Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 104 Sword Dance Bet
Watching the two annoying flies hurriedly leave.

Xu Shangxin sheathed her sword and looked at Changsun Yu.

There was a mixture of natural gratitude and cautious wariness.

She was certainly not a guest of Xi Wu Shou; at most, she could only be considered a guest of Wang Su.

The elder brother didn't know why this dance master's disciple would lie to help her, but anyway... he should thank her first.

“Thank you, Senior Brother Changsun,” Xu Shangxin paused, then said frankly, “I am…”

“I know, Xu Shangxin.”

Changsun Yu straightened the sleeves of his gold-embroidered purple robe and said with a gentle smile, "I read Elder Wang's mission reply, and it mentioned you."

Wang Su's reply?
Xu Shangxin slightly opened her beautiful eyes.

So there was such a thing. Does that mean that the Lingxiao Sword Sect already knew about Pei Xia's martial arts performance in the cave, where he used his power to slay the demon?
Well... oh, it doesn't seem like anything.

They don't know the details of Huozhi and Pei Xia, so they probably only regard him as an extremely strong Zhen Gang Realm expert.

Xu Shangxin lowered her head slightly: "I'm sorry to trouble Senior Brother Changsun to speak up for me. It's about the Canglang Sect..."

"It's alright. Our Lingxiao Sword Sect does need the help and assistance of fellow martial artists, but we won't let ourselves be so blinded by right and wrong just for the sake of a little reputation."

He smiled gently and said, "All who come up the mountain are guests, but there have been a lot of people on the mountain lately, and they come from all walks of life. The young lady is young and beautiful, so we have to be careful."

Xu Shangxin nodded, and Changsun Yu did not continue the conversation. He quickly turned and left, as if he had only come to help her out of the predicament.

However, looking at the tall and slender figure of this person in the gold-embroidered purple robe, Xu Shangxin always felt a strange sense of familiarity about him, and even that this sense of familiarity was not long ago.

Changsun Yu clearly sensed the gaze behind him, but he didn't turn around. Instead, he curled the corners of his mouth into a wicked smile.

His purple robes fluttered in the morning breeze as he slowly walked across the wide sect square. Disciples occasionally passed by on both sides, bowing respectfully to him.

Although Changsun Yu is nominally still a disciple, he enjoys a high reputation within the sect.

One reason is, of course, that he is Wu Shouxi's personal disciple.

But more importantly, it's his gentle and kind way of treating people that's like a spring breeze.

Not only towards elders and talented disciples, but also towards ordinary mountain guards who had requests, Changsun Yu would treat everyone equally and handle them flawlessly, without considering how much effort it would take him to do so.

It should be said that no one in the entire Lingxiao Sword Sect dislikes this disciple of the Dance Master, especially now that the Dance Master Xi has been in seclusion for many years, he has almost become another incarnation of the Dance Master.

Only after crossing the square and glancing at the alchemy room, where he saw the figure in blue robes with long legs and craning his neck to buy pastries, did he narrow his eyes slightly.

Xia Xuan.

The next generation of sword leader of Xuange Sword Mansion.

The Lingxiao Sword Sect's reputation for this sword trial is entirely due to her participation.

But Changsun Yu knew in his heart that this was not a mutual assistance from people of the same lineage; on the contrary, it was more like a gamble.

There is one thing that is quite obvious, but is often overlooked because of the prestige of the two sects.

That is "sword" and "dance", which should have been a set of traditions.

It's just that because they are each independent entities with a long history, many people in the martial arts world are unaware of this.

Neither the Lingxiao Sword Sect nor the Xuange Sword Mansion, which is now at its zenith, are actually in their complete form.

This is also why the Lingxiao Sword Sect is willing to increase its investment in "Dance Master Instruction," and why the Xuange Sword Mansion will send its first emerging sword leader to assist.

Xia Xuan, Fu Hongshuang, and indeed the entire Xuange Sword Mansion, had a very clear goal: to inherit the dance techniques of Wu Shouxi. The Lingxiao Sword Sect also understood this; it was the most attractive thing to the Xuange Sword Mansion for this sect, which was not yet a top-tier sect. To make a name for themselves and gamble on their future, they were taking a huge gamble.

What to bet on?
They bet that Xia Xuan wouldn't win the sword-testing competition.

The Lingxiao Sword Sect naturally wouldn't expect other cultivators to help them with this huge gamble; it was their trump card to counter the next generation's sword leader.

That is Changsun Yu.

While waiting in line, Xia Xuan was checking her wallet, feeling a little distressed that she might have bought too many desserts and that her allowance was not enough.

Suddenly, I noticed someone's gaze.

She looked up in surprise and saw Changsun Yu in purple robes on the other side of the road.

Their eyes met; one was gentle and calm, the other clear and bewildered.

Then the two of them saw a head with its hair casually tied up and its appearance unkempt come right into their line of sight.

Pei Xia held a bounty mission list in her hand, looking around as if searching for something.

The main thing is that Xu Shangxin and Li Tan have been diligently cultivating lately.

That's not all; even pears have found something to keep them busy with.

I don't know if it's for the Sword Trial or if they're just worried that the monster blood they collected in the Mengshan Cave will expire and smell bad.

In short, after eating and sleeping well these past few days, Lu Li would wander out of her room, claiming she wanted to find a place to practice her array techniques.

The sixth realm of the Su Master requires cultivators to be proficient in array formations.

Unlike martial arts, while the Su Master also needs spiritual power to cast spells, it emphasizes "knowledge" more. In a sense, it requires more practice than martial arts.

There are no physical changes or breakthroughs in spiritual energy structure. As long as you can set up the array, you can call yourself a sixth-realm master.

Don't call this child's play; this is exactly how our Master Su is.

In other words, the Five Realms of Divine Power gave outsiders the illusion that even a master like Su Shi had a "bottleneck".

As for a genuine breakthrough in personal combat strength, that will have to wait until the seventh realm.

However, given that the number of Su Shi masters is already very small, a Su Shi master at the seventh level is already somewhat of a legend in the martial arts world.

In short, now that even Lu Li has started to cultivate diligently, Pei Xia's idleness seems quite out of place.

Ultimately, at Wang Su's suggestion, Pei Xia, using Xu Yue's name, found some suitable work at the bounty hall.

The largest and most lucrative bounties offered by the Lingxiao Sword Sect are naturally those from the Northern Barbarian military.

However, they don't always have big operations. On ordinary days, they also do a lot of internal work within their own sects, or even provide assistance to independent cultivators and other sects.

For example, if an ancestor of a family is celebrating a birthday, they might ask the Lingxiao Sword Sect to send a dozen or twenty female disciples to dance. This is a simple and direct way to earn relatively high compensation.

Pei Xia couldn't do that kind of work. After searching for a long time in the Bounty Hall, he finally found a job as a handyman in the alchemy room.

He had thought it over carefully. With the cultivation level of a fourth-realm vegetarian master trained by his master's wife, he could easily do odd jobs in the alchemy room. Not only could he often pick up some scraps of alchemy, which he could make use of and generate some income.

Once you leave the Lingxiao Sword Sect and head east, the journey will be long and require a considerable amount of travel expenses. Saving some money at this time is definitely a wise choice.

I've also heard that the alchemy room of the Lingxiao Sword Sect is exceptional at making sweets, pastries, and wine from medicinal herbs and spiritual plants, but their alchemy skills are only so-so.

If I put my skills to good use, I might be able to make a fortune!
(End of this chapter)