The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#738 - Please teach me, seniors

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Lu Jing returned to the outside of the blacksmith shop and saw Xia Huai confronting a woman with a phoenix hairpin and cicada-like hair.

The girl's expression seemed a little nervous, and one hand was already on the hilt of her sword, looking like she might draw it at any moment. On the other hand, the woman was just standing in front of the door with her hands behind her back, looking calm and composed.

"Lu Jing, she said she is a supervisor from the Directorate of Astronomy and is here to take away that knife on the orders of Deputy Director Guo," Xia Huai said, glancing at Lu Jing out of the corner of her eye as he returned.

"It's okay, give her the knife and Zhihai. She is indeed from the Directorate of Astronomy. I just met Deputy Director Guo. Our mission is already half complete," Lu Jing said.

The girl nodded when she heard this and took a few steps back, revealing the iron box behind her.

However, the woman did not immediately take the iron box. Instead, she continued to look at Xia Huai. After a moment, she raised her eyebrows. "Are you a disciple of Xiao Mengrou, the Sword of No Thought?"

"That's right, my teacher is Xiao Mengrou," the girl's voice was neither humble nor arrogant.

"Didn't you want to draw your sword against me just now? Why aren't you doing it now?" the woman said, "Is this all the courage a disciple of Xiao Mengrou has?"

Xia Huai had already removed her hand from the long sword, but after hearing her words, she couldn't help but grab the hilt again.

"Senior, I couldn't tell whether you were who you claimed to be before, so I was offensive. If you hold a grudge against me, I have nothing to say, but please don't involve my teacher in the matter between you and me."

A playful look appeared on the woman's face, "No, you've got it backwards. I'm not holding a grudge against your master because of you, but I'm holding a grudge against you because of your master. Has that bitch Xiao Mengrou never mentioned me to you? Oh, right… she secretly stole my man behind my back. Of course, she wouldn't tell her disciple about such a shameless thing."

"Senior, please be careful with your words!" Xia Huai said angrily.

"Or what? What can you do to me?" The woman's face darkened, and she said coldly.

Before she finished speaking, the long sword in the girl's hand had already been unsheathed, and she said in a deep voice, "Junior Xia Huai, boldly requests guidance from Senior!"

"Good, I'll see what that bitch has taught you," the woman said happily. She didn't even draw the soft whip from her waist, but just broke off a branch from an old tree next to her to use as a weapon.

The indifferent look on the other side did not anger Xia Huai. Instead, it made the girl completely calm down.

She took a deep breath and thrust the long sword in her hand towards the woman's left arm.

When thrusting, the sword remained straight, but the hilt was trembling gently, making it difficult to tell where it would land.

This move was 'Watching Clouds Rise' from the Sword of No Thought. Although it was intended to attack the enemy, it was more defensive than offensive, with three parts offense and seven parts defense.

Xia Huai used this move as a starting point, firstly to show respect. Although the woman had spoken rudely first, she was still a junior and a challenger, so she couldn't lose her manners. Secondly, the woman was so arrogant and was also a supervisor from the Directorate of Astronomy, so she obviously had real skills.

For caution's sake, Xia Huai didn't attack fiercely from the start, but chose this move as a test.

But what she didn't expect was that the woman just sneered, and then casually waved the branch in her hand, breaking her 'Watching Clouds Rise'.

Xia Huai was startled into a cold sweat and quickly changed her move to the ninth form, 'Uncaused No Thought', which was the strongest defensive sword in the Sword of No Thought, but the result was still that the woman broke it with a casual wave of the branch.

Sweat began to seep out of the girl's forehead. Since she couldn't defend, she simply gave up defending completely and began to attack forcefully. But this time, her sword moves were only halfway through when they were stopped by the branch.

Xia Huai's mind was shaken, and she stood there blankly.

It wasn't that she was sad because she couldn't beat the woman. After all, her internal strength was only at the second-rate level, and the woman on the other side was obviously already a first-rate master like her master, Xiao Mengrou.

It was normal to be unable to beat her. What she couldn't accept was that she had been defeated so decisively, and that her sword skills, which she had practiced so hard for so many years, couldn't even withstand a single move from the other side.

When the woman saw her stop, she mocked again, "What, do you want to admit defeat? That's right, not to mention you, even your master would only be beaten to her knees and beg for mercy when she saw me."

Before she could finish speaking, she saw Xia Huai suddenly thrust her sword again!

"Still coming? It's useless, no matter how many times… eh?"

When facing the girl's sword thrust this time, the branch in the woman's hand froze in mid-air. Although she still blocked the sword in the end, she was obviously no longer as calm as before, but was rather flustered.

Seeing that this sword almost succeeded, Xia Huai's spirit and energy also returned a lot. Without saying a word, she swung her sword again.

The woman hesitated for a while again before swinging the branch, but she directly shook the girl's sword away with her strong internal strength.

Xia Huai was neither angry nor happy, and her sword became faster and faster. The woman's martial arts were clearly above hers, but because she had been careless before and only chose a branch as a weapon, she was now suffering and was restricted. After fighting for a while, she actually fell into a disadvantage.

In a fit of anger, she simply threw away the branch.

But if her master, Xiao Mengrou, were here, even if it was the same move, it would probably not be so easy for the woman to break it.

So Xia Huai's mood completely calmed down.

On the other hand, the woman, seeing that Xia Huai had seen through her thoughts, didn't say much, just snorted coldly, went to the back to pick up Zhihai, and then used her object manipulation technique to make the iron box float in the air.

Just as she was about to leave, she saw a figure blocking her path, "Senior… have you forgotten something?"

"What thing?" The woman narrowed her eyes.

Lu Jing pointed to the broken sword on the ground, "It's not very appropriate to break someone else's things and then just pat your butt and leave, right?"

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