At the Tianshang empire's palace, Xia Xue was inside her room cultivating, She's already at the 2nd stage of core formation, which is considered extremely good in the empire at her age, since she's still 19, she's basically a prodigy, but the imperial family still mistreat her as she doesn't have the royal blood, her sister on the other hand is only at the 9th stage of the Qi condensation realm. But she's still the heir to the throne since she has royal blood, and when going out, Xia Xue is forced to be her bodyguard so she doesn't have much free time, sometimes she gets missions to go slay monsters as well, and they are extremely dangerous. And after she completes a mission, all of the benefits from the missions from doing the missions goes to her sister, Xia Zhi, to give her the favoribility from the people in the empire as she will be the next empress.
And she gets a mission today to kill a low rank tier 4 monster in the forest near the Xiangchen city, the monster is roaming in the egde of the forest and there's a chance it might get into the city.
After I reached foundation establishment, I unlocked the QI sword, which allows me to form a sharp energy blade using my hand.
I used the QI sword to cut the trees, and I had already made the outer layer of the house in the forest, in the area that I had accidentally cleared before while fighting fighting the high ranked tier 3 monster.
I looked at the progress of the house I was building.
Hm.. it's not bad... I smiled.
I walked to a tree and laid down next to a tree to rest, before building the rest of the house.
Meanwhile, Xia Xue was already in the forest and she had found the monster she was searching for, but the information on the mission was wrong. It's not a low rank tier 4 monster, it's a mutant rank 4 monster. It's only slightly below the strength of a high ranking tier 4 monster. And to kill it, you at least need to be on the 6th stage of the core formation realm.
Xia Xue was fighting it with all the strength she had.
Huff, huff. No way. They lied to me...
Xia Xue was injured from fighting it already, her arm was broken and her leg was bleeding, she was holding her sword with one hand as it was the only way she could defend herself. The monster was made from tree veins, and to kill it, its core should be destroyed, which many monsters above the the tier 4 had. The core was in its chest, and she had no way to win against it now.
Shit... Is this the end? She gripped her sword tighter as she thought to herself.
Well. I didn't have anyone that cared about me anyways. I had no friends either.. so ending my life here wouldn't be that bad... A thought about me crossed her mind.
The kid I named Ace. She sighed. Did I really think that he cared about me just now? All I did was help him a little. He probably doesn't even remember me now. I shouldn't call him a kid though... He only looked like two years younger than me... Even though he looked pale... Why am I even thinking all this in a moment like this? I'm about to die... She sighed as a smile formed on her face.
As I was resting where I was building my house, I could smell that a monster was fighting in the forest, and I smelled a similar scent to Xia Xue. I got up.
"Xia Xue!? What's she doing in the forest. Did she come looking for me and got caught up with a monster?! Shit! This is bad!"