Chapter 35

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The Clouds Return (3)

“Where’s your knife?”

Pei Yu took a knife from the storage bag. The knife is a commonly used bony knife, with a sharp pointed narrow blade, shining coldly in the sun.

Sheng Ji smiled, “What? You’re just gonna hit me with this kid’s stuff?”

Yu Chisu leaned over and whispered, “There’s a sword in my storage bag. Do you want it? It’s top grade, but it is metallic, so it will still be defeated by his Hongyan.”

Pei Yu said: “No need.”

Yu Chisu stood in front of her and said to Sheng Ji: “You see someone holding a knife, are you embarrassed to use Hongyan?”

Sheng Ji sneered, “The weapon is a part of victory or defeat, why should people find other excuses if their skills are not as good as others?”

“You!” Yu Chisu wanted to say something again, but Pei Yu put a hand on her shoulder to stop what she was about to say.

Pei Yu stepped forward and said to Sheng Ji: “It is not good for you to rely on foreign objects.”

The reason is actually very simple.

Practicing is the process of constantly pursuing the limit and stimulating one’s potential. A good magic weapon seems to be beneficial to practice, but it will obliterate more possibilities. For monks who want to pursue the ultimate, it is a hindrance.

She was famous all over the world for her Splendid Blade, and Ji Yue’s Flying Snow Bow was famous for moving the immortal gate. It was not the benefit of the magic weapon itself, but the owner of the magic weapon’s own abilities that won them their fame.

Sheng Ji was very disdainful, “If a sword cultivator does not rely on the sword in his hand, what else can he rely on?”

Pei Yu asked: “What if you don’t have a sword in your hand?”

“The sword is there, and if the sword breaks, then it kills you!”

Pei Yu knew it in her heart and asked Yu Chisu to step aside to avoid the sword storm from affecting her. Then salute each other with Sheng Ji.

Sheng Ji said: “You are younger than me, so I will let you do ten tricks.”

Pei Yu stunned, nodded, “It’s okay.”

She stroked the air ten times with the knife at random, “One, two, three… ten, you go ahead.”

Sheng Ji’s face flushed red, “You humiliate me!” Before the words fell silent, the distance between the two suddenly shortened, and Hongyan stabbed like a tongue of fire.

Standing in the distance, Yu Chisu could still feel the heat spreading on the surface, and the airflow was scorched by Hongyan.

She wiped the sweat on her face and nervously observed the situation on the court.

In Sheng Ji’s hands, Hongyan danced like a tiger. The flames rose, the surrounding vegetation was burnt to yellow, and the leaves were slightly curled and hung on the branches.

Pei Yu’s figure resembles a small boat swaying in a violent wind and huge waves, looking precarious.

Suddenly, the sword in Sheng Ji’s hand was prosperous, and the man stepped on the flying stone to jump up to several feet, and then swung his sword to cut it down with the force of breaking the rock!

Yu Chisu hurriedly yelled: “It’s one man is the gate! Pei Yu stay away!”

This is Sheng Ji’s famous sword style. One man is the gate, and ten thousand men can’t open. The lonely and masculine sword style is matched with the extremely fierce Hongyan. The sword wind can lift off the sand and the stone.

(T/N: sword wind is when someone slashes the air and it creates a wind current from how powerful the slash is)

Pei Yu’s figure was slightly distorted.

Yu Chisu frowned subconsciously and couldn’t bear to look at it, but the next moment, her eyes widened suddenly.

Hongyan smashed into the stone and cut a deep sword mark. Sheng Ji’s tiger’s mouth was numb with his sword, but the person who was enveloped by the sword wind disappeared out of thin air.

(T/N: tiger’s mouth is the web between the thumb and pointer finger of a hand)

The autumn wind blows down the wood, and the pool water ripples slightly.

Sheng Ji froze in the same place, and before he could react, he felt a sharp pain in his back.

Pei Yu held the knife backwards, pierced the acupuncture points behind him with the hilt, then pushed with her left hand, tripped him under her feet, causing Sheng Ji to lose his balance and fell straight into the pool.

With a loud bang, a huge splash of water splashed in the luminous deep water, and water vapor rose like a cloud of smoke.

Yu Chisu ran over and said unbelievably, “How did you do it!?”

Pei Yu threw the knife back, put on the green feather cloak again, and said slowly, “He’s too slow.”

Yu Chisu froze, too slow?

No one has ever said that Sheng Ji’s sword is slow. In her opinion, that was really fast to the extreme. Avoiding the inevitable sword, she could only see the red afterimage at the time.

Is this person saying that was too slow?

But she didn’t know that if a person had their cultivation base and spiritual roots abolished, and was thrown under the Ten Thousand Demons Cave without dying, it would not be a great thing to avoid this sword.

With a vast expanse of white steam, Yu Chisu stared blankly at the smooth, mirror-like water surface, and suddenly thought of something, “Oh! He doesn’t seem to know how to swim!”

Pei Yu’s footsteps paused.

With another sound of falling into the water, Yu Chisu jumped into the water, shaped like a swimming fish, and dragged the drowning man up, then knelt down on the ground and pressed his abdomen forcefully with her elbow.

“Cough cough cough…” Sheng Ji coughed out a few mouthfuls of water and slowly regained consciousness.

Pei Yu put his heart down, broke a branch from the side of the road, and rolled up his Hongyan.

“My sword…” Sheng Ji said vaguely.

Yu Chisu complained bitterly: “Sword sword sword, if the sword is gone, you only know the sword all day long. Do you know if you are going to die?”

Sheng Ji suddenly stood up like a carp, “Where is my sword!?”

Pei Yu pointed at the ground.

Sheng Ji hugged Hongyan like a wife, bit his lip, and looked at the girl who was much shorter than him, “You, why did you suddenly disappear? Did you use some magic weapon?”

Pei Yu shook her head, but after his reminder, she remembered that she really had a magic weapon.

Sheng Ji didn’t believe it, “No, how can you be so fast by yourself? You must be cheating!”

“If you can’t do it, it doesn’t mean that other people can’t do it.” Pei Yu dropped the tree branch, washed her hands carefully by the pool water, and then turned and walked to the town.

Yu Chisu hurriedly followed behind her, “Pei Yu, you are amazing!”

“How did you do it just now? I blinked and you were gone. Can a person really be so fast?”

“Do you really have no cultivation base?”

Sheng Ji looked at their distant backs, looked at the Hongyan sullenly, and shouted unconvincingly: “You wait! I will definitely beat you!”

Yu Chisu turned around and smiled: “You can dry yourself first! Don’t cry and rush to Taichu Tian to file a complaint if you catch the cold!”

Pei Yu walked all the way, and Yu Chisu whispered all the way in her ear.

“Are you guys guarding Shouxian Peak hiding so deeply?”

“Did you go easy on him just now?”

“I still can’t figure it out. Did you use Gushan’s move just now?”

Pei Yu sighed, “This is not difficult.”

Yu Chisu opened her mouth wide, “Huh?”

“What I did just now is not Gushan’s swordsmanship, and it’s not even a move. It’s just a very ordinary blow.”

Yu Chisu listened blankly, still puzzled. In her opinion, Pei Yu first appeared mysteriously behind Sheng Ji, and then she pushed him into the water with a hand. The body style can be called a ghost with how fast she was. Many predecessors who built the foundation couldn’t do it, let alone her untrained child?

“Practice makes perfect, good preparation is the key to success. When Pao Ding first slaughtered cows, everything he saw was the whole cow. Three years later, he never saw it again. He was instead able to cut it up without seeing it with his eyes. He only knew that he had a knife and let his spirit lead his cuts. If you can practice diligently, you will reach this point.”

(T/N: this is an ancient fable of Zhuangzi and Pei Yu uses this particular passage to illustrate that if you do something for a long time, it becomes second nature)

Of course, she didn’t say that this kind of ease is based on numerous life and death events and many scars. After all, the young master of Qianhan Palace would not suffer similar sufferings as her.

Yu Chisu’s eyes were surprisingly bright, “Are you saying that I can reach your level?”

Pei Yu nodded, “As long as you are willing to work hard.”

Yu Chisu was busy expressing her attitude, “I will definitely work hard! Sister Yu!”

Pei Yu: ?

Yu Chisu held her hand with eyes full of tears, “My aunt keeps scolding me as waste, and they all think I am a dandy, but you don’t think so. Sister Yu, you will be my sister from now on, let’s become sworn sisters!”

(T/N: dandy in this case is a rich kid whose only positive point is being rich)

Pei Yu opened her hand and silently conveyed her resistance.

But Yu Chisu was immersed in the excitement of meeting her talent scout and didn’t care at all, “I want to give you something.” She touched her pocket, her body suddenly stopped, her face pale, “…Where is my jade?”

“It’s over, my jade is lost, and my aunt will kill me!”

Pei Yu said: “Let’s find it.” Then she wanted to walk back to the town. She was worried that if she left for too long, Master would be worried when she came back and could not find her.

Yu Chisu nodded in a panic: “Okay. Sister Yu, please go to The Cloud Returns for me to see. I’ll go back to the foot of Gushan and look for it.”

Pei Yu frowned, “I didn’t…” didn’t intend to help her find it.

Yu Chisu spoke before her, “It’s a white jade in the shape of a carp, thank you, you are such a good person!”

Pei Yu: “But I don’t have…”

Yu Chisu waved her hand, “I’ll go back and look for it first, please go look at the restaurant, please!”

Pei Yu looked at her back hurriedly running away. She wanted to ignore it, but after hesitating for a moment, she turned to The Clouds Return.

Is it a carp carved from white jade? She thought of the red carp on her body inexplicably, and she couldn’t help being curious.

Someone was making noise at the door of The Cloud Returns.

“This piece of jade is definitely not yours!” The girl in red stopped a middle-aged man, “How could you have such a good piece of jade if you are in tattered clothes?”

The wretched man tried to push her away, but found that the jade arm that stretched out was like a giant mountain, which made it impossible to push her.

“You, you little girl, isn’t this jade a grandfather’s heirloom?”

The girl sneered, “Want to pretend to be the owner and lead the jade away? You don’t want the owner to worry too much.”

She lifted her foot and kicked, and then snatched the jade directly from the man’s hand, “This kick was kindly given to you by your grandma! It’s so good!”

Never thought that after the man was kicked to the ground, he actually started to play as a rascal, rolling on the ground saying that the girl had committed robbery and took away his ancestral jade pendant.

Seeing everyone talking, Pei Yu walked out slowly and said to the man: “This piece of jade is not yours.”

The man cursed: “Who are you? You say it’s not right? This piece of jade was left to me by my grandfather. How many years old, aoo,” he pointed at Peiyu, “You two are jealous of my heirloom. Just partner to grab my treasure, my god, how come there are people like you at the foot of Gushan? Don’t the immortals take care of it?”

Pei Yu looked at him coldly, and after he dried his mouth from talking, took out the red carp from her arms.

The red carp gleams with crimson light, and it complements the white carp, like twins.

“What? Is this piece of jade also your heirloom? It was also lost by you, and it happened to be picked up by me?”

The man was stunned.

The attitude of the onlookers immediately changed, “At first glance, the two pieces of jade are a pair. The child has been sitting in the store for a long time, and she must have dropped it.”

“I just said that this man looks poor and tinkling, how could there be a good jade. Fortunately, the little girl pointed it out in time and didn’t let him take it.”

Seeing that the jade pendant was no longer available, the man blushed and squeezed away from the crowd.

The girl smiled and said, “Thank you just now,” she fixed her gaze on the ghost mask on Pei Yu’s waist, “Why do you have a mask made by Senior Brother… Junior Sister!?”

Pei Yu frowned slightly.

The girl hurriedly reported her name, “I am Rong Jibai, a disciple of Gushan’s Shouxian Peak, are you a new apprentice of Master?”

Pei Yu lowered her eyes and bit her lip without answering.

…Master’s Bai’er? Ah.

Fate is indescribable and inexhaustible. It’s always imminent.

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