Chapter 52 (1/2)

Xiao Chen was a little stunned that he wasn’t allowed to harbor feelings of regret. To be honest, he found it to be a pity to suddenly give up his skills and return to the Lv 1 Qi Refining Realm.

“What do you think? Have you thought it through? If you’ve decided, I’ll help you undo your cultivation. Remember that you can’t harbor other thoughts, especially thoughts of regret, or both of us will be harmed.”

“Hang on, hang on! I’m still preparing!”

Xiao Chen immediately sat down cross-legged and started taking deep breaths. He tried his best to adjust his emotions. It was just a matter of having his cultivation undone. It wasn’t like he wouldn’t regain his cultivation. Moreover, when he recovers his cultivation in the future, he would even be much stronger than he was right now. What was there to feel pity about?

“Come on! I’m ready!”

“Great! Here I come!” Bai Ying sat down in front of him cross-legged.

“Hey! Why are you taking off your clothes?” Xiao Chen immediately closed his eyes.

“Ahem, well, I must take off my clothes. I can’t have foreign objects standing in my way. You’re not allowed to open your eyes or harbor other thoughts. Do you hear me?”

“How I can not harbor other thoughts when you’re like this?!”

Thus, an hour later, a sweat-drenched Xiao Chen said in a small voice, “E… Elder, have you put on your clothes yet?”

“Idiot, open your eyes and see! Since when did I take off my clothes? I was just trying to distract you earlier so you wouldn’t feel regret and render our efforts in vain.”

Xiao Chen carefully opened his eyes. Only then did he exhale a sigh of relief. “So you were tricking me. I was even so nervous for so long…”

“Tsk, tsk. Kid, your imagination sure is wonderful. Youngsters like you… Tut, tut…”

“Can you not behave this way?! You made me think of that!”

“Forget it. How do you feel?”

Xiao Chen took a deep breath. His cultivation had returned to Lv 1 Qi Refining Realm, the level he was in back when Ye Shaochong’s gang bullied him. He couldn’t help smiling wryly. “I’ve spent all these months cultivating in vain.”

“Wrong! It’s definitely not in vain! Either way, train intensively for the next three months and return to Lv 7 Qi Refining Realm. From now on, you can only sleep four hours a day. I’ll supervise your training the rest of the time.”

“That’s… That’s not the case?” Xiao Chen felt as if a dark cloud was rapidly gathering rapidly overhead, but he was already stranded on a thief’s boat. What could he possibly do?

Time passed so quickly that in a flash, it was already late autumn and everything was on the verge of death. Only the cherry blossoms on the Fullmoon Cliff were suspended in eternal springtime. Amid the rain of flowers, two sword radiance shuttled back and forth in midair.

“Hey, master! Be careful!” Xiao Chen thrust his sword. Bai Ying chuckled as she blocked his attack horizontally while using as a twig as a sword. Unexpectedly, Xiao Chen’s used too much force in his thrust. The biting cold Sword Qi snapped the twig in her hand with a creak.

Bai Ying felt a sudden spell of dizziness. She gently closed her eyes and slowly fell down from midair. Startled, Xiao Chen made a sharp turn of his body to embrace her and slowly fall to the ground.

“Wake up, master. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have been so heavy-handed.”

Xiao Chen’s brows furrowed as he stared quietly at the woman in his arms. He was obviously aware that the Unsullied Sword was an ancient Legendary Weapon and that her health had been so poor lately that she would often faint for no reason. Why did he still use so much force earlier?

Sighing, he carried her inside the Moon-watch Pavilion and gently placed her on a bench.

In the span of three months, Xiao Chen’s cultivation had returned to Lv 7 Qi Refining Realm. He undid his cultivation at Lv 5 and 6 respectively and had long crushed the two large black iron ores into smithereens.

His current self was far superior to him at Lv 7 three months ago. He could even command the air space for a short time.

An hour later, Bai Ying woke up with a loud scream. Xiao Chen turned and saw the cold sweat dotting her face. He walked over to her. “What’s the matter?”

Bai Ying looked up with a deadly pale face. When she saw him approaching, she looked as if she was staring at something terrifying and retreated rapidly. “Don’t come here!”

Xiao Chen stopped in his tracks and frowned. “Did you experience that frightening dream again?”

It took Bai Ying a long time before she fully awakened. She murmured, “I always have a hard time opening my eyes each time I’m trapped in a nightmare. It’s like that person is in front of me. My mind is always in a disorder. I’m sorry for what I did earlier…”

Xiao Chen went over to her and wiped the cold sweat on her forehead. “You’re tired. Let’s not practice swordsmanship today.”

Bai Ying nodded. “Come to the cave behind my house in three days. I’ve prepared some things for you. Moreover, you’ll have to start preparing to enter the Foundation Building Realm. Mo Yu is already Lv 2 Foundation Building Realm. If you’re unable to enter that realm, you’ll face great risk.”

The next day, Xiao Chen went to Fullmoon Cliff to perform sword-dance on his own for a long time. When he saw no sign of Bai Ying, he returned to Sunset Peak on his flying sword. There were few chances for him to go back – it was only once a month. Naturally, Xiao Ruo couldn’t be happier to see him. When the three princes saw a sword radiance falling in his courtyard, they knew that he must have returned and also rushed over.