Personal Opinion of the Thousand-Person Ruler, Part 626

"We've known each other for a long time, so I won't beat around the bush. Tell me straight, what brings you back to the Xianzhou, Yingxing?"

"Yingxing is already dead, and you know that very well."

Blade gazed coldly at Jing Yuan, seemingly unconcerned about the scene of his psychological death moments before.

Instead, he took the initiative to ask:

"Who was that swordsman? Is she the new Luofu Sword Master?"

"Ha! I wish she were, but unfortunately, she's just an outlander expert who recently came to settle on the Luofu. Her name is Cheng Lingshuang, and the marvel of her swordsmanship is the only one I've ever seen in my life... To be honest, if compared with Jingliu, I can't say how a battle of life and death would turn out, but purely in terms of swordsmanship, I believe Miss Ling Shuang might be even better."

"An outlander?"

"What, does that remind you of something?"

Jing Yuan smiled as he looked at his old friend, who also originally hailed from outlander orphans.

Blade let out a cold snort, merely narrowing his eyes as if reminiscing about something, and muttered:

"Her sword is indeed different from Jingliu's... If it can sever the soul, even if the physical body's heartbeat and breathing remain as before, that is still death, isn't it?"

"You want to ask her to grant you death? That won't be easy."

"Where does the difficulty lie?"

"Miss Lingshuang is aloof and unrestrained in nature; no one can stop what she is willing to do, and no one can force what she is unwilling to do. Based on my understanding of her, since you couldn't take that sword strike of hers, I imagine she has lost interest in drawing her sword against you again."

Blade instantly fell silent.

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