I Have a Sword

Ye Guan was stunned by Little Pagoda's words. What happened to Yi Nian?

Feeling like he didn't have the luxury of time to think about it, Ye Guan set the thought aside and disappeared into thin air.

When he reappeared, he was already in front of Yi Nian. He stood frozen as stared at the unfolding scene before him.

Yi Nian was surrounded by bizarre shapes of spacetime. It looked like the spacetime inside the tiny pagoda had been split open numerous times.

Yi Nian was immersed in it, gently manipulating the pieces of spacetime in front of her, allowing the fragmented spacetime pieces to rearrange themselves.

All of a sudden, Yi Nian's figure alternated between phases of being illusory and solid.

Yi Nian's manipulation of the fragmented spacetime pieces began to become more and more intense; the nearby spacetime trembled and became illusory.

Ye Guan was puzzled. "Master Pagoda, what is she doing?"

Little Pagoda anxiously exclaimed, "Quick, make her stop! I can't bear it anymore!"

Yi Nian suddenly stopped what she was doing. She looked up at him and grinned before taking a step forward. With this step, the spacetime behind her instantly returned to normal; the tremors across the ground started dying down as well.

Ye Guan asked, "Yi Nian, what were you doing just now?"

Yi Nian replied, "I was playing with time."

"Time?"

"Yes."

"Can you be more specific?"

"I was reorganizing time."

"Reorganizing time?"

"Don't you know how to do it?"

Ye Guan was at a loss for words. Seeing Ye Guan's stunned look, Yi Nian pursed her lips and smiled without saying anything.

Ye Guan humbly asked for guidance, "What does 'reorganizing time' mean?"

Yi Nian looked at him, blinking as if Ye Guan's innocent question had stumped her.

Seeing the innocent and puzzled expression on her face, Ye Guan suddenly felt awkward, as her face seemed to be saying, "It's so simple, but you don't know it?"

Yi Nian paced back and forth with her hands behind her back, frowning in contemplation.

Ye Guan was completely puzzled. What is this girl doing?

After a moment, Yi Nian stopped pacing and then looked at him, embarrassed. "I don't know how to explain it to you."

Ye Guan's expression froze, causing Little Pagoda to burst out into a peal of laughter.

Ye Guan remained silent. He had to admit that it was a bit painful, but he couldn't retort at all.

Yi Nian was truly extraordinary. She was the first person capable of manipulating the spacetime in here.

In other words, she had reached a high level of achievement when it came to time.

Ye Guan refused to believe that she was just a Divine Dao Realm cultivator.

Ye Guan smiled and asked, "Could you teach me how to do that?"

Yi Nian hesitated a little bit.

"No?" Ye Guan asked.

Yi Nian whispered, "I-I think you're a bit too weak… You can't withstand the power of time…"

Ye Guan's expression froze, causing Little Pagoda to laugh out loud once again.

It couldn't be helped, as it was incredibly rare for Ye Guan to become stumped.

Ye Guan asked, "How weak am I?"

Yi Nian looked at him quietly, not wanting to answer the question.

He smiled and reassured her, "Feel free to answer it honestly."

However, Yi Nian shook her head.

Ye Guan said, "Just tell me. I'm just curious. Don't worry, I won't be discouraged; I am very strong mentally, really…"

Yi Nian hesitated for a bit more before she said, "I can't even describe how weak you are.'

Ye Guan was speechless once again.

Little Pagoda burst out into a peal of boisterous laughter; he didn't even bother to restrain himself at all.

Ye Guan went silent as well. He wasn't angry; he was more stunned than angry.

He was as strong as a full divinity cultivator, but Yi Nian still called him weak, so... just how strong were the people from Yi Nian's civilization?

Ye Guan didn't think that she was lying. After all, she could reorganize the special spacetime here. He retracted his thoughts and then asked, "Did you come to this place just to find me?"

He decided to get straight to the point. Since she had no hostility toward him, she had to have come here for something else.

He was curious about why she had come here for him. Besides, she was clearly not from the Guanxuan Civilization and had just emerged from her civilization, so it wasn't strange that no one could recognize her at all.

Yi Nian blinked, remaining silent.

Ye Guan shook his head with a smile, feeling a bit helpless. He did not press any further. Instead, he took out a candied hawthorn and offered it to her.

Yi Nian looked at it, feeling a little puzzled.

Ye Guan said, "Try it."

Yi Nian hesitated for a while before she accepted it.

"Wait," Ye Guan said. He took away the candied hawthorn and peeled off the wrapper before handing it back to her, saying, "Now, try it."

Yi Nian smiled faintly. She accepted the candy and gave it a gentle lick. The candy had notes of sweet and sour; it was pretty tasty. Yi Nian gave it a few more licks.

Ye Guan asked, "Do you like it?"

"It's delicious!" Yi Nian nodded profusely and continued licking the candy. She seemed to be getting more and more addicted to the taste.

Ye Guan said seriously, "This is the most precious thing from our universe, called 'tanghulu.' It is formed from a legendary immortal fruit, which blooms once and bears fruit once every fifty thousand years."

"I think the entire vast expanse no longer has any tanghulu except for the one I gave you. They're just that rare."

Little Pagoda. "…"

Yi Nian blinked and asked, "It's… that precious?"

With that, she handed over the candied hawthorn back to Ye Guan.

Ye Guan fell silent. The reason he said that was not to deceive her but to test her. It seemed that she really did not know what a candied hawthorn was, and it became clear to Ye Guan that she was in the upper class society of her civilization.

Ye Guan shook his head slightly, deciding not to dwell on it. After all, she didn't seem to have any hostile intention toward him for the time being.

If she were to become hostile, then Ye Guan would just call for his aunt and let his aunt handle her.

His aunt was the ultimate solution to any problem, after all.

Yi Nian said, "You eat it."

Ye Guan smiled and passed it back to her, saying, "You've already taken a bite of it."

Yi Nian immediately felt a bit embarrassed and shy.

She took out a thin crystal fragment from her small bamboo waist bag and handed it over to Ye Guan.

The moment it appeared, Little Pagoda was shocked. "Wow! Wait, hurry up and tell her. Tell her to put that away!"

Yi Nian seemed to have realized something as well, and she swiftly waved her right hand. A mysterious energy enveloped the crystal fragment just then.

"What was that?" Ye Guan was deeply shocked. It didn't last that long, but he felt like he couldn't breathe earlier.

Yi Nian smiled and said, "Eternal."

"Eternal?" Ye Guan asked.

Yi Nian nodded and explained, "It can compress an entire universe into a primordial proton."

Ye Guan was utterly confused; he had no idea what she said just now.

Yi Nian offered it to him and said, "This is my gift to you."

Ye Guan shook his head, declining it.

"Actually, I lied to you earlier. That was just an ordinary tanghulu." With that, he took out a handful of candied hawthorn and said, "See, I have plenty."

Yi Nian blinked and smiled, but she didn't say anything in the end.

Ye Guan said, "I had no ill intentions. I just wanted to know whether you actually know what a tanghulu is or not. Clearly, you don't know anything about it."

Ye Guan placed the tanghulu and the crystal fragment in Yi Nian's hands. Then, he turned around and left the tiny pagoda.

Left all alone, Yi Nian stood quietly, staring at the tanghulu and the crystal fragment in her hands.

After a brief pondering, she smiled to herself. Only half of her face was visible, but she was still a breathtaking beauty.

***

Little Pagoda said, "Why didn't you take that crystal fragment? It's definitely only second to the Qingxuan Sword out of all the treasures you possess."

Ye Guan shook his head. "If I had taken it from her, then I'd have zero sense of decency."

He was greedy, but he still had his principles.

Little Pagoda said in a low voice, "That lady's background is definitely extraordinary."

Ye Guan nodded slightly. "Master Pagoda, why do you think she came to find me? For treasures? I don't think that's likely because whether it's the Qingxuan Sword or the spacetime within the pagoda, she only showed interest in them but never had any intention of taking them. If it's not for the treasures, then what?"

Little Pagoda said, "Don't worry about it too much. If she comes with good intentions, then befriend her. If she comes with bad intentions, then destroy her."

Ye Guan laughed heartily, agreeing that there was no need for him to overthink things. Moreover, Yi Nian had shown no malicious intent so far.

Right at that moment, the distant sea of clouds suddenly started to churn. In the next instant, the clouds parted, and a man dressed in black with a saber on his back slowly emerged. Upon seeing him, Ye Guan frowned.

The man in black looked at him expressionlessly and said, "We meet again."

Ye Guan glanced at him and laughed blandly, saying, "Brother, we have no grievances of grudges, why—"

The man in black interrupted, "I just don't like you, so…"

Swoosh!

Ye Guan suddenly disappeared.

The man in black's eyes narrowed as he swiftly drew his saber and slashed forward.

Swoosh!

Ye Guan's sword shattered the man in black's saber, and the sword pierced the man in black's forehead, immobilizing him.

Qingxuan Sword!

Ye Guan flicked his sleeves and said, "You better not interrupt me while I'm talking, do you understand?"