"Great job Ravel." Zhi Ruo looked up from the tree she was perched in. The smell of blood and intestines filled the air, the smell was even worst because of the smoldering heat of the sun hanging from above.   Below the tree that Zhi Ruo was perched in, was a pile of corpses. Laid and unresponsive, Zhi Ruo looked down on her smelly form, before she associated it with the blood around her.   "I did as you told me too, the deal was finalized yesterday." Ravel dutifully reported to Zhi Ruo. He stood beside his master with an unperturbed face, the smell didn't bother him, rather, he was bothered over the fa tvthat Zhi Ruo was still bathed in blood and looked disorganized.   "I can feel your gaze Ravel." Zhi Ruo snorted. She knew that her servant was bothered with her choice of clothing, and lack of hygiene. "I can't be bothered when all I could do

The head steward could not help but swallow in apprehension, he could feel the chilling gaze behind the veiled hat of Peng Mingxia.    "It's about the antidote!" The head steward blurted out. Peng Mingxia finally turned his full attention to the man. This made the head steward sigh in relief inwardly.   "What about it?" There was a note of suspicion in Peng Mingxia's tone when he replied. He would not lie, not to himself, he was rather interested on what the head steward was about to say.   Though, it was not like the head steward could tell. Because said man was currently trying to find his voice. The head steward wonders how he should approach this topic with the fickle doctor physician in front of him.   "The general has found the antidote..." The head steward began, his body language indic

The general gave a long and heavy sigh when he heard Peng Mingxia.   "I need to use your identity for this transaction to happen." He motioned his arms towards his family and himself. "As you can see, my situation is not good."   "What do you mean by that?" Peng Mingxia was quick to question.   Peng Mingxia knew that something was up with the deal. But the temptations of solving one of the biggest headaches in medicine society was far too big for him to pass up.   But he did not expect that the general was seriously striking this deal with him. Forget about the audacity (that was only felt one-sidedly by Peng Mingxia), the general in the first place should not have the right to make this negotiation with him in the first place.   "What I meant is, we w

A day passed by rather uneventfully, it was anticlimactic on Zhi Ruo's part. As for Ravel he went back as soon as Zhi Ruo finished bathing, he left the clothes for Zhi Ruo to wear and gave back he broken mask.   The arm bracers, the wraith devourers, on Zhi Ruo's arms were getting cooler and more subdued after Zhi Ruo had constantly fed it the corpses and some cores from the beats she had slaughtered.   Zhōngguó on the other hand was much more harder to feed because it was a picky weapon. But nonetheless she made progress with the Bo staff. But for the last few days, Zhōngguó's phantom projection didn't come out because Ravel was now visiting her almost daily.   Ravel of course knew that Zhi Ruo had a weapon now, and that weapon was a sentient beings. But despite that, he didn't pry about the weapon as Zhi Ruo would have expected.

The seniors of the group were quick to inform Zhi Ruo that her grandfather was back. And was waiting for her in her pavilion.    On this, Zhi Ruo could not help but look at the quiet Ravel that was standing at the sides.    "By the way..." Ye Qing Qing spoke up. She glanced at Ravel that was smiling amiably. "I heard the servants on firefly pavilion call you Ravel?"    The servant perked up at this, moving his gaze away from the ground when he heard that he was addressed. Looking at Zhi Ruo from the corner of his eyes he slowly nodded at the question.   "Ah, yes. Previously, I was called Ravel. But master thinks that it was far too foreign, so she assigned me a new name. Which is Duàn Xiaodan. I go by that name now." He explained. "But people in the firefly pavilion calls me w