Spectating the Angsty Romance of the Master and Disciple from the Sect Next Door Chapter 152

No one can keep losing forever, unless that person is Jijin Sword Sovereign, who is opposing Qingxiao Immortal Venerable.
Whether in martial arts or intellectual contests, she lost miserably.
The only fortunate thing was that their chess games had no stakes; otherwise, Li Jin’an would probably have lost everything, even mortgaging the Sword Sect wouldn’t be enough to compensate.
Without the Sword Sect sword cultivators knowing, the Sword Sect almost changed its name to Dao Sect Branch, and they would have become homeless.
However, to make the game more interesting, Li Jin’an had suggested that if she won, she would kiss Xie Huaixue, and if Xie Huaixue won, she would kiss her. Everyone would rely on their own skills and efforts…
She was in the Dao Sect, but her calculations were loud enough for the demon realm to hear.
Unfortunately, Xie Huaixue didn’t fall for it, so Li Jin’an’s cunning plan didn’t succeed.
Otherwise, Xie Huaixue probably wouldn’t have had to do anything but kiss Li Jin’an.
Although it lacked a bit of fun in between, Li Jin’an was still held captive by the small chessboard for a long time. She played countless more games, drinking cup after cup of hot tea personally brewed by her Dao companion, yet it couldn’t quench the fire in her heart.
Day and night alternated, until finally, Li Jin’an became numb from losing, and the fire in her heart subsided on its own without needing hot tea to douse it.
Just forget about it.
Li Jin’an was very good at comforting herself. Isn’t her Dao companion being powerful equivalent to her being powerful? Anyway, Xie Huaixue had said she was willing to share glory with her, so Xie Huaixue winning also counted as her victory…
Yes, this was a win-win!
She alone won twice; she didn’t lose at all!
No arguments accepted.
After getting up from the chessboard, Li Jin’an wiped her face, acting as if she wasn’t the one who had lost thousands of times, and said in a low voice, “I hear Wu Zhaoxing is looking for this Venerable. This Venerable will go meet her!”
Can’t deal with Xie Huaixue, but can’t I kill a villain?!
What Wu Zhaoxing, Bird Zhaoxing, hurry up and die!
Xie Huaixue tidied Li Jin’an’s disheveled collar, her cool fingertips brushing Li Jin’an’s neck. She gently instructed, “Don’t be careless; caution is paramount.”
Having suffered such a miserable defeat last time, Wu Zhaoxing still mobilized the demon army and personally came to Three Realms Mountain, looking as if she wouldn’t give up until she met Li Jin’an. All of this indicated that Wu Zhaoxing was prepared this time.
By now, the situation was clear. Wu Zhaoxing was going mad, trying to drag them all down with her, but they were unwilling.
Li Jin’an grinned, clasped Xie Huaixue’s hand, and said ferociously, “Given my current anger, I won’t be careless. I just want to smash Wu Zhaoxing’s head!”
All the anger in her head and all the hot tea in her belly needed a place to vent. Since Wu Zhaoxing had walked into it, she would be the one to suffer.
Xie Huaixue smiled, then raised her hand and pinched Li Jin’an’s ear. “Very good.”
Perhaps only Qingxiao Immortal Venerable would find the furious, murderous Jijin Sword Sovereign truly adorable.
However, Yinyue Monarch and Xie Huaixue’s method was indeed very effective on sword cultivators.
It worked perfectly not only on Chixin Sword Lord but also on Li Jin’an.
Their sword cultivators truly needed their Dao companions to praise and coax them often. After being praised, let alone fighting a Demon Lord, they would draw their swords against the Heavenly Dao without hesitation.
“…Oh.” Li Jin’an raised an eyebrow, her gaze flickering for a moment before returning. She complained softly, “I won’t fuss over you intentionally playing with me.”
This referred to how Xie Huaixue not only won every chess game against Li Jin’an but also teased her with the chess pieces, making her feel like she was about to turn the tables, only to lose spectacularly every time.
“Sword Sovereign is generous, not arguing with Qingxiao. Qingxiao is utterly convinced,” Xie Huaixue said with a light chuckle, her eyes gentle, filled with a smile that was almost overflowing.
“…” Li Jin’an rubbed her ear, repeatedly surrendering. “Alright, alright, this Venerable understands. Stop talking.”
No matter how many times she heard Xie Huaixue refer to herself as “Qingxiao,” she would blush as if hearing it for the first time, quite unable to bear it.
It was too unfair.
“This Venerable will go kill Wu Zhaoxing right now!”
She felt filled with power at this moment.
She couldn’t bring herself to blame Qingxiao Immortal Venerable, but she could displace her anger onto others.
Li Jin’an didn’t leave the Dao Sect in a grand procession this time, stopping to stroll and buy flowers in Fufeng Domain. Instead, she concealed her presence and, before anyone noticed, abruptly appeared in Fufeng Domain.
The next moment.
She raised her hand and drew her sentient sword from her waist.
The moment Blazing Radiance Sword was unsheathed, it surged forward ferociously, attacking Wu Zhaoxing.
Perhaps carrying Li Jin’an’s murderous aura, Blazing Radiance Sword erupted with even greater speed than before.
Ordinary cultivators could only hear the sword’s hum as it grazed past their ears, unable to clearly see Blazing Radiance Sword’s trajectory. If they strained to look, they could only discern a fiery red speck of light.
In an instant, the speck of light traversed Fufeng Domain, arriving instantly before Wu Zhaoxing at Three Realms Mountain, aiming straight for her face.
Wu Zhaoxing’s pupils suddenly dilated. Before she could react, her body was already manipulated to retreat rapidly backward.
Blazing Radiance Sword barely grazed Wu Zhaoxing’s head.
A lock of hair by her temple was even sliced off.
Before she could calm her pounding heart, a chilling sense of crisis struck. But this time, she wasn’t so lucky. The eye in the center of her brow slightly opened, and even though it forcibly controlled her body, it wasn’t faster than the returning Blazing Radiance Sword.
The fiery red speck of light pierced through Wu Zhaoxing’s shoulder. The wound was left with scorching Jijin Sword Intent, directly charring the surrounding flesh, emitting sizzling sounds.
What if it was a demon body? Even so, it wasn’t indestructible in the face of extreme temperatures.
Li Jin’an reached forward, and Blazing Radiance Sword flew back into her hand. Looking at Wu Zhaoxing, who wore an expression of disbelief, she scoffed softly.
Since she knew that the third eye on Wu Zhaoxing’s forehead could predict her moves, how could she not guard against it? She never intended the first strike to succeed; the second strike was her true goal.
In the face of absolute speed, even if one could predict the future, what use was it? Could one escape?
When Wu Zhaoxing evaded the first strike, the crowd in Fufeng Domain saw her true power at the late Mahayana stage. They all held their breath for Li Jin’an, and then they saw the even swifter second strike.
“So strong!” someone blurted out.
“So devious.”
Unlike the sword cultivator elder whom Li Jin’an had made cry, and the rotation-duty Xiaoxiang Sword Lord and Sword Lord Junxing, this elder had been stationed in Fufeng Domain all along. She had fought against the recent three demon lords and had never seen a demon lord who was already at the late Mahayana stage still join them, a group of cultivators in the Void Refinement and Unity stages, in a group fight.
Why bother?
“…To lure out Jijin Sword Sovereign, to restrain herself from killing us, what great endurance. She’s a demon capable of great things, but a bit foolish to run into our sect’s Sword Sovereign.”
It didn’t matter if others didn’t speak; the Sword Sect elder could talk to herself.
Those who were unsure whether to be shocked by Wu Zhaoxing’s late Mahayana stage or surprised that Blazing Radiance Sword had pierced a late Mahayana stage demon lord’s shoulder all came to their senses upon hearing her words, and couldn’t help but twitch their mouths in exasperation.
The way she put it, it was as if it was a great pity that Wu Zhaoxing hadn’t killed them.
And also, was this not the time to mention Jijin Sword Sovereign marrying into the Dao Sect? Where was your sword cultivators’ backbone?
Why were these sword cultivators always so out of place among everyone else?!
The slaughter at Three Realms Mountain had just begun.
Wu Zhaoxing stared coldly at Li Jin’an in the air. The wound on her shoulder tore and healed repeatedly, the Jijin Sword Intent gradually erased, as if it had never existed.
Behind her, dozens of Void Refinement stage and Unity stage Demon Lords and Demon Commanders suddenly appeared, charging towards Fufeng Domain, a clear-out. King against king, general against general, to prevent any side from fighting unfairly in a group brawl.
Jiang Fengmian, Xiaoxiang Sword Lord, Sword Lord Junxing, and the Stationed elder of the Sword Sect among others, no longer had to worry about Li Jin’an; they themselves had to get busy.
“Irrelevant individuals should not interfere,” Wu Zhaoxing said, her eyes cold and sinister. She looked at Li Jin’an leisurely and smiled. “Jijin Sword Sovereign, what do you say? Ah, no, it’s Master’s wife. Do you and Master no longer acknowledge Zhufeng? Zhufeng was truly sincere towards you.”
Li Jin’an casually twirled her sword, saying nothing to Wu Zhaoxing’s provocation, only hoping that Wu Zhaoxing’s strength was as unyielding as her mouth.
Otherwise, killing a late Mahayana stage cultivator would be uninteresting.
With her karmic luck flowing away and her breakthrough to the late Mahayana stage being rushed and unstable, Wu Zhaoxing was an empty shell, strong on the outside but hollow within.
Li Jin’an looked at Wu Zhaoxing with the eyes of someone looking at a dead person, her meaning clear: No need to waste words with the dead.
Wu Zhaoxing reined in the fake smile on her face. The demon energy on her body transformed into countless great blades, all rushing towards Li Jin’an.
They were densely packed, pitch-black, like a swarm of locusts in a famine year, covering the entire sky, coming with menacing force.
Within the demon blades were finely dense poisonous needles, concealed at extremely tricky angles, making them impossible to guard against.
Li Jin’an’s eyes took on a hint of Xie Huaixue’s coldness. She retreated slightly, but not to dodge; rather, she was gathering strength. Then she swung her sword fiercely, cutting forward.
Instead of retreating, she advanced.
Kill!
She had a strong premonition—
This battle with Wu Zhaoxing was her opportunity to break through to the Mahayana stage.
Either she broke through to the Mahayana stage and Wu Zhaoxing died, or… there was no second option.
Perhaps her state of mind had broadened, her accumulation was sufficient, or perhaps she had gained a mysterious yet indispensable touch of karmic luck. Li Jin’an’s intuition told her that breaking through to the Mahayana stage was just a step away; she just needed to cross that threshold.
Just thinking about catching up to Xie Huaixue, and openly speaking ill of her in front of Jingting Dao Lord without being punished…
Just envisioning such a beautiful scene filled Li Jin’an with motivation. She wished she could drag out Lan Ci and Zhong Fei, who were already dead and dust, and kill them again.
As for whether she would fall into the trap of thinking she shouldn’t have broken through, only doing so because of crucial karmic luck… Li Jin’an would never worry about such self-inflicted troubles. Her sword was cultivated by herself, dual cultivation was with Xie Huaixue, the villains were killed by her, so she was destined to break through to the Mahayana stage!
Only a fool would believe the Heavenly Tome.
Clang—
A clear sword hum resonated.
Dazzling crimson sword energy withstood the sky-filling demonic energy, tearing through the black mist from within.
The Jijin Sword Intent blossomed, reaching the pinnacle of heat, danger, and beauty.
Fire trees and silver flowers merged, star bridges and iron locks opened.
The exploding fireworks directly annihilated the poisonous needles hidden within.
Dawn broke through the heavens, piercing the sky, dispelling the black mist, and casting down golden rays of sunlight.
Both the overly bright light and the figures within it were too dazzling for Wu Zhaoxing. She squinted, allowing the third eye on her brow to open and take control of her body.
As long as Jijin Sword Sovereign could be killed, everything would be salvageable.
Li Jin’an’s eyes lit up. She raised her sword and charged forward.