At last, Lin Xiao promised to stay.
Li Taixuan's residence was rather spacious, where the bedroom and the exterior part were several rooms apart. It was indeed a tranquil place to rest in.
With his offer accepted, Li Taixuan felt thrilled to the full. He rushed to provide Lin Xiao with essentials for cleaning like a servant.
Lin Xiao was bowled out when he attempted to do that himself.
Only then did Li Taixuan redeem his authority as the patriarch of the Taixuan Sect.
Though Lin Xiao managed a four-hour sleep on a daily basis during the tense ten-day-long elixir production, it just didn't suffice. Hence he fell asleep right after he was done with cleaning.
Li Taixuan lingered around outside the bedroom. He didn't leave until Lin Xiao's peaceful breaths brought him relief. He tiptoed off, appearing like a thief.
While Lin Xiao was fast asleep, the pellets he produced caused a stir in the Taixuan Sect.
Right after the three chief seniors left Li Taixuan's place, their martial cultivation got massively boosted by Lin Xiao's pellets to the utmost. It seemed as if the Taixuan Sect under siege of the Suomo Sect.
They made a speedy implementation of Lin Xuan's deployment that the mountain owners gathered together at the congregation hall at the Main Mountain within two hours.
The eight mountain owners looked at each other, appearing deranged across the board.
They had no idea in the slightest about the reason why the three chief seniors summoned them in such a striking haste. "Was the patriarch possessed by Devil?" they wondered.
While their wits were going wool-gathering, the three chief seniors turned up with two holding a man-sized vase respectively.
And the other senior's eyes stayed glued at the vases as if he had been protecting two pieces of treasure, taking no notice of the mountain owners.
On seeing the weird scene, the eight mountain owners became increasingly baffled, not knowing what to do.
The empty-handed senior conjured up two pieces of precious martens in full view and rolled them out on the ground. The the other two seniors placed the two vases on the martens with extreme caution.
"Esteemed Seniors, the patriarch..." a mountain owner stood up and asked in a trembling voice while the three seniors were done with the vases.
Seeing them treating the two vases so carefully, he assumed there were the patriarch's remains inside.
If the patriarch had deceased, a group of men in a common cause without a leader could hardly cope with invaders at a critical juncture of the sect.
However, the mountain owner caught himself before his slip of tongue concluded. Because he found the three seniors all beamed radiantly after they put down the vases, appearing as if they had just returned from the sporting house.
It was by no means how they were supposed to react if the patriarch had died.
Albeit observant, the three chief seniors were not aware of the mountain owner's feelings. They were fully focused on Lin Xiao's pellets.
"Hey all, I'm gonna announce a piece of thrilling news!" the senior who took out the martens said in ecstasy, after looking around. He was also the primary chief senior.
In the meantime, the other two chief seniors were safeguarding the vases respectively with full-on vigilance. It seemed that even a mosquito was not able to approach the vases.
On seeing the three chief seniors being so serious, the eight mountain owners sat up in spite of themselves.
"As everyone knows, the Taixuan Sect was established by Dizun, boasting a long history of ten thousand years. Our sect is out of question invincible..." the primary chief senior started his monologue with eloquence.
The mountain owners were shocked by his tedious speech while they were actually expecting the news, feeling terribly disappointed.
They were certainly aware of the crisis the Taixuan Sect was faced with. Hence they only took the primary chief senior's statement as a promotion. "He only wanted us to work ourselves to the bone for the sect," they thought.
While they were getting exceedingly disappointed, the primary chief senior pointed at the two vases abruptly and asked, "Do you know what is inside the two vases?"
His question was indeed an appeal to the mountain owners. Nevertheless, they all shook their heads forthwith with no intention to make a guess, as they had already gone off the boil.
Right then, the primary chief senior stared at the vases and crimsoned. He announced in a high-pitched tone, "They are pellets! There are 6,300 pellets contained in the vases!"
His announcement caused an overwhelming sensation in the congregation hall like a thunder.
The eight mountain owners jumped up across the board, staring at the two vases in ecstasy.
Some of them even breathed heavily. Without the two seniors flanking the vases, they would have made attempts to seize the pellets.