After Xiao Yan had given her a good scare, Lin Jing obediently shut her mouth, though inwardly she kept cursing him as an ungrateful wolf. What she did not know was that Xiao Yan's soul power had already reached the point where he could peer into people's hearts. Simply put, he could see every thought in her mind. In other words, he heard every last word of the curses she was hurling at him.
"Oh, Miss Lin Jing, take this pill." Suddenly remembering something, Xiao Yan pulled out a pill and tossed it to her.
Lin Jing looked at the pill in her hand and asked miserably, "Can I not take it?"
"What do you think?" Xiao Yan still wore a cheerful smile, but his tone left no room for refusal.
"Ugh..." Lin Jing sighed, then swallowed the pill as though resigning herself to her fate. Although Xiao Yan had not told her what it did, she did not need to guess to know it was certainly no tonic. Most likely, it was some poison that would kill her on the spot unless she received an antidote at regular intervals.
But what Xiao Yan had given her really was not poison. It was a pill infused with a trace of the purifying lotus demon flame's power, meant to cleanse and expel the impure energy in her body that had been contaminated by the Yimo. After all, she was now the fat sheep he intended to trade for Mystic Origin Pills. If that energy caused something to happen to her, the loss would outweigh the gain. So Xiao Yan had taken the opportunity to do a good deed and help her out.
After swallowing the pill, Lin Jing suddenly felt a gentle warmth spread through her body. Before she could work