Dantai Pingjing finally steadied herself and said with a sneer, "I never thought someone whose swordplay was so pure would resort to the feigned retreat seen everywhere in the courts of Shenzhou."
Wu Xuantian smiled. "What choice do I have when I'm under your roof? Besides, the Yuan Qi here is rich. Look up and you can even see Shenzhou's fortunes shifting. There's nowhere in the world better for cultivation..."
After a short stay with the Guanyin Sect, Wu Xuantian agreed with Dantai Pingjing that he would let the baby come to join the sect herself when she grew older.
Then he took the baby to the Two Chan Monasteries, where they stayed for more than two years.
During that time, Xu Xiao conquered Western Chu, bringing the chaos of the Spring and Autumn period to an end. Only Northern Mang remained to stand against Liyang.
Xu Xiao was also made Liyang's only prince of a different surname: the Prince of Northern Liang. He commanded Northern Liang's three hundred thousand troops and held the region against Northern Mang.
The baby was nearly three now, lively and adorable, pink-cheeked as a porcelain doll.
As Wu Xuantian nourished her meridians with his true qi, he began teaching her to read.
He also gave her a name: Xu Qingqiu.
A little girl could not spend her whole life in a monastery. Wu Xuantian left the Two Chan Monasteries with her, planning to roam the martial world until he found a suitable place.
With the girl on his back, he wandered along at an easy pace.
"Hm? Cavalry?"
Hooves thundered in the distance. Before long, a general in his twenties came galloping toward them at the head of an army.
At the strange sight of a bald man carrying a little girl, the