"Am I pitiful?"
Murong Qin had already left with Wu Su Su, leaving Xia Ju alone, sitting in the courtyard.
Recalling Murong Qin's final words, Xia Ju couldn't help smiling.
In Xia Ju's mind, scene after scene flashed by like images in a revolving lantern.
To keep herself from becoming someone else's plaything, she had forcibly suppressed her cultivation realm.
Even knowing that one day she would enter the Cave Mansion and be taken into the Palace Master of Zhi Chuang Palace's bedchamber, she had still waited, waiting in despair day after day for her final chance.
At last, that chance had come! That man was clearly a Sword Immortal, yet with nothing but his fists, he had smashed the entire Zhi Chuang Palace to pieces!
She had offered her body as the price, hoping to trade it for even a little swordsmanship manual—or even to become his Sword Servant.
He had refused her, but he had given her another path.
Along that path, Wu Su Su had crippled her cultivation, allowing her to start practicing the sword techniques that man had given her anew, without being hindered by what she had learned before.
Even the Female Prime Minister had given her plenty of time and given her a choice.
As long as she reached the Sea Gazing Realm within three years, or destroyed the Zhi Chuang Sect through stratagems within three years, she could make one request!
She had chosen both—or perhaps it was more accurate to say she had chosen neither!
While sorting through the treasury left behind by the former Palace Master of Miao Water Palace, she had discovered a stone stele. Inscribed upon it was the Devouring Heaven Skill.
Afterward, she had abandoned the sword techniques that man had given her, making the Devouring Heaven Skill