This, is My Sword

Gu Qianqian, the third daughter of the lord of Qizhou City, was just 16 years old this year. As the genius who were the fastest at progress of the Martial Arts in the 50-year history of Qizhou City, she'd already been a warrior at the level of the Transforming Force in the Undistinguishment and was hopeful to promote to the level nine of the Mystery before the age of 18.

Wei Gaoyuan, wearing a worn gray, from afar looked like an underage grizzly which was the ideal hunting object in Gu Qianqian's eyes. Before her servants reacted, she rushed to Wei Gaoyuan like a blast of wind.

Fortunately, her eyes were not bad. When rushing to the half way, she found that it was actually an man. She kept her foot in time and shouted at Wei Gaoyuan with a look of disappointment, "Hey! Who are you? Why are you here?"

Gu Qianqian's talking attitude seemed very rude, especially for a girl, but there indeed were few people in this district who dare to teach the daughter of the city lord how to act in a good manner.

As a boy long-term struggling at the bottom of society, Wei Gaoyuan had long been accustomed to such cold words. He just cared little about it," I'm a student of the East Mountain Sword club in east of the city, just walking around."

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he did not mention that he was practicing the Internal Qi just now.

"You are a student of the East Mountain Sword club?" Gu Qianqian's eyes lit up immediately. "I heard that the East Mountain Sword club is pretty strict with the enrolment and only gets a few students while all of them are talented in the Martial Arts and were expected to be the warriors at stage of the Mystery. I just wonder what's your ranking among the students in the club? "

It truely beat Wei Gaoyuan, because he had never fought or competed on the training field with other students in the club, let alone any tests or trials. How could he tell his ranking in the club?

So he replied, "I've got no ranking in the club."

"How can you get no ranking?" Gu Qianqian's big eyes widened with suspicion, "how about your last test or trial?"

"I've never participated in any tests or trials since I got into the club three years ago," Wei Gaoyuan wasn't telling a lie.

"Never?" Gu Qianqian got stunned slightly, then pouted. "Ghosts will believe you only! Well, let me have a try, take this!" she did not wait for Wei Gaoyuan to respond and gave him a fast kick.

At this time, two men and one woman not far behind Gu Qianqian were approaching quickly.

Wei Gaoyuan moved his step to evade her sudden kick and meanwhile flashed fast a few steps away from her.

If facing a man, he did not mind to test the strength of the opponent and to measure what he'd learnt these years. However it was a girl on the opposite side.

But the girl seemed not to take his kindness, rushing fast to catch up and slap his chest.

The two men and one woman had already arrived. Seeing the situation, they hurried to flank and attack Wei Gaoyuan at the same time, " You wild boy dare to harm your ladyship?! "

Wei Gaoyuan knew that the three men had misunderstood him, so jumped far away from the scene. Then Gu Qianqian had said before Wei Gaoyuan intended to explain, "You three, back off! I just wanna compete with him in the Martial Arts!"

" How can such a coward be worthy to compete with your ladyship. If you want to teach this guy a lesson just let me do it for you so as not to get your hand stained," seeing Wei Gaoyuan dressed poorly, one teenager in the brocade robe among the three men was flattering Gu Qianqian.

Gu Qianqian raised her eyebrows and said coldly, "Who do you think you are to tell me how to do, just go aside yourself!"

Failed to please Gu Qianqian, the teenager had to go aside, staring at Wei Gaoyuan with hatred.

Wei Gaoyuan stood very still, realizing that Gu Qianqian had no sign of stopping, "Do you really want to compete with me in the Martial Arts?"

"Don't worry about it, just competition without hurting each other," Gu Qianqian nodded slightly, with two hands prepared quietly to start next attack.

Hearing her requirment, Wei Gaoyuan thought it was indeed quite normal and usual for Martial Artists regardless of gender to compete with each other without hurting, which did no harm for them two.Thus, he nodded slightly, "Okay. Please take care! "

Having got ready to next move, Gu Qianqian stepped out fast and shot one palm of hers at Wei Gaoyuan, "Take this!"

As the patterns from her ancestral Martial Arts, the tricks of palm-strike she was using now was called " the Willows Dancing in Winds" acted as dazzlingly as the dancing and flying of the willows in winds.

(the tricks of palm-strike: Zhangfa in Chinese, refers to one category of the martial Arts to attack mainly by the movements of martial artists' palms, similarly, the tricks of fist-strike, the tricks of the kick-strike, which are all the unarmed tricks and different from the patterns of weapons)

However, Wei Gaoyuan was not focused on the dazzling movement of her palms at all. He just kicked quickly at her middle of the waist, and just one seemingly simple kick, Gu Qianqian was kicked over to the ground.

"Oh, no!"

"Jesus!"

"Stop!"

The three men on the side roared at the same time, pulling out their swords and scimitar and staring at Wei Gaoyuan with imposing manner. They would rush over together just as soon as Guqianqian gave her order.

"Stop!" Gu Qianqian climbed up, raising his hand and screaming, "What are you guys doing?"

"He... this pariah dares to hurt your ladyship! Please allow me to take him down for you! " said the teenager in the brocade robe.

"We are competing rather than fighting, am I clear? Go back! None of you is allowed to act!" Gu Qianqian showed an unpleasant look, and the three men had to follow her order to go aside.

She rubbed her painful waist slightly and turned to Wei Gaoyuan, "The students of the East Mountain Sword club really deserve their reputation. Just a simple kick has broken my tricks of palm-strike."

" You've put up an impressive fight!" Wei Gaoyuan greeted with one fist in the other hand.

The teenager in brocade robe said coldly, "But for your sneak attack, you could not have won your ladyship. Your ladyship's so kind and generous that she doesn't wanna hurt your; If she used her sword, you would have died thousands of times!"

This flattering just reminded Gu Qianqian, she stared at Wei Gaoyuan and asked, "You appear to be good at unarmed tricks?"

Wei Gaoyuan thought for a moment and replied, "I am good at swordsmanship!"

In fact, apart from one set of introductory unarmed tricks from the club, only one pattern in swordsmanship he could use which was learnt from the scroll of the woman in white, the first one pattern of those eight patterns in the scroll. For the past three years he'd been practicing the only one pattern in swordsmanship.

Hearing this, Gu Qianqian had got interest again about the next competition in her mind.

She'd just got lost in the competition of unarmed tricks, thinking how to win back her face in the patterns of weapons. As a result, Wei Gaoyuan's reply was just her answer.

However, she saw no weapon with Wei Gaoyuan except the belt on his waist, "Then where is your sword?"

"So, you wanna compete in swordsmanship?" Wei Gaoyuan asked.

Gu Qianqian nodded, "If you've got no sword at hand, I don't mind lending you one."

She was kind of curious and puzzled about this swordsboy without a sword. Since the first day she learned the swordsmanship, she'd been told to develop the habit of never leaving her sword. Even if she was bathing, the sword must be placed within her reach.

The Sword was the unbreakable part of the swordsman's soul.

Wei Gaoyuan had never got a real sword. Actually, he did make a wooden sword once by himself, which was cut with a big branch. Thus, it looked not perfect even with a bit odd shape.

"Thanks…" he went under the tree not far from him, dug down into the soil, then took out the wooden sword he had buried.

"This, is my sword!"