Speaking of which, back in Zhengsheng Hall in Green Sheep Town, Dugu Xiao had first been raised as an assassin.
She was excellent with needle and thread, could make many exquisite tea snacks, and knew all of Master's little habits of daily life. But Master's life was almost entirely cultivation... he dined on wind and drank dew, wore a single immortal robe for decades, and scarcely ever slept. The so-called "clothing, food, lodging, and travel" required no maidservant's care at all.
The ability to handle government affairs that she had gradually cultivated all the way from Green Sheep Town to Old Mountain in Xia had also lost its use after Master relinquished his title.
She was becoming less and less able to help Master.
But perhaps she could still be a blade.
Those whom Longing found inconvenient to kill, or whose deaths would stain his blade—she could kill them.
Though such people seemed never to have appeared.
When Master killed, there was only whether he wanted to and whether he could. There was never any question of convenience.
But just as Master Zhu Sui had said—he might not use it, but he ought to have it.
What she had learned from Zhu Sui was not merely how to kill.
The dirty work Zhu Sui did for Qi State was what she could do in the future.
She had two kinds of weapons. One was a sword: a slender, supple sword worn as a belt around her waist.
As someone whose Small Circulation manifestation was entirely Jiang Wang, who enshrined the Red Heart Divine Seal within the Spirit-Nurturing Palace, it would have been absurd if she did not know how to use a sword.
Her waist was only two handspans around, and the supple sword circled it twice. When drawn, her