Chapter 906: Ancient Elf Race
Lord Shi Chuan had forgotten that it was quite rude to stare that long at a girl’s face. It was all of a sudden before he realized that his neck was grabbed by Shen Jueyang. Then a terrifying scent akin to flames, an extremely powerful one assaulted his nose. As a half-elf, he actually doesn’t like flames as much. Instead, he likes trees, plants and flowers. Suddenly the pressure as if meeting the sun for the first time was felt by Shi Chuan. Even though he is already at Quasi-Emperor Realm, before a real emperor he still fell short.
Everyone didn’t expect the Immortal Sun Emperor to act this way and they were all dumbfounded except for the Moon Goddess who had remained calm the whole time.
"You keep staring at her. Do you want me to gouge out your eyes?" Shen Jueyang whispered coldly at the ears of Lord Shi Chuan.
At this point Lord Shi Chuan finally recognizes this swordsman who stood beside his master, even though his hair is not the flamboyant bright crimson that he usually has, this pair of crimson-gold eyes says otherwise. The reincarnated Immortal Sun Emperor. However this kind of man would never lower himself to the point he would use a disguise to stay beside just one ordinary woman. If there is one woman in this world great enough to move such a man then there is indeed a person, the Goddess who rules the Moon and possesses the physique of the Lightning God itself. The Moon Goddess, Yue Xuexia.
Lord Shi Chuan was shocked by his realization and stares at the angry emperor in front of him and glances at the gorgeous woman calmly enjoying her flower milk tea. He realized that she had no intention of helping him and that he had to do something to calm down this enraged emperor before him.
"Please don’t mistake my reverence towards my master. I am a half-elf. The reason I am staring at her is because she feels so similar to that of nature and has the scent of forest coming from her. There is also the bloodline of the World Tree. I didn’t mean anything else!" Lord Shi Chuan said.
The Goddess of the Moon said, "He is not lying. He can feel the Ancient Elf bloodline in me."
"Ancient Elf Bloodline. Mistress, you have such a bloodline?" Hei Yu, the Assassin King asked.
The Moon Goddess said, "From my maternal grandmother’s side. But to think someone would notice it, you are half human then the other half which is from elves, is it from the Ancient Elven Race?"
With a gesture from a glance from Yue Xuexia, Shen Jueyang spared the half elf and returned to her side with a snort. As for Lord Shi Chuan he started a coughing fit after escaping from death. It took a while for the half elf to calm down.
Lord Shi Chuan saluted in the elven manner before the Moon Goddess. "This servant greets the Ancient Elven Princess!"
"Stand. Be at ease and take a seat before answering this empress’s question," said the Moon Goddess.
Given permission, Lord Shi Chuan took a seat at the offered place. He nervously peeks at the people on the table and those nearby. There are three people standing at the side waiting to serve some tea and snack or any errands that might come from their masters. The ones who sat on the table with him were only two people, the Moon Goddess and the Sun God. However, the half-elf can still see the aura of nature around Yue Xuexia.
"Answering to the Princess, this servant’s father is a remnant of the Ancient Elf Tribe from the first World Tree family. Unfortunately, he had passed away from a very long time," said Lord Shi Chuan.
The silent Moon Goddess suddenly placed the cup in her hand to the table and then crossed her hand over her chest and raised her eyes to meet Shi Chuan’s eyes.
"So which one is your father? The side of the traitors or the remnants of my tribe?" The Goddess of the Moon asked.
Silence spreads in the area and the leader of the hanging herb garden trembles under this question from his master. Shi Chuan didn’t expect the master would suddenly ask this question. However, these words meant that the Ancient Elf Princess knew the history of their race and the real truth of the extermination of their group. Shi Chuan knew that he cannot lie this time.
"M-My father is among the traitors. But he said that it was against his will, he said that he regrets it, when they woke up the Mother Tree was already burning and the king had already gone insane," said Shi Chuan.
The beautiful phoenix eyes of the Moon Goddess upon hearing these explanations. Before Shi Chuan could react, the space around him suddenly distorted and before he could react he suddenly appeared before Yue Xuexia. The wooden table, the tea set and the plates of flower pastries everything that appeared between the two of them had disappeared. Shi Chuan appeared kneeling before the cold faced Moon Goddess. He shivered under her indifferent desolated gaze.
The Goddess of the Moon stared at the man kneeling before her and said, "I wish to see your memories. It’s not a soul search which would harm your soul. Something else... There is only one thing you need for you to give me..."
Shi Chuan listened quietly and seriously. He realized that the Goddess in front of him didn’t have plans to harm him. Instead, she wanted to seek for the truth without him being hurt by it. A real ruthless person would just use soul search to know what they wanted. However, this technique is harmful for the soul and those who had suffered from it would either become a fool or a living vegetable.
Yue Xuexia didn’t want to turn her subordinate as a fool but she also wanted to know the side of the traitors that caused the fall of his maternal great grandmother, the First World Tree, Anastasia.
’System, is there a way I can see through his memories without harming his soul?’ The Goddess of the Moon asked.
[There is a way. It’s a skill that can allow you to see through a part of their past called Retrocognition. I will give it to you. In exchange, you do one mission from the system. Don’t worry, this mission isn’t that hard.] The system responded as he had been contacted by the Moon Goddess in her mind.
The Moon Goddess asked, ’What is the mission? If it is the kind that requires serious fighting with my soul injury I might be able to do it.’
[Don’t worry. It’s not that hard. I just need you to enter a certain location as a mission. For the fighting part just let the one beside you do it.]
Listening to the system’s voice in their heads, Yue Xuexia turned his head towards Shen Jueyang who just smiled and nodded at her. With the response from the Immortal Sun God, the Moon Goddess agreed to whatever the system had mentioned to her.
Yue Xuexia said, ’I agree.’
[Congratulations to the host for receiving the special skill Retrocognition.]
[A special mission had been issued. Enter the Phoenix-Dragon Ancient Nest and help the Ice Phoenix King to hatch. You also need to awaken the bloodline of the Dragon God in Tan Huangyu.]
[Does the host accept the mission?]
The Moon Goddess said, ’I accept.’
After the system mission was accepted, the new skill that can see through one’s past just by touching them had been given to Yue Xuexia. As soon as she received this skill, she immediately used it and lightly touched the head of Shi Chuan. Upon touching, a series of memories that had already happened had come to her. She immediately went through these memories and found the one that involves the truth she wanted to hear. It would have been better if the one she had touched was something that used to be owned by Shi Chuan’s father to see that person’s memories.
Shi Chuan only has a few memories of his father when he was a child. As a traitor of the tribe, Shi Chuan’s father was punished so badly and his ears were cut off to the size of the human ear. The long pointy part of his ears look like it was removed forcibly and scars that cannot be removed by time remain. This is actually a punishment all those who had caused the death of World Tree Anastasia had received from the Ancient Elf King Andromeda. The reason they weren’t killed but simply exiled must have something to do with what Shi Chuan had said just now. About them being controlled against their will. But since the pain and destruction had been inflicted, the punishments were still given to them. Exilement and removing the proof, a feature that says one as an Ancient elves. Those pointy ears and wings.
For the Elven race, their ears are the most sensitive part of their body, so cutting off a part of it was no different than slowly cutting off their necks to be beheaded. The pain of that process is extremely painful that it would traumatize an elf who had experienced it. Moreover, it was long lasting, as the punished elf was stripped of his original abilities as someone one with nature and their ability to control the plants and wind. All punished elves were no different than humans after their punishment.