In the end, Shen Haoran and Long Aotian decided to warn the nearby Alchemists. These were innocent people, after all; they would save whoever they could.
"What? Someone's trying to kill us? Are you kidding? This is the Medicine Hall's Medicinal Garden, and the Pill Emperor competition is happening right now. Who would dare cause trouble here?"
"Exactly! You're not just saying this to stop us from completing our tasks, are you? And you even dragged Long Aotian into it!"
But no one believed what Shen Haoran said. Even with Long Aotian there to corroborate his story, everyone just gave Shen Haoran strange looks. They mistook his good intentions for a scheme to stop them from completing their tasks.
