Logan walked toward Tuanzi at an unhurried pace.
By the time she noticed him, the calm had already returned to his face. There was even a faint, restrained smile at the corner of his lips.
Before Tuanzi could say anything, the two boys rolling on the ground scrambled to complain first.
"Big brother! Tuanzi stole my alcohol again—please teach her a lesson! She's way too awful!"
Tuanzi, thin and sallow, immediately retorted.
"I didn't steal anything! You gave it to me yourself!"
She shot the boy a glare while swinging the straight tree branch in her hand—over a meter long—threat written plainly in her eyes.
The other crying boy quickly tugged at his companion's sleeve. The moment he remembered Tuanzi's usual tyranny, the first boy shut up instantly.
Not a word more.
Logan couldn't help laughing.
"Two grown boys getting bullied by a skinny little girl—don't you feel embarrassed?"
He bent down and lightly patted one boy on the belly, lowering his voice.
"A true gentleman waits a hundred years for revenge. Go train harder—earn your comeback yourselves."
The boys didn't know whether they understood, but seeing Logan had no intention of helping them retaliate, they wiped their tears and ran off.
"Useless cowards," Tuanzi snorted.
Her pitch-black eyes brimmed with disdain.
Logan's expression turned serious.
"They may be weak, but they aren't bad. Being stronger than them doesn't give you the right to bully them."
"Weakness itself is the greatest sin," Tuanzi replied coldly.
She tilted her head back and gulped down another mouthful of alcohol. A flush spread across her waxy face as satisfaction bloomed instantly.
Logan fell silent.
Staring at the stubborn eight-year-old girl, countless thoughts crossed his mind.
A child this young wouldn't speak like that—
not without enduring something truly cruel.
"And who are you?" Tuanzi sneered.
"Who gave you the right to lecture me?"
She tucked the bottle at her waist, lifted the tree branch, and turned to leave.
"Say one more word and I'll cut you down."
She casually flicked the branch, forming a clean sword flourish.
In Logan's eyes, the branch no longer looked like wood—
It was as if she were holding a supreme blade from the Twelve Supreme Grade Swords.
The ragged little beggar vanished.
In her place stood a sword immortal who drank freely and cut down enemies without hesitation—
as if with that branch in hand, even an Emperor would fall like a dog.
Logan stepped forward—
And appeared directly in front of her.
"I noticed your breathing is unusual," he said calmly.
"Who taught you?"
Tuanzi froze for a split second.
Logan had been more than ten meters behind her.
But this was the Revolutionary Army base—she'd seen plenty of monsters.
She quickly regained composure.
"No one taught me. I figured it out myself."
Her gaze flicked to the massive blade on Logan's back—envy flashing briefly before vanishing.
"When I get bored, I like sitting alone watching the sea. Somehow… I just started breathing like that."
"Later I realized it made me stronger, so I kept doing it."
Logan and Sabo both widened their eyes.
"…That works?" Sabo blurted out.
Only after learning Total Concentration Breathing himself did Sabo finally understand what he was seeing.
Logan smiled helplessly.
Now he understood why Tuanzi was so thin.
It wasn't hunger.
Her breathing method was still far from true Water Breathing, but even this crude version drained her body several times faster than normal.
He even had a premonition—
Once she mastered true Water Breathing, she might reach Constant Total Concentration astonishingly fast.
"Do you feel hungry all the time?" Logan asked suddenly.
"Like you're never full?"
Tuanzi froze.
"How did you know?"
"As expected."
Logan sighed and patted Sabo's shoulder.
"A gem this good has been right under your nose for two years—and you never noticed."
Sabo was equally stunned.
As Chief of Staff, his days were consumed by war plans and logistics. How could he have paid attention to a single child?
To him, Tuanzi had just been a strong, boyish little drunkard.
Logan smiled gently.
Then don't blame me for taking her.
He knelt in front of Tuanzi, his voice warm.
"Do you want to be my disciple?"
Tuanzi rolled her eyes.
"Can you make sure I drink alcohol every day? Can you make sure I'm never hungry?"
"And you don't even look that strong. What can you teach me?"
Logan's smile twitched.
Slowly, he reached back and drew Zhenhai.
"I can't promise you alcohol every day.
I can't promise you'll never starve."
"But I can promise this—"
"I'll teach you how to kill Celestial Dragons."
"I'll teach you how to avenge your parents."
Tuanzi's pupils shrank.
Her entire body went rigid.
The tree branch fell from her hand with a sharp crack.
She stared at Logan, trembling.
"You… you're not lying, are you?"
The sky had darkened.
Clouds swallowed half the moon, plunging the land into deeper shadow.
Logan didn't answer.
Instead, he pointed to a towering mountain in the distance.
"Tuanzi," he asked,
"is that mountain tall?"
She looked where he pointed.
She knew that mountain well—she climbed it often for walnuts.
"I'm not blind. Of course it's tall!"
When she turned back—
Logan's massive blade floated before him, slowly spinning.
One rotation—
the blade turned pitch black.
Second rotation—
the air surged toward it.
Third rotation—
blue light burst forth, water spiraling around the blade, bathing the ground in azure glow.
Then—
A calm, steady voice echoed.
"One sword—
splits the heavens."
A blue arc tore through the clouds above the Revolutionary Army base, lighting the sky like day.
The clouds closed again as if nothing had happened.
The next instant—
Above the distant mountain, a blue point appeared.
It expanded rapidly.
A colossal sword qi descended from the sky like a falling star, dragging a radiant blue trail through the night.
BOOM.
The earth shook.
The entire base was alarmed.
Even the warning sirens screamed.
The once-towering mountain—
collapsed into fragments.
Without hesitation—
The little girl turned and knelt before Logan.
Her forehead struck the ground.
Blood bloomed.
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