Bao Gu arrived in the courtyard and took out a long sword from her oversized storage bag, as clear and translucent as a block of ice. This sword was given to her along with a pile of forbidden magical treasures by Little Martial Aunt just now. Holding the sword, she found it to be very light and unsharpened. Thinking of how her senior sister’s flying sword could hover in the air on its own, she tossed the sword into the air, only for it to lightly fall onto the snowy ground.
Picking up the sword, Bao Gu tried to channel her Qi into it, and immediately, a ripple-like halo emerged around the blade, giving off a buoyant feeling. Overjoyed, she thought, “As expected, it’s a flying sword!” She channeled more Qi into the sword, intensifying the sensation of buoyancy. Carefully, she released the sword from her grip bit by bit and found that it actually floated in the air without falling.
Bao Gu couldn’t help but exclaim silently, “I’m so smart, just fiddling around and I already know how to use the flying sword! Hmph! Watch me ride the flying sword around the courtyard and impress my senior sister!” She took a deep breath, gathered her energy, and leaped directly onto the flying sword, only to suddenly feel a sense of emptiness under her feet. She landed on the flying sword and then on the ground, unprepared for the sudden fall, her legs hitting the snowy ground hard and twisting her ankle, letting out a painful cry.
Bao Gu sat on the ground, holding her ankle, tears swirling in her eyes as she looked at the flying sword she had stepped into the snow. What kind of lousy sword did Little Martial Aunt refine!
Yu Mi came out of the kitchen with a kitchen knife in hand, speechless, and said to Bao Gu, “Could you be any clumsier? Is this how you use a flying sword? You need to infuse your spiritual sense into the flying sword, imprint your spirit on it, and drip your blood to claim ownership before you can control its flight.”
Seeing Bao Gu’s pained expression, she frowned, put away the kitchen knife into her storage jade bracelet, and crouched down to examine Bao Gu’s ankle. However, because Bao Gu’s shoes and socks were Nascent Soul magical treasures, blocking her perception, and her leg was tightly wrapped, she couldn’t feel the extent of Bao Gu’s injury.
She cursed under her breath, “Useless!” and carried Bao Gu back into the house to place her on a chair, carefully removing her shoes and socks. She wasn’t worried about hurting Bao Gu, but rather afraid of accidentally triggering the defensive mechanism of the magical treasures, as the attack power of a Nascent Soul magical treasure was not something she could withstand at her current early Golden Core stage.
Bao Gu’s shoes were tightly fitted, and it took Yu Mi a lot of effort to remove them, with Bao Gu almost crying out in pain. After removing Bao Gu’s socks, Yu Mi found that her ankle was swollen, with strained tendons and pulled muscles, but the bones were not injured. She took out a medicine for dispelling blood stasis and promoting blood circulation, rubbed it on Bao Gu’s ankle, and used her own Qi to help Bao Gu circulate and disperse the blood stasis.
She scolded, “Bao Gu, you’ve really outdone yourself! With your cultivation at the sixth level of Qi Refining, such a minor injury can be healed by circulating the Qi in your dantian a few times, dispersing the blood stasis, and then applying some external healing medicine. It’ll be fine in a while!”
Bao Gu pouted and said, “It’s my first time getting hurt like this! People say it takes a hundred days to recover from injuries to muscles and bones!”
Yu Mi was stunned and exclaimed, “A hundred days? I could break and rejoin all the bones and meridians in your body and it wouldn’t take a hundred days!”
She continued to massage Bao Gu’s ankle without looking up, thinking to herself, “Kids who grow up in the city are really different.” Round toes, tender feet, delicate and just the right size for her to hold in her hand. This was Yu Mi’s first encounter with what was called “jade feet,” beautiful as if carved from the finest creamy jade.
When she was a child, her family was large and poor, and she often went barefoot, considering herself lucky to have straw sandals, so her feet were rough. It wasn’t until she broke through to the peak of Foundation Establishment and underwent the marrow cleansing that the scars and calluses on her feet disappeared, and her feet became delicate and tender. Bao Gu’s feet were so well-cared for in comparison!
Seeing the swelling on Bao Gu’s foot disappear, Yu Mi gently moved Bao Gu’s ankle and asked, “Does it still hurt?”
Bao Gu shook her head and said, “It doesn’t hurt anymore, thank you, senior sister.”
Yu Mi scolded softly, “I’ve never seen anyone as clumsy as you,” and let go of Bao Gu’s foot to return to the kitchen to wash her hands and continue cooking.
Bao Gu put on her shoes and socks and went to the courtyard to retrieve the flying sword she had stepped into the snow, then wandered to the kitchen door and asked, “Senior sister, how do I imprint my spirit on the flying sword?”
Yu Mi, while cutting demonic beast meat, replied without looking up, “Can you use your spiritual sense?”
Bao Gu said, “Like sensing the spiritual energy around me?”
Yu Mi hummed in affirmation and said, “Yes.”
Bao Gu infused her spiritual sense into the flying sword and saw a world filled with spiritual energy, white and boundless, inside the sword. She took out her own sword, cut her finger, and dripped a few drops of blood onto the flying sword, which dissolved into it like drops into water.
Suddenly, she felt a very strange sensation in her mind, as if she could sense the existence of the flying sword, or more precisely, as if the flying sword had become a part of her body. Remembering that her senior sister’s flying sword could change size, she tried to make her own flying sword shrink. As soon as she thought about it, the flying sword in front of her actually shrank to only an inch long. Bao Gu was secretly delighted and asked, “Senior sister, where do you keep your flying sword?”
Yu Mi sighed and said, “Good quality flying swords are generally spirit swords, which can be stored inside the dantian. The flying sword Little Martial Aunt refined for you is of excellent quality, and you can completely store it in your dantian.”
Bao Gu hummed in response and softly chanted, “Store!”
As soon as she thought about it, the inch-long mini flying sword in her palm entered her dantian, but then, as if encountering some powerful force, it was ejected from her dantian and fell to the ground with a clang, the sword ringing nonstop.
Yu Mi turned to look at the sword on the ground, then at Bao Gu, and said, “Even if you don’t like the sword Little Martial Aunt refined, you shouldn’t throw it on the ground.”
Bao Gu felt wronged and said, “I didn’t throw it!” She picked up the flying sword from the ground and tried to store it in her dantian again, but this time, as soon as the flying sword approached her dantian, it was ejected even further, hitting the wall with an even louder crash.
Yu Mi was shocked and stared at Bao Gu without blinking.
Bao Gu frowned and muttered, “Why can’t it be stored?” She summoned the flying sword back and tried to store it in her dantian again, but just like before, as soon as it touched her dantian, it was repelled by the Qi inside her dantian.
If it weren’t for the Nascent Soul magical treasures on Bao Gu blocking detection, Yu Mi really wanted to see what Bao Gu was up to. She asked, “What’s wrong?”
Bao Gu replied, “I don’t know. When I try to store the flying sword in my dantian, it’s repelled by the Qi inside my dantian as soon as it touches it.”
Yu Mi said, “You might as well store the flying sword in your storage bag. Your dantian is already occupied by a sword!”
Bao Gu’s eyes rolled and she asked, “The Xuan Tian Sword? Why is it so domineering?”
Yu Mi chuckled and said, “The sword of the ancestor, how could it not be domineering?”
Bao Gu silently picked up her flying sword and went to the courtyard to practice flying with the sword. This time, with experience, she first placed the flying sword on the ground and stood on it before controlling the flying sword to slowly rise.
The flying sword carried Bao Gu slowly upwards, and when it reached a height similar to that of the house, she looked towards the distant mountains and forests, thinking of flying there. With a thought, the flying sword beneath her feet sped away.
Bao Gu only felt a sense of emptiness under her feet again, as the flying sword beneath her feet turned into a streak of white light and flew far away, while she tragically fell from the sky, landing on the ground with her whole body in pain, unable to get up with her face scrunched up in agony.
Yu Mi was shocked beyond words! Falling from a flying sword? Although she wasn’t very stable when she first practiced flying with a sword, she had never… fallen directly like this. She secretly wiped away sweat, thinking, “Bao Gu, take your time practicing!”
Many cultivators, due to poverty, didn’t have a flying sword even at the late stage of Foundation Establishment. Those who had a flying sword at the Qi Refining stage were generally highly valued disciples from cultivating families or sects, and there were very few of them, with the quality of their flying swords generally being low.
Bao Gu, at the sixth level of Qi Refining, barely overcoming the hurdle of sword flight, had a flying sword of excellent quality. Taking it out would make so many people envious! With such low cultivation and a good flying sword that she didn’t know how to use, how embarrassing and infuriating it must be!
Bao Gu summoned the flying sword back again. This time, she learned to be smarter. Instead of standing, she lay on the flying sword, hugging it, and controlled the flying sword to take off, flying slowly and leisurely towards the woods across the small stream.
Yu Mi saw Bao Gu hugging the flying sword like a turtle and lying on it, and instantly felt as if a nine-day thunderstorm had rolled over her head! Thunder rolling, isn’t it!
To be given a top-quality flying sword and use it like a turtle!
Unable to bear it any longer, Yu Mi took out a communication talisman and woke up the “hibernating” Little Martial Aunt, letting Little Martial Aunt witness the power of her top-quality flying sword.
Zi Yunshu let out a painful howl, “Can’t you let people sleep properly?” She released her spiritual sense to probe outside, and in her drowsy state, she seemed to see a green turtle lying on a Nascent Soul realm top-quality flying sword flying away at a turtle’s pace in the sky! A turtle demon! How did Xuan Tian Sect encounter a turtle demon?
Zi Yunshu was so scared that she jumped up and rushed out of the water pool to block the path of the “green turtle,” intending to warn Yu Mi to protect Bao Gu, but at a glance, she realized that the one lying there was not a turtle but Bao Gu.
Bao Gu lay on the flying sword, her left hand tightly hugging the flying sword, her right hand raised and gently waving, looking up at Zi Yunshu and asking, “Little Martial Aunt, you woke up so quickly?”
Zi Yunshu replied irritably in her heart, “I was scared awake, okay?” She glared at Bao Gu with fiery eyes and asked, “What are you doing pretending to be a turtle in broad daylight?”
Bao Gu stiffened in the air and stammered, “I’m not pretending to be a turtle.” She carefully got up and sat on the flying sword, saying, “I’m practicing sword flight.”
Zi Yunshu was so angry that her liver trembled, scolding, “Practicing sword flight by lying on the flying sword? Do you want to make the entire cultivation world laugh to death?”
She gritted her teeth and shouted, “Don’t tell anyone you’re a disciple of Xuan Tian Sect when you go out, and don’t say you’re from Ling Yun Peak.” Her heart was almost broken! The flying sword she painstakingly refined was actually used by Bao Gu to pretend to be a turtle!
Zi Yunshu wanted to transform back into her original form as a white snake and swallow Bao Gu whole.
Bao Gu was intimidated by Zi Yunshu’s aura, and she shakily got up and stood unsteadily on the flying sword. The more afraid she was, the less stable she stood, swaying several times without finding her balance, and with a scream, she fell from the flying sword and got caught on the branches below!
Zi Yunshu covered her eyes with one hand, unable to bear to look directly! She howled in her heart again: My top-quality flying sword, how did you end up with such a master! She roared, “Bao Gu, you’ve already made the flying sword recognize you as its master, it’s equivalent to a part of your body, don’t you know how to use it to catch you when you fall? With a thought, it can rush under you to catch you! You have to use it as a part of your body!”
Her heart ached, how could she have given Bao Gu such a top-quality flying sword to waste! She had thought that with the high quality and fast speed of the flying sword, consuming less spiritual energy, Bao Gu could at least escape if she couldn’t beat someone!
Looking at Bao Gu’s ability to control the flying sword — expecting Bao Gu to escape with the flying sword, she was afraid the result would be the flying sword flying away while the person fell from the flying sword and died!
Zi Yunshu couldn’t bear it any longer and picked Bao Gu up from the tree, secretly swearing: If she couldn’t teach Bao Gu to fly upside down on the flying sword, she wouldn’t eat!
Yu Mi was secretly delighted: Today, Little Martial Aunt finally realized that I’m not the one with the worst balance and the worst at flying with a sword! Bao Gu is at the bottom!
Thinking back to when she was at the peak of Foundation Establishment, she often flew unsteadily and stumbled. When she passed by Qing Shan County, she was even mocked by Bao Gu for being a beginner! Now Bao Gu is the beginner, and even in the shape of a turtle!
Bao Gu fell from the flying sword again.
Zi Yunshu roared in frustration, “How can you be even clumsier than your senior sister!”
Yu Mi: “…”
Little Martial Aunt, can you use me as an example at such an inglorious time?
