Chapter 29: Sect Grand Competition
But thinking of something, Lou Yunxiao said again, “Zhuang Yusheng is actually a nice person.”
“Lying to him might… not be too good.”
“Then you wish for me to accept him?”
“No!”
Lou Yunxiao answered too quickly, surprising even himself.
But soon he added, “I just can’t quite understand men becoming Dao Companions with men, so I feel you really should consider carefully.”
“…” Ning Ke couldn’t help laughing.
He lay there with his legs crossed, saying, “I can’t understand it either.”
“But I think Zhuang Yusheng just lusted after my beauty.”
“After all, this face of mine is indeed quite deceptive. His master is Senior Hong Yao, so naturally, he is prone to impulsiveness.”
“…” This time Lou Yunxiao paused for a long time before whispering.
“If one day my eyes can recover, I want to see Junior Brother first.”
“I also want to, like them, truly know what you look like.”
Ning Ke froze, able to feel the heart in his chest beating significantly faster.
He lowered his eyes, waved the quilt, wrapped Lou Yunxiao in, and hugged this big body pillow tight.
Speaking a lie he didn’t even believe himself: “Okay, the day Senior Brother can see, I will definitely be the first to appear in front of you.”
This time, Lou Yunxiao didn’t deliberately keep a distance from Ning Ke anymore.
Instead, he relaxed his body, letting him hug him, and closed his eyes.
He knew his recovering sight was likely extremely difficult. After all, if a cultivator had physical disabilities, even if they cultivated to an extremely strong realm, it was hard to recover, let alone these eyes.
But with A-Ke’s words, he felt he had something to hope for.
It was strange…
In the quiet room, Xiao Yuan said to Ning Ke: [You lied to him again.]
[If he recovers his sight, your identity will be dead. How can you let him see?]
Ning Ke: Anyway, it’s not like I’ve lied to him only once or twice. Giving him a thought to hold onto is good too.
After staying in Ning Family Village until the New Year passed, the three set off back to the Sword Sect.
Before leaving, Ning Ke grabbed the wolf cub Silver Ash to whisper.
“Silver Ash, I’ll warn you one more time. You absolutely, absolutely cannot slip up about my identity, understand?”
Silver Ash sat on the spot, wagging his tail: “Lord Demon Sovereign rest assured! Beat me to death and I won’t tell!”
Ning Ke couldn’t help rubbing his head. He brought his right index and middle fingers together and tapped Silver Ash’s forehead.
“I left a spiritual thought in your sea of consciousness. You help me guard the villagers here. If something happens, trigger that spiritual thought, and I will rush over as soon as possible.”
“Yes, sir!”
After Ning Ke and the others returned to the Sword Sect, they began cultivating, preparing to participate in the spring Sect Grand Competition.
This time Ning Ke didn’t slack off either, because he had to master all the talismans and arrays in the wooden plaque within a limited time, and then teach them to the heroine!
Damn it, he didn’t understand. Clearly, it should be the heroine getting worked to the bone, so why was he being dragged into the grind too?
In the modern world, he had to work. In the cultivation world, he still had to cultivate.
Being a salted fish was impossible. Ning Ke was forced to become the second hardest worker in the Sword Sect, ranking just below Lou Yunxiao!
In just a few short months, Lou Yunxiao broke through to the late Golden Core stage, and Ning Ke followed closely behind, reaching the peak of the mid-Golden Core stage.
Bang—
The ground of the martial arts arena exploded. Dozens of golden ropes spiraled up, tightly binding Lou Yunxiao’s hands and feet.
Lou Yunxiao held the sword in reverse, tip pointing down. As if he had long anticipated this scene, he bent his knees and stabbed fiercely towards a specific direction!
Boom—
The array eye was broken, and the chains disappeared. But in the next instant, the Hongyun Sword was already piercing straight toward his face through the smoke and dust!
Sword qi blew the ribbon flying backward.
Ning Ke stood in front of the young man kneeling on one knee. Changing the sword from vertical to horizontal, he frivolously lifted Lou Yunxiao’s chin, teasing: “Senior Brother, you let me win.”
“Ahhh, Second Senior Brother finally won!”
“Quick, pay up, pay up, I won the bet!”
“Sigh, why did Eldest Senior Brother lose this time? usually, he wins.”
The disciples nearby chattered as they settled accounts. Ning Xiaoxiao shook her head with a profound look on her face.
Sigh, these disciples just didn’t understand. Eldest Senior Brother was going easy on him.
Although her brother was indeed very powerful, she had noticed some time ago that Eldest Senior Brother had cultivated Sword Intent.
He was even called away by Sect Master Gao to go into seclusion for a period.
After all, realizing Sword Intent at the Golden Core stage was almost impossible among the younger generation.
But in this match, Eldest Senior Brother didn’t use Sword Intent.
This was solid, undeniable leniency!
“Mm, I lost.” Lou Yunxiao stood up and cast a cleaning spell on himself. Then he heard Ning Ke say, “Is Senior Brother trying to hide your skills from me, waiting for the Sect Grand Competition to shock everyone?”
What Ning Xiaoxiao could detect, how could Ning Ke not know?
“…Mm.” Lou Yunxiao was embarrassed to say that actually, he wanted to save the Sword Intent to use when competing with Zhuang Yusheng. That way, he could win against Zhuang Yusheng in front of Ning Ke.
As for why he absolutely had to win against Zhuang Yusheng, even he himself wasn’t quite clear.
“Hehe, but you aren’t the only one who held back.” Ning Ke said with a chuckle, “I also held back. When the Sect Grand Competition comes, you’ll know.”
During this time, he had already comprehended more than half of that five-meter-high talisman, and also learned the secrets of fusing arrays with arrays.
After all, although he was just a tail, his comprehension was at the Demon Sovereign level, equivalent to the comprehension of a Human Race Mahayana cultivator.
After grinding for these few months, if he still didn’t learn it, it would be too shameful.
“Okay, I’ll wait.”
The Sect Grand Competition was an important channel for Human Race sects to “exchange feelings.”
To put it vulgarly, it was showing off, seeing whose kids were the most powerful.
Incidentally, selecting some children with self-protection abilities to enter the secret realm for training, treasure hunting, encountering opportunities, and gaining skills.
The Sect Grand Competition wasn’t just for the four major sects; other small sects could also participate, so the number of people was huge and it was extremely lively.
The new generation of disciples of the Sword Sect were full of anticipation, excitedly discussing what to do and where to go in Zhongdu City while still on the flying boat.
With them making such a racket, Ning Ke naturally couldn’t sleep well.
So he got up, leaning bonelessly against the upright-sitting Lou Yunxiao, and yawned.
Lou Yunxiao couldn’t help reminding, “Junior Brother, sit properly.”
“Senior Brother, when it’s time to relax, you must relax. Being tense like you all the time, life is so long, how can you get through the days?”
Ning Ke poked Lou Yunxiao’s cheek, smiling: “Come on, don’t be so serious, give us a smile.”
“…Nonsense.” Lou Yunxiao said this, but in the end, he couldn’t control the corners of his mouth rising, revealing his true mood.
Living with a blood feud on his back, it was hard for him to truly relax.
But staying by Ning Ke’s side, this person always had a way to make him happy.
“By the way, Senior Brother, when we arrive at Zhongdu City later, is there anywhere you want to go?”
Lou Yunxiao paused slightly.
He was blind; it was the same invisibility everywhere he went…
But he didn’t want to dampen A-Ke’s spirits, so he said, “Wherever Junior Brother wants to go, I will go.”
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