After Xing Wu left, Feng Xi narrowed her eyes and pondered for a while.
She used her divine sense to say to the little black ball, "When you've got nothing to do, drive some sea beasts over to Zone Jia. The fiercer the better. It would be best if you can find that Eight-Armed Ghost Octopus with the severed arm and tell it that its tentacle was eaten by a cultivator with a top-grade water spiritual root."
The little black ball immediately understood Feng Xi's intention and said ingratiatingly, "Master, you're really too vicious!
So immoral it's smoking! So crooked even your farts have corners!
But I like it!
Because I'm the same way, we're both black-hearted little darlings with black sesame filling…"
Feng Xi: "..."
This damn thing's style is getting more and more off-track!
Although the little black ball's words went off-track, it was very reliable when it came to doing things.
That very evening, Xing Wu brought good news.
He grinned widely, smiling from ear to ear, "I told you that Shen Zhilian's empty swagger wouldn't end well. Look at this, she got what she deserved!
This afternoon, while she and Mu Zihuai were chattering by the shore, they were ambushed by several sea beasts!
One of them was an Eight-Armed Ghost Octopus missing a tentacle. That thing was insanely fierce!
Shen Zhilian almost got dragged into the sea!
I heard she was scared to the point of crying!
Yesterday she was still putting gold on her own face, and today her true colors are exposed!
So satisfying, so refreshing!
Too bad I wasn't there, I missed such a spectacular scene…"
Feng Xi listened with a smile. She didn't believe Shen Zhilian was actually that timid, it was most likely an act for Mu Zihuai, to stir up his sympathy and protective instincts.
Tsk tsk, even at a time like this she still doesn't forget to keep raising fish. Truly professional!
After Xing Wu left, Jun Wen quietly asked Feng Xi, "Could that Eight-Armed Ghost Octopus be the one whose tentacle we ate?
We're the ones who ate the tentacle, so how did it end up taking revenge on Shen Zhilian?"
Feng Xi smiled sweetly and said, "Who knows? She's probably just unlucky."
Jun Wen vaguely felt that things weren't that simple, but he couldn't quite figure it out.
Just as he was about to fall asleep that night, inspiration struck. Could it be that little junior sister had the little black ball do something?
If that were really the case, then this move of hers was really… dog-like!
Feng Xi didn't take this matter too seriously. This kind of small skirmish wouldn't hurt Shen Zhilian's fundamentals. Improving her own strength was what really mattered.
So after dinner, she began to sit in meditation and cultivate.
She could clearly feel that her strength had increased again recently. It's just that without actual combat, she didn't know how many Foundation Establishment layers it compared to.
Oh right, she now also has a flying sword!
Shouldn't she practice swordsmanship?
Thinking of this, she hurried to find Jun Wen.
"Fifth Senior Brother, practice swordsmanship with me!"
Jun Wen: …With that broken wooden sword of yours, what difference does practicing make?!
Still, he went with Feng Xi to an open area to practice swordsmanship.
Feng Xi knew all the sword moves, but once paired with the wooden sword, it was simply miserable to look at.
When it was time to lift, she couldn't raise the sword tip for ages; when it was time to thrust, it was slow as a turtle!
Jun Wen couldn't bear to watch!
He held back for a while, but finally couldn't take it anymore, "Little Junior Sister, this wooden sword of yours is really too useless!
It couldn't possibly bring out the power of our Xuantian Sword Art. You can't even properly execute basic moves, let alone big moves!
Also, once we advance to Golden Core Stage, we'll be able to activate sword radiance.
And only spirit swords have sword radiance, so when we return to the sect, I'll accompany you to Wan Jian Wall again!
Maybe this time you'll succeed in obtaining a spirit sword. When that happens, just throw this broken wooden sword away!"
While Jun Wen was still babbling, the originally sluggish wooden sword suddenly became incredibly swift!
Jun Wen couldn't dodge in time, and the hair bun on his head was sliced off.
Feng Xi cried out, "Oh no! Fifth Senior Brother, if I say I didn't do it on purpose, would you believe me?"
Jun Wen, with his hair loose and disheveled: "..."
Feng Xi really didn't do it on purpose. The wooden sword had always been slow, so when she changed moves she thought Jun Wen would definitely be able to react.
Who knew the wooden sword would suddenly speed up.
Jun Wen cared a lot about his appearance. If it were anyone else, he would've fought them to the death.
He forced out a smile uglier than crying, "I believe you."
Feeling very apologetic, Feng Xi said a whole basket of nice things and even helped Jun Wen come up with a new hairstyle. Only then did his mood improve.
Feng Xi continued practicing swordsmanship. The wooden sword only came back to life that one moment earlier, now it became slow again.
Even so, Feng Xi practiced again and again.
She even spoke righteously, "Fifth Senior Brother, I've heard that ordinary people in the secular world practice lightness kung fu by tying sandbags to their legs. Once they've trained enough and remove the sandbags, they become light as swallows.
If I master this slow wooden sword, then when it breaks out of its cocoon and becomes a butterfly, I'll definitely be able to massacre in all directions!
I also believe that this wooden sword is only a hidden dragon lying low right now. When it returns as a king in the future, ten thousand stars won't match even half of its radiance!"
As Feng Xi was babbling on, she vaguely seemed to see a flash of white light at the sword tip. But because it's only an instant, she wasn't sure.
So she asked Jun Wen, "Fifth Senior Brother, did you just see the white glow on the sword tip?"
Jun Wen's mouth practically twisted sideways!
"Little Junior Sister, I told you before, only at Golden Core Stage can sword radiance be activated. And besides, your wooden sword, well, it's not very likely."
He actually wanted to say something harsher, but because his hair bun had just been cut off earlier, he had a bit of psychological trauma and swallowed the words back.
Hearing this, Feng Xi thought she might've imagined it and didn't say anything more, continuing to practice swordsmanship.
At that moment, the Endless Sea suddenly looked like it was boiling. Waves churned violently, and then a huge sea beast's head emerged from the water.
Its golden eyes shot out two beams of ferocious light.
Jun Wen cried out in alarm, "Golden-Eyed Blood Sea Elephant! A mid Nascent Soul Stage sea beast! How could such a high-level sea beast appear in the shallow sea area?"
As soon as his words fell, the Golden-Eyed Blood Sea Elephant dove back into the water and disappeared.
Many people saw this scene and began discussing it.
High-level sea beasts generally lived in the deep sea and rarely appeared in shallow waters. Some even deliberately avoided this stretch of sea near the boundary because they disliked both humans and demons.
Why would this Golden-Eyed Blood Sea Elephant suddenly appear here?
Underwater, the Golden-Eyed Blood Sea Elephant was silently cursing!
Sea beasts also had territories, and this stretch of sea was its domain.
Recently, many sea beasts had come to complain to it, saying that for some reason fish and shrimp kept jumping onto the shore, forcing them to risk hunting in other sea beasts' territories.
The Golden-Eyed Blood Sea Elephant didn't want to get involved, but since they were its subordinates, it could only reluctantly swim from the deep sea to the shallow sea.
Before it could figure out what's going on, some damn immoral bastard ambushed it!
A huge hole was blasted into the base of its tail!
Fortunately, it was thick-skinned and tough; otherwise it would've died from the pain!
Its first reaction was that the humans did it!
But when it stuck its big head out just now, it saw that although there were many people on the shore, they were all weaklings and didn't have that kind of ability.
It had originally intended to intimidate them, but sensing a nearby Soul Transformation cultivator, it cursed angrily and retreated back into the sea.