Old Master, Times Have Changed - Chapter 690 (Patreon)

Chapter 690: “Yu Yi” and “Yue Lan”

“Then, Master, do you have any good suggestions?”

Bie Xuening’s expression was as calm as ever, her tone equally steady.

“Aren’t you here to ask your martial uncle to help name it?”

“Yeah, true!” Chi Jiuyu scratched her head.

But she quickly realized something was off and hurried to explain, “Ah, no! I mean—actually, she really idolizes Yue Ying, so I thought I’d ask Martial Uncle to help her come up with a name.”

“Mm.”

Bie Xuening still showed no reaction at all, only turning her gaze to Xu Xing.

“Junior brother, any ideas?”

Junior brother wasn’t an outsider. This rebellious disciple coming to him to name her Natal Spirit Sword was, in itself, perfectly normal.

“The sword’s name…”

Truthfully, he wasn’t particularly good at naming things.

“Jiuyu, what ideas do you have?”

“I think ‘Mingzong’ is a really great name!” Chi Jiuyu said animatedly, eyebrows dancing. “Martial Uncle, think about it—since I’m going to be the future sect master of the Sword Sect, it totally fits for my Natal Spirit Sword. Right? Don’t you think so!”

As long as Martial Uncle said the word, with her Natal Spirit Sword’s personality, it would definitely accept the name!

Looking at Chi Jiuyu’s eager face, Xu Xing paused.

Future sect master of the Sword Sect…

Where, exactly, did this completely inexplicable confidence come from?

“Not appropriate.”

In the end, Xu Xing still didn’t approve.

“Huh?”

Chi Jiuyu froze.

“Even if you really do become sect master someday, there will still come a day when you step down. Naming your sword something like that isn’t appropriate.”

Hearing this, Chi Jiuyu wanted to speak, but in the end she swallowed it back down.

She was afraid that if she said it out loud, her master would hang her up in front of the Sword Ancestor Hall and whip her into minced meat…

“Alright then. How about asking your Natal Spirit Sword what she thinks?”

Ask her?

It’s either “Yue” or “Ying” every time—what kind of good name could she possibly have?

She complained internally, but as a sword cultivator who respected her Natal Spirit Sword, Chi Jiuyu still released it.

Weng—!

A cyan rainbow shot out from between her brows. But instead of circling around like it usually did, it obediently stopped right beside Chi Jiuyu.

Behind them, Yue Ling had also finished mopping this section in front of the Sword Ancestor Hall.

After putting the mop away into the Storage Ring, she wiped nonexistent sweat from her forehead and turned back to watch.

Jiuyu was the Overlord’s personally transmitted eldest disciple. If her sword was getting a name, then as the Sword Sect’s ancestral sword, Yue Ling absolutely couldn’t miss it!

Mm! This was a very serious matter!

Xu Xing looked at the cyan-gold longsword.

“Well? What’s your opinion?”

The cyan-gold longsword swayed slightly.

“I’ll listen to Sword Ancestor, quack~”

Hm? Chi Jiuyu looked at her own Natal Spirit Sword.

When we were discussing names, you were either “Yue” or “Ying.” How did you suddenly get this obedient when it’s Martial Uncle?

“Emm…” Xu Xing pondered briefly, studying the cyan-gold longsword hovering beside Chi Jiuyu.

The three-foot-three blade was overall a deep blue-green, like a stretch of morning mist condensed into steel.

Looking closer, faint haze-like patterns drifted across the surface—gathering into wandering clouds at times, then turning into fine threads of rain.

Along the spine ran a straight line of golden light, diffusing outward on both sides. Blending with the pale haze patterns, it became a dim, cold sheen that flowed along the edge, like unscattered mountain mists clinging to a snowy peak.

To be fair, when Jiuyu forged her Natal Spirit Sword back then, she really did put in quite a bit of effort.

Just the appearance alone showed how much work she’d done.

“How about calling it ‘Yu Yi’?”

Σ(っ°Д°;)っ! Martial Uncle, you have to be joking, right?!

“Since your sword listens to you so well and goes along with everything you say, I think this name fits,” Xu Xing explained with a straight face.

Chi Jiuyu: “…”

What do you mean, goes along with everything I say?

“What do you think?” she asked, looking at her Natal Spirit Sword.

“Ya?”

“Martial Uncle, she says this name isn’t very good,” Chi Jiuyu translated.

Clearly, both person and sword were dissatisfied with that name.

“Then call it ‘Yue Lan.’”

Yue Lan…

It did sound a bit better than the last one, but it still didn’t feel as mighty and domineering—didn’t feel cool enough!

Still, her master’s and her martial uncle’s swords were named Yue Ling and Yue Ying, both with the character “Yue.”

Yue Lan—at least it was in the same lineage.

“As for ‘Yu Yi,’ keep it as a nickname.”

Martial Uncle, how obsessed are you with this “Yu Yi”?!

And what Natal Spirit Sword has a “nickname” anyway?!

“Thank you, Sword Ancestor.”

While Chi Jiuyu was still complaining in her head, the cyan-gold longsword had already accepted happily.

“As long as you’re satisfied.”

“Satisfied, quack~”

It had “Yue” in it, and it was personally named by Sword Ancestor—she was very satisfied.

Seeing that, Chi Jiuyu still wasn’t willing to give up.

“Martial Uncle, I really think ‘Mingzong’ is great. What if we use that as another name?”

A nickname already existed, so one more name…

That seemed pretty normal too!

“As for that…” Xu Xing smiled. “You can discuss it among yourselves.”

…

…

In the end, Chi Jiuyu’s Natal Spirit Sword’s name was decided like this.

Even though she still couldn’t let go of “Mingzong,” it had been her earlier promise, so she could only accept it helplessly.

“Yue Lan”…

Fine. Yue Lan it is!

This was a name Sword Ancestor personally gave—something countless people couldn’t obtain even if they begged!

That very day, she informed her little friends about it.

And amid their “amazement” (mainly Ye Zhiwei, Lin Xuanxuan, and Zhang Yunlu), she accepted the name from the bottom of her heart.

That night, the remaining Soul Transformation realm cultivators from the various sects also finished what they had on hand and arrived at the Sword Sect one after another.

Not long after reaching the Sword Sect, they were arranged by Du Ruoheng to go to Dark prison to see Xu, and from Xu’s own mouth they learned what they wanted to know.

The whole thing even felt a bit like “visiting a zoo.”

Of course, Xu herself didn’t have much of an opinion about it.

Compared to “life and death,” so-called “honor and disgrace” weren’t even worth a fart.

At least, that was how it was for her!

After everyone had seen Xu, the sect masters and Soul Transformation realm cultivators of the great immortal sects headed into a special space Xu Xing had opened for this purpose.

They needed to discuss how to handle “Xu,” as well as the evaluation standards for similar situations going forward.

So that if something like this happened again in the future, there would be “rules to follow.”

Worth mentioning: the Soul Transformation realm cultivator originally meant to come from the Hehuan Sect was Ji Yinxue. She herself took this extremely seriously and even began preparing the moment she received the news!

But then…

Meizu Ya also knew exactly what kind of temperament her only disciple had. If Ji Yinxue really ran off to the Sword Sect to take part in this, wouldn’t that be a disaster?

So she swapped her out.

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