After seeing Chi Jiuyu off, Bie Xuening looked toward Yueling, who stood to her left holding a plate of fruit.
The delight in Yueling's eyes had yet to fade.
But when she noticed Bie Xuening's gaze, she instinctively straightened her face and held out the plate.
"You can go back too."
"Huh?"
Yueling froze, but quickly came to her senses and replied.
"Of course, Master. I'll be off, then. I won't disturb you and Lord Sword Ancestor!"
As she spoke, she had already dashed down from the training grounds.
She was about to run straight out when she seemed to remember something and hurriedly stopped.
"Goodbye, Lord Sword Ancestor!"
"Mm, goodbye."
Only after receiving his reply did she finally leave Sword Ancestor Hall in peace.
Woohoo!
Time to play games!
In the blink of an eye, her figure had vanished from sight.
Bie Xuening calmly withdrew her gaze and said nothing. Xu Xing, on the other hand, smiled.
"She's not as mischievous as she used to be."
His Life-Bound Sword, Moon Shadow, disliked meeting outsiders and rarely took human form.
But Yueling was different. As the inheriting sword of the Sword Path of Slaughter, she was extremely unruly—malicious, even.
That was putting it mildly. Most of the Sword Sect's Profound Penetration and Truth Insight cultivators had been on the receiving end of her antics.
But it was precisely because she caused so much trouble that Senior Sister had put her under house arrest.
After reflecting for many years, she did seem...
To have improved quite a bit.
After all, she'd been out for so long now, and he hadn't heard of her bothering anyone.
The most outrageous thing she'd done was lose a game, refuse to accept defeat, and try to scare someone through the internet.
But she'd run into