Chapter 81 Gifting Dragon and Snake

When Feng Yin walked out of the bathroom, drying his hair after a shower, Xiao Yu was messaging her best friend, Shen Jia.

Xiao Yu: [I’m telling you, Feng Yin is seriously something else. Since he got back and cleaned up, I dragged him to get a haircut yesterday. He’s ridiculously handsome now! (Heart-eyes)]

Shen Jia: [Alright, alright, I know you found a diamond in the rough. So, who do you think is more handsome, Feng Yin or Ren Bai?]

Xiao Yu: [Ren Bai? He’s just street trash. How could he possibly compare to my Eldest Junior Brother?]

Shen Jia: [Wow, you’re not trying to recruit a live-in son-in-law for the Chen Family, are you?]

Xiao Yu: [Sister Shen Jia, what are you talking about? I just turned eighteen. I’m still a child! ~]

Shen Jia: [Haha (Eye-roll)]

As she typed, the young girl heard Feng Yin moving about. She looked up just in time to see him walking out while drying his hair. His inadvertently earnest and slightly righteous, bewildered look, paired with his damp, messy hair…

SLURP.

Xiao Yu gulped and turned off her phone screen, which was still displaying the chat with Shen Jia. Then, she skipped over to Feng Yin and handed him a high-end bottle of Nutrient Liquid. “Eldest Junior Brother, are you still tired?”

“Thank you.” Feng Yin took the Nutrient Liquid, tipped his head back, and finished it in one gulp. He thought for a moment before shaking his head. “I’m alright. My sparring session with Senior Brother Huo was mainly to get familiar with the Flower of Battle’s Long Swordsmanship. We didn’t actually fight at full strength.”

For people with Fierce Level physiques like theirs, fighting without using their full strength wouldn’t place any muscular burden on them, even if they fought for an entire day. As for the stamina he had consumed… Feng Yin felt the Nutrient Liquid he had just drunk rapidly turn into a faint, warm current in his stomach. As this warm flow slowly spread to his limbs and bones, his depleted energy surprisingly entered a rapid Recovery.

He thought, “This world really is full of all sorts of black tech.”

Beside him, Xiao Yu watched the Nutrient Liquid disappear into Feng Yin’s mouth. A faint blush crept onto her small face as strange thoughts popped into her head. She patted her cheeks and shook her little head to toss aside the distractions, then beamed at Feng Yin. “Since we still have a bit of time, come with me. I have something good for you!”

“What is it?” Feng Yin asked, curious and with no intention of refusing.

If a Rich Lolita said it was something good, regardless of whether it actually was, it was definitely expensive. He knew that when someone had that much debt, they stopped worrying about the bill. At worst, he could just pay her back with his body.

Xiao Yu grabbed Feng Yin’s arm and pulled him downstairs. “Cut the chatter and just follow me.”

She dragged him down to the stretched sedan parked outside and opened the trunk. From inside, she lifted a long, narrow Sword Box adorned with interlacing patterns of profound black and pale blue, and held it out to Feng Yin. “Here you go!”

Feng Yin looked at the box, which was nearly a meter and a half long, and vaguely guessed what was inside. “Is this… a sword?”

Xiao Yu raised an eyebrow. “Open it and see.” As she spoke, she pointed to a Dragon and Snake relief carved onto the top of the box. “There’s a hidden button right here. Just press it and it’ll open.”

Guided by Xiao Yu, Feng Yin stood the box upright on the ground and gently pressed the mechanism.

CLICK!

The next moment, both sides of the box popped outward, revealing a sheathed longsword resting on each side. Their designs looked exactly the same as Xie Jingyuan’s personal sword.

“Hehe!” Seeing Feng Yin look at her, Xiao Yu gave a mischievous smile. “This is the ‘Dragon and Snake Sword’ that our lab custom-made specifically for Master. I saw they still had a few in stock, so I grabbed two for you to use.

“The one on the left is a sharpened real sword. The one on the right is unsharpened—it’s a special competition sword that passes international sword fighting inspection standards.”

The Dragon and Snake Sword…

A flash of curiosity passed through Feng Yin’s eyes. “Why is it called that?”

“Because of this, of course!” Xiao Yu pulled out the sword on the left side of the Sword Box and immediately drew it from its scabbard.

SHING!

With the chime of a blade, a Sharp Blade identical to Xie Jingyuan’s longsword appeared before Feng Yin. The entire sword was about 1.2 to 1.3 meters long, with the blade making up about 90 to 100 centimeters and the hilt taking up about 20 to 30 centimeters. It was a chunk shorter than the Canfeng Sword, as well as thinner and narrower. From the looks of it, it weighed no more than three pounds.

Feng Yin didn’t know much about swords. If he had to give a first impression, he would say this sword looked a bit like a Chu or Han Dynasty sword from Earth. However, the hilt of the Dragon and Snake Sword wasn’t cylindrical; it was a flatter prism shape. The handguard was also longer and thinner than the small guards he remembered on Han swords, leaning more toward a straight-line crossguard.

“Good sword!” Feng Yin looked at the Sharp Blade that reflected a cold glint like autumn water, his eyes revealing his fondness. No man disliked cold weapons, especially one that exuded such an extreme sense of beauty at first glance.

Seeing that Feng Yin liked it, joy surfaced on Xiao Yu’s face. She introduced it, “This sword is forged using a special technique that incorporates the most cutting-edge synthetic metal of our time, Kunwu Gold.

“Its hardness and toughness are perfectly balanced, giving the blade an astonishing Strength—it won’t suffer any damage even if you use it to slash high Kinetic Energy bullets.” She hummed proudly. “The production cost for each one is as high as…”

Xiao Yu paused slightly and glanced at Feng Yin. “Anyway, it’s just really expensive!”

She then sheathed the sword and put on a mysterious expression, whispering, “Now for the important part. Watch closely.”

She gripped the Profound Snake relief on the scabbard tightly. In the next instant, Xiao Yu quickly drew the sword again!

SWISH!

A sharper, higher-pitched hum rang out. Amidst Feng Yin’s surprised expression, the sword drawn this time was much shorter, thinner, and narrower than the previous longsword. It also swayed and trembled like a silver snake. It was impressively a Soft Sword.

A sword hidden within a sword!

Feng Yin immediately understood the ingenuity behind it. So that was it—the Dragon and Snake Sword was actually a set of Mother and Child Swords. Rigid on the outside, flexible on the inside. The Steel Sword was wielded with Jiao Swordsmanship, while the Soft Sword was wielded with Snake Swordsmanship. This design was truly exquisite beyond compare.

By this time, Xiao Yu had sheathed the sword once more. She looked at Feng Yin with a beaming smile. “Eldest Junior Brother, do you like it?”

“I love it,” Feng Yin nodded without hesitation.

“Hehe.” Xiao Yu suddenly felt a bit shy and scratched her small head. “I’m glad you like it.”

Then, she placed the sword back into the Sword Box, handed it to Feng Yin, and pulled him into the car. As she settled into her seat, she said, “As a Swordsman, having a handy weapon is extremely important. Naturally, the most suitable weapon for us Swordsmen of the Gangrou Sect is the Dragon and Snake Sword.

“Actually, if you’re competing in a tournament, the fit of your Protective Gear is also crucial. I’ve prepared a brand-new temporary set for you, and I’ll arrange for a custom-made set dedicated just to you in a few days.” She looked over at Feng Yin, who was gently stroking the Sword Box, her smile brimming with vitality.

Feng Yin looked at Xiao Yu and spoke earnestly. “Xiao Yu, although I don’t know their exact value, these things you prepared for me must be very expensive. Combine that with the favor I owe you from bringing me back from Border Prison Island… I owe you too much.”

Xiao Yu’s eyes curved into crescents as she looked at him with pure delight. “You’re my Eldest Junior Brother! Why say things like that? As long as you can win the championship in the Rising Star Tournament and sign an endorsement deal with the Xuan Guang Group, I’ll get my entire investment back.”

Feng Yin nodded gently, his gaze firm. “Alright. I will win the championship.”

He would start by destroying all his dojo challenge targets!