Beauty Belonged Only to the Strong

Teaching was a real pain.

Though Lu Ya was invincible, he wasn't much of a teacher.

If he wanted, he could cultivate Muyu Feifei into an Immortal Emperor within ten years.

But would Muyu Feifei even have a soul by then?

Nope.

Lu Ya could picture the scene.

"This venerable one is Great Emperor Muyu. Who are you?"

"This venerable one is Great Emperor Fei—no, I'm Great Emperor Muyu! Who are you?"

"Oh, so I'm actually Great Emperor Feifei."

"..."

Lu Ya was afraid he might lose his temper and scatter the ashes of those two silly Immortal Emperors.

Being a teacher was exhausting, especially when you had a stupid student. It was bound to make you want to beat someone up.

Still, Liu Xuanye had always been aloof, yet tonight she had humbled herself to ask him to teach her. She had even called him "husband" for the first time. How could Lu Ya refuse to teach her?

It was clear that Liu Xuanye was quite dissatisfied with her loss to Li Wuxie.

At the same time, because of her physique, she didn't dare advance her cultivation recklessly.

So she could only seek a breakthrough in swordsmanship.

Cultivation breakthroughs could rely on talent.

But mastering sword techniques required guidance from a renowned teacher, as well as years of painstaking practice.

Before, she hadn't known that Lu Ya's swordsmanship was divine, so she had never asked him.

Now she had seen with her own eyes how Lu Ya defeated Li Wuxie with nothing but swordsmanship.

That had stirred up a rare excitement in her.

Actually, back at East Floating Immortal Academy, she had been the studious, top-of-the-class type. She hadn't been as aloof as she was now.

Lu Ya glanced sideways at Liu Xuanye.

She sat cross-legged on a clean stone by the pool, dressed in the white gauze she wore when meditating. It was as if she had draped herself in a translucent sheath of bamboo, faintly revealing her graceful curves and the divine radiance that seemed to ripple around her.

Her features were like a painting, morning dew glistened on her lips, and starlight shone in her eyes.

Clear and graceful, she took one's breath away.

Even with Ten Thousand Swords Piercing the Heart, Lu Ya could hardly take his eyes off her.

Without realizing it, he thought of a saying: Beauty belonged only to the strong.

He also remembered his earlier dream.

In the dream, the power of Liu Xuanye's seal had spiraled out of control, turning her into a Nether being who could destroy heaven and earth.

Only the highest-ranking Nether beings took human form!

She wore a long robe that faded from dark red to black, her face hidden beneath a hood, with only a pair of cold red lips showing.

She was very tall and seemed a little slender, but the proud crimson peaks on her chest made the aura of her red robe rise to its peak, giving her an intensely oppressive presence. And yet, not a trace of Nether energy could be felt...

You couldn't even tell whether she was a god or a Nether being.

As if that was the real her...

In this world, who else but him could keep such a woman in check?

At the thought, Lu Ya felt a little worried.

Was he really raising a Demon King?

Ahem, well, a Demon King was fine.

He'd played so many classes over the past five years, but he'd never played a Demon King.

Having a Demon King as a wife didn't sound too bad.

Before he knew it, Lu Ya was feeling a little thrilled!

He'd thought there was nothing left to explore in this world, but tonight, for no apparent reason, he'd felt a thrill for the first time since transmigrating.

At that moment,

Liu Xuanye blushed under Lu Ya's gaze.

That would have been unimaginable in the past. Blushing wasn't part of her repertoire.

Even she was a little surprised, as if this side of her had been brought out.

"What were the two sword techniques?"

"One is called Great Treasure..."

The words reached Lu Ya's lips, then he stopped himself.

"Never mind. Let's learn the second sword technique."

"What technique?"

"Resonance Sword Technique."

Actually, for immortals, there weren't any sword techniques that transcended the power system. They were simply extensions and applications of different power systems.

When an Immortal Commoner advanced to Immortal Monarch, it was easy to learn the first power system.

Spirit Control Mode.

This was the most basic power mode. By controlling spiritual energy, one could control all things and living beings, then extend that control to immortal arts, spiritual pressure, divine sense, runes, seals, restrictions, formations, refining, and more...

The second power system could usually be learned by an ordinary Immortal Sect Master.

Immortal Release Mode.

Immortal Release Mode required immortals to understand and master themselves completely, allowing them to burn their Immortal Platforms in battle without harming themselves. This could grant them several times, even dozens of times, their usual strength. For example, Yunzhongzi's Golden Body and Wine Fox Immortal's Crimson Fox Shadow.

The third power system was more advanced. One needed to be an Immortal Saint to even try learning it, and not every Immortal Saint could master it.

Resonance Mode.

This resonance was much like the resonance in physics from Lu Ya's previous life, except it involved triggering the resonance of all things' spiritual frequencies.

Spirit Control Mode forcibly used one's spiritual energy to make all things submit and obey. It consumed a tremendous amount of energy, was inefficient and environmentally unfriendly, and was also extremely unstable.

By comparison, Resonance Mode was far more impressive: by briefly altering one's own spiritual frequency to match that of a target, one could trigger a resonance in the target's spiritual pressure and thereby control them.

Resonance Mode was extremely difficult to master, and not every Immortal Saint could learn it.

Yet it didn't demand a high level of cultivation. A very small number of geniuses could learn it before reaching Immortal Saint, allowing them to fight above their level.

Li Wuxie, for example.

Lu Ya had noticed yesterday that Li Wuxie had mastered spiritual-pressure resonance ahead of time, while still an Immortal Venerable. His skill was extraordinary, beyond what ordinary people could hope to attain. With such swordsmanship, he hadn't even feared Immortal Emperors at his peak!

Liu Xuanye's talent was even greater than Li Wuxie's.

That was why Lu Ya had decided to let her try.

To master Resonance Mode, one had to accomplish two things.

First, one had to control one's own spiritual frequency with ease. For a genius like Liu Xuanye, that might not be difficult.

Second, one had to listen to all things, become sensitive, and instantly sense their spiritual frequencies.

That was what she lacked!

After all, she was a homebody...

Liu Xuanye furrowed her brows slightly, seeming less than satisfied.

"Resonance Sword Technique... The technique Chief Li used today?"

Lu Ya nodded.

"Exactly."

Liu Xuanye's gaze turned cold. She looked aloof, but she was so beautiful that her petulance even seemed a little cute.

"I want to learn the technique you used to defeat him."

This woman really did have grand ambitions!

Lu Ya said,

"I used the same method to beat him... If I'd used another sword technique, the fight would've ended in three seconds, wouldn't it? I was hoping it would last a little longer."

Liu Xuanye looked confused, but seemed to grasp something.

Lu Ya continued,

"In any case, you have to master Resonance Sword Technique before you can learn anything more advanced. Even this technique is still as difficult as reaching the heavens for you right now—one hundred times harder than skipping Half-step Immortal Sect Master and reaching one-star Immortal Sect Master when you went through your tribulation last time. Do you have confidence?"

"With you here, of course I do," Liu Xuanye said softly.

Lu Ya waited a while.

Silence.

Was that it?

If you know how to talk, then say a few more words!

Liu Xuanye's suddenly gentle voice made Lu Ya's heart melt.

"I'm only going to give you a little guidance. Don't read too much into it."

As he spoke, Lu Ya prepared to get dressed and leave the bath, then suddenly froze.

"Where are my clothes?"

Liu Xuanye smiled.

"Senior Sister took them off you so you'd sleep more comfortably. Your clothes were all wet, so Senior Sister took them to dry."

Drying clothes?

You're an immortal, and you're drying my clothes?

Even an Immortal Monarch could dry clothes with a blast of hot air in three seconds.

Senior Sister was playing a long game!

I'm teaching Liu Xuanye Resonance Sword Technique, not Vibration Sword Technique.

Teaching Vibration Sword Technique could get someone killed.

"Ask Senior Sister to prepare two sets of men's clothes. I'll take you out for a ride."

"Men's clothes?"