CH 86.1

Chapter 086: No next time

“Yun-lass, sit, come here and sit here.”

Zhan Yu knows that Su Tingyun is coming, and directly beckons her to sit down on the stone block next to him, “You raised this orchid tongue grass well, so clever.”

Su Tingyun gently pets a big leaf a few times, “You know it has intelligence, yet you still bully it.”

Zhan Yu snickers and doesn’t comment. He points a finger at the Cleansing Sword Lake not far from them, “Last time, I told you to go to your Third Uncle to get a sword, then throw it into the Cleansing Sword Lake, didn’t I? Now I want you to go in there and fish it out.”

Su Tingyun is immediately stunned.

At that time, her master asked her to go to Third Uncle to get a sword. She remembers seeing that the sword hilts were piled up like a hornet’s nest, enough to make her scalp go numb. After getting that over with, she set her heart on having Third Uncle make metal balls. When she left, Master asked her to put the sword in the lake, but she just threw it directly into the water without marking it.

Now he’s making her go and get it back…

There are countless swords under this Cleansing Sword Lake, how can she get that one back?

Seeing that Su Tingyun is just standing there and not moving, Zhan Yu quickly moves behind her, then kicks the person off. In the first place, Su Tingyun’s loft is located next to the Cleansing Sword Lake, and their position is not far from said Lake. Zhan Yu uses some strength on his foot, and it’s also unexpected, so Su Tingyun falls straight into the water.

At the side, the orchid tongue grass has been pointing to give Su Tingyun a warning. Now, it watches as its backer is kicked, and its initial laughter peters out. It resigns its leaves to block Zhan Yu and Xiao Budian from the sun. It even shakes its leaves, fanning the pair.

The sun has gone down now, and the water in the Cleansing Sword Lake has become as cold as the swords at the bottom. Su Tingyun operates her spiritual energy and is about to cover herself with a barrier from it, when she hears Master Zhan Yu shout, “Our faction usually just raises swords, we don’t need to practice in the lake every day like the killing faction. But those two children don’t use spiritual energy, and you are a dozen times older, can’t you even compare to a child? Tsk tsk…”

Xiao Budian also clicks his tongue a couple of times. But as a result, even Little Bai learns the sound, and goes to tut nonstop.

Little Bai fans its leaves while saying, “Tsk tsk, tsk tsk…”

Su Tingyun: “…”

Is it really alright to change sides so quickly?  Little Bai, you’re getting smarter and smarter! If the dumb Big Bai pairs up with you, will its intelligence upgrade directly?

Su Tingyun removes the spiritual energy barrier according to her master’s instructions, and begins to dive under the water. She starts trying to remember where she threw the sword at that time, and the more she thinks about it, the more her head hurts. The flying swords forged by Third Uncle are all cast exactly the same, how could she find it!

It’s really cold when she entered the lake, but it gets tolerable after a while. Still, Su Tingyun is very distressed. If she doesn’t use spiritual energy, how could she breathe underwater, and how long could she hold her breath?

The most important thing, in any case, is that she can’t tell which sword is the one she previously threw in!  Should she just grab a random one and report back?  Su Tingyun is no longer a child. She reckons that there’s a good reason why her Master does things the way he does. She holds her breath and searches for a long time, only to come to shore pitifully.

She uses spiritual energy to clean away the water on her body as she comes ashore, but not her hair. At this, she probably looks a little wretched.

“Master, I can’t find it.” Su Tingyun says awkwardly.

“I’ve said it before— if you chose the sword, you should cherish it. But you didn’t care about it, so now you can’t find it.” Zhanyu places the last chess piece, and Xiao Budian flips the chessboard when he sees that he’s lost. Soon after, he holds a sword and stands up. He turns to laugh at Su Tingyun.

“Senior sister, Master is messing with you. Just go into the water and pick one that looks good. I also took one at random back there. Anyway, if I carry it for a few years, Master will find an excuse to throw it away, and have me choose another one and raise it all over again.” After Xiao Budian is done talking, Zhan Yu knocks him over the head, “That’s because you didn’t raise it seriously.”