After Ye Fan had left the vicinity, Ling Changsheng turned to smile to his Sword Slave. "Junior Sister Qiu Yuehua, I have beaten yet another cultivator. Are you impressed by me?"
The beautiful maiden rolled her golden eyes to look at Ling Changsheng, "You may not be able to defeat him within 30 strokes. You ought to pick a heaven-step divine sword instead of a mortal-step divine sword."
Ling Changsheng immediately frowned, "I am a sword saint and the genius scion of the Pinnacle Sword Manor. Will I lose to a half-step golden celestial? Moreover, he is only using an earth-step divine sword. So, how could I use a heaven-step divine sword to defeat him? This is too shameless! Are you afraid that I will lose to him?"
The beautiful maiden Qiu Yuehua said quietly, "I didn't say that you will lose. He has yet another divine sword in his spatial storage and if he uses that, you won't be able to defeat him in under 30 strokes. I don't want you to throw the face of the Pinnacle Sword Manor away."
Ling Changsheng hummed coldly, "Well, I am the Sword Saint while you are merely my Sword Slave. I don't need you to lecture me."
The beautiful maiden Qiu Yuehua ignored Ling Changsheng as she walked away.
Ling Changsheng panicky shouted after her, "Hey! Don't leave me alone in this place. Don't forget that you are my Sword Slave and you are supposed to be listening to me!"
But still Qiu Yuehua did not stop in her tracks and continued to walk off.
Her cultivation realm was actually higher than Ling Changsheng and she had suppressed her cultivation realm in order to protect him as his Sword Slave.
As a matter of fact, she was a half-step 7th realm saintess!
Ling Changsheng's mother had given her the task of protecting him as his Sword Slave.
Although she was younger than Ling Changsheng but she had a monstrous talent and she was told to suppress her cultivation realm in order not to make Ling Changsheng feel that he was inferior to her.
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When Ye Fan and Fairy Xuan Xueqi was alone, Fairy Xuan Xueqi asked Ye Fan curiously. "How do you know that this Sword Saint Ling Changsheng will allow us to leave just like this?"
Ye Fan smiled, "This Ling Changsheng was willing to let us go if we could receive 30 strokes from him and he had also used an inferior divine sword too. That was why I had thought that he may be an honorable man. That was why I had conceded defeat to him. I didn't expect for him to really let us go just like this."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled, "I was worried for you. This Ling Changsheng really looks like a formidable cultivator."
Ye Fan nodded, "He is but the Sword Slave maiden that is with him is even more dangerous."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi curiously asked, "I don't think that she is stronger than this Sword Saint Ling Changsheng, am I right?"
Ye Fan shook his head, "The sword aura mark that is on her is twice as strong as Ling Changsheng. Her cultivation realm should be stronger than Ling Changsheng. I just don't understand why she is a Sword Slave. Unless she is the real sword saintess."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi shook her head, "Ling Changsheng is indeed the only scion of the Pinnacle Sword Manor. They have no daughters."
Ye Fan smiled, "Sometimes I wonder how my Xueqi is able to know so much."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi had realized that she had slipped her tongue.
She said instead, "How are you able to see their sword aura marks?"
Ye Fan sighed softly, "Actually, I am able to see the sword auras no matter how faint it is since I can remember things. That is how I can study Senior Ji Yuan's sword arts from his sword marks in the Sword Tomb."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi was startled; it had never occurred to her that Ye Fan could see the sword aura marks so clearly and she had thought that Ye Fan was just randomly trying to gain a sword inspiration from the sword mark of her father.
She smiled, "Ye Fan, maybe you can visit the Pinnacle Sword Manor to check the sword markings in their forbidden ground. Their Holy Swords Graveyard is a sword cultivation paradise for the sword cultivators. Maybe you can gain an inspiration from it. This may be useful to your sword cultivation."
Ye Fan laughed softly, "I don't think that they would allow me to gain access to their forbidden ground. I have heard that the Pinnacle Sword Manor have many sword saints and their holy forbidden ground is strictly off limits to outsiders."
Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled, "If you are willing to use the saint-step divine sword in your hand to exchange for their cultivation secrets, this isn't impossible."
Ye Fan was startled, "But this saint-step divine sword is a profound treasure that everyone wants to obtain. If I give it up then won't I be weaker?"
Fairy Xuan Xueqi said to him with a wink, "There will be a time when you have to decide between advancing your cultivation or obtaining a profound treasure. While a saint-step divine sword is invaluable but you will end up being too reliable on it. This isn't good for your cultivation. What you need is to learn more sword cultivations that can compensate for your weakness."
Ye Fan sighed, "My weakness is that I am incapable of the sword energy cultivation which only occurs naturally to the Sword Body cultivators. Even in the entire Dragontooth Continent, sword energy cultivators are very rare. That Ling Changsheng is a sword energy sword saint and his Pinnacle Sword Manor most powerful sword art is also the sword spirit energies cultivation. I don't know if I can gain an insight even if I give up my saint-step divine sword to enter their holy forbidden ground. That is the reason why your father refuses to take me as his protégé because I am not a sword energy user."
There was a smile that was on Fairy Xuan Xueqi as she shook her head, "My papa once told me that sword energy cultivators are weaker at the 6th and the 7th realm cultivation. It is because it gets harder to convert your profound energies into more powerful sword energies. For that, you need to cultivate your profound sword art just like the other forms of profound arts. That is the reason why I have invented the Six Aura Swords to combine the use of my profound aura and profound strength together. Like you, I am also not a sword energy practitioner…"
Then she added, "Ye Fan, you need to obtain your own powerful profound art that suits you the best. It is because there are many strong cultivators that are around. My profound art may not be the best for you. Or rather, you can't master the highest ceiling of my sword profound art as you don't have the Yin Body."
Ye Fan slowly nodded, "In order to obtain my own profound art, I have to have an opportunity to learn more new sword cultivations."
"That's right." Fairy Xuan Xueqi smiled. "A profound sword art that can combine the use of your Omnipotent Immortal Force to give you the best advantage in battle."
Ye Fan smiled, "After this, let's go to the Pinnacle Sword Manor then. I will be willing to use my saint-step divine sword to exchange for a chance to learn from their sword cultivations."