Chapter 499: The Sword Princess's Daughter - 499
Zhu Yi waited for the rest of the fights to finish. This time, he waited two days. Although there were less fights, there were more even matchups. The longest fight took an hour, which was still considered short considering that they were both Void Traversing realm cultivators.
Round three soon started, and Zhu Yi was the first fight. His opponent walked onto the stage confidently.
At the starting signal, his opponent slashed his sword towards him with flames covering it.
Zhu Yi flipped backwards and unsheathed his sword.
The formless sword.
The first formless sword knocked away the opponent's blade. The Second sent him flying back. The third was met with a lucky resistance. The fourth ended the fight.
Although his opponent was far stronger than his others so far, he was a user of the formless sword technique and had god rank sword talent.
Finding a worthy opponent was extremely challenging.
Zhu Yi watched the rest of the fights as usual. Some people won in a single strike, while others fought for a long time. Zhu Yi had to wait a week for the fights to end. One fight had taken an entire day to finish.
For the rest of the tournament, Zhu Yi would fight the first match.
His next opponent was at the same level of strength as his last one, and he quickly won.
As Zhu Yi watched this time, he saw more of the people that had previously only used a single strike to win.
They seemed to pose a threat, but Zhu Yi still could not get an accurate grasp.
As the fourth round came to an end, a week break was called. This was mostly unnecessary since they were cultivators, but the Sword Sect had another purpose for this break.
Over the next week, all of the contestants would be living in the same building. Since only 64 remained, it was not cramped at all.
The goal was to let those of the Sword Sect get to know each other and scout out future opponents.
Zhu Yi planned to stay in his room that entire time, but heard that there was supposedly extremely good food being served everyday.
Although he didn't believe it could be that good, Zhu Yi entered the cafeteria to give it a try.
There was no line, and only around 20 people were eating. No matter who it was, every single person was eating as if they had never eaten anything in their life.
Zhu Yi grabbed a tray and found that the meal was lobster. He had never been much of an eater, but grabbed a lobster and sat down with it.
As he looked at it, he realized he didn't know how to eat it.
"Whatever." He mumbled as he took a bite out of the back.
The shell was hard, but it did not stop his teeth. He took out a large bite and swallowed.
To put it simply, it was the greatest thing he had ever tasted. Zhu Yi ended up eating it whole, not leaving claws or a shell behind.
He felt some weird stares, but ignored them. After finishing, he began walking back to his room. It was a worthwhile trip.
Just as he was about to leave the cafeteria, he heard a voice behind him.
"Um, sir. That's not how you eat a lobster. I can teach you."
Zhu Yi heard a girl's voice. She sounded shy.
He turned around and was shocked. His memories seemed to fly by as he remembered his time inside of Chen Jie's inheritance.
There was one person in particular that Zhu Yi remembered. The sword princess. He had not even been able to see her as she beat him. Only with instant completion had he survived. Somehow, the girl that spoke to him seemed almost identical to the brief glimpse he had caught of the woman after winning the fight.
"Sword Princess?" Zhu Yi asked.
The girl's eyes widened and she hurriedly put a finger over her mouth and moved away. Zhu Yi followed her.
They found themselves in an empty room.
"How do you know the sword princess?" The shy girl asked.
"I saw her fight someone long ago." Zhu Yi said.
"That's my mother. Nobody knows that I'm related to her, and nobody is supposed to find out. Please keep it a secret." She asked.
Zhu Yi nodded. He didn't know the Sword Princess personally either way.
Seeing Zhu Yi agree, the girl sighed in relief. "Did you see a recording of my mother's fight?"
The Sword Princess was probably ancient, so it would be weird if he had seen her personally.
"I did. I only heard her name and saw her fight. Can you tell me about her?" Zhu Yi asked.
He was curious. He also wanted to know why this girl had to hide her identity.
"When my mother was younger, she could easily defeat anyone in the same realm. She was born in the Main Sword Sect, and even there she was unbeatable. At one point, the elders of the Sword Sect even searched for someone who could possibly defeat her on the same level. However, nobody ever did. This is a commonly known legend. She is now the vice-master of the Sword Sect. However, as her only daughter, I happen to know more. Do you want to hear?" She asked.
Just like Zhu Yi was curious, the girl seemed excited to talk about her mother.
Zhu Yi nodded.
"When my mother reached the Space Shattering realm, she met a man that had climbed up from a lower world. He was born from a mortal family, but he alone managed to reach the stars. They were at the same realm and the same level. Like my mother always had, she challenged him to a fight. He refused, but my mother was young and immature. Countless victories had grown her arrogance. She did not bow even in front of god realm cultivators. She attacked without another word." After this she paused for a moment.
"My mother did not fully describe the fight to me, but she told me that this was her first defeat. She told me one line. His name was Chen Jie, and he was invincible."
Chapter 500: Round 6 - 500
It seemed that Chen Jie had made his appearance as invincible even in the wider universe. It was no wonder that the Sword Princess had been a part of the White Palace City inheritance trial.
"I was actually born in the same world as Chen Jie." Zhu Yi said.
The Sword Princess's daughter's eyes lit up. "Do you know more about Chen Jie? I've only heard a bit about him."
"On my world, he created an inheritance under a place called White Palace City."
The Sword Princess's daughter interrupted. "White Palace City? I've heard of that place. It is where Chen Jie lives on the world tree."
So Chen Jie had created another White Palace City off of the world.
"I've always wanted to visit it, but never got the chance."
At this time, Zhu Yi and the Sword Princess's daughter heard a shout. It was calling an unfamiliar name.
"That's me. Gotta go." She said before leaving.
"So she is Lei Cen, daughter of the Sword Princess."
It seemed that Zhu Yi had an opponent he had to look out for.
He returned to his room and practiced the sword for a day. The next day, he returned to the cafeteria and found a new food.
It was known as caviar. Zhu Yi tried it, and once again, it was good. Luckily, he could just eat it whole this time.
He repeated the same thing the next day and over the rest of the week. He never again interacted with the daughter of the Sword Princess.
She was a nice girl, but he wasn't that type of cultivator. Some cultivators spent their entire life dedicated to cultivation, while some pursued things such as love. He was the former.
The competition started again. Zhou Fan stood in the crowd instead of next to Zhu Yi. Otherwise, he would be noticed.
There were 64 people remaining for the 5th round. From here on, only the elites remained. It seemed as if it was rigged to make sure that luck didn't play a factor. All the weak people were gone.
Almost everyone that remained was at the tenth level of the void traversing realm. Only Zhu Yi and a few others weren't.
Zhu Yi was the first to go up. He faced a grown man with a full beard. He used a great sword. As soon as the battle started, the man with the greatsword began to spin around while holding the greatsword out.
Wind Qi gathered around him and quickly formed a tornado. Zhu Yi used the formless sword, but it was canceled out by the tornado of Wind Qi.
The tornado weakened a bit, but clearly grew stronger as the man kept spinning. Zhu Yi didn't waste any more time with the formless sword, even though he knew he could win with it.
The tornado was strong enough to distort space, but Zhu Yi charged forward and slashed down.
Breaking Through All Things.
The tornado was split, and the space within the arena cracked. The man was instantly sent flying without resistance, only surviving due to protection mechanisms.
Although he wasn't in the Space Shattering realm, Zhu Yi could somewhat break space. It wasn't too rare within the universe, but also not at all common.
Nobody went unsurprised.
With that, Zhu Yi won his fight. He still hadn't even used Time Qi.
The next few fights took on average a day each. Only a few like Zhu Yi's were much quicker. The daughter of the Sword Princess, Lei Cen, was one of the few that quickly defeated her opponent. She moved fast and gracefully.
Although the Sword Princess had only been at the Foundation Establishment realm in the inheritance, Zhu Yi still felt as if the Sword Princess's daughter was lacking something in comparison.
Zhu Yi paid more attention to the contestants this round.
It took around 20 days for this round to finish up.
Without another break, Zhu Yi went up to fight again.
Although his previous opponent was good, this opponent was the first real challenge of the tournament for Zhu Yi.
He had quickly dealt with his opponent, similar to Zhu Yi.
He did not use an elemental technique, but pure swordsmanship and sword intent.
Not wanting to reveal any trump cards just yet, Zhu Yi decided to have a good fight.
At the sound of the start, Zhu Yi used the formless sword. Although his opponent could not see or sense a thing, he moved wildly and unpredictably. His movement technique was annoying.
He closed the gap, only getting hit a few times, and slashed horizontally at Zhu Yi.
Zhu Yi used the Sword Walk movement technique and appeared behind him.
His opponent turned and swung, but Zhu Yi used his opponent's sword as a stepping stone and launched himself into the air.
While flying, he released countless formless swords. Although he had not increased the number of formless swords past 1000, this was a choice. He focused on quality instead of quantity. Each sword was now stronger and harder to detect.
Using a much faster speed than before, Zhu Yi launched 1000 formless swords and sheathed his sword.
Although his opponent moved weirdly, he could not avoid the powerful formless swords. Perhaps if he was a person focused on defense or pure movement speed, he would be able to survive.
However, this was a sword sect competition. Such people were far and few.
HIs opponent instantly received countless cuts as if he was thrown into a blender, but he moved forward.
He was resolute in his actions and strong. Zhu Yi respected him. It was not that his opponent was weak, but that Zhu Yi was too strong. Perhaps this man was able to defeat a Chaos Beast at the same level when he was in the Soul Formation realm.
Just as he thought he was about to finish his opponent, two more swords seemed to appear to the sides of his opponent out of nowhere. They were faint and illusory, like weak holograms.
As his opponent charged forward, two illusory people grabbed the sword and charged with his opponent.
Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
121 Power
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