The scene that suddenly unfolded in the room startled everyone.
The village chief stammered, "You, you are impertinent! How dare you be disrespectful to the Divine Emissary!"
Bai Shengyi ignored him and calmly got up from the bed.
Her gaze shifted, and with her divine sense spread out, she took in the entirety of Anyang Village, and even tens of thousands of miles beyond it, all within her mind.
She was slightly startled.
This was not the Divine Revelation World!
"Little Teng Ye also feels we have arrived in a new world," Qing Meng Teng whispered in agreement. The spiritual energy here was even thinner than on the Divine Revelation Continent.
Unbeknownst to Bai Shengyi, her casual sweep of the surroundings with her divine sense had instantly alerted the major cities and temples.
Among them, the lord of Donglin City, to which Anyang Village belonged, reacted the most strongly.
"Who is it?" The Lord of Donglin City was jolted from his meditation. The feeling of being spied upon still lingered, a mix of shock and anger. "Guards!"
The captain of the city lord's guards immediately entered. "My Lord."
"Did any other city lords pass by just now?"
The guard shook his head. "No."
"Investigate immediately if anyone from the Eastern Temple has entered the city!" The Lord of Donglin City's expression darkened. As the guard was about to withdraw, he added, "Do not alert the other city lords."
A storm was brewing in the long-silent Green Rong Minor World.
But all of this, Bai Shengyi felt, had nothing to do with her.
She heard the village chief's words, looked up at him, her gaze calm, "Divine Emissary?"
She had done nothing, merely spoken two words, yet the temperature in the room plummeted, becoming colder than the wind and snow outside.
The village chief instinctively retreated under her gaze, his back hitting the wall. "You… what do you want?"
The people in the room also realized that the young girl the old Xu couple had rescued was not someone to be trifled with.
Fear gripped them, and they couldn't help but blame the Xu couple for meddling in affairs that didn't concern them.
Bai Shengyi noticed that these people were ordinary folk. Her gaze shifted to the Divine Emissary nearby, and she spoke calmly, "You, get up."
The Divine Emissary Cui did not want to obey her, but his limbs acted independently, and he got up from the ground.
Bai Shengyi formed a hand seal and waved it gently. A barrier silently enveloped her and the Divine Emissary Cui, shielding their voices.
The Divine Emissary Cui felt extremely uneasy. This young girl was clearly formidable, and forcing her to be a slave girl was out of the question. More importantly, he hoped she wouldn't hold a grudge against him for his earlier actions.
He wondered which Granddaughter of a Temple or City Lord he had encountered.
As he racked his brain for the right words to handle the situation, he heard her slow, deliberate voice.
"I ask you, why did you steal my spirit plant?"
Bai Shengyi's eyes narrowed slightly as she spoke, employing her mental power and the power of rules.
Divine Emissary Cui frowned. He had intended to concoct a casual excuse, but his mouth, against his will, uttered, "Its spiritual intelligence is the highest among all spirit plants I've ever seen. I desired to obtain it. I have seen the spirit plants of the Divine Lord, and none compare to its intelligence…"
Divine Emissary Cui listened to his own words, panic surging.
He tried to shut his mouth urgently, but every time he thought of it, a sharp pain would erupt in his head, allowing him no control.
What's more, the person opposite continued to ask, "Who is your Divine Lord, and what is a slave girl?"
"Where is this place?"
…
After a conversation, Bai Shengyi finally understood where she was!
It was the Green Rong Minor World!
The Green Rong Minor World, where the Heart of the Divine Wood was located!
Bai Shengyi's heart leaped with excitement. She hadn't expected to arrive here by accident. Now, she wasn't in a hurry to leave, as she had originally planned to head to the Green Rong Minor World to search for the Heart of the Divine Wood immediately after the Divine Revelation Grand Gathering.
Bai Shengyi propped up her chin and couldn't help but ask the person in front of her, "Then do you know of the Heart of the Divine Wood?"
Bai Shengyi keenly noticed that as she uttered these four words, the other person's pupils constricted sharply, indicating that he knew of the item. However, his gaze quickly became unfocused, and he mumbled, "That is a legendary item. I have not seen it."
"He clearly has," Qing Meng Teng couldn't help but retort softly. "Master, besides the power of rules and mental power you used on him, this person also has a layer of rule power that has made him change his statement."
Bai Shengyi was not surprised. Just as she could make him obediently tell the truth today, as if hypnotized, other cultivators with profound cultivation could certainly use other methods to impose a gag order on him.
"It's alright," Bai Shengyi smiled, her lips curving. "Since we are here, we will take our time."
As she spoke, her smile faded slightly. "I just don't know if I can send a message to Si and the others…"
Outside the barrier.
"Village Chief, what are they saying?" Zhang Fang couldn't hear anything and couldn't help but ask the flustered village chief beside her.
The village chief said irritably, "Why do you care about these things? This person is clearly a disaster…" Fearing Bai Shengyi could hear him, he swallowed the rest of his words and changed to, "And you lot, why did you go to the back mountain for no reason?"
Did they want to rush to their deaths by saving such a malevolent spirit?
Because of the intense pressure he felt from that single glance, he was deeply unsettled. He couldn't help but carefully observe this young girl again. He then realized that the stains on her clothes were not dirt, but blood!
How much bloodshed had this person caused to have their clothes dyed red with blood!
Zhang Fang was unaware of the village chief's worries, but she became displeased upon hearing his blame. "Village Chief, your words are excessive. Did my husband and I make a mistake by saving someone?"
"Of course not!"
"That's right!" Someone agreed. Zhang Fang proudly placed her hands on her hips and nodded. However, she soon noticed the village chief's evasive gaze and realized something was wrong.
Hmm, the voice that spoke just now was so unfamiliar yet familiar?
Zhang Fang turned her head and saw a woman smiling at her.
Her eyes were clear, her skin like snow, her posture elegant and beautiful. Her face was resplendent and exceptionally refined, her lips seeming to hold a faint smile, her aura as lofty as an immortal.
Zhang Fang couldn't help but think that if there were truly a goddess, she would look like this.
"Who are you?" She truly couldn't associate the person before her with the young girl she had rescued, but there were only so many people in this room…
"I am the one you rescued on the mountain," Bai Shengyi smiled.
She had merely used her mental power to repair the wounds on her face. In reality, the gruesome wounds on her face were minor compared to her internal injuries.
Bai Shengyi thought, and then solemnly bowed and expressed her gratitude, "Auntie Zhang, Uncle Xu, thank you both for saving my life."
"I observe that Auntie Zhang seems to have difficulty conceiving, and Uncle Xu also has hidden ailments. These two bottles of elixirs are a small token of my gratitude. Please do not refuse them."
She took out two porcelain bottles and handed them to Zhang Fang. Zhang Fang was stunned for a moment, then excitedly and nervously rubbed her hands.
"Can… can these elixirs truly cure illnesses?" She no longer held hope for her own ailments, but her husband Xu had broken his leg, and it pained him all night whenever the weather turned cold. Both the temple's medical envoys and the doctors in the city had been consulted, but none could help.
Bai Shengyi was not impatient. She smiled and nodded, explaining carefully how to take the elixirs.
The villagers and the village chief nearby saw this and couldn't help but feel jealous and envious. Tsk, they thought the Xu couple had saved a disaster by mistake, but they didn't expect the young girl to be so grateful.
Bai Shengyi was unaware of, and indifferent to, what the surrounding villagers thought. She then handed the Xu couple a communication talisman, telling them to contact her if they needed any help, and that she would definitely assist them. She then turned to Divine Emissary Cui and said, "Let's go."
"Where are you going?" The village chief instinctively asked.
Bai Shengyi looked at Divine Emissary Cui with a half-smile.
Divine Emissary Cui's scalp instantly tingled. He turned and reprimanded, "Is this something you should be asking?"
Then he turned, cautiously made a gesture of "please," and said to Bai Shengyi, "You… Your Excellency, please."
He ignored the astonished gazes of everyone around him and followed behind Bai Shengyi with his head lowered, on the verge of tears.