Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Now, Get Out

Ye Zhao Zhao stared at Long Yan in disbelief.

Although, after learning he was a Defective Sword Spirit, she had felt some disgust, she still could not throw him away for the sake of face.

She had just suffered to drive out the turbid qi for him, and in the next breath he turned to Li Shuang and said those things.

Her blood surged and she nearly lost her mind.

[This Sword Spirit! What even is he!] She lunged forward and clawed at Long Yan.

Long Yan had already reached Reversion to Void. She instinctively used spiritual power; his Spirit Body was hurt by it, and thin red lines crawled across it.

Ye Zhao Zhao’s face twisted as she shouted: “Long Yan, do you even have a conscience? I just expelled the turbid qi for you, and now you betray me?”

Sheng Yuan and Shen Yue grabbed her tight. Sheng Yuan said: “Junior Sister, calm down,” as water attribute spiritual power circled once through her body; only then did her expression slowly settle.

Being scratched made Long Yan’s Spirit Body even weaker, but her outburst was part of his plan. He said nothing and only looked at Li Shuang with a pitiful gaze. [I have to gamble that she will soften.]

Although he was a Defective Sword Spirit, at least he was awake now. Li Shuang had raised him before; if they started over, she could do it again. The Black Abyss Sword’s Sword Spirit still had not awakened. [Choose the known me over an unknown spirit.] This time he was going all in.

He understood Ye Zhao Zhao. Today she had been unwilling and nearly forced to clear his turbid qi. Moments ago he had clearly seen a flash of hatred in her eyes. In public she could endure. In private? They had signed a Master-Servant Contract. With just a thought, the contract’s power could make his life worse than death. [This is my last chance to return to Li Shuang.]

Back then, Li Shuang and Ye Zhao Zhao had swapped swords; swapping back now would be no big deal. He could tell Ye Zhao Zhao already regretted choosing him. Since that was the case, it was better to go back sooner.

If Li Shuang spoke up now, with everyone watching, Ye Zhao Zhao might very well lift the Master-Servant Contract herself and exchange him back. Thinking this, he looked at Li Shuang with eyes full of emotion, as if saying he had repented for the past and begging her for one more chance.

Ye Zhao Zhao gritted her teeth and glared at Li Shuang: “Li Shuang, are you happy now? You and Long Yan, were you acting from start to finish to trick me?”

Suspicion rose in her heart. Long Yan had said he controlled the Dragon Roar Sword himself and stabbed Li Shuang’s dantian. Was the Supreme Emotionless Art really so good that it could even fix a dantian? And if the first try failed, why not a second or third? He claimed he passed out after one try. [Thinking about it now, was that just a lie? Are the two of them playing me?]

On today’s stage, did Long Yan also lose on purpose? Did they put on a show just to leave her meridians damaged? Now that their act was over, did Li Shuang want to switch the swords back?

Ye Zhao Zhao bit her lower lip hard and shrilled: “Li Shuang, back at the Scripture Pavilion we agreed to exchange swords and never regret it. If you want to swap back now, no way.”

Even if Long Yan was a Defective Sword Spirit, the Dragon Roar Sword was still a solid Third Tier sword, and Long Yan could still offer some help. What about the Black Abyss? It was trash among trash. With a Sword Spirit that could not wake, what use did she have for it? Long Yan had stabbed her in the back; did he still want to leave without paying the price? What a joke.

Li Shuang stayed calm. She glanced at the pitiful Long Yan, then at the furious, twisted Ye Zhao Zhao, and said: “Ye Zhao Zhao, I said it before. Once unfaithful, never again. I do not go back on my word. Whatever is between you and Long Yan, settle it yourselves. Take him and leave at once. Do not disturb Emotionless Peak.”

Long Yan’s face changed at once. He had already humbled himself, yet Li Shuang still did not want him. He stared at her in disbelief and asked: “You do not want me? Am I not even as good as that Black Abyss?”

Ye Zhao Zhao laughed with open mockery and said: “She already said she will not regret it. What else do you need to ask?”

Long Yan could not help speaking fast: “We used to work so well together. I need you, and you need me. Yes, there was a small misunderstanding, but after so many years of working together, even the biggest one can pass. You worked so hard to raise the Dragon Roar Sword to Fourth Tier. Now that it has dropped a rank, do you not want to raise it again? That is your years of effort,” and he looked at the Black Abyss Sword at her waist and added: “And that Black Abyss Sword is only a First Tier sword. Its Sword Spirit is a useless spirit that cannot wake. If you choose it, it will only hold you back.”

In the Black Abyss’s Sword Spirit Space, the sleeping Sword Spirit seemed to hear him. Her Spirit Body trembled. The tiny Sword Spirit grew anxious. [I am not a useless spirit that cannot wake. I will be useful. I will be strong. And I will never, ever betray Li Shuang.]

Her Spirit Body already had simple features. Her tightly closed eyelids trembled over and over, yet she still could not fully open them.

Li Shuang let out a cold laugh, drew her sword in a flash, and pointed straight at Long Yan. He still had many things he wanted to say, but when the Black Abyss thrust at him, the icy aura stabbed forward and his words stuck in his throat.

Li Shuang said in an even, cold voice: “Long Yan, I am not you. I will never abandon a partner. Back then, many people said you were a Defective Sword Spirit and urged me to give you up, but I did not. I chose to use all my strength to awaken you. Later you could grow turbid qi at any time and often could not help in battle, but I still did not give you up. When you were weak and they said you might never grow, I refused to believe it. I raised you step by step and proved them all wrong.”

Long Yan’s face turned a shade paler. [She never gives up on a partner just because they are weak. No one knows that better than me.]

Li Shuang’s eyes went cold as she said: “And now, my partner is Black Abyss. I do not like anyone speaking about my partner that way. If there is a next time, we settle it on the stage.” She slashed; sword light flashed past Long Yan’s side. Behind him, a stone boulder turned at once into powder.

Li Shuang said with crisp finality: “Now, get out.”