Heaven Slaying Blade

"So that's how it is!" The woman's eyes showed a hint of confusion as she slowly placed the ancient text back. Then, she gently closed her eyes, and soon, lines of golden inscriptions rose up, like threads of gold.

This place, almost in an instant, became radiant with golden light. The ancient text which was returned was also slowly adjusting its angle, and in the end, returned to its original position. At the same time, these golden threads completely erased all traces of the woman's presence here.

Afterward, the woman walked out from here and slowly headed back to her residence.

The charming maid waiting outside finally breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing the woman's silhouette and then accompanied her, chatting away as they left.

In the vast garden, only the two of them could be seen, for this was the Heavenly Palace's ruler's quarters!

Besides the two of them, no one else dared to step foot in here.

The guards outside would not allow any creature into here, except for the woman and her maid. Because this woman was the daughter of the Heavenly Palace's ruler! She was the princess here. The princess loved flowers since she was a child and would often come here to admire them, which the ruler permitted.

However, the ruler did not allow the princess to enter his study at will, but that was not something the guards could control. They couldn't sense what was happening inside either.

The only one in the know, the little maid, would certainly not betray her lady. In fact, she also didn't understand why the ruler never let the lady into his study. Deep down, she felt it wasn't that big of a deal.

After returning to her quarters, the woman dismissed her maid and sat there alone, lost in thought.

Since she was a child, she knew she was not the ruler's biological daughter. But the ruler treated her exceedingly well, with utmost care.

As one of the three major powers, the Heavenly Palace ruler's daughter naturally enjoyed the most top-notch in everything the world had to offer.

But there was one thing: the ruler never allowed her to go to his study.

From a very young age, she discovered she had a unique ability. She never spoke of this ability to anyone, not even the ruler!

And that is, she can communicate with all the inscriptions in the Heavenly Palace...

This ability is quite terrifying!

Even in a place like the Eternal Hall, such an ability is awe-inspiring, because it's so unbelievably strange.

Inscriptions carved on walls, stones, eaves, even tiles, and roads underfoot, can these actually be alive? Even cultivators at the ancestral realm wouldn't think so.

They all know these inscriptions are extraordinary, extremely so, because once they light up, even if they attack with all their might, it's impossible to disperse the power emanating from these inscriptions.

Once the inscriptions light up, the defense is nearly invincible! No, not nearly invincible, but truly invincible!

No one can break through!

But to tell them these inscriptions are alive, have thoughts, have independent consciousness, they wouldn't believe it. Some ancient patterns with rules, how could they possibly be alive? Isn't that nonsense?

But Xu Shiyun can communicate with these inscriptions.

She doesn't even know why she possesses this ability. Anyway, ever since she first started remembering things as a toddler, she felt these inscriptions were intimate, like family, calling to her.

At first, she was very scared, extremely fearful. However, these inscriptions did their best to comfort her, telling her, "Don't be afraid, we won't harm you."

Gradually, Xu Shiyun became friends with these inscriptions and later, very good friends.

She could clearly understand the temperament and nature of each inscription, know exactly what each liked.

For example, the inscriptions on the walls outside her quarters really liked to listen to stories. They enjoyed all kinds of stories. Whenever she sat quietly by the wall reading a story, those inscriptions would be very pleased.

For instance, the inscriptions on the outside walls loved listening to music. Xu Shiyun had tried telling them stories, but they showed little interest. Instead, when Xu Shiyun hummed songs casually, the wall inscriptions would be particularly happy.

As the little girl grew up, book-loving Xu Shiyun developed a hypothesis after reading countless historical texts and classics.

"Am I...not from this world?"

"Why do I always feel as if I don't quite fit into this world?"

She once asked her father, the Heavenly Palace ruler, about just this. But the ruler directly lost his temper, it was the first and only time he got angry in front of Xu Shiyun.

He reprimanded Xu Shiyun fiercely, saying she was imagining things, spouting nonsense!

"I, you, are people born in the ancient god world, where else could you belong if not to this world?"

Since then, Xu Shiyun became quiet, but the doubt deep in her heart did not lessen because of her father's outburst and scolding. Instead, it grew more.

She always wanted to go to her father's study to verify something, to unravel the doubts in her heart. But the Palace Master of the Heavenly Palace never leaves, spending countless ages in the palace.

This time, he finally went out, perhaps thinking that after so many years, Xu Shiyun had long forgotten her childhood curiosity. Therefore, he did not seal the study.

But he did not expect that Xu Shiyun not only entered his study but also looked through his most important book. In the eyes of the Heavenly Palace Master, no one in this world, except for the Lord of the Eternal Hall, Bu Xuye of the Bu Clan Dynasty, and the Lord of Eternity, could understand it.

He was careless!

Xu Shiyun could easily read the inscriptions in the book, and even engage in the most fundamental communication with them.

Such an ability could only be possessed by the top-tier beings among the Four Great Heavens.

The book Xu Shiyun read was called — The Complete History of the Four Great Heavens.

It looked very thin, with only a little content, but in reality, those inscriptions were all-encompassing. It was simply an encyclopedia of the Four Great Heavens!

Thus, Xu Shiyun received an overwhelming amount of information at once.

Then, she understood her own origins.

She was a being from one of the Four Great Heavens. Specifically, whose child she was, she did not know. But she clearly understood that she was not human. The blood in her body, her flesh, her bones… all were condensed from laws!

Seemingly vibrant, a cut on her finger with a knife would bleed and feel pain. That was because her body was sealed by a special power of laws!

"Who am I? My father… why did he bring me here?"

"What are they really trying to do here?"

Xu Shiyun was confused and bewildered, not knowing what to do at all.

She had lived here for so long that she considered herself a person with special abilities. She never thought there was such a fundamental difference between her and humans.

In that book, The Complete History of the Four Great Heavens, she saw many introductions about humans.

"Cunning, deceitful, dirty, filthy, lowly, malevolent, cruel…"

Almost all negative descriptions could be found in the introductions about humans in that book.

According to what was stated in The Complete History of the Four Great Heavens, humans shouldn't even exist in this world. They should be exterminated at birth.

"Why is it like this? Why are the humans I interact with not like that? Among them, indeed, are bad people, and some have this or that shortcoming. But isn't that normal? Why is the description of humans in The Complete History of the Four Great Heavens so unbearable? Does it mean those so-called higher beings of the Four Great Heavens really have no flaws?"

Xu Shiyun fell into deep confusion, feeling lost.

Because in her view, her father, the Palace Master of the Heavenly Palace, was not a flawless being either.

Yes, according to this book, The Complete History of the Four Great Heavens, and the inscriptions engraved everywhere in the Heavenly Palace, she already knew that her father was definitely not human!

"Since the beings of the Four Great Heavens are not truly perfect, why do they hate humans so much? They call themselves Heavenly People… are Heavenly People not humans? No flesh and blood… so they must be clean?"

Xu Shiyun sat there quietly, suddenly looking at the inscriptions engraved on the wall. Her divine sense slightly fluttered, and she asked, "Ancient Grandpa, are humans really that bad?"

These inscriptions on the wall were the first inscriptions Xu Shiyun came into contact with, and she called it "Ancient Grandpa."

The inscriptions on the wall twisted eerily, as if suddenly coming to life, protruding from the flat image, and then a small figure composed entirely of inscriptions walked out from it.

The little figure was only the size of a finger, with white mustache and hair, and a kindly face. It indeed looked like an old grandfather.

"Child, why do you ask this?" the finger-sized white-bearded old man said with a smile, "Any living being in this world has both good and bad, existence… is meaningful."

"Then… why is the description of humans in The Complete History of the Four Great Heavens so wretched?" Xu Shiyun asked.

"You… you actually went to read that thing?" the white-bearded old man seemed very surprised, even a little scared. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Child, you must not let your father know about this. Otherwise, he will kill you!"

Xu Shiyun suddenly felt her body chill. She didn't understand why her father would kill her just for wanting to know a little more.