Next to the Martial Arts Arena.
Jin Xu looked down at the barefooted girl.
The girl mustered the courage to look up and stared back at him.
After a long standoff, the Taoist pronounced three words.
"Irreversible."
The features of the barefooted girl wrinkled as if she were about to cry over her vanished Gu Worm.
"However, I can compensate you."
Jin Xu's tone changed, and the girl's features, which were about to crease, smoothed out instantly.
"Taoist Jin Xu, is it really..."
Halfway through her instinctive inquiry about the truth, the girl realized the impropriety and quickly corrected herself:
"...It's really not necessary. I came here for the Wash Essence and Marrow anyway, so if your magic is irreversible, then let's forget about it."
