Joshua looked puzzled. "What are you two talking about in riddles that I can't understand? Do you suspect something's wrong with the village chief and his son?"
Ye Chuqi patted Joshua's head and smiled. "We'll know whether something's wrong once we take a look."
To hide her identity and avoid unnecessary trouble, Ye Chuqi had no choice but to put away the far too conspicuous Thousand-Leaf Sword.
Yan Jiu pointed at the little yellow ball hanging from her belt. "Should you put San San away too? San San stands out quite a bit."
Although the people who had targeted Ye Chuqi had no reason to know she had been fortunate enough to cross a spatial rift and appear directly on the Kabu Continent, they had gone to great lengths twice to make her disappear. They must have known her identifying traits.
That knowledge was unlikely to be shared by everyone on the Kabu Continent, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Being recognized by accident would still be troublesome.
They had no one to turn to here, and an actual fight would be difficult to handle.
Ye Chuqi now used a heavy sword Master Beverly had forged especially for her. It was made from the same material he had used for that little black dagger, which weighed far more than other materials of the same volume. With the unusual ores and introductory forging manuals Ye Chuqi had given him, Master Beverly had spent the past few years working to find a balance between several materials. This heavy sword embodied his finest craftsmanship, combining the latest materials with concepts from the Cultivation World—
Yan Jiu's assessment was that it was quite heavy, considerably heavier than the saber in his hand. His saber merely looked intimidating; compared with Ye Chuqi's