Naked Sword Art

was immediately greeted by an elder that supervised over the exam.
Xiao Fang presented what he obtained from the first and second challenge, but only gave him five 1st tier beast cores, knowing the value for even a single 2nd tier beast core equaled a hundred 1st tiers beast cores.

The elder looked up and down at him as if he were scanning his body.
Xiao Fang was covered in blood and hardly recognizable.
He looked as if he were the sole survivor of a bloody battle royale, but the strange thing was that he only presented five 1st tier beast cores from it.
He couldn ’t wrap his head around it so he eventually gave up.

”You pass ”.

”Thank you, senior ”, Xiao Fang bowed.

He then gave him some outer court disciple robes and a small spatial pouch .

”You are the first to finish the exam.
Please accept this prize and find a residence to live in district 33.
Xiao Fang looked at the Black Paradise insignia on the robes and instantly recognized it.
He smiled.

The robes themselves where wonderful shades of blue and a bit of white, but upon entering, found that the female disciples all wore pink with a bit of white robes.

Xiao Fang thanked the elder then quickly left.

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After some time, Xiao Fang almost completely explored the outer court, leaving out the residence area which took up 75% of the sect.
He familiarized himself with the sect ’s lecture halls, libraries, shops, training grounds, and even took note of a few beauties he would like to chase after in the future.

Just before the time that the sun was setting he found the mission board where disciples would go for outer sect missions.
Surprisingly enough he even saw a few men in the crowd.
This confused Xiao Fang deeply.

So many beauties in this sect yet the few men that were here wished to leave to do missions? Xiao Fang could meditate on this thought for a millennia and still not understand why they would do that.

The only reason he even lingered around this place was to find a special someone he expected to be here.
Xiao Fang looked around, but could not find her.
After some time searching he eventually gave up and just planned to come back tomorrow.
However, as he was leaving he ran into a familiar face.
Li Lian.

”Y-you ” , she couldn ’t believe her eyes.
Scared the seemingly hallucinatory image would disappear she grabbed on to his hand before she could blinked.

”You ’re really here, how did you get your hands on an outer court disciple ’s robes? Why are you here? ”.

”Strange how fate works isn ’t it ”, Xiao Fang vaguely replied to her barrage of questions and laughed.
Reminding her of the words he last said to her before he disappeared.

”mn, truly ”, she replied softly.

”I ’m in need of a guide, would you mind- ”.

”YES, haha.
I mean yes, I ’d love to show you around ”, she replied.

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They walked around the sect at night.
Unlike most sects, the Black Paradise sect had many great tourist spots.
However the sect as a whole was a few kilometers in diameter, so it was impossible to wall through the entire sect in a single night, but she only covered the most important parts of the sect in her tour.

He stared at her as if she was the only thing that mattered in this sect.
She felt his stares the whole time and it made her feel like she had butterflies in her stomach.

”umm, We ’ve been everywhere now and… ”

Xiao Fang interrupted her, ”ah, that reminds me, I haven ’t found a place to live yet.
Is it alright if you help me find a place to stay? ” Xiao Fang asked charmingly.

”It ’s getting late, how about we go look for it tomorrow, until then you can sleep at my place.
It will only be the two of us ”.