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(Mount Xilean- Holy Sword Sect)

Xu Lu sighed under her breath as she soared through the air towards the fifth peak.

Lei Ying had probably convinced all of the potential sect members that they were a close pair of master and disciple.

The relationship between them could even be considered as parent and child. At least publicly... as for the reality of the situation well...

Xu Lu planned to make sure that her master suffered the same way that she had because as she thought about what had happened to the original Xu Lu... some things just did not add up.

How was it possible that a demon cultivator managed to sneak in past the barriers and enchantments that covered Lei Ying\'s peak?

And no one was alerted.

Unless... she knew... she knew that the demon cultivator would get in. But why? Why would she allow her only apprentice to be mutilated?

It made no sense...

Xu Lu frowned slightly as she felt her mood lower. She raised up her right hand and gently touched the side of the silvery grey mask that covered her face.

(Monster... hideous little thing...)

Those words... even now they affected her more than she cared to admit.

Xu Lu sighed again as she dropped her palm and focused on watching the white clouds as she drifted through the sky.

Should she try to find a way to fix her appearance?

No... cultivation was more important at least for now.

She was going to live for hundreds if not thousands of years so maybe once she reached a high enough cultivation level, she could spend a few decades looking for a healing serum.

(If it wasn\'t even possible to repair her disfigured face...)

(No... stop that... stop thinking negatively...)

Xu Lu drew in a deep shuddering breath and silently counted to ten in her mind. She clenched her fingers into a tight fist and slowly exhaled.

"I can sense her!" a loud voice interrupted Xu Lu\'s concentration.

She turned her head in the direction of the noise and saw a pretty woman floating slightly in the air above her sword.

"My master! I sense her!" Tan Yahui exclaimed joyfully. There was a child-like joy and sense of affection in her voice as she pointed in a certain direction.

"Please take me to her! I need to be with my master!"

Xu Lu raised an eyebrow as she saw the enthusiastic weapon spirit. This was the first time that Tan Yahui had come out of the knife since she had picked up the weapon in the cave.

And she only came out because she sensed her true master...

For a brief moment, the saintess was tempted to tell the weapon spirit to fuck off but resisted the urge and began to steer her sword towards the direction where Tan Yahui was pointing.

"Thank you," Tan Yahui solemnly spoke as she bowed her head and spoke to Xu Lu politely.

"No problem... I hope your master treats you well," Xu Lu replied absentmindedly. A knife with the power to allow its user to see into the threads of fate of the future.

An extremely powerful ability.

But it was one that she was destined not to possess. Still, it was not like she had no gifts or special powers.

She was a talented cultivator so that was something!

The weapon spirit pointed to a courtyard in the middle of a clearing where two figures were currently sparring in the centre.

They were surrounded by a few dozen cultivators who cheered loudly as one figure dodged an attack and then slashed at her opponent using her sword.

Crimson red blood stained the ground and the roaring applause from the disciples got even louder.

Xu Lu landed her sword on the ground at the back of the crowd, a couple of disciples noticed her arrival.

They bowed respectfully and Xu Lu politely nodded back.

She placed the sword back in her sheath and then straightened out her robes. She looked around and saw that she was now standing in the outer disciple area.

This was the... sparring ring?

Xu Lu used her cultivation pressure and the crowd immediately fell silent. She made her way through the crowd as the temperature around her body plummeted.

She saw a familiar figure standing triumphantly above the defeated male disciple who had large wounds on his back.

Bai Lu.

The outer disciple that she had saved a few months ago. Was she the weapon spirit\'s master?

As Xu Lu had that thought, the box containing the knife that she had placed in her storage bag began to vibrate and then appeared in her palm.

Well... she supposed that answered the question.

"Saintess?" Bai Yu spoke in a puzzled tone.

"It is good to see you again," Xu Lu spoke coldly as she stepped into the ring and cracks began to appear on the ground beneath her feet.

She took in a deep breath and the cultivation pressure surrounding her body immediately disappeared.

Bai Yu... was her cultivation level always so high?

Xu Lu narrowed her eyes since she was pretty certain that the female disciple in front of her had not been as strong the last time that they met.

"Saintess!" a cheerful voice called out.

A slightly roundish girl with a plump face rushed over and waved at the saintess happily.

Xu Lu smiled underneath her mask as she saw Tang Shu the one who had begged her to save her friend without fear.

"Hello Tang Shu," Xu Lu spoke in a much gentler tone of voice.

"Why don\'t you two take a walk with me? There are too many eyes here."

She gestured towards the crowd who looked on in amazement as the saintess spoke to two seemingly ordinary outer disciples.

Xu Lu held the wooden box in her right hand and led Tang Shu and Bai Yu towards a distant mountain peak.

Some cultivators tried to secretly follow them but one harsh glare from Xu Lu was enough to freeze them in their tracks.

"So how have you two been?" Xu Lu asked quietly as she glanced at the tall leafy trees that surrounded the pathway into the mountain range.

"Great! No one bullies us anymore!" Tang Shu replied happily.

"And what about you Bai Lu? You seem quite stronger than before. Have you had any adventures or enlightenments? Xu Lu asked curiously.

"Oh... I..." Bai Lu froze for a moment and then answered with a trace of hesitancy in her voice.

"Yes, I don\'t know how but it seems like my cultivation potential has been unlocked... I can absorb spiritual energy much easier than before."

The Luck System: [You don\'t know how? Alright I see how it is... guess all my quests and rewards were for nothing then]

The Luck System: [ :( What did I do to deserve such an ungrateful heroine?]

Bai Lu\'s eyebrows twitched slightly as she had to stop herself from telling her system to shut up.

She could not reveal the greatest source of her strength even to her best friend and saviour. No one could know about this strange being.

"Well, I\'m very glad to hear that," Xu Lu replied with a small smile.

She spread out her spiritual senses to make sure that no one was nearby and then handed the wooden box over to Bai Lu.

"Open it," Xu Lu quietly whispered.

Bai Lu\'s fingers touched the corner of the wooden box and then slowly lifted up the corner. What she saw nestled inside was a beautiful knife.

The knife was only the size of her palm, but it glowed eerily as the rays of afternoon sunlight lightly fell on its body.

Intricate golden runes had been carved onto the edge of the blade and the weapon itself throbbed with power.

"What... what is this?" Bai Lu asked in amazement as she felt drawn to the weapon as if something was calling her to it.

The Luck System went silent for a moment in her mind and then it spoke to Bai Lu in a very serious tone.

The Luck System: [This doesn\'t make any sense! You aren\'t supposed to get this weapon until five years from now]

The Luck System: [What the hell is going on? O_o]