends with my generation; no one in the village can successfully bond with the Mountain Spirit anymore..."

Somehow, Yun Ran suddenly recalled what Elder Gong sent back through the Little Paperman, that the Mountain Guardian's bonding magic was lost.

But seeing this statue now, Yun Ran roughly understood—it wasn't that the bonding magic was lost, but that those Mountain Spirits couldn't sustain the statues used for bonding.

Now, the sky had already brightened, and Yun Ran accidentally looked up, seeing that familiar cloud watching her from not far above, like a moving surveillance camera.

Yun Ran was thinking if there was a way to make that cloud clash with the Evil God here.

Then Xuan Chu's voice came from behind her: "I advise you not to mess with that cloud. It's just monitoring you and confirming your coordinates."

Xuan Chu didn't finish his sentence, but Yun Ran understood his implication—basically, whatever she intended to do, once the coordinates were clear, when Heavenly Thunder struck her, it wouldn't miss its mark.

Apparently, after several times of Yun Ran using various methods to evade Heavenly Thunder, it really angered Heavenly Thunder.

So, directly giving Yun Ran special treatment, putting a mark on her.

Yun Ran's tone suddenly turned a bit resentful: "Don't you think this Heavenly Thunder is a bit unfair? I haven't done anything wrong, so why does it keep targeting me?"

Being a person from Heavenly Dao Village, Xuan Chu naturally knew why Heavenly Dao kept watching Yun Ran.

"Your life chart is unusual, that's an undeniable fact. The will of Heavenly Dao only maintains the world's balance, it's not meant to act as judge.

Once it senses you pose a threat, it will naturally give you some warnings. Whether your threat is inherent or imposed by others, that doesn't matter.

It's like when police arrest someone, if you have suspicion, you naturally become a key focus, and if you act, they will respond."

This explanation is reasonable, but Yun Ran still felt an indescribable sense of frustration.

Taking a deep breath, Yun Ran suddenly moved with lightning speed to attack Xuan Chu relentlessly.

Baji: ...

Perhaps he was really getting old, finding it hard to understand the young people these days. Clearly, just now, they were in a peaceful stance.

Why did they suddenly turn hostile?

However, he didn't feel like getting involved at this moment, quietly backing away several steps to leave space for the two of them.

Seeing Lord Envoy continuously retreating and dodging, Baji wasn't particularly worried.

When Xuan Chu was forced by Yun Ran until he had nowhere to retreat, he finally got a bit angry: "Don't push too far, I really will fight back!"

What greeted him was Yun Ran's even more fierce attack, leaving Xuan Chu no choice but to strike back.

As Xuan Chu began to return blows, Yun Ran suddenly halted her attack and then scoffed coldly: "Oh, so you also know what it feels like to be attacked for no reason even when you haven't done anything wrong!

Seems you don't understand pain until it happens to you."

Xuan Chu: ...