[Teaching Panel] Name: Ye Xiao Level: 12 Comprehension: 10 Martial Soul: Epiphyllum Sword (yellow) Soul Skills: 1. Power of Sharpness (300 years): Increases the Epiphyllum Sword's sharpness attribute, and every swing has a 0.05% chance of unleashing sharp sword Qi. Number of people taught: 1 (hidden: 55555555) Sword Dao inheritances: Angel Sword Technique version 2.1 (66% increase in combat power), Indestructible Sword Body (0.7%)
"No way, bro!"
After absorbing the Soul Ring, Ye Xiao glanced at his panel, then shot to his feet!
The sword Qi he had desperately sought for half a month had come just like that?
Wasn't his luck a little too good?
"Is the Soul Skill that powerful?"
Seeing Ye Xiao's delighted expression, Ye Guyi asked curiously.
"It's nothing special for anyone else, but it's perfect for me!"
Ye Xiao summoned the Epiphyllum Sword and spun it in a stylish flourish.
With this Soul Skill allowing him to come into contact with sword Qi ahead of time, his progress in deducing it would speed up considerably!
"Who would've thought? After all those years of hardship following you, things are finally looking up for me too!"
Ye Xiao smiled as he spoke. For the past few years, he had followed Ye Guyi from one hiding place to another, running here and there. It had been pure misery!
After the heavenly screen appeared, he had first stayed home for half a month without going out, with a young lady at home to play around with.
Then he had hit the jackpot with his Soul Skill on the first try, getting exactly what he needed...
The smile gradually faded from Ye Xiao's face, and he suddenly glanced up at the sky for no apparent reason.
"So following me was such a hardship for you?"
Ye Guyi rolled her eyes at Ye Xiao irritably, opened her waterskin and took a long, gulping drink. The droplets that splashed out wet the front of her clothes.
Ye Xiao paid it no mind.
He had seen more suggestive sights than that, so naturally he wouldn't lose his composure over such a little display.
"No hardship at all, none at all~"
"Big sister Guyi is number one under heaven!"
Watching her had made Ye Xiao thirsty too. As he flattered her, he pulled his own little waterskin from beneath his skirt.
Just as Ye Xiao opened his waterskin, the heavenly screen actually descended once more!
At the start of the heavenly screen were the large words "One month later."
"What timing~"
Ye Guyi put away her waterskin, wiped her mouth and sat down beside Ye Xiao on the tree trunk the blue antelope had knocked over.
The two watched the scene that appeared on the heavenly screen together.
The large words gradually faded, and the scene shifted to a living room.
On the left side of the room, future Guyi and future Ye Xiao sat together. Across from them sat an aloof woman in a white dress, her white hair falling over her shoulders.
In her arms was a little loli with emerald-green hair.
["Thank you."
The aloof woman stroked the little loli's head, her expression somewhat complicated.
"It's nothing. You're my Sword Spirits. Maintaining your existence is what I should do."
Ye Xiao shrugged and spoke without concern.
"Exactly, Xue'er~"
"We're both his people now, so why are you still being so polite with him?"
The little loli spoke bluntly.]
The next moment, two text labels appeared beside them.
[Snow Empress: foremost of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North. Her true form is a 700,000-year-old Heavenly Snow Woman.]
[Ice Empress: one of the Three Great Heavenly Kings of the Far North. Her true form is a 400,000-year-old Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion.]
"So that's how it is..."
In the Far North, an aloof woman who looked almost identical to the one on the heavenly screen spoke calmly.
Ever since the narration had mentioned Huo Yuhao losing his Soul Spirit companions, she had suspected something about her own situation.
If she were in good condition, there was no way the human known as the Child of Destiny could have made those ice-attribute Soul Beasts his Soul Spirits.
"What's a Sword Spirit?"
The little loli Ice Empress asked the Snow Empress hesitantly.
"I don't know. Perhaps it means something like a Soul Ring with a consciousness of its own?"
"And judging by this, I ultimately failed to condense my Second Soul Core."
The Snow Empress's expression was inscrutable.
After all, with her pride, there was no way she would submit herself to a human while at her peak.
Much less bring Bing'er along with her.
["Bing'er!"
The Snow Empress frowned slightly, unable to keep herself from chiding the unguarded Ice Empress.
With her discerning eye, she could naturally tell that Ye Guyi's presence across from her had changed considerably.
Her presence was sharper, and she was like a keen sword poised to strike!
Presumably, she had taken a huge step forward in her understanding of the cultivation technique!
But that raised a question: why had she made that improvement not earlier or later, but right after her level was reset to zero? Right after Ye Xiao played the hero and saved the beauty?]
Ye Guyi glanced evasively at Ye Xiao beside her, who was watching with great interest.
She couldn't help feeling hot all over.
What is this narration talking about?!
Ye Guyi pursed her lips, thinking with some embarrassment and annoyance.
Didn't it know how awkward it was to be sitting right next to the person in question?!
["So, you two, would you like to become my disciples~"
"In your current state, you'll advance a thousand miles a day cultivating my technique!"
Ye Xiao watched the two beauties, one grown and one small, fooling around with interest.
"Do we have a choice?"
The Snow Empress smiled wryly, though she also felt a little anticipation.
She had long known that Ye Xiao's cultivation technique was extraordinary.
But she had gone too far down the Soul Beast path, and switching entirely to his technique would have wasted too much time. That was why she hadn't cultivated with Ye Xiao before.
But now that things had come to this, her cultivation had vanished overnight, giving her the perfect chance to experience Ye Xiao's technique!
"You want me, a scorpion, to play with swords?"
The Ice Empress folded her arms and pursed her lips at Ye Xiao.
"Of course you have a choice~"
"Snow Empress, I was joking earlier. You helped me a great deal early on. How could I possibly take you as disciples?"
"Just think of it as guidance between friends~"
Ye Xiao smiled gently and spoke to reassure the Snow Empress.
Then he turned to the Ice Empress, intending to answer her question too:
"So what?"
"Aah! You're playing favorites!"
The Ice Empress's little face flushed red. She jumped onto the table in annoyance, then slammed herself into Ye Xiao's arms.
"No, when you learned my Emperor Sword before, didn't you call me teacher too?"
"We're friends, but we're also each other's teachers."
Watching the Ice Empress and Ye Xiao fool around, the Snow Empress's expression softened somewhat.]
"'We're friends, but we're also each other's teachers'~"
"Who's this?"
Ye Guyi spoke in a quiet voice.
"The Snow Empress. Didn't the heavenly screen tell us?"
Ye Xiao looked in confusion at Ye Guyi, whose tone had turned strange.
"I'm asking when you met her!"
"And how you met her!"
Ye Guyi pulled Ye Xiao into her arms and pinched his cheeks hard.
Perhaps it was because the heavenly screen had been showing scenes of how close Ye Xiao and Ye Guyi were, but now, seeing the Snow Empress talking with Ye Xiao, she actually felt uncomfortable deep down!
It was as though someone had stolen the late-night snack that belonged to her!
Sure enough!
She really ought to lock this little scoundrel up tight in a secret room!