Viewers online were erupting in flames. Those who'd initially attacked Grandmaster Bai Fanxian so zealously by believing those inciting words suddenly looked like idiots.
They were nothing—but the hired groups manipulating opinions were the ones staring at each other not knowing what to do.
Didn't you say those wounds were extremely severe?
Why did common Tier 2 elixirs cure you so easily then!
How can we continue working like this? Who'll believe these opinions anymore?
Not just online—inside the reception hall, many people felt displeased. They looked at Han Junpo with strange gazes. A Grandmaster-level figure like you actually performed deceptive theater for some pills?
At least make the injuries look more realistic!
Of course, the most confused was Han Junpo himself. He raised his hand to touch his chest in disbelief. The internal injury from clashing with Bai Fanxian that time had caused him problems for many days. In truth, he'd tried many treatments including elixirs, but they only alleviated without fully healing.
Otherwise he wouldn't have come seeking Divine Doctor Wu Jia here.
Besides him, both Yi Fan and Ting Kangming couldn't believe their eyes. That part of them worked again. Blood circulated freely until they seemed like healthy people.
But the most confused was Han Xiaoyi. In reality, her condition wasn't that severe. Just resting another two or three months and she'd get up herself. This time her grandfather asked her to help perform and she willingly agreed.
But who knew she'd suddenly feel nauseous and vomit out a blood clot, forgetting for a moment that she was supposedly severely injured and unable to rise.
As for Master An, Bai Fanxian didn't care about him much since it wasn't her handiwork. But even so, his condition clearly improved.
Right—everything was Bai Fanxian's doing.
Her pure qi could merge with elixirs to enhance them. Moreover, her qi power itself could cleanse residue remaining in their bodies. For Ting Kangming and Yi Fan's cases, she merely used her qi to dispel the elixir's power that disabled that part of them.
It was her own elixir that had been flicked into their mouths back then. She knew even better how to cure it.
For Han Junpo and his granddaughter, what remained in their bodies making treatment extremely difficult was her "intent."
It wasn't qi power. All she had to do was withdraw that intent from their bodies.
Then merge it with pure qi and a bit of elixir power, and they'd recover and heal easily.
"Grandmaster Han... care to explain?"
Xie Zizhou narrowed his eyes coldly. Besides him, Xie Suyao and Zheng Renyi all released faint pressure with displeasure.
"This... this is..."
Han Junpo didn't know how to answer. He turned wanting to seek help from Major General Zhou Haoyun on the other side. Earlier they'd had certain agreements. After Han Junpo pressured Bai Fanxian into creating Heaven-Defying Revival Pills, Zhou Haoyun would emerge to continue this matter to completion.
That was why Zhou Haoyun had traveled here!
Liu Yianfei could observe both men's eye communication. The young man turned to look at Zhou Haoyun with sharp eyes.
He hadn't thought military people would cooperate with Han Junpo to pressure Bai Fanxian?
The important thing was whether this was Zhou Haoyun's arbitrary decision wanting achievements, or a decision by the military's high-level administration.
Zhou Haoyun gritted his teeth. He adjusted his glasses and tried to stay calm. Though everything went somewhat off plan, what he had could certainly pressure Bai Fanxian to some degree.
The young major general stepped forward. He pulled out information papers from his pocket and spoke before the livestreaming camera.
"Grandmaster Bai, by government authority, I'm detaining you as a suspicious person!"
What he showed everyone was paper bearing government seals.
Moreover, it had evidence—Bai Fanxian's record that was almost entirely blank. Besides name and photo, nothing else existed in her record.
Viewers watched in surprise.
Though government wasn't directly connected to military, in this case they could issue orders in this manner. Because Bai Fanxian had no "identity" in the country's database, for government that alone was more than enough to raise suspicions about her origins.
In the worst case, they could accuse Bai Fanxian of being a terrorist or spy wanting to investigate the country.
Though it seemed unreasonable, legal authority allowed them to really do this.
Bai Fanxian narrowed her eyes. What she'd once worried about finally happened.
She'd read many books. Besides learning she couldn't kill people indiscriminately in this era, another discovery was she had no ID card or any proof showing she was this country's citizen.
Of course, this happened to many people. Some whose parents didn't register births weren't recorded in population databases. But tracing from parents up bloodlines, government could still confirm that person's identity.
But for someone with no relatives in the country who suddenly appeared, thinking them illegal foreign immigrants or criminals wasn't strange.
It was quite a serious weakness of hers. No matter how supreme she was in the cultivator world, she couldn't forget that most of the country's population were ordinary people. They lived normal lives and didn't care whether she was the Alchemy Empress or whoever.
Cultivators in this era still lived under the country's laws.
Liu Yianfei narrowed his eyes. They'd already discussed Bai Fanxian's mysterious background and concluded it wasn't worth the trouble of bothering her. So they let that issue drop.
But why was Zhou Haoyun biting onto this issue?
And he even got government support like that.
The answer was Ting Kangming's identity. If you remembered, his brother was government personnel.
With that authority, finding Bai Fanxian in population databases wasn't hard. He could also arrange to get permission from high-level figures to detain the suspicious Bai Fanxian.
This time Zhou Haoyun had fully cooperated with outsiders for benefits.
"General Liu, I hope you'll cooperate with detaining Grandmaster Bai."
Zhou Haoyun shifted his gaze to Liu Yianfei. Why wouldn't he know this general was fairly close to Bai Fanxian? But if he remained military personnel, facing orders related to national security like this, he couldn't refuse.
The young man sent cold eyes to Zhou Haoyun. This time he truly struggled with the decision.
"I'm helping you, you know? Don't forget the military also wants those elixirs." Zhou Haoyun didn't stop talking. He reinforced that reality.
Liu Yianfei gritted his teeth. What Zhou Haoyun said was correct. Besides maintaining order, high levels in the military also wanted him to negotiate for Bai Fanxian to create Heaven-Defying Revival Pills for the military.
What should he do?
Liu Yianfei turned to meet Bai Fanxian's eyes. The young woman remained calm. Though she had more worries, her gaze toward him still remained clear.
She wouldn't be angry at all if he had to follow duty.
And he thought she probably had countermeasures in mind.
The situation flipped back to pressure Bai Fanxian again. Some viewers completely forgot Han Junpo's shameless actions earlier. They turned attention to Bai Fanxian's identity instead.
If Bai Fanxian wasn't this country's citizen, what did that mean?
It meant Bai Fanxian wasn't one of them!
Though the cultivator world separated from the ordinary world, cultivators were still part of that normal world. Cultivators also counted as the country's military force.
If Bai Fanxian became a figure from another country, they'd naturally view her strangely. Even accepting her, they couldn't accept wholeheartedly. Because they didn't know when she'd leave and might become their enemy someday.
Zhou Haoyun secretly smiled. If this succeeded, he could use Heaven-Defying Revival Pills or even her other elixirs as leverage. Of course that would earn him tremendous achievements.
"General Liu... I trouble you to go detain Grandmaster Bai."
Zhou Haoyun spoke with satisfaction. This time it was like he vented dissatisfaction toward both people simultaneously. What could feel better than this?
Liu Yianfei stared coldly at Zhou Haoyun. But before he started acting because duty compelled him, Jin Ling—or the first unit captain of Black Hawk—rushed in breathlessly with a laptop.
He opened something for Liu Yianfei to see. The young general swept his gaze across that screen in a blink. The moment he looked up, Major General Zhou Haoyun felt like he saw a smirk at that man's lips.
"...Hurry up, General Liu."
Zhou Haoyun urged quickly. He started feeling bad after seeing Liu Yianfei's manner. He felt that laptop screen must have something strange definitely affecting him badly.
"Where are you rushing to, Major General Zhou?"
Liu Yianfei drawled. He strode before the livestreaming camera. The laptop was handed to him.
"You're saying Grandmaster Bai has no proof of identity? Saying she might be a spy from another country?"
Liu Yianfei repeated the words. At the end he paused enough to attract complete attention from everyone in the room and watching online.
He smirked before displaying what was on screen for everyone.
"Do you think someone at the level of the Marshal's adopted daughter needs to disclose information for you to know?"
"..."
The room's atmosphere became dead silent. What Liu Yianfei showed publicly was Bai Fanxian's information—except it was no longer filled with question marks and mystery.
It was replaced with complete information: height, weight, blood type, citizen ID number, brief history.
But the important part was in the relationship field. Under father, it was clearly written:
Marshal Zhang Xianyuan - (Adopted Daughter)
"Marshal" was the highest rank in the military—even higher than Liu Yianfei's "General" rank!
Not just others who were shocked nearly senseless—even Bai Fanxian herself was surprised at the situation unfolding before her.
Since when did I have an adoptive father?