Sword Cultivators Reappear
Lu Xiaotian wandered around Qingyu Stockade, looking about as he went. By walking the streets and listening to the cultivators coming and going aboard the pleasure boats, he had learned quite a bit about the place.
Just as Lu Xiaotian was preparing to return, two figures approached from a distance, one stronger and one weaker. Their auras felt both familiar and unfamiliar.
"Sword art!" Lu Xiaotian's pupils contracted. In all these years, he had kept a low profile and rarely gone out. Especially since entering the Boundless Demon Sea, he had yet to encounter another Sword Body Realm cultivator who practiced sword arts.
And now, two had appeared at once. One was a square-faced man with a slightly weaker aura. The other was a fair-skinned young woman who seemed to be dressed like the women of the southern border had been when he was at Wangyue: her outfit alternated between brown brocade and patterned fabric, and she wore a round-cornered hat.
Both were at the Integrated Body Middle Stage. The only difference was that the young woman seemed to have reached the peak of the Integrated Body Middle Stage. Every gesture she made exerted a hint of pressure even on Lu Xiaotian.
The square-faced man was clearly terrified of the woman behind him and was doing his best to get away from her. Yet the woman in the round-cornered hat strolled along as if taking a leisurely walk. She seemed unhurried, but remained close behind him.
Lu Xiaotian watched and secretly shook his head. If the square-faced man had no trump card, he was doomed. He had run into another person who could feed the sword embryo. Lu Xiaotian couldn't help sighing. Neither of them had sensed the sword embryo within him. In terms of cultivation, however,