A playful smile touched Qin Xuan's lips. With one hand behind his back, he casually extended a finger and caught Miao Tie's curved saber.
Then, with a slight exertion of his two fingers, to Miao Tie's incredulous gaze, the curved saber snapped in half.
Miao Tie's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. Before he could react, Qin Xuan transformed his palm into a fist and slammed it into Miao Tie's abdomen.
"Bang!"
Miao Tie felt a tightness in his stomach, followed by a searing pain, and then he was sent flying.
"Witch doctor, no match for a single blow. With this kind of strength, you dare to kidnap my sister?" Qin Xuan said, looking down at Miao Tie, who had crashed to the ground.
Miao Tie clutched his chest, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his face etched with disbelief.
"How...how could he be so strong!"
Seeing this, another witch doctor hadn't even recovered when Qin Xuan appeared before him.
Immediately after, his body also flew backward, crashing beside Miao Tie.
Although witch doctors' physiques were inferior to martial artists, and their cultivation focused on Gu, Miao Tie never imagined the gap would be so vast.
Miao Tie couldn't believe it. Even a Grandmaster couldn't defeat three witch doctors so effortlessly, let alone him, a senior witch doctor.
Qin Xuan waved his hand, and a gust of wind erupted, dispersing the surrounding hallucinogenic smoke.
"Alright, speak. Who hired you? Jin Gong? Or Li Shengtian? Otherwise, you can go meet King Yama," Qin Xuan said coldly, glancing at the two lying on the ground.
Miao Tie pushed himself up and met Qin Xuan's gaze. The next second, he burst into laughter.
"You'll never know. If you kill us today, then no one can remove the Gu worm from your sister's body. Just wait for her to be tormented to death! Hahaha..."
A killing intent flashed in Qin Xuan's eyes. He hated it the most when his loved ones were threatened.
"Do you really think I can't remove your mere, inferior Gu techniques?"
Qin Xuan had helped Wang Yuyan remove a Gu before, and the Dragon Elixir inheritance also contained records of many methods for removing Gu.
"Do you think the Gu I put into your sister is ordinary?" Miao Tie sneered.
"This is one of the most difficult Gu techniques in our Gu tribe, the Soul Devouring Gu. Once the Gu worm enters the body, unless a Grand Witch Doctor uses their life-bound Gu worm to lure out the Soul Devouring Gu, this Gu worm will devour her vital essence and internal organs within her body until she withers into a dried corpse and dies!"
"If you try to forcibly remove it, hmph, the Gu worm will self-detonate within her, blowing up her internal organs!"
"What did you say!" Unquestionably, Qin Xuan's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, as his initial thought was to use his Dragon power to forcibly remove the Gu from Qin Lin.
Just then, Leng Xi rushed towards Qin Xuan from the back door, holding a girl in her arms.
"Qin Xuan, Linlin has been found!"
Both Qin Xuan's and Miao Tie's gazes fell on Leng Xi.
"Good opportunity!" Miao Tie quickly took a Gu worm from his bamboo basket and threw it towards Leng Xi.
Qin Xuan's pupils constricted at the sight, and he shouted,
"Be careful!"
Leng Xi, eager from finding Qin Lin, didn't notice the Gu worm Miao Tie threw.
Qin Xuan cursed inwardly and lunged fiercely towards Leng Xi.
Miao Tie, taking advantage of Qin Xuan's distraction, quickly signaled to the other two.
The three of them immediately got up and fled towards the main entrance.
Qin Xuan tackled Leng Xi to the ground. The Gu worm just grazed the fabric of Qin Xuan's back and landed on a large marble floor, splattering bloody pulp.
Subsequently, that piece of marble was corroded, emitting a foul odor.
"Are you alright?" Qin Xuan asked as he got up from Leng Xi and Qin Lin.
Leng Xi glanced at the corroded marble, a shiver of fear running down her spine. She forced back nausea and shook her head.
"I...I'm fine."
Qin Xuan helped them up and looked at the unconscious Qin Lin with concern.
"How is Linlin?"
Leng Xi shook her head.
"I don't know. She was already unconscious when I found her. I called out to her several times, even pinched her philtrum, but she wouldn't wake up. I don't know what's wrong with her."
Qin Xuan's heart sank. It seemed the witch doctor hadn't lied and had indeed placed a Gu worm on Qin Lin. He just didn't know if it was true that forcibly removing it would cause the Gu worm to explode inside her.
Although he wasn't sure, Qin Xuan wouldn't take that risk.
"Perhaps... we should rush Linlin to the hospital," Leng Xi suggested.
Qin Xuan shook his head.
"It's useless. She might have been afflicted by that witch doctor's Gu. Going to the hospital won't help. Doctors don't know how to remove Gu."
"Then what do we do?"
Qin Xuan sighed. For the moment, he didn't dare to forcibly remove the Gu from Qin Lin.
"Let's take her back first."