" I want you to cut his tendons, " Gu Laobeng commands Cai Li, on her knees, listening to his every word.
" Don't worry about the consequences, I'll take care of it."
Cai Li went straight ahead going for Wei Jian's tendons. When her Dao's edge was about to slice Wei Jian's tendons, he twists his whole body, grabbing her shoulder and chucking her into the air. She was airborne, for a moment before, her body slammed onto the ground.
Boom!
Wei Jian was not taking any chances, he knew she was multiple realms above him and so he chose to surprise attack her in the beginning to get a starting advantage. Now his life was at her mercy.
Cai Li gets up slowly her bones cracking. She wasn't badly injured, but she sure was pissed off. She was at the peak of the profound mortal realm, just shy of Gu Laobeng who was at the mid-stage true mortal realm. So a cultivator of Wi Jian's caliber at the second stage of the beginner realm, damaging her with brute force was nigh impossible.
Releasing her entire cultivation realm's aura, it was big enough to cover the whole stage. Since she was a practitioner of a manual that taught the ability to increase pressure. Wei Jian's body a the moment was stiff as a rock.
Since Wei Jian was unable to move, she rushed in to slice him up. Before she could, Wei Jian pops into his mouth a blood-red pill. Cai Li couldn't see what Wei Jian did, but all the elders and matriarch Duan Xialan saw the whole thing.
They saw Wei Jian eating a [ Berserker Pill ], a pill that forced the user's dantian to release a vast amount of qi. If used during a crisis, the user would come out the victor. Although the backlash would be attaining permanent damage to their body. He had no choice but to take it, he had a low amount of qi, Long Wei's techniques were too high level, and he wasn't sure if he could beat her.
When Cia Li's blade was inches away from Wei Jian, she was shocked when he stopped it with his bare hand. With the [ Berserker Pill ] controlling his body's pain receptor, even when Cai Li's Dao drew blood, Wei Jian felt nothing. Pushing through Cai Li's defense, We Jian took her Dao sword out of her grasp.
For the fifth time in her life, she felt like she could die at the moment. Wei Jian's Dao swinging down with so much force, heading straight for Cai Li's neck. When she opened her eyes, all the sect elders had surrounded Wei Jian. All their Dao held to Wei Jian's neck, ready to end him if he couldn't come back from the effects of the [ Berserk Pill ].
But Elder Dong Aiguo did not want to kill Wei Jian, for he still needed him. So getting out a small silver pill, he opens Wei Jian's mouth by pressing his neck pressure point. Forcing it down the berserk Wei Jian's gullet.
Hours later, Wei Jian opens his eyes, in his mind all he could think about was who won the fight. All he could remember being in that state was seeing a blurry demon-like individual, and his drive at the moment was to kill it at all cost.
By his side, surprisingly were Guo Xiaoqing and Ren Xiaoli. Both rested their head at the bottom of his bed. Bang! Barging in, was Hao Xinyue. Woke up the two ladies, both of them blushing.
" Mr. Jian! Look! Look, you and I are both on the list. You are number three, while Im at the bottom!" Hao Xinyue up and personnel, pointing to the list of expedition members.
After Hao Xinyue's celebration, Guo Xiaoqing would speak up, " Um! Wei Jian, the matriarch has given me the task of bringing you to her pavilion."
Since it was the matriarch order, he had no choice but to concede and follow Guo Xiaoqing. When they arrived at the entrance, they both were greeted by the matriarch and pill master. All of them gathered and sat down under the matriarch's personal gazebo. The first person to break the awkward tension, was the matriarch herself.
" Disciple Wei Jian, how did you come to obtain such a dangerous pill as the [ Berserker Pill ]?" With a serious tone, Duan Xialan was suspicious of him.
Wei Jian had no choice but to state the truth, he was too drained to try and flee, Even if he did, he would have been captured and risk a harder punishment. Risking it all, he chose to tell the entire truth with missing and changed details.
TBC…