The sword seller, dressed in red, deserves applause for the prankster.

"Good news! Your master and the others came to Jinfo Temple to look for you two months ago. However, after waiting for you for about a month and seeing that you still hadn't woken up, they seemed to have other matters to attend to and left first, asking me to leave you a letter."

As Master Puning spoke, he produced an envelope and handed it to Chi Miao.

"That's great! I haven't heard from my master and the others in a long time. I wonder how they've been doing lately. Do they know how awesome I am now?"

Chi Miao's face lit up with joy, and he eagerly opened the envelope as soon as he received it.

Master Puning: "..."

Silence is golden.

Then she saw Chi Miao open the envelope and freeze, as if he had been petrified.

Master Puning became nervous: "What... what's wrong?"

For Chi Miao to show this expression, could it be that something happened at Nine Swords Mountain?

Or... did Yan Ge tell Chi Miao about what happened back then?

Why would Yan Ge do this?

That matter... everyone clearly agreed that even if it remained unsaid, it should never be brought up again.

He slightly opened his eyes, unable to contain his curiosity.

Chi Miao: "Come and take a look."

Master Puning was indeed a man of high moral character; he never opened the letter after receiving it.

Only after hearing Chi Miao's words did he quietly move closer.

He froze as soon as he got close.

Yan Ge's handwriting...how can it be so ugly?!

The strokes are crooked and messy, and there are even typos! What kind of encrypted code is this?!

Chi Miao: "Perhaps it's because I'm uneducated and illiterate, but I can't quite understand the characters my master is using. Could you please translate them for me, Master?"

Master Puning: "...This is not your fault."

The uncultured ones are someone else entirely.

However, since Chi Miao had already said so, Master Puning still gritted his teeth and gave the translation.

It took me ten minutes of dawdling to finally translate that one sentence.

[My dear disciple, when I looked for you, you were in the trial. I waited for you for a long time but couldn't find you. I wanted to tell you some good news and show you something, but you weren't there.]

But it's okay, showing off doesn't have to be done in person. For example, right now, I still won't show you anything.

I! Your master! I've broken through the shackles and reached the Mahayana stage! Hahahahahahaha!!

My Mahayana stage cultivation is far beyond what ordinary Mahayana cultivators can match; I can defeat anyone below the Tribulation stage! I can slaughter anyone in the mid-Middle Mahayana stage! From now on, I'll be your unbreakable support! You can court death anytime, I'll take responsibility if anything happens!

His unreliable tone caused Master Puning to lose face during the translation process.

He's a high-ranking monk; he's never been this crazy in his entire life.

But Chi Miao couldn't help but smile after hearing this, gently stroking the envelope and keeping it safe.

"It's good, everything is getting better."

Yan Ge is mostly unreliable, but when it really matters... Yan Ge truly loves his apprentice.

Chi Miao will never forget everything Yan Ge did for her.

If Master Puning is the godfather, then Yan Ge is no different from his biological father.

After all, she couldn't bear to let her "biological father" take the risk.

After regaining his senses, Master Puning pondered the matter again and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.

Yan Ge... can he still break through?!

After that incident, he not only fell from the Mahayana stage back to the Nascent Soul stage, but also became a state that was neither human nor ghost!

There shouldn't be any further breakthroughs or progress.

What exactly happened?

As he pondered, Chi Miao pressed close to his face again.

Startled, Master Puning leaned back, clutching his chest and breathing heavily: "Why didn't you remind me?"

How terrifying it is when a human face suddenly appears!

Chi Miao: "...That's very impolite, Master."

Master Puning: "?"

Chi Miao: "Seeing my beautiful face so close to you, and you act like this! It's utterly disheartening!"

Puning: "..."

In that instant, looking at Chi Miao's face, Puning had an unprecedented urge to break his vow.

The thought of slapping Chi Miao to death.

How could such a perfectly normal little girl be so shameless?

"Speaking of which, isn't there some bad news? Tell me about it?" Chi Miao asked.

Master Puning pondered for a moment, then looked up at Chi Miao: "Do you still remember the Heavenly Sword Sect?"

Chi Miao nodded: "Of course I remember. What are they up to this time?"

After Wenren Yi was crippled, everyone from the Heavenly Sword Sect withdrew from the Ten Sects Training Camp, without even getting a chance to use the Mirror of Rebirth, and all went back home.

Master Puning said, "The Ten Sects Training Camp is supposed to be attended by all ten sects. The Heavenly Sword Sect was delayed for too long due to that accident. They originally planned to reassign people to follow up, but alas... none of us expected that you could stay in the Mirror of Rebirth for seven months. The Heavenly Sword Sect disciples returned empty-handed once again."

"The Heavenly Sword Sect Master, Wenren Xiao, was furious and kept protesting. He even issued a challenge to the Nine Sects, which gave us a real headache."

"In the end, we compromised with the Heavenly Sword Sect's demands, allowing the remaining five months of the ten-sect training program, which was originally scheduled for one sect per month, to be concentrated at the Heavenly Sword Sect."

Upon hearing this, Chi Miao's eyes lit up: "Really? Isn't that a good thing?"

She did indeed have a score to settle with the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Master Puning shook his head: "It's not exactly a good thing. The Heavenly Sword Sect does have many inheritances suitable for you sword cultivators, but... I'm afraid the people from the Heavenly Sword Sect will target you on this trip."

Chi Miao scoffed, "Targeting me? I'll take them on one by one. Let's see who can outdo whom!"

Master Puning fell silent.

Makes sense.

When it comes to causing trouble, he has lived for hundreds of years and has never seen anyone more troublesome than Chi Miao.

In this regard, Chi Miao is undoubtedly an expert.

"But... I still have to give you a heads-up."

"The Heavenly Sword Sect has officially recognized their true prodigy."

Chi Miao was taken aback: "A true prodigy?"

Master Puning took a deep breath and nodded: "Yes... her name is Yun Yao, she is Wenren Yi's older sister... and she is also a true prodigy buried by the Heavenly Sword Sect."

……

Tianjian Sect.

In the young sect leader's bedroom, a girl dressed in white quietly closed her eyes to rest, facing the inner wall.

The room was full of swords, all kinds of swords.

And a huge sword-measuring stone.

A fly was buzzing as it tried to fly in.

The girl in white suddenly opened her eyes, and in an instant—

A fly a hundred meters away was decapitated, and the sword-measuring stone inside the house also broke apart with a crash.

The cut was clean, neat, and incredibly smooth!

The people outside the door gasped in shock.

"Is this Miss Yun Yao, the true young sect leader from back then...?"

"Too strong! A Golden Core stage at twenty, and a seven-patterned Golden Core at that! He's almost comparable to that overrated Buddhist disciple from Golden Buddha Temple, and he's even being suppressed..."

"Shh! You dare say anything like that? Aren't you afraid of losing your head!"

The maidservant was so frightened that she quickly covered her mouth, terrified.

This is a secret of their Heavenly Sword Sect.

Miss Yun Yao, Wenren Xiao's biological daughter, was born with a divine sword.

But because she was a girl, she was considered unworthy to inherit the Heavenly Sword Sect, and even... her companion divine sword was taken away and given to Wenren Yi.

Unfortunately, Wenren Yi was a good-for-nothing and could not conquer that companion divine sword.

Over the years, Yun Yao has been suppressed to prevent her from shining too brightly and overshadowing Wenren Yi's legitimate glory.

And now, Wenren Yi's Dao heart is shattered...

Yun Yao was reinstated as the young sect leader of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Meanwhile.

"You guys have some nerve, saying whatever you want!"

A man's cold snort fell.

That was Wenren Xiao, the sect leader of the Heavenly Sword Sect. He looked at the maid coldly.

The maid was so frightened she nearly wet herself: "Sect Master! I didn't mean it! Please spare me! Please spare me!"

Before she could say anything more...

Wen Renxiao immediately took action.

At this moment, the girl in white appeared in front of everyone, coldly looking at Wenren Xiao: "What's wrong with what she said? Father... just say what you want to say, I've never liked beating around the bush."