Chapter 309: I Am a Wandering Doctor

It's funny, this wasn't the first Qing Rank Beastman Yin met after falling, but he must have harbored a thought of retreat, and only now did he act so unseasoned.

The wandering Beastman glanced at Yin, then looked at Yun Li and asked, "Do you have any salt?"

Yun Li: "You want salt? This place isn't far from the Grass Stack; if you need salt you can go to the Grass Stack and trade with the Tribe Beastmen. We only have some salty salt‑grass."

Hearing that, the wandering Beastman frowned and scanned them both.

"I just arrived here, I don't know the way. How much salt grass do you have?"

This time Yin spoke, "We only have a small handful of salt grass; if we give it to you, we'll have none left."

The wandering Beastman's face instantly showed an unexpected expression as he heard this, "So, will you give it or not?"

Yin, thinking of the poison in Yun Li's hand and the two cubs who have yet to cultivate and need to eat daily, clenched his teeth, about to refuse, but Yun Li spoke first:

"Give it to him; we're not far from the Grass Stack either."

Just two or three days without salt won't affect the two cubs.

Yin's complexion tightened slightly; he looked at Yun Li, saw she wasn't joking, so he took a handful of dried wild grass from the beast‑skin pack he'd been carrying and handed it to the wandering Beastman.

The wandering Beastman took the salt grass, examined it closely, and was clearly dissatisfied, muttering that Yun Li's salt grass actually looked like this.

"Consider yourselves perceptive."

He said that to Yun Li.

As for Yin, who never watches people or the situation, he didn't even think to glance again, but Yin didn't mind; after he left, he instead looked at Yun Li with a worried face and asked:

"Li Sheng and Li Cheng are still young; without salt grass they'll eat poorly on the road. How can we give all that salt grass to that Beastman?"

"Li Sheng and Li Cheng won't mind a few days of poor food, right? Besides, once we reach the Grass Stack, we can figure out a way to trade for salt."

Having said that, Yun Li reached out and patted the heads of the two cubs.

The two cubs hadn't been gently patted like that in a long time, and without thinking they echoed Yun Li.

Yin looked at the pale‑faced one, who seemed to have regained the gentle femininity of a female, and a brief daze flickered in his mind.

After a long while, he whispered, "Understood. Once we reach the place, I'll find a way to trade something for salt."

They naturally carried Crystal Cores, but since Fucheng was so far, they might need a Crystal Core at any point on the road, so Yin planned to hunt a fierce beast along the way and trade it at the Grass Stack for salt.

…

Little Ring Lake, which the Beastmen also call the Grass Stack.

Because it's not far from the lake, it's a small hill overgrown with weeds, where Tribe Beastmen often stop to fetch water and rest while hunting, so gradually it developed into a trading Grass Stack.

During the transition between flood and drought, Yun Li had assumed there wouldn't be many people here before arriving, since the hot dry season forces both beasts and ferocious beasts to gradually migrate to water‑rich grasslands, and if there were no prey near the Grass Stack, the Beastmen couldn't haul game from far away for trade—it would be too troublesome.

However, contrary to her expectation, there were actually quite a few Beastmen gathered here, until one of them mentioned that there was a lake not far away.

Yun Li then realized that a lake meant food wouldn't be scarce here, so it was normal for the Grass Stack to be so crowded at this time.

"Yun Li, Yin said the Crystal Core on you must not be moved recklessly."

Seeing Yun Li, once she reaches a place, she uses Crystal Cores to buy whatever she likes; although they're all herbs, Yun Li buys so many that it seems her Crystal Cores are spent in an instant.

Li Sheng couldn't help but worry for her.

Seeing the cubs' worried faces, Yun Li couldn't help but laugh, pinching their cheeks and saying, "It's fine, I have a way to earn Crystal Cores."

However, lacking absolute certainty, when Yin thought of catching a fierce beast to trade later, she didn't refuse; after giving him all the poison she carried, she let him go.

As if soothed by Yun Li's words, Li Sheng still felt a bit worried but said nothing more.

After all, she and her younger brother are also raised by Yun Li; even though she's young, she knows Yun Li could abandon them at any time.

She doesn't want to anger Yun Li.

And when Yun Li had almost spent all the Crystal Cores in her hand, and Yin hadn't yet hunted here, she took the two cubs to an empty spot, sat down, spread the herbs she'd obtained on the ground, sorting them while teaching the cubs to recognize the herbs.

"Are you a Witch Doctor?"

Yun Li is beautiful, and a Beastman with two cubs is already eye‑catching; moreover, at the Grass Stack the Beastmen tacitly forbid causing trouble. Besides, unless a Beastman has ill intentions, a normal Beastman who sees an attractive Beastman usually just wants to glance a few more times for visual pleasure—no one would, without knowing someone, suddenly approach and display a lecherous expression.

Isn't that just courting annoyance?

However, Yun Li's skill in teaching the cubs was so proficient that a Beastman couldn't suppress his impulse, stepped forward and boldly asked.

But when Yun Li looked up, the Beastman's eyes instantly showed a flash of disappointment; the expected beautiful female wasn't as stunning as he imagined, yet Yun Li's affirmative "yes" still kept him.

"Since you're a Witch Doctor, why aren't there other Beastmen with you?"

Shouldn't a Tribe Witch Doctor be well protected by the Tribe Beastmen? As for why they didn't immediately think Yun Li was a wandering Beastman—

First, Yun Li is female; although wandering Beastmen include females, none are as strikingly beautiful as Yun Li. Outside the Tribe, such beauty makes a female far more vulnerable to male harassment.

Second, because Yun Li claimed to be a Witch Doctor, wandering Beastmen with that skill would easily gather around her.

And Yun Li fits none of those; if she isn't a Tribe Witch Doctor, what else could she be?

Hearing that, Yun Li smiled, "I am indeed a Witch Doctor, but after reaching adulthood I went out to train. Now I'm a wandering doctor, and as for the people with me, they went hunting and haven't returned yet."

Out in the world, one's identity is self‑assigned.

Fortunately the two cubs are sensible; although they understood that Yun Li's words didn't quite match reality, they didn't expose her.

However, when the Beastman heard that unfamiliar term, a puzzled expression appeared on his face, "Wandering doctor? What does that mean?"

"It's a Witch Doctor who roams without returning home; I coined it myself."

Yun Li said, scanning the Beastman up and down, "You have a wound; shall I take a look?"

She wasn't just looking; she intended to take Crystal Cores.