Chapter 2383
When Bai Ling Shuang heard Han Sen claim that the road had been difficult for him, she rolled her eyes . She had seen Han Sen running casually up the mountain, making the ascent without breaking the smallest sweat . He wasn’t gasping or red in the face . It looked as if the trek hadn’t even been much of a bother .
Still, Bai Ling Shuang didn’t say a word . Han Sen was carrying her up the mountain . From her perspective, it looked like Han Sen was actually leaving the staircase, walking away from the mountain and out into the open air .
In reality, they were still going up the staircase . Bai Ling Shuang only thought they were walking over open air because of the distortions within the dimension .
As he walked, Han Sen noticed Bai Wei . She was stumbling forward like the other royal children, making no progress .
Because she had gotten there quite late, the repressive power hadn’t acted on her nearly as strongly as it had the others . The fact that she could walk faster than the other children wasn’t helping, though, because she couldn’t find the path . Continuing to walk forward would be pointless .
“This girl isn’t bad, and she did try to save Bao’er . Her heart is in the right place . ” Han Sen sighed . He secretly cast his Dongxuan Aura and fired some power in her direction .
Bai Wei was struggling to walk forward, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t escape that seemingly-infinite staircase . She had gotten really flustered .
Suddenly, Bai Wei felt a wave of power roll across the stairs . It spread gently around her .
“This is…” A strange feeling passed through Bai Wei’s heart .
The dimensional twists of the translucent trail hid the royal children from each other . Even if two people walked right beside each other, they wouldn’t see one another . Even if they were touching each other, it wouldn’t make a difference .
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Now, a trickle of power was flowing tantalizingly down the stairs before Bai Wei .
Bai Wei’s heart jumped, and she followed that strange power . The power was disappearing quickly as she chased after it . She pushed against the distortions in the dimension, trying to keep her eyes on that guiding trickle of energy .
As she walked, Bai Wei noticed that the stairs were about to vanish beneath her . The power led away from the staircase entirely and out into the sky .
She had to move quickly to keep up with her guide, so Bai Wei gritted her teeth and walked out without hesitation . Her body floated away from the mountain into open air . She didn’t fall, though . Her feet met with something, and she kept walking forward .
Bai Wei grinned . There had been no other path to follow, so she had chased that power . If she stepped in the wrong place, she would fall all the way back down the mountain .
On Rot Bone Mountain, even deified elites couldn’t fly well . Bai Wei was just a Duke .
Bai Wei had to keep up with the guiding power in order to stay on the correct path . She kept chasing that power, running as she went .
Han Sen carried Bai Ling Shuang all the way to the top . Once there, he found that a mixture of princes and princesses had also made it to the peak .
Bai Qing Xia was there, too . He was surprised to see Han Sen come up alongside Bai Ling Shuang .
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Han Sen had already let go of Bai Ling Shuang, though . Aside from Prince Four and Princess Two, no one knew that Han Sen had carried Bai Ling Shuang up to the peak .
“It looks like I win,” Bai Qing Xia said, as he stared at Han Sen . He thought Han Sen had just reached the top .
The other princes and princesses thought so, too . After all, the translucent trail couldn’t be ascended through pure speed . It wasn’t strange to think that Han Sen had only just arrived .
Bai Ling Shuang was sweating, but when she saw the five words inscribed in the knoll, she suddenly felt wide awake . A rush of joy poured through her .
She didn’t possess the Kingese Ao or Gu, so making her way up the translucent trail would have been too difficult for her . Bai Qing Xia had the word Ao, though, so it was much easier for him to reach the top . Physical strength didn’t matter much in this contest .
“Is this the Proud Bone Swordmind from Mad Sword?” Bai Ling Shuang looked at the five words, “Pride and bones are made . ” She looked so happy as she mumbled to herself .
Han Sen was confused . He had never heard of a king called Mad Sword . There were some God Swords and even Holy Swords, but a title like Mad Sword didn’t seem worthy of a king .
Bai Qing Xia picked up where Bai Ling Shuang had left off . “Mad Sword was born crippled . He didn’t have a king body, and so he was bullied severely . But in the end, he used his sword to become deified . He might not have had a king body, but he prevailed over many in the Extreme King . Even deified elites with powerful king bodies lost to his sword . He wasn’t a ruler of our people, but he could be considered a king without a crown amongst the Extreme King . Our race has had many swordsmen in its time, but none are as worthy of respect as Mad Sword . ”
Han Sen receded into thought . “I didn’t know the Extreme King had someone that strong amongst them . How come I have never heard of it until now?”
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Bai Qing Xia had only just finished when a princess, who wasn’t too far away, looked over at him with disdain . “Mad Sword’s power matters little . No glorification can rinse away the dirt . He is not worthy of admiration . ”
Bai Qing Xia and Bai Ling Shuang frowned at the princess . After seeing their faces, she turned away . They avoided all contact with her .
Han Sen wasn’t interested in that princess, either . He wanted to know Mad Sword’s story . Clearly, Mad Sword must have been very different from the majority of the Extreme King . Even his title sounded rather taboo amongst them .
If Han Sen had actually been Bai Yi, he would have known about Mad Sword . He wasn’t Bai Yi, though, and so he couldn’t simply ask .
While they were talking, someone else approached . It was Bai Wei . She was dripping with sweat after finally reaching the top . Her body was shivering, and she could barely stand . She was obviously fighting to hold herself together .
Although Han Sen had sent power to guide her, she was too weak . Even if she knew the way, reaching the peak as a Duke was monumentally difficult .
Many of the royal children looked stunned when they saw Bai Wei at the top . In the long history of the Extreme King, only a few Dukes had ever made it this far .
Bai Wei looked at the princes and princesses . She wanted to know who left behind the power that guided her up, but she was unable to learn anything . No one there was using that power .
When she looked at Han Sen, though, her mood turned to foul anger . She snarled slightly as she stared at him .
She was still bitter about Bai Yi’s consumption of Han Sen . She didn’t think that power belonged to him .
Bai Wei looked around, but she still couldn’t tell which of them had left the power for her . She was really grateful, though . And she went to the knoll to have a look at the five words inscribed there .
Bai Ling Shuang and the others were all in similar shape . Hiking was a test . Mad Sword’s Proud Bone Swordmind was very beneficial . Even if they weren’t fans of the man himself, they still slavered over his swordmind .
Han Sen found a seat . He wanted to watch the swordmind from the most comfortable position, but there was little for him to do other than that .
It wasn’t that Han Sen lacked talent or hadn’t practiced enough; the swordmind simply conflicted with Han Sen’s own swordmind . The two were polar opposites . There was nothing similar or compatible between them . The stronger Han Sen’s will was, the harder it would be for him to understand the Proud Bone Swordmind .
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