"Why?" Xue'er asked as she desperately tried to stop the bleeding on her back. Her pure white battle attire was now painted red.
*swoosh* *swoosh*
Six figures landed around Xue'er. One of them tried to feed her some medicine while the other was busy trying to stop the bleeding.
"Don't bother," Yun sneered with a cold face she said, "I added a bit of Heart Worm Poison to my dagger. It has already invaded her heart. In ten breaths time, she will faint from the pain. After that she needs to take antidote from me every six months or else, she will die a horrible death. Now, I have handed over antidote to Young Master Ping here, which should keep her alive for a year. Unless you can find a Rank-5 Detoxification pill, you better obey Young Master Ping if you want Young Miss to live."
"Now, now, elder sister Yun. Please call me Ping. With your current status, how can you call me Young Master?" asked Yang Ping, unconcealed jealousy filled his eyes. 'How can a useless maid catch that person's eyes?' he inwardly thought.
"Why? Tell me why? I always treated you as my best friend, what did I do to earn this?" asked Xue'er. Her eyelids were already getting heavier, she stubbornly held them open and looked at the person she thought closest to her apart from her parents, who betrayed her without the slightest hesitation. She really wanted to know, why would she betray her?
"You will know in a couple of days. Now, let's not waste any more time and capture her. After that I will leave it you to make her submit if you want her as your wife," said Yun.
"Got it elder sister Yun, I hope you will take care of me after you enter the Sect," flattered Yang Ping.
"Sure, let's first finish the mission Master has given me," Yun said.
With a shout from Yang Ping, eight elders from Yang and Ma families along with Blazing Wolf Gang leader, a total of nine Qi Sea realm experts attacked the six elders from Lin family from all sides.
"Elder Yue, please take Young Miss to the camp and treat her wounds. We will hold them off here. If you see us failing, forget about us and please take Young Miss back to the family," said Elder Song, looking towards the only female amongst the Lin family elders.
"Okay, please be careful, if you can't beat them then, escape," Elder Yue nodded with tearful eyes. Everyone knew that Elder Yue and Elder Song had special feelings for each other. Even though neither of them confessed, the strong emotion was still there.
"If I survive this, I will ask you out," Elder Song said with a smile. Both were above forty years old. All these years they had only concentrated on cultivation, so neither of them had married.
Elder Yue nodded with tears running down her eyes. She picked up Xue'er who was about to faint but struggling to keep herself awake. She carried Xue'er to her tent and started looking for some emergency medicine that she could use to nurse Xue'er's bleeding back. Although she couldn't remove the Heart Worm Poison, she was able to clean the wound and bandage it so it would stop the wound from getting worse. The wound on her back wasn't deep, obviously, Yun wanted to poison and capture Xue'er, not kill her. So, it wasn't difficult for Elder Yue to treat it quickly. By the time Elder Yue was done treating Xue'er's would, she had already fainted.
'Ah, I thought I was good at distinguishing people's character, how could I fail so terribly? It seems I really can't trust anyone these days. And there is also Big brother Yan, how pathetic am I? I spoke with him for hours but couldn't even muster enough courage to confess my love. Big brother Yan, I liked you the moment I saw you in the forest, If I ever meet you again, I will definitely pursue you,' with that Xue'er fainted.
Outside the camp, nine elders from Yang and Ma families were fighting five elders from the Lin family. Even though they were at a numerical disadvantage, the elders from Lin family were winning the fight. The same cannot be said about their guards though, the twenty-odd guards left on the Lin family's side were getting slaughtered by hundred-plus Blazing Wolf Gang members.
"Even though they are nine people, we have higher cultivation and better coordination. You four hold them, just give me thirty breaths, I will clear these ants and come back. If all of those ants also join here, it would be difficult for us to survive," said Elder Song.
He went towards the battlefield where the Lin family guards were fighting Blazing Wolf Gang along with Yun and Yang Ping and started slaughtering them.
In just a couple of breaths of time, dozens of bandits were slain. 'If this continues, the entire Blazing Wolf Gang will be exterminated,' thought Yang Ping.
Without any other choice left, "Grand Elder, please come out, we need your help!" Yang Ping shouted.
Hearing his scream, all color drained out from Elder Song's face, 'Shit! even their Grand Elder came,' he thought 'Are we really going to die?'.
When he was resigning himself to fate, a sharp voice shook the entire battlefield.
"Oh, you looking for him?" asked the voice.
Followed by a swooshing sound, the Grand Elder of the Yang family was nailed to a tree with a sword pinning him at his chest five feet from the ground.
Pain and fear were apparent on the Grand Elder's pale face. His body was covered in cuts and burn marks, his entire body was drenched in blood which would cause anyone to shiver on seeing it, apparently, he was tortured before being killed. 'What a horrible way to die,' everyone thought when they looked at the Grand Elder's body.
"I will give you three breaths of time, if I see even one of you standing, I will slaughter all of you," Xiao Yan was currently wearing a black battle robe, his face was covered with a black sinister-looking mask.
Everyone from Blazing Wolf Gang, Ma and Yang families shivered irrespective of their cultivation. All of them kneeled on the ground, even before he started counting. Even Yun, who felt ashamed and reluctant with her new identity was forced by Yang Ping to kneel. His only thoughts were 'I cannot let this stupid maid cause my death.'
"You, from the Lin family, capture everyone, but leave her to me," he said pointing to Yun.
When she heard him and saw him pointing at her, her whole body went cold. She felt as if falling to an icy pit.
When he saw the hesitant and fearful expression on Lin family elders' face, "Don't worry, I am really grateful to your Young Miss for saving my family Young Master. Also, take this and feed it to her," said Xiao Yan threw a transparent bottle that contained a multicolor pill to Elder Song and turned to leave carrying the struggling Yun on his shoulder.
"My lord, can you tell us who you are so that we know who our benefactor is? And this is … ?" asked Elder Song who had just caught the pill. He was really confused about the man's identity and the medicine he just gave.
"You don't need to know about me, I believe your Patriarch will know once he sees my Young Master you guys rescued yesterday. As for that, it's a high tier Detoxification pill, it can clear Heart Worm Poison inside your Young Miss. Treat it as thanks from me," with that Xiao Yan left.