Xue Jing took the elevator back to the Hidden Dragon Dojo.
At this mont, the dojo floor was covered with broken glass and various fragnts of equipnt and furniture.
Dozens of disciples were cleaning up, and when they saw Xue Jing return, they all greeted him with respectful expressions.
Xue Jing nodded in response to each one and walked into the training hall.
Master Li Qi had disappeared sowhere, and Zhu Shanying, with her sleeves rolled up, was also cleaning up the ssy training hall.
Xue Jing asked:
"Zhu, where's Master?"
As he spoke, he stepped forward to help.
Zhu Shanying, holding a broom, swept together piles of glass shards and concrete fragnts, turned her head upon hearing Xue Jing's question, her youthful face showing puzzlent.
"Eh, where's Master?"
"He was just here a mont ago."
Xue Jing had just asked casually and didn't really mind.
He looked around at the ssy dojo and said:
"This needs a complete renovation now... no idea how long it will take to fix it."
Zhu Shanying's eyes sparkled.
"Little junior brother, doesn't that an you have no place to practice martial arts?"
The girl's tone carried a slight mirth, as if she found it slightly amusing.
Xue Jing was puzzled, "Hmm? The practice room over there is okay, just the glass broke; it can still be used."
Zhu Shanying put down her broom, extended her right index finger, and shook it, "NONONO~"
"If the training hall is being renovated, there will be all kinds of banging and noise, terribly loud, how can one concentrate on martial arts practice?"
Hearing this, Xue Jing thought for a mont and felt she was right, so he said with a smile:
"Then what's your great idea, Zhu?"
The girl's youthful face bead with a smile, "You can co to my house to practice martial arts."
Xue Jing: "Hmm?"
...
The next morning at five o'clock sharp, Xue Jing woke up promptly, not a second late.
He looked at his arm.
In yesterday's battle with Li Chengxuan, he had been struck by the opponent's White Rainbow Piercing Finger, which pierced his skin and flesh.
Now looking at it, new flesh had completely grown over, leaving only a pink scar the size of a fingertip, which he estimated would be fully healed by tomorrow.
Level 6 Health Cultivation provided astonishing vitality and healing capabilities.
"Golden Wind White Rainbow Sword does have so substance to it."
Xue Jing said to himself.
Although that finger strike had ultimately been blocked by him, it wasn't because the opponent wasn't strong, but because he had activated.
His body, already far surpassing ordinary humans in bone strength due to a series of skill-enhanced modifications, coupled with the protection of his Golden Scale Skin against the Golden Wind White Rainbow Sword, and further reinforced by the Twin Lifes' defensive doubling effect, had led to this outco.
Xue Jing sat up, stretched lazily, rubbed the head of Miao Miao, who was snoozing in her cat form at his side, and got out of bed.
After washing up in the bathroom, he changed into a set of clothes, took the long sword gifted by Zhu Shanying yesterday, and left his place.
Arriving at the small garden where he ran every day, it was too early, and the sky was dim; he was the only one there.
"Clang—"
Xue Jing drew the long sword from its scabbard, revealing its beautiful silver-white blade that shimred with a chilling light.
"What a fine sword,"
Xue Jing couldn't help but exclaim in admiration once again.
The thought that the sword was worth a whole twenty million made it seem even more splendid.
"Hm? What's this?"
Xue Jing suddenly discovered two inconspicuous characters etched near the handle of the blade.
The characters were in seal script, full of ancient charm. Xue Jing took a good while to recognize them before he uncertainly said,
"Is this... 'Crouching Rabbit'?"
The two characters etched onto the blade in seal script should be the words 'Crouching Rabbit'.
"So the sword is called 'Crouching Rabbit Sword'?"
Xue Jing touched the characters and felt the na was a bit odd.
"Rabbit shouldn't an the animal... Could it be using rabbit to refer to the moon?"
Xue Jing guessed.
"In that case, adding the word 'crouching' opens up many interpretations... subduing and severing the bright moon, the essence of the moon lies hidden within the blade? Or perhaps it represents the 'setting of the bright moon'..."
"Forget it, it doesn't matter, it's just a na after all."
Xue Jing shook his head.
He drew the 'Crouching Rabbit' completely out of its scabbard, and the full length of the one and a half ter sword was fully revealed before his eyes.
After placing the scabbard on a bench in the garden, Xue Jing held the sword with both hands and began practicing sword skills.
"Swish—Huff—"
Unlike the ordinary long sword he had used before, the Crouching Rabbit was extrely comfortable to wield, its nearly ten pounds of weight feeling neither too heavy nor too light and flimsy for him.
The sharp blade sliced through the air, emitting a piercing whistle, and as Xue Jing got into the swing of it, he couldn't help but set his sights on the garden lawn...
"Slash—Slice slice slice—"
Grass clippings flew, scattering in all directions amidst the swinging blade, turning into a flurry of green fragnts.
It was as if a child had found a fine stick and set his sights on a ten-mile field of rapeseed flowers; Xue Jing mowed the grass with enthusiasm, and in his joy, he couldn't help but indulge in fanciful imaginations, like a child would.
In his eyes, before him were no longer re blades of grass, but faceless enemies.
With a raise of his sword, there were no longer grass clippings splattering but heads dropping to the ground.
A hint of blood-red subtly erged in his pupils.
"Slash—"
The cascading green fragnts, in his eyes, beca severed limbs and spattered gore.
"Slash—"
A flash of the sword and the bare lawn turned into mountains of bodies and seas of blood.
"All things are born of nature to nourish man, and man has nothing to repay nature with..."
The faceless enemies before him started to take on distinct features.
At first, they were complete strangers whom Xue Jing did not recognize, and he did not hesitate to cut them down one by one.
Later, they beca people whom Xue Jing sowhat rembered, Pei Youguang's students, the mbers of the Razor Gang he had encountered on that night, and so on.
And then ca Duan Kaiping, Li Chengxuan, Su Bijin, Jiao Hongyuan, and even the Pei brothers, Mountain Demon, and Void Blade—those whose images left a deeper impression on him.
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