Bai Qianjun snorted coldly, said nothing, and swept down from the tree.
He was covered in blood now. To remain standing in the treetop would have been altogether too bedraggled.
Zhuo Rusui also landed beside the stream, but he did not put away his gray flying sword. It hovered motionless beside him, ready to strike again at any moment.
Once the flying sword stopped moving, its true appearance emerged. Its blade was pale gray and utterly plain, yet countless cracks covered its surface, looking like fish scales.
This sword was named Swallowing Boat and enjoyed considerable fame in the Cultivation World. It was Heavenly Light Peak's highest-grade flying sword, ranking even above Blue Sea, and its origins were no ordinary matter either.
When Zhuo Rusui first entered Green Mountain, True Person Liu Ci took him straight to Heavenly Light Peak for secluded cultivation. He had no chance at all to seek a sword on Cloud-Traveling Peak. True Person Liu Ci actually fetched this sword himself and then passed it on to him. This was, of course, against the rules, and Shangde Peak raised a very stern objection. But True Person Liu Ci was not only highly accomplished in cultivation; he was also exceptionally skilled at playing deaf and dumb, and casually bluffed his way through. This showed that the disciple True Person Liu Ci doted on most was still this Closed-Door Disciple.
It was the first time those Kunlun disciples had seen the legendary Swallowing Boat Sword. They discovered that it did not look nearly as bloodthirsty as the rumors suggested. It looked more like a listless salted fish.
But who dared underestimate this flying sword? Just as who dared underestimate Zhuo Rusui, whose eyelids drooped all day, making him look as though he could never quite wake up?
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