440 Are you satisfied (1/2)

Shi Xiaobai considered his words for a moment before he said, ”Before answering your questions, This King must first make it clear. From This King's standpoint, This King is a real existence and a trial-taker from the human world. As for you, you are only an existence created by the assessment program. Furthermore, you are modeled after a great three-thousand-year-old historical figure in human history. You have to accept this premise or whatever explanation This King gives will sound like a lie to you. This King will guarantee that everything he says next is the truth. How about it? Are you able to accept this premise?”

Dawn fell into silence when she heard this. Her eyes flickered for a moment before she said with a sigh, ”The premise you are talking about is completely opposite from my understanding. From my standpoint, I am a trial-taker from the human world, and you are a plot character that is refreshed every month in the seventh level of the Nine Revolutions Transcendental Tower. From a rational point of view, I am unable to accept that premise. However, I have to answer the questions in my heart. So, go ahead. Even if I'll be deceived by your lies once again, I will listen to your response.”

A smile suffused across Shi Xiaobai's lips as he said, ”Very well. This King will tell you the boring answer behind the riddle. In fact, the Lucifer's Sword that This King took out was not an imitation but the real Lucifer's Sword. The great figure from three thousand years ago has already died. This Lucifer's Sword was left in the human world and This King managed to luckily be its new master. When This King signed a pact with Lucifer's Sword, there was a brief scene that flashed in his mind. In the scene, there was a blond girl wearing a long dark-blue dress and silver armor. She used a dark blue hair band to coil her hair up. She had bangs that split in the middle rolling down the two sides of her white face. She raised Lucifer's Sword and slashed out her sword against countless demonic beings. That strike shocked This King and it left a deep impression in This King's mind. It made This King who had never encountered sword techniques to have the intention of learning swords. And coincidentally, Lucifer's Sword had given birth to a sword spirit in its three thousand years of solitude. This King managed to hear the names of some sword techniques and the holy sword's name...”

Shi Xiaobai came to a slight pause when he said that.

Dawn's eyebrows knitted together. What was up with the answer that sounded like the narration of a story? What did it have to do with her questions? It seemed like he was giving an irrelevant answer?

She could not help but urge him, ”Continue?”

Shi Xiaobai nodded and continued, ”From the little sword spirit, names of different sword techniques were known. This King remembers them clearly—Three Thousand Li Sword, Hundred-eighty Li Sword, Three Thousand Waters Sword, Wind Fire Thunder Divine Sword, Nine Heavens Thunderclap Sword, Great Sword of Light, Demon Slaying Holy Sword... Very coincidentally, these were the sword techniques you had previously used.”

”With this said, there is a need to thank Speechless, who is known to you as the Celestial King. It's all thanks to him going through the trouble of announcing every attack you used. Only then did This King know that every sword technique you used was identical to the sword technique that the little sword spirit subconsciously mentioned.”

”This King had a thought back then that this was too much a coincidence. Anything strange must have something amiss about it. Back then, This King had a suspicion. The suspicion instantly made This King realize the existence of Lucifer's Sword.”

”Therefore, This King was able to see the actual form of the nonexistent sword in your hand. This King was given a shock because the Lucifer's Sword in your hand, as well as the sword techniques the little sword spirit knew, seemed to imply that you, or the three-thousand-year-old figure you were moulded after, was the master of Lucifer's Sword.”

”Therefore, This King thought of the scene that appeared when This King signed a pact with Lucifer's Sword. The woman in the scene was similar to you. She had blond hair that looked as resplendent as dawn. This King immediately had an unbelievable guess 'Could the woman in that scene be the master of Lucifer's Sword and could she be that great figure from three thousand years ago?'”

”That guess seemed very ridiculous, because according to what This King knew, that great figure was a man. That was the understanding that both history and humans had. Furthermore, the woman in the scene and you, the imitation of that great person, looked completely different other than that resplendent blond hair. It was impossible that the two of you were the same person.”

”However, things like guesses are usually irremediable once they are generated. This King could not help but ponder over the illogical guess before coming to a strange guess. This King thought that if the great person from three thousand years ago was a woman in disguise, and had lived her life after changing her appearance, she would not be discovered by anyone. Then, everything could be logically explained. He and she can then be reconciled as being the same person.”

”Forgive This King for not being able to repress his desire to verify it. Although the guess was very ridiculous, This King still grabbed every chance to prove its veracity. And just perfectly, you were in front of me. Therefore, This King created a series of lies so as to verify whether you are a girl disguising as a male! That was the goal for This King's lies.”