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Chapter 229: Sword And Fist Part Two

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

After a nice long bath, Alicia came out feeling fully refreshed. "Good you're out, here!" Bia Hong tossed over two jade rocks. Alicia caught them but looked at Bai Hong confused. Bai Hong let out a chuckle and explained: "These are jade slips. Put one to your head and it will activate sending you information directly into your mind. This way you will never forget the information in it no matter what."

"I see… This is handy..." Alicia felt this was a very good thing to have. She would need to see how these things are made. If she could make jade slips on Phantasia they could have an entire library of reference material in their mind just by using these items.

Alicia did as she was told and placed the jade slip to her head. It was cool to the touch but soon a surge of information was shoved into her head giving her a splitting headache! Of course, there was a downside to something so useful! Bia Hong was making a weird face as he tried to hold his laughter in seeing Alicia's twisted expressions.

The first jade slip as the Thousand Piercing Lotus Blossom. Images of the sword technique appeared in her mind. It showed a woman with long black hair wearing white robes dancing amongst the battlefield slaying enemy after enemy. Each thrust of her sword reaped a life. Each step was graceful as if she was not even touching the ground as she moved forward. Alicia felt this technique was really good. It might not look like it but she could tell the women's stance left no openings she was able to guard and counter no matter which direction they attacked from.

Once she was done with the sword technique she moved on to the fist technique. At the start, it showed the same woman with her sword thrusting out to have two people disarm her. But with a rotation of her body, she swung her fist out and took out the two men. With no time to pick up her sword, the woman continued to use her fist as if they were swords blocking and reaping lives with her fist alone! Alicia was truly amazed! She was never one to be big in actual martial arts since she had always used her sword but this combination allowed her something to lean back on for when she lost her sword. Because no enemy would ever wait for you to pick your sword back up.

"Master Bia I will go outside to train!" With that, she ran off as fast as lightning after handing back the jade slips. Seeing Alicia so excited, Bia Hong felt a bit of joy in his heart. He couldn't help but think that he had picked up a gem for a disciple. He didn't tell Alicia but the sword and fist technique she was going to be cultivating was for women only. The lower levels of the technique could be trained by men but once you got to the third part you had to be a woman in order to progress any further.

Alicia was as fast as lightning as she ran through the cave. She was amazed that even her vision had been completely boosted to the point she could see in the dark areas of the cave without the need for a torch or glowing rocks.

When she made it outside, the sun was shining down from the sky. It illuminated Alicia's face making her smile. It had been a long time since she had seen the sky. She had been held up in the cave cultivating this entire time. Alicia decided to start off with her sword technique. By following what was pictured in her head Alicia began the process step by step. After the tenth step, Alicia stopped as she felt something was off. She did not feel the power that the woman in the images gave off.

"Ah, so you noticed! This is the thing about this technique and why it is a heavenly technique. Techniques of heavenly grade and up will require you to have an understanding of the dao behind it. Without this understanding, you will never be able to show the full power of the technique." Bia Hong explained as he came out of the cave.

"What do you mean by dao?" Alicia asked, she did not understand what it meant. She had heard the word before on earth but she never cared to learn its meaning.

"Dao is the way or path of something. Like if you dive into the dao of the sword you are basically learning the way of the sword or if you are trying to understand the dao of fire you are learning the way of fire. There are many, many daos out there and each one takes time to learn." Hearing Bia Hong's explanation Alicia decided to sit down under a tree and contemplate the images in her head again.

She replayed them over and over trying to get a sense of insight from it. She sat with her eyes closed for almost an hour before she smiled and opened her eyes as she quietly muttered to herself. "Each step is light but fierce. Each thrust is on point with no hesitation. Combined there will be an explosion of power."

Alicia drew her sword and took a step forward while at the same time thrusting out. With a whoosh sound, her sword created a jet of wind that pierced the nearby tree. Seeing this Alicia smiled brightly and jumped up and down in joy. "I get it now!"

On the sidelines, Bia Hong was standing there with his eyes open wide in disbelief! It took her only an hour to understand the concept behind the attack! He suddenly felt ashamed of himself when he thought about how it took him almost three weeks to get a slight understanding of it but even then he was not able to do what she just did! She was truly a genius!

Chapter 230: Mei

Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Alicia practiced the Thousand Piercing Lotus Blossom technique over and over again. At first, she could only keep her momentum for three steps then four, eventually, it turned into twenty. By the time the sun fell in the sky, her Thousand Piercing Lotus Blossom Technique hit fifty steps. The trees around the cave entrance were mowed down from her constant attacks. Alicia sat on the ground sweat dripping from her brow. A huge smile was on her face. This kind of training reminded her of when she first started to learn kendo back on earth. Constantly repeating the move over and over again. This repetitive training was what she was used to.

Bia Hong looked at all the knocked down trees and nodded his head in approval. He was truly amazed by how quickly Alicia progressed. "Very good! Go clean up. Tomorrow we will leave here and head back to the sect. Rest well. The trip back to the sect will take a week on foot. "

Alicia went to run into the cave but stopped after taking two steps. She turned to Bia Hong and bowed her head. "Master Bia, thank you for showing me a path of survival in this world. A path that will allow me to find my way home."

Bia Hong did not answer and only smiled as he waved for Alicia to go about her business. Alicia ran into the cave and got cleaned up. She had something to eat before laying down and going to bed.

The next morning Alicia was up bright and early. She stood in front of Bia Hong who handed her two pieces of paper. "These talismans will change your hair color and eyes color. Once activated your hair and eye color will not change back until you undo the original talismans. At first, I was going to give you a pendant but if it ever fell off during battle it would defeat the purpose. I will give you a second set of talismans later that will undo the first set. Go ahead and activate them. Stick one on top of your head and the other over your eyes. I will provide you with the necessary spiritual qi."

Since Alicia could not use spiritual qi freely yet, Bia Hong had to act as an intermediary and inject his spiritual qi into Alicia's body and send it through her meridians that flowed to the top of her head and eyes. Once the spiritual qi hit the talisman it flashed brightly before disappearing.

What stood before Bia Hong was a black haired, black eyed beauty. Even after changing her hair color Alicia still looked just as beautiful as before. But what threw Bia Hong off was that if you looked into Alicia's eyes you could see tiny glints of lights almost like stars within them. "Alicia, your new name will now be Mei, I will call you Mei'er from now on. Try to get used to it while we make our way back to the Sect. If anyone asks why you do not have a surname just tell them you are an orphan so you don't know it."

Alicia nodded and began repeating the name under her breath. "Mei'er, Mei... So for now, while I am here on this world I will be called Mei..."

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Far, far away from Alicia's current position in a large city in a certain clan an old man was staring at the soul projection in front of him. His arms and legs were trembling as he looked at the figure. This was not out of fear but more out of excitement.

"So you are the patriarch of the family? When I last saw you, you were roughly twenty years of age. That was what a few tens of thousands of years ago?" The soul projection asked.

"Yes! Yes! I am now the family patriarch, Great Elder Ming!" The old man answered quickly.

"Mmm good, this makes things easier. Tang Guanting, My daughter ended up in your world. Where she is I do not know. I will give you a strand of her soul sense. I can not make it back at this time. I will need you to go out and search the lower plane for her. If you find that she is doing well then just stick a few people to watch over her. If she is in danger, if something horrible has happened to her, or she is dead, torture them all and burn their souls! No one is allowed to harm her. We risked a lot to send her soul to another world so she could live a happy life, sp nothing must happen to her.

"Now… I can sense her on this world so take this soul sense and find her. If you don't do as I have asked. It won't be my wrath you will have to suffer from but her mothers. And I will give a fair warning, I will not bat an eye when she destroys the entire lower plane if something really does happen. So I suggest getting a move on. " This man who was speaking was Alicia's father. Originally named Tang Ming.

"Great Elder Ming, do not worry. I will send people out right away!" Tang Guanting's back was covered in a cold sweat. He did not know who Tang Ming's wife was but from the sounds of it, she was really scary!

"Good, I will be in contact. Make sure you keep your word." Tang Ming said these last words before disappearing.

Tang Guanting looked at the spot where the soul protection just was, staring blankly for a little while before coming back to his senses and rushing off to send people out to search. Luckily the search would be easy since they had her soul sense.

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