"Still not going smoothly?"
Lady Bai poured him a cup of wine and spoke gently.
Hou Niao picked up the cup and downed the wine in one gulp. He had nothing to hide from this woman—some things felt suffocating when kept inside, and speaking them out loud could offer some relief.
"It's hard to say, it's a complex feeling... Let me put it this way, if I want to return to my previous state, with the same Flying Sword, then it might be relatively easy. I'm confident I could do it within five years... But I'm not quite content with that, because I want to try a new way of nurturing my sword, to resolve a weakness that has always troubled me. But this is a new field for me, I don't know how much time it will take, or even if I can succeed..."
Lady Bai sighed, "You're already a Constellation True Inheritor; haven't you said that you fear no other Constellation True Inheritor? So why the change? Was the old way not good?"
