Killing these two would have been easy for Huang Xiao, but he did not want to do it.
At first, he had intended to take Min Yi's life, but when Lin Kuien arrived as well, he changed his mind.
There had to be something behind Min Yi and Lin Kuien being together. He wondered whether the Divine Saber Sect and the Heavenly Sword Sect were cooperating somehow.
Besides, the mission that had brought Lin Kuien out this time warranted some attention from Huang Xiao.
The Heavenly Sword Sect had sent Lin Kuien to investigate the deaths of Old Lu and his companions. Killing him would probably enrage the Heavenly Sword Sect even further. They might send more formidable experts, or seize the opportunity to lay all the blame on the Four Directions Trading Company. Huang Xiao did not want things to end up that way.
He might as well play the villain in all this himself. He was in disguise anyway, and those two could not see through to his true identity.
As for sparing Min Yi, he was still uncertain about the relationship between the Masked Old Man and the Divine Saber Sect. After all, the Masked Old Man had produced the Heavenly Blade Thirteen Forms so readily that Huang Xiao now found it hard to believe he had no connection to the Blade Emperor, Wan Liukong.
He had previously thought the Masked Old Man might have stolen it, but that explanation did not quite hold water.
Thus, Huang Xiao had refrained from killing him. Letting him live now could already be considered an act of great mercy.
Still, having an arm severed by Huang Xiao was probably no less painful to them than death.
Both had lost the arm they normally wielded their sword or saber with. With