"Oh? Let's go then."

Duan Chuan did what he said and immediately left Giant Sword Peak.

This made Jiang Deng breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the third disciple was still as impatient as he was in his previous life. He did not hesitate to check the Nine Nether Cold Pond again, thus preventing her from being exposed.

After leaving Giant Sword Peak, we saw the heads of the four major families, along with several successors, who had been waiting here for a long time.

Jiang Deng saw the familiar Nangong Xiangrui, Song Shu, Pei Ranzhi and Xiahou Yu again. Their strength had also improved, especially Pei Ranzhi, who had actually reached the Spirit Transformation Realm.

"Lord Sword Master."

Everyone bowed and saluted.

Duan Chuan nodded coldly, "Have you prepared the gifts?"

"Of course, how dare we forget the instructions of Lord Sword Master?"

The head of the Xiahou family said cheerfully, "I heard that the Qiming Territory Lord has reincarnated and returned. I have specially prepared a soul-stabilizing incense that can help the Qiming Territory Lord calm his mind and recover his past life memories as soon as possible."

The head of the Song family flattered him, "Upon hearing the news from you, Lord Sword Master, I immediately summoned the entire clan and spent 21 days to refine a Heavenly Rank Sword Formation, powerful enough to cover the entire Human Emperor Palace. I am sending it to the Qiming Territory Lord for protection."

The head of the Pei family said with a dull face: "We in the Pei family don't have any good things. We only have a low-grade spiritual sword of the heavenly rank."

Among the four family heads present, only the head of the Nangong family, Nangong Xiangrui, remained silent.

She turned her head to look at Sword Master, then turned her head to look at the three family heads beside her.

Um?

Aren’t they just following Sword Master to attend a grand ceremony? Why do they need to prepare gifts?

Isn't it... the Sword Master who should give the gift himself?

"Master Nangong..."

Duan Chuan's voice rang out, and his sharp gaze fell on Nangong Xiangrui, "Where is the gift your Nangong family prepared?"

Nangong Xiangrui couldn't help scratching his head and smiled awkwardly, "Haha, I'm going to give Lord Qiming a blessing."

Duan Chuan's eyes suddenly turned cold, "Are you deliberately planning to embarrass me?"

Nangong Xiangrui: “…”

Ah, she thought that when Sword Master sent them the message, he didn't ask them to prepare any gifts.

It was just said that those who are the heads of the family must go, so why did they suddenly come out to send gifts?

"Lord Sword Master, calm down."

Unable to bear seeing Nangong Xiangrui being harassed, Pei Ranzhi quickly said, "I am the fiancé of the Nangong family head, and I am willing to pay this gift on her behalf."

"Pei Ranzhi, I don't want your junk!"

Nangong Xiangrui said unhappily.

Since becoming the head of the family, she has proposed to the Pei family to cancel the engagement several times in the past month, but each time she was rejected by the Pei family.

I heard that the head of the Pei family wanted to agree, but Pei Ranzhi interfered and refused to cancel the engagement with her, so their engagement has been delayed until now.

This made Nangong Xiangrui, who was already dissatisfied with Pei Ranzhi, even more dissatisfied.

“That’s enough!”

Duan Chuan's sword energy surged wildly, "Who allowed you to flirt in front of me?"

The murderous sword energy forced Nangong Xiangrui and Pei Ranzhi to take several steps back. They both covered their chests where the blood was surging, looking as if they were injured by the sword energy.

Feeling the terrifying murderous intent emanating from Duan Chuan, Nangong Xiangrui and Pei Ranzhi didn't dare to make any more noise.

Duan Chuan looked at Nangong Xiangrui impatiently, "Tell me, why didn't your Nangong family prepare any gifts? Are you looking down on me?"

Jiang Deng: “…”

Why is it still a gift?

Don't tell her that the third disciple notified the people from the four major families to go with him just to get them to send gifts on his behalf!

Who did you learn to be so stingy from?!

Suppressing the silence in his heart, Jiang Deng coughed lightly and helped the bewildered Nangong Xiangrui out of the siege: "Sword Master, I think you misunderstood. The Nangong family head has just become the head of the Nangong family not long ago. I guess she is not very familiar with this set of procedures. I hope Sword Master can give her a chance."

"As for the gift for Lord Qiming, I'm willing to discuss it with Patriarch Nangong. I'll make sure we present a gift that won't embarrass Sword Master!"

Hearing this, Duan Chuan's expression looked much better.

He turned his head to look at Jiang Deng beside him, with a hint of satisfaction in his eyes.

It seems that this new little swordsman he recruited is not completely useless.

"If you can't handle this, I'll deal with you two when I get back!"

"yes."

Duan Chuan looked away and immediately left in the air, "Let's go."

As he took the lead, the other family heads followed. Xiahou Yu and Bai Sitang glanced at Jiang Deng with schadenfreude and left as well.

"Burn it."

The voice of the head of the Pei family calling Pei Ranzhi was heard from the front.

Pei Ranzhi gritted his teeth and looked at Nangong Xiangrui reluctantly, "Xiao Rui, if you really can't come up with a gift, I still have a low-grade Heavenly Rank Spiritual Sword that I can give you."

"unnecessary."

Nangong Xiangrui looked away with a cold face.

"Xiao Rui..."

Pei Ranzhi sighed lightly, and as his father continued to call him, he had no choice but to leave.

At the original place, besides Jiang Deng and Nangong Xiangrui, there was also Song Shu, the young master of the Song family.

After the sword-fighting conference, the relationship between them was not as scheming as that between the heads of several families, but rather quite harmonious.

Song Shu pondered and said, "Sister Nangong, I heard that your Nangong family is good at taming beasts. Why don't you give me a young high-level spirit beast, or a spirit beast egg?"

Nangong Xiangrui shook his head. "I'm afraid not. After the Sword Competition, I returned home and found that my mother had released the young spirit beasts in the spirit beast garden. The new generation of our Nangong family no longer learns to tam beasts."

Even the usually calm Song Shu couldn't help but feel a little surprised. "Isn't your Nangong family's sword cultivation based on taming beasts? If you don't taming beasts anymore, what will you do?"

Nangong Xiangrui smiled bitterly, "Yes, with the secret weapon of Beast Taming, the descendants of our Nangong family have long forgotten that the most important thing for a sword cultivator is the sword in their hands."

"It is precisely because we have lost our original intention that the Nangong family ranks last among the four great families, and is even about to fall out of the list of the four great families. Moreover..."

At this point, Nangong Xiangrui turned his head to look at Jiang Deng, "After what happened with Jiang Deng, Mother has come to her senses. She will no longer use the Soul Summoning Pearl to help us contract spirit beasts, so our descendants in the Nangong family can only concentrate on practicing swordsmanship from now on."

Hearing this, Jiang Deng's mouth twitched.

Ah, let alone her affair with A-Tu, which touched Huang Jing...

“Let’s do this!”

Jiang Deng curled his lips and smiled, "I know the Lord of Qiming Spiritual Territory well. I know what he likes best. I'll prepare a gift for you!"

Nangong Xiangrui looked incredulous and asked, "Jiang Deng, are you familiar with the Lord of the Qiming Spiritual Realm? Is that true?"