White String: The Future And The Past
Chapter 2
Chapter 2: Xuewu Empire
Author: Alufra, Alfa
Editor: Hin Alfa
In the depths of Endless Clouds Mountain, a beautiful woman was bathing in the moonlight in her courtyard.
Actually can not be called a house, because the residence is now a palace. He cannot be called a woman either. Although she has a feminine face and silver-white hair that adds to her charm, she is male.
He was Xue Dan Wu, the 88th generation Emperor of the Xuewu Imperial Family. Everyone in Mainland Moon knew that the members of the Xuewu Imperial Family were members of the White Demon race who would not harm humans. But only a handful of people know the full story.
The Moon Land Continent experienced five eras. Ancient Era, Lonely Era, Great Fall Era, Dark Era, And New Era. The Ancient Era was where the path of cultivation began to be created and famous. In the Lonely Era, finding a True God was almost as easy as finding a hen among her chicks.
But in the Great Falling Era, there appeared an extremely ambitious True God. He wanted to devour the Heavenly Dao for himself. He wanted to be the most powerful and rule the entire continent.
The sect leaders who were there at that time worked together to stop him. Until in the end, that True God died exploding from absorbing too much Heavenly Dao. The impact of the explosion was so overwhelming that the entire Heavenly Dao was affected.
Only by absorbing and controlling a small portion of the Heavenly Dao could a human become a True God. After Heavenly Dao was affected, no more True Gods appeared. The True God left from the huge explosion suddenly disappeared and only left their relics as a trace if they ever existed.
The Great Fallen Era only lasted about a hundred years. A hundred years later, an invasion of the demon race arrives. This invasion was not an ordinary invasion, but a military aggression. Countless innocent human lives were victims.
The Demon Nation easily controlled the Moon Land Continent. They treat people like animals. Anyone who dares to oppose them will be killed. Human life becomes cheap.
But suddenly, the Blood Demon Race made a conspiracy to fight the White Demon Race that triggered an internal conflict among the demon race. The entire Elder and the patriarchal family were killed, leaving behind their Young Patriarch, Xue Tian Wu.
Xue Tian Wu fled to the Moon Mainland Continent. He nearly died of starvation and ended up in the mouth of the Magical Beast. In the last moments of his life, he was saved by a mysterious cultivator.
With the help of those cultivators, Xue Tian Wu reassembled the remaining members of his tribe and made the Blood Demon Race suffer a crushing defeat. The Blood Demon Race and the other races of the demon race had to leave the Moon Land after paying a huge price.
Only the White Demon Race remained. In order to avoid conflict with the human race, the mysterious cultivators ordered that they seclude themselves to the Endless Clouds Mountain Range. Then, a new empire was unofficially formed, the Xuewu Empire.
Sometimes there are people who are not responsible for attacking the White Demon Race in order to take revenge on the demon race. But they finally realized their mistake and coexisted with the Xuewu Imperial Family as citizens of the Xuewu Empire.
The Dark Era is over, entering a new era. The mysterious cultivator also disappeared, just as mysteriously as he appeared. The years passed peacefully in the Moon Land Continent. Conflicts between sects, divergence of flow, power struggles, and occasional invasions of the demon race colored the New Era, to date.
Xue Dan Wu involuntarily let out a long sigh. His momentarily chaotic mind began to gradually calm down.
The pair of white eyes without pupils glared into the distance, as if they had seen what the future would bring. “Has he arrived?” Xue Dan Wu laughed bitterly. He did not know that the person he was referring to sneezed even though he was just thinking about it.
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“Hatchii!”
“Is the person I had offended before I lost my memory gossiping about me? It was rather creepy,” White String shuddered in horror when he thought about it. Cultivators had incredible endurance, it was rare for them to sneeze or cough.
The biggest possibility was that someone was gossiping about them. Even if it's just a myth.
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After exiting the Thousand Swords Mountain Sect, White String chose a quite luxurious inn in Yun City.
Incidentally, there was an auction held. Auctions like this were indeed commonly held once every two years, before the acceptance examination of new disciples in the Thousand Swords Mountain Sect.
Most of the ones auctioned were swords, legendary sword shards, remnants of sword techniques, and other things not too far away from the swords. Including the next auction item.
“Honored customers, this is the Ancient Artifact we got from an ancient ruin some time ago. This was the Silver Rain Umbrella, this artifact was made from one of the Thunderwood Sword fragments from the Ancient Era. The price starts from 1000 spirit stones,” the manager explained the auctioned goods excitedly.The buyers began to offer prices boisterously.
“1100 spirit stone!”
“1250!”
“1400!”
“Pfft!!”
White String almost spouted the tea he had just drank. It was fortunate that he was in the VIP room, so no one saw his facial expression at the moment.
How not? If the Thunderwood Sword was in one piece, its value could shift the Yin and Yang Sabers of the Seven Heavenly Divine Weapons. Even the shards were still more valuable than Ancient Artifacts.
But this time it was only auctioned off for an initial price of 1000 spirit stones, and in the form of an umbrella!
“11.000!”
The final offer came from the White String. There was already no longer anyone willing to bid after the price had risen to ten thousand spirit stones. But the manager was not discouraged, this price had already far exceeded his shadow.
“If I had known that this artifact would appear, I would have saved more.”
“Houh! This is probably the best treasure there is at the auction this time around. Golden Lotus Pavilion reaped a huge profit.”
The complaints from some of the auction participants sounded from the other VIP rooms. They regretted the action of the auction house that did not distribute brochures containing items that Kan auctioned as usual. You could say this year was a surprise.
White String was not worried that the item he bought was fake. Because the one hosting the auction was the Golden Lotus Pavilion, one of the largest trade associations in the Five Empires. They will not sell counterfeit goods just to boost their reputation.
After the Silver Rain Umbrella, there were several other items auctioned off. Among them were Ancient Artifacts, but none of them caught his attention like the Silver Rain Umbrella. “I don't know what this umbrella will actually be used for. But since it's an umbrella, the real function is to use when it rains, right?”
Perhaps if anyone heard him, he would instantly vomit blood on the spot. White String is not wrong. Umbrellas are used for shelter from rain drops. But the one he was wearing was the Silver Rain Umbrella, which was made from a shard of Thunderwood Sword, the former Seven Heavenly Divine Weapons.
“Hey you're there! Stop!”
After being some distance away from the auction house of the Golden Lotus Pavilion, a young girl shouted at him. With the science of lightening the body, the girl arrived before the White String can block her path.
“What are you doing?” White String did not understand where this girl appeared from. He doesn't even know her.
“I know you're the lucky one who managed to buy Silver Rain Umbrella, quickly hand it over!” the girl's orders arrogantly.
She wore luxurious clothes, which showed her status as a member of the noble family. His face was filled with arrogance, but his hairstyle tied in two pigtails instead showed his childish nature.
“Nona Yuanling, on what basis do I have to hand over the items I have purchased?”
Yun Yuanling, the eldest daughter of Yun Niehai, Mayor of Yun, was stunned for a moment because the person she had just met first managed to guess her identity.
“B-how you-Ahh! If I bring my savings, the artifact will be mine. I'll pay double the price you pay if you hand it over!”
“Sorry, but I'm not short of money. If you're thinking of exchanging it for an artifact of equal value, it's better to just forget about it,” White String said on target. Here, spirit stones were used as currency other than gold and silver coins.
Yun Yuanling opened and closed her mouth many times. But do not bring out what he wants to say. When he saw White String wanted to turn around and take another direction, he hurriedly stopped him.
“Tung-you already know my identity, why still disrespect? I've been kind enough to be polite to you.”
White String glanced at him for a moment, before piercing Yun Yuanling's forehead with his index finger. “You're being polite because 'fear' my identity is bigger than yours. It's still a thousand years too soon for you to fight me.”
Yun Yuanling. After White String disappeared from his sight, he immediately covered his forehead which felt a little pain.
“Huhu, why is his finger so hard. That's a finger or a needle, sih?”
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“Patriak, have you really been better?” elder Bai asked as he brought the papers of the unlucky documents to Ji Changkong.
“Elder Bai, I'm fine. Even I can still overtime a few days to complete the tasks I had left behind,” Ji Changkong replied half-heartedly. For him to see the same documents every day was enough to evoke the urge to immediately appoint a successor. Unfortunately, he had not found a suitable person.
“I want to report something,Patriak.”
“Oh, are the books in the library stolen again?” Ji Changkong remembered that Elder Bai was in charge of the library. What he should have said was not far from that.
“Actually, when I check the age of the White String bone, the age of the bone..” Elder Bai paused his sentence to catch his breath.
“How old is his bone?” Ji Changkong started to get curious.
“Less than twenty years,more precisely 17 years.”
“$#&@¥&$¿?!”
Ji Changkong could hardly believe what he heard. Measuring bone age is the best way to determine how long a person has lived. Divine Qi Realm in the age before twenty, there had never even been a record of such a monster in the Silent Era.
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*Tim Bakul Ganyong Earth Dwellers