Worlds’ Apocalypse Online - Chapter 64
Chapter 64: Bai Hua Fairy
This was the maid’s voice.
She had obviously been paying close attention to what was going on in here.
Gu Qing Shan nodded and said: “There are numerous sword cultivators who would study Sword Styles, but very few who are so free that they would study the naming of Sword Styles, simply because it doesn’t do anything to help their cultivation”
“But I happen to be one of those sword cultivators who went on a strange path to study the names of Sword Styles very deeply”
The statues didn ‘t say anything, maintaining the strange silence.
Gu Qing Shan continued: “When naming Sword Styles, Pristine refers to Elemental Wind while Smiting refers to Elemental Lightning”
“A sword cultivator that uses the Pristine Holy Sword Style must be someone with a Wind-element root, but when I purposefully said he was a Lightning-element sword cultivator, he didn’t correct me. He didn’t notice he had fell into my verbal trap”
“This was mistake number 1”
Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but laughed: “And the sword cultivator who was using an Elemental Water armor and the Frosty Mist sword was even lovelier”
“Lovelier? What do you mean “The maid’s voice was heard again.
“He said his sword style was the Grey Flame Heaven Origin Style, the name Grey Flame naturally refers to the demon world’s strongest undying flame, which implies it needed a Fire-element root to use, yet his sword was an Elemental Water 2nd stage: Freezing Mist, if he were to use this sword to fight, Elemental Water and Elemental Fire would clash, resulting in his spirit energy misfire and serious injury wouldn’t it?”
“They have indeed created a solemn atmosphere and the things they had were also seemed very real, but then they claimed to have sacrificed for humanity? Hm? How come they couldn’t even talk about the details of how they did it?”
The Divinity’s statue stayed silent, then finally sighed: 「There is a reason for this, please slowly here me out」
While he talked, his eye was already gesturing to the other statues.
Suddenly, they all made the same hand sign, shouting: 「Sub-space Shifting Magic!」
On the altar’s ground, numerous runes appeared.
「I’ll let you go this time, but we will meet again!」 The Divinity statue laughed loudly as he spoke.
Gu Qing Shan made a pitying face at the Divinity statue and said nothing.
A second later, a grand and angry female voice was heard.
“Xuanyuan Tianzun, you shitty old man! You dare to use a fake to trade for my Bai Hua jade wine, next time we meet I’ll break your leg!”
As she said that, all the runes on the ground immediately shut down.
On the altar’s roof, a twisted black hole was seen.
The Divinity’s statue together with the 10 fake sword cultivators couldn’t even resist and got sucked straight in.
Afterwards, as heaven and earth changed places, Gu Qing Shan found himself already outside again.
As Gu Qing Shan’s feet touched solid ground, the maid was still standing where she did before, but the huge green jade screen was nowhere to be seen.
“Congratulations, you’ve solved the problem on the Sword list” the maid said with an unchanged expression.
Gu Qing Shan could tell that she wasn’t in a good mood anymore so he didn’t say anything, only clasped his hand and bowed.
The maid stayed silent for a while. Right as she was about to speak, a fire talisman flew from the sky, arriving where she was.
The maid pointed at it.
A voice was heard from the fire talisman: “Hah, no need to be so angry, fellow Daoist. At the time, I had a bad gambling problem, so all the good things I had were all taken away, it was because I didn’t have any other choice that I had to resort to this. However, right now I have something good that can be used to make it up to you, a Tianyin ceremonial staff from Miao Yin Sect. I can guarantee it’s the real thing, if it isn’t may 5 bolts of lightning strike me from above”
The maid’s face was still horribly blank as she listened, it was only when the fire talisman swore that her expression loosened a bit.
A cultivator who swore to something cannot go back on his words, otherwise he’d be punished by heaven itself.
If the person sending the fire talisman had said so, the item must also be real.
The ancient Miao Yin Sect was also a famous large sect.
If the item is real, then it certainly would be something to desire.
The maid uttered a ‘hmph’ as she replied to the fire talisman: “Make sure there isn’t a next time”
Then she let the fire talisman go.
When she looked again at Gu Qing Shan, her expression was already much better.
“Come, let’s go see Her Eminence”
“Yes”
The two of them walked one behind the other through a long twisting corridor, passing through layers upon layers of palace ground, before reaching Bai Hua Palace’s main building.
“Send word, today’s Sword list was successfully attempted, see what Her Eminence says” the maid said.
“Yes”
Two other maids replied as one of them quickly entered the main palace, then quickly went back out.
“Her Eminence happens to have some time; she ordered for the one who solved it be sent in”
The maid looked at Gu Qing Shan, waved her hand to gesture him to enter and said: “You may go see Her Eminence now”
“Then I saw take my leave” Gu Qing Shan clasped his fist and bowed.
The maid smiled and said: “I shall give you a piece of advice. You cannot tell a single lie before Her Eminence. You will tell her only what you know, otherwise you won’t be able to handle the consequences”
“Thank you for your guidance” Gu Qing Shan answered.
The maid lightly nodded and stepped aside to give him passage.
Gu Qing Shan entered the main building alone as he silently thought about many things.
As soon as he entered Bai Hua country, he had been paying attention to that event.
The one thing that Bai Hua Fairy had done, the thing that had shocked everyone .
Why did Bai Hua Fairy feel the need to do something like that?
Was she really thinking of a method to break through Sainted realm like the rumors?
Before he could think anymore, he was already standing in the middle of the main palace hall.
The building was huge and breezy, the gentle wind carried the smell of spring flowers through the clean air.
Gu Qing Shan breathed in and felt his soul lightly shook.
Tracing back where the smell came from, he saw a fountain in the palace’s garden, where countless flowers are carved from Immortal Jade.
But as he looked closer, he saw that the fountain itself was also made from Immortal Jade.
Immortal Jade, also called transcended-grade spirit stones, is more valuable than the 3 traditional grades of low-mid-high for spirit stones. They’re things that you couldn’t buy even with money, resources so rare you can only wish to find but never asked for.
A piece of Immortal Jade as big as a fist could be used to run a massive defensive formation for an entire year, an Ascended realm cultivator can replenish spirit energy from it 100 times over, you can literally buy an entire small sect with it .
Yet in this palace, a fountain was made purely from Immortal Jade, what’s more, even the ten thousand species of flowers decorating it were also made from Immortal Jade.
Right in the middle of this fountain was a large blooming flower, revealing the throne inside the pistil.
The Ten-thousand Flower Throne
Gu Qing Shan muttered.
This was Bai Hua Fairy’s stronghold, a place so rich that it makes millions of players’ hearts beat faster, eyes bloodshot from greed, but never dare to touch.
On the throne sat a woman wearing an emerald feather coat and a thin silk veil on her face.
“You were the one that successfully attempted the sword list?” the woman asked, her voice like the chirping of a hundred birds.
“It was this humble one “Gu Qing Shan answered.
“Your knowledge of the sword is decent, your observational abilities are also praiseworthy, to help this Saint recognize a fake item, you are very commendable”
“Thank you” Gu Qing Shan replied.
This was Bai Hua Fairy; a person whose face no one knows.
She was the strongest of the 3 Saints of humanity, who in their right mind would dare peek under her veil?
Sainted realm was a place that no player was able to achieve in the past life.
Not only because of the astronomical amount of Experience Points, but also because to break through Sainted realm, relying on the game System alone wasn’t enough. Your comprehension and sensitivity towards the world must also reach the level of Saint.
He had heard there were also other conditions, but Gu Qing Shan himself had never found them.
In the past life, Gu Qing Shan was at the top, a peak Ascended cultivator, but he never found a way to even breakthrough to Sainted realm.
No player was ever able to do so.
Because of that, he held nothing but great respect for Bai Hua Fairy.
In the palace, as she saw the youth before her as silent as a statue, refusing to even say a single extraneous word, Bai Hua Fairy became a bit interested.
