124 - Do We Simply Wait For Rescue? (3)
As Ye Mo repeated the motions of the Song of the Autumn Sword once more, he found himself unable to immerse himself in the image of a falling leaf in his mind’s eye.
The blade of any sword was meant to cut, and the Way of the Sword was to effectively cut everything in the weapon’s path. This was the general truth held in belief by every swordsman, be they an ordinary weapon user or a dedicated sword cultivator like Ye Mo. Even if he were to ask Ye Hua, Wu Xuan’er or any of the Battle Court disciples, they would answer him in similar ways.
However, the Song of the Autumn Sword was an exemption. Or more like an anomaly.
Among the many tomes, scrolls and skill books in the sect’s Grand Library, sword techniques were generally divided int
125 - Where is Little Yin? (1)“Little Yin is missing.”Ye Mo paused his bamboo sword mid-swing. He slowly turned and stared at Ye Hua, as if waiting for his mild-mannered, cold-faced nephew to say he was cracking a joke.Of course, Ye Hua was not that type of guy.“Xuan’er told me that Little Yin did not turn up for lunch” Ye Hua continued with a sombre tone. Ye Mo’s eyes went round and he nearly dropped the sword he was holding. That was the kind of shock he received.Ye Mo’s face turned serious. “That girl, she will not miss a meal, even if she has to destroy half the sect just to get over to the dining table.”“Ex
126 - Where is Little Yin? (2) “What brings our Little Mo to request for a private audience with the Patriarch?” an old, dry voice asked the moment the guards outside opened the large double doors. Just as Ye Mo and Ye Hua stepped into the inner courtyard within the central regions of the Main Peak where the Patriarch of the Ye Sect resides, the sight of a thin old man with a wizened face and long silvery hair leisurely arranging a chessboard greeted them. Aside from here, the courtyard was empty of disciples and servants. It was as if the place was isolated from the outside world. “Junior Ye Mo greets Senior Ye Hanzhong.” Ye Mo cupped his hands in salute towards the old man. Although they both belonged to the Council of Elders, the First Elder Ye Hanzhong was not only some
127 - Where is Little Yin? (3) Patriarch Ye Wuqing. An old man with braided white hair, still strong as a bear in the waist and supple as a tiger in the back despite his age being near the twilight age. Unlike First Elder Ye Hanzhong who looked like a frail scholar, Patriarch Ye Wuqing was the embodiment of a fierce white tiger still in his peak, who would not hesitate to pounce on an enemy who dares step foot in his mountain territory. The title, "Strongest among the Ye Sect," was something not just anybody could wear. The position of "Patriarch" was equally a burden not an ordinary cultivator could carry. Thus, despite being someone who focused on his own cultivation most of the year, Ye Wuqing was a person no one among the sect, nor the other factions within the Le
128 - Is There Anyone Out There We Can Trust?Little Yin allowed herself to be captured.Although the claim would not have made sense to any other person, Ye Mo agreed with Patriarch Ye Wuqing's evaluation. Call it blind belief or absolute faith, but as the person who had interacted with Little Yin the most, never had there arisen a reason for him to truly worry about her safety. Even that short eventful trip to the Ming Yue Sect was something surprising but not dangerous for that little obnoxious brat. In fact, she was the one who gained the most without relying on anyone. Ye Mo and Princess Zhi Ruo merely took care of the cover story after the looting--the revenge was done.These things, Ye Mo had informed both Ye Wuqing and Ye Hanzhong later on. On the outside, the First and Second Lineage of the Ye Clan were not c
129 - Bastards Who Did Not Even Prepare Food for Their Lovely CaptiveInside an abandoned cottage hidden deep in the middle of the forest at the outskirts of Leaf City, a powerful trapping formation surrounded the wooden lodging, causing a mystical fog to cover the entirety of the cottage. Even if cultivators with powerful nascent souls and sensitive divine senses were to pass by it, they would not notice that a cottage existed in that location.Only those who specialize in the study of formations and arrays were capable of detecting it.A kind of formation that none of the array masters within the Leaf City could manage to break, and would even take Little Yin about an hour to destroy if she were to use everything in her arsenal.Compared to rune arrays that affect the so
130 - Mark of Stupidity (1)A fairly tall lady in a majestic phoenix robe caught the poison needle with an iron fan. She had a delicate, melon seed face with little make-up and had a luxurious figure, curvy in all the right places yet with a waist so thin she looked like she wasn't even eating.“You look well, Little Yin,” the lady casually laughed as she studied the poison needle embedded on her artifact. “You don’t look surprised that I am here?”A familiar face. A familiar voice.It was Third Princess Zhi Ruo, one of the Saintesses of Ming Yue Sect who was not only the daughter of its Supreme Elder and sister of the current Sect Leader, but also of imperial blood as her maternal family came from none other than the Qing Clan.
131 - Mark of Stupidity (2)Half a stick of incense later, there was still no progress within the isolated cottage.Aside from giving out ominous-sounding ‘oh ho ho’ laughs that would surely sound creepy to any third person, there was no real conversation between the two females--or at the very least, there was none that made sense, as neither of them intended to answer the other’s question. It was a futile attempt in the first place.Little Yin found the woman stupid, but she’s the kind of stupid that was somehow trained to be tight-lipped.The two of them merely threw probing questions at each other, as if they were in the middle of an aristocratic tea party with blades hidden behind their smiles.
132 - Hey, Where Is My Plot Armor?No less than three hours.That was how long it would take for Little Yin to completely unravel the thunder element trapping formation using the spiritual energy of her soul. It would have been less a hassle to decode if the formation was something like the Ancient Nine Heart Laws Banning Array which relies purely on runes and the natural qi of the world. With Little Yin’s ability to easily understand the flaws of the runes, she could target them to create an opportunity for her to break or control the formation.However, this trapping formation was something that did not rely merely on runes. It had used a precious artifact as the eye of the array along with spiritual stones containing traces of the Dao of Lightning and Thunder, causing the strength of the physical barrier to be seve