"Senior Brother, you're finally here! If you hadn't come up soon, we would have asked the people of Youyun Prefecture to look for you!"
Xu Taiping had only just entered the pavilion stands when he heard Seventh Princess Chu Tiancheng's voice.
"Sorry for making you worry."
Xu Taiping smiled at everyone with a hint of apology.
"Senior Brother, you kept yourself shut in your room these past few days. Were you secretly comprehending a blade domain?"
Chu Tiancheng grabbed Xu Taiping's arm and asked quietly, looking conspiratorial.
At this, Xu Taiping did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Tiancheng, how could you pry so casually into your senior brother's secrets?"
Before Xu Taiping could look over, he heard Little Martial Aunt speak in a somewhat stern tone, shooting Chu Tiancheng a glare as she did.
Chu Tiancheng immediately grinned and stopped pestering Xu Taiping with questions.
"It's not really a secret. If you'd like to know, Little Martial Aunt, I can tell you all after the match."
As he spoke, Xu Taiping sat down in the empty chair beside Little Martial Aunt.
"When it concerns the secrets of cultivation arts, it's best that you alone know them. You mustn't reveal them even to those closest to you."
Little Martial Aunt Lu Rushuang reminded him with utmost seriousness.
"I'll take your teaching to heart."
Hearing this, Xu Taiping nodded solemnly as well.
"How are your injuries?"
At this point, Lu Rushuang asked Xu Taiping quietly through voice transmission, sounding somewhat worried.
As she spoke, the runes beneath her feet that blocked others' perception lit up once more.
"Little Martial Aunt, my injuries really aren't serious. They're mostly flesh wounds."
Xu Taiping looked at the third prince standing below on the Golden Scale Platform as he transmitted his reply to Lu