Without mincing words, Lin Xiao asked Yan Hui straightforward, "I want you to give me the pithy formulas of the Fiendish Blockade Method."
"Okay, okay. I'll give them to you. But please spare me," Yan Hui accepted Lin Xiao's request straightforward spinelessly, as he went subject to Lin Xiao's threatening manner.
"Okay, I give you my word," Lin Xiao responded.
Delighted, Yan Hui still retained his suspicion. Hence, he continued to ask, "Then you swear to God!"
"I, Li Die, swear that I'll spare Yan Hui as long as he gives me the pithy formulas of The Fiendish Blockade Method. If I go back on my own word, I'll be executed by the Heaven and the Earth," Lin Xiao acted on his plea.
On hearing that, Yan Hui beamed in relief.
It's one of the observances people on the Fire Metereolite Continent attached great importance to oaths. They are firm believers in the regulations of the Heaven, and anyone went against the regulations were subject to due punishments. Hence, Yan Hui took Lin Xiao's word for it as he made a pledge.
Then he gave the pithy formulas to Lin Xiao right away. However, they turned out quite disappointing, as what they were merely the pithy formulas of the first two chapters of the Fiendish Blockade Method. Apparently, such preliminary pithy formulas wouldn't help much with the study of the method.
"What about the rest of it?" Lin Xiao asked.
"Li Die, I promise they are the only chapters I've got hold of. We, external disciples, are not entitled to the rest except the first two chapters. You can only have the rest by getting a domestic disciple from the Deyue Mansion," Yan Hui responded.
Yan Hui was fairly a good hand at tactics. He knew that the domestic Suomo disciples boasted martial capacities at no lower than the fourth level of the Refining Divine Realm, which went far beyond Lin Xiao. If Lin Xiao provoked them, his Ocean of Conception will end up in ruins. And it was likely that he would be killed.
"That's a good idea. And names in your mind? Tell me and I'll head back and find him," Lin Xiao asked.
As a matter of fact, Yan Hui assumed that it would take some time to persuade Lin Xiao to return there. However, no sooner had he raised the proposal than Lin Xiao accepted it. A little bit startled, Yan Hui soon named a guy and thought, "Now that he asked for death himself, I'll help him fulfill that goal, haha."
Nevertheless, he didn't expect that Lin Xiao revealed his murderous intention when he nodded in agreement.
"Hang on…" Yan Hui hastened to stop Lin Xiao. He already foresaw Lin Xiao's attempt and went horrified.
Lin Xiao stopped, thinking that Yan Hui may provide him with some valuable intelligence reports.
However, it turned out that Yan Hui was merely insisting on Lin Xiao keep his promise, "You can't kill me! You just made an oath!"
"That was your father's oath, and I'm not your father," Lin Xiao said, shrugging. Yan Hui almost burst out spitting blood on hearing that. Not until that moment did he realize that Lin Xiao had been duping him since his appearance in the Deyue Mansion.
Nevertheless, it was too late.
While Yan Hui was astonished, Lin Xiao plunged his palm at Yan's crown. Then Yan flopped on to the ground, eyes wide open (it's a deeply-rooted old superstition in China that it is ominous that people die with eyes open).
It was the very first time that Lin Xiao had made a kill, but it didn't discomfort him at all. After he buried Yan Hui's corpse, Lin Xiao headed back to fetch a domestic Suomo disciple to get the rest of the Fiendish Blockade Method.