When Zhang Xiaohua had accepted the Azure Water Sword from Sect Leader Si Yakong of the Weapon Forging Gate that day, he had inspected the sword with his divine sense. Yet he had not examined the sheath still in Si Yakong's hand. Now, as he spread out his divine sense and gave it a cursory look, he immediately detected something strange.
The strangeness of the sheath was not that it emitted fluctuations of vital energy that caught Zhang Xiaohua's divine sense, but that when his divine sense passed over it, he discovered an exceedingly concealed compartment at its base. The compartment was tiny and hidden within the sheath; even a careful inspection with the naked eye would never reveal it.
Since the compartment was so well concealed, and the sheath itself was so ancient and unadorned, what lay inside was surely no ordinary thing. Zhang Xiaohua picked up the Azure Water Sword and sent true qi into it, immediately spurring forth a sword gleam an inch long. Then he raised the sheath and, with utmost care, cut a tiny slit into it. A corner of silk protruded from the slit. Zhang Xiaohua hooked it out with the nail of his little finger, only to find a large sheet of silk containing a sword manual illustrated with little figures wielding swords!
Zhang Xiaohua frowned and thought, Was my luck really this good? I was just thinking that if there were a matching sword manual, and now I found an actual sword manual inside the sheath? That couldn't be possible, could it?
Sure enough, upon examining it closely, he saw that the sword depicted in the manual was a long sword, not a short sword like the Azure Water Sword. It seemed this manual had not been intended specifically for the Azure