Near Tokyo Station stood an ancient castle nestled amid lush greenery. This was the island nation's imperial palace, once known as "Edo Castle."
The imperial palace was the residence of the island nation's emperor, where imperial activities were held. It had been built in the eighteenth year of Tensho by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and had originally served as the Shogun's residence.
The sky gradually darkened. Before long... silver-white moonlight pierced the clouds, as though draping the earth in a feathered robe.
A white-haired girl sat cross-legged atop one of the palace buildings. If anyone had seen this scene, they would surely have flown into a furious rage.
They would have seen it as an insult to the imperial family.
Yet the girl had not the slightest respect for this place that was so important to the islanders. She sat there with complete casualness.
"Still no good!"
The girl opened her beautiful blue eyes and looked at the golden greatsword before her, somewhat discouraged...
The class monitor had given it to her.
The Xuanyuan Sword was still very important for cultivating Taixuan Sword Qi.
"Is the gap between me and the future me from the original timeline really that huge? It's already been so long." Kiana irritably removed the Xuanyuan Sword, then collapsed limply onto the roof tiles without caring whether they were dirty.
In the manga, her original self had been able to skillfully use the Taixu Sword Deity in less than half a year.
But she had been at it for nearly a year now without even catching a glimpse of it. It made her feel as though she was inferior to her original self.
She had even tried finding a geomantically favorable place to make a breakthrough, but it had still come