Kai Syaoran gently laid a hand over Wela's wrist, staying her lethal intent before her Nemean flames could incinerate the city.
Sensory shock rippled through the young girl as the residual pressure radiating from Wela hit her, but her youth and ingrained arrogance won out. Suppressing her fleeting fear, she took an audacious step forward, staring up at Wela as though daring the legendary beast to strike her down. Though the girl had barely established her foundation in the first step of cultivation, she clearly possessed an influential lineage that instilled her with a sense of absolute invincibility.
Kai Syaoran easily parsed the girl's thoughts, reading her mind like an open scroll. He offered a faint shake of his head. Her backing was utterly meaningless to an entity like him, yet the child existed in a sheltered fantasy where her parents and elder brother were the supreme beings of the cosmos, capable of shielding her even if the heavens were to collapse.
