Bai Tang: Jing Yuan-Yuan, Is Yanqing Really That Daring?

Jing Yuan followed the Stellaron Hunters to look for Dan Heng. Halfway there, he saw sword light flashing everywhere, near a place that looked like it had previously been wrecked by someone unknown.

When he drew closer, he discovered that Yanqing and Bai Tang were fighting.

Jing Yuan could have sworn that the sword in Bai Tang's hand had been forged by Yingxing, and that her swordsmanship had been taught by Jingliu. Bai Tang had nearly let the word "master" slip earlier. Clearly, Jingliu was her master too.

Bai Tang seemed far more talented than he was. She had already mastered the essence of Jingliu's art while still a minor. Next time, he would have her give Yanqing some pointers.

"Let this moonlight illuminate every river!"

With a thought, Bai Tang unleashed her ultimate move in an instant. Countless Ice Crescents rushed toward Yanqing, only Ice Crescents, with no Ice Hyacinth.

It was a familiar move. Yanqing gritted his teeth and took it head-on. His sword didn't break. Seeing the ground beside him plowed up, he realized she had clearly aimed away from him on purpose.

Check-in successful.

"Yanqing, you called her big sister?"

Bai Tang put away the sword that even Yanqing coveted and stifled a laugh. "Do you know who she is?"

Yanqing was a stubborn kid. When he saw what she looked like, he thought she had succumbed to Moon Madness and attacked her with his sword. Naturally, she fought back. The moves she used were all too familiar. Yanqing knew Bai Tang hadn't succumbed to Moon Madness, but after she used that sword technique, he had to arrest her.

And that was how the two of them started fighting.

After scaring Yanqing, Bai Tang recalled him calling Jingliu big sister. Even her stiff face loosened up considerably as she smiled.

"Go back and ask your general. He knows her very well."

Yanqing had called his master's master big sister. Jing Yuan was going to cry. If they went by seniority, Yanqing would have to call Bai Tang martial aunt. Like Jing Yuan, she had formally become Jingliu's disciple, and she was Jingliu's Last Disciple.

Because after only a dozen-odd years, all five of them had died, and she had died with them.

During those years, no one had dared ask Jingliu to practice swordsmanship with them. Only Bai Tang had been stubborn enough to do it. As soon as she could run and jump, she had gone to become Jingliu's disciple without looking back. The last person that stubborn had been Jing Yuan.

"Oh my, weren't you going to arrest Blade? Go catch him now. Once you've caught him, you can find me on the Astral Express. I'm not going anywhere."

Bai Tang glanced around and, without the slightest guilt, considered pinning all the blame on Yanqing and Jingliu once she met Jing Yuan.

When Yanqing heard that Bai Tang was a Nameless, he no longer wanted to fight, even though he had gotten up ready to continue.

The general himself had said the Nameless were honored guests helping them, yet Yanqing had attacked one of them and still lost.

Yanqing felt like the sky was falling.

Bai Tang noticed Jing Yuan nearby and abandoned Yanqing to his collapsing sky. She scampered over and, after making sure Yanqing hadn't noticed, hurried to Jing Yuan's side to tattle:

"Jing Yuan-Yuan, Jingliu wrecked this place, and Yanqing was the one who attacked first afterward."

"This won't affect you."

Jing Yuan knew what Bai Tang was thinking. He could more or less guess that Jingliu and Bai Tang had wrecked the place fighting earlier. In any case, Jingliu was already wanted, so there was no problem adding another incident to her name.

As for Yanqing? What could he possibly wreck? Wasn't it all his master's doing?

"You actually... Never mind."

Jing Yuan hesitated. The sword techniques Bai Tang had shown were too obvious. She was either his senior or junior sister, and when she said "master," he knew who she meant.

Considering the current situation, he decided to leave it alone and point it out later. First, he would go find Dan Heng and the others.

Bai Tang: "?"

People who stopped halfway through a sentence would get struck by lightning!

Bai Tang hated two kinds of people most: those who stopped halfway through a sentence, and those who wouldn't let her be a riddler (just kidding).

"We're about to fight Phantylia, aren't we? I want to help."

That was why Bai Tang had come down here. No matter what, she was going to dismantle Phantylia's body, and if she had time, erase her altogether.

No matter how big she was, she had bullied Bai Tang's Jing Yuan-Yuan!

Jing Yuan had already decided how to talk Yanqing into staying behind, so naturally he very much wanted to stop the little fox from fighting Phantylia too. They were both minors. Fighting a few small fries on the battlefield was one thing, but fighting a BOSS? Did they think they had lives to spare?

Even if Bai Tang was strong, exceptionally fast (she had shaken off the Cloud Knights), and could heal, she was still just an underage little fox.

"I'm a Nameless too. I failed to Trailblaze last time, but not this time. I'm going to fight to the very end!"

Without Aha interfering this time, she could be said to have stayed online throughout. At the end, she would tell Stelle who had been causing trouble, and once they beat the BOSS, her Trailblazing would be perfect this time!

[Silver Wolf: Your poison is pretty troublesome]

[Silver Wolf: Uncle Blade passed out from the poison again]

[Silver Wolf: The poison's gone now]

[Silver Wolf: Those two are about to start fighting]

[Silver Wolf: If you hurry over now, you'll make it in time for the show]

[Bai Tang: Be right there.]

Bai Tang rubbed her hands together like a fly. Hehe, she was going to see the little azure dragon emerge from the water like a hibiscus~

If Blade didn't behave, she could beat him up too. If she beat him enough, he would surely behave. Yingxing seemed to care a lot about saving face, so Blade probably cared about his image too. If he dared cause trouble, she dared make him die of embarrassment in public.

He wasn't Yingxing anyway, so tormenting Blade was fine. Maybe if she tormented honest Blade enough, he would grow a brain.

Jing Yuan knew Bai Tang couldn't be persuaded to leave. He could also more or less guess what she would do if he didn't let her go.

A cheerful Bai Tang was too normal, normal to the point of being abnormal. Who could still smile after suffering a disaster, bouncing around every day? If she wasn't pretending, then she was truly heartless, or else she had lost her memories.

Bai Tang clearly had her memories, so she belonged to the first category.

Himeko had said that when they first found Bai Tang, her speech had been halting and incomplete, and she had shown no expression, as though she hadn't smiled or spoken in a long time.

Her personality did tend toward liveliness, and now she not only spoke fluently but also had much more animated expressions. So whatever had left her in that state was probably a disaster beyond their imagination.

By the time Bai Tang and Jing Yuan rushed over, Dan Heng and Blade were just about to fight. At that moment, Yanqing cut in.

"Jing Yuan-Yuan, is Yanqing really that daring?"

Bai Tang hesitated. When she had played through the HoYoverse story, she had thought it was artistic license. Surely Yanqing wasn't really that daring.

He had taken a sword strike from Jingliu and been beaten to the ground by Bai Tang. Surely he ought to know when to rein it in by now? Yet he still dared come out and arrest Blade.

Who gave him the courage?

The reason he wasn't dead was that his master was Jing Yuan. Those old friends of his had either lost their memories or gone mad, but in the end, they had still held back. Otherwise, would Yanqing be standing here in one piece?

That said, anyone with Yanqing's talent would probably be even more arrogant than he was. But what was too rigid would break easily, and if he didn't rein himself in, he would suffer for it someday.

Yanqing ought to be grateful that Jing Yuan's friends were the ones teaching him a lesson before he ran into people like Lygus.