The Sword Palace: Book 5 of Starchild Escapes Arranged Marriage

by Fat Bread

  What is happening?

  "Hydra, is he your bride? He looks yummy!" The giant snake, Ouroboros licked its tongue.

  "I can't remember a lot of things again. Hydra, can you tell me the name I used the last time we met, and what is the promise I had made?"

  Chapter 329: Ouroboros' Prediction

  "Oh, your name was Futaba in your last life and was a loving couple with my little bride. You don't remember it because the memory stone you used to record this is broken."

  As an excellent lady, Hydra didn’t feel shy in deceiving the firebird, Phoenix with a serious look. She had prepared to make fun of it.

  "Really? No wonder I have a familiar feeling when I look at him! So, he was my lover in my last life! Yes, yes! I almost remember it. His name is..." The firebird, Phoenix, opened its wings and exclaimed. It felt that it was going to remember something very important.

  When countless burning feathers flew in the air, another group of sailing jellyfishes were grilled and spread a roast squid like the smell in the sky and dropped into the Caelian City one by one. The girls in the city quickly collected their bodies and sent them back to the sea.

  "Purr! Purr!" The sailing jellyfishes quickly revived in the sea and left the Caelian City with fear.

  The immortal bird Phoenix was too horrifying!

  "What's his name? What's his name?!" Phoenix cried and flew into Ouroboros' arms.

  "Don't worry, let me help you. In front of the great Ouroboros, who can travel through space and time, there is no secret in the entire universe!"

  Ouroboros, who was said to have existed in the past, present and future at the same time and could observe all secrets of the universe, gave Phoenix a smile and its promise.

  "Forever universe, forever disaster, I observe everything, I explain everything, I'm the truth of all things, I'm the traveller of the river of time, Ouroboros!" The rings around its body started rotating.

  "Ouroboros, are you serious?" Hydra looked at it in surprise. Apparently, Ouroboros was using its source power to search for Yun Xi's name in the river of time.

  Even for Ouroboros itself, it wasn't an easy thing. Compared to the predictions of diviners, the rank of Ouroboros' prediction was obviously much higher.

  Although its predictions about future weren't precise, because nine tenths of its predictions would prove to be wrong, the remaining one tenth was very likely to really happen in the future.

  Maybe ordinary people would sniff at Ouroboros' 10% accuracy, however, only legend ranked beings could understand how strong its ability was.

  The futures it could predict weren't the things such as "weather", "tide" or "the celestial trajectories", which could be calculated using math, but the "real future" that couldn't be calculated by following any rules.

  Even though the accuracy of Ouroboros' predictions was only 10%, however, once the prediction came true, the probability would become 100%. If judging from this point, it wasn't just boasting about itself that it could travel through time and space.

  At the least, when it used its ability to observe the "future", probably its mind really travelled to the future and saw something. Even if the things it saw would happen in a far future and have no use for the present.

  Even in the endless god's domains, Ouroboros was the only fantasy creature who had this ability, therefore, countless forces throughout countless god's domains hoped to get a word or two from it.

  Unfortunately, it only predicted the future when it felt interested in it. If it had a good mood, it would even predict for a mortal; if it lost interest in the things people wanted it to predict, it would play dead or act shamelessly in front of them.

  Therefore, even though it owed a lot of forces an amazing amount of money, its creditors didn't dare bother it and could only pray that it would be interested in helping them predict their futures someday.

  At this moment, Ouroboros was in a very good mood and was really interested in this.

  If its creditors knew that it predicted for a common human kid casually, they would die crying!

  Countless images of stars flipped through Ouroboros' pupils. They were the past traces of the river of time and the possibilities of Phoenix having a relationship with the human boy in the future.

  "I see it! I see it!" Ouroboros exclaimed.

  "You and he were a couple of lovers!"

  Hydra mouth opened wide in surprise.

  Can it be possible? I just made fun of my friend, Phoenix, can there really be something between Phoenix and my little bride?

  "I knew it, I knew it! Tell me his name and when did I establish my love relationship with him!" Phoenix looked so excited. Of course, my instinct can't be wrong. He and I really had a special relationship!

  "You and he were enemies!"

  "Well..." Hydra was completely confused after hearing about this. How could they be enemies and lovers at the same time?

  "Not really!" Phoenix was also dumbfounded. The transition was too sudden!

  Was it a hatred caused by love?

  "You and he will be very much in love." Ouroboros' body twisted, the rings started to rotate faster and faster around its body.

  "You and he will be irreconcilable! You will have a life-and-death fight."

  "He will rob you of your most important thing, you will obtain the most valuable treasure from him."

  Hydra lightly coughed, looking at Phoenix whose mind was already in a mess.

  "Are we lovers or enemies? Can you please speak more clearly?" Phoenix groaned and didn't know how she should treat Yun Xi.

  "You are his daughter, and you will marry him. Your daughter will become your new self and embark on a new journey with him."

  "At the end, you and he will face countless strong enemies, you will open your wings and fly into the sky, dancing above the thirty-three heavens."

  "Till the stars drop from the sky and a new era starts, you and he will..." Speaking this, the rings around Ouroboros' body suddenly lost their brilliance and the traces of stars in its pupils also disappeared.

  Originally, Ouroboros' body was half of the Water God's world long, but now, its body heavily shrank and looked like a dead snake who had been exposed under the hot sun for several days.

  Chapter 330: On the Road Again

  "Hiss... hiss..." Ouroboros stuck out its tongue and couldn't even turn over its body.

  Its instinct was warning it to stop "observing". If it said one more word, its life would be in danger.

  "Ouroboros, what happened?"

  "No, I can't say, I'm already a dead snake." Ouroboros looked desperate.

  In order to help Phoenix predict the future, it paid a painful price. Perhaps it couldn't observe the future again within the next one hundred years.

  It had promised to predict the futures for a lot of forces before, but now, it seemed that it had to cancel all the orders. If the forces who had paid it the earnest money before knew it, they would go crazy!

  Hum hum, when there are too many debts, the best solution is to forget them all!

  Ouroboros had stopped worrying about them. After all, It's just a hundred years!

  "Which prediction is real?" Phoenix still recalled the words Ouroboros said before.

  Lovers, enemies?

  Have a sweet relationship, have a life-and-death battle?

  Daughter, father?

  Phoenix knew Ouroboros' predictions often turned out to be wrong, but... isn't the prediction this time too dubious?

  "Well, at least we know one thing, that you and my little bride will have a special relationship in the future!" Hydra was still teasing Phoenix. As a good lady, she loved to do this kind of things very much!

  "Whoa! I don't understand! I don't understand! What is the real future?" It was too difficult for Phoenix to think about such a complicated thing.

  "Sorry, I can't help you." Ouroboros collapsed on the central square of the Caelian City and its body was still shrinking, the accident in the prediction had almost killed it.r />
  "Ho ho, interesting." Under the silver mask, Hydra's White Emperor avatar smiled with anticipation.

  As a fantasy creature, it had lived far too long a life and there were not too many things in the entire universe that could let her feel interested.

  It seems that my little bride still has a lot of secrets!

  ...

  "No. We should leave here quickly. The firebird looks indecent. It's not a decent bird! Little Xi, don't look at them!" As Yun Xi's closest childhood sweetheart, Hua Huo's instinct let her sense a suspect atmosphere in the air.

  On her Jealousy Radar, the point that stood for the firebird suddenly turned from the harmless white to the dangerous red.

  Danger! Danger! Compared to the red tide caused by the White Emperor, this firebird was tougher.

  In some sense, the immortal bird Phoenix was more dangerous than the Water God Hydra!

  "Oh!" Yun Xi agreed. Hua Huo held his hands and left, disappearing in the crowd of people quickly.

  In the sky above the Caelian City, the ring of blessing echoed again.

  ...

  "305... 306... almost everyone is here."

  The tutors of the Sword Palace were counting the numbers of the Sword Palace disciples.

  After the floating ship White Lotus dropped from the sky and were lost in the Water God's world, half of the Sword Palace disciples minds became unstable and lost the practice of keeping up their sword skills. Those chose to quit and return to the lower-level area of White Lotus Sword Domain, which was equal to giving up their hopes of becoming stronger.

  Not everyone could conquer their limits in the trial, even though the thing that happened before was actually of great benefit to them.

  The thing of "they survived from wandering between life and death" itself was already a gift, which could help them understand the rule of life and death. As long as they could bear it, they could learn more or less from it.

  Unfortunately, half of them failed. Even after giving up their self-respect and joining the evil god, Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli's camp, they still didn't learn anything and were traumatized.

  When facing the same challenge, some people would fly to the sky and some people would fall to the ground. It’s not a surprising thing.

  At this moment, the Sword Palace disciples who had given up and planned to return to the mortal world were actually a group of such losers.

  Their swords had lost their sights. Even though they were still the high class people in the mortal world and could reach the third rank, they were not able to touch the edge of the hero rank.

  The tutors of the Sword Palace had expected this. The Sword Palace didn't need losers, since they had lost confidence in themselves, the Sword Palace wouldn't force them. After all, they had proved that they were not fit to keep going on the road of the sword skills, and the trial in the Water God's world just exposed their weaknesses early.

  Compared to them, the remaining disciples who still kept their faith about the sword after seeing the disaster in the Water God's world were the real treasures in the eyes of the tutors.

  Especially when they looked at the Starwing Knights girls, their eyes lightened up with appreciation.

  After signing the marriage contract with the White Emperor, their bodies and souls had all been purified again, especially Hua Yue and Xiao Cao whose bodies even once carried the wills of the Sky Swords.

  This was sufficient to prove that they would have a bright future!

  However, there was a much stronger and more terrible genius.

  Hua Huo, the girl who just returned to the White Lotus Sword Palace camp with a bright smile and her maid.

  If they didn't witness it with their naked eyes, they wouldn't believe that this sixteen year old girl actually dared to challenge the master of this world, the White Emperor!

  Compared to her, the tutors thought that they had lived their lives in vain.

  Hua Huo, the most dazzling star in the final battle of the Water God's world, the girl who dared to challenge an entire world alone.

  While holding a broken sword in her hand, she eventually ended the battle in a draw with the White Emperor.

  She was undoubtedly the best disciple amongst these disciples, and wasn't even inferior to the twin witches, who were doomed to master White Lotus Sword Domain in the future.

  "Ok, no one is left. Let's set out!"

  Chapter 331: The Firebird Who Is Chasing After Them

  Ouroboros faintly laid down beside Hydra, looking at the Sword Palace team together with Phoenix.

  "You just let your little bride be kidnapped by Casina? It's not like you Hydra."

  "What's our relationship actually? Daughter? Lover? Enemy? What should I call him? Darling? Bastard?" Phoenix blushed. She was still in a mess.

  "As a good lady, I won't constrain my bride to stay with me. As long as it's necessary, I can see him at any time." Hydra's White Emperor avatar showed a mysterious smile.

  Behind her back, the three High Priestesses were kneeling on the ground gingerly, and reluctantly looked at the Sword Palace team sailing away.

  They could feel that a part of themselves was leaving this world together with a person.

  "Whoa! Can anyone tell me who he is? Why do I have such a strange feeling? No, I can't wait. I must know the answer now!"

  Phoenix opened her wings, chased after the Sword Palace team and flew away from this world.

  "Oh, our little Phoenix will be badly battered by love." Ouroboros didn't need to predict and it had known that Phoenix would have a disastrous journey.

  "Not really. Phoenix's lucky point is always high, as long as she doesn't get involved with 'that person' later." Hydra smiled.

  The thing is becoming interesting!

  ...

  "Oh, a problem is chasing after us..." Laying on her throne, Casina felt a headache looking at Phoenix, who was flying after the Sword Palace team but didn't dare to get close.

  Being chased by such a legendary fantasy creature, the tutors of the Sword Palace were almost scared out of their pants.

  Even though the immortal bird meant no harm, but, how can anyone see a prodigious bird with burning feathers flying around them and feel at ease? If it wasn't because there was a Sky Sword in the team, they would be utterly routed.

  "Phoenix, what are you doing?" Casina looked at Phoenix in confusion. The firebird flew around them but didn't get close, what the hell was she doing?

  "I... I... want to know... his name." Phoenix stumbled.

  "Yun Xi. Remember, his name is Yun Xi." With a faint smile on her face, Casina looked at a black-haired maid who had been forced by his childhood sweetheart to wear the maid uniform again.

  Oh, I didn't notice that my disciple has such a great "talent"!

  No wonder that he has such a great "Soft Body", it's a talent that can't be learned through practice.

  As the sixth Sky Sword, she almost didn't recognize that the black-haired maid was actually the White Emperor in the Water God's world when she first saw Yun Xi’s "new appearance".

  Did Hydra find this a long time ago?

  "Yun Xi... Yun Xi... Yun Xi..." Phoenix repeated this name several times, then flew into the sky, leaving the Sword Palace team.

  Only Casina could see that Phoenix didn't fly away but just rolled in the higher sky with excitement.

  Oh, she behaved like a girl in a burning love! Casina thought.

  ...

  Like all the stars that twinkled around the bright moon, the Sword Palace team, the Starwing Knights girls were all surrounding one person.

  Being forced by his childhood sweetheart, Yun Xi had to become the black-haired maid "Mei" again.

  "Mei, are you all right?"

  "Mei, it's so nice to see you again?"

  "Mei, did you also sign that 'contract'?"

  Yun Xi looked at them with embarrassment. He had to be silent, because he couldn't tell them that he was the White Emperor who married them all!

  Naturally, h
is silence was interpreted as a sign of acquiescing.

  "It was really a strange feeling, when I agreed to the White Emperor's proposal, I felt that it wasn't our first meeting."

  "Oh, the White Emperor's bread tasted good! It was very similar to Mei's bread!"

  "Yes, yes, I was captured by his bread, so I agreed to marry him."