Yun Xian was grabbed by the collar and thrown out, along with the pale-faced Zhong Changyao and his men. The ferocious-looking man behind her released her and shouted loudly, "Get out!"
These big men are all demons. Although their characteristics cannot be seen, their cultivation is not lower than Yun Xian, and they are very good at judging people and treating them well.
"..." Yun Xian stood up and asked, "Big Brother, why didn't they grab you by the back of your collar?"
Su Chi said: "Maybe I'm heavier."
With a few "ping-pong" sounds, the group of monsters came out again, throwing out all the fragments of the Jade Water Sword and cursing, "Fuck! Who are you?! You have no manners!"
The mission was not going well, Yun Xian thought, it was all Zhong Changyao's fault.
What was he doing here for no reason? He made me want to fight him just by looking at him. Now no one is in any good situation.
Zhong Changyao seemed to have finally realized that he had lost face in front of everyone. His face was no longer pale, and even looked a little green.
For him, it wasn't that he couldn't fail, but he absolutely couldn't fail in front of outsiders. What's more, he had provoked trouble with full confidence, and ended up being beaten up by someone with a sword hilt. This was simply the biggest setback he had suffered in recent times.
The pretty female cultivator behind him not only ignored his expression, but even brought up something irrelevant. She raised her head and said, "Fellow Daoist Zhong Chang, could this be Yun Xian? Do you know her? Her sword moves are truly unique. I..."
Before this, Zhong Changyao had always thought her outspokenness was a strength. But now, when applied to himself, it became a huge weakness!
Zhong Changyao's face turned pale as he walked away in a huff. Not only was he ungraceful, but he was also uncultured and quite petty.
Before leaving, he glanced at Yun Xian.
Would Yun Xian give him the chance to pretend and run away? "What are you looking at? Do you want to fight again? Come here, come here, I'll teach you a few more moves."
Zhong Changyao said bitterly: "...No need!"
He thought to himself, "I won't argue with you. In the future, when he reaches the top, how can he even take this person seriously? He will ruthlessly trample under his feet everyone who has ever looked down on him!"
He said this in his heart, but his feet were honest, and he quickly swung a mile away. His natal spirit sword, the Jade Water Sword, had been crushed to pieces by that nosy senior brother. If he didn't retreat now, was he going to engage in hand-to-hand combat?
The group of cultivators were very satisfied with what they saw, and then they remembered that Yun Xian was Ji Rongxue's friend. They clearly wanted to come over and get to know him, but because of their status, they were awkward and hesitant, and finally followed him and left in a hurry.
Yun Xian looked at their backs as they dispersed and couldn't help but think.
Last time, Jiang Lancui also said that Zhong Changyao was treating people to drinks everywhere, and it seemed that he was surrounded by many beautiful women and had many friends. But now it seems that only a few of them were sincere.
If it was true, as he thought, that Zhong Changyao had the book, then it would be understandable. Sincerity for sincerity, he treated everyone as his vassal, a pawn to profit from, so how could anyone treat him sincerely? Not everyone is the foolish Shu Jiuwei.
But, did she see it wrong just now?
"Big Brother, did you see that just now?" Yun Xianqi asked, "That swordsmith is from the fox clan!"
Of course, this doesn't mean that the demon race can't use swords, but everyone has their own specializations. There are obviously more suitable weapons for each person, so why bother to find another way, let alone forge a sword? If you don't understand swords, how can you forge a sword?
"No, I still want to go in." Yun Xian never listened to anyone saying "no" or "can't". She changed her mask and whispered, "It's okay, we can just sneak in."
Su Chi actually stood there without moving, hesitating for a moment.
"What's wrong, Big Brother?" Yun Xian had already flown out more than ten meters. Seeing that he was still there, he flew back, grabbed his hand, and said, "Let's go!"
Su Chi's body, which weighed a thousand pounds, was lightly pulled away.
It happened that the big men were instructing the sword boys, and the two of them went around behind them. Yun Xian squatted on the eaves with great skill, quietly moved a tile away, and looked inside with his head touching his head.
The swordsmith is polishing the sword.
The more Yun Xian watched, the more silent she grew. While her mind occasionally held some rubbish, she clearly wasn't the type to constantly conjure up such thoughts. But the fox's every move and gesture made her unable to resist thinking about that... This definitely wasn't her fault! Why did she have to polish her sword like that?! Even Shu Jiuwei, at his most exaggerated, had only learned the basics.
Su Chi said: "The body of the Cloud Tripod."
This swordsmith was not only from the demon fox clan, but also, like Shu Jiuwei, possessed a true dual cultivation physique. The more Yun Xian thought about it, the more serious he became: "Let's not watch any further. Senior Brother, this is not good for you. Those big men at the door..."
"..." Su Chi looked at her with an indescribable look, as if he didn't understand what his junior sister was thinking about all day long. He slightly emphasized his voice: "Those are not!"
Yun Xian breathed a sigh of relief.
The next moment, Su Chi said, "He discovered me."
Yun Xian almost couldn't catch his breath.
"Since you're here, come down." The swordsmith didn't look up, but said in a gentle voice: "If you don't come down, I'll ask someone else."
“…”
The two men leaped from the eaves. The house, though inconspicuous from the outside, was vast within, seemingly constructed from some kind of spatial formation. Aside from the massive, blazing sword-forging platform in the center, the ground was littered with sword stones, densely packed with sword hilts of various colors, each gleaming with a dull luster.
Swords have spirits, and with spirits, they naturally have different strengths. As Yun Xian leaped down, the leader behind her glowed with power and power, instantly suppressing all the swords present.
Su Chi's sword still did not move.
It seems that this is the place where the swordsmith usually forges iron. In the corner stands a row of sword-forging students with nimble hands and feet, staring intently at the molten iron in the furnace without raising their heads.
"Swordsmith, what should I call you?" Yun Xian skipped the long prefix and said, "I'm Yun Xian, and this is Su Chi."
"I know you." The swordsmith said, "Just call me Shi Mi."
When he had driven them out earlier, his hair was disheveled and his ears were untied. His thunderous roar was a world of difference from his current state. Yun Xian wondered if that was just a case of waking up in a bad mood... but it was already past noon! She didn't even need to sleep that long!
Shi Mi said nothing, but instead looked at Su Chi with interest.
Yun Xian's heart was filled with alarm, and he asked, "Senior Shi Mi, what's going on?"
Shi Mi smiled and said, "You, my senior brother, are quite useful to me."
Yun Xian: “…”
It might be the only piece of black iron in the world, so it would naturally be useful to a swordsmith. However, Xiao Wu hadn't mentioned before whether the senior brother knew he wasn't human, and she hadn't been embarrassed to ask. Now, looking at Su Chi's expression, she couldn't tell anything.
"You're the first one who dared to come back after being kicked out by me. That's all." Shi Mi said, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"
Yun Xian said first, "So easy?"
"Do you think I'm praising you?" Shi Mi's lips twitched as he said, "You're full of that girl's scent right now. How long have you been hugging her?"
Su Chi made a sound and shifted his gaze over.
"No. No, you misunderstood!" Yun Xian sweatdropped and said, "Shu Jiuwei...she and I don't have that kind of relationship! I did hold her and play with her yesterday, but not in human form! She used her beast form!"
Shi Mi: "Still using the beast form?"
Yun Xian: "Whether you believe it or not, our relationship is purely one of human and pet. No, it seems..."
Shi Mi: "Human-pet relationship?"
Yun Xian: “?”
Su Chi next to her had a gloomy look in his eyes, as if he was staring a hole into her.
What the hell! What's going on in this fox's head?!
The leader was taken away, and Taiping returned to his familiar place. Yun Xian's left arm was still gesturing: "Make the sword look better. Make the hilt gold, the blade silver, and install eighty-eight evil rubies..."
"Can you shut up, Taiping?" Yun Xian said, "What kind of aesthetic is that? It's even worse than mine."
It turned out that he had inadvertently taken a backdoor. Yun Xian watched Shi Mi climbing up and down the sword-making platform in silence, not knowing what to say. He wanted to ask, "Master, what do you do for a living?" But in the end, he revealed his inner confusion: "Senior Shi Mi, forgive me for being so presumptuous, but do you know anything about the incident with Tang Lingguo in the Eastern Realm?"
Back then, the demon cultivator with the pendulum clock had his ancestral graves dug up by a vengeful male fox. He'd written up advertisements about his misdeeds and distributed them everywhere, leaving him exhausted and severely injured in a brawl. This gave everyone else a break. Judging by his age, the male fox demon, while not as many as the immortal demon cultivator by several hundred years, was at least a century old. And now, he acted as if he knew her well, which made her suspicious, so she asked.
"What's wrong?" Shi Mi didn't turn around, and said lazily, "That demon cultivator wears such disgusting clothes every day. I owe you a favor for being able to deal with it."
He actually admitted it directly. His hair was not tied up, and it swayed with his movements, falling on his slender white neck, as white as cream and as warm as jade, looking so beautiful that one would want to leave a tooth mark on it.
Yun Xian choked.
The pendulum clock is worn out and looks terrible, and you, senior, behave in a terrible way. Why are you so anxious to harass me? She said, "It wasn't me who destroyed it, it was Princess Tang. She's the ruler of the country now, right? But, Senior Shi Mi, what territory are you fighting for with it?"
"Black iron ore." Shi Mi said, "If it doesn't fight with me for it, it's fine. But if it does and dares to hurt me, then die!"
The sharp teeth were slightly exposed, revealing a slightly cunning and vicious animal look, but they were quickly retracted.
Yun Xian said, "Senior, do you have any idea about the loss of luck..."
"Little brat, if you want to talk to me about this, you have to ask your elders." Shi Mi interrupted her and said nonchalantly: "How old are you? Do you have the right to care about such things?"
Yun Xian's heart trembled.
The meaning of these words was clear. It seemed that the elder of the demon clan also knew about the demon clan. I wonder how much he knew about Chi You?
But Guan Shimi didn't want to mention it again.
Amidst the fierce fire, Shi Mi's profile flickered. He continued, "There's one thing I've always found puzzling. Back in the East Realm, I was having a lot of trouble digging up its ancestral grave. I did some divination, and the demon god's hexagram indicated that someone from another world would descend upon the East Realm, causing unrest. Another world? What other world? The demon world? The demon world? I observed the direction of the aura and thought it was that piece of shit from earlier. But after looking around, it seems it's not."
That piece of shit just now...could it be referring to Zhong Changyao?
Yun Xian thought to herself that the person from another world seemed to be herself.
"Never mind. I'm just an unarmed swordsmith, kind to others and not interested in getting involved in disputes." Shi Mi looked her up and down, then added, "Who asked you to come to me? It's true. This sword may have suited you in the past, but your state of mind is different now, and it's no longer suitable."
During the Four-Way War, Yun Xian had a single goal: to claim the top spot and prevent the Eastern Realm from being bullied again. However, the more he learned, the more he worried, and his mind became more complex. While not as pure and unperturbed as before, he had become more mature and steady—and, incidentally, this was just a vertical comparison. Compared to before, he was mature and steady—let's not compare him to other cultivators. He still wasn't that stable.
Yun Xian just smiled and said, "Senior, what about the reward...?"
"No problem." Shi Mi said, "Eighty thousand high-grade spirit stones."
Yun Xian couldn't laugh anymore. She just asked politely, "So expensive????!"
Didn't she say they were compatible? Didn't she say she didn't want any reward? Her entire fortune only had 80,000 spirit stones, so how could she bear to part with that?
Yun Xian's smile didn't fade, but instead shifted to the face of the swordsmith in the corner. Bargaining between sword cultivators and swordsmiths was a regular part of every routine.
Beautiful! Love it! More!
"Is this expensive? Do you know what my skill level is? Purely handmade!" Shi Mi was instantly annoyed: "You cut in line, don't you know how difficult it is to modify a heavenly-grade weapon?! I'm happy to take you on?!"
Yun Xian said, "If it's not purely handmade, do you have an assembly line? No, no. It's too expensive! I don't have that much money."
What assembly line? Shi Mi didn't understand. "You want to forge a sword without money? You little stinky swordsman is begging for food from me?"
"Big Brother, you don't have to give it to me." Yun Xian rolled up his sleeves and said angrily, "Thirty thousand! Thirty thousand at most. I only have thirty thousand on me. I really can't take out the rest!"
"..." Shi Mi paused strangely, then said: "Or like this."
Yun Xian: "What?"
Shi Mi said, "Does your senior brother have any unused organs? Cut off a piece for me."
"How can there be a useless organ?! The appendix?!" Yun Xian said: "Even if he practices the ruthless way, there would be no useless organs... Huh?"
Wait. It seems that there really is.
The air was silent.
Shi Mi asked, "Are you serious?"
Su Chi took a deep breath: "... Yun Xian!"
Yun Xian reached into his pocket calmly, "Eighty thousand, right? Here you go."
After a stick of incense, Yun Xian, who was penniless and had nothing in his pocket, got on the carriage, feeling extremely heartbroken.
No wonder those sword cultivators looked as if they had stepped on dog shit when they talked about swordsmiths... Now she knew what it felt like.
I miscalculated. I should have brought Brother Xue with me.
Before leaving, Yun Xian did not forget to ask Shi Mi what he thought about Shu Jiuwei's marriage.
After all, Shi Mi is already in the three digits and has the body of a cloud tripod, yet he doesn't have a Taoist partner. The fact that he can do this proves that the rule of the demon fox clan that "you must get married at the age of twenty" is bullshit.
Shi Mi clearly had no elder's affection for the little princess, a distant relative of hers who knew how many generations apart. He simply said calmly, "It's the demon's doing. If she truly didn't want this, she could refuse in a thousand ways. It all depends on her resolve. Hasn't the Nan Ronghong incident made her sober? You're looking for the spirit ginseng now because of Nan Ronghong, right? She's not dead after all."
Living in the deep mountains and forests, yet still being so well-informed, he must be reading tabloids all day long. Yun Xian played dumb: "Waistline? What waistline?"
So she was grabbed by the back of the collar and thrown out again.
Taiping felt very uncomfortable in her arms: "When will it be ready? Can you come and get it this afternoon?"
Yun Xian: "Do you think you're making beef noodles?"
It will take at least seven days.
Taiping screamed, "You poor bastard! You don't even have a spare sword! I'm going back to Jiange tomorrow!"
Yun Xian pretended not to hear.
The original coachman came to pick them up and returned along the same route, looking a little surprised: "You didn't get beaten? You're lucky."
"Yeah." Yun Xian said, "Not only did I not get beaten, I also beat someone up. I'm awesome, right?"
The coachman was in awe and said, "That's amazing! To be honest, my last customer was beaten because he stepped on the threshold with his left foot first, which is considered unlucky. The customer before that was beaten because he stepped on the threshold with his right foot first, because his shoe sole was dirty. How did you get in?"
Yun Xian patiently imparted his experience: "Next time, just try entering from the roof!"
Coachman: “…”
Got it. Try it and you'll die.
The wheels began to turn, and the coachman concentrated on driving. Yun Xian had no one to talk to, so he secretly went to see Su Chi.
If you peek, you will be caught. Su Chi had his eyes closed, but he said, "Why are you looking at me again?"
"..." Yun Xian said: "You didn't look at me, how do you know I was looking at you... Senior Brother, you... Oh, forget it."
Ever since Xiao Wu told her about Su Chi's life story, she had wanted to test whether the eldest senior brother knew about it.
But it was too difficult to say this. "Do you know that you are not human?" "Do you think you are human?" "Do you think you are a thing?" Yun Xian thought for a long time and finally chose a more talkative topic: "No wonder Mimi was like that when he first arrived at the Liu Mansion. His ancestor must be Shi Mi. The fox demons are all really good-looking."
Su Chi said, "He is one hundred and thirty-four years old."
Yun Xian: “?”
What does age have to do with good looks? Even if he were 800 years old and looked like this, wouldn't he still be good-looking?
After Su Chi said this, he said no more and just closed his eyes and meditated.
Yun Xian thought that he didn't want to pay attention to him anymore. He was bored and could only play by himself. He quarreled with Taiping in the spirit palace. After a while, he heard Su Chi ask, "Why didn't you let me pay the spirit stone just now?"
"That's my sword." Yun Xian said, "How can I let you pay for it?"
Su Chi restrained his expression and said, "Then, you should have the nerve to let Xue Lingxiu pay."
Yun Xian: “…”
Why is the tone so strange? She carefully speculated for a long time and concluded that Su Chi might feel that as a junior sister, her constant solicitation was damaging the reputation of Jiange. She said breathlessly, "I'm just saying..."
She hasn't taken advantage of Xue Lingxiu for a long time.
Su Chi raised his eyes and asked, "Do you still have spirit stones?"
Yun Xian said ambitiously, "I don't have any now. But it's okay. I won't ask Brother Xue to give it to me this time. I can borrow from Miss Liu. She likes me very much and will definitely not ask me for interest. Big Brother, don't worry! I will definitely be self-reliant and work hard to earn money!!"
Su Chi: “………………”
Yun Xian: "Big Brother?"
Su Chi: "I'm fine."
The driver in front almost fell off his horse after hearing the whole story.
This pair of senior brothers and sisters are truly a match made in heaven. When they came, I found that the senior brother couldn't speak, and when they left, I found that the junior sister was better off not speaking at all!
Since everyone knows that Miss Liu likes you and doesn't want your interest, how can you not see that the person in front of you is eager to give you all the spirit stones, let alone the interest?? Stupid!
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