Chapter 25 - Why Don't You Call Me The Qingping Sword?

Chapter 25 Why Don’t You Call Me The Qingping Sword?

Elder Shi Ding was a little vexed. His daughter, Shi Liuli, had sat at the back of the classroom and was chatting happily with a male disciple. She completely disregarded the fact that her father was giving a lecture, and this made him feel angry.

Of course, he was currently being “stared at” by a group of disciples who wanted to acknowledge him as their master, so he couldn’t show any abnormalities. Otherwise, these disciples would surround him like flies. Or perhaps after discovering abnormalities, they would surround Liuli, which would be even more troublesome.

Therefore, he slowly finished the contents of the lecture and accurately announced the end of the class at the right time.

When Shi Liuli heard her father announce the end of the class, she smiled and said goodbye to Luo Yan. Then, she ran out of the classroom and followed her father.

“Father!” After returning to the cave abode, she pulled at Elder Shi Ding’s arm and called out sweetly, “Father, it’s been tough teaching. Let me brew tea for you.”

“Good, good.” Elder Shi Ding laughed heartily. When Shi Liuli went to the inner room to get the tea leaves, he suddenly reacted. En? Wait a moment, I want to ask her about that young male disciple, I can’t forget.

Seeing Shi Liuli come out with a teacup, Elder Shi Ding coughed and said,

“Liuli…”

“Father, please have some tea.” Shi Liuli served the tea obediently.

“Oh, alright.” Elder Shi Ding took a sip in satisfaction. “Hmm, not bad. Your tea brewing skills have improved.”

“That’s good.” Shi Liuli turned around and said, “I still have homework to do today. I’ll get going first.”

“Yeah, yeah… Hey, wait a moment.” Elder Shi Ding nearly forgot about the important matter. “Liuli, I think I saw you making a new friend during my class today?”

Shi Liuli was smart and immediately understood what her father was worried about. She sneered. “Father.”

“What’s wrong?”

“I think there’s something wrong with him. He might be a foreign spy.” “Something wrong?” Elder Shi Ding put down his teacup and said in surprise, “What is it?”

“He’s pretending to be stupid.” Shi Liuli was confident and said seriously, “He looks honest and harmless on the surface, but his actual character is not like that.”

Elder Shi Ding was silent for a moment. He swallowed the words that nearly escaped his mouth and gently explained to his daughter, “Liuli, it’s normal to pretend. After all, our Yuqing Temple’s sect is not as safe as you usually think. When I first joined the sect…”

“Stop!” Seeing that her father was about to start “thinking back” again, Shi Liuli hurriedly shouted, “Stop, stop, stop! I understand. Father means that he’s only doing this to protect himself, right?”

“That’s right.” Elder Shi Ding smiled and said, “The cultivation world is a place where the strong prey on the weak. The sect only used rules to restrict competition and hide these things under the seemingly impartial order. It’s normal to disguise oneself and be wary of others.”

“Besides, if he was really a spy from another sect, you wouldn’t have detected anything wrong so easily.” “Hmph.” Shi Liuli was still a little doubtful and argued, “But he didn’t reveal any flaws. It’s just that my intuition tells me that he’s pretending to be himself.”

“Is that so?” Elder Shi Ding did not continue arguing with his daughter. Instead, he asked, “Then what’s his knowledge and talent? I mean, throw away your subjective impression of him and evaluate his talent and aptitude objectively.”

“I’ve tested him.” Shi Liuli wrinkled her nose and said, “His theoretical foundation is very solid. He must have read the ‘Dao Zang’ well. The content in Father’s class is not difficult for him…” Speaking of that, she suddenly thought of something and said in surprise, “Oh right, when I took him to the entrance examination that day, he clearly said that he had never read the ‘Dao Zang’! There must be a problem here! I want to check his entrance examination answers and marks!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Shi Liuli turned around and ran away.

Elder Shi Ding felt a little helpless as he watched his daughter leave in a rush. Although he did not believe that Luo Yan was a spy, since his daughter wanted to do something serious, he would let her go and play. Well, just in case, it was better to eliminate the hidden danger in advance.

“Slave Nian?” Elder Shi Ding called out.

The white jade puppet standing in the corner of the room suddenly opened its eyes. “Elder Shi Ding.”

“Go and check the test records of the new disciple Luo Yan… Hmm, send me the full video of him from the Dao Zang to the entrance examination.”

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After Luo Yan finished his lesson, he returned to his residence in the temple.

Yuqing Temple provided cave abodes for disciples to live in, but what was more ridiculous was that renting them cost money, and the prices were not cheap.

Fortunately, with Qiu Changtian’s support, Luo Yan could afford to stay. He directly paid a year’s worth of fees and rented a small single room.

Returning to the cave abode, Luo Yan called out the Kunlun Mirror in his heart and said,

“Take me to Mount Shu.”

Kunlun Mirror said, “Countdown to world destruction: 1,000 years. Please hurry up and look for the Heaven Mending Stone.”

“Stop!” Luo Yan said helplessly. “Can you skip the first two lines? I’ve already memorized them every time.”

“Then why don’t you recite it to me?” The Kunlun Mirror said indignantly.

Luo Yan: …

He recited the two lines backwards and sneered. “Dumb Mirror, Dumb Mirror, have you forgotten that my current talent is ‘Heard One but Comprehend One Thousand’? With my current extraordinary intelligence, not to mention memorizing lines, even advanced mathematics is nothing difficult.”

“What is advanced mathematics… Forget it.” The Kunlun Mirror recited truthfully:

[Point two: Mount Shu’s Shangqing Faction, Green Spiral Peak]

[Character Identity: Ling Yunpo.]

[Imitation Mode covered, currently traveling through time.]

Returning to the Green Spiral Peak of Mount Shu, Sword Immortal Ling Yunpo opened his eyes and saw a bag on the table. It was filled with the spirit stones Qiu Changtian had earned from completing missions.

He picked up the bag and went out to find Senior Sister An, planning to give her a surprise.

In the end, he walked through all the rooms but could not find An Zhisu.

Then, Ling Yunpo suddenly remembered that before he saved the last time, his senior sister had told him that she would bring some things to the market in Mount Shu to sell and exchange for spirit stones.

This was the problem with frequently going through the archive. He had jumped from Mount Shu to Kunlun to do a bunch of things, then jumped to Penglai to do a bunch of things. Finally, after jumping back to Mount Shu, Ling Yunpo had already forgotten most of the situation here.

He returned to his wing and dropped the package on the table again. He suddenly noticed the black flying sword hanging on the wall.

This sword was the flying sword that had flown out of the pool after he had resonated with it the other day.

The refinement process was very smooth. When he was learning swordsmanship from Senior Sister An, this flying sword was also used frequently and was very obedient.

However, without his master’s help, he still knew nothing about this flying sword.

Ling Yunpo waved his hand, and the flying sword immediately flew over and landed in his palm.

“Ah Jing, what do you think the name of this sword is?” Ling Yunpo flicked its blade and let out a crisp sound.

“Senior Sister said that it’s very similar to the Qingping Sword recorded in ancient books, but the Qingping Sword has long been destroyed in the Chan Interruption War. Is this the Qingping Sword that has been reconstructed?”

Before the Kunlun Mirror could answer, another unfamiliar, gentle female voice sounded in its mind.

“If you want to think like that, you can ~ Then call me Qingping from now on.”