The girl pursed her lips.

 

She sighed and walked towards Shen Zhenyi with a sad look on her face. "Your thoughts really did come true. Sister Zhu Xi came to the Abandoned Sword Villa, and I met her last night."

 

Chu Huoluo came from Liyang Mansion, which was a famous sect in the Nine Hells Realm. She was one of their heirs, who had learned the "Magic Fire Art," but she later dropped out. Young and gifted, she had already broken through to the fifth realm of wisdom. Excluding the accomplishments of Shen Zhenyi, she could be regarded as a teenage genius.

 

However, there was a strange rule in Liyang Mansion. The heiresses of the mansion were two sisters in the same clan. When they became sixteen years old, they had to fight for life and death. The winner became the king while the loser suffered. If Chu Huoluo lost the competition, it would not only deprive her of the title of the heir, but it would also cause her to lose her life. Even worse, Chu Huoluo’s opponent was so powerful that she was forced to live quietly, lest she became “accidentally murdered.”

 

Therefore she didn't view such a competition as a good thing. Every day, she worried heavily and even lost self-confidence in her martial arts.

 

Chu Huoluo's sister was Chu Zhu Xi who suppressed her at every opportunity, politically and socially.

 

Grandma Chihuo, who was currently in charge of Liyang Mansion, was very old and also ranked among the top ten experts in the world. Even more shocking, she was ranked above Shen Shou, the current head of abandoned Jianshan Villa. Even though the martial arts of Liyang Mansion weren’t as good as that of the Abandoned Sword Villa, which had been accumulated and passed on for hundreds of years, they also had their strong points.

 

However, Chu Huoluo was afraid that she would progress too slowly, and she was even more afraid to stay in Liyang Mansion and be crippled by Chu Zhu Xi. So a few months ago, she sought for the opportunity to study at the Abandoned Sword Villa.

 

But she didn't expect for Chu Zhu Xi to come.

 

Shen Zhenyi asked lightly, "Have you girls exchanged pointers yet?"

 

Chu Huoluo was embarrassed, covering her eyes with her hands and lamenting, "Last night, as soon as she arrived at the Abandoned Sword Villa, she came to test me. I even used five different sword arts, but was broken by her "Taiji Fire Style". I actually think I might not live to be sixteen years old..."

 

These five sword arts were from the Third Prince Shen.

 

Shen Zhenyi said: "The Taiji Fire Style is originally the strongest defensive tactic in the Magic Fire Arts. It can penetrate the heavens and earth and form a tight defensive circle around the body. All the five sword arts you have learned are superficial, and your understandings are too little. Even if you surprised her, you wouldn’t be able to break through her shield. It's natural to lose in this case.

 

He added, "It seems that Chu Zhu Xi’s martial arts realm is similar to yours, but her understanding in martial arts is much deeper than yours."

 

Shen Zhenyi evaluated trying to help her out. Of course, in the eyes of Chu Huoluo, it only sprinkled salt on her open wound.

 

Despondent, she pulled out a small food box from behind her and gave it to Shen Zhenyi. "This is a box of the Pine Nut Mint Cake I made this morning."

 

Opening the cover of the lacquered wooden box, Shen Zhenyi saw five or six delicate pastries overlapped on the porcelain plate at the bottom of the box. Everyone was as the size baby's fist, square, transparent and clear as jade, with pine nut fragments scattered on the surface, giving off the fragrance of mint.

 

"This will be good for a snack today."

 

Shen Zhenyi praised her and took a piece to his mouth chewing it carefully. The cake felt soft and elastic. Its sweet and delicious taste of pine nuts and mint mixed together tasting very good indeed. He bowed his head and said, "In the past three months, your martial arts have not improved much. Your cooking, however, has been very good. In fact, if you focused on just cooking, your skill would naturally advance by leaps and bounds. Why should you be false to others?

 

Chu Huoluo lamented, "You always talk like this. What's the relationship between my kitchen skills and martial arts? Please just teach me a few more killing tactics to resist my sister-in-law, lest I die young..."

 

It had been three months since she first arrived at the Abandoned Sword Villa. Upon entering, she violated the rules of the Villa and secretly went to the back mountain to look for Shen Zhenyi to learn Sword.

 

Shen Zhenyi did not try to hide, but Chu Huoluo didn’t exactly know how to properly ask him to teach her. Every time she came here, she tried to make delicious food. “I hope I can flatter him and learn more.”

 

Shen Zhenyi could see through her thoughts with a glance. Other things could be taught, but her “Heart’s Doubt,” her belief that she would never be able win against her sister, had to be solved by herself.

 

After taking a few bribes (food), Shen Zhenyi successively passed onto her five exquisite sword arts.

 

He had thousands of sword arts in his storage, so it didn’t really matter to him if he shared a few of them. After all, contact with too many martial arts wasn’t good.

 

So Shen Zhenyi shook his head after thinking, "Swordsmanship can't be taught to you anymore. If you try to continue learning the sword, it will be difficult for you to understand. When you start again, you will inevitably be stuck. Zhu Xi who specializes in only one subject will be able to kill you easily.

 

When Chu Huoluo remembered the power and skill of Chu Zhu Xi's Fire Taiji; Huoluo realized that this was no longer an opponent that could be defeated by a change of styles. This made her even more depressed.

 

"If only I had more time," she said feeling indignant and bitter. But Sister Zhu Xi really played unfairly. In order to win, she did not hesitate to join a group of three-legged cats in the preliminary test of the Abandoned Sword Villa. "In fact, I am a little afraid of her."

 

Chu Zhu Xi acted very differently from Chu Huoluo. She had always been the proud daughter of heaven, overbearing and had everything under her control.

 

The Abandoned Sword Villa issued a small number of “Sword Sequences” during their early years. Those who found and held these sequences could have a wish granted by the Abandoned Sword Villa. Seventy-eight sequences had been recovered in the past three hundred years, and it was very likely that the Chu Huoluo would be the last person to find one. She took this opportunity to enter the Abandoned Sword Villa, but Chu Zhu Xi couldn’t find another one.

 

Fighting for half a lifetime, it was rare for her to win in something against her sister. Chu Huoluo originally wanted to have a few days to celebrate her birthday, but Chu Zhu Xi, however, disregarded the face of the Liyang Mansion and participated in the recruitment of the Abandoned Sword Villa’s disciples. Surprisingly, she passed smoothly, meaning that she had worked with other people.

 

Shen Zhenyi had predicted that Zhu Xi would find him, but now it actually came true.

 

Chu Huoluo was extremely afraid of her sister. Suddenly, she thought of something and said, "Now that she’s here, you shouldn’t try to fight for me. Otherwise, I'll die without a proper burial."

 

Shen Zhenyi was silent. He picked up the last piece of Pine Nut Mint Cake and ate it.

 

As the sun rose, he rocked in his wheelchair and descended from the top of the hill rolling down the path. Chu Huoluo followed him and suddenly thought, "Could you teach me the Ten Thousand Sword Sutra?" If I learn this sword technique, I won't have to lose to Sister Zhu Xi, right? I don't want to fight for the next heir, as long as I can save my life..."

 

The Ten Thousand Sword Sutra was the most precious treasure of the Abandoned Sword Villa, but Chu Huoluo wasn’t trying to offend him. It was just a casual statement from her young mind.

 

Shen Zhenyi murmured for a while and said, "The Ten Thousand Sword Sutra isn’t actually that great of a martial art. It's not impossible to teach it to you either. However, after all, this is the hardest to learn martial technique. You could try your best, but I don't accept apprentices. This sword technique requires one to have a lot of intelligence. The broader the experience, the more powerful the sword technique will be. You are not suitable with your simple mind."

 

Hearing that it took a lot of brainpower, Chu Huoluo lost interest. She became bored and asked, "Is it true that the Ten Thousand Sword Sutra can break through the void and allow one to fly and become immortal after being trained to the last level?"

 

Although this kind of thing was a rumor, it had been spread in the martial arts, and Chu Huoluo was somewhat curious.

 

"Cutting the moon and flying like a fairy, any of our world's top martial arts can allow this to be accomplished."

 

Shen Zhenyi calculated: "The Magic Fire Art of your Liyang Palace, the art of the Devil Religion is the second one... The sixth is the Buddhist Bodhisattva Style, and there is also the Dahua Dream of the Immortals. There are actually around seven or eight techniques that let you do this."

 

Chu Huoluo couldn't believe it. "The Magic Fire Art can also allow one to cut the moon and fly like an immortal? How come I’ve never heard of it? You don't want to trick me because I'm  young, right? Many ancestors of the Liyang Palace have practiced the Magic Fire Art to the ninth realm, but none of them have been able to reach the Immortal Level.”

 

Shen Zhenyi concentrated and corrected her: "On the path of martial arts, all must seek to break through our limits. If we can't overcome our ancestors, how can we surpass the Mortal Level? I said that these different martial arts contain the principle of cutting the moon and flying like fairies, not that they can be achieved by anyone who cultivates to the ninth realm. But they are on the right track. One always has to go a step further than their predecessors. You have to break out of your cocoon and become a butterfly.”

 

Chu Huoluo said, "That's not exactly as plain and simple as you say..."

 

Before she was sixteen years old, she couldn't even practice to the highest realm known by the Magic Fire Art, let alone breakthrough the top of the peak.

 

Chu Huoluo saw Chu Zhu Xi’s cultivation realm last night but now, she became calmer. Now she only felt impatient. Where could she calm down? Only by staying beside Shen Zhenyi, could she be relieved of her worries. Then she asked, "What even is the Immortal Realm? Everyone is so convinced it exists, but not even grandma can explain clearly. Do you know Third Prince?”

 

Shen Zhenyi did not hesitate to say: "Cutting the moon and flying like an immortal is naturally breaking through the limit of the Nine Hells Realm. It means breaking through the moon with tremendous strength and entering into a higher level of Kung Fu. What's not clear about this?”

 

"...Breaking the moon? " Chu Huoluo was shocked and looked up at the bright blue sky. She scratched her head and said, "What can human beings do? Besides, the Moon is the source of true Qi. If it breaks, doesn’t that mean everyone would no longer be able to practice martial arts?”

 

Shen Zhenyi became silent and did not reply.

 

This was the greatest secret of the Nine Realms. It couldn’t be exposed.