- 9 (2/2)

Inside the grave came the impatient voice of a girl:

“Why are you still here! Han Yuanji’s disciple, you standing in front of my house annoys me, you know?!”

“These sword marks were left by you?”

Ning Fan did not leave. Instead, he looked towards the grave and asked.

“So what if they were? You don’t understand the sword… You are Han Yuanji’s disciple, you are definitely not anything good…! Leave quickly; don’t make me angry or I’ll cut off your head!”

This lady seemed to dislike the old monster. Ning Fan shook his head. This lady was like a ghost and was living in a grave. It couldn’t be that this innocent girl was murdered by the old monster, right?

Ning Fan didn’t know that this lady not only had a preconceived prejudice against the old monster, but she also hated him as well.

This lady’s grave was right next to Ning Fan’s bedroom. For two consecutive nights, she heard the sound of the entanglement between Ning Fan and Zhihe. The noise left her sleepless throughout the entire night, so she was very agitated.

In her mind, Ning Fan was just a scoundrel with an excessive libido and nothing more. This scoundrel couldn’t possibly comprehend the sword, so he had no qualification to stay in front of the grave.

“Hmph! He is staying here only because he saw my beautiful looks and wanted to hit on me. If I ignore him, he will become bored and leave.”

The lady thought this and didn’t say anything else afterwards. The grave became silent without any noise, only the sounds of the wind and snow were present.

Unfortunately, Ning Fan still didn’t leave even when she ignored him.

He stood in front of the boulder as if he were meditating and hesitating. The three sword marks on the blue stone seemed to have an indescribable magical power, and did not allow him to avert his gaze.

Through the three sword marks, he seemed to be able to see a great heroic lady, with an apricot flower on her hair, next to her temple, performing a sword dance while flying fast in the windy snow.

Each move and each style was exceptionally vivid at first, but they gradually became impossible to discern clearly.

After a long time, Ning Fan suddenly stretched his hand forward and touched the first sword mark on the boulder.

His action was outside of the lady’s expectations and caused her to immediately shout:

“You are not allowed to touch the sword mark! Stop moving your hand! If you are to touch it, I will kill you!”

The three sword marks were related to her vow, how could she let men touch them so easily!

“Just don’t touch it, don’t touch it!”

Ning Fan wrinkled his brows and withdrew his palm, then turned around to leave. The lady in turn was left with an unfathomable feeling in her heart.

Although this person was very beautiful, her temper was too eccentric. Dugu, Dugu, could it be that these two words were her name? Even her name was indeed very reclusive.[1]

He simply wanted to feel the sword mark with his hand to appreciate the intent of the sword, yet this lady went so far as to shout that she would kill him.

Truly a bizarre ghost!

After Ning Fan left, the lady suddenly appeared. Her eyes flashed proudly towards the sword marks and Ning Fan’s figure in the distance, then she softly snorted.

Fortunately, she was able to stop Ning Fan from feeling the sword intent. Otherwise, it would have been troublesome.

The three swords were parts of her trial, and couldn’t easily be touched by a man.

After a while! The first sword mark disappeared!

The lady looked at the blue boulder in complete astonishment. The first sword mark on top of the boulder actually disappeared!

Ning Fan actually touched this sword mark! The sword mark disappeared without a trace and was taken by Ning Fan.

The lady almost started crying!

Shameless thief! He truly was a disciple of Han Yuanji; he actually stole the sword mark!

Fortunately, two marks still remained out of the three. She had to keep a good watch to ensure that they wouldn’t be stolen by Ning Fan!

If someone could successfully take away her three sword marks, then she would have to marry the man as his wife. This was the oath she made that year in front of this grave. Fortunately, Ning Fan didn’t take away all of them…

After leaving the young ghost lady, Ning Fan went to look for Zhihe. She still hadn’t woken up yet, so he walked to the dan refinement room and started to prepare a dan cauldron once again.

He did not realize that the sword intent belonging to the girl was now in his body. This sword mark above the blue boulder was inadvertently removed by Ning Fan, and it was gradually being refined and mastered.

This time, Ning Fan tried to make a Three Revolution Dan. Unfortunately, as he was starting it, the cauldron exploded.

The cauldron did not explode because of a dan refining failure, but because the hidden sword intent in his body suddenly felt the temperature of the fire and rushed out of his body. This one sword shattered the old monster’s medicine cauldron!

Since the medicine cauldron was broken, Ning Fan was unable to continue making more dan.

The explosion from the sword ray fragmented the medicine cauldron and even spread towards the entire dan refinement house—all with just one sword. It cut the huge room into two pieces, and the sword rushed straight up to the sky with a deafening noise that resonated across all of Seven Apricot City in a split second!

“Cauldron exploding?”

While drinking in his room, the old monster was suddenly startled. He opened the door and rushed to the dan refinement room.

He knew that Ning Fan was busy with refining dan, but he never expected for Ning Fan to trigger an explosion of the medicine cauldron.

‘The sword ray that pierced the sky was a bit familiar. Wait, this is the sword technique of the little girl, Dugu!’

“Wait, this is the Fire Transformation Sword! This is not Little Girl Dugu’s doing, ah! How did Little Brat Ning do it! He doesn’t have any ridiculous relation with Little Girl Dugu, right?”

The old monster’s heart was at a loss, and his chrysanthemum flower-like face wrinkled into the shape of a cleaning rag.

In his entire life, he only loved one lady, and Dugu was this lady’s only little sister.

“Little Brat Ning and Little Girl Dugu in a relationship... Then I would lose my master seniority! He shouldn’t have removed all of Little Girl Dugu’s sword marks, right?”

The old monster was very worried about this.

Whoever took her three sword marks would be Little Girl Dugu’s husband. This was her oath before the grave!

If Ning Fan took all of the sword marks, he would become Dugu’s husband and would be the brother-in-law of the old monster. Damn it! If his disciple turned into his brother-in-law, then he—as the master—would lose all face!

‘No, I must prevent this from happening! Oh, wait, this guy’s aura, he is already at the fifth level of the Vein Opening realm!”

The old monster was unable to conceal his happiness and was grinning from ear to ear!

Just after one day, he went from the first level to the fifth level of the Vein Opening realm. What is this cultivation speed! In the old monster’s experience, this was the first time he had heard of such a thing!

He casually picked up a disciple along the way, yet it seemed that this disciple’s innate aptitude was too demonic!

[1]Du = alone, gu = lonely. Dugu = even more solitary. Dugu is a character from Return of the Condor Heroes, the name of a swordsman who never lost during his life, and was always searching for someone who could defeat him but failed