The Sword Palace: Book 5 of Starchild Escapes Arranged Marriage

by Fat Bread

  The tutors of the Sword Palace couldn't see it, and not even the master of the White Lotus Sword Domain, who had reached the sixth rank.

  Only two people vaguely saw a part of the secret treasure's true appearance.

  "Oh, the White Lotus Secret Treasure looks like this!" Casina comfortably stretched out herself and had little interest in seizing it.

  She had found her way a long time ago. Only after defeating everything, could she reach the summit of her Battle God Genre.

  The White Lotus Secret Treasure was actually useless to her, because she had reached the legend rank. Just like people couldn't step into the same river two times, she couldn't use it to reach the legend rank again.

  "Hum... how can it be..." Naturally, the other person who could see the secret treasure was Yun Xi.

  However, the secret treasure didn't look like what he had guessed.

  Why does it look like this?

  Is it really something Hua Huo wants?

  "Dong!"

  "Dong!"

  "Dong!"

  When the 13th sound disappeared, the spiral burr in the sky started to shrink. In the blink of an eye, the huge figure vanished in the air.

  "Wait, why did I only hear six sounds? I still want to understand more!"

  "Hum? You heard six sounds? Why did I only hear five sounds?"

  "Me too, I heard five sounds... is it the power of the secret treasure? I can feel that I can enter the hero rank within three months!"

  The disciples talked with each other in high spirits. Just now, they enjoyed the weakened but free service of the blessing of the secret treasure, how couldn't they feel lucky?

  They just witnessed a legend and obtained a great benefit from it!

  Although none of them could see the real appearance of the secret treasure, it was already a great benefit for them to hear the sounds.

  However, after talking with each other, they found that different people heard a different number of the sounds.

  The more talented they were, the more sounds they could hear.

  The weakest disciples of the Sword Palace could be considered as a super genius in the towns they were born in. Even the weakest disciples heard the sounds three times.

  Quickly, they figured out the rule.

  The more times you heard the sounds, the greater your talent was.

  Even dogs and cats could hear one sound, and ordinary people could hear two sounds. The more sounds a person could hear, the higher achievement the person could obtain in the future.

  Wang Qi was the only top ten disciple who said the number of the sounds he had heard in front of everyone. He heard seven sounds, and this was the highest record all disciples had known.

  When he said it, everyone looked at him with envy.

  Apart from Wang Qi, the highest record was heard six sounds.

  Most disciples who heard three sounds were newbies who just arrived at the Sword Palace.

  The people who heard four sounds were the elite disciples of the Sword Palace. A lot of them were at the third rank.

  Only the top 100 disciples heard five sounds, and the disciples at this level were all confident of entering the hero rank themselves.

  Hearing six sounds was a dividing line. The strongest person under the hero rank, Zhou Zhen just heard six sounds. He was likely to enter the hero rank 100%.

  The top ten disciples all heard more than seven sounds. On the whole, only the people who had reached the hero rank could hear seven sounds.

  "I heard only seven sounds..." The fourth disciple, Qin Su's hands were trembling. He could barely hold his sword in his hand.

  He didn't want to believe that he, the prince who had a great bloodline and god weapon, was at the same level as the ninth disciple, Wang Qi.

  Amongst all the top ten disciples, only Wang Qi was careless and told everyone the number of the sounds he had heard without thinking.

  "Seven?" Zhou Zhen looked at the sky with a puzzled expression. He felt that something was wrong with the sounds he just heard, but couldn't figure it out immediately.

  "..." Xia Ling, the princess of the Great Xia Sword Domain looked at the girl in the center of the ring, the "monster" who just awakened the secret treasure.

  "How many sounds have you heard?" She asked.

  Shuffle! Shuffle! Everyone looked at Hua Huo intently.

  Yeah, as the "monster" who caused this, how many sounds had she heard?

  "Ten." Hua Huo said straightly. She had decided to show herself in front of everyone, so she wouldn’t lie.

  Even if she would fight against an entire world, she wouldn't change her mind.

  The White Lotus Secret Treasure is mine! So is my Little Xi.

  I will obtain them both!

  "Hiss!" Everyone gasped after hearing her words.

  Most disciples only heard four or five sounds. The ninth disciple, Wang Qi only heard seven sounds. Although Xia Ling didn't say it, she probably only heard eight sounds. She wasn't strong enough to crush Wang Qi instantly.

  Did the White Lotus Secret Treasure really appear for this freshman called Hua Huo?

  Perhaps her talent was really so great that she could even awaken the legendary secret treasure.

  However, Yun Xi looked around with confusion under the ring.

  Is there something wrong?

  Is there really a relationship between the sounds a person has heard with the person's talent?

  After all, I just heard 13 sounds.

  Chapter 346: Meet Elf Again

  Yes, there can't be any relationship.

  Yun Xi estimated his own fighting capacity.

  When he was in his normal state and held the Crane Wings Twin Swords, he was equal to half a hero rank. It was because his twin swords were a pair of spirit weapons and his mentality was at the hero rank.

  If he put on the White Emperor Mask, he could summon the Mist Soul Army, with the Mist Souls he could even dominate a war.

  If he was in the Water God's world, with the blessing from the entire world, he could temporarily suppress Hua Huo for a few days.

  When he was outside of the Water God's world, his fighting capability would be still strong and he could still be in the top three list of the Sword Palace, but he knew he couldn't beat Xia Ling down, the princess from the Great Xia Sword Domain (and she was the second disciple now).

  In this case, how could he be match for Hua Huo now?

  Hua Huo could kill him a million times instantly as long as he wasn't in the Water God's world. Her talent was probably the highest amongst all the people at the same age.

  So, I heard 13 sounds and she only heard 10... there must be something wrong.

  Probably the secret treasure was just dazed with sleep.

  However, he felt that he was familiar with the secret treasure, although he had never seen it before.

  He looked at the sky worriedly and couldn't make sense of it.

  Just now, he saw a half bloomed flower in the sky behind the twin witches. Countless mysterious lines were on the petals of the flower.

  "Why is the secret treasure a flower?"

  "I don't know about it, but I felt that I'm familiar with it." He couldn't figure out what this meant, so he had to hide his doubt deep inside his heart.

  ...

  "Oh, so the White Lotus Secret Treasure is a very special flower."

  "Probably even Yun Hai didn't know the name of the flower."

  "What a pity that I can't have a good fight with him."

  On the throne of the Sands of Time, Casina raised her glass and said in a sad tone, spilling the wine on the floor.

  "Farewell, to the Sky Sword who has gone."

  "I really wanted to challenge you, to see how strong your Yun Hai Quadrant Sword is."

  "What a pity. Cheers!"

  ...

  Quickly, everyone in the sword tip area knew the news that the true White Lotus Secret Treasure just appeared, and this news rapidly spread to the entire Sky Sword God's Domain and ev
en distant god's domains via different channels.

  Even Yun Hai the Sword Master didn't obtain the the legendary secret treasure, but now, it suddenly appeared and it seemed that it was going to choose a master, which really shocked everyone.

  The entire White Lotus Sword Domain hadn't quieted down yet due to the change of the stars, and now, it was going to have a new great disturbance. This remote sword domain became the main focus of everyone’s eyes again.

  At this time, Yun Xi hadn't known what was going to happen.

  Now, he was just Mei, who was walking on the street and looking at the shops with curiosity, thinking what foods he should make for the entire Starwing Knights troop.

  To celebrate Hua Huo winning the throne of the number one spot. Now they could finally enter the Sword Palace, naturally they let their perfect maid "Mei" make a sumptuous dinner for them, which made him feel both funny and annoyed.

  Sigh, it seems that I have to pretend to be a maid in public.

  Fortunately, he had been used to making bread for Hua Huo, so he didn't really feel rebellious about it. He just needed to feed dozens of more mouths than just Hua Huo’s one person.

  Just in time, he wanted to see the life in the sword tip area.

  Compared to the streets in the sword handle area, the people here were far stronger. He could see second ranks and third ranks everywhere, which was impossible to see in the mortal world. He even met several hero ranked people, whose strength was strong enough to eliminate a small country.

  For example, there was a team in front of him, whose clothes style was very different than the clothes in this domain.

  The team was formed by a heavy armoured Shield Knight, whose weapon looked more terrible than Rod's, a mage in a black coat with a three coloured crystal on his chest, and a real elf!

  She wasn't a dark elf like Black Moon but a "traditional white elf".

  She had snow white skin, sharp ears, a green bow and the vitality of nature. She was a forest elf, who was called the favourite of nature in the Western God's Domain.

  He felt warm looking at the elf. Although she wasn't a dark elf, but... after all, she was an elf and an archer!

  "Hello, Miss elf." Yun Xi greeted her when passing by. He didn't expect to get any reply but just showed his kindness casually.

  "Sorry, I'm not a miss, I am a man, and I'm already 500 years old, so I should be much older than you."

  Well, that was really embarrassing. Looking at the 500 year old male archer who looked very much like a young girl, Yun Xi was speechless. If it was true, this elf was even older than his grandfather's grandfather's grandfather.

  The elf noticed his black maid uniform, his eyes became yearning and gentle.

  Hundreds of years were long enough to make humans forget everything, but to the long lived elf race, it was just a short part of their lives.

  In his memory, he still remembered the country, the killing princess and the greatmaid's heritage, which had disappeared hundreds of years ago into history.

  It was a distant tale in the books of human beings, but to the elf, it was still like an experience from yesterday.

  "The Killing Princess... the Sword of Blood... I didn't expect to see this heritage again in this remote sword domain..." The elf archer said in the old, elegant Elven, showing his shocked feelings.

  Chapter 347: The Princess

  In a catastrophe hundreds of years ago, forest elves once fought shoulder to shoulder with greatsword maids, resisting their nightmare, the Demons.

  Amongst all the heroes at that time, the Killing Princess was one of the strongest greatsword maids, whose name could even make Demons shiver.

  She appeared on one battlefield after another tirelessly, and the Demons she killed could fill up an entire valley.

  In some sense, she was the most terrible greatsword maid, because the number of the Demons being killed by her was the uttermost.

  Maybe from the strategic level, she was inferior to the 1st "Auroral Morningstar" and the 2nd "Divine Shield", but when coming to a one on one battle, no one dared to say that they were stronger than her.

  The Demons hated her very much. Several Demon Armies even united together for killing her more than once.

  The Killing Princess was once deceived by a traitor, falling into a deadly trap and was surrounded by a nearly endless amount of Demons. But after killing for seven straight days and seven nights, she was still the last one who survived, standing on the ground that had been stained with blood.

  It was said that the Killing Princess' clothes were white at first, but after experiencing endless battles, it was stained in red, then the red darkened and finally became black.

  The elf in front of Yun Xi was one of the elves that was once the past Killing Princess' partner.

  He witnessed the Killing Princess' killing with his own eyes once upon a time and was impressed with her crazy battle style.

  When he looked at Yun Xi, apart from his face, he looked very much like the Killing Princess in his memory.

  This was why he stopped and responded to Yun Xi's greeting.

  "Hello, little princess..." This time, the elf said in human language, "May the forest be with you. No matter what will happen, please raise your head, and be the most beautiful princess."

  Yun Xi gazed at the elf and didn't know what he meant.

  "Hum? Is she a princess?"

  "Can she be..."

  The elf's partners, the knight and the mage looked at Yun Xi's maid clothes in surprise.

  It wasn't easy for an elf to call a human "princess". Only the blood descendants of the oldest kingdoms would be recognized by the long lived elves.

  These oldest kingdoms may have had a deep relationship with the elves thousands of years ago. No matter how strong any newborn countries were, they wouldn't be recognized by the elves.

  The Elven Race was xenophobic, but also nostalgic. These old kingdoms fought together with the Elven Race in the past catastrophes and sacrificed a lot of people, so they could win the elve's friendship.

  In order to communicate with the elf race, newborn countries had to connect through marriages with the blood descendants of these old kingdoms. Otherwise, the Elves wouldn’t even talk with their envoys.

  The Elven Race had a special method of recognizing the bloodline of a human. Only the people who had the royal bloodline of the old kingdoms could trade with them.

  A "princess" who was recognized by elves was more exalted than any common princess!

  How could such a princess walk on the street casually while holding flour, eggs and vegetables in her arms?

  Yun Xi felt strange seeing this adventure team from the Western God's Domain, and they also felt strange encountering a "real princess" on the street of such a remote sword domain.

  "Yes, she was the most beautiful, excellent princess I had ever seen." The elf said in a yearning tone.

  Hundreds of years wasn't a long period to an elf, but it wasn't really short. The elf had met a group of friends and saw them die, then met another group of human friends and repeat this process over and over again, but in his memory, he never forgot his past partner, the blood-stained Killing Princess.

  She was always driven by hatred, brandishing her sword against Demons indefatigably. No one could impress him so much like she could.

  When he looked at this little princess wearing the Killing Princess' clothes, he couldn't help but mix her up with the figure in his memory.

  Of course, they were not the same person. Although their clothes looked the same, this little princess had no "hatred" in her clear eyes.

  It was said that the Killing Princess was just an innocent young girl before her country was destroyed. Maybe she also had such a pair of clear eyes at that time.

  However, the elf didn't see it. When he joined the war, she was already the famous Killing Princess and only left a hell like bloody road behind her. She kept her back to her partners on any battlefield.

  People were frightened of
her, including a lot of greatsword maids.

  "Little Princess, if you come to the Western God's Domain, you’re welcome to visit our Elf Race! We will never forget the people who helped us in the past."

  People were afraid of the Killing Princess, but elves weren't. To them, she was always their friend and partner, and they would remember her face forever.