The man's face burned as he hastily retreated.
The woman clutching his sleeve did not notice any of this. At that moment, she was craning her head up at a shop with a gourd hanging above it on the stone wall. As the man retreated, he tried to pull his sleeve free from her hand! Like lightning, the woman raised a hand, seized his wrist, and yanked him back. "Still trying to run?"
The man had been retreating, but this woman's pull sent him lunging forward. Caught off guard, he collided with the woman whose form had just solidified.
"Ah..." The newly solidified woman cried out softly and toppled backward, as though she possessed no magical power at all! The woman beside the man came to her senses and hurriedly raised her other hand to support the woman's waist. "Oh dear, I'm sorry..."
"Oh?" Xiao Hua had been idly watching this chance farce, but when that woman extended her other hand, he froze again. His gaze was drawn to a plum blossom-like mark on her left wrist!
That plum blossom mark looked extremely familiar. Xiao Hua felt that he had seen it somewhere before.
As Xiao Hua pondered, the woman had already steadied herself. Though her face was slightly flushed, she still bowed and saluted. "Welcome, fellow Daoists, to the Xie Hong Mountain auction venue. I am an attendant of Jing Peng Hall. I came out in too much of a hurry and failed to notice the two fellow Daoists..."
"It's all right, it's all right..." The man waved his hands awkwardly. "You cannot be blamed, miss. I was the one hurrying along and crashing into you!"
The attendant covered her mouth with a smile. "May I ask what the two fellow Daoists have come to Xiehong Mountain to bid