My Wife Is A Sword Immortal
Chapter 234 - 192 Cloud Breaks, the Moon Emerges, Flowers Cavort with Shadows (Combined - )_2

Chapter 234: Chapter 192 Cloud Breaks, the Moon Emerges, Flowers Cavort with Shadows (Combined Chapter)_2

Zhao Lingfei murmured, "Play, shadow, when clouds break the moon appears and flowers cast shadows... The character for ’shadow’ is indeed marvellous, depicted by your ’play’..."

After listening to Zhao Rong’s patient explanation, she pondered thoughtfully.

"Qing Jun, do you understand?"

Zhao Lingfei nodded lightly, then shook her head gently again.

Zhao Rong smiled.

This foolish wife of mine...

The two made their way to where the crowd was gathered.

They discovered Ye Ruoxi organizing a refined gathering game called "Archer’s Shot."

Zhao Rong watched for a while and was somewhat affected; he had seen his classmates at the Imperial College in Qianjing play before, but he was not very familiar with it—it was a riddle-guessing game.

"Archer’s" implies guessing, while "Shot" means to cover up.

In the game, there are mainly archers and coverers. The coverers hide an object using an instrument, and the archers guess what it is through means such as riddle-solving and divination.

However, after watching for a while, Zhao Rong realized that the way these cultivators in the mountains played Archer’s Shot was very different from the way his classmates downstairs played.

The method downstairs was for the coverers to provide some hints and information, allowing the archers to "shoot" through experience and profound knowledge.

But the way these residence students and academy scholars of Taiching Prefecture played... there were no hints at all; archers directly used the Immortal Divination Skill to calculate, and the coverers could also use arrays and talismans to obscure fate and disrupt the archer’s divination results.

Is this the way you cultivators from the Heavenly Will Realm play? Sorry to have disturbed you.

A twitch appeared at the corner of Zhao Rong’s mouth.

But looking at the excited expressions of these residence students, it seemed that this "Archer’s Shot" game was quite popular in the mountain gatherings, very much in vogue.

Zhao Rong turned his head and saw that Qing Jun also showed a curious look, watching her senior sisters play Archer’s Shot.

He blinked and said, "Why don’t we give it a try?"

Zhao Lingfei hesitated for a moment, knowing that Brother Rong’er had not reached the Vast Realm and lacked spiritual energy to use magic, so he could not play this game.

However, Zhao Lingfei saw the encouraging look in Zhao Rong’s eyes. Her expression joyful, she nodded and said with a bit of smugness, "Brother Rong’er, I have seen my senior sisters play this game a few times before. I’ve never tried it myself, but I understand it all. My divination is very powerful; you wait here, I’ll go win the prize for you."

Zhao Rong smiled and nodded, admiring her rare child-like side. It suddenly dawned on him that although Qing Jun was usually quiet, she was quite "playful" when she was with him as a child. Rather than saying he led her astray to run all over the mountains as children, it would be more accurate to say that both were naughty by nature; it’s just that Qing Jun was used to following him and always trailed behind Zhao Rong.

Now, as the two joined hands and wandered around the gathering once more, they rediscovered some of the tacit understanding and fun from their childhood.

The crowd engaged in the Archer’s Shot game was surprised by Zhao Lingfei’s participation, but considering the many surprises her presence had caused today, a lot of their preconceptions had been shattered. Seeing her rare involvement in the Archer’s Shot game, it wasn’t too shocking. Many residence students and academy scholars glanced at Zhao Rong, who was waiting for Zhao Lingfei.

In the distance, behind a desolate desk that seemed segregated from the entire gathering, Ji Qianyi and Yun Zi sat.

At a certain moment, Ji Qianyi, who had been reading quietly, suddenly stood up and walked towards the area where everyone was playing Archer’s Shot, and then joined in.

Yun Zi had long noticed that although her young master appeared to be reading, he occasionally glanced at a certain graceful figure, and now he headed straight there.

She sighed softly, frowning as she glanced at Zhao Rong in the distance, the culprit behind all these events.

Yun Zi pondered for a moment, then stood up to follow.

The rules of Ye Ruoxi’s Archer’s Shot were quite simple, probably to allow more people in the gathering to participate, and there were several ways to play.

Zhao Rong observed for a while and roughly figured it out. He looked around and happened to see Ye Lanzi.

She was standing a few steps away, laughing and talking with a handsome residence student. Sensing his gaze, Ye Lanzi nodded slightly towards him, then shifted her attention away, no longer looking at him.

Zhao Rong nodded in response, then took another look at the man next to her, who seemed to have just been paired with Ye Lanzi to share a table.

Just then, another round of Archer’s Shot began. This time the rule was that all participating women would act as coverers, while some self-appointed brave men from among the men could stand out as archers.

If an archer could accurately guess what all the women had hidden in one go, he would win the prize. But if he guessed wrong, even just one wrong guess, he would have to accept a punishment.

The game started quickly, and Zhao Rong’s attention was captured.

There were twenty women participating as coverers this time, including Zhao Lingfei and Liu Kongyi.

However, among the men, no one stepped forward to be the shooter for a while. Many hesitated, for guessing all the hidden objects of the women was indeed challenging. Among these women Residence Students were some formidable masters who could use superb arrays to shield against divination.

Although the reward for winning was good, and the punishment for guessing wrong was light, the men still hesitated because, in front of so many people, face mattered more.

Suddenly, Ji Qianyi stepped out from the group of hesitant men and said indifferently,

"I’ll do it."

Ye Ruoxi, as the host, brightened up, "Junior Brother Ji seems very confident. But think it over carefully. If you lose, you will have to drink three glasses of Withered Wood Wine and..."

Ji Qianyi interrupted, "No problem. If I lose, I can also compensate elder sisters with something else... Let’s begin."

His tone was indifferent.

The onlooking crowd exchanged glances, and many women showed admiration upon seeing his confidence.

But Ji Qianyi paid no attention to all this and slightly turned his head, catching a glimpse of Zhao Lingfei from the corner of his eye.

She appeared indifferent to the proceedings, occasionally turning back to look at her mortal husband. Their exchanged smiles, radiant and loving, felt like a thorn in Ji Qianyi’s eye.

He glanced at Zhao Rong and snorted coldly.

The shooting of the covers began.

With his back turned, Ji Qianyi closed his eyes to rest under the supervision of the crowd.

Behind him,

the women acting as the covered party took out various small objects and placed them into special jade boxes that could shield divine sense, before applying all sorts of restrictions...

Zhao Lingfei withdrew her gaze from her husband, the curve of her lips slowly disappearing. She pondered for a moment, retrieved an item she hadn’t worn for some time from her sleeve, and gently placed it into the jade box.

Then, with a flash in her eyes and a lift of her delicate finger, a handleless small sword suddenly appeared in front of her, crystal clear like ice, petite and fine.

In the next second, with a flash of the sword light, the tip of the handleless small sword caught a dazzling white light that moved across the top of the jade box, drawing a strange array.

Zhao Rong saw this and his eyelids twitched, remembering that Qing Jun was not only his wife, standing shoulder to shoulder with him in life, but also a Sword Immortal Seed at the peak of the Vast Realm. Through his past life’s eyes, she pretty much fit the template of a protagonist, aside from having a mortal husband...

On the other side, Liu Kongyi rhythmically tapped her jade box, pondering. She glanced at Zhao Lingfei, who was attracting many men’s gazes and was meanwhile directing her sword to carve the array. Liu Kongyi’s mouth quirked.

She looked at the Dragon Carp in front of her, smiled slightly, and reached for it.

Immediately, the red Dragon Carp transformed into a blush of rosy dawn, casually thrown by Liu Kongyi into the jade box.

Afterward, she waited with a smile, not setting any restrictions.

Ye Ruoxi watched all the hidden items of the women carefully.

Soon, seeing that the women were ready, Ye Ruoxi reminded him, "You can begin now, Junior Brother Ji."

Ji Qianyi turned around with ease and walked over to the first-covered woman without giving it much thought. He looked at the jade box full of restrictions.

Although most of the people here were his elder sisters with a higher cultivation than his peak Vast Realm, Ji Qianyi believed that in terms of the exquisite nature of cultivation technique and magic, they weren’t a match for him combined.

Not to mention the art of Yin Yang Propagation, Ji Qianyi was also a disciple of a certain patron from the Yin Yang Family.

In the entire Wangque Continent, it was rare to find peers who deserved a straight look from him. Although there was one among the covered women, she was a Sword Cultivator with a pure path, who had never learned the art of shielding against the heavenly secrets. She was merely relying on her innate talent to force a sword that could produce myriad techniques...

Calmly and with his hands in front of his abdomen, Ji Qianyi made deft signs with his fingers beneath his sleeves. He glanced at the jade box and said, "Floral pattern sheep fat jade hairpin."

The covered woman looked a bit surprised, and Ye Ruoxi nodded for her.

Ji Qianyi didn’t linger and moved directly to the next woman. After a glance at her jade box, he said almost without thinking, "Hexagonal gauze fan."

Ye Ruoxi nodded again.

"Butterfly Step-shaking."

Ye Ruoxi continued to smile and nod her head.

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