The days at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were always happy and all too brief. Before long, the day came for Qian Renyue to bid Chen Xin farewell.
During that time, Chen Xin had taught Qian Renyue a great deal. But their time together had been short, and she could not fully absorb everything. She could only take one step at a time.
Qian Renyue had also told Chen Xin honestly about her Divine Test and her goal of killing a fifty-thousand-year soul beast. Though surprised, Chen Xin had said little and devoted himself to teaching his young disciple. The day before she left, he produced a pale red longsword from somewhere. Its hilt was fashioned from gold and silver, the two colors intertwined in a dazzling display. Beneath the hilt lay a pale red blade, with a white lotus at the junction between them. The lotus was so well concealed that without an infusion of soul power, no one would even notice that it connected the two. A faint glow covered the pale red blade, and a chain of lotuses engraved within it gave off an exceptionally soothing aura-the very same aura Chen Xin had sensed when he first met Qian Renyue.
"It's beautiful." Qian Renyue could not help voicing her admiration as she gazed at the longsword floating above Chen Xin's hand. For some reason, she kept feeling that the sword shared a certain resonance with her. She could see a special energy contained within it, hidden in the lotuses inside the blade. It was a piercing red, but for now, it showed no reaction.
Chen Xin brought the longsword before Qian Renyue and said, "Xiao Yue, this sword is called Nine Pity. I obtained it from an old acquaintance many years ago. These past few days,