I'm only one year old, what the heck is a Overturning System?!-Chapter 65 - 59: When Sword Edge Mountain Has No Sect Leader...

"This is out to annihilate the descendants of the Chen Family!"

"Who could be so vicious!?"

In the main hall of the central courtyard of Duke Wuan’s Mansion, every main and peripheral branch of the family had gathered, led by Old Madam Chen who slammed her staff loudly, clearly furious.

"Mother, please calm your anger, I have already sent people to investigate, and today will..."

Before Second Master Chen Lide could finish, the Old Lady’s eyes darted angrily at him, "How much time have you been given, and what have you found out?"

"A maid, who has been lurking in our Chen Family for eight years without any discoveries, and she almost harmed Fan Er!"

"Is this the result you found!?"

Chen Lide fell silent, clearly annoyed as well.

At this moment, Chen Lixin scanned the room.

From Zhou Wanyi, Xia Wanwan, to Chen Taixing, Ding Sansi, and others, he looked at each one.

After pondering for a long time, he finally spoke, "Mother, please forgive my brother’s fault for now."

"Although this matter is strange, connecting it to the previous two times, we can already confirm the opponent’s intentions."

"The difficulty now is that the enemy hides in the shadow while we are exposed, and, additionally, most of the capable men in the clan have been taken to Beixiong Pass by Taiping, inevitably causing some oversights."

Seeing that the Old Lady did not interrupt, he continued,

"But now that we know they aim to target the Chen Family’s descendants, we should focus on protecting them."

"In addition to Yuan Er and Yi Er who have already joined the sect, let’s prioritize concentrating our resources on protecting Fan Er."

"If necessary, I would like to ask Grandpa to help protect Fan Er."

Old Madam Chen’s angry expression eased a bit, she glanced at Zhou Wanyi and pondered, "Agreed!"

Chen Lide and Chen Lixin exchanged glances, slightly relieved.

Then, Chen Lixin immediately suggested they thoroughly investigate all house servants and maids in the house, focusing on the "newcomers" who entered the Mansion in the last ten years, executing anyone caught.

Having a direction now, the Old Lady’s face regained some color.

"Send today’s discussion to Taiping to ask for his opinion and ask him to arrange for some people to come back."

"If someone wants to challenge the Chen Family, then let’s fulfill their wish; this old body wants to see who dares to be so bold!"

Everyone nodded solemnly.

At this moment, the Old Madam then looked towards Xia Wanwan, squeezing out a small smile.

"However, not everything this time is bad; at least I now know that a prodigious child has appeared in the Chen Family."

Chen Lide echoed, "Mother is right, if it were not for the Sword Qi left by Yi Er that killed the assassin, we wouldn’t have known that his mastery of Sword Dao has reached the Small Success Realm."

"A Sword Dao Cultivator of such terror at the age of three, truly a rarity in a century."

"Indeed, this is cause for celebration," Chen Lixin also showed a smile.

"Once Yi Er completes his training, he can secure the Chen Family’s safety for a century."

"Taiping would be very happy to know this."

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As the topic shifted to Chen Yi, Xia Wanwan quickly responded, "Yi Er’s achievements today completely rely on the teachings of the family."

"..."

Her words, however, resulted in total silence in the main hall.

Just as Xia Wanwan was perplexed, the Old Lady sighed.

"The Great Wei Dynasty has been peaceful for many years, leading our Chen Family to become complacent as well."

"Grandmother’s teachings are correct..."

Only then did Xia Wanwan, slow to realize her mistake, lowered her head and clutched the Little Jade Sword.

Beside her, Zhou Wanyi, who had been silent from the start, glanced at her and quietly twirled her prayer beads.

But as the beads slipped through her fingers, their pace unknowingly quickened...

...

The next day, at the Grand Void Sect.

"Such a vast Sword Edge Mountain, the second-ranked Sword Cultivator lineage of the Taoist Path!"

"Who would have thought that there wouldn’t be even a single master to teach Sword Dao?"

Chen Yi, watching a few figures practicing swordplay not far away, felt deeply disheartened.

This was completely different from what he had expected when he wanted to join a sect back in the Capital City.

Who would have thought that on the entire Sword Edge Mountain, the Sect Leader,Big Sister, Second Brother, Third Sister, and Fourth Brother were all absent.

Only Ning Xue, Mr. Ning, Senior Sister Ning, ranked fifth, was in charge of the affairs of Sword Edge Mountain.

The rest, well, were a few junior fellow disciples who joined Sword Edge Mountain after Ning Xue and could be put aside for now.

As for those behind.

Chen Yi raised his finger pointing at himself, then successively directed it towards Hua Youxiang, Li Mingyue, and Lu Youxiang.

These four were the Sword Cultivators who had recently joined the Grand Void Sect’s Sword Dao Peak.

Among them, Li Mingyue came from a Martial Arts family in Beizhi, from the same place as his mother Xia Wanwan, making them somewhat fellow villagers.

She was a bit older at six years, and had a personality similar to Hua Youxiang, filled with the air of the Martial World.

As she said herself, having been in contact with Martial World guests at home, listening to their talks, she picked up their jargon.

Like, ’This humble self comes from a mountain, fallen into hard times, could you lend some money?’

Or, ’When walking in the Martial World, avoid mountains, avoid water to not encounter any demons or monsters.’

Since arriving at Sword Edge Mountain, Li Mingyue had become fast friends with Hua Youxiang, closer than even real sisters.

Thus, Chen Yi learned about the reason Hua Youxiang came to steal steamed buns that night.

It turned out her travel funds had been stolen along the way.

Fortunately, being old enough and clever, the three sisters made it safely to the Grand Void Sect.

Of them, the eldest, Hua Xianzi, was nine, Hua Youxiang was eight, and the youngest, Hua Yourong, was also six.

At the same time, the Hua Family in Chuan Mansion was renowned for its medical expertise, and the household often had Jianghu Guests visiting for treatment of their injuries.

Hua You Xiang was during that period, she had encountered some chivalric figures and developed a longing for their world.

Since then, her interests diverged from Hua Xianzi and Hua Yourong, and she began reading various storybooks and learned the Jianghu vernacular frequently used by storytellers.

She self-proclaimed as "Er Hua."

The last disciple, Lu Youxiang, also came from a notable background.

He was a local from Jizhou Prefecture, two months younger than Chen Yi, coming from a family considered hugely wealthy.

According to him, it was rare to find a family richer than theirs in the entire Jizhou Prefecture.

The Lu Family’s businesses spanned not only across Jizhou Prefecture but also neighboring prefectures and even further to Capital City, West River Prefecture, and Beizhi.

Aside from not expanding southwards, the entire northern part of the Wei Dynasty was their business territory.

Initially hearing this, Chen Yi couldn’t help but think highly of him.

He knew that families who could expand businesses across an entire prefecture were already significant local gentry, but those that could spread across multiple prefectures were undoubtedly wealthy beyond doubt.

After closely inquiring about the industries managed by Lu Youxiang’s family, his valuation of them increased even further.

Salt, iron, minerals, timber, grain - all these were part of the Lu Family’s business.

Each sector alone was not something a single merchant could manage as the underlying interests intertwined complexly.

At the very least, without a few important ministers from Capital City supporting them, a merchant family like the Lu Family would absolutely not be able to sustain such operation.

However, Chen Yi didn’t voice this thought.

For one, both Lu Youxiang and he had just joined the Grand Void Sect and were not familiar enough to probe deeply into such matters.

Secondly, since the Lu Family had arranged for Lu Youxiang to study at the sect, they must have already considered the family’s strategic development.

Besides relying on the court, they needed to strengthen their own Martial Arts force.

These were simple truths that he, an outsider, didn’t need to mention.

"Good brother, how do you like this sword technique?"

At this moment, Hua You Xiang came running over excitedly with a wooden sword, and then began jumping up and down swinging it.

The slightly clumsy and awkward moves made Chen Yi’s eyes twitch.

Just after a mere two breaths, he quickly gestured to stop and took her by the hand to break down the movements of the sword technique, teaching her the standard moves.

"Do this first, then that, and finally..."

Now, you may understand Chen Yi’s helplessness, right?

Indeed.

He was no longer just the thirteenth-ranked disciple of Sword Edge Mountain, but was now responsible for teaching all the disciples at Sword Edge Mountain the Sword Dao as an "Instructor."

Speaking of which, it all started with Ning Xue.

After the departure of Sect Leader Li Qingzhou from Sword Edge Mountain, the management of major and minor affairs was handed over to the fourth senior brother Xie Changle.

Unfortunately, senior brother Xie’s family had an emergency not long ago, and he had to return home.

Thus, all the responsibilities fell on Ning Xue’s shoulders.

After that, before she went to Capital City, she not only had to handle all matters on Sword Edge Mountain but also took on the role of teaching the junior brothers and sisters swordsmanship and cultivation techniques.

However, this all changed after Chen Yi officially became a disciple.

The day he sparred with Xiao Xuanzhen, just after arriving at Sword Edge Mountain and before even setting foot in his own quarters, he was stopped by Ning Xue.

How to describe that moment?

In Chen Yi’s words, Mr. Ning rarely had such a full, joyous smile, radiant as if she was an ethereally beautiful fairy straight out of the "Ten Taoist Immortals."

Of course, she was indeed one of the fairies.

Then, Ning Xue softly persuaded Chen Yi to take up the role of "Instructor."

Furthermore, she emphatically stated that with his swordsmanship skills, not only "Instructor," but even becoming an elder of Sword Edge Mountain, the absent Li Qingzhou would agree.

This compelled Chen Yi, who initially did not want to agree, to reluctantly accept the position.

Even though this was different from his original intention of joining the Grand Void Sect, being an "Elder" from the start was better than slogging his way up from junior to senior, right?

After all, he grew up in the Military Marquis Mansion and had seen what it was like to be powerful, like Chen Taiping.

It absolutely had nothing to do with the personal persuasion of Ning Xue, the real Taoist Immortal among the Ten Great Immortals.

Since that day, Chen Yi started his mornings on Sword Edge Mountain, instructing his fellow sect brothers and sisters in the Sword Dao.

At first, it wasn’t challenging, since those fellow seniors had already been trained by Ning Xue and others and were quite skilled in several sword techniques.

Chen Yi’s role was to correct any flaws in their sword techniques.

For him, this was not particularly difficult.

But it became a headache when it came to Hua You Xiang, Li Mingyue, and Lu Youxiang.

The entire teaching process was like an expert trying to impart specialized knowledge to laymen – no matter how much he explained, those three woodenheads always had some mistakes.

Take Hua You Xiang, for example.

She would learn a sword technique one day and then misshape it during practice the next.

Either due to insufficient force or improper circulation of True Qi.

It took quite an effort from Chen Yi.

Thankfully, after more than two months, Hua You Xiang and the others managed to learn two sets of sword techniques with their natural swordsmanship talent, which somewhat reassured him.

"Good brother, you’re amazing. You immediately noticed where my sword technique was wrong."

"Stop talking; go back and practice, lest you forget."

"Yes!"

Chen Yi watched Hua You Xiang joyfully rejoin Li Mingyue and the others, a slight smile on his face.

Indeed, these days were not so bad after all.

Except...

"Chen Yi, Little Sword Immortal, come out and face your death. Today is surely the day I achieve my first victory!"

Xiao Xuanzhen, she really never gives up!