Inside Li Taixuan's bedroom, Lin Xiao finally woke up naturally. Sitting up and stretching his limbs, he felt pretty refreshed.
At that moment, someone knocked on his door.
Without hesitation, Lin Xiao said, "Please do come in." Then he got shocked by what he saw.
It was Li Taixuan. He came in with a washbasin containing lukewarm water in it. While laying it on the table, Li greeted Lin Xiao with a respectful smile, "Junior...Lin Xiao, good morning."
Staring at Li Taixuan, Lin Xiao wondered whether he had long been waiting outside the bedroom with the washbasin in his hands. On thinking of that, Lin Xiao felt quite embarrassed and thought, "How can I deserve the patriarch's affecting care?" Then he rose in a haste and got dressed with immediate effect.
Li Taixuan was about to wait upon Lin Xiao when the latter beat Li to it and started to wash his face and rinse his mouth on his own. Being rid of the chance to serve Lin Xiao, Li Taixuan could only stand aside, cap in hands.
While washing his face, Lin Xiao asked, "Martial Master, how long had I been sleeping for?"
"Just a day and night," Li Taixuan responded.
"Did the pellets suffice?" Lin Xiao added.
"Yup, they did," Li Taixuan said in an exceedingly respectful tone and thought to himself, "It is terribly admirable that the junior martial uncle woke up with the pellets on his mind. I should learn from him."
Nevertheless, Lin Xiao failed to pick up on the sense of admiration in Li's tone. Hearing that the supply of pellets was guaranteed, he felt rather relieved and said, "Good."
Then he fired an add-on question right away, "On a side note, Martial Uncle, when is the martial contest taking place?"
"In fact, as planned, it is supposed to take place three days later. However, due to some reasons, we'll have to postpone it for two days, what do you say?" Li Taixuan tried to sound out Lin Xiao. It seemed that Lin Xiao had been the real patriarch instead, as Li Taixuan even consulted him about an event of great significance to the sect.
"What is that? What happened?" Lin Xiao got flustered on hearing that. He couldn't withstand any accidents when the Taixuan Sect was already at a critical juncture.
On seeing Lin Xiao's agitated expression, Li Taixuan knew that Lin got him wrong. He hastened to explain, "As the pellets you produced are so powerful that most of the disciples haven't fully activated them. Hence I decided to postpone the contest for the sake of fairness."
"I see," Lin Xiao said with relief. However, he found it weird straight away.
Given the Most Refined Royal Pellets didn't work for him at all, he had been taking them merely as snacks. Granted they were of great efficacy for others, it didn't stand to reason that they couldn't be activated at one time. Powerful as they could be, they were elixirs for the Regimen Realm, the preliminary martial level, after all.
On thinking of that, Lin Xiao felt inclined to get to the bottom of it.
Nevertheless, Li Taixuan and the three chief seniors unanimously considered that pretty normal. But Li dared not procrastinate as Lin Xiao insisted on an inspection. He hastened to lead the way for Lin Xiao.
However, it was not yet the time he had put in an appearance. It was just as well the three chief seniors remained here, who could deputize for him to keep Lin Xiao company.
Meeting up with the chief seniors, Li Taixuan briefed them about it. Then they departed with Lin Xiao immediately.
Since each disciple had taken two pellets in the Taixuan Sect, it was no tough job to pick one as a sample.
In a short while, they found a disciple who hadn't fully absorbed the pellets.
Lin Xiao was rather anxious as he feared the effects of the Most Refined Royal Pellets and the Last Breath Pellets might come into conflicts.
However, just a sight of the disciple calmed him down. He realized it all boiled down to his heebie-jeebies. "Then there is no problem at all. If the two kinds of pellets were incompatible, there would be a sign for that on the warrior's countenance. But it seems that everything is perfectly normal," Lin Xiao thought.
Nevertheless, in order to get an accurate feedback, the primary chief senior, instructed by Lin Xiao, conducted a thorough scrutiny on the disciple, in the hope that he could identify anything abnormal.
Apart from that, Lin Xiao also wanted to know whether the disciple had already been poisoned or not through this scanning process.
However, the primary chief senior shook his head right away as no abnormality was detected.
Lin Xiao nodded and felt completely relieved.
"Esteemed Primary Chief Senior, I swear I haven't slacked off at all. It's all because the Most Refined Royal Pellets are way too powerful for me, otherwise, I wouldn't have kept on activating them till now," the disciple hastened to explain on seeing the primary chief senior shaking his head. He mistakenly assumed he was displeased.