Chasing after her husband? Is it even possible to win him back?

"Not bad, not bad, Ji Hong, it's been a long time. Your two disciples are quite good." The hunchbacked, thin old man nodded with a grin at the square-faced, burly man, then looked at Chu Xunfeng. "And I've also discovered a... quite a promising talent."

Chu Xunfeng subconsciously met the gaze of the gaunt old man, and felt a sudden pang of fear. The hair on his body seemed to stand on end, but he forced it down.

"Hmm, keen senses, perfect copper skin, yet no bone structure." The Seventh Elder was quite satisfied with Chu Xunfeng's reaction. He nodded but couldn't help but sigh, "Really, you have to encounter such a monstrous genius every now and then, or you're so lucky that I'm jealous. It's really something that makes people both love and hate you."

"Seventh Uncle, are you making veiled accusations?" the veiled woman asked in a cool and ethereal voice.

"No, no, cough cough." The gaunt old man coughed twice, brushing off his embarrassment, and looked at Chu Xunfeng, "Boy, would you be willing to join White Emperor City?"

"I'm willing." Chu Xunfeng nodded gently.

"Good!" The gaunt old man praised with a smile. "With your aptitude, you can directly enroll in the White Emperor City to study. Do you have any miscellaneous matters that need to be handled?"

"No." Although Chu Xunfeng was puzzled, he still honestly shook his head.

"Then shall we go to Baidi City together now?" The gaunt old man stared at Chu Xunfeng, as if afraid that he might cause some trouble.

Although he felt something was off, Chu Xunfeng nodded in agreement. He simply told the Seventh Elder that he needed a few minutes to say goodbye to the fellow disciples and seniors he had met that day.

The Seventh Elder naturally nodded in agreement. As a manager of White Emperor City, he was naturally pleased to see close relationships between his disciples.

“Brother Nian, Senior Sister Li, I’ll go to Baidi City first to scout out the way for you. Once you arrive, I’ll guide you.”

"It's a deal, right, you pretty boy junior brother!" The petite senior sister Li Yao waved her hand vigorously at Chu Xunfeng.

Nian Shiyi clasped her hands in a fist salute to Chu Xunfeng, saying, "Brother Chu, I will never forget your great kindness today, and I will definitely repay you when I have the opportunity in the future."

"Brother Nian, you flatter me." Chu Xunfeng was both amused and exasperated by Nian Shiyi's stubbornness, yet he also felt that this man was genuine and worth getting to know better.

The young man finally looked at the burly man with the square face and said, "Thank you for giving me this opportunity today, Senior Ji."

The man was not good with words, and after thinking it over, he could only mumble a word of encouragement, "Study hard in Baidi City."

"Definitely." Chu Xunfeng walked towards the three people who were already waiting on the other side, watching them leave. "Elders, Miss, I'm ready."

"Hmm, you... are quite good." The middle-aged Fifth Elder, whose features were unremarkable, smiled and nodded. "Seventh Brother, let's go."

"Go!" The Seventh Elder waved his hand and threw out the T-shaped hammer.

The woman in white gracefully leaped onto the giant hammerhead.

Chu Xunfeng was pulled onto the T-shaped hammer by the arms of the Seventh Elder and the Fifth Elder.

"Let's go~"

The Seventh Elder, who was sitting cross-legged, made a hand gesture.

The enormous hammer rose into the air, heading towards the direction of the Imperial City, as the setting sun sank into the sky.

Chu Xunfeng squinted at the fiery red sunset and took a deep breath.

Baidi City...

Really looking forward to it.

Chapter 8, Miss Xu Bailing

Baidi City is located in the central part of the imperial state, in the heart of the land.

This name is both the name of the sect in Dizhou and the name of the city of Dizhou.

Under the last rays of the setting sun, the enormous T-shaped hammer had already sped to the outskirts of Baidi City.

Chu Xunfeng looked down at the enormous city below.

The first thing that catches the eye is a huge sword that plunges into the ridge of a solitary mountain. Beneath this sword-shaped building, countless houses can be seen scattered across the mountainside.

Beneath this solitary peak stretches a vast city in three directions.

"That sword is from our sect's main city, called Sword Pavilion. Kid, you'll be studying at Sword Pavilion from now on."

"Yes." Although his expression remained calm, Chu Xunfeng was inwardly shocked.

He had lived in Liucheng for the past eighteen years and had never seen such a strange sight, although the huge T-shaped hammer beneath him was already beyond his imagination.

As the T-shaped hammer gradually descended into Baidi City, the Lonely Peak Sword Pavilion expanded in his field of vision, becoming even more magnificent and splendid. He could even see disciples flying on their magical artifacts and leaping down from within the pavilion. He finally had a clear feeling that he was living in another world, rather than in ancient China.

"Boy, we've arrived." The Seventh Elder stood up leisurely, and his words pulled Chu Xunfeng back to reality. "Young Miss, next, I'll trouble you to take Chu boy to the reception office to register and show him around Baidi City."

"Shall I come?" The masked woman's voice was devoid of emotion.

"Yes, thank you for your trouble." The Seventh Elder made a hand gesture, shrinking the giant hammer considerably. "Your Fifth Uncle and I have other matters to attend to."

"Hmm." The woman nodded, and she and Chu Xunfeng watched as the hammer transformed into a streak of light and flew straight towards the Sword Pavilion.

"Next, we'll have to trouble Miss." Chu Xunfeng guessed that this woman must have a very high status in White Emperor City, otherwise the two elders wouldn't have addressed her as Miss.

"It's alright. No matter what, I am also a disciple of White Emperor City, and these are things I should do." The woman put her sword back in one hand and led the way. "Come with me."

"Yes." Chu Xunfeng nodded, deliberately keeping a distance from the woman. "May I ask your name, Miss?"

The woman stopped and turned to look at Chu Xunfeng. "My name is Xu Bailing, and I am the daughter of the leader of Baidi City."

His voice was flat and his emotions seemed unmoved, but the other party's status was quite high, and his attitude was neither warm nor cold, which left Chu Xunfeng at a loss as to how to respond.

In the end, he could only smile bitterly to himself, bow and clasp his hands, "So that's why you're called Young Miss. I apologize for my disrespect, Young Miss."

"It's alright, let's go."

Chu Xunfeng was puzzled for a few seconds, and watching the woman's departing figure, he could only patiently follow after her.

He initially thought the woman suddenly revealed her identity because he had made her feel uneasy about his probing behavior.

But it seems that's not the case. She just answered my question... I always feel that this young lady isn't aloof at all, but rather a bit dull.

---at the same time---

—The summit of Jian Ge in Baidi City—

The Seventh Elder and the Fifth Elder rode on hammers to the huge platform erected at the hilt of the longsword.

The refined man in the black robe slowly opened his eyes, looking at the two who jumped down from the flying hammer with a gentle smile. "Fifth brother, seventh brother, have you seen them?"

"Yes, I saw it." The Seventh Elder spread his hands and grasped the shrunken T-shaped hammer, casually tossing it a few times. "It is indeed as my elder brother sensed. His body tempering has reached the copper skin perfection, and there is still a lot of medicinal power left in his body. It should be the Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pill that was born in Bianzhou half a month ago."

“He must have a master by his side. If no one helps him, an ordinary person would surely die if they took such a rare elixir.” The White Emperor City Sect Leader spoke softly, his gaze falling on the seemingly ordinary Fifth Elder.

“There may be experts, but they didn’t come to the master with prior skills. Chu Xunfeng has no talent and has never been trained. I can confirm that.” The Fifth Elder responded without hesitation.

"I trust Lao Wu's judgment. The choice we face now is... whether or not to invest resources in nurturing him?"

"Is the sect leader worried about the demon race?" The Seventh Elder raised an eyebrow, then shrugged. "Actually, I don't think there's anything to discuss about this. Just train them as they should be. If the demon race really comes looking for us later, let them make the choice."

"If he chooses our White Emperor City, then the demon race will have nothing to say."

"If he chooses the demon race, we can just ask them for benefits directly. Do you think the demon race would give up the Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pill and try to cheat us?"

The sect leader, dressed in a black robe, pondered for a moment and felt that what the seventh elder said made sense. He immediately turned to the fifth elder and said, "Fifth elder, remember to spread the word that you should persuade the person who used the Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pill to show up in the Imperial State. The demon race will come looking for you."

"Understood." The Fifth Elder nodded. "Then, regarding the resource arrangements for Chu Xunfeng..."

"Just give him the promotion to disciple, but there's no need to be stingy with the cultivation techniques. Tomorrow, have someone take him to the Scripture Pavilion and choose a cultivation technique and two supernatural abilities for him according to the standards for a personal disciple."

"Why don't we leave this to the young lady?" the Fifth Elder suggested.

"Bai Ling?" The sect leader frowned slightly. When it came to his daughter, he was somewhat hesitant and was currently weighing the pros and cons.

“The young lady is born with supreme sword bones. Although we cannot find any other sword bones in our sect that are qualified to hone their skills against her, the Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pill is enough to whetstone. So we don’t need to go to Bianzhou to find Ning Qiu Ning from the Supreme Sword Sect.”

"Such considerations are certainly not unreasonable, but we still need to contact the Supreme Sword Sect. Soldiers should fight each other and hone their skills. This would be a good thing for everyone, and they will not refuse."

"Yes, ma'am." The Fifth Elder nodded. "I will have Yan Ge deliver the specific arrangements to the young lady's room later."

"Alright, let's leave it at that for now. You've all had a hard day, especially Seventh Brother. Go back and get some rest. A few days ago, Fourth Sister produced several batches of excellent Qi Gathering Pills, and I've already sent someone to deliver them to your residences."

The Fifth Elder and the Seventh Elder exchanged a glance, both seeing the surprise in each other's eyes. They then clasped their hands in farewell and hurried back to their respective residences.

These two weren't in a hurry to go back and consume pills for cultivation.

The Qi Gathering Pill was useless to these two cultivators who had already entered the Three Profound Realms. They were in a hurry to go back and arrange the distribution of the pills to their personal disciples.

Only the black-robed sect leader remained, sitting cross-legged, watching the last glimmer of light disappear into the night sky, letting out a long sigh.

"Two Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pills... This is unprecedented."

Which side will you ultimately choose?

Chapter Nine, The Straightforward Young Lady

The system gave Chu Xunfeng a Phoenix Blood Dragon Bone Pill.

He's carefree; he ate it.

With the system's guarantee, he successfully became a cultivator thanks to this pill.

He had no idea what kind of storm this pill's existence and the emergence of this strange phenomenon would stir up.

After all, I've never been a person in the cultivation world, so it's unrealistic for me to talk about these things.

However, by following Miss Xu Bailing, and spending two hours touring most of the city below Sword Pavilion, Chu Xunfeng gained a much better understanding of this young lady.

For example... her emotional intelligence is a problem. She's a well-known young lady in Baidi City, parading around with a strange man, introducing him wherever they go.

This is a pawnshop; if you need money, you can exchange spirit stones for cash.