Wen Biyun felt split down in the middle. She was wavering between killing Lin Xiao and letting him go.
If Li Taixuan turned him away, she would have to kill Lin Xiao. In so doing, the Taixuan guys might not allow her to get away with it. But she would make a fool of herself if she went back on her own words.
Right then, Wen Biyun even felt tempted to cut and run with Lin Xiao spared.
At that moment, a group of visitors popped into her sight — the tertiary chief senior headed back along with Li Taixuan.
"Stay put!"
Li Taixuan was about to move forward when Wen Biyun stopped him.
Extremely agitated on seeing her grabbing the junior martial uncle, Li Taixuan stopped forthwith. He supposed that she was gonna hurt Lin Xiao.
"Inject…Inject your spiritual energy into your spiritual treasure!"
As a matter of fact, she already felt like letting go of Lin Xiao. But her greed got an upper hand as she saw the spiritual treasure.
Utterly in the dark about her ulterior motive, Li Taixuan hastened to act as she bade with no hesitation. He only focused on Lin Xiao's safety.
As expected, green taints popped out on the previously iridescent surface of the spiritual treasure, scattered everywhere.
That tallied with what Lin Xiao said. Hence, Wen Biyun asked Li Taixuan to stop it with immediate effect.
In fact, the unusual phenomenon struck dumb Li Taixuan as well, completely confused about the mechanism. He stopped injecting his spiritual energy as soon as Wen Biyun told him to stop.
"You got a Martial Law Gestation Elixir on you, right?" Wen Biyun changed the subject.
Li Taixuan nodded straightforward. He thought that she was asking him to produce one more pellet.
Nothing was comparable to the life of his junior martial uncle, be it a spiritual treasure or simply a Martial Law Gestation Elixir.
Li Taixuan was about to hand in both the pellet and his spiritual treasure when Wen Biyun made another mandate.
"Swap Lin Xiao with the Martial Law Gestation Elixir!"
Doubting what he just heard, Li Taixuan made a short pause.
Pretty weird! Could it be said Wen Biyun fell back on a pellet only?
Her brain seemed to have gone all f**ked up.
Seeing Li Taixuan hesitating, Wen Biyun went deranged. Assuming Li Taixuan hated to leave the pellet to her, she gave him her word for that in haste.
"I assure you that! I shall spare Lin Xiao as long as you give me the Martial Law Gestation Elixir. I can take a vow with blood for that! But you will have to guarantee me and my little martial sister a safe journey back to our Piaomiao pavilion!"
Astonished for a while, Li Taixuan eventually came back to himself and nodded in agreement.
Li Taixuan's spaced-out facial expression happened to have confirmed Wen Biyun's speculation. Hence, she soon pressed him again to hand in the pellet.
Li Taixuan finally came back to his senses and hurled the pellet at her.
While Wen Biyun was reaching to catch the pellet, Lin Xiao made a move.
Abruptly he lifted his right foot and kicked right into Wen Biyun's face.
Fairly speaking, he was supposed to have been rendered frozen — Wen Biyun had plugged up quite a few of his acupuncture channels (these channels are believed to be tunnels for transporting people's energies).
Nevertheless, he acted as that didn't work for him at all, utterly beyond Wen Biyun's expectation.
Hardly had she got around to a reaction when Lin Xiao's right foot approached her face.
She made a prompt retreat, steering clear of his attack. Meanwhile, she plunged her sword toward his neck.
Unexpected, Lin Xiao had long figured out her tactics, he clenched his right fist and punched upward at her right arm.
His fist struck at her with striking accuracy. His punch rendered her right arm disabled immediately with a crack, the sword dropping onto the ground accordingly.
While she was staggering back, Lin Xiao grabbed at the Martial Law Gestation Pellet. It got stuck between his left-hand fingers in the twinkling of an eye.
Li Taixuan and the tertiary chief senior soon caught her.
Right then, she fixed her eyes on Lin Xiao, eyes struck wide open.
He couldn't have been able to move since she had bunged up his acupuncture channels. That was terribly bizarre!
At that moment, Lin Xiao turned back and shrugged at her, poker-faced.
"You'd better polish up your acupuncture congestion technique. It sucks!"