The pig his parents had been talking about felt he had gathered enough information for now and returned to the Cloudreach Sect.
As soon as he reached Cloud Reach Peak, he saw Qin Feier miserably thrusting her sword at a tree. The target drawn on its trunk remained perfectly intact, while everything around it was in tatters. Not a single thrust had hit the target.
Who knew whether she was trying to hit the target or avoid it?
Xuanji sat nearby, propping her chin in one hand and eating fruit as she watched Qin Feier stab the tree, looking thoroughly satisfied.
Chu Ge asked her in bewilderment, "With her stabbing like that, what are you looking so satisfied about?"
"I thought everyone who dropped out of the sky for no reason would be like you, Grand Martial Uncle, with every stroke steady on your very first day of practicing the basics, unconsciously conforming to the laws of the Heavenly Dao. Turns out some people are even worse than I was back then." Xuanji was delighted. "Want some fruit, Grand Martial Uncle?"
Chu Ge gave her a sidelong look, took a piece of fruit, and bit into it.
If Qin Feier was learning from the solemn, restrained Qiu Wuji, then Xuanji was absolutely a little Qiu Qiu who had been raised into an adorable good-for-nothing, delighting in others' misfortunes and secretly wicked to boot.
How are you supposed to succeed her like this? Succeed the cute version of Qiu Qiu?
He turned back to Qin Feier. Her face was flushed crimson with effort, and she was drenched in sweat, looking as though she had just been fished out of the water. Yet she stubbornly refused to give in, as though she would rather die than fail to hit the bull's-eye and