"The King!?"
He was genuinely shocked and looking at everyone else's face; it seemed most of them knew the King's real name.
"Why would he want that?" Xiao Ming couldn't wrap his head around this situation.
"Didn't his son tell us to go for the mission? And now his father wants us killed for that?
What the fuck!
Just tell your son to stop. Don't go after innocent people."
"This is called politics. I am sure your weightless head can't comprehend this thing." Ye Tian Yun remarked.
"Well, I know I can't understand this, but you don't have to be a jerk about it," Xiao Ming glared at him, "Unlike you, I didn't scheme my whole life and was rather focused on increasing my cultivation. Against absolute power, no amount of scheming will work. Maybe you will understand this if you see things from my point of view."
Ye Tian Yun shook his head, "Unfortunately, I can't see things from your viewpoint because I can't take my head so high up my ass."
"You-!"
"Stop. Both of you stop it." Yuan Shuchun intervened before Xiao Ming could say anything.
"We don't have much time. We don't know how long that guy will remain drugged, and we still don't know everything."
Saying this, she stepped forward towards Mo Da, and after coming closer, she bent her knee and sat in front of him; she asked,
"Mo Da, tell me. Did your master tell you about our mission details?"
Mo Da replied, "Yes, he did. However, he said things were different now, and he had to make a sudden change. Thus I couldn't get the updated info from him."
"Oh…" Then glancing at Jun Xie, she asked, "Senior Brother Jun, I don't have anything else to ask."
Jun Xie nodded his head, "So, what should we do with him now?"
Yuan Shuchun frowned, "We can't kill him. You have already vowed. Things are a bit complicated."
Then turning towards Ye Tian Yun, she asked, "Shi Xian, what will happen once the pill's effect comes to an end? Will he die, or will he turn back to normal?"
"He will turn back to normal."
"Oh, well, then we don't have any choice…"
"Yeah." Jun Xie let out a sigh, "We will have to leave him alive."
Xiao Ming suddenly interjected, "If Shu Xian had given him the pill earlier, we wouldn't have wasted this much time."
Seeing everyone nod, he felt a sense of smugness and continued, "Now we have no other chance but to spare someone who tried to kill us, and once he gets back to his master, he will spill everything that transpired here."
As a cherry topping to his argument, he added, "And the next assassination we face… it won't be this easy. Enemies will be aware of Senior Brother Jun Xie's strength this time."
Turning towards Ye Tian Yun, he made a disdainful expression, "Look what you've done, Shu Xian."
Ye Tian Yun let out a sigh when he heard this, "Well, I didn't use it because I didn't wish to use it. Also, let's not forget that it was you who went ahead and slashed his limbs. No one asked for that. In fact, it only made the ways we could have tortured him pretty much limited."
"You two, stop." Jun Xie interrupted the argument.
Ye Tian Yun shrugged, "Well, you need to hold your tongue too, Jun Xie. Did you really think there was going to be a way for us to kill this guy once you made that vow? At first, no one interrupted because you only included yourself in the vow - but this loophole couldn't escape Mo Da's senses, and he asked you to include everyone."
After a sight pause, Ye Tian Yun added, "What did you do? You, like an idiot, included everyone."
Jun Xie nodded, "Alright, I made a mistake, I understand. Let's now focus on the problem, shall we?"
"Can you connect his limbs?" Ye Tian Yun asked.
Jun Xie nodded, "Yeah, I can even connect his legs to his shoulders. It's just a small thing for me."
Ye Tian Yun smirked, "Then do that. Connect his one arm to his waist and legs to his shoulders."
"What?" Everyone gave him a weird expression, "Dude, you're sick."
Ye Tian Yun rolled his eyes, "Don't tell me you want to heal the guy who tried to kill you, and then pat his back, give him a hug, and bless him for a safe journey home so he can send more powerful enemies at us, who will certainly kill us."
"Well, I hate to say this, but Shu Xian does have a valid point." Xiao Ming said, "We have to do something that can delay any other assassinations before we get back to the sect."
"Hm," Jun Xie frowned and slowly raised his hand.
*piak*
He gave a chop on Mo Da's neck, instantly putting him unconscious.
"I swear, this will be the first and last time I would try to attempt this."
"Will his limbs work?" Ye Tian Yun asked while scratching his chin, "Will he be able to use them?"
Jun Xie shook his head, "I don't know the exact answer. However, to my knowledge, he shouldn't be able to use them. No matter how absurd thing we do, don't forget that the inner nerves in hand and legs are different."
"Alright, let's test it then." Ye Tian Yun gestured him to start.
…
A few hours later.
Mo Da slowly opened his eyes and felt something licking his face.
'Ah, am I in a brothel? Hm.. oh no wait-!'
Suddenly he opened his eyes wide open when he remembered the things that happened before he had lost his consciousness.
The wild dog that was licking him got afraid of him and ran back to the jungle.
"Damn this dog.."
Looking around, he noticed that it was almost evening, and his enemies were nowhere to be seen.
"Did they heal me and leave me alive?"
Mo Da tried to move his hands.
However, when he felt nothing, he lowered his gaze at his shoulders.
'My arms were always this long?'
"What happened to my fingers?'
'Oh wait- oh no- these are not my arms!'
'Fuck! They attached my legs to my shoulders!'