Little Tips for Sword Master Maintenance

[The Sword Master took out a small booklet from his storage belt.]

["The world thinks that my eternal youth, despite my long life, is due to taking Beauty Pills. But that's not the case. I just have a good way of maintaining my appearance."]

[Saying that, the Sword Master handed the booklet to you.]

["This contains all the maintenance methods I've discovered and summarized over the years, including cultivation techniques, medicinal baths, acupuncture, and so on. There are ninety-nine exclusive secret recipes in total. Take it and start maintaining yourself from today. When you're in your seventies or eighties, you'll still have the appearance of a thirty or forty-year-old."]

[Your mouth twitched.]

[I say, Sword Master, why don't you just take a Beauty Pill? Stop doing this beauty blogger job, okay?]

[Besides, I have the 'Ageless Male God' trait. Why would I need something so complicated?]

[Although you thought so in your heart, you still took it on the surface and thanked him repeatedly.]

["Thank you so much. I really need this."]

[You thought this was over, but the Sword Master took out another manual.]

[Don't tell me it's more health tips?]

["These are some of my insights and experiences from comprehending the Sword Dao over the years. Since you are a disciple of my Sword Sect, I hope you won't give up on the Sword Dao. Comprehending with these insights will definitely be of great benefit to you."]

[Sword Dao insights!]

[And written by the number one sword master in the world, the Sword Master!]

[This is indeed a good thing, practically invaluable.]

[If you took it to the Limitless Sword Sect for auction, those die-hard fans of the Sword Master would definitely bid a sky-high price for it!]

[But you obviously wouldn't do that. It would break the Sword Master's heart too much.]

["Thank you, Sword Master! This junior will definitely work hard to comprehend the Sword Dao and not disappoint your expectations!"]

[The Sword Master patted your shoulder.]

["It's a pity that you have low-grade bone structure. Being able to reach the Golden Body Realm is already a miracle.

There are almost no means in this world that can help you improve much further.

If you can grasp a few tenths of my Sword Dao, even if your realm is not high, holding a three-foot sword, you will still have the bearing of a king."]

[The Sword Master's care for you is because you are the 'Demon Race Nemesis'. He hopes you can become stronger, which will be of great use to the human race in resisting the demon race.]

[Actually, you wanted to say: Your sect's Sword Heart Immortal Peach is still very useful to me.]

[But you can't say it right now. The timing isn't right. If you say it, the Sword Master won't give it to you, and it will leave him with a bad impression of your greed.]

[Regarding the fact that the demon race will launch an attack on the Five Regions when you are seventy-five years old, you didn't tell the Sword Master either.]

[Right now, it's too far away from that point in time.]

[Making various factions believe that you can foresee the future will waste a lot of your energy and time.]

[Even if the Sword Master believed it, the Sword Sect alone wouldn't be able to defend against it.]

[Setting aside this issue, assuming everyone believes it.]

[There wouldn't be many factions willing to expend massive resources and manpower starting now to build a defense line for a crisis forty-odd years in the future.]

[Forty-five years is two generations for mortals.]

[The current people in power might not even live to see that time. Who cares about the monstrous flood after they die?]

[Instead of this, it's better to give a warning in a few years. By then, there might already be clues, and defensive preparations will be easier to deploy.]

[Thirteenth year, thirty-one years old.]

[Drawing trait...]

[Drawing successful!]

['Galloping Steed' (Green Rare): Your riding skills are maxed out. You can ride any mount. When you are on a mount, the mount will gain an invigorating effect, increasing its stamina, reducing fatigue, and boosting its speed.]

[Do you want to adjust the trait?]

[Yes/No]

"I can swap this one. I'll be traveling all over the place during this period in the simulation. Traveling faster will save time."

Outside the simulation, Chen Yi operated swiftly.

[You replaced 'Tomato Senior User' with 'Galloping Steed'.]

["I ride a black horse~ traveling the Central Plains~ I change into plain clothes~ returning to the Central Plains~~"]

[You rode Black Wind back to the Central Plains, singing as you went, feeling carefree.]

[Da Chun has now transformed into an artifact spirit, merging into the Nine Provinces Cauldron, and has been taken into your body.]

[With the blessing of the new trait, your travel speed has indeed increased significantly.]

[It's just that Black Wind is exhausted.]

[But he works hard without complaint, only fearing he can't contribute more to you.]

[The first stop upon returning to the Central Plains is the Red Heart Sect.]

[Next year, the demon race ancestor, Azure Dragon, will personally take action and wipe out the Red Heart Sect.]

[This sect is involved with the Holy Fire Cult, which carried out the village massacre case, and is also suspected of having built an array for alien teleportation in that ancient pagoda.]

[Inexplicably, the Red Heart Sect seems to be a place where multiple karmic threads intersect.]

[Now that your strength far exceeds anyone in the Red Heart Sect, you are prepared to gather more useful intelligence.]

[The Red Heart Sect is in Qingzhou, and your hometown, Baiyun County, is also in Qingzhou. You decided to first return to Baiyun County Town to visit your third sister's family.]

[It's been over ten years since you last parted. You wonder how your third sister's family is doing.]

[After entering the city, you arrived at the familiar courtyard, only to find it empty.]

[However, there were no seals this time.]

[After asking the neighbors, you learned that your third sister's family had moved.]

[Because Shen Qingshan was promoted and is now a Chief Banner in the Demon Slaying Division of Baling Commandery City, his official rank is not low.]

[Naturally, your third sister's family has moved to the commandery city to settle down.]

["I guess the higher-ups credited my brother-in-law for the official-demon collusion case back then since I didn't step forward to claim the credit."]

[Shen Qingshan is not someone who covets credit, but Zhang Miao is even less so.]

[Zhang Miao didn't want to delve into who killed the demon or who exposed the demon case behind the scenes, but someone had to 'take the blame'.]

[You told Shen Qingshan not to mention you, and Shen Qingshan naturally kept his mouth shut.]

[The two stared at each other, tacitly agreeing to attribute the credit to Shen Qingshan.]

[With the credit, a promotion was only natural.]

[It's perfect that no one is living in your third sister's house. You can stay here temporarily and wait for the people from the Starry Sky Shen Family to arrive.]

[Fourteenth year, thirty-two years old.]

[You replaced 'Galloping Steed' with 'Tomato Senior User'.]

[You arrived at the Red Heart Sect.]

[The Red Heart Sect is a second-rate sect, meaning the highest realm martial artist in the sect is only at the Golden Body Realm.]

[You can basically come and go as you please.]

[The only trouble is the mountain-protecting grand array and warning arrays outside the mountain gate.]

[But, who are you again?]

[A patrolman of the Red Heart Sect, a professional security guard who has patrolled the Red Heart Sect for ten years!]

[You know the ins and outs of these arrays in the Red Heart Sect like the back of your hand, and you directly entered through the back door.]

[You familiarly arrived near the ancient pagoda and lay in wait.]

[This is where the Red Heart Sect's ancestor is in seclusion.]

[You are waiting for him here.]

[Before long, you waited until this first-generation ancestor and first-generation sect master of the Red Heart Sect appeared.]

["Without my orders, no one is allowed to come in and disturb my peaceful cultivation, understand?"]

["Yes!"]

[The Red Heart Sect Master walked into the ancient pagoda alone.]

[As soon as he entered, he was covered by an overturned cauldron.]

[He was caught completely off guard.]

[He tried to fight back, unleashing a flurry of furious punches inside the cauldron, only to end up fracturing his own fingers.]

["Who are you, and why have you ambushed me here?!"]