Ning Zhongzi also enjoyed playing chess.
She could not play the grand game the way Lu Ya did, but she could play the small game.
Or rather, make her little calculations.
Lu Ya went to Ten Thousand Flower Pavilion every day. She saw it with her own eyes and fretted in her heart.
Meanwhile.
Ever since losing to Li Wuxie, Liu Xuanye had quietly practiced her swordsmanship in the bamboo grove without saying a word. Her aura remained steady, but Ning Zhongzi could see the unwillingness in her heart.
At midnight, Lu Ya was once again thrown into the pool by Wine Fox Immortal, unconscious.
So she began making her little calculations.
First, she secretly stripped Lu Ya and added some medicine to the pool that would invigorate his spirits and restore his strength.
Then she went to drop hints to Liu Xuanye, saying that husband and wife ought to learn from each other, and that Lu Ya's swordsmanship was leagues beyond Li Wuxie's.
What followed unfolded just as she had expected.
But she had only guessed the process.
Not the outcome.
What she had wanted Lu Ya to teach Liu Xuanye was another kind of swordsmanship—the swordsmanship of making babies.
Immortals sought to cultivate with unblemished bodies. The Immortal Platform and sea of qi existed within the heart; one needed to keep the desires between men and women as faint as possible.
Ordinary sects would not teach the art of dual cultivation. Some sects even deliberately twisted its meaning into two people cultivating together, so that their male and female disciples could devote themselves to cultivation with peace of mind.
Ning Zhongzi herself had been taught that distorted interpretation by her master for many years.
That was how she had taught Liu Xuanye as well.
But now, Liu Xuanye