Chapter 106

Chapter 106: Heavenly Sword Sect
Until he sat down face to face with Yu Zhao, Ji Han Zhou still had not found an answer.

Yu Zhao casually flipped the grilled fish in her hand and asked: “Ji Han Zhou, that day you said you were a disciple of Heavenly Sword Sect?”

Do not misunderstand. The grilled sea fish in Yu Zhao’s hand was not something she had fished up. She had used spirit power to scoop it straight out of the sea.

Today she had sat on a reef and fished the whole day. Forget fish, she had not even hooked a single strand of water grass.

Of course, she would never admit that her skills were lacking. She stubbornly believed the timing was wrong and planned to try again tomorrow.

“Yes.”

Ji Han Zhou put both hands on his knees and answered obediently.

“Heavenly Sword Sect is in the Northern Region. How did you end up all the way in the Nanming Sea?” Yu Zhao raised her brows in surprise.

In the cultivation world, there was a saying: One Sect, Two Schools, Four Clans. The one sect was the Five Elements Dao Sect that Yu Zhao belonged to. The two schools were the Greenwood Sect, where Mu Ye was from, and the Heavenly Sword Sect that Ji Han Zhou had just mentioned.

The remaining four factions were Wen Ding Pavilion, famous for artifact forging, Clarity Sound Temple of Buddhist cultivators, Tai Bai Academy, which entered the Dao through Confucianism, and Hundred Flowers Valley, where female cultivators were honored above all.

Among the One Sect, Two Schools, both the Five Elements Dao Sect and the Greenwood Sect were in the Central Region. Only Heavenly Sword Sect was in the extremely cold Northern Region.

The Nanming Sea, however, lay south of the Southern Region, the complete opposite of Heavenly Sword Sect’s location. How had Ji Han Zhou, a late Foundation Establishment disciple, ended up so far from home?

Ji Han Zhou grinned, his smile a bit silly: “I did not want to come. I was sent here by a teleportation array.”

Back then, Ji Han Zhou had been practicing sword on a snow mountain in the Northern Region and accidentally caused an avalanche. He himself had not been hurt, but the noise of the avalanche woke a snow demon that had been hibernating.

The snow demon had been sleeping soundly in its cave. Being forced awake, it was furious and chased Ji Han Zhou for three days and three nights.

Their cultivation levels had been about the same, but the Snow Region was the snow demon’s home ground, and Ji Han Zhou had a very hard time dealing with it.

So he fought as he ran, and by accident rushed into an ancient teleportation array. He did not even stop to think. He activated the array at once and was sent to the mountain next to Clear Breeze Sect.

At that time, he had just finished a fierce fight, and the power of the ancient teleportation array shook him until he was dizzy. He only had time to swallow a healing pill before he passed out.

When he woke up, he found that he had been locked in a cage inside a cave.

Ji Han Zhou’s story, full of twists and turns, left Yu Zhao deeply amazed.

Ji Han Zhou was the only son of Heavenly Sword Sect’s Sword Sovereign Jiu Hua. Born with a sword bone, he was praised as a sword cultivator genius who only appeared once in a thousand years, a future Sword Sovereign seed that Heavenly Sword Sect placed great hopes on.

The reason Yu Zhao had not thought of this as soon as she heard his name was that he and her Senior Sister Zhou in her previous life were the same kind of genius, bright like a comet but gone in a flash. During an outdoor training trip, he had vanished by accident and was never heard from again.

Thinking about it, in her previous life Ji Han Zhou had gone missing right around this time.

Yu Zhao’s expression changed. That meant if she had not appeared, Ji Han Zhou would probably have ended up just as he had said, dying together with Master Zi Wei.

She felt a lot of emotions in her heart.

In her previous life, she had been expelled from the Five Elements Dao Sect and had become someone everyone in the cultivation world wanted to beat down. Once, she had been surrounded by dozens of rogue cultivators and almost lost her life, falling into the Yellow Springs. It was Sword Sovereign Jiu Hua who had taken action and helped her escape that disaster.

She never thought that, after living a second life, she would, by accident, save Sword Sovereign Jiu Hua’s child.

“Elder sister, what are you thinking?”

Seeing Yu Zhao silent, Ji Han Zhou felt uneasy.

Yu Zhao glanced at him and said: “From now on, do not call me elder sister. Call me Senior Sister Yu.”

She felt the name elder sister was a bit too clingy and did not like it much.

Ji Han Zhou’s beautiful phoenix eyes turned wet. He pressed his thin lips together and stared stubbornly at Yu Zhao.

Yu Zhao calmly stared back at him.

His gaze soon turned guilty and started to dodge. In the end, he could not stand up to Yu Zhao’s powerful presence and called out in a pitiful voice: “Senior Sister Yu.”

Yu Zhao was satisfied and handed the grilled sea fish to Ji Han Zhou.

Ji Han Zhou happily took it. He took a small test bite, and his eyes lit up. It tasted unexpectedly good.

“So tasty! Senior Sister Yu, have you cooked before?”

Ji Han Zhou’s casual question made Yu Zhao remember a part of her past that she had forgotten.

Back then, her third senior brother, Su Ming, had complained once that the sect’s food was not good. Ten year old Yu Zhao had gone on purpose to ask Master Fu of the Five Grains Hall to teach her how to cook.

At that time, she was still small. She could not even reach the chopping board and had to stand on a stool to cut vegetables and cook.

She had to cultivate every day, so she could only squeeze out time to go to the Five Grains Hall to learn.

By the time she finally managed to make a full table of dishes on her own, full in color, smell, and taste, Su Ming had just broken through to Foundation Establishment and started fasting, no longer needing to eat.

Yu Zhao felt down for a while, but did not take it too seriously. In her spare time, she would make fine spirit food for her five senior brothers and her master.

At first, when they received the spirit food, they were all overjoyed and praised Yu Zhao for being so thoughtful.

But as time went on, they got used to it and no longer took it to heart.

Later, she followed Master Qing Yan to cultivate the Sea Moon Scripture, but her progress was slow. Fang Cheng Lang decided that she had spent her mind on side matters instead of improving herself. He strictly ordered that she was not allowed to go to the Five Grains Hall anymore and had to focus on cultivation.

So she slowly stopped cooking.

Thinking about the hardship of learning to cook back then, Yu Zhao felt deeply ashamed.

She really had not been thinking straight before, wasting so much time on something that cost effort but pleased no one.

She had worked so hard to make spirit food and had not even been willing to eat a bite herself, yet in the end people said she was wasting her will on playthings and losing her drive.

Yu Zhao shook her head.

She felt it was not worth it for her old self.

Luckily, fate had given her a chance to start over.

In this life, she would not waste her energy on people who did not matter.

While eating the grilled fish, Ji Han Zhou secretly glanced at Yu Zhao from the corner of his eye and thought: [What is Senior Sister Yu thinking? Why is she in low spirits one moment and full of fighting spirit the next? So strange.]

The next day.

Full of confidence, Yu Zhao took out her upgraded fishing rod, flicked the hook out with a smooth move, and sat waiting for a sea fish to bite.

Ji Han Zhou watched for a while and thought it looked interesting. He made a simple fishing rod of his own and sat down beside Yu Zhao.

The two of them sat from sunset to sunrise. During that time, not to mention the rod, even the fishing line did not move at all.

With a bitter face, Ji Han Zhou asked Yu Zhao: “Senior Sister Yu, are we still going to keep waiting?”

Yu Zhao’s face turned dark as she put away the fishing rod.

“The wind is bad today. We will come back tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

The third day.

“It must be that the bait is not attractive enough. Tomorrow we will change the bait.”

“Okay.”

The fourth day.

“I know now. It must be the hook. Tomorrow we will change to a different hook.”

“Okay.”

The fifth day.

“Junior Brother Ji, your injuries are almost healed. I think we should start thinking about how to leave this place.”

After being hit by failure several days in a row, Yu Zhao finally admitted she had no talent for fishing and gave up.