Naked Sword Art

The next day, Jiang Mei woke up feeling refreshed, but Xiao Fang was nowhere to be seen. The last thing she remembered was resting her head on his arm and cuddling into his warmth. Just thinking about it made her feel all bubbly inside. She eventually got dressed then went out looking for him, but soon after she left her room, she ran into Rong Shi.

"Junior greets Elder," Rong Shi said.

Jiang Mei felt a bit strange hearing Rong Shi refer to her as an elder, because it wasn't that long ago that Jiang Mei was an inner court disciple herself.

"Elder, have you seen Long Wang?"

"No, I haven't. Is there a reason why you're looking for him?"

"Mn," she nodded.

Rong Shi reached into her spatial pouch then took something out.

"Earlier this morning, I went to the Guild Requirement Center to pick these up. I wanted to surprise him, but I can't seem to find him anywhere," Rong Shi said.

"This is..."

What she held in her hands was a belt-like ribbon with a metal nameplate attached to it.

"Is this the name he chose for the guild?" Jiang Mei asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"It is," Rong Shi replied with a bit of an awkward smile.

The guild name carved into the metal plate was 'WuMing'. (Translated to 'Nameless')

"May I have one?" Jiang Mei asked.

"Ah, elder, are you really joining our guild?"

"Mn, I am Long Wang's master after all."

Rong Shi gave her a nameplate then Jiang Mei wrapped it around her waist.

It wasn't a requirement to have an elder supervising a guild, but having one made it a lot easier to send a guild report to the sect every week.

"How does it look?" Jiang Mei asked.

Rong Shi paused as she looked at her. Jiang Mei might've been an elder, but she looked much younger than any of the elders Rong Shi had seen in the inner court.

"It looks good," Rong Shi replied, making Jiang Mei smile too.

Jiang Mei had always been a very attractive girl, but she noticed that she was getting even more attractive every time she slept with Xiao Fang. In the past she didn't really think much about it, but recently it's been making her feel good.

"Good, let's go. I'll help you find Long Wang so you can give it to him yourself."

"Thank you, Elder."

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The two of them walked through the house, talking to each other as they searched each room.

"You were a Phoenix-Class disciple? But you look so young. With your level of talent you could've easily become a Dragon-Class disciple or even a Core court disciple. Why did you become an elder so early?" Rong Shi asked.

Jiang Mei hid her smile as she laughed quietly. Although her body cultivation was high, the reason she looked as young as she did was because she had been sleeping regularly with Xiao Fang.

"I'm not as young as you think. My body cultivation is at the Profound Body realm. As for my decision to become an elder, it's a bit too difficult for a body cultivator to get into the Dragon-Class, so I spirit cultivated for a few years, but reached a bottleneck at the 7th stage of the Spirit Core realm. The next best thing for me to do was to become an elder."

The truth was, Jiang Mei's spirit cultivation was crippled during an unfortunate accident. There was little to no hope that she could ever break through to the 8th stage of the Spirit Core realm, so it was then that she decided to become an elder of the sect.

Suddenly, they heard another girl speak, but neither of them were able to detect her presence until now.

"Ah, so that's how it is," Xiao Hei said.

"Ah, Fei Lin, you're awake," Jiang Mei said.

"Fei Lin, do you know where we could find Long Wang?" Rong Shi asked.

"I do. He's currently cultivating in seclusion. Is there a reason why you are looking for him?"

Rong Shi tossed Xiao Hei a guild nameplate, then Xiao Hei immediately understood.

"Follow me."

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Under the guild house was where the natural qi was the strongest, so Xiao Fang had been here cultivating his body and spirit during the night.

Although the natural qi was much stronger here, it wasn't enough to help him breakthrough to the 2nd stage of the Profound Spirit realm. So he spent the rest of the night practicing his [ Divine Sword ] and [ Spirit Perception ] techniques.

There were deep cavities and long cut marks on the walls. If anyone were here to see it they would think a major fight took place in this room. Amazingly, the walls were healing itself, slowly restoring any damage Xiao Fang caused it.

Xiao Fang had been tirelessly training his [ Divine Sword Cutting Air ] technique till he could no longer carry his sword. That's why for the past few hours he had just been sitting at the center of the room practicing his new [ Spirit Perception ] technique.

His eyes were bright blue.

He was only 100 meters underground, but that was more than enough to make it impossible for him to hear anything that was above him. However, when he used his [ Spirit Perception ] technique, he could now see right through the walls and see the qi inside of everyone in the guild house.

The longer he used it, the more it strained his eyes. To use this technique, it felt like he had to rely on a muscle he never used before, so it took some time to get used to it. From afar, he could only see their basic outlines, but when Xiao Hei brought them downstairs he could see their internal qi network up close.

'Hm, it seems like there's something wrong with Jiang Mei's internal network,' he thought.

Jiang Mei had told him that she couldn't cultivate her spirit before, but she told him it was because she had reached a bottleneck. Seeing it now, he could tell that it was more than just a simple bottleneck. Whatever it was, it was preventing her qi from completely circulating throughout her body, but it was subtle enough to not easily be detected.

Even if Xiao Fang knew what it was there was nothing he could do about it, so he just pushed it to the back of his mind for now.

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Jiang Mei and Rong Shi followed Xiao Hei into the basement, then walked through the tunnel till they reached the 2 large iron doors.

"I didn't know we had a basement like this," Rong Shi said.

"Is he in there?" Jiang Mei asked.

Before Xiao Hei could even get close to the door, Xiao Fang suddenly stepped out. His body was dripping with sweat and his natural aura seemed even more refined than before, but the moment he put his blindfold back on it suddenly disappeared.

"Long Wang, I brought this for you," Rong Shi said as she gave him 47 nameplates with the guild name on it.

"Thank you, Rong Shi," he said before putting one on.

He could tell that she wanted to ask about why he chose such a strange guild name, but he pretended not to know that she was curious.

"Ah right, I almost forgot. There's something I forgot to give you yesterday," Rong Shi then took out a strange looking flat black stone about the size of her palm.

"If you want to recruit new guild members in the future you don't need to bring them to the guild recruitment center, just use this," she said before giving it to Xiao Fang.

"How does it work?" Xiao Fang asked.

"Just ask the person you want to recruit to make their spirit mark light up then hover it over their arm. If you would like to remove someone from your guild, you will have to go to the Guild Requirement Center to do that," Rong Shi explained.

"I see. This will make things a lot easier for me."

Xiao Fang tried it on Xiao Hei first. After making her spirit mark light up, Xiao Fang hovered the flat black stone over her arm then the name 'Fei Lin' suddenly engraved itself onto it. He then did the same thing to Rong Shi and Jiang Mei. By the end of it there were 3 names on the flat black stone.

Rong Shi needed to get back to work so Xiao Fang thanked her again before she left.

"So, what do you plan to do today?" Jiang Mei asked.

"Fei Lin and I will be going to the Ancestral Training Grounds today, but I'm a bit sore from training, so I'll be taking a short break before we go."

"Ah... you're feeling sore from training," Jiang Mei said in disappointment.

Xiao Fang couldn't hide his smile because it was obvious why she was disappointed.

"If you aren't busy, there is something you can help me with," Xiao Fang said.

Xiao Hei suddenly jumped next to Xiao Fang then reached down his pants as she hugged his side. She knew what he wanted even before he said anything, so she was quick to act. All Jiang Mei could see was a bulge in Xiao Fang's pants which she assumed to be Xiao Hei's hand as it appeared to be stroking something long between his legs.

"W-What would you like me to do," Jiang Mei finally responded.

Xiao Fang opened the iron doors then took Xiao Hei inside before turning around say,

"Come in and find out."