Xin smiled faintly:
"And Rongrong's Grandpa."
"Sword Douluo, I trouble you."
As Xin spoke, a white-robed old man leaped down from the Heart of Fire Villa.
Who else could it be but Chen Xin, the Sword Douluo of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?
"Grandpa Sword, why are you here again? You're not here to fight the Teacher again, are you?"
Ning Rongrong's face broke into a bright smile as she happily called out to Chen Xin.
Chen Xin looked at Ning Rongrong with relief:
"Our Young Sect Master, when you were fighting in the promotion rounds, I, Grandpa Sword, had already arrived. At Dean Xin's invitation, and also to protect the future of our Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School, Grandpa Sword will accompany you to Spirit City this time, staying by your side every step of the way."
Only, Chen Xin's face held a hint of helplessness. What he didn't say was that he had come down the mountain originally to challenge Xin to a second sword practice.
As expected, he had racked his brains and come up with a method for the Taiji Sword that he believed could defeat Xin. To summarize it in four words: going with the flow.
Instead of forcefully breaking the sword with a sharp sword, he would break the sword by flowing with the Taiji Sword's momentum.
But what frustrated Chen Xin was that the method he had meditated on for so many days and realized could break the sword, when put into practice, was played like a dog by Dean Xin.
He went with the flow, but Xin's sword moves flowed even better than his, directly leading his sword in circles.
With no one else watching, Xin didn't need to save face for him anymore. A proper Sword Douluo's sword challenge was turned into a guidance sword session by Xin.
A so-called guidance sword session is when one side's swordsmanship is clearly superior to the other's, predicting the opponent's next sword or even the next two swords with superb swordsmanship, and responding calmly, thereby testing the opponent's swordsmanship level.
To put it plainly, it was a test match between a teacher and a student.
In this second sword challenge, Chen Xin was already thoroughly convinced of his defeat.
Xin, by requesting Chen Xin to protect the Heart of Fire students, informed Chen Xin of the method to break his sword.
This is why Ning Rongrong and the others saw Sword Douluo today.
But the appearance of Sword Douluo also made Zhu Zhuqing, Meng Yiran, and the others realize the seriousness of the situation.
They knew very well that with the Teacher's detached nature, he would never seek outside help unless absolutely necessary, unless the situation's development was likely to go beyond the Teacher's predictions at any moment.
It seemed the danger of this journey was much greater than they had imagined.