Xu Yi couldn't quite describe her feelings; she felt a sense of disappointment.
A while ago, she saw a joke online about the brave and skilled war god Chi You, who rode a soft and cute giant panda to conquer the world.
Now she understands what it means to empathize.
The Sword Master's natal sword has such a human form, how can she possibly summon the Demonic Sword when she duels with others in the future?
The little one was unaware that she had been rejected. She touched all the felted animal figures and then tucked her two favorites into her bosom, as if she wanted to possess them all.
Xu Yi showed no jealousy at all when she saw Miss Gu holding the wool felt. After all, her natal sword was one with her, formed from the fusion of her essence and blood. It was a continuation of her bloodline and her other half of life. She didn't have the habit of being jealous of herself.
"Name, you're going to give me a name." The little guy spoke his first words, his voice soft and sweet, like milk tea with full sugar.
Xu Yi was putting flower tea into a clean water glass when she heard the little guy's words. She turned around and said, "Don't you have a name? Isn't Wangxie nice? Miss Gu named you that herself."
"That's the name of the sword, I want my name." The little sword spirit was very persistent.
But her persistence put Xu Yi in a difficult position, and Xu Yi asked her, "Is it okay if I call you Xu Wangxie?"
"..." The little sword spirit was so angry that it kicked its short legs and climbed off the bed, stomping hard on Xu Yi's foot. "Think about it carefully!"
"Gu Wangxie?"
The little guy grabbed her leg and bit her hard. Xu Yi gasped without changing her expression. "Hiss... Stop. I can't think of any good names. You can either choose one yourself or have Miss Gu help you choose one later."
"Alright. You really are stupid and dumb, no wonder your mother doesn't like you." The little sword spirit let go of her and continued to climb onto the bed while hugging the wool blanket.
Xu Yi turned around abruptly to look at her, "What did you say?"
"I asked around for you today. Little Gu's mother doesn't like stupid and foolish old women." After saying that, the little sword spirit wiped away Xu Yi's tears.
"..."
Xu Yi's emotions became complicated, and she didn't know what to say for a moment.
"How did you ask that? No, what makes you think I'm a stupid and foolish old woman? I could recite sword techniques when I could talk, and I could practice swordsmanship when I could walk!"
"I am a sword cultivator of unparalleled talent in the Tianyan Continent. I became the Sword Master Protector of the Cangyun Sect when I was only two hundred years old! I am only thirty-seven thousand two hundred and eighteen years old now, in the prime of my youth!"
"That's not the point. You are my natal sword. Why are you calling Miss Gu 'mother'? Do you even respect me as your sword master? You disobey me and take human form on your own. Look at your tiny arms and legs now. If I take you out to fight, I don't know if I'm violating the child labor law or the child abuse law."
"..." The little sword spirit looked at her with a complicated expression.
Everyone thought that Sword Master Xu Yi was taciturn, but only she, her natal sword, knew what she had endured all these years. Look at her little mouth, chattering away as if she had never spoken a word in her entire life. This girl appeared as calm as an old dog, but inside she was like a lone wolf roaring under the moonlight.
"Say something." Xu Yi felt uncomfortable under her gaze, and her brows furrowed. "Did I exaggerate and scare you?"
The little sword spirit didn't know what to say. Xu Yi asked so many questions at once, and she thought for a long time before picking out some to say.
She first explained the Q&A interaction in the live broadcast room today.
"Where did you get the money to ask these questions?" Xu Yi was so poor that this was the first question she asked.
"I secretly used Fan Weiwei's phone! Who told him to bully Little Gu's mother!" The little sword spirit proudly puffed out its chest.
Xu Yi was taken aback, then chuckled at her actions. "Not bad. But why do you call Miss Gu 'Mother'?"
"Miss Gu and I are not yet married, so you're calling me that a bit too early," Xu Yi said, blushing shyly.
The little sword spirit pouted and said angrily, "I was created by Little Gu's mother."
Xu Yi narrowed her eyes and said unhappily, "But every rare and precious treasure on your body was found by me after traversing the secret realms of the Nine Provinces. It was I who asked Miss Gu to help me forge the sword, and that's how you came to be."
Xu Yi didn't care who she called "mother" anyway, since she and Miss Gu would be together sooner or later.
However, her natal sword was closely related to her life. It was forged from her blood essence and had long been integrated into her soul. It was the continuation of her bloodline and half of her life.
The natal sword, which had just taken human form, went to get close to Miss Gu, and she began to feel jealous from both sides.
Little Sword Spirit: "That's right. But Miss Gu used half her life's cultivation to refine my essence and blood to create me. Otherwise, do you think you could have successfully refined a Heavenly Rank Divine Artifact with the little stuff you picked up and the essence and blood you created with your limited cultivation at the time?"
Upon hearing the little sword spirit's words, Xu Yi's expression gradually turned cold.
When forging a natal sword, even if it involves incorporating blood essence, it should be incorporating the person's own, because that is equivalent to half a life. If something goes wrong, it will implicate the person who incorporated the blood essence. No matter how good the relationship is on the Tianyan Continent, no one will help someone else incorporate blood essence to forge a sword; that is a matter of entrusting one's life to another.
She never knew that Miss Gu had infused half of her life's essence into the sword she forged. What did she have to deserve Miss Gu doing this for her?
No wonder she was able to forge a Heavenly Rank artifact with her Mahayana cultivation at the time. She only thought that she was lucky and had been protected by the Heavenly Dao. It was Miss Gu's exquisite forging skills that made her have a Heavenly Rank divine sword. She never thought that Miss Gu would have fused half of her life's essence and blood for her.
Indeed, given Miss Gu's cultivation level at the half-step Tribulation Ascension stage, it was only natural that she would refine a Heaven-Rank Divine Artifact with her essence and blood.
No wonder Miss Gu in my memory never used her own natal magic weapon; perhaps Miss Gu never even had her own natal magic weapon.
Xu Yi quickly thought of something else. Her face flushed red, and she jumped up from the sofa, pointing at the little sword spirit. Her voice trembled as she spoke, "Miss Gu fused half of her essence blood with you, and I fused half of mine with yours too. You, you, you, you..."
“Yes, that’s right.” The little sword spirit stood up proudly. “From the perspective of weapon crafting, I am the natal sword that you and Miss Gu share, but you have it all to yourself. From the perspective of blood essence fusion, I am your unmarried child.”
"..."
Xu Yi had no idea that she and Miss Gu had a baby together.
No, that's too stimulating. We need to slow down.
When Xu Yi looked at the little sword spirit again, she put on a kind and gentle motherly expression, which frightened the little sword spirit so much that it hid under the covers.
A childish voice came from under the covers, "Don't look at me like that, it's scaring me."
"..."
Xu Yi had never been a mother, nor had she ever been a bride. The change in her identity was too fast, and she was having a hard time adjusting.
Xu Yi lay down on the sofa with a cup of flower tea in her hand, staring blankly at the ceiling, looking extremely melancholy.
"You came out at the wrong time. Miss Gu may not be able to accept that I would bring my family to marry her."
Xu Yi felt that the tribulation was becoming increasingly difficult.
The little sword spirit lay in the quilt, too afraid to speak. When her mother, Xiao Gu, was refining her, she secretly told her that after they all ascended to heaven, she would be allowed to take human form. If the little sword spirit was enlightened, she would be given a surprise; if not, she would be forced to get married because she was pregnant.
But too many things changed later. Little Gu's mother perished during the ninth war between immortals and demons, and the Heavenly Ladder broke after the tenth war. Ascension seemed a distant dream, and the day of her transformation appeared endless.
Xu Yi was melancholy all night, but accepted reality the next day. After spending so much time with the sword spirit, she had long regarded it as her family. It was just that the comrade-in-arms she had imagined fighting alongside was gone, replaced by a little baby she needed to raise.
However, the more Xu Yi looked at the little guy, the more she liked him, considering that he was created from the fusion of her and Miss Gu's blood essence.
However, the two are now facing a very serious problem. The spiritual energy in the world is scarce. The little sword spirit transformed into human form by using her own sword energy. Without the support of spiritual energy, she is no different from an ordinary child. Except that she will not grow up, and is neither born nor dies nor ages, she will feel hunger, cold and heat, and illness just like a child.
She had only recently taken human form, and was still in a state of ignorance regarding the human aspect, much like a human infant.
Last night, the little sword spirit must have used the last bit of its stored sword energy to sneak back on its own; otherwise, there might be another homeless child outside today.
Xu Yi got up early in the morning to draw a concealment talisman for it, and said, "Yesterday you were transparent when you took human form, but it will be different from now on. There are cameras everywhere here, so don't run around. Keep the concealment talisman with you at all times."
After all, she's currently filming a show in a place with cameras everywhere; she can't just conjure up a child out of thin air. Besides, at eighteen years old, she can't possibly give birth to a three- or four-year-old baby.
"Can I go see Little Gu's mother?" The little girl hugged eight felted animals on the bed, her mood was indescribably good. Seeing Xu Mutou's attitude towards her in the morning, she knew that her existence had been accepted, and her two big, bright eyes sparkled as she smiled.
Xu Yi coldly refused her, "I only prepared an invisibility talisman for you. Its purpose is to make you undetectable by the naked eye and machines, but you can still touch anything in the real world. What if you accidentally bump into something and make a noise while following Miss Gu, and she mistakenly thinks it's a ghost and gets scared?"
The little sword spirit pouted and reluctantly lay down on the bed.
"I don't know what name to give you. But now that you've taken human form, it's not appropriate to call you by your sword's name anymore. I'll give you a nickname first."
The little sword spirit had just taken human form and was indeed still a child at heart, being somewhat naive. Not being allowed to see Miss Gu made her unhappy, but now that she was going to have her own name, she began to be happy again.
The little sword spirit sat up, its big eyes blinking as it looked at Xu Yi expectantly, asking, "Can my nickname be 'Baby'? I like that name."
"..." Xu Yi said coldly, "No. I don't like this name."
"Why?"
"I can't bring myself to call her that." For the first time, Xu Yi firmly exercised her rights as a mother. "I've decided, let's call her Xiao Xiao. You can choose between Xu Xiao Xiao and Gu Xiao Xiao."
"I want to be called Bao Xiaoxiao!" The little sword spirit's eyes were red, and if Xu Yi said "no" again, she would burst into tears.
Xu Yi frowned, then said with utter disdain, "Whatever."
After settling Xiaoxiao in, she tidied herself up and went out. Before leaving, she repeatedly told Xiaoxiao, "Stay in your room and be good. The first round of the competition will be over in a few days. I'll take you home then."
Zhang Ya, who had been knocking on the door for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw her come out.
"I thought you were still asleep. I was even thinking of asking the production crew for the key to open the door and go find you."
Xu Yi closed the door and replied to Zhang Ya, "I got up a little late today. Let's go to the cafeteria first; if we go early, we might still see Teacher Gu."
Unfortunately, they arrived too late; Gu Yueyue had already finished eating and left.
As Xu Yi watched Gu Yueyue's departing figure, her mind was filled with thoughts of how to get Miss Gu to marry her as soon as possible. She was already clueless, and now that a child had suddenly appeared out of nowhere, it only made her feel more troubled.
Zhang Ya, who was at the same table, waved her hand in front of Xu Yi, "Snap out of it!"
Xu Yi looked away and began to eat her breakfast in silence.
"There are only four days left until the first round of elimination. Other teams have already started practicing as a whole, but the individuals in our team haven't even gelled yet. What are we going to do?" Zhang Ya was so anxious that her hair was almost falling out, and she couldn't even taste her breakfast.
Xu Yi: "Everyone on our team has their own strengths. If we learn to coordinate these strengths, beating other teams won't be a problem."
She casually ate a few bites, wiped her mouth, and took a sip of her flower tea before continuing, "I inquired and found out that when choosing songs and dances, other teams either chose those that were easy to complete or those that were distinctive and could easily evoke emotions in the audience. Only our song and dance was rejected by all the other teams because it was too difficult."
"During those two days of training, everyone was just fooling around and there were only a few serious training sessions. But everyone completed their assigned tasks very well. It's clear that we've already surpassed everyone else in terms of ability."
Xu Yi voiced her conjecture, which drew the attention of Captain Zhang Ya. Seeing that she stopped to drink tea halfway through her sentence, Zhang Ya urged her, "What else? Please continue."
Xu Yi took a sip of tea, put the lid back on, and continued, "Moreover, I suspect that it's not a coincidence that we're all in the same team. As things stand, compared to other teams, the eight of us are the most likely to debut. We have the strength, the fame, and the backgrounds of the trainees."
Xu Yi didn't know much about these things, but Cangyun Sect often recruited disciples. It seemed that the recruited disciples would be randomly sent to the outer sect and allowed to cultivate for a period of time before being selected to enter the inner sect. In reality, the outer sect also had upper, middle and lower levels. Generally, newcomers with better qualifications, talents and excellent spiritual roots would be given special attention by the managers, who would deliberately put them together. The places where they were given to live were also the places with the most abundant spiritual energy in the outer sect.
Only a very few dark horses can stand out from the crowd each year; the other disciples' cultivation fates are already arranged the moment they enter the Cangyun Sect.
However, they are now participating in a variety show, which requires more dramatic developments to attract the audience's attention, rather than simply cultivating singing and dancing contestants. Therefore, one or two of them may be eliminated in the end, thereby creating greater conflict points, stirring up the audience's emotions, and turning their debut night from a certainty into an accident.
However, there's no need to say these things to Zhang Ya right now. It's clear that although Zhang Ya became the team leader by accident, she has already taken on the responsibilities of a leader. She hopes more than anyone else that the team can be harmonious and united and debut together as a group.
If she knew the truth now, she might lose her enthusiasm for the team.
Zhang Ya listened to Xu Yi's words and seemed to be deep in thought. In the end, she didn't even bother to eat breakfast, and rushed to the practice room with two steamed buns in her pocket.
A note from the author:
Xiao Xu rarely speaks to others, but her natal sword is different. It is her closest companion, and she can freely confide in it without any restraint, without any concern for the burden of being a sword master.
Guess what the little sword cultivator was thinking when Miss Gu was teasing him, haha. And since both are their natal swords, Xiao Xu can communicate telepathically with his natal sword. Guess if Miss Gu could...?
Xiao Xu [covers face: My company is dead, right?]
Bao Xiaoxiao: I've endured so much over the years. I'm still just a baby who's tens of thousands of years old.
Thank you to all the little angels who voted for me or watered my plants with nutrient solution between 2021-12-24 14:24:32 and 2021-12-25 17:20:55!