It's spring, many plum blossom tree petals have been scattered on the ground; some of them fly with the wind. And In the yun family room, a girl was cultivating, her face seeming to be in distress.
A few months after I ignored him, Jin Shen doesn't come to my house anymore.
It seems he already lost his interest in me. Even Chao Yue stopped asking me to not ignore him.
I know how it feels to be ignored; it hurts, especially by your own friends. But I must do this for my own safety.
Ah, iam really a terrible person, am i?
Seeing me not as spirited as usual, Xi Hong comes to comfort me.
"Young Miss, what happened? You don't seem as enthusiastic as usual. Did something happen between you and Young Master Jin Shen?"
"Nothing happened between us," I said calmly.
"Really?" While smirking, she continued, "I know you like Young Master Jin Shen very much. If something happened to you, it can only be because of him."
She so anoyying
"Huh, why do you think like that anyway? There's nothing happened between me and Jin Shen," I said confusedly.
"You can't fool me, Young Miss. I am your exclusive servant. I spend my entire life beside you. The only one I know the most is you. I know when you and Young Master Jin Shen talk, you show much more expression compared to me, the lord, and even your mom. So what really happened between you guys?!" She smiled annoyingly.
What the heck?! Did she really see me like that? Did I maybe create a very big misunderstanding in her head?
The reason I show my emotion to Jin Shen is because I really consider Jin Shen to be my friend. So I feel much more relaxed around him. I can't be relaxed toward mom and dad, lest they know I have memories from my previous life. I don't want them to treat me like a weird kid, so I rarely show my knowledge. As for you, you are so annoying, like a certain bratty kid in a nighttime TV show, always telling me this, telling me that. Where did my little cute Xi Hong go? Who is the servant?! You or me?!
Thinking about it makes me angry. I want to teach her a lesson.
"Nevermind that. By the way, Xi Hong, why don't we spar?" I smiled while looking at her.
Knowing that I want to beat her up, she did not back down.
"Well, okay then. Let's spar. It will be different from the old time. I already reached high mastery in my fiery sword technique."
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Whoa, no wonder she did not back down from me. She already surpassed me in the way of the sword. Ugh, is this what it feels like to be talentless? No wonder her cultivation suddenly increased because of that. Moreover, she has a breakthrough and stepped into the Golden Core Realms. But I cannot let myself lose to her. It's not about who wins or loses anymore; it's about my dignity as the master.
So we come to the Yun Family arena. This arena has protective measures. The person who battles here cannot be killed. Of course, it depends on the attack. If a Mahayana cultivator attacks a junior in the Golden Core Realm, the protective measure cannot protect him. It also has mini time-based spells attached to it, so when the arena is destroyed after the battle, it will slowly fix itself like reversed film with no people in it.
Xi Hong and I step up on the arena as we distance ourselves to the opposite side. I see my mother sitting at the audience seat with her maid servant. It seems they want to see our spar. Many of the servants also paused their work to see our spar.
After we exchange greetings, the battle begins, I immediately launch myself to the middle of the arena and cross swords with her.
Her swing was so heavy, so I infused some of my qi into my sword and successfully deflected hers. After that, I immediately condense my qi and attack her abdomen. She dodged it by a hair's breadth. As she countered by swinging her fiery sword toward my head, knowing that, I hurriedly blocked it using my ice-condensed sword and distanced myself from her.
"How's that, Young Miss? I am not that weak kid anymore, am I?!"
"What are you proud of? You still haven't defeated me," I said, feeling slightly annoyed.
"Then I will defeat you today."
She launched herself toward me. I can feel the heat of her fiery sword as she slashed it toward my left arm. I step aside a bit, condense a yin qi at the tip of my sword and immediately make a pincer attack toward her, suprisingly she deflected it with her fire-coated fist. Her fist was heavy, and because of that i was losing my balance. As she was about to attack me with her sword, I immediately take a jump backward.
Crap, I fell into her trap.
I can feel all her qi gathering at the tip of her sword. She was going to use a big move.
"Young Miss, please be careful. I will unleash a move that I got when I comprehended my sword technique. I call this move Slash of the Red World."
She slashed her sword toward me. The ground became ash; the surrounding arena has been burned. She's like an reaper old man I see on TV shows in my previous life. Realizing it, I immediately create a wall of ice using my yin qi. I pour every bit of my qi to strengthen that wall. Fortunately, I can block that move with my outstanding amount of qi, but it still left a huge mark on the ice wall. After this, I hurriedly attack her when she's still not stable. I condense my yin qi into my fist and hit her abdomen. She was sent flying out of the arena.
Waaah, that's really dangerous. If I don't have enough qi, I will be done. How can one be able to use a move like that? I am feeling deja vu, shit.
Contrary to my thought, my face was calm as I looked at her and said proudly,
"You are still a hundred years earlier to defeat me, Xi Hong!"
While coughing up blood, Xi Hong said, "As expected of Young Miss. I can't imagine you can block against that move. It seems I still need some training."
"Now that you know it, come on, we need a physician to treat you," I said as I carried her to our family physician. "By the way, how did you learn that move?!"
"As I said before, I comprehended it when I practiced my sword technique. Suddenly, I had an epiphany. I stood in a river. I don't know what it's called, but in that river, many sword cultivators were walking forward following the river. So I tried that too. Each step was heavy, and when I reached ten steps, I was thrown back to my body. That's when I comprehended this move."
When I was about to ask more, I heard several footsteps approaching us.
"That river's name was the Sword Dao River. Only a talented sword cultivator can enter it. You did well, Xi Hong. If not for my daughter's absurd amount of qi, you would have defeated her."
Shit, Mom, why did you tell her? And where's my praise? I defeated her.
"And Yueyin, you can just avoid it. There's no need to defend against that attack. You can coat your body with yin qi to defend against the heat. That way, the battle will end sooner. Remember, you have a yin physique body. You must use that to your advantage."
Why am I the one being berated here? Why is Xi Hong not? Really, Mom, who is your daughter, her or me?!
But I can't say that out loud. I can only nod helplessly and say,
"I am sorry, Mother. It seems I was still lacking. I will not disappoint you next time."
"Good. I hope you will not disappoint me. Be like Xi Hong. Geez, Xi Hong is so hardworking. She studies well, can play many instruments, blah, blah, blah..."
Uwaaaah, my mother was nagging too much. I can't stand it. Xi Hong this, Xi Hong that. Why am I being compared to her? Why?
She's just a bratty kid. Just because your daughter is not talented in a fight, you can't treat me like this. Uuugh, I am so jealous of my mother, having a servant like that. She's so quiet and obedient. I hear she was Xi Hong's mother, but why did the personality differ so much?
"So that's why you must be like Xi Hong, do you understand? Learn from her, not just dilly-dally all day. And I know you like that boy Jin Shen, but don't let love obstruct your way to achieve immortality. Just love moderately. You see when I met your father, blah, blah, blah..."
Wait, wait, wait, Mom. I think you are misunderstanding something. A big misunderstanding.