Fairy Swordmaster

"Please wait a minute!" The beauty shouted when she noticed Wu Tianyi walking away, her voice a bit desperate-sounding.

"The Azure Jade Lotus is really important to me," she continued. "Just name any price you want. Even if I cannot afford it right now, once I return to my Sect, the Heaven's Justice Sect, they will definitely compensate you for the Azure Jade Lotus. I swear upon my name, Jia Nanfeng, that I will not disappoint you!"

[Jia Nanfeng…?] Wu Tianyi suddenly stopped walking after hearing her name and turned around to look at her.

[No wonder why she looks so familiar! To think I'd meet the Fairy Swordmaster in such a place…]

In his previous life, or more precisely, in a few thousand years from now, the name Jia Nanfeng would resound throughout the world as one of the most talented and widely respected swordmasters to have ever existed during her era.

However, due to some unfortunate events, Jia Nanfeng perished shortly after reaching the Sovereign realm, only one step before becoming a real Immortal.

After a moment of pondering, Wu Tianyi said, "If you can bring me a thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit, I'll give you this Azure Jade Lotus."

"A thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit…?" Jia Nanfeng showed a troubled expression. While her Sect might be able to afford such a precious resource, the main problem remains to be able to find one in the first place, as thousand-year-old Spirit Fruits only appear once every few hundred years.

"Does it have to be a thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit? What if I gave you something else with equal value?" she asked.

Wu Tianyi in return asked her, "Then why do you need this Azure Jade Lotus? Why don't you just find something else with equal value?"

"..."

Jia Nanfeng turned quiet, as she understood the meaning behind his words.

"Fine…" Jia Nanfeng said.

"You have a thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit?" Wu Tianyi was slightly surprised, as he didn't expect her to really have one.

However, Jia Nanfeng shook her head a moment later and said, "While I don't have a thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit on me, I know where to get one. I managed to stumble upon one while I was trying to look for another Azure Jade Lotus since it was impossible for me to get the one already in your possession."

"With that being said, the thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit is guarded by a strange demonic beast at the 5th level Core Consolidation realm, so I will need your help to get it."

Wu Tianyi raised an eyebrow and said, "Let me get this straight. You want me to help you get the Spirit Fruit that is being guarded by a 'strange' demonic beast at the Core Consolidation, which you will use to trade for my Azure Jade Lotus? How is that a fair trade?"

"I know it seems unfair, but I cannot fight the demonic beast and get the Spirit Fruit at the same time. If you really want the Spirit Fruit, you'll help me. Of course, I will also compensate you for your efforts…"

Wu Tianyi turned silent to ponder.

[A 5th level Core Consolidation demonic beast, huh. Even with my Disappearing Steps, as long as I am limited by my Qi Condensation cultivation base, I won't be able to outrun a demonic beast at that level. However, if there is someone to distract the demonic beast while I get the Spirit Fruit, it might work out…]

Wu Tianyi then looked at Jia Nanfeng's beautiful face.

[Jia Nanfeng was known to be someone of honor and a righteous individual, so I don't have to really worry about her betraying me. Furthermore, she's a disciple from Heaven's Justice Sect, a place widely respected for their reliability and good ethics… It might also be convenient later to have the future Fairy Swordmaster owe me a favor.]

After a moment of silence, Jia Nanfeng asked with a worried face, "What do you say?"

Wu Tianyi nodded and said, "Very well. We will do it. However, in addition to the thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit, you will also owe me a favor for this."

Hearing his words, Jia Nanfeng smiled and said, "Thank you! I won't forget this debt!"

"Take me to the thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit."

Jia Nanfeng nodded. "Follow me."

A few moments later, Jia Nanfeng began leading him to the location.

Once they began moving, Jia Nanfeng was greatly shocked by Wu Tianyi's ability to follow her without lagging behind despite the difference in their cultivation base.

"What kind of movement technique is that? I have never seen such profound and beautiful movements before!" she couldn't help but ask.

"Don't you know that it's rude to ask another about their techniques?" Wu Tianyi nonchalantly said.

"I-I know, but…"

Jia Nanfeng herself has trained with many techniques that are considered the best in this world ever since she was young, yet none of them could compare to his movements, which greatly surprised her.

"How about this? I'll tell you about my movement techniques if you tell me yours…" she said.

Wu Tianyi looked at her with calm eyes and said, "The Fluttering Grace? There's nothing you know about it that I don't already know."

"W-Wait a moment… you know my movement technique? That's not possible!" Jia Nanfeng stopped moving and stared at him with wide eyes.

The Fluttering Grace is a secret technique that only Elite Disciples of Heaven's Justice Sect are able to learn, so it's simply impossible that an outsider would know about it.

"You don't believe me? Why don't I recite the entire technique for you then?" Wu Tianyi began to recite the entire technique perfectly with his eyes closed for her, almost like the technique was inside his head.

"I-Impossible…" Jia Nanfeng was in disbelief. "H-How? Where did you learn this technique?!"

"Where else besides Heaven's Justice Sect?" Wu Tianyi calmly said.

"What…?" Jia Nanfeng was profoundly puzzled at this moment, as her mind was unable to comprehend Wu Tianyi's words that made it sound as though he's an Elite Disciple from Heaven's Justice Sect.

After all, she knew every Elite Disciple within the Heaven's Justice Sect, yet Wu Tianyi was not one of them.

Of course, little did she know that Wu Tianyi was speaking of his previous life, where he had spent a few hundred years as a Disciple and a Sect Elder within the Heaven's Justice Sect.

"Hey, let's hurry up, I don't have all day." Wu Tianyi suddenly said to her, who stood there with a pondering expression for many moments.

"Oh… right…" Jia Nanfeng decided to think about Wu Tianyi's words later and began moving again.

Half an hour later, Jia Nanfeng stopped moving again.

"Look over there. The thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit is on that tree, but there's that demonic beast sleeping directly below it." Jia Nanfeng pointed at the large tree and the enormous figure sleeping underneath it many meters away with her fingers.

Wu Tianyi narrowed his eyes at the scene.

There was a black tree with red leaves many meters away, and on one of the branches, there was a fruit that resembled an apple but with a golden skin. Wu Tianyi could tell with a single glance that the fruit was the thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit.

However, directly below the Spirit Fruit, there was an enormous cat-like demonic beast with black and white fur sleeping soundly.

"That's a Yin Yang Heavenly Lion!" Wu Tianyi recognized this beast, even showing excitement on his face.

"You know this demonic beast?" Jia Nanfeng asked, as this is her first time seeing a demonic beast with such a terrorizing aura before.

Wu Tianyi nodded and explained, "The Yin Yang Heavenly Lion is an extremely rare demonic beast with two unique Beast Cores in its body, and it only appears once every ten thousand years."

"The Beast Cores in question is the Yin Core and the Yang Core. If a female consumes the Yin Core, their cultivation towards anything with the Yin Element will improve by two-folds. And if a man consumes the Yang Core, their cultivation speed will also be increased by two-folds for spiritual energy with the Yang Element."

"What?! Something this miraculous exists in this world?!" Jia Nanfeng covered her mouth from shock.

To put into simpler terms, if Wu Tianyi consumed the Yang Core, whenever he absorbs spiritual energy, whether it be through beasts cores or spiritual medicines, as long as it contains Yang Element, he will be able to cultivate twice as fast.

Furthermore, because it has almost no restrictions on the consumer, this kind of heaven-defying treasure would be able to make even an average Cultivator into a genius almost instantly!

Compared to the thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit and the Azure Jade Lotus, the Yin and Yang Core is not something that can be bought with money, as it is truly priceless!

"I have changed my mind. Not only are we going to get the thousand-year-old Spirit Fruit but we will also obtain the Yin and Yang Core!" He said to her.

"What?! Are you crazy? Even if we attack it together, there's no way that we would be able to defeat that demonic beast!" Jia Nanfeng quickly shook her head.

She had initially only planned to distract the Yin Yang Heavenly Lion while Wu Tianyi steals the Spirit Fruit before running away, but alas…

"Don't worry, I have a plan." Wu Tianyi said to her, who merely stared at him with a look of disbelief.