I Have Countless Past-life Identities-Chapter 69 - 59: Ruan Xiuxiu’s Feelings Exposed, Xu Nian: You Two Are Quite the Match

Chapter 69: Chapter 59: Ruan Xiuxiu’s Feelings Exposed, Xu Nian: You Two Are Quite the Match

[Wutong Prefecture Official Stepping into Xie Mansion, the Guardian’s Quartet Awaits!]

[After practicing martial arts for two years and entering the Innate Realm, one year after winning the ’Wutong Leader,’ you finally received an official appointment, assuming the role of Great Zhao Seventh-Grade ’Black Mountain Guardian!’]

[Henceforth, wearing a light crimson robe, embellished with mandarin duck patterns, wielding the Sword of Righteousness, and bearing the Guardian Order, you truly established a foundation in this grand world.]

[Because your cultivation is only at the second step, first stage ’Vajra Realm,’ you are still a long way from normally assuming the Guardian’s third stage ’Carefree Realm.’]

[Therefore, your maternal grandfather, Xie Qiaoxuan, was concerned about whether you can wield authority and cultivate smoothly after assuming the position.]

[Thus, he assigned the Xie Family’s hidden servant, a mighty expert loyal only to him, Xie Qiaoke, Elder Xie, to serve under your command!]

[Meanwhile, providing you with four carriages, ten taels of True Gold, ten household servants, and eight maids, to take care of the Guardian Mansion and handle daily affairs, wherever you go, all led by the carriages and horses, bearing the ’Wutong Xie Clan’ banner, indicating to others that even as a Guardian in Wutong Prefecture, you have backing!]

[In a grand city, divided into the Inner City District and Outer City District, the Inner City normally has two eighth-grade chief officials, the ’Commander of the Military Department’ and the ’Demon Suppression Bureau Chief.’]

[The Commander of the Military Department commands three hundred military soldiers, in charge of ’guarding the great city,’ and the Demon Suppression Bureau Chief leads the city’s demon hunter patrol with responsibilities to slay demons.]

[As expected, the Demon Suppression Bureau Chief in Black Mountain City is indeed that ’decisive’ Senior Sister Yunluan, Ruan Xiuxiu.]

[A young girl just twenty, with high ponytail, sword at her waist, donned in a blue robe of the Demon Hunting Director’s Robe, upon seeing your convoy from Xie Mansion heading grandly towards Black Mountain City, impolitely, she leapt and took a seat on your left side.]

["Lord Guardian of Black Mountain, I am the Demon Suppression Bureau Chief, Ruan Xiuxiu. Working together in the future, I kindly ask for your guidance." The girl confidently reached out her hand with a gentle smile in the jolting carriage.]

["Certainly, it’s what I wish for; you need not ask." You gently held Ruan Xiuxiu’s soft hand, and both exchanged smiles.]

[The Xie Mansion’s convoy galloped powerfully, heading toward the Black Mountain...]

[But before going there, you made a special visit to the ’Zither Sword Pavilion.’]

[Only to find, the former treasure ground ’Green Blood Red Heart Pool’ had vanished, replaced by fields of sunflowers encircling the ’Jiaowei Pool.’]

[The prestigious family has declined.]

[Tantai Yao and Tantai Ye were nowhere to be seen; only a woman in a pale yellow dress remained, silently guarding the legacy, waiting for an indefinite end.]

...

Zither Sword Pavilion.

Mountains full of blooming sunflowers.

Since the ’Green Blood Red Heart Pool’ was destroyed, the Old Pavilion Master Shangguan Cheng passed away, the legacy was mostly lost, now left of those willing to return, hardly anyone remains.

Back then, Song Chai Xin, in a coma, was brought back to Wutong Prefecture by Xie Qiaoxuan.

He knows nothing about the subsequent events of the Zither Sword Pavilion.

Initially thinking, Tantai Yao was a ’Carefree Realm’ expert at the second step peak.

Despite losing an arm in the calamity of Gua Hua and being gravely injured, he was still considered a top-tier combat power after recovery.

If he could be invited to emerge again, to join us in Black Mountain City, establish a ’Zither Sword Arts Hall’ in the Inner City, it would be an extremely beneficial move.

On one hand, under my authority as a seventh-grade Guardian, it could proliferate the Zither Sword Pavilion’s branches and nurture disciples.

On the other, Tantai Yao was among my few allies as a half-demon body, an elder acquaintance.

Having his assistance would certainly add a valuable ally.

Unfortunately, Song Chai Xin believed his plan was good.

But upon arriving at the Zither Sword Pavilion,

he realized,

he had long since taken his sword and journeyed far, heading to Tongye State adjacent to Baoping State, seeking the third-step ’Primordial Pill’ opportunity.

In the pavilion on the mountainside.

Xu Nian, dressed in plain clothes, brewing tea, the current Pavilion Master, personally hosted the long-traveled Song Chai Xin and Ruan Xiuxiu.

While brewing tea, she responded to Song Chai Xin’s inquiries upon arrival:

"The day the Flood Dragon wreaked havoc, you severed a portion of its tail, exhausting yourself, and afterward, several experts from Wutong Prefecture, along with your maternal grandfather, arrived eventually and took you away."

"Master, due to successive blows, was nearly collapsing into despair, wishing to end his miserable life. I reprimanded him, and managed to encourage him back, igniting the desire to ’climb’ once again within his heart."

"In his youth, he was praised by powerful forces in Tongye State who commented his constitution was outstanding and possessed a ’Sword Gallbladder and Zither Heart.’ However, being young and impetuous, he believed he could become famous throughout the state within the Zither Sword Pavilion, but reality thoroughly taught him a harsh lesson,"

"Splash..."

Xu Nian lifted the tea, bent forward, and poured into the cup in front of Song Chai Xin,

as well as the cup of the newcomer, Ruan Xiuxiu, seated properly, but her gaze wandered curiously on the blooming sunflowers.

Meanwhile, feeling somewhat sentimental:

"Life’s journey is filled with many diverging paths, each choice leading to entirely different outcomes."

"Perhaps back then, had he chosen to follow that great power to Tongye State, he would have been a famous ’Great Sword Hero’ of the third step now."

"There, at least he wouldn’t encounter Xie Wei, nor face the ensuing events, nor suffer progress hindered by small factions within the Zither Sword Pavilion."

"Yet twenty years ago, without choice, perhaps a choice now wouldn’t be too late."

While speaking, Xu Nian observed the youth’s light crimson Guardian Robe and the maiden’s Green Patterned Demon Hunting Robe: