Stirring Up Trouble? Stirring Up Trouble!
"Eh?"
Xu Xiaoshou stared blankly in midair.
What the hell was this? He had only been testing a new move—how had it ended up involving her? Still, Lei Xier had actually made a rare promise. Wasn't that a good thing? Xu Xiaoshou immediately seized the opening, hurriedly trying to rein in the five Energy Seeds in his hand as he nodded. "You said it..."
Before he could finish, Xu Xiaoshou discovered in shock—
He could not take back the five condensed Energy Seeds!
Surging power erupted in midair. Lightning and sparks flickered within the aura of destruction, as though they would explode the very next second.
Lei Xier's expression turned grave. Ignoring everything else, she said first, "Withdraw your technique."
Xu Xiaoshou even used the Breathing Method, only to discover that the Throne-level Breathing Method had encountered a bottleneck for the first time.
He could slowly absorb Sword Thought and the power of the Peaceful Lake Little Azure Flower.
But he could not absorb even the slightest bit of the other three powers, which had truly reached the Saint level!
"I-I can't take them back..."
Sweat beaded on Xu Xiaoshou's forehead. Possessed by some strange impulse, he nearly used Wuxiu's Scarlet-Scorching Hand to wipe it away, but thankfully caught himself in time and restrained the urge.
"You can't take them back?" Lei Xier's beautiful eyes widened. "Your own power, and you can't take it back?"
"They've been compressed to the absolute limit—they've gone beyond what I can control!" Xu Xiaoshou panicked too. "Isn't alchemy the same? If I could perfectly control a pill, why would I ever blow up a furnace?"
Lei Xier felt darkness fall before her eyes. "If you can't control it, why did you make these things?"
"Since this move was