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Chapter 087: Springwater Sword
Su Tingyun has been looking for the sword at the bottom of the Cleansing Sword Lake, causing the countless swords to vibrate. The noise from it isn’t small, so Yan Yuqing shouldn’t be the only one that’s alerted.
Zhan Yu could hear it too, but he doesn’t budge at all.
He and Xiao Budian lived in the same garrett, and Xiao Budian also heard the commotion. He loudly says, “Master, something happened at the Cleansing Sword Lake.”
“Wasn’t your Senior sister looking for a sword under the lake earlier? Maybe she has angered the sword soul of a powerful ancestor.” Zhan Yu says absent-mindedly.
“Then shouldn’t you go and have a look!” Xiao Budian’s eyes are wide. He even takes a sword and he rhythmically beats the window edge, “What would happen if Senior Sister had an accident, who would cook!”
Zhan Yu’s consciousness scans the movement there, and his eyes narrow slightly. Still, he doesn’t mention it, opting to continue: “What’s the hurry, Yan Yuqing is on watch. Otherwise, how could I let her stay there!”
Zhan Yu chuckles, “Your Little Uncle’s two disciples are still growing, and their cultivations still aren’t high enough so they need food. He can’t cook as well as Yun-lass. If anything happens, he has to cook for two children every day. Looking for food will give him a headache!”
“Oh!” Since Little Uncle’s there, he doesn’t need to worry for his Senior Sister, Xiao Budian inwardly thinks.
Although the Little Uncle is very stern, he is the most powerful and reliable one in the entire Obliteration Sword Island.
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Su Tingyun is thrown ashore by Yan Yuqing, and the orchid tongue grass isn’t far behind her.
She hears Little Bai repeat the conversation between Master and Xiao Budian word for word. She only feels that those two are really, really unreliable.
Unexpectedly, Little Bai’s report isn’t over yet.
“Hey, something happened at the Cleansing Sword Lake?”
“Oh, Yan Yuqing is here.” This seemed to be the Sect Head’s voice.
“Over there at the Lake? It’s right at the junior brother’s door anyway, so I won’t go.” This is Second Uncle’s voice.
“What was that sound-, eh, it doesn’t matter.” This is followed by the sound of hammering iron.
Everyone in the Obliteration Sword Tower could feel the abnormality from the Cleansing Sword Lake, but they all do nothing. No one moves at all, except for Little Uncle Yan Yuqing!
The Little Uncle, who’s the breadwinner of the family and has to take care of all matters big or small, has become numb from exhaustion.
In other words, if she passed out at the bottom of the Lake, and if Little Uncle didn’t come to pull her out, she would have to wait foaming in the water until dawn, wait until the next day…
And it’s a little bit heartbreaking to know that she will still be discovered by the Little Uncle or his two apprentices.
With a sigh, Su Tingyun just proceeds to inspect the sword she pulled out of the water.
The body of her sword is slender, only a third of the width of Xiao Budian’s iron sword. As soon as it comes out of the water, the rust on the sword falls away. It has a faint green color, like a new leaf. The sword is long and slender, with a sharp and thin blade. There are some tiny and symmetrical prismatic patterns on both sides, and there is a red mark on the tip of the sword, making it look like it’s stained with blood.
Su Tingyun cautiously wipes it off, but finds that the red mark is not a stain, but has probably been there when the sword was forged.
She grasps the sword carefully and looks at the red mark on the tip. It’s like a streak of blood splattered on the faint green water, a color like the sunset on the horizon.
There is no trace of spiritual energy on the sword, and without the Treasure light of a magical weapon, it looks like the iron swords cast by the Third Master. But it can easily cut through Su Tingyun’s barrier…
She holds the sword and studies it for a while, then she separates a strand of her Divine Sense and injects it into the sword. As a result, she becomes aware of a formidable power existing inside the flying sword, and her Divine Sense is directly shaken out. Although it rejects her prying, it doesn’t hurt her primordial spirit either.
That is to say, although this sword does not acknowledge her, it does not intend to hurt her.
Little Uncle said that the flying swords at the bottom of the lake may have been used by their ancestors, and there may be sword souls in them. Although she has chosen this sword now, she hasn’t started raising it yet. It is normal for this flying sword to not acknowledge her.
Su Tingyun lightly touches the body of the sword with her fingers, “You will be my flying sword from now on. I don’t know what your name is. Do you have a name? I’ll ask around tomorrow. If you don’t have a name, I’ll give you one.”
She is not in a hurry to choose a name. Instead, she brings the sword to the back of the strange stone at the Obliteration Sword Tower’s main hall. She stands quietly and looks up at the names. Suddenly, she says, “Is your former master here?”
The master of such a delicate flying sword should be a female sword cultivator. But because of the sword intent within the names, Su Tingyun doesn’t dare to look too closely. She just brings the flying sword to see its master. After this visit, she’ll also leave. What she doesn’t notice is that at the top of the strange stone, another thin sword mark appears on a blurry name.
Su Tingyun takes the flying sword and goes back.
This sword is too sharp, she can’t hold it all the time like Xiao Budian. She’ll ask the Third Uncle to help make a scabbard, but he probably doesn’t have the appropriate materials. In the end, Su Tingyun can only use Big Bai’s to wrap it. But Big Bai’s skin is too big, and she couldn’t cut it with a sword or spear, nor is it vulnerable to fire or water. She couldn’t walk around with a big roll of skin every day, which is really worrying.
She can only wait and get Big Bai out in the future, and let it cut a small piece of its own old skin, then make a sheath for her flying sword.