Just as passersby were frantically urging Qiu Xuetong to hurry up and release the second part of the video, Ji Ruochu, the actress playing the role of little junior apprentice sister, naturally became the focus.
At first, when someone said that this little actor looked a lot like Ji Mochen's daughter, some people were mocking.
They said, what's with the declining morals of the world nowadays, even Ji Mochen's daughter has started riding on the coattails of popularity?
It wasn't until a netizen posted the cast list that under the name of Qian Siqi's portrayer was written "Ji Ruochu" in three characters.
So those who were previously mocking had to awkwardly turn into wet blankets instead.
They said, would Ji Mochen really make his daughter act in such a tiring drama? I'll bet except for a few positive shots, stunt doubles were used for the rest!
The reason for saying so was because in the video, the extremely talented young Qian Siqi, aside from going to class, eating, and sleeping every day, was either brawling or on her way to a brawl.
If she wasn't brawling at the moment, then she was on her way to one.
The ones getting b...cough, getting beaten were naturally her junior and senior apprentice brothers and sisters.
Yes, you read that right.
In the realm of brawling, little Qian Siqi truly achieved equal opportunity batterings.
Whether they entered the sect before or after her, as long as they were of the same generation, she sparred with them while indiscriminately pounding them.
It wasn't that the little one loved bullying her fellow disciples that much, mainly it was because the first rule of their Gazing Moon Sect was that might makes right.
Almost every sect leader was sparred with every fellow disciple from a young age until the year they turned 20 years old, when the top 3 would become candidates for sect leader, discipline elder, and affairs elder.
Therefore, as a little one whose talents were extremely high from a young age, Qian Siqi's most important daily task was to drag her even heavier dark iron sword, tottering about to find her senior and junior apprentice brothers and sisters to spar with.
What? You ask if she could even swing around that dark iron sword when it's heavier than her?
"Of course not," facing her junior apprentice brothers' and sisters' bewilderment, Qian Siqi arrogantly tilted her head with her cute little bud-shaped braids and said,
"Master said that having a weapon and not using it is different from not having a weapon at all. And blades are blind, so for sparring with our fellow disciples, it's fine to just use a sword for show."
The junior apprentice brothers and sisters were in deep agreement, and then couldn't help feeling dejected:
Dammit! If junior apprentice sister's fists already hurt this badly, if she really used an actual sword, their lives would definitely be at stake!
It was precisely because of this that in Ji Ruochu's short two and a half minutes of screen time in this drama, two minutes of it was fight scenes.
Here, director Qiu Xuetong's martial arts direction must be praised. Every shot in the video was extremely meticulously filmed, to the point where every frame could be enlarged into its own photoshoot.
This was also why netizens suspected that Ji Ruochu used a stunt double, but even so, it did not prevent the audiences from loving this hot-tempered little loli.
After all, who could resist the contrast between, in one second, a little fairy dressed in moonlight-white novice robes, soft and milky as she obediently stood next to Master,
And in the next second, dragging out the heavy dark iron sword, filled with domineering spirit as she fiercely went off to brawl?
Netizens were like crazily hoarding walnuts, capturing those short two-and-half fight scenes of Ji Ruochu's and playing them on filters of every kind.
As for the remaining 30 seconds...
It was the scene where the little rascal was taken hostage to a cliff behind the mountain by a sect elder who had been hiding secretly in the sect for nearly a hundred years. In the end, in order to not bear witness to her master kneeling and crippling himself in order to rescue her, she heroically plunged off the cliff with the villain.
This was also the main reason why everyone viewed little apprentice sister Qian Siqi as an innocent white moonlight.
In the midst of the fog on the edge of the cliff, the child's neck had already been cut by a blade, blood still remained at the corner of her lips, yet she silently recited obscure magic spells as the sect leader was about to cripple himself.
By the time everyone reacted, the sect leader's actions were somehow intercepted in midair.
"Forbidden technique...!"
At the same time, a rusty dark iron sword came kicking through the air. With but a glance, everyone recognized it as the dark iron sword Qian Siqi used to carry around daily, chopping firewood and frightening people.
Sensing something wrong, the villain hastily tried to dodge, but was bound by a bundle of red threads.
Although he broke free in just a flash, it was already too late to evade the dark iron sword that pierced through both their bodies.
"My disciple!"
"Little junior apprentice sister!"
In the end, under everyone's grievous gaze, the girl and the villain plummeted together off the cliff.
No one knew why Qian Siqi, who was but a child, could use a forbidden technique to stop the sect leader whose cultivation far exceeded her own.
No one knew either why that dark iron sword, which Qian Siqi took everywhere to chop wood and scare people, was able to be controlled by the apprentice sister at the critical moment.
It wasn't until nearing the ending of the film where the former sect leader, on his deathbed, lamented remorsefully and finally revealed parts of the mystery.
"When your little apprentice sister entered our sect at the age of three, by four she had memorized all mnemonic diagrams. By five she had already cultivated the sect's martial arts to eighty percent mastery. At six, she exerted great effort to lug the unremarkable Mountain-Calming Sword from the sword grave excitedly back to me, telling me she had found a weapon she liked.
She didn't know that for the Mountain-Calming Sword to truly exert its power, the sword master must nourish it with a drizzle of heart's blood for a continuous 108 days. Otherwise, it would remain a piece of rusty, ordinary dark iron sword indefinitely.
I had wanted to stop her, but she had already established a bond with the Mountain-Calming Sword. Even if I threw it back to the sword grave, the sword would just reappear in her hand the next second.
So I instructed her that this sword's only purpose was to intimidate, not to harm people. I believed that with her talents, even with bare hands she could become illustrious someday in the future. But unexpectedly......
Over these past few years, I've lamented more than once - if only that year I had exercised more caution, and not let her be kidnapped; if only I had not been distracted, would that forbidden technique have succeeded then? Would that foolish child have summoned the Mountain-Calming Sword in her critical moment?
It was I who ultimately harmed my beloved disciple.
When he finished speaking, the sect leader remained with his eyes open after dying. Everyone understood clearly his unresigned and apologetic feelings.
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Here comes Almighty Hu Hansan!
I was confused the last two days, and couldn't figure out what else to write, so please bear with me, dear fans! There's still two more chapters coming! Hold tight!
The second volume will finish being written soon over these few days!
The third volume, will be the period in which Miss Ruo (Ruochu) becomes famous! Please anticipate it!
