The Five Elements Sect.
Morning light pierced the clouds, bathing the ancient, dilapidated Nine-Story Tower in golden splendor. It seemed to blaze with flames, like the Exquisite Immortal Tower of myth and legend.
After a somewhat painful climb, Mo Yun finally reached the Blade Tower.
The figure who had trained diligently in the square, wielding a blade and shield and pouring out sweat, was now nowhere to be seen.
Only a lively splash of emerald green remained, carrying the blades stored inside the Blade Tower out into the square, one by one, to air them.
Mo Yun was somewhat puzzled by Liu Xiyan's actions.
As he pondered this, Mo Yun walked up to Liu Xiyan, took a spirit fruit glowing with pale golden light from inside his robes, and handed it to her.
"Here, Senior Sister Liu. Have a fruit."
Liu Xiyan's eyes lit up at the Golden Spirit Fruit Mo Yun offered. Instinctively, she reached for it, only for her hand to freeze in midair.
"Has our handsome junior brother come to see Junior Sister Lin again?" Liu Xiyan set down the long blade in her hands and smiled, her eyes curving into crescents and two dimples appearing on her pretty but pale face.
She pushed his outstretched hand back. "You should give this spirit fruit to Junior Sister Lin. She's only just started blade concealment. Eating more Golden Spirit Fruits will make it less painful for her."
"I've been practicing blade concealment for ten years now. I'm long used to it~"
Mo Yun: "..."
Without allowing any argument, Mo Yun pressed the spirit fruit into Liu Xiyan's hand. "Take it, Senior Sister Liu. I brought plenty of these today."
"Uh..." Feeling the faint warmth of the spirit fruit, Liu Xiyan was inexplicably touched.
*Our handsome junior brother is