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Join the ServerAt the waist of the towering Purple Haze Peak, within a meticulously crafted stone house, two delicate young maidens lay nestled together on an exquisite bed.
Both maidens possessed refined beauty, yet the smaller of the two wore a bewildered expression on her pretty, delicate face.
Xiao Xixi’s daze wasn’t due to the lingering fear that the sharp blade of the ‘Soul Condensing Sword’ had almost grazed her smooth skin when she summoned it moments ago.
Instead, in the instant the keen edge descended, Xiao Xixi instinctively believed it would strike a certain organ that she, in her current form, no longer possessed.
Although Xiao Xixi had now transformed into a little fox maiden, the memory still sent a shiver down her spine.
Frankly, after eighteen years of living as she had, the thought of that blade — which had sliced through her skirt as easily as tofu — coming so perilously close to *that* area was deeply unsettling.
It had cast a profound psychological shadow over Xiao Xixi, making her already weary legs, soft from a day of walking, feel even weaker with fear.
Bai Luozhu silently admired the adorable, soft piece of fabric for a moment before noticing the little girl in her arms growing increasingly limp.
Observing her junior sister’s timid posture — face pale with fright, tiny hands clutching her small panties — Bai Luozhu finally snapped out of her ‘strawberry panties’ reverie.
She gently, albeit reluctantly, withdrew her hand from beneath the torn skirt.
Then, she placed one hand lightly on Xiao Xixi’s back, while the other stroked her junior sister’s soft white fur from top to bottom, offering comfort as she did so:
“Xixi, don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid!”
Upon hearing Bai Luozhu’s soothing words and feeling the gentle caresses on her back, Xiao Xixi gradually emerged from the lingering dread of nearly being cut.
Once fully conscious, listening to Bai Luozhu’s words, which sounded as if she were coaxing a small child, Xiao Xixi, as an adult fox maiden, felt a flush creep across her face.
To alleviate the awkwardness, after a moment of thought, Xiao Xixi focused on the scabbard still resting on her body. She considered it, then offered it to her senior sister.
“Luozhu, sh-sh-senior sister, thank you for accompanying me all day. This sword, it’s for you!”
Due to the embarrassment of being comforted, Xiao Xixi stammered slightly, once again speaking in her ‘Xixi-speak’.
Xiao Xixi had initially expected that after she offered the sword, her senior sister, Bai Luozhu, would react as described in the original text.
As a sword fanatic, she would surely be thrilled upon seeing the treasured sword, abandoning ‘protagonist Ye Chen’ to examine the ‘Soul Condensing Sword’, and subsequently practice sword intent relentlessly to enhance her strength.
However, to Xiao Xixi’s surprise, after she finished offering the sword, her senior sister, though seemingly excited, did not abandon her to examine the sword as the original text implied she would ‘abandon Ye Chen’.
Instead, she blinked her butterfly-wing-like almond eyes, gazing at Xiao Xixi with an expectant look.
Just as Xiao Xixi wondered what this meant, her senior sister smiled and spoke with a serious demeanor.
“Xixi, I’ve noticed your speech has regressed these past two days. Come, let your senior sister teach you again!”
Watching her senior sister lean in as she spoke, Xiao Xixi felt utterly bewildered. ‘Normally, shouldn’t she be focused on the sword?’
‘Why is her target still me?’
‘Senior sister, why aren’t you following the plot!!!’
****
A short while later,
The little fox maiden, having once again reviewed her speech and embraced the old to learn the new, lay softly on the bed.
Her slightly parted cherry lips bore a faint sheen, which, under the bright moonlight streaming through the window, glittered with a ‘bling-bling’ sparkle, making her look exceptionally lovely.
Meanwhile, Bai Luozhu, the ‘instructor’, sat properly by the bedside, admiring the adorable sight of her junior sister’s tiny chest gently rising and falling as she greedily drew in oxygen.
Looking at her junior sister’s slightly flushed pink cheeks, Bai Luozhu’s mind still buzzed with signals to ‘continue’.
However, to avoid frightening the little girl and to ensure her junior sister would also fall in love with this kind of ‘learning’ in the future, Bai Luozhu adhered to the principle of sustainable development.
Ultimately, she did not press further.
To control her surging desire to continue doting on her junior sister, Bai Luozhu redirected her attention to the scabbard she had just been handed and the sharp ‘Soul Condensing Sword’ lying on the ground.
Having been entirely preoccupied with her junior sister moments before, Bai Luozhu now settled down and realized that the ‘sword’ resting quietly on the ground was unexpectedly high-grade.
The sword’s body was pure silver-white. The hilt and the upper part of the blade were etched with a lifelike, magnificent phoenix, and within the phoenix’s mouth, a ‘soul body’ seemed to be coalescing.
Staring at this ‘soul body’, Bai Luozhu felt a profound sense of wanting to explore it, yet also a fear of becoming deeply entangled in its mysterious depths.
Just as Bai Luozhu picked up the sword and held it in her palm, preparing to examine it closely, a wave of energy erupted within the meticulously crafted stone house.
The source of these surging energy waves was none other than the ‘Soul Condensing Sword’ in Bai Luozhu’s hand.
Caught in the ripple of energy, Xiao Xixi, forcibly roused from her dazed state, looked up.
She then witnessed the ‘spiritual artifact recognizing its master’ scene, a famous moment from the original text.
She saw her senior sister, Bai Luozhu, at the center of the storm, her long dark hair dancing in the wind, her small frame showing no trace of retreat even before the colossal fiery phoenix.
Observing that resolute back, thin yet firmly shielding her, Xiao Xixi couldn’t help but exclaim:
‘As expected of the female protagonist. Hmm, so cool!’
‘And as expected of a novel world! Why didn’t you, sword spirit, appear when *I* held the sword?!’
****
A short while later, as the storm in the room gradually dissipated and the illusion of the fiery phoenix vanished without a trace, Xiao Xixi prepared to congratulate her senior sister.
She planned to then use her senior sister’s cultivation as an excuse to slip away, avoiding another instance of oxygen deprivation. But just as she hopped off the bed, a system notification sounded in her mind.
[Ding! Congratulations, Host, for altering the plot, causing character ‘Bai Luozhu’ to prematurely activate her exclusive weapon ‘Soul Condensing Sword’, greatly increasing her strength. Current realm: Crystallization Mid-stage (45)]
[Congratulations, Host, for completing a hidden quest! Reward: Rare item: Swiftstride Sneakers.]
Hearing the system notification, Xiao Xixi paused, slightly stunned.
After all, this ‘Soul Condensing Sword’ was destined to belong to Bai Luozhu according to the plot; she hadn’t expected to receive a reward just for giving it to her early.
However, Xiao Xixi’s attention quickly shifted to the number ’45’ appended to her senior sister’s realm description.
Upon careful recollection, Xiao Xixi remembered that when she completed her Master’s hidden quest, there had also been a number after her own realm.
Curious, Xiao Xixi raised this question and promptly received the system’s explanation.
“Host, you can view the number as combat power. (Generally, Qi Condensation (1-10), Spirit Condensing (10-20), Foundation Establishment (20-30), Crystallization (30-40)… and so on.)
“Because the Host found Bai Luozhu’s exclusive weapon for her ahead of time, allowing her to acclimate to it sooner, her combat power has greatly increased. Now, with her Crystallization cultivation, she can transcend realms to defeat some early and mid-stage Golden Core villains with weak foundations. The Host’s actions have indirectly boosted the overall strength of the Azure Phoenix Sect, hence this ‘hidden’ reward.”
Upon hearing the system’s well-reasoned reply, Xiao Xixi felt that her decision to give the sword was absolutely brilliant. Just as she was about to check the attributes of the hidden reward, ‘Swiftstride Sneakers’, she saw her senior sister, who had just been meditating, stand up.
With a remarkably valiant movement, Bai Luozhu sheathed the formidable sword. The next second, Xiao Xixi noticed that her senior sister’s usually somewhat cool face now bore two shallow dimples, which looked… surprisingly beautiful.
As Xiao Xixi was marveling internally, her beautiful senior sister, who had now moved closer, posed a question.
“Little Xixi, where did you get this ‘Soul Condensing Sword’ from?”
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