He saw the little girl lying quietly on the bed.
Yu Xiaolong raised his hand.
With a thought,
[Feather Spirit Heal]!
The next moment,
white feathers, glowing with light,
appeared out of thin air and drifted down.
As soon as they touched the girl's delicate body,
they vanished.
"This..."
Shui Bing'er was stunned.
Her eyes flew wide.
She watched everything unfolding before her,
unable to believe it.
"Her vitality is coming back!"
"The poison is disappearing!"
The icy-blue poison mark on Shui Yue'er's forehead
also vanished in an instant.
"Sister."
"What happened to me?"
Shui Yue'er was practically back to full health.
She slowly opened her eyes
and asked with parted lips.
She no longer looked quite so weak.
"Yue'er, you're awake?"
Shui Bing'er's face lit up with joy.
Yu Xiaolong had used a skill card,
and immediately felt a wave of weakness wash over him.
"Yue'er, my teacher saved you."
Shui Bing'er explained.
Just then,
Shui Yue'er followed her gaze and looked at the person standing before her, puzzled.
Since when did her sister have a male teacher?
And one who was...
"Teacher, what's wrong?"
Suddenly,
Shui Bing'er noticed that Yu Xiaolong didn't look well.
She stepped forward, supporting him as she asked with concern.
Yu Xiaolong waved a hand. "Feather Spirit Heal consumed a great deal of my soul power. I'll be fine after a bit of rest."
"Then, teacher, I'll take you downstairs to rest."
At that, Shui Bing'er immediately led Yu Xiaolong
and arranged a room for him.
Along the way,
Shui Bing'er's smooth, tender arm stayed pressed against Yu Xiaolong's.
Unfortunately, Yu Xiaolong was fully clothed.
Their clothes kept their skin from touching.
Yu Xiaolong went to rest.
In a garden inside the room,
Shui Yue'er, her hair in twin ponytails,
was already bouncing around again.
She was dressed like a little girl.
"Sister, are you sure that weird old uncle from before is your teacher!?"
The little girl's eyes widened.
She couldn't believe her sister would...
"Yes, Yue'er. He was the one who cured your poison."
"What!?"
The Ice Jade Scorpion's deadly poison had tormented Shui Yue'er terribly.
At one point, she'd thought she was going to die.
She never would have guessed...
"Sister, what's your master's name?"
"My current teacher is Yu Xiaolong."
"Yu... Yu Xiaolong!?"
Little Shui Yue'er nearly choked on her soda.
She swallowed and stared wide-eyed at her sister,
looking at her as if she were a freak.
Then she said, "No! No way!"
"Sister, have you lost your mind?"
"How could you take him as your teacher!?"
Seeing how worked up her little sister was,
Shui Bing'er couldn't understand why.
"Why not? Teacher Xiaolong can heal every kind of injury. He's an outstanding person."
"Outstanding?"
At that word,
Shui Yue'er's mouth twitched.
She didn't believe it for a second.
Instead, she said with absolute conviction, "How could he possibly have anything to do with that word?"
"Do you even know that this Yu Xiaolong comes from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan? He's the clan leader's son!"
"He's the young master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan!?"
Hearing her teacher's true identity,
Shui Bing'er was even more moved.
She felt a little delighted.
So her teacher came from such an extraordinary background.
He was from one of the Upper Three Sects!
"Yeah..." Seeing that her sister didn't regret it, but seemed even more spirited,
Shui Yue'er sighed. She thought her sister was beyond saving.
She slapped her forehead. "I've heard Yu Xiaolong comes from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but he's one of the Sect Twin Prodigies!"
"One of the Twin Prodigies? Then teacher must be an unparalleled genius."
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan
was one of the Upper Three Sects.
To be one of the clan's Twin Prodigies,
he must have talent that surpassed all his peers.
No wonder he'd been able to cure Yue'er's poison with a single move.
"A genius!?"
"He's more like an idiot!"
Shui Yue'er looked furious.
She'd had enough of her sister's faith in Yu Xiaolong.
She shook her head. "Then do you know the story of the Crouching Dragon and Fledgling Phoenix from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, thirty years ago?"
Shui Bing'er shook her head.
To convince her sister,
Shui Yue'er began telling her the story.
It began when the brothers Yu Xiaogang and Yu Xiaolong awakened their Martial Souls at the age of six.
"According to the rumors, the brothers' Soul Power Levels stopped at twenty-eight and twenty-nine!"
"They may have had external Martial Souls, but that Luo Sanpao was the biggest piece of trash there ever was!"
As the little girl spoke,
her voice was full of disdain.
"That can't be right. My teacher doesn't seem like someone with only twenty-eight levels."
Though her little sister was speaking with great conviction,
Shui Bing'er barely reacted.
Wasn't Yue'er exaggerating a little too much?
"Sister!"
"You're the once-in-a-century genius of Skywater Academy, and you're actually going to take a worthless person as your teacher?"
"You've been fooled by him!"
She wanted to shake some sense into her sister.
Just then,
the room door opened.
Yu Xiaolong stood in the doorway.
After an hour of rest,
he had fully recovered his strength.
Not only that,
he felt more alive than ever before.
"Big liar!"
Before anyone could react,
a little girl with twin ponytails
ran up to him, pointed a finger at his nose, and glared at him. "Big liar!"
Looking at Shui Yue'er, who was pouting
and pointing at him while calling him a big liar,
Yu Xiaolong fell silent.
He glanced down at the little girl before him, who only came up to just below his chest.
She looked just like someone who'd caught him stealing her candy.
"You're a real liar. You even got my sister to take you as her teacher!"
"You big liar!"
"Don't think I don't know your Soul Power Level is only twenty-eight!"
"Hmph!"
The little girl planted her hands on her hips
and stamped her foot in anger.
"Yue'er, what are you doing!"
Seeing this,
Shui Bing'er hurried over.
She was worried.
Her teacher had saved her little sister, and yet Yue'er was being so rude.
It was all because she'd spoiled Yue'er too much.
However,
Yu Xiaolong said nothing.
He merely lowered his head and glanced briefly at the little girl before him.
His gaze
was like that of someone looking at an ant.
Then.
The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
The next second.
A miracle happened.
Yu Xiaolong, with both hands in his pockets,
pulled one hand out.
He raised it above his head.
Whoosh!
"Come forth!"
"Luo Sanpao!"
"Luo-luo..."
As his words fell,
a pig squealed.
A fat, round, detached Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao,
appeared out of thin air.
A wave of energy
emanated from Yu Xiaolong.
Soul Power Level.
Level 43!
"What!?"
"This?"
It wasn't particularly high,
but it was higher than the level suggested by the prevailing impression and rumors.
And to see it on Yu Xiaolong
was enough to astonish the little girl.
Her face turned pale.
Her expression froze.
Shui Bing'er, on the other hand,
remained completely calm.
She even watched her teacher with some interest.
"Is this my teacher's Martial Soul?"
She studied the round, adorable Martial Soul before her
with great attention.
Luo Sanpao appeared.
He spread his fluffy ears.
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