For the next few days, nothing major happened. Gao Yang went to school during the day like any student and asked Old Shi for tutoring in his free time, catching up to his other classmates.3

Midnight, once his roommates fell asleep, Gao Yang snuck out of his room, heading to an old auditorium of the school and asking Qing Ling for help in fighting.1

Repetitive muscle training wouldn’t do much in increasing Gao Yang’s overall strength now. What he needed was sparring with real weapons.1

And Qing Ling was the best trainer for melee fighting.0

After getting a 200-jinwu ‘paycheck’ from Gao Yang, Qing Ling had War Tiger seek the Qilin Guild out and order a Black Gold single-edged sword. The material cost around 200 jinwu, and the manufacturing cost around 30 jinwu. Qing Ling was still a few coins short after using up her savings, so War Tiger paid the rest.0

The weapon was modeled after Xiu Chun ...0