“…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Lian Hua’s pupils shrank slightly, and after a moment of hesitation, he denied it.
“Tsk, after being an elder for a few years, you have really made a lot of progress, Junior Brother.”
“But just like before, you can’t lie at all.”
Ren Bin said with a smile.
“……”
Lian Hua did not respond, seeming to be struggling silently.
“Are you still going to play dumb? Alas…”Ren Bin sighed: “I arrived a little early today, and I got lost and ended up at the martial arts training ground, and I happened to see Miss Yue sparring with someone else.”
“That set of swordsmanship is exactly the same as the first three swords of Guiyi Sword Technique, and she is your disciple.”
“Could it be that your apprentice picked it up himself?”
“Stop lying and give it to me.”
“What doesn’t belong to you, never belongs to you.”
Lian Hua was silent.
After a long mental struggle, he spoke in a pleading tone: “Later, okay?”
“Why?”
Ren Bin asked back.
“…Although I have already learned the Guiyi Sword Technique,…my apprentice still needs this sword technique.”
“She has already mastered the first three swords. She can’t stop.”
The topic suddenly turned to himself, and Yue Xu, who was already a little confused, became even more confused.
“Ren Bin, you used to be a swordsman as well. You can sense her talent, right?”
“Her talent is not inferior to yours. My talent is far inferior to hers.”
“As long as she can master this Sword Art, she will definitely be able to become a master of the Liaoxu… No, a master of the Dharma Realm, or even the Mahayana Realm.”
“Six years ago, the sect was seriously injured. We cannot abandon a genius like her!”
Yue Xu looked at Lian Hua in confusion, who was almost lying on the table and begging for mercy, then looked away and looked at Ren Bin.
Ren Bin happened to turn his gaze to her, and their eyes met.
For a brief moment, she seemed to see sympathy in Ren Bin’s eyes.
“Sorry, no.”
“Why?”
“No reason, because I came here just to retrieve this sword manual. I can’t return empty-handed.”
“……”
After a burst of heavy breathing, Lian Hua raised his head again, and his face became obviously a little hideous.
“You did this on purpose, on purpose? Right?”
“Huazhu Peak has fallen into decline, so you can’t stand seeing other peaks produce geniuses, right?!”
Maybe it was the atmosphere or maybe it was the tension, his eyes were bloodshot and he stared at Ren Bin.
“You were so selfish back then, and so was Yu Xian, both of you!”
“Eat up everything that belongs to me and my fellow apprentices!”
The sword at his waist trembled slightly, as if it shared the anger of its master.
Ren Bin still had a smile on his face.
He glanced at Lian Hua’s sword indifferently, then looked back at his eyes, as if he didn’t care at all about the sword force.
“Alas, you have put the cart before the horse, Lian-Junior Brother.”
He tapped the wooden table with his fingers:
“What does what happened in the past have to do with what’s happening between us now?”
“This sword technique originally belonged to Huazhu Peak. You lent it to other disciples to learn without permission, right?”
“Did your master ask you to pass it on to your disciple? Or did I, the current head of Huazhu Peak, say so?”
“Don’t make it difficult for me. I’m just an administrator. I just have to collect things when the time comes. Is there anything wrong with that?”
He paused, looked at Lian Hua who had an unpleasant expression, and smiled even more: “I admit that your disciple is indeed extremely talented.”
“But, practicing this Guiyi Sword Technique can make you soar into the sky and enter the Dharma Realm in one step. Tsk… it’s still a bit exaggerated.”
“This sword manual was given to you by Master because Junior Sister Yuxian and I didn’t like it at first. Did you know that?”
Lian Hua was stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed, and he asked in a trembling voice: “You, what do you mean?”
“Ahem, it doesn’t mean anything.”
Ren Bin coughed twice, then waved his hand, looking nonchalant: “I’m just telling you that Yu Xian and I didn’t really care about this thing at first.”
“I took it back only because it belongs to Huazhu Peak, not to you.”
Ren Bin drank the tea in the cup, stood up, walked to the pale-faced Lian Hua, and patted him on the shoulder.
“Give it to me. Everyone has their own things to do. There’s no need to waste time, right?”
“Moreover, I believe that with Junior Brother’s intelligence and talent, after so many years, he must have memorized the method of the Guiyi Sword Art.”
“I’m just collecting the sword techniques. I’m not forbidding you from learning privately.”
Lian Hua ignored him.
The secret of the Back Sword Technique…more than 100,000 words, are you kidding…?
Memorize?
I am not one of those scholars in the academy, how can I memorize it!?
Even for him, it took him a full ten years to figure out this sword technique.
Although he had learned all nine swords, he was unable to grasp the secrets of the last three swords.
How can he teach others if he hasn’t learned it thoroughly?
But he had no reason to keep this sword manual.
A flash of white light passed by, and a thick yellow book appeared in Lian Hua’s hand, and then was taken by Ren Bin.
“Thank you very much.”
Ren Bin put the sword tactics into his treasure bag.
“Then I’ll leave first and see if I can have dinner when I get back.”
The sky had already completely darkened, and he didn’t know whether Yu Xian had left any food for him.
“Wait, wait a minute!”
A panicked voice sounded, and a hand grabbed the sleeve of Ren Bin’s Taoist robe.
Ren Bin turned around and saw not Lian Hua who had fallen silent and looked resentful, but Yue Xu who looked terrified.
“What’s the matter, Miss Yue?” he asked.
“Will I not be able to learn this sword technique in the future?”
After hesitating for a moment, Yue Xu bit her lip hard, but still mustered up the courage to ask this question.
Even a fool would understand what Ren Bin meant just now.
If he took back this sword manual, wouldn’t it mean that he would… not be able to practice it anymore?
But I…can’t live without this sword manual.
It seemed that his existence came into being just for this sword manual.
“Maybe?”
Ren Bin couldn’t give an accurate answer either.
“What will happen in the future? I am a cultivator, not a fortune teller, so how can I tell for sure?”
“But… Miss Yue.”
He patted Yue Xu on the shoulder: “This isn’t the best sword technique for you, it’s just a little better than your previous one.”
“If there are more powerful sword techniques or secret books to learn, you will soon no longer care about this sword technique.”
“But……”But how could she have a sword technique more powerful than the Guiyi Sword Technique?
She had been learning swordsmanship for sixteen years, and this book of sword techniques was the pinnacle of what she had ever seen.
She had never seen a sword technique more profound than this!
Ren Bin didn’t give her a chance to ask again and interrupted her next sentence: “That’s all I have to say. It’s getting late, so I’ll leave first.”
“Junior Brother Lian, Miss Yue, we’ll see each other again if we’re lucky.”
Ren Bin’s figure gradually moved away in the dim sky and disappeared.
Lian Hua slumped in the chair, looking a little lonely.
Yue Xu’s hand was still raised, holding Ren Bin’s hand until she could no longer see him, and then she reluctantly let go.
In fact, even if Ren Bin didn’t interrupt her, she couldn’t ask the last question.
Just as he opened his mouth, he felt a chill on his back and had to swallow his words.
Where can she find better sword skills?
Is there one in Huazhu Peak now?
She couldn’t ask.