The Villain Princess survived the Imperial Riot

Moreover, when facing Bai Yu, the princess used a secret technique that was completely inconsistent with the power of a high knight to decompose Bai Yu's spiritual body.

Is His Highness truly a High Knight?

The elf thought about it, didn't care, and stopped thinking about it.

Hestia sat cross-legged in the heavily enchanted prayer room. The boundary of the Witch's Book gradually emerged, and the closed space suddenly became extremely wide.

After absorbing the Vinaya, a silver-white city has risen at the border. This is a brand new layer, located on a page of the book, overlapping with the dream world and the material world.

There is no life in the city, and confused souls wander aimlessly. Escaping from the constraints of the law is not liberation, because now this place is the witch's cage.

In addition, there is a cemetery in the city that was devoured by secret cultivators. A huge stone tablet stands there, and a river of bright red blood runs through the north and south. At the end is an exhibition hall made of crystal glass. In the exhibition hall, there is only one glass exhibition stand with exhibits.

"Golden worm, Qiu Su."

The city, the exhibition hall, and the stone tablet were not actually in the same space. They belonged to different pages and different layers of the Witch's Book. When Hestia closed the city, the border area once again returned to its dark red desolation.

At the end of the forest of steles, there was a magnificent stone stele reaching from heaven to earth. It was an unreachable illusion, existing at the end of the sky. Every time Hestia got closer, the illusion took a step back.

That was the Great Witch's tangible favor at the border. On the stone tablet, among the nine dim runes, only one was slightly brighter.

That was the one she had sacrificed, the secret cultivator of the Path of Order, Noel Tinson.

When her consciousness came into contact with the stone tablet, Hestia could vaguely hear a vast voice from the end of the universe, almost piercing through her mind:

"Light up the stone tablet and I will grant you a second chance at enlightenment."

"Fuck you," Hestia cursed.

This means that she will have to sacrifice eight secret practitioners of the Mastery Realm using the Great Witch’s ritual, and each of them must meet the condition of “winning the battle.”

She hated the middlemen making a profit from the price difference, but seeking blessings from the witch was the only way she knew how to practice witchcraft.

The princess's ceremony communicates with a furnace-like stone monument.

"Spirit: Knowing, Fold."

“Worship: The Path of Change.”

"Beacon: Blade Forging Path, [Sword Forging Furnace]."

"Secret Techniques: [Blood Casting], [Furnace Burning], [Heavenly Fire]."

"Ritual vessel: invalid."

"——The furnace punishment has three arrows. One arrow destroyed the God Emperor, one arrow defeated Tailan, and one arrow pacified the Heavenly Kingdom."

"The Road to Conquest: 5%."

This is the assassin's grave.

Hestia pondered for a while whether to offer the sacrifice.

Sacrifice means that she can devour Ford's complete path and learn the secret techniques related to blade cultivation, but due to the repeated activation of spirits, she can only exert the power of an apprentice.

Without sacrifice, she could only use the three recorded secret techniques, but as long as she had enough spiritual power, she could display the full strength of the secret cultivation in the realm of comprehension.

However, these three secret techniques bore the obvious imprint of a blade. Using them would cause her to molten like the assassin, making them completely inconspicuous. If anyone saw the princess using them, it would surely cause a major uproar.

After much consideration, Hestia decided to sacrifice this stone tablet.

This allows her to use the Witch's Book to change her path, switching between High Knight and Conqueror.

Having had experience with this once, Hestia knew that the ritual process was not complicated, and she quickly opened the gap in the door of the Blade's Origin.

Blade forges the path, the road to conquest.

Followers of this path are attuned to all things tangible, able to combine their physical shells with other matter, meaning that every one of their organs may become a vessel containing other mysteries.

In-game, this path is jokingly referred to by players as the "Krypton Gold Path" or the "Pauper's Path." As blade cultivators, the secret cultivators of the Dao Path are completely unskilled in forging secret weapons, yet they possess an extraordinary demand for high-tier secret weapons, placing stringent demands on their quality and attributes, which directly determine their upper limit.

"Subordinate Conqueror's Apprentice, um... Weapon Master."

Hestia, transformed into a silver fox, strolled through a ruined land made of blades, hammers, muskets, and explosive powder. She walked to a small hut made of steel and gold and sat down, with a blast furnace burning next to it.

This is the location of Ford Yumengsu's beacon, the [Sword Forge].

If the place where the secret practitioners gather is the subconscious where countless souls gather in the dream world, the bizarre reflection of the material world in the sea of ​​origin, and the starting point of the secret practice, then the place where she is at this moment has already left the ordinary dream dimension, and is separated from the sea of ​​origin by a long distance that cannot be reached by time.

Here, high above the sky, in a corner of the origin of the blade, a rugged path ignites a fire among the complex ruins of weapons, symbolizing the path that Ford has traveled.

The distances and rules of this place can no longer be measured by the space of the material world. Countless dangerous mysterious creatures and dream races roam here. The shadows of the fallen secret practitioners of the past and the terrifying creations that were born from them will also pose a threat to the roaming secret practitioners.

There are countless death rattles and treasures waiting to be discovered here, but even if the secret treasures are right at hand, the secret practitioners will not easily set foot in those unknown places.

Only through the testimony of reliable secret history, the guidance of corresponding rituals, prayers to higher beings, and finding a trustworthy lighthouse can one avoid getting lost in the maze.

It is not impossible to find a path to the next door by yourself, but the secret practitioners who can really make it are often the myths, elders and gods in the sky, while more people become cursed souls wandering in the maze.

Hestia visited Ford's Sword Forge. She had previously reached Noel Tinson's beacon, but it was close to the worm territory, which the princess did not like.

"Melting Iron Spear, Red Copper Secret Bone, Red Sword."

Hestia looked at the secret weapons left in the Sword Forge. These items were born in the Dream Realm and required corresponding rituals to be summoned to the material world. However, she had devoured Ford's path and therefore knew the ritual process.

"It's no use."

The princess shrugged, then left the metal hut and looked at the corpses of soldiers scattered all over the mountains.

In the world of Blade Cultivator, this place is called "Soldier's Grave", close to the "Malta Sea" which is the source of Casting. There are three roads leading to "Killing Ground", "Wasteland" and "Gate of Casting" respectively.

This information comes from the records of the Sword Forge beacon. As for whether there are other roads, Hestia does not know.

The soles of her feet were bleeding from the sharp thorns, but she remained calm and climbed up a hill to look around.

As if due to the twisting into the origin of the blade, her silver fox-like image was stained with mottled rust, and her hair was full of metallic texture, still flowing, and hot fireworks burst out with every step she took.

During the journey, if the secret cultivator faces a wrong path, is deceived, or suffers a serious blow, the beacon may be destroyed, leading to the secret cultivator's downfall or death.

But Hestia didn't need to worry about this. She was a witch, and the beacon was just a shell she inhabited, not directly related to her. Even if she was overwhelmed by an unexpected disaster, the most she would lose was this path, and she could just kill it again.

Mengsu is very large and has few secret cultivators. If you wander aimlessly, the probability of encountering your kind in the "Soldier's Tomb" is lower than being hit by a meteorite.

Hestia opened the map that Ford had left at the Sword Forge, and an abstract picture that was neither flat nor three-dimensional appeared in her mind, letting her know how to take the safe route.

Several flying insects made of rusty steel suddenly attacked.

The princess casually raised her hand, and the [Decomposition Mark] instantly turned the flying insect into broken parts.

She can still use the secrets of the Witch's Book, including the magical powers bestowed by the great witch, and this is her advantage.

"A desolate ruin."

Hestia commented.

The path of the Cocoon Sisterhood is filled with naturally charming female creatures. Legend has it that these dream-dwelling species were conceived by the Cocoon Mother and have no hostility towards their sisters and Cocoon Girls. They all want to offer themselves to her so that they can share the incomparably rich power in a night of passion.

This is also the origin of the Road to Unity and the Road to Kingship.

The kingly way is over.

We came to an empty magic circle, which was a transit station left by ancient secret practitioners. A ritual could be used to open the road to the "wasteland".

Hestia placed the two crossed blades in the center of the magic circle, slicing through the fox's paw. Molten lava flowed out, and she chanted, "The wasteland is a place of power. It is actually nothing, actually something. It is in the midst of change. It uses blood to create fire, casting things into form. It is the blast furnace."

In an instant, her silver-white body turned into golden red like the corona of the sun, her flowing hair threw flames, and molten lava flowed along her fur to her feet, melting the metal on the ground into soft streams of light.

A crack appeared in the magic circle, and she pushed forward. Suddenly, the sky cleared and the sea expanded. A boundless ocean appeared before her eyes, and the graves of soldiers behind her gradually faded, replaced by beaches, grasslands, and mountains.

Thunder flashed in the sky, and a huge eagle-headed monster like a battleship soared into the sky, but in the blink of an eye it was drenched by the rolling tsunami. A tentacle tens of meters long rolled it up and tore it apart out of thin air.

A nightmarish roar came from the mountains, and an endless haze was rolling in from the other end of the mountain range.

Hestia discovered that the mountains, the sea, and the sky were all flowing in one direction, and the ferocious humanoid mandrills were waving the most primitive stone spears and shooting them towards the singularity in the center.

It seemed to be a person, but also seemed to be a door.

Judging from Hestia's experience, she should have just happened to run into the secret cultivator's ascension ceremony.

But that guy seemed to be unlucky. The wasteland began to flow at this time, the mountains, sea and sky began to intertwine, and all the things in the dream were attracted by the gap in the door.

Behind that door lies the realm of understanding.

Hestia was just about to leave to avoid being harmed by the strange beasts all over the mountains, when the clouds in the sky suddenly burst into a blood mist, and pieces of golden wings fell down, just in time to be melted by the fox's burning eyebrows.

"what?"

The princess looked up and saw a familiar shadow falling down, and also a soaring ball of flesh—thousands of long necks with heads hanging down, laughing sinisterly.

Hestia was very familiar with that vicious and alluring aura.

Worm... This is actually a wrong path.

And how stupid must that poor and dull-witted feather girl be to be cornered by a worm at the critical moment of her promotion?

Ranhu saw the feathered girl falling down in despair, and at the same moment, the other party happened to meet her eyes.

The feathered girl seemed to recognize her. Although the color and texture had changed drastically, the appearance remained the same. It was not surprising that the dream mapping of the secret cultivators changed due to many reasons.

What was strange was that she actually met the traveler here whom she had only met once.

That guy who loves to brag, who claims to have drunk and danced with the Ross Khan and conquered the mountain fire with the Furnace Dwarves, is actually also a combative and ruthless blade cultivator?

Or moth repair?

The wasteland is the domain of the Blade Moth. Apart from the Blade Cultivators, only the Moth Cultivators may come here.

Theoretically, secret practitioners of other paths can also reach this place, but without special ritual guidance, basically no one is willing to risk their lives to pass through numerous dangerous places and reach a place that has nothing to do with cultivation.

Without time to think further, Yu Nu gritted her teeth, the desire to survive bursting out again——

"Outsider, help me!"

Volume 107: Bird in a Cage: . Fox Girl, Feather Girl

A fissure in the sky seemed neither open nor closed, and countless spherical worms hung from its necks like flesh and blood, like the hissing chandelier on the ceiling of the banquet hall. It blocked the door, and its body with a wingspan of over two hundred meters cast a shadow.

Hestia stared directly at the worm, the chaotic power growing within her body. She immediately understood that this was the worm's bewitchment.

Every piece of soil, every piece of gravel, every blade of grass, and every tree are expanding wildly under its bewitching influence. Even the weakest monsters have become extremely brave. The environment and creatures of Mengsu are evolving rapidly in a distorted manner, but this evolution is a fragile illusion.

Immersed in the overflowing power, they were completely unaware that their spiritual essence had been depleted to the point of being almost gone. Their seemingly massive bodies were actually on the verge of collapse. Even the oceans, mountains, and skies of the wasteland, their bewildered spiritual essences, were unleashed under their bewitching influence, rapidly giving rise to exceptionally powerful Dream-like creatures.

After the ultimate transformation, there is complete destruction.

Hestia guessed that the feathered girl might have been bewitched and had the illusion of a leap in power, so she hastily carried out the ascension ceremony, and was eventually ambushed by the worms due to her lack of strength.

The gap in the door seems to be very close, but in fact it is out of reach.