The Supreme Sword Palace was filled with pavilions and towers, and had always been cold and deserted. Even with the addition of the Duling Sword Palace disciples, it still looked bleak.
Seeing Yi Duling and Yu Ningsui kill the conversation stone dead, the Duling Sword Palace disciples each found a place to rest.
The female disciples casually took seats on stone benches in an open area. The male disciples were more carefree—some drifted onto stone platforms, while others simply went up to the rooftops to catch the wind.
Yi Duling, too, clasped her hands behind her back and headed into the Sword Palace, outright ignoring Yu Ningsui.
Yu Ningsui was probably upset as well, yet she had no way to vent it.
"Feel like you punched cotton?" I teased.
"It's infuriating! They come looking for trouble but won't fight—what do they even want?" Yu Ningsui was still a young girl. Even when she had guarded the gate, when had she ever suffered such disregard?
"You make it sound like you could beat them," I said with a smile.
"I almost forgot—I'm apparently only at Core Embrace. Fine, it's not like I'm afraid they'll steal Master's things. If I can't provoke them, can't I just hide?" Yu Ningsui took a deep breath, then flashed into the main hall and sat down cross-legged. She began decisively absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, inscribing Core Embrace Dao Patterns.
Seeing that Yu Ningsui was ignoring her, Yi Duling did not get angry. She had come to wait for Yan Jueshuang anyway. To her, even if Yu Ningsui was her junior sister, their ages differed by more than a dozen times over. In the end, she was only a child.
Yu Ningsui had barely settled down for a quarter of an hour when