Among the disciples of Taiyi Immortal Sect, Xie Xishu, the one who serves directly under the sect leader, is known as a weirdo.
Sword cultivators are always pushing themselves to the limit, but few take it as far as Xie Xishu.
She practices her sword while eating, gets up early to practice, spends the whole day practicing, and even sleeps with her sword in her arms.
Everyone says Xie Xishu is obsessed with the sword, but unfortunately, she has no talent. After more than ten years of practice, she still hasn't reached Foundation Establishment.
Unfortunately, she just has no talent.
In everyone's eyes, Xie Xishu is a weirdo who cares only about the sword and knows nothing of love.
But one day, this weirdo went and fell in love.
Xie Xishu fell for a gentle young man from the neighboring sect, who had risen to fame at the sect tournament. Later, she even endured three strikes of heavenly punishment for him, destroying half her cultivation foundation and nearly losing her life.
Xie Xishu had no regrets.
But when her life-bound sword shattered because of him, Xie Xishu went mad.
Xie Xishu said the sword was her life.
Jiang Luobai couldn't understand.
He couldn't understand how a genius sword cultivator whose path had always been smooth could lose to such an unremarkable, gentle young man.
He couldn't understand why a genius sword cultivator from Wujian Sect would be moved by a little weirdo with such an ordinary level of cultivation.
And he couldn't understand how, after being gravely wounded, he had "become" a sword and ended up by that little weirdo's side.
And that little weirdo said he was her life.
Jiang Luobai only remembered that, on a late-spring day after the rain had stopped and the crabapple blossoms had fallen, he broke through three mountain gates and fought his way to the little weirdo's side, giving everything he had.
The little weirdo was gaunt and frail, lying in bed with a broken sword in her arms and a red bell clenched in her palm.
That was "his" red bell.
For that bell, he would give up a wisp of his soul, his life, and his heart over the years to come.
No one thought much of Xie Xishu. They said that, although her Dao heart was firm, she simply had no talent.
Then, for the sake of an unremarkable, gentle young man, she even abandoned the foundation she relied on to cultivate.
Could someone like that become a Sword Immortal?
What a joke.
But Jiang Luobai believed his little sword fanatic could do it.
And so, when that gleaming sword cleaved through the barrier between heaven and earth, its cry of injustice resounded throughout the Nine Provinces and Eight Desolations.
Xie Xishu finally became a Sword Immortal.
***Little Scene***
Everyone said Xie Xishu had only average talent, but one day, her life-bound sword suddenly awakened its spirit.
Xie Xishu always thought it was because she had tended to her sword day and night. But when she accidentally caught a glimpse of the sword spirit's appearance, she thought, Uh, why does it look familiar?
One day, when she finally realized that Jiang Luobai, the noisy guy from the neighboring sect, hadn't come to bother her in ages, she was startled by a thought:
Her sword spirit looked a lot like Jiang Luobai.
A sword cultivator's awakened sword spirit usually takes the shape of what its master loves most.
?
Wait, did she like Jiang Luobai?
If she really hated Jiang Luobai, could her sword spirit possibly look like him?!
The next day, Jiang Luobai watched Xie Xishu carry him into the library and read, utterly engrossed, a book titled One Hundred Years of Loving and Fighting with My Archenemy Before We Got Married. He fell silent...
Then he saw the mountain of romance novels beside the red-ribboned girl's feet. The top one was titled How to Make Your Archenemy Unable to Resist You. His eyes widened in shock.
Wait, could this little weirdo actually like him?
But... how did that seem... not entirely unacceptable?
#Damn it, he actually fell for the little weirdo. This is going to be the death of him#
#Anyone who dares bully Xie Xishu will have to fight me#
#Oh no, how did a cultivator turn into a sword spirit? Why can't he turn back? Somebody help#
#He's not his wife's sword anymore. What if she never wants him again? Sob#
"Hey, Jiang Luobai, is there someone you like?" The girl with the red ribbons in her hair edged closer cautiously.
?
"What about me? Would I do?"
!
The girl's eyes sparkled, like two crescent moons reflected in them.
She said that the person in her eyes was him.
It had always been him.
Note: The leads are exclusively devoted to each other throughout, and have never loved anyone else.
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