After taking the medicine, Taishi Ci, with his Sky Piercer in hand, charged towards Yan Liang, whose light blade wasn't particularly formidable, but Yan Liang, already grievously injured, had no way to defend himself.
"Retreat!" Yan Liang's shrill cry rang out as he turned his horse and fled.
Taishi Ci gave chase for several hundred meters before reluctantly planting the Sky Piercer into the ground, seemingly due to his horse's dwindling strength and his own isolation.
The soldiers nearby, their morale boosted by Taishi Ci's lead, were ready to continue the chase and finish off Yan Liang when Taishi Ci reined in his horse, standing resolute, then turned and ran towards where he was to regroup with Gongsun Zan. However, before he had run a few hundred meters, a mouthful of fresh blood spurted out, his face, which still had a hint of color, instantly turned pale as the wound he had barely managed to contain with inner qi bled once more.