Yingying Escape

Jiang Wan took the chance to feel it up. She tried lifting it but could not budge it. Sword Cultivators really had it rough—they had to carry such a heavy sword from childhood. Weren't they afraid it would stunt their growth?

"I've touched it. My name is Jiang Wan. Since I've touched your sword, we'll be good friends from now on."

Little Dong Chen saw that this little sister's eyes were wet and dewy, and that she wanted to be good friends with him. So he agreed to be good friends with her too.

She had scratched him earlier. It had been so ticklish, so itchy, and so fun. Now that they were good friends, could he get tickled again in the future?

"Okay! We'll be good friends from now on!"

"No, you two can't be good friends!"

Jiang Yao grabbed Dong Chen and pulled him farther away from Jiang Wan. She could not let them become close. Jiang Wan would sooner or later turn into a Great Demon. If she became friends with the future Sword Venerable, then when the time came, the Sword Venerable certainly would not be able to bring himself to kill her.

The two True Lords seated above saw all the children's antics. They had both lived for several centuries and would not stoop to meddling in the affairs of three-year-olds.

Yet the smiles on their faces had now vanished completely as they watched the children.

Dong Chen was somewhat unhappy at being pulled away, and he shook Jiang Yao off.

"What are you doing? I don't know you. I don't want to play with you.

"I'm playing with her. She's my friend now."

The corners of Jiang Wan's lips curved upward. She stopped pretending to cry and raised her chin at Jiang Yao.

The system said she was the Villainous Supporting Female. The False Daughter was probably the female lead—otherwise, who would this True Daughter turned Great Demon serve to highlight?

So she stepped forward, grabbed little Dong Chen's hand, and declared her claim.

"That's right, we're good friends now. But I'm not good friends with you, and Dong Chen, you can't be good friends with her either."

Little Dong Chen nodded with a determined expression.

"Wanwan, don't worry. I'll only be nice to you!"

Jiang Wan grinned, thinking that this little Sword Cultivator was really rather adorable.

"You're amazing!"

Seeing that things were going awry, Jiang Yao hurried forward and pulled apart the two little hands clasped together.

"No, Senior Brother Dong Chen, you can't be friends with her!"

She was someone reborn with great fortune. She knew the course of events from her previous life. This Jiang Wan absolutely could not become close to Sword Venerable Dong Chen.

"Ow, that hurts! Ying ying ying—"

Jiang Wan deployed her Yingying Escape, clutching the hand Jiang Yao had touched as she ran out of the main hall. She wanted to find somewhere quiet to use Sword Embryo Forging Body. She had no time to accompany two childish little brats.

The two True Lords seated above were both rather speechless as they watched the farce among the three children.

When little Dong Chen saw Jiang Wan run out, he shoved Jiang Yao away.

"Go away! You made Wanwan cry. I won't play with you."

Jiang Yao was furious. Was the Sword Venerable really this hard to deal with even as a child?

Seeing that he was about to chase after Jiang Wan, she quickly grabbed him.

"Senior Brother Dong Chen, she tricked you. I know several very powerful sword techniques. Do you want to see them?"

"No!"

With a sword a head taller than himself on his back, little Dong Chen flung off Jiang Yao's hand and ran out of the main hall on his short little legs.

The two True Lords seated above exchanged speechless looks. Neither of them took Jiang Yao's powerful sword techniques to heart.

Then Jiang Yao stepped forward. The three-and-a-half-year-old girl looked solemn like a little adult, though her voice was still babyish as she said,

"Daddy, True Lord Bitter Sword, I dreamed of an immortal last night. The immortal even gave me a copy of the Blazing Fire Sword Art. I wish to use this sword art to enter True Lord Bitter Sword's sect."

True Lord Bitter Sword slightly raised his brows, his curiosity piqued.

Dreaming of an immortal granting her a sword art—whether this was a great opportunity depended on the sword art's rank. With that thought, he became interested in the sword art.

He turned to look at the expressionless True Lord Leng Feng beside him.

"True Lord Leng Feng, it appears that the foster daughter you mistakenly took in from the start is fated with my Myriad Sword Sect!

"Would you be willing to part with her and let her join my Myriad Sword Sect?"

True Lord Leng Feng looked at the three-year-old child on the floor, his brows creasing almost imperceptibly.

"Since she is willing, I will not force her to stay. You may take her away today."

Jiang Yao's heart sank coldly at once. Sure enough, now that their biological daughter had returned, they could simply discard the daughter they had raised for over three years?

"Daddy, True Lord Bitter Sword, could you give me seven years?

"During these seven years, Yaoyao wishes to remain in the Myriad Talisman Sect, fulfill my filial duty by Father and Mother's side, and learn the art of talisman drawing along the way."

Once she finished speaking, the two True Lords above exchanged glances. Both silently looked at the three-year-old girl kneeling on the ground.

True Lord Bitter Sword was already beginning to regret it. This girl's thoughts were too cluttered; she was not suited to the sword path.

What Jiang Yao thought was that she had grown up in the Myriad Talisman Sect in her previous life. There was nothing in the Myriad Talisman Sect that she did not know. Since she already knew everything, there was no need for her to remain.

But the Myriad Talisman Sect possessed a treasure called the Myriad Talisman Lure. It had been her protective talisman in her previous life and had helped her escape danger several times. Since she was leaving the Myriad Talisman Sect in this life, naturally she had to take the Myriad Talisman Lure with her.

The Myriad Talisman Lure was within the Myriad Talisman Sect's secret realm. The secret realm would open in seven years, so she had to obtain the Myriad Talisman Lure before leaving seven years later.

Moreover, she thought the Myriad Talisman Sect was simply no good. In her previous life, Jiang Wan, who had cultivated into a Heavenly Demon, had slain her with a single sword because she lacked a powerful killing move.

Reborn into this life, she would cultivate the sword path instead and become Sword Venerable Dong Chen's Junior Sister. With Sword Venerable Dong Chen protecting her, she would then kill Jiang Wan while she was still young. Her great path would become a broad, level road!

After Jiang Wan escaped with her ying ying ying, she knew her legs were short, so she found that senior brother with green fortune above his head and had him send her back to her courtyard.

Madam Li had been thrown onto Meditation Cliff anyway, so no one should come disturb her again.

Thus, when little Dong Chen ran out, he could not find Jiang Wan.

When he returned, the sky had fallen. His master had actually accepted that little girl as a disciple—she had become his Junior Sister.

When Jiang Wan returned, the original two maids had been replaced with two new ones. These two looked better than the previous ones.

Having also been warned by Martial Uncle Jinghe, they treated her very respectfully.

When Jiang Wan told them to leave, they left.

Looking at the black lump labeled Innate Sword Embryo in her inventory, she moved her divine sense and took it out. The instant the black lump appeared, it vanished from her hand and burrowed into her body.

That frightened her badly.

"System Bro, what's going on?"

[Innate Sword Embryo. It contains Innate Qi. Once absorbed, it will make cultivation twice as effective with half the effort. The sword embryo has no attribute. Whichever kind of spiritual energy the host uses to nourish it in the dantian, and whatever form the host wishes to refine it into, is entirely up to you.]

So the question was—

"System, I'm only at the First Layer of Qi Refining right now. Can I forge this Innate Sword Embryo?"

[Host, you are now the Supreme Heavenly Demon. You may forge this sword embryo however you wish.]

Communication had failed. Jiang Wan simply stopped asking and began figuring it out herself, slowly nourishing it with her Lightning Spiritual Root.

No one knew when True Lord Bitter Sword of the Myriad Sword Sect had left, but he had already agreed to take Jiang Yao as his disciple. They would only wait until Jiang Yao turned ten to formally hold the apprenticeship ceremony.

As for Madam Li, she was to be expelled from the Myriad Talisman Sect.

Upon hearing the news, Jiang Yao did not go plead with the Myriad Talisman Sect Master. Instead, she ran to Jiang Wan's courtyard to beg Jiang Wan.

Jiang Wan had finally gotten to eat a normal meal, without having to go hungry as before, when she saw Jiang Yao with red-rimmed eyes.

"Burp!" She let out a satisfied belch.

Thankfully, she was already full. The sight of this little girl turned her stomach so much that she could not have eaten otherwise.

"Wuwuwu, little sister, can you help me plead for mercy? My mother didn't mean to lose you. Now she's going to be expelled from the sect.

"If she is expelled from the sect, she'll have nowhere to go and become a Rogue Cultivator whom everyone bullies. Little sister, please, don't drive her away, okay?"

Jiang Wan was quite pleased with her biological father's decision. But if Madam Li were truly driven out, where would she go to take revenge on her?

The original owner had died because of her. Jiang Wan had to kill Madam Li with her own hands and avenge the original owner.

"Okay, I'll go plead with Father right away."

Having finished eating, she could take a walk to aid digestion. She arrived at the residence of True Lord Leng Feng and Fairy Xueyun.

"Father, Mother, I heard you're going to expel Foster Mother from the sect?"

True Lord Leng Feng was sitting across from Fairy Xueyun, drinking tea. Seeing Jiang Wan arrive with Jiang Yao following behind her, he gave Jiang Yao an indifferent glance and nodded.

"Yes. She threw you beneath a cliff. Had you not been fortunate enough to survive, how could you have lived?

"I spared her life only because she had cared for you for over three years."

Jiang Wan looked at Jiang Yao behind her, then turned to look at her parents. One moment, she lowered her head and spoke weakly.

"But I can't bear to see her leave. After all, she is Yaoyao's biological mother. Little Sister Yaoyao will be heartbroken."

The next moment, her eyes sparkled as she added.