She Dominates the Immortal Realm with Her HP Bar

Although the order from the Yi Sword Sect represented an unexpected windfall, since it came because of Jiang Tingbai, Yan Luoyue couldn't make a decision on her own.

The next day at the academy, Yan Luoyue somewhat shyly told Mr. Jiang about this matter.

Before Yan Luoyue had even finished half of her story, Jiang Tingbai nodded slightly.

After she had explained the whole thing clearly, Jiang Tingbai didn't say a word but first showed a gentle smile: "So, what characters do I need to write this time?"

"No, no, no," Yan Luoyue waved her hands hurriedly. "I just want to ask, sir, can I take this order?"

As she said this, the little girl tightly pursed her petal - like lips, and there was a serious expression on her chubby, snow - ball - like face, just like that of an adult.

She was clearly just a little kid but talking like an adult. This strong sense of contrast made the little girl look even cuter.

Following his heart, Jiang Tingbai stretched out his arm and patted the top of Yan Luoyue's head, making it bob up and down.

He wondered, "If you can handle it, why not take it? If someone is giving you money, why don't you earn it?"

These words were so real and down - to - earth that Yan Luoyue almost burst out laughing.

She tried hard to hold back her laughter and said, "But, sir..."

Jiang Tingbai suddenly understood: "Oh, you're thinking about me."

He casually waved his hand, and there was a relaxed look in his smile.

"Looking at the vastness of heaven and earth, we cultivators are all just passers - by. It's just a bit of sword intent. Isn't it ridiculous to be overly protective of it?"

As he spoke, Jiang Tingbai got up and stood in front of the long table. He spread out the paper, held the brush with his wrist suspended in the air. After a moment of thought, he began to write two pieces of calligraphy with a flourish.

On the first piece of paper, he wrote the characters "Establishing One's Character". The strokes were even, strong, and the overall momentum was strict and grand. Just looking at it, one would unconsciously straighten up and a sense of self - reflection and integrity would well up in one's heart.

As for the second piece of paper, he wrote the characters "Killing and Slaughtering".

Just one glance from Yan Luoyue, and she felt as if a cold light, sharp as a sword, was almost breaking through the paper and ink, rushing towards her with an overwhelming momentum!

Jiang Tingbai took a step back, examined both pieces of paper, and nodded in satisfaction.

He waved to Yan Luoyue and said, "Look, which of these two pieces of calligraphy is better?"

Yan Luoyue thought for a while and pointed to the first one.

Jiang Tingbai was a bit surprised: "Why did you choose this one?"

Yan Luoyue said frankly, "I can understand the first one. The second one seems to be unwelcoming me to look at it."

Jiang Tingbai smoothed the paper with a sigh.

"My sword - heart is 'Saving the World and Purifying the Mortals'. So far, I've only realized two levels of sword intent. The first level is called 'Cultivating Ourselves' and the second is 'All Things in Spring'. These two characters 'Establishing One's Character' are the essence of my first - level sword intent."

Hearing this, Yan Luoyue curiously looked at the second piece of paper: "Then what about 'Killing and Slaughtering'?"

Jiang Tingbai smiled slightly: "For them, this is something easier for them to understand at present."

After the ink had dried, Jiang Tingbai folded the second piece of paper, bent down, and handed it to Yan Luoyue: "Use this one for them to make rubbings."

"I understand, sir."

Noticing that Yan Luoyue's eyes still lingered on the first piece of paper, Jiang Tingbai looked gentle. While asking, he handed over the paper with the characters "Establishing One's Character": "Do you also want this one?"

Yan Luoyue shyly took it with both hands: "I was just looking..."

She was just a bit curious as to why Mr. Jiang had written two pieces of calligraphy when he had already decided to use the sword intent of "Killing and Slaughtering".

Although she didn't ask the question, Jiang Tingbai seemed to understand.

He relaxed his brows, and a smile flashed across his eyes. His expression was as gentle as a pool of warm, sparkling water in the spring sun.

"You're my student, so of course I'll teach you a bit more. Since we're talking about sword intent, I might as well write the first one for you to see."

Yan Luoyue put away the calligraphy and tentatively looked up.

"Sir, for this deal... how about a 70 - 30 split between you and me? You take 70% and I take 30%?"

Standard - sized storage bags could be bought everywhere. The reason the Yi Sword Sect came to Yan Luoyue was just to get Jiang Tingbai's calligraphy in a roundabout way.

Yan Luoyue was well aware of this, so she only intended to charge a processing fee.

Actually, she initially wanted an 80 - 20 split, but thinking that Mr. Jiang's character probably wouldn't allow such a big difference in the ratio, she changed it to 70 - 30 at the last minute.

Seeing that his student was trying to give him money again, Jiang Tingbai couldn't help but laugh.

"No need. It's just twenty or thirty thousand spirit stones. You can keep them for yourself."

Yan Luoyue: "..."

What did you say?

What do you mean by "just"?

Yan Luoyue looked at Jiang Tingbai reproachfully.

After knowing him for so long, she only knew that Mr. Jiang was gentle - tempered, upright, and took good care of them students. How come she never realized that he was so generous to the point of being reckless with money?

Her expression was so vivid that Jiang Tingbai immediately understood.

"You're a little schemer," he murmured, then tapped Yan Luoyue's forehead lightly. "You don't need to give me the spirit stones. I have other reasons and it's not convenient for me to keep extra wealth."

Oh, is that so?

Well, a person as outstanding as Jiang Tingbai stood out even among sword cultivators, just like a divine weapon that couldn't be hidden in a scabbard.

If he had the intention to make money, he could earn a fortune just by selling his sword intent for people to meditate on. He wouldn't have to wait for Yan Luoyue's accidental discovery.

Yan Luoyue thought seriously: "If you can't accept spirit stones, can you accept other things?"

Like last time, the little turtle sword tassel she made from the twenty - eight constellation herbs was still hanging on Jiang Tingbai's sword hilt, and he hadn't returned it to her in an unfriendly way.

Jiang Tingbai shook his head, but not in answer to this question.

He calmly said, "With just my sword and myself, I can stand in the world. Why do I need other external things?"

"Then... I'll keep the spirit stones for you first," Yan Luoyue said with a smile, her eyes curving. "When it's convenient for you, sir, I'll give them back to you."

...

After seeing Yan Luoyue to the door, Jiang Tingbai returned to his seat and sat down.

After a while, Feng Xiaoyuan rushed in like a gust of wind, holding several letters in her hand. As soon as she entered, she started rummaging through the drawer for her small seal.

"Senior Brother Jiang, have you seen where I put my seal?"

Jiang Tingbai thought for a moment: "You used it on Junior Brother Dong's table three days ago."

"Ah... I found it. Thank you, senior brother!" Feng Xiaoyuan cheerfully replied and started stamping the letters one by one.

Without even looking at the content of the letters, just by considering the current time, Jiang Tingbai understood.

"Is Junior Sister Feng writing this year's recommendation letters?"

In the academy, all students who had been promoted to the Yuan - class had the cultivation base of the early Foundation - Building stage and could get a recommendation letter from a teacher.

As for which sect they would be recommended to, it depended first on the students' own aspirations and second on the teacher's assessment of the students.

Feng Xiaoyuan was amiable and loved to laugh, and she had always had a good relationship with these demon - race students. Therefore, in each Yuan - class, there were students who specifically asked her for recommendation letters.

Among the several letters in her hand at the moment, each was a recommendation of students to medium-sized sects near the Yunning Great Marsh.

"Yes," Feng Xiaoyuan said cheerfully as she stamped each letter. Then she casually asked, "Senior Brother, has anyone asked for your recommendation this year?"

Jiang Tingbai held a lofty position in the academy. He was neither like Junior Brother Dong, who was in charge of the Zhen Class, nor like Feng Xiaoyuan, who taught in all four classes.

In Feng Xiaoyuan's impression, Senior Brother Jiang didn't seem to have a particular favorite student all along.

As for the students, although they respected Senior Brother Jiang, none of them seemed to be particularly close to him.

Jiang Tingbai smiled slightly. "No one this year, but..."

A cute and delicate face flashed across Jiang Tingbai's mind.

"Maybe several years later, I'd be willing to vouch for her and recommend her to the Guiyuan Sect."

Hearing this, Feng Xiaoyuan immediately looked up at him in surprise.

The Guiyuan Sect was the sect they came from and was also one of the top sects in the world today.

If using an example that Yan Luoyue was familiar with, the letters Feng Xiaoyuan gave to the students were like recommendations for local key high schools.

While what Jiang Tingbai wanted to offer was like an admission notice to a top - tier university with a direct - entry Ph.D. program.

The news that the Yijian Sect intended to order a large batch of storage bags was neither deliberately publicized nor intentionally hidden.

For Yan Luoyue, this was a windfall.

For the Yijian Sect, a thousand storage bags engraved with sword intent could be carried by their disciples at all times for meditation, which was definitely worth it.

Even the Canglang Sect benefited from being the middleman.

Everyone was happy, and the only one who was very dissatisfied was the Lu's Building, which had always been the supplier for the Yijian Sect.

In the Lu Mansion in Ruyi City, the Young Master Lu was furiously scolding his subordinates.

"What? Haven't you found out yet? We've always had a good cooperation with the Yijian Sect. Why did they suddenly abandon us and turn to an unknown junior weapon refiner for this deal?"

Standard storage bags were low - level magical tools that even the most ordinary weapon refiners could make, and there wouldn't be much difference in quality.

Compared with those individual weapon refiners, the storage bags of the Lu's Building were of more consistent and stable quality, firmly occupying the basic market share.

So, how could they have their business snatched right under their noses?

Someone stepped forward and offered the Young Master Lu a cup of tea from the table.

The cultivator who offered the tea had an ordinary appearance but a sophisticated and profound temperament. He was the leader of the group that chased the little green snake in the Moonlit Market that day.

He softly comforted the young master, "Please calm down, Young Master. This is just a batch of storage bags. It doesn't mean much yet."

"Humph, just?"

Facing this trusted subordinate, the Young Master Lu slightly restrained his anger, but there was still a lot of fire in his voice.

"Do you remember how our Lu family made our fortune?"

Hearing this, the leader cultivator's expression immediately became solemn.

The rise of the Lu family started when the young master, in his teens, stepped onto the stage to refine weapons for ten days and ten nights without rest in front of the whole Ruyi City and produced a thousand identical storage bags.

From that day on, the young master's stable weapon - refining rate, precise control ability, and the reputation of a genius young weapon refiner spread like wildfire in Ruyi City.

In other words, the sign of the Lu family's rise started from "just a batch of storage bags".

It would be okay if the weapon refiner who snatched the business was doing other things, but he actually snatched an order for storage bags...

This had to make people think deeply about whether this was a deliberate provocation from someone.

Lu Jindu, the Young Master Lu, gulped down a large mouthful of tea, and his ugly expression eased a little.

"If it were just a single deal, I wouldn't be so intolerant. But this guy is so bold that he dared to snatch the Yijian Sect's order... Will his next step be to snatch the storage bag market in Ruyi City?"

The Yijian Sect was the largest sect around Ruyi City and an important source of spiritual stone income for the Lu's Building every year.

Moreover, it was a proud sect of pure sword cultivators.

This meant that even the stewards of this sect were sword cultivators.

As is well - known, sword cultivators were straightforward and pure - minded... In other words, they were generally not good at bargaining.

Perhaps this was also one of the reasons why sword cultivators in the cultivation world were usually relatively poor.

Over the years, the Lu's Building had taken advantage of the Yijian Sect's orders.

But on the surface, the Lu's Building was respectful to the Yijian Sect, never missing the three major festivals and two minor festivals. The chief steward of the Lu's Building remembered the birthday of the Yijian Sect's master better than his own mother's.

Even Lu Jindu, the young master, would visit in person every quarter to strengthen the relationship with those straightforward sword cultivators.

They had been so humble. If it weren't for someone maliciously poaching their business, why would the Yijian Sect entrust the order to someone else?

— Could it be that the Yijian Sect was so eager to give away money that they had to buy things from that person?

Lu Jindu's face was as cold as water and dark as ink. "Investigate! We must find out the true identity of this scoundrel!"

The leader cultivator respectfully agreed.

"What about after we find out?"

Lu Jindu took several deep breaths. "If it's just a single weapon refiner, I'll forgive his first offense. He can join my team and work for me, and I'll spare his life. If it's a group of forces..."

Lu Jindu let out two cold laughs but didn't say a word, yet the leader cultivator understood what he meant.

…………

To the leader cultivator's surprise, the Yijian Sect was extremely secretive about the identity of that unknown weapon refiner.

The leader cultivator asked the steward several times, both directly and indirectly, but he didn't get the answer he wanted.

... Of course, it was also possible that the sword cultivators were just too thick - skinned to understand his implications.

The leader cultivator had no other choice.

He even said directly, "I wonder if the Yijian Sect has any big orders recently? Our Lu's Building has just refined a large batch of storage bags."

He had made it so clear. Didn't you still understand?

If an ordinary person didn't want to answer this question, they would usually change the topic. If they were interested in gossiping, they would probably show a look of embarrassment first.

But the steward of the Yijian Sect actually looked at him curiously with her head tilted and asked, "What's the connection between these two questions?"

The leader cultivator: "..."

Damn it.

The leader cultivator couldn't just ask who the weapon refiner who had taken their new order was.

Otherwise, once something happened to that person, even a sword cultivator with their limited intelligence could figure out that it was the doing of the Lu's Building.

But it didn't matter. With the influence of the Lu family in the surrounding area, even if they couldn't get information from the Yijian Sect, they could still find out the true identity of this weapon refiner.

Just as everything leaves a trace, a weapon refiner has to buy materials to refine weapons.

A thousand storage bags was no small number.

So, the leader cultivator's current task was to search all the trading channels in the surrounding area to find out who had bought the raw materials for refining storage bags.

His diligent investigation was not in vain. Under the tight scrutiny of the Lead Cultivator, that mysterious equipment forger was soon caught.

...

When Yan Luoyue was cornered at the entrance of Ruyi City, her face, hidden in the shadows of her cloak, was filled with utter bewilderment.

This was her first time going out alone, and trouble had already found her?

To purchase raw materials for crafting storage pouches, she had pretended to oversleep that morning to skip school.

After Yan Yu left for clan duty, Yan Luoyue swallowed two age-increasing pills in succession, transforming herself to appear like someone in their early twenties.

Afterward, she took herbs bought from the Moonlit Market to alter her voice into that of a young man with a husky tone.

Once the initial disguise was complete, Yan Luoyue donned the black robe she had previously crafted—one that could conceal both appearance and aura—and followed the route Sang Ji had once shown her, smoothly making her way to Ruyi City.

Indeed, Ruyi City housed the Lu Family Tower, as well as that Lead Cultivator with whom she'd had a minor clash before.

Yan Luoyue inherently felt an inexplicable aversion to this city and didn't want to come here for materials.

However, looking at the surrounding environment, Ruyi City was the closest to the Turtle Clan.

Even accounting for the time waiting for goods to be prepared, she could make the round trip within a day.

Upon entering the city gates, Yan Luoyue headed straight to Zhaoxin Residence, where she ordered a large quantity of materials.

The shop was happy to do business given the size of her order.

The shopkeeper personally attended to Yan Luoyue, immediately mobilizing their supply chain, and within half an afternoon, they had gathered everything she wanted to purchase.

However, it was precisely because of this urgent gathering of goods that the Lead Cultivator could so easily detect traces of this "business-stealing rat."

At first, he was suspicious, thinking that Zhaoxin Residence might be finally standing up to challenge their Lu Family Tower after all these years.

But after several confirmations, the Lead Cultivator finally verified: the person who bought all these materials was just one individual.

...Well, in that case, he had nothing to hold back for.

Before Yan Luoyue could step out of the city gates, she was cornered by the Lead Cultivator and his men.

The Lu family truly lived up to their reputation as "Half-City Lu."

In broad daylight, they openly cornered someone, and bystanders didn't dare to even question it, only lowering their heads and hurrying away.

Seeing their hostile approach, Yan Luoyue took a deep breath, silently slipping her fingers into her sleeve pouch to grip several black Palm Thunder devices.

These were items she had brought just in case, and she didn't expect they would come in handy so soon.

"Why are you blocking my way?"

The Lead Cultivator smiled darkly: "Nothing much, we just want to invite you over for tea and make your acquaintance."

That was pure nonsense.

If this was how friendships were made, then McDonald's opening next to KFC must have been intended as a marriage proposal.

The Lead Cultivator moved his palm, producing a ruler-like magical tool.

"You now have two choices. First, tell us your name, and I'll treat you to some fine tea."

"Second..."

The Lead Cultivator didn't finish his sentence.

He merely turned his neck slightly, and with a flick of his finger, the lackey cultivators surrounding them in a circle took a menacing step toward Yan Luoyue.

Yan Luoyue recognized the purpose of the ruler in the Lead Cultivator's hand at a glance.

The crafting method of this ruler was quite unique—it appeared to be a tool for detecting truth in words for those below a certain cultivation level.

Which meant...

While she was contemplating, the Lead Cultivator took another step forward.

Looking down at her imposingly, he demanded, "Speak up, who exactly are you? Why hide in the shadows?!"

Before his words faded, a forceful pressure materialized and rushed straight at Yan Luoyue's face!

The Lead Cultivator had his reasons for releasing his pressure while asking this question.

Considering that the other party was an equipment forger, they might have some special magical treasures as backup.

Therefore, the Lead Cultivator's first choice wasn't to subdue them on the spot, but to obtain their identity first.

Once they confirmed the name of this unknown equipment forger, with the Lu family's influence, it wouldn't be difficult to trace their identity and find their weakness.

At that point, securing this equipment forger's compliance would be effortless.

Under the cloak, Yan Luoyue's brows slightly furrowed.

If she hadn't previously witnessed Jiang Tingbai's sword intent of "Kill," she might have truly been suppressed by the Lead Cultivator's pressure.

But now... why not play along and lower their guard?

Her mind racing, Yan Luoyue stepped back half a step, appearing to be in a daze, and "accidentally" revealed her name.

While speaking, she simultaneously reached for those Palm Thunder devices.

Yan Luoyue said: "Oh, my name is Yan Ercha."

If a true name was required, then a childhood name should count as well!

When this name was spoken, the ruler in the Lead Cultivator's palm burst with white light, confirming the truth of this answer.

Upon hearing this rather awkward name, the Lead Cultivator had a sudden revelation.

No wonder they had never heard of this equipment forger before the Yi Jian Gate incident.

So, this person was actually a grasshopper demon from the Grasshopper Clan!!