Crushed Hopes

Ye Ling looked at the wry smile on Wu Long's face with wide eyes, unable to believe that this man has even managed to stretch his hands to one of the most powerful solitary cultivators in the Seven Boundless Worlds.

"D-did you learn Sword from her?

She then gasped as she suddenly understood that he always said that he learned his sword from three people, the first of whom was Wu Mengqi, the second herself, and the third must have been someone that he met after.

"Un, I became her 7th unofficial disciple, so please take care of me senior-apprentice sister. Though the world still only knows of the Five Sacred Swords as her disciples of course"

He nodded and she smiled at being called by that title.

"I only learned from her when I was very little you know, I didn't think she would even remember teaching me, let alone recognize me as a disciple"

"On the contrary, it was her who told me that I was her 7th disciple"