I Want to Learn the Sword from My Husband

East Floating City.

Xingtian Pavilion.

The tower, like a sword thrust point-first into the ground, stood in a deep, secluded garden.

There was a fishpond in the garden. The setting sun spilled across it, rippling over the water in cold flashes.

Black Stone sat on a black stone, bathed in the afterglow, holding a fishing rod.

He had learned that Li Wuxie would be returning to East Floating City ahead of schedule, so he had stolen a moment to fish.

There weren't any fish in the pond. He just wanted to enjoy the feeling of sitting steady on the fishing platform.

Li Wuxie was the only person who gave him that sense of peace.

That was, until Tahongzi came over with the latest news.

"What?"

"Deacon Xu went to inspect Bamboo Spring Sect in secret, only for Lu Ya to stomp his head open?"

"Ink Immortal Sect and Illumination Immortal Sect both lost to Liu Xuanye and Wine Fox Immortal?"

"Chief Li passed through Azure Phoenix City, only to be defeated by Lu Ya and lose seven ships?"

"Zhang Pingzhi had barely returned to East Floating City before someone beat him within an inch of his life?"

Well, he wasn't surprised by the last bit of news.

But the other three reports were more shocking than the last!

Li Wuxie... had actually lost?

He could never believe it!

"Where's Deacon Li?"

Tahongzi said:

"I heard he's out buying diapers."

Black Stone went pale. He raised his head to the sky, grief welling up within him.

"After a hundred years, has your illness... really gotten so bad that you need diapers?"

Just who was this Lu Ya?

And what was Wine Fox Immortal doing?

How come there wasn't a single word of news?

Three hundred miles northwest of East Floating City.

A giant pink lotus sped westward through the sky.

A woman in white gauze stood at its heart.

Her long hair was swept up in a cloudlike bun, and a pale pink lotus mark adorned the space between her brows. Slender and graceful, with delicate features and serene eyes, she looked gentle and refined, like a virtuous jade—a proper immortal maiden.

She was Zhang Lianxin, the Sword-Wielding Elder of White Lotus Sect.

Beside her sat a white-robed man with a fit physique and a swollen face.

Fan Ni.

Fan Ni had asked for his face to be beaten.

She could hit his face, but not his well-built body. He wouldn't let a woman lay a finger on it—no, he wouldn't let any human lay a finger on it.

"Heh. Women."

Although his senior sister, Zhang Lianxin, had beaten him in East Floating City, he was feeling pretty tough now.

"I told you Elder Lu was powerful, but you wouldn't believe me. You even hit me in the face. So who's got egg on their face now? Even Li Wuxie couldn't beat him. How could I? If you run into him, he'll knock you flying with a single slap."

Zhang Lianxin recited the Heart-Clearing Mantra and said gently:

"Please say that again."

Fan Ni hurriedly changed the subject.

"Li Wuxie's really gone too far. It's only been a hundred years, and he's already so feeble he has to buy diapers. No wonder he lost to Lu Ya. That's what men get for being so shameless... Female Beast Immortals are all troublemakers."

Zhang Lianxin glanced at him sideways.

Fan Ni quickly added:

"Still, I heard a different version of the story. Apparently, Li Wuxie has a daughter, and she's in Bamboo Spring Sect's hands. That's why he went easy on Lu Ya and lost."

Zhang Lianxin said:

"Doesn't matter whether he went easy or showed his true strength. Just don't let me run into Lu Ya. If I do, I'll castrate him!"

"You'd be asking for death."

"Though you're a disappointment, you're still an elder of White Lotus Sect. Insulting you is the same as insulting White Lotus Sect. Besides, that man also harmed Chen Daozai!"

"What happened to the sect leader?"

"He lost a bet to Lu Ya. Now he's cut off two of his fingers and shut himself away."

"What!"

Fan Ni was stunned.

The fact that Lu Ya had beaten Chen Daozai at gambling shocked him more than his defeating Li Wuxie in swordsmanship!

The soft light in Zhang Lianxin's eyes slowly hardened. Calmly, she said:

"If Bamboo Spring Sect makes it through this Beast Tide, I'll meet Lu Ya myself."

Beast Nest Forest.

The rogue immortal organization, Tan Stronghold.

Tan Stronghold had once been an insignificant little organization. Its main base was built beneath the waters of a secluded pond, allowing it to survive repeated Beast Tide rampages over the past ten thousand years and gradually build up its strength.

Now it was the strongest and most secretive organization in the East Floating Immortal District.

Its members made their living hunting hunters, specializing in killing hunters who came from every corner of Colored Cloud Immortal Domain.

In the deepest underwater cavern of Tan Stronghold,

a palace sat within a bubble.

Two men stood in its main hall.

One was a green-faced old man with shadowed cheeks. He was Fish Nonzi, the leader of Tan Stronghold.

A five-star Immortal Venerable.

And a human.

He had just received the latest intelligence from Bamboo Spring Sect.

"Liu Xuanye's Dao companion really is as powerful as Senior Yunzhong predicted. It seems your plan not only has to be brought forward, but changed as well."

Beside Fish Nonzi stood a tall, thin middle-aged man whose hands dangled down to his knees, making him look like a spider.

A one-star Immortal Venerable.

Also a human.

Situ, a hunter from Colored Cloud Immortal Domain, had joined Tan Stronghold only in the past few decades.

"No matter. I've had a plan to deal with him for a long time."

Fish Nonzi said:

"As you wished, the entire Beast Tide Forest is now in chaos. Even Tan Stronghold has lost half its strength. Can you tell me your purpose now?"

Situ said:

"Chaos is just a staircase. Only when we reach the top will we see our destination."

"..."

Damn, I don't understand a word!

Fish Nonzi said:

"Fine. Whatever you're after, just don't touch my interests. And as for the Beast King we agreed on—the Bone Dragon—you're sure you can get it?"

"You don't need to ask me. If you trust Yun Zhonghe, then trust me. If you don't trust him, there's no need to trust me either."

"I naturally trust Senior Yunzhong. It's time we started treating Elder Lu's strength as if he were a nine-star Immortal Venerable... Let me make this clear first: I won't fight him."

"Then do you want to fight me?"

As he finished speaking, a black, shadowy arm with a hundred eyes half-open shot out from Situ's body and pierced through the bubble.

It seized a freshwater octopus swimming nearby and dragged it inside the bubble, then forced it into his body through his lower abdomen and devoured it.

Fish Nonzi's face turned ashen, then pale.

"You're actually—"

"You talk too much."

"Yes, yes!"

Azure Phoenix City.

Lu Ya and Wine Fox Immortal stayed out playing in Azure Phoenix City until midnight before returning.

Most of the shopkeepers refused to take their money.

Those who wanted payment were so frightened by a glance from Wine Fox Immortal that they changed their minds.

The two of them drank until they were dead drunk.

But in truth, neither was drunk.

Lu Ya had deliberately acted drunk so he could sleep.

Wine Fox Immortal pretended to be drunk so she could investigate Lu Ya while he slept.

She had been having so much fun these past few days that she had almost forgotten her identity: a proud informant.

So, while Lu Ya was drunk, she dragged him into a wheat field and examined him thoroughly.

After half a day of investigation, she still couldn't make head or tail of him.

Lu Ya was different from Liu Xuanye.

Liu Xuanye was untouchable, inviolable, impossible to investigate—a mysterious figure high above the rest.

Lu Ya, on the other hand, let you investigate him. But he was like a blank sheet of paper, so plain he seemed made of the same stuff as a mortal. No matter how much you looked into him, you couldn't turn up anything useful. Instead, you only ended up looking incompetent.

Wine Fox Immortal suddenly felt a deep sense of defeat. What kind of people were this husband and wife?

In the end, she hoisted Lu Ya over her shoulder and tossed him into the hot spring beneath Liu Xuanye's bedchamber, then went back to the dojo and slept soundly.

Ning Zhongzi saw it all.

She wanted to help Lu Ya sober up, but then she thought better of it. With senior brother's strength, how could he really be drunk? Perhaps he just wanted to sleep more soundly.

So she stripped Lu Ya's clothes off from a distance, letting him sleep in the pool.

Lu Ya was half-asleep and sleeping like a baby.

At some point, he began to dream.

In the dream, Liu Xuanye's restraining power had gone out of control, turning her into a demoness who could destroy heaven and earth.

The entire Immortal Court trembled!

But clad in a red robe, she looked even more imposing and beautiful, as if she were more herself than ever...

Before the dream ended, he heard a clear female voice, like a bright moon hanging in the sky, say by his ear:

"I want to learn the sword from my husband."

Lu Ya rubbed his eyes and climbed up from beneath the water. He looked at Liu Xuanye, sitting at the edge of the pool in a sheer robe, and immediately woke up. Putting on an air of mystery, he said:

"I know two kinds of swordsmanship. Which one do you want to learn?"