An oil lamp was lit on the desk. Zhao Xiang’er sat on the chair, one hand placed on her belly. The back of her hand was pressed by the elbow of the other arm. She lowered her head, unfolded the letter of apology with one hand and read it out gently.
“Dear Miss Zhao, I’ve thought about this back and forth. Deep in my heart, I feel guilty about you. Therefore, I’m writing this letter to seek your forgiveness.”
How hypocritical... Zhao Xiang’er read the letter softly with a straight face. With her eyes glistening, she read on.
“Over the past month, you’ve spared no effort to help forge my body and enhance my stamina. Whenever I think of this, I’m deeply touched though I may whine about it.
“You are an exalted empress but you still explained the sword method and fist method to me with skill and patience. Moreover, you even cooked a meal for us, which tasted so amazing that I would never forget it for the rest of my life.”
After saying that, Ning Changjiu stopped and looked at Lu Jiajia calmly, hoping that she could catch a glimpse of a bit of sincerity in his eyes.Lu Jiajia slightly hedged and stared at Ning Changjiu for a while, asking, “What do you plan to do?”Ning Changjiu said, “You can check my body first.”“Who wants to check...” Lu Jiajia knitted her eyebrows and looked at his casual eyes. She didn’t understand what he meant until she hesitated for a while. She shut her mouth and felt ashamed of what she had thought. Then, she pulled a long face and said, “Come here.”Ning Changjiu walked to her.Lu Jiajia raised her hand and stuck her fingers out of the sleeve to point at the middle of his eyebrows.Lu Jiajia closed her eyes and spread her consciousness, which got into his body through the middle of his eyebrows. Going through his spiritual meridians and the acupoints, her consciousness finally arrived at t
Lu Jiajia slightly curled her fingers, the sword intent around which dissipated like electricity. In the past, if she exerted her skill of the sword and the spirit in one, she needed to summon her sword spirit like the innate spirit. However, this time, when she drew the intangible sword, the sword chirp lingered in her heart, shaking her body like an iron sword fetus full of clangs.Yan Feng stood up straight and looked at the blood on his palm, his eyes in disbelief. Anyhow, he couldn’t understand how Lu Jiajia struck such a sword with her capability of the middle stage of the realm of Long Life.Lu Jiajia stared at the miserable look of Yan Feng, saying in a cold voice, “Do you want to continue?”Yan Feng’s white sackcloth was stained with much blood. The blood seeped through his fingers and dripped to the grassland. He raised his head and looked gloomy, saying, “Peak Master, your sword method is so profound. I wonder whether you can
Yan Zhou’s sword posture was strange. Now, he was standing with his left leg on the ground and the other leg on this knee. He leaned backward in an exaggerated way and his white beard and hair were hanging. He looked as if drinking but there was no wine pot on his hand but a sword. The sword grazed across his face and pointed at the ground in a bending manner. He was like an arch bridge.This posture didn’t sustain too long. Yan Zhou suddenly stood up straight as if an arhat altered his move in the dream. As he twisted and turned around, his robe was like a cutting knife. With a whoosh, he slumped over the ground. The sword went along a weird trajectory and got held into his arms. His body fell with face upward but his collars were still somewhat away from the ground.Ning Changjiu found the sword posture a bit familiar but he couldn’t recall where he had seen it.Then, Yan Zhou’s body touched the ground and his hands loosened.
A light was burning dimly in the room. Ning Xiaoling crept into the room and sensed the vague sword Qi. She turned her head and saw her fellow disciple sitting on the bed in meditation alone with a serious countenance. He seemed not to notice her arrival.Ning Xiaoling let out a sigh of relief, thinking that her current cultivation level was too high for her fellow disciple to found her appearance.She snickered and felt more confident about her mastery of the Taoist Hidden Breathing Techniques. Then, she turned around, closed the door gently and sneaked to her fellow disciple to observe his face during cultivation, feeling that he was more or less like the fallen immortal in the story.She was a bit confused. Every wing room was equipped with the cattail hassock for the disciple. Why did her fellow disciple have to sit on the bed for cultivation? Well... The quilt was somewhat messy. Her fellow disciple was always a tidy and decent man.
Lu Jiajia cast an angry glance at her and said, “What do you want to do now?”Ning Xiaoling shrank and wanted to retreat but thinking that if she didn’t try harder, she would be “separated” from her fellow disciple forever. She still braced herself to say, “I just haven’t seen you for a long time. Since we met tonight, I want to...stay with you for a little while.”Lu Jiajia looked at Ning Xiaoling and thought of the month they had spent in the darkness. It was her dereliction of duty that she couldn’t protect them. Hence, she couldn’t help feeling guilty and then said with a soft tone, “What do you want to do with me then?”Ning Xiaoling let out a sigh of relief inwardly and then said, “Master, actually, the more I think, the more I feel something is wrong. I don’t think you came to Changjiu’s room late at night only to talk about this issue.”Lu Jiajia’s face turned slightly cold. She thought, “I’ve given you an inch and y
Lerou slightly leaned aside and looked through the slot between his body and the door.She wanted to let Aunt-master Yazhu catch Ning Changjiu having affairs with Ning Xiaoling but on second thought, she thought since Ning Changjiu was somewhat mysterious at other times, he might be of value. She could use what happened tonight to blackmail him. It would be more fun if she got the goods on him on her own.Therefore, after deliberate consideration, she decided to cope with this alone.“I’m not sure whether my eyes deceived me. Just now, when I got out of my room, I happened to see Xiaoling enter your room,” Lerou looked around and said slowly, “This is not consistent with the rule.”Ning Changjiu answered, “You must have seen it wrong.”Lerou saw the wooden pieces piled up on the ground and felt even surer, saying in a nearly authoritative tone, “Get out of my way. It is still not too late to come clean to me now
In the early morning, the chirps in Tianku Peak were like messy tweedles. The snow on the summit of the peak started to melt and led to a long white fall on the cliff. While the fall flowed into the clouds and scattered in the fogs, the brown branches had sprouted in many gardens down the peak. The sunny day seemed able to make a whole spring.The sword fighting mock in the early spring of the four peaks would be held seven days later. The new assessment of the outer peak would be conducted at the same time. Every year, two or three disciples would be selected to ascend the summit and learn the true swordsmanship of the Oracle Sword Heavenly Sect.These days, many disciples had started to practice swordsmanship on the summit of the peak before the day broke. When the sword was drawn out and taken back, the wrist caused the vibration of the sword tip, leading to sword chirps reverberating through the summit of the peak.This morning’s cla
In the following days, Ning Changjiu’s life became a bit invariable.In the morning class, he accompanied Ning Xiaoling through the sword classics reading. Lu Jiajia would talk of some sword principles in class. Yet, as to these sword principles, Ning Changjiu would overturn them and teach her again on that night.Therefore, most of the time, the sword principles Lu Jiajia talked about were the most confusing to her. She took the opportunity to tell Ning Changjiu and then listened to his opinions at night.In some sense, Ning Changjiu used his profound knowledge gained in two lives to educate Lu Jiajia but they didn’t lay it bare and remained their current relationship.Lu Jiajia thought that she would become used to the feeling as the body forging went on. However, over time, she found her perception increasingly acute. The light of the golden crow was not fierce hammering but a spring breeze. When the spring breeze blew pa