Chapter 10 (1/2)
Ice Fantasy Chapter 10 – The a.s.sa.s.sination of Die Che
I’ve finally found how huge and incredible about Hua Xue Mountain when I was standing on the territorial water that was as vast as the Ice Sea. Xing Gui told me this was the territory of South Guardian, Die Che and behind this territorial water, it’s the Southern Palace Bo Tian Zhu Que.
Apparition was the only way for us to get past the territorial water. I hooked up my finger, getting ready to summon the snow.
“No, my king.” Xing Gui’s breath was weak but rapid. “My king, this is not any ordinary lake. There are ten enchantments superimposed on this lake, there might be more enchantments that I couldn’t sense. In other words, someone may just fall into another world if you are not careful enough. And what kind of worlds would there be, I couldn’t determine. Maybe it’s a world filled with sharp ice blades, or a vast land of roaring fire, or maybe a beautiful hill planted with cherry blossom trees, or you may just skip the South Guardian region, and we might even meet Yuan Ji directly. So, my king, please don’t use your magic so easily because the union of the spiritual power could cause turmoil within the enchantment, changing its entrances and exits.”
I stood in front of the territorial water, the messy sunlight reflection on the water were now s.h.i.+ning on everyone’s face.
I said, “Xing Gui, then how should we go over?”
Chao Ya came up to me and said, “My king, use my Wu Yin Qin (soundless zither).” Then she removed a hairpin from her hair and the hairpin became bigger immediately, forming a huge black ancient zither.
I’ve finally got to see the imperial zither used by my father. Its entire body was black with white crystal strings and the end of the zither was charred.
Chao Ya said, “This zither was used by my mother and during the holy war, the end of the zither got burnt by the fire spirits’ magic. During the holy war, my mother had spent several years in the mortal world; the people there were amazed by my mother’s zither playing skill. Then my mother left a replica of Wu Yin Qin in the mortal world; from then on, it became the famous zither in the mortal world generation after generation and they named it Jiao Wei. Wu Yin Qin can change its size freely without any magic to support, so we don’t have to worry about changing the distribution of the enchantment. We can use this zither as something, which they called boat in the mortal world, to cross the sea.
When we stood on the zither’s body, moving slowly across the water, Chao Ya laughed. “My king, I have never thought that zither could be used in such a way.”
At the other side of the sea would be Bo Tian Zhu Que Palace, the entire palace looked just like a zither. When we went towards the door, a melodious sound of a zither was coming from the inside, as if it was piercing down from the sky directly, like waves in the heart coming one after another. The snow on the ground swirled up from the ground all of a sudden, cherry blossoms petals began falling off, and those petals fell neatly at our feet forming a petal trail. The air was filled with floral scent; everyone was standing in the middle of the petals, waiting. Huang Tuo created an enchantment to protect Xing Gui, we stood back to back forming a hexagram lineup and I could vaguely feel that Die Che would appear soon.
But when all the petals had fallen, Die Che has yet to appear and the music became more melodious than before.
I noticed the expression on Chao Ya’s face and asked her. “Chao Ya, what’s wrong with you?”
Chao Ya said. “My king, if you want me to compete with the master of this zither, I don’t think I have any chance of winning.” I saw the dejected expression on her face.
But when I turned around, I saw the despair on Xing Gui’s face. Then Xing Gui opened her eyes, and said a sentence slowly, then I saw the tears in her eyes. That sentence made every single one of us to stood on the spot motionlessly; cold winds blowing, and cherry blossom flowers kept falling uncontrollably.
Xing Gui said, “The person playing the song is only a palace maid of Die Che.”
Po Tian Zhu Que and Mie Tian Xuan Wu were two totally different palaces; Xuan Wu Palace was grand and majestic, the towering city walls were standing high up in the sky, and weapons like three spines swords, ice blade and magical staff were all displayed in the palace. All the people in the palace were tall muscular men. The entire palace seemed like a place filled with male power.
But inside Bo Tian Zhu Que Palace, everything has a soft contour; the sky roof has a thin layer of ice on it, letting the daylight sprinkled lightly into the palace and the entire palace was floating within some kind of pale blue light. Music could be heard from everywhere of the palace; smiling palace maids could be seen everywhere in the garden with zithers in their hands, cherry blossoms were falling slowly around them, just like those flamboyant dreams.
Die Che was reclining on the throne, barefooted and her hair was falling along her body. She looked at me, not speaking at all, but I could see from her crystal white pupil talking to me, she said, “Ka Suo, you’ve come.”
I have been seeing countless beauties in Ren Xue Cheng, concubines in the palaces and the beautiful mermaid tribe. But I have to admit that the beautiful look of Die Che was something I have never seen before; this kind of look had never appeared in the most flamboyant dreams before. I could feel the surrounding air becoming faint when I looked at her. Her eyes continued to talk to me, saying. “Ka Suo, you’ve come.”
I got snapped out of my trance when Yue Shen patted my shoulder. She leant forward and whispered at my ear. “My king, she had just used soul capturing spell on you. Be careful.”
I looked at Die Che, and her smile was so alluring and attractive.
Yue Shen went up and looked at Die Che, saying. “You better don’t use your a.s.sa.s.sination spell in front of me, they are not even up to one tenth of my skills.”