What Lin Xuan did not know was that when she saw him retreat, Hundred Flowers Fairy, too, secretly let out a breath of relief. The five fingers of her left hand, hidden within her sleeve, loosened, and in her palm, a strand of Sword Qi as fine as an embroidery needle dispersed.
Though this Sword Qi was incomparably tiny, it was the only bit of Life Essence she could currently mobilize, and its power was boundless. Whether even an ordinary early-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivator could dodge it was hard to say; using it to slay a Spirit Division Stage cultivator would have been more than enough.
One must not harbor the heart to harm others, but one must not lack the heart to guard against them.
The reason the dignified Hundred Flowers Fairy had fallen into her current state was because she had been careless for a moment. Seeing the Golden Moon True Toad hand over its Life Essence, she had thought everything was within her grasp. Who could have known that, precisely at the most crucial moment, she would take such a tremendous fall?
As the saying went, once bitten by a moat, one gained a measure of wisdom.
Hundred Flowers Fairy was already regretful to the extreme. How could she possibly make the same mistake again in such a short span of time?
This Little Fellow before her had indeed taken out miraculous spirit pills for her to swallow, but his actions were still suspicious. As the saying went, the human heart was separated by a belly; who knew what idea he had been harboring at the start?
Could this be a trick to make her lower her guard?
After the pain came sober reflection. This time, Hundred Flowers Fairy became incomparably alert and no longer showed the