The Avalon Of Five Elements - Chapter 278

Chapter 278

Chapter 278: The Youth in the Cold Palace

Translator: Cynthia  Editor: KLKL

The towering palace looked solemn and majestic .

Emotionless god guards stood at each side of the palace gates like sculptures . They looked tiny compared to the tall and grand gates . Looking into the palace through the vermeil palace gates that were open wide, one could see no end, only gates after gates .

The palace was empty . There were no guards on patrol or maidservants coming in or out .

The floor of the palace was made of burnished blackish gold slates . Under the sunshine, the glittering surface added to its luxuriousness . In comparison, the stone carvings along the road were unadorned and simple . The lifelike images on the stone carvings depicted devils in the haunted night . The devils all looked ferocious, vicious, gloomy or cunning .

The whole palace was extremely silent . No sound could be heard, but anyone in it could sense an unspeakable pressure .

Even the blood fiends didn’t dare to utter a sound, but were only crouching at the top of the wall quietly .

Deep in the spacious palace and under the dome, a youth with long hair trailing over his shoulders was sitting at the high throne silently . The dense patterns of blood spread from every corner of the hall to the high throne located at the center of the hall .

The youth looked gentle and frail . His eyes were closed, and his face was pale . The most arresting part was his long hair that flowed to his waist, the ends of which were as white as snow .

He was Bei Shuisheng, the well-known Sick Tiger of tje Blood Nation .

No sound could be heard inside the palace . Only incenses were burning .

The youth slowly opened his eyes . His dark pupils were placid and deep .

Suddenly something black flew inside the palace . It turned out to be a vigorous goshawk with dark red eyes . The goshawk landed on the long desk in the palace and spitted out a red blood ball .

The young man forced a smile . His pale face made him look even frailer . He left his seat and walked to the table . His loose black robe that dragged on the floor was spotlessly clean .

"It’s so inconvenient without message trees," the youth murmered .

The Blood of God had been trying to create their own message trees, but achieved no success so far .

There were huge differences between blood spiritual force and elemental energy . Therefore, the message tree couldn’t be used in God Nation . Previously, someone proposed to make use of elementalist captures to re-enable the functioning of message trees, but taking confidentiality into consideration, the proposal was denied . Now in Blood of God, letters were usually passed by blood birds, which was a very primitive method compared with the message tree .

The Avalon of Five Elements had a history of more than one thousand years . In this aspect, the Blood of God was still weak in its foundation . Even though in terms of fighting capacity, it was not inferior to the Avalon of Five Elements at all, there were still gaps in other aspects .

Bei Shuisheng had ordered to increase manpower on this, but so far the progress was still slow . He himself was clearly aware that it was useless to push them anyway . The message tree was the result of many years of study and another few hundred years of improvement .

If there was anything in the Avalon of Five Elements that could compete with the Cultivation Era, the message tree must be one of them .

The Blood of God even tried the paper crane that was utilized in Cultivation Era, but compared with message trees, its efficiency of message delivery was still slower . Although the paper crane was not a perfect choice yet, it was still usable in the context that the creation of message trees in the Blood of God was slow . After all, blood spiritual force was also spiritual force, and could power the paper cranes without limitation . The key problem was materials .

However, at the moment, blood birds were a safer choice .

Bei Shuisheng raised his hand and touched the blood ball with his pale and thin finger, and the blood ball immediately transformed into a bloody light and merged into his body .

Bei Shuisheng closed his eyes and read it carefully . After a while, he opened his eyes and laughed out gently, "Lesser Avalon of Five Elements? How did they think of it? But it’s a good idea anyway . Interesting . "

He began to write something fast at the table . Before long, he finished writing and folded the letter carefully . The goshawk flew in front of him and swallowed the folded letter before it spread its wings and flew away .

The goshawk was like a signal indicating the start of a day . Afterwards, blood birds kept flying in and out, bringing various matters to his table .

He stretched himself first before devoting himself to work . His reading and writing speed was fast, and the instructions and comments he wrote were short and concise . The whole process was as smooth as flowing water .

After about two hours, he stopped and rubbed his temples, looking tired and exhausted . Then he stood up and walked down from the high throne to stretch him limbs .

The work for today was done . He could take a rest .

The sunshine was cast on the ground from outside the gate, drawing a clear-cut boundary between light and shadow behind the gate .

Bei Shuisheng stopped and sat down in the shadow absent-minded . This was his favorite daily activity . He only spent two hours dealing with his work every day, and for the rest of the day, he would look outside the palace like this .

He had ordered to open all the gates so that he could look out .

Gates after gates . He could see no end of the long blackish gold slate pavement and the stone carvings . The outmost gate in his eyes was only the size of a sesame seed .

The outside world was the same size as a sesame seed to him too .

He rested his chin in his hand, and looked at the outside world fascinatedly . Sometimes he smiled with some expectation, as if something interesting occurred to him .

The high dome roof behind him was cold and lonely .

… . . .

At Swordsman Training Hall in Peace City .

Fu Yonghao was impatient . Why did they have to watch two kids fighting against each other? He couldn’t bear to stay here, even for one more minute .

The war lasted for three years, and many things were different from before . The cruelty of the war was pressing on everyone’s heart like a mountain . Under such pressure, the pace of life had become much faster . Whether it was training or life, it was no longer what it was like in those years .

In the past, an elementalist who had attained elemental externalization could be counted as a master-hand . Nowadays, however, the number of such elementalists had more than tripled compared with three years ago . Everyone was practicing desperately and spared no efforts to find shortcuts to a higher base level . Blood crystals, elemental food…anything that might be helpful to training had already been studied so many times by numerous people .

In troubled times, your strength was the only thing you could depend on to survive . Those who fell behind would only be eliminated .

To be eliminated meant death .

But since Big Sister didn’t say anything, no matter how impatient Fu Yonghao was, he dared not make any trouble, as he always regarded her with reverence and fear .

The confrontation ended up in a draw . Su Qingye and Zhou Wen first used up their elemental energy, and then their physical energy . Neither of them could accept such a result, but the only thing they could do now was sitting in the sandpit weak and limp and glaring at each other in fury .

Having announced the result, Lou Lan looked towards the group of people and said, "Nice to meet you . Welcome to Swordsman Training Hall . Anything I can help you with?"

Fu Renxuan, who was relatively older in age, asked, "Is Mr . Wang Han here? We heard that this training hall was opened by him and we are here to visit him . "

"I’m sorry . He is having a rest, and may not be able to meet you . " Lou Lan expressed his regret .

Fu Yonghao had been bored to death for too long . Hearing what Lou Lan said, he immediately became angry, "What does that guy want to do? How dare he send a sand puppet to…"

"Shut up!" The lady stopped him harshly .

Fu Yonghao ducked his head at once and dared not say anything else, although his face was still filled with anger .

The lady bowed slightly to Lou Lan and said, "I sincerely apologize for my brother’s rudeness . "

"It’s alright" Lou Lan shook his head, "But my master cannot meet you indeed . Would you please come again next time?"

"If that’s the case, we will pay a visit some other day . "

The lady was very polite . Then the rest of the crowd left after her .

As soon as they stepped out of the training hall, Fu Yonghao couldn’t help murmuring, "Big Sister, do we have to do this? It’s simply a shabby training hall…"

The lady’s face looked dark, "Yonghao, if you continue like this, you will get into trouble sooner or later!"

"Same old story . " Fu Yonghao whispered disapprovingly .

Then the lady turned to Fu Renxuan, "What do you think, Renxuan?"

Fu Renxuan was a modest person . He thought for a while and said, "Although the two students were not skillful enough, their swordsmanship is rather exquisite . "

A streak of disappointment flashed across the lady’s eyes . Although Fu Renxuan was sober and modest, his ability was only mediocre and could hardly take over the family business . Meanwhile, Fu Yonghao was too irritable and flippant . If he could not change his character through hardship, he could hardly achieve any success .

It was a pity that she herself was a female .

"One of them is an earth elementalist, and the other a metal elementalist . The earth elementalist had no sand puppet with him, but could utilize the sand in the sandpit to motivate his sword moves . The metal elementalist was using a soft sword, but if you took a closer look, you would see that his sword movement was drastic and he apparently used it as a heavy sword . The sword was a soft sword, but his moves were heavy . "

Having heard Big Sister’s analysis, the impatience on their faces was gone .

"Whether it was sand sword and soft sword, the sword gleams were very clear . But did you notice that there was hardly any fluctuation of their elemental energy . Besides, taking their elemental energy level into consideration, I have to say that the duration of their confrontation was too long . "

Fu Renxuan’s face became solemn, "After Bis Sister pointed it out, we do realize so . "

Fu Yonghao was unwilling to admit so he said, "They are just two kids . Do you have to treat them so seriously?"

Big Sister replied, "The tiny elemental energy fluctuation and long confrontation duration indicated their high efficiency in the usage of elemental energy . What kind of person cares about the usage efficiency of elemental energy? Only those who have been in actual combats many times . Therefore, it seems that their teacher, Wang Han, must be a person of superb swordsmanship and has abundant real combat experience . Besides, this person is also good at fishing artifact remnants, but chooses to dwell in such a remote and unknown city . He is not simple at all . "

"You are right," Fu Renxuan agreed, "we have never heard of this name either . "

The lady suddenly said, "Yonghao, you also practice swordsmanship . "

Fu Yonghao was a bit confused at first, then he was a bit excited and asked . "Why? Do you want me to test his ability?"

"No . " she shook her head and said, "You will bring money and gifts to the training hall and learn swordsmanship from Wang Han, starting from tomorrow . "

These words shocked everyone present .

Fu Yonghao almost couldn’t believe his ears and stammered, "I, I go to the training hall…"

"Yes . " The lady nodded and said indubitably, "This Wang Han’s swordsmanship is excellent . You must study hard from him . "

Fu Yonghao was vexed, "Big Sister…"

"I have already decided . "

The lady said without looking back at him .

In the Swordsman Training Hall, Ai Hui woke up with a start .

Face looking pale, he stood up, walked to the mirror and took off his clothes .

The blood plum flower on his chest became hot and more beautiful .

"Ai Hui, it’s transforming . " Lou Lan was standing at the gate, and his eyes were glittering . Then he passed a leaf to Ai Hui and said, "News from the message tree . "

Ai Hui put on his clothes and took the leaf . Danger flickered in his narrowed eyes .

With the Dragonspine in his hand, he strode over to his azure wings .

"Lou Lan, I’ll be going out for a while . "

"Okay, Ai Hui . "