Little Nannan Wants to Learn the Sword

Little Nannan Wants to Learn the Sword

Fengming Orchid Pavilion was a place name, located at the foot of the mountains where Phoenix Cry Town met South City. With green mountains and clear waters, the surroundings were exceptionally tranquil.

From the moment they entered the main road, gray-armored guards carrying long spears patrolled every thirty or forty meters. When they saw Bai Ningbing's carriage, they treated it as though it were nothing and allowed it to pass.

It seems the White Family is no simple matter indeed!

Chen Qiye thought to himself.

With no obstacles along the way, Bai Ningbing brought Chen Qiye and the other three into an estate-like complex. Its design and decorations were exceedingly luxurious, every detail ingenious and clearly crafted with great care. Looking around, they saw strange flowers everywhere and exquisite, oddly shaped rocks.

Su Manman exclaimed, "Bai Ningbing, the White Family truly deserves to be called South City's foremost great family."

"Just so-so." Though Bai Ningbing said this, there was not the slightest hint of modesty on his face. "The White Family is still merely a worldly family. How could we compare to the elegance and refinement of the lords' Mount Phoenix?"

"Mount Phoenix only has parasol trees. What refinement is there..." Su Manman replied sourly, then suddenly asked, "By the way, wasn't Ye Guxue with you?"

"Him? He had an appointment." Just as Bai Ningbing finished speaking, an extremely sharp flash of sword light came from ahead.

"Ah?" Little Nannan was startled awake and hurriedly clutched Chen Qiye's arm.

"They've already started. Let's go take a look!" Bai Ningbing smiled at Su Manman's astonished expression. "Don't worry, Brother Ye is testing swords with someone!"

Within the pavilion lay a mountain valley, steep on three sides, with only a valley mouth several hundred meters wide exposed.

Once they entered the valley, they saw a green lake within it. Many black-armored guards and cultivators stood by the lake, watching the two people on its surface with rapt attention.

On one side stood Ye Guxue, the "Imperial Sword," dressed in a long yellow robe.

The other was a woman with flowing dark hair. Her features were ethereal and peerlessly beautiful. Dressed in fluttering white robes, she stood against the wind with a blue longsword on her back, carrying an otherworldly air of an immortal heroine.

"That big sister is so pretty!" Chen Qiye carried Little Nannan down from the carriage. Her large eyes looked toward Mirror Lake as her childish voice rang out. "Her clothes are pretty, her hair is pretty, and she's pretty too!"

"Pretty? Why do I think she's ugly?" Su Manman pouted unhappily from the side.

Bai Ningbing cast a teasing glance at Su Manman and led the group forward slowly. "Brother Chen, you've met Brother Ye before. That fairy in white is the person Brother Ye arranged to meet. She'll also be heading to Dragon Transformation Pool with us this time."

"Who is she?" Su Manman interjected.

"Brother Ye's friend, Lu Junchu." Bai Ningbing shrugged. "She's from the Central Plains."

"Lu Junchu?"

Chen Qiye was slightly startled. He carefully examined the woman in white and saw that her eyes were lightly closed as she stood atop Mirror Lake. Her aura was completely restrained. She was far too quiet!

So quiet that she seemed to have merged with heaven and earth itself.

"Brother Chen, you know her?" Bai Ningbing asked in confusion.

Chen Qiye shook his head and set Little Nannan down. The two on Mirror Lake clashed again.

"Here it comes!" Bai Ningbing's gaze sharpened slightly. Ye Guxue's aura spread out, streams of air swirling around his body like vortices and faintly radiating a pale yellow glow. Then a fierce wind erupted from him, howling in all directions, while the lake water beneath his feet surged into white waves that crashed against the shore.

"Uncle, what's that?" Little Nannan's eyes brightened as she watched.

"That's a sword-intent divine ability Brother Ye recently comprehended!" Bai Ningbing explained from the side.

The currents of air coiled like dragons, forming an illusory giant sword shadow behind Ye Guxue. The shadow continuously solidified, as though it were about to become real. Sharp sword cries rang out from within it, like soaring notes playing a melody.

"H-he actually opened the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm!" Su Manman's mouth fell open in disbelief.

"Otherwise, do you think just anyone would dare call himself the 'Imperial Sword'?" Bai Ningbing seemed quite pleased by Su Manman's astonishment. He casually teased her, then turned his gaze toward Chen Qiye.

Yet Chen Qiye's face remained calm, causing Bai Ningbing to glance sideways at him. "Brother Chen? What do you think?"

"Hm? Very good." Chen Qiye turned his head and replied.

"Just very good?" Bai Ningbing froze.

"It is very good." Chen Qiye looked a little puzzled. "Isn't it good?"

Ding! Emotion points from Bai Ningbing +500!

"It's really exhausting talking to you." Bai Ningbing said irritably, then turned to Su Manman. "Shall we have a chat?"

"Get lost!" Su Manman's face darkened.

"This is only a sword test. In a real battle, there would be no way he'd have so much time to gather a divine ability."

Chen Qiye watched as Ye Guxue condensed the enormous sword shadow. It had taken two or three minutes for it to grow from three meters to more than ten meters. In a life-or-death battle, an opponent would not give him even an extra second. Where would he find the time to gather a divine ability?

As soon as he finished speaking, the black-armored guards around them nodded in agreement.

Though this divine ability appeared immensely powerful, it was impractical.

At that moment, Ye Guxue slashed down with his sword. As the sword shadow descended, it actually cleaved a crack through Mirror Lake, and the lake water transformed into white waves several meters high that swept toward Chen Qiye and the others.

Clang!

With one sword strike falling, Lu Junchu unleashed her own. Her blue longsword suddenly flew out, and countless sword shadows shifted through the air, striking the enormous sword shadow in rapid succession like water dripping through stone. Brilliant multicolored light burst across the sky from the collisions of the two swords, as dazzling as fireworks blooming one after another.

In the end, Ye Guxue's sword shadow dissipated into nothingness.

"It seems Lu Junchu is a little stronger?" Bai Ningbing stared blankly at the fading sword shadow and asked aloud.

"Lu Junchu should be stronger." Su Manman appeared thoughtful as well.

The two looked toward Chen Qiye at the same time, only to hear Little Nannan's innocent, clear voice say, "Uncle is the strongest..."

Chen Qiye crouched down until he was level with Little Nannan's little head and smiled. "Little Nannan will be the strongest person in this world someday."

"Really?" Little Nannan touched her own little head, blinking her large eyes. "Can Uncle teach me?" Her voice paused slightly. "They said Little Nannan has a useless body and no talent for cultivation..." When Little Nannan spoke the words "they said," a different emotion clearly entered her voice. She clenched her teeth, and though the movement was subtle, it did not escape Chen Qiye's eyes.

Some things were only buried for the time being. One day, they would be unearthed, and that would mark the beginning of mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

"Cultivation is very hard." Su Manman spoke from experience.

"I'm not afraid!" Little Nannan pressed her lips together, but her eyes were filled with determination.

Chen Qiye shook his head. "What does Little Nannan want to learn?"

"I want to learn Uncle's sword—the sword that kills people!" Little Nannan grew solemn as she spoke with utmost seriousness.

Su Manman was stunned.

Bai Ningbing was also taken aback and blurted out, "What exactly has she been through?"

Though Bai Ningbing had already opened his Sea of Bitterness and entered the Life Spring Realm, as a pampered young master of the White Family, he had never even killed a chicken, let alone a person.

"Bai Ningbing, you're really getting worse and worse. Now you're even associating with Wheel Sea cultivators? You're truly disgracing our White Family... Though that makes sense. You're a Wheel Sea cultivator yourself, so birds of a feather flock together, hahaha!"

(End of Chapter)