Miss Fairy, Please Hear Me Out

20 days later.

Blood Ink Jade, Waltz!

The sword, wrapped in a blood-black divine glow, dragged a wash of ink through the air.

Compared to the first time, Xu Yuan’s command of this terrifying sword technique had clearly improved by several levels. Unfortunately, this time, he did not even manage to touch the hem of Tian Yan’s clothes.

With a single Instant mantra, she teleported more than 20 meters away, and Xu Yuan’s sword technique carved straight through empty air.

The young woman hovered in midair, watching the heart-stopping sword scar slowly fade from the sky. She shook her head lightly and smiled.

“Idiot. Don’t use that move on me anymore. It’s useless.” Xu Yuan gripped his sword, helplessness written all over his face.

Just as Luo Daofan had told him before, cultivation did not decide everything. Intelligence and combat talent could also affect the outcome of a fight.

No one was stupid, least of all Tian Yan. If Xu Yuan could time the end of a plot protagonist’s invincibility frames and hit them with something vicious, then naturally, other people could do the same.

The opening motion of Void Step Slash was simply too obvious. As a first-time ambush, it was indeed terrifyingly strong. But once someone knew the move, its threat level dropped like a stone.

Unfortunately, that opening motion served as a guide for Void Step Slash. It was like when Tian Yan had needed to form hand seals before using Heaven mantras. For now, Xu Yuan had no way to make up for this flaw.

Tian Yan slowly descended from the air.

Her jade-like bare feet touched the grass. She glanced at Xu Yuan. “You made some progress today, at least. You can control the circulation of qi in your technique now. Looks like you still have some strength left. Want to continue?”

Xu Yuan shook his head. “No. I’ll head back and circulate my energy to recover my source qi first. If we keep going, it’ll affect tomorrow’s training.”

Unlike the first time he used Waltz, he could now roughly control how much power this sword technique unleashed.

That first time, in order to slash out with that sword, Xu Yuan had drained all of his source qi in one go. The result had been obvious too. Far too much of its power had overflowed and gone to waste.

The power of a secret art was naturally not fixed like in a game. The amount of source qi supplied to it would affect its might.

With the strength of the Blood Ink Jade Sword Art, if used properly, he would probably only need one fifth, or even one sixth, of his source qi to kill a third rank cultivator. There was absolutely no need to empty out all his source qi every time he made a move.

This was something Tian Yan had taught him.

A true third rank expert could precisely control every strand of source qi inside their body. As for Xu Yuan, every time he fought, he wasted a great deal of it. At least half. But now, by sparring with Tian Yan, he was working hard to solve this problem.

When Tian Yan heard him say this, however, she asked, “Do you only circulate your energy to heal every day? You don’t cultivate or practice breathing exercises?”

Xu Yuan shrugged and did not hide it. “My cultivation increases on its own every day. I don’t need to cultivate.”

“What?” Tian Yan’s gaze turned strange.

Xu Yuan shrugged. “Probably because of Jing He’s body. It’s synchronizing with his cultivation from ten thousand years ago. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have so much free time every day to do other things.”

Tian Yan frowned when she heard this. Then the corner of her lips curled, and she gave a soft laugh. “That’s pretty good. Your cultivation is almost at the peak of third rank now. Maybe later, you’ll even be able to break straight into second rank. That’s a good thing for us.”

Xu Yuan straightened his clothes and replied with a smile. “You could do the same. Too bad you’re using your own body.”

Tian Yan gave a light snort, looking thoroughly unimpressed. “I don’t need something like that. If I switched to someone else’s physique, I wouldn’t be able to use my Heaven Deriving Art at all.”

Hearing this, Xu Yuan glanced in the direction of Splendorbloom’s main peak. “By the way, Bai Fan and the others don’t seem to remember what cultivation method you practice anymore.”

Over the past few days, those pampered young masters had often come looking for them.

They went sightseeing together, took spring outings, and hunted in the wild. Aside from that, they also invited the two of them to the martial arena for sparring matches.

To avoid revealing his strength, Xu Yuan had always used the excuse that he was cultivating a secret technique and politely kept his distance from the latter. Tian Yan, however, often went along. Yet Bai Fan and the others had shown no suspicion whatsoever toward the way she used the Heaven Deriving Art in battle.

Tian Yan pondered for a moment, then said quietly, “Wang Yuchu’s identity has already been ruined by me. Naturally, the finer details related to her identity would be wiped away directly.”

Xu Yuan shook his head lightly. “Enough. Let’s head back first.”

As he was speaking, he suddenly saw Tian Yan’s slender brows lift. She raised her head and looked toward the distant sky.

Just as he was about to ask, Xu Yuan also sensed a wave of source qi coming from far away. He immediately poured source qi into his eyes and looked up.

There, in midair, two people were flying unhurriedly toward the main peak. They were still rather far away. Their flying speed was not particularly fast, and he could not make out their cultivation levels. But since they could fly through the air, they were probably not weak.

One was old, the other young.

Xu Yuan recognized the older one. He was an enforcement elder from the Punishment Hall. But the young man beside him was someone Xu Yuan had never seen before.

The man wore his hair loose, and his wide white robes hung on him in a careless, slightly disheveled manner. A cloth bag was slung across his back, and in his hand, he casually dangled a dark-blue long blade. He looked free, easygoing, and utterly unrestrained.

After staring for a while, Xu Yuan finally remembered which sect that white-robed man’s attire belonged to. All those books he had read over the past few days had not gone to waste after all.

Grand Purity Dao Palace.

Xu Yuan withdrew his gaze and looked at Tian Yan. “That man seems to be from Grand Purity Dao Palace.”

Tian Yan also looked away. “Mhm. I know.”

“What is someone from Grand Purity Dao Palace doing here at this point in time?” Xu Yuan’s voice carried a hint of thoughtfulness.

The Splendorbloom Sect had yet to obtain the Beguiling Divine Sakura, so its strength had not reached its peak. At most, it could be considered a sect peacefully occupying its own little corner of the world. Its power was far inferior to what it would have by the time of its destruction.

But the Grand Purity Dao Palace of this era was the second-largest sect in the world.

At this point in time, what could someone from Grand Purity Dao Palace possibly want in the Splendorbloom Realm?

Tian Yan shook her head and smiled faintly. “Rather than what they came here to do, I’m more curious about the world outside the Splendorbloom Realm in this illusion.”

Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes when he heard that.

The Splendorbloom Realm was vast. Though it was not as broad and immense as it had been before they entered the illusion, it was still about one-fifth of its original size.

Maintaining an illusion of this scale was already terrifying enough. But if the space outside the Splendorbloom Realm was also part of the illusion, then perhaps they could simply leave, avoiding the fate of being refined into the Beguiling Divine Sakura and the Leech King altogether.

But as soon as this thought arose, Xu Yuan gently shook his head. “No point thinking about that. You said the source of the illusion is most likely here in the Splendorbloom Realm. Even if we leave, we’ll have to come back sooner or later.”

Tian Yan lifted her beautiful eyes to the sky and gave a soft sigh. “This illusion really is strange.”

“It is strange. So hurry up and figure out how to get us out,” Xu Yuan said. “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life stuck here with you.”

“Heh.” Tian Yan rolled her eyes at him.

The arrival of that young talent from Grand Purity Dao Palace did not affect Xu Yuan and Tian Yan’s daily life. In fact, over the past few days, they had not gone to Splendorbloom’s main peak at all. Their routine had become a straight line between the residence and the grassland, back and forth, nothing else.

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