Another Fifth Day of the Fifth Month

Xie Songhua did not hurriedly fly her sword back to Touyi City. Instead, she headed south on foot with Pei Qian.

No matter how many hidden dragons and crouching tigers a small border city contained, it still had to weigh the threat of a female Sword Immortal's flying sword.

Though her two Direct Disciples had yet to enter the Middle Five Realms, they were sword cultivators, and Sword Immortal Embryos from the Sword Qi Great Wall. Even if some minor mishap occurred, Xie Songhua's flying sword would arrive in an instant.

Besides, before entering Touyi City, Xie Songhua had taken Zhaomu and Juxing to travel through the Northern Sacred Mountain of Yugong Kingdom. That Northern Sacred Mountain Lord would naturally take careful care of the two children. If anything went wrong with a Sword Immortal's direct disciples within his jurisdiction—especially Xie Songhua's disciples—and delayed their Great Dao cultivation, a minor country Mountain Lord believed he could not bear the responsibility. He might even drag the entire Yugong Kingdom into being remembered by Sword Immortal Xie.

After all, Xie Songhua's temper was publicly acknowledged to be less than pleasant in Aiai Continent.

After chatting with Pei Qian for a while, Xie Songhua was filled with emotion. She had never expected that even she had failed to gauge the depth of Pei Qian's martial arts.

This little girl, only just past twenty, was already a Far Travel Realm Pure Martial Artist.

How rare was that? Among mountain cultivators, it was roughly equivalent to becoming a Nascent Soul sword cultivator in one's twenties.

If not for Cao Ci before her and Chen Ping'an after, Xie Songhua might have doubted Pei Qian's identity.

Yet Xie Songhua felt more gratification than suspicion.

In truth, she and Pei Qian had never met before and had neither