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  “Master! ! !” The Second Disciple cried out in surprise. All the human spirits were shocked by Jun Wu Xie’s action.

  Jun Wu Xie had used a hundred percent of her power with that kick, which sent Wu Jiu flying high up into the air. If he were to fall down from that height, even if he did not die, he wouldn’t be too far off from it.

  “Save the Spirit Master quick! !” The Second Disciple shouted at the top of his lungs, leading every single one of the human spirits to go speeding towards where Wu Jiu was hurtling to, their hearts set on catching Wu Jiu. Even Soul Slayer was stunned, never having expected that Jun Wu Xie’s actions would be so crude and brutal. In an instant, everyone else were frozen.

  And it was at that moment that countless vines shot out from Jun Wu Xie’s Selvan’s Armour, sweeping past every Beast Spirit and Plant Spirit at the speed of lightning. Poison Ivy was working in cohesion with Jun Wu Xie, the two spirits controlling an innumerable number of vines that twirled around the bodies of all the Beast Spirits, Plant Spirits, and around Qiao Chu and the gang!

  “Go!”


  The instant Jun Wu Xie’s voice fell, the silver wings on her back flapped vigorously, widespread as she rose quickly into the air. Dragged along by Jun Wu Xie, all the Beast Spirits bound up by the vines were suddenly up in the air!

  Poison Ivy wrapped several vines around Jun Wu Xie’s waist and the vines from his other hand pulled Nalan Shan and Brownie right up!

  The powerful strength of the Face of Selvan manifested in full glory right at that moment as several hundred Beast Spirits were lifted up into the air!

  In shock, Flame Dragon then used its great dragon tail to scoop up several Beast Spirits onto its back as it soared into the air following behind Jun Wu Xie!

  “Look! They are escaping!” Soul Slayer suddenly snapped back to his senses. Seeing that Jun Wu Xie and the others were actually using vines to bring all the Beast Spirits out from there together with the Spiritual Bear, Soul Slayer’s mind immediately started to whirl loudly!

  The Second Disciple could not be bothered with anything else and only wanted to catch Wu Jiu and get themselves out of there. But before Wu Jiu had even fallen to the ground, a vine then came flying out with a swoosh, to lash right around Wu Jiu at the waist, dragging him away!

  All the human spirits on the ground were flummoxed. They stared with gaping mouths as they watched Jun Wu Xie ostentatiously fly past in the sky while dragging several hundred Beast Spirits with her, their eyes almost popping out of their heads.

  It was at that moment that they all then realized that they had fallen into Jun Wu Xie’s ploy!

  Jun Wu Xie had never intended to make a deal with them at all. Everything that she had done was merely to divert their attention, so that they would not discover her real intentions.

  The Beast Spirits have escaped, and even Wu Jiu was taken. The Second Disciple immediately felt as if the sky was falling.

  “Give chase! Do not let them escape!” The Second Disciple then shouted, highly nervous.

  What was then seen, was a great big bunch of human spirits and Weapon Spirits running in a mad sprint with their heads lifted up towards the sky, while over their heads, a dense pack of Beast Spirits were gliding high up through the air……

  It was a rather grand sight to behold!

  For Jun Wu Xie to be dragging so many Beast Spirits, it would not be the kind of weight that the silver wings of the Face of Selvan could truly be able to withstand. But candidly put, those Beast Spirits were spirits, and spirits weighed a whole lot less. Even though it was such a grand sight to see, in actuality, adding up the combined weight of all those spirits was not even equivalent to that of a young adolescent elephant.

  After a spirit coalesced its body, it could alter its own weight at will and that was the reason why Jun Wu Xie dared to weave up such a scheme!

  “This is just too cool!” Held by Poison Ivy and “gliding” through the air, Qiao Chu could not help but exclaim out in joy, the feeling was just too exhilarating!

  “Only Little Xie is capable of dreaming up such an idea.” Fei Yan said with a laugh, as he evilly waved at the bunch of fellas who were pursuing them doggedly on the ground.

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  The term talented and bold, described Jun Wu Xie perfectly. Fooled several thousand human spirits, duped a whole bunch of Weapon Spirits, and even flamboyantly paraded off with Wu Jiu as a victory trophy through the sky.

  All the worries Qiao Chu had earlier now faded into nothing as he watched the Second Disciple running like a dog on the ground, laughing just so evilly and he was in such a good mood.

  [Are you stupid?]

  [Negotiating terms with Jun Wu Xie?]

  [You’ll be squeezed so dry you’ll be more wrinkled than a raisin!]

  From below, a constant stream of taunts shouting: “Stay right there! Remain here if you have the guts!” , and all kinds of other curses. But Jun Wu Xie did not pay any heed to a single word of them.

  The eyes of the Beast Spirits were wide and bulging, looking at the great big emptiness below their paws, all of them feeling rather amazed.

  The sense of gaining a renewed lease of life right after a calamity and the astounding way they had retreated from the place made all the Beast Spirits suiddenly forget the pain on their bodies. Their were some among the Beast Spirits that could fly, like some species of bird types and Dragon type like Flame Dragon. But for most of the other Beast Spirits, even if they wanted to, they did not possess the kind of capability.

  Never would they have imagined that Jun Wu Xie would actually bring them on this “flight”!

  Several of the more dorky Beast Spirits were even pretending they could fly, their paws flinging around up in the air, imagining they really were flying……

  In contrast to the Beast Spirits’ delight, the human spirits and the Weapons Spirits were about to lose their minds! !

  At least there were some species and types among the Beast Spirits that were born with the ability to fly, but what about them? Not a single one among all of them could do it!

  If they wanted to pursue Jun Wu Xie and the enemy, the only choice was only to run after them with their own two feet!

  It was even sadder for the Weapon Spirits, as they did not even have legs!

  They could only huff and puff with their steel bodies as they hopped, where they were soon left lagging a great distance behind.

  For spirits that did not know what was going on here, witnessing that scene would surely have them laughing to their deaths.

  Flying was naturally faster than running, and seeing that Jun Wu Xie and the enemy were almost reaching the Beast Spirits’ territories, the Second Disciple’s heart burned with anxiety, hating that fact that his legs was not able to catch up with that pair of wings.

  The place that the Beast Spirits resided had many Beast Spirits roaming everywhere. They suddenly felt a little strange and one of the Beast Spirit raised its head to look up. That one glance into the sky immediately startled it so badly it fell back with its four paws flailing in the air in astonishment!

  [What in blazes!]

  [What did it just see! ?]

  Up in the sky, a whole wave of Beast Spirits were soaring through the air with their paws flailing awkwardly, in a dense pack…… like the Heavens was going to rain Beast Spirits.

  More and more Beast Spirits came to notice that. They all turned to stone collectively, their eyes bulging and mouths agape as they stared at their fellow Beast Spirits gliding through the air in glee.

  Seeing that they were already in Beast Spirit territory, Jun Wu Xie then flew downwards, bringing with her the bunch of Beast Spirits who had enjoyed the joy of flight to the ground. There was no need to deny that the strong disappointment that filled their eyes then was because they had landed on the ground……

  Jun Wu Xie then released the vines twirled around the Beast Spirits, and Poison Ivy followed suit.

  Flame Dragon came down to the ground as well, and immediately let Brownie continue to hold Nalan Shan for him to recover with the Spirit Reinforcement runes.

  A bunch of Beast Spirits gradually gathered into a crowd around them, to look at their companions who had just flown in, their faces incredulous.

  [Didn’t the bunch of them go to the first Serene Spirit Tower to watch the show playing out there today?]

  [Did it come with such privileges?]

  [To be “flown” back?]

  They were suddenly feeling rather regretful that they had not gone there today!

  Towards the Beast Spirits who had just come back, those Beast Spirits who had not gone today were suddenly feeling strong pangs of jealousy and envy!

  Flame Dragon then roared, which quelled all the Beast Spirits into silence.

  A flurry of hurried footsteps then reached them, which made all the gathered Beast Spirits turn their heads to look. The mass of human spirits led by the Second Disciple had caught up with them.

  [What was happening here?]

  The Beast Spirits who had not gone there today were puzzled.

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  “Hand my Master over!” The Second Disciple said to Jun Wu Xie through tightly clenched teeth, looking quite a miserable sight from having run the entire way.

  Having been pointed out, the Beast Spirits then turned to look at Jun Wu Xie and that was when they suddenly discovered that the person Jun Wu Xie was holding in her hands was Wu Jiu, the Spirit Master! !

  Wu Jiu had fallen into a semi conscious state. Although Jun Wu Xie had been rather gentle with the Beast Spirits, she was rather brutal towards Wu Jiu. Wu Jiu was already severely wounded and having taken that kick from Jun Wu Xie with her full strength, he was now slipping into unconsciousness, unable to even say a word.

  The Beast Spirits who had not gone to the Serene Spirit Tower were stunned, thinking that the situation before their eyes did not seem right no matter how they looked at it. Many of their fellow Beast Spirits had wounds on their bodies and the human spirits were looking rather aggressive while Jun Wu Xie was even holding Wu Jiu in her hands…… Looking at the circumstances, something big seemed to be brewing……

  Flame Dragon had landed before the gathered Beast Spirits, and after he put down the Beast Spirits on its back, its immense body that was as big as a small mountain blocked out the venomous gaze the Second Disciple was staring at Jun Wu Xie with.

  “This is the Beast Spirits’ territory, and it’s not a place you can do as you please.”


  “Flame Dragon, does this mean you are going against us now?” The Second Disciple said as he glared at Flame Dragon.

  Flame Dragon was not to be cowered. “Since you have tried to capture our Spiritual Bear, I do not have to show you any courtesy.”


  The moment those words came out from Flame Dragon’s mouth, the puzzled Beast Spirits immediately realized the severity of the situation!

  [The human spirits captured their Spiritual Bear?]

  All the Beast Spirits turned their heads uniformly upon the enormous dark gold figure, surprise showing in all their eyes.

  [The Spiritual Bear!]

  [It’s really the Spiritual Bear!]

  The Second Disciple was feeling highly frustrated, but worried about Wu Jiu’s safety, he then wanted to lead his men to charge forward, completely regarding everything else.

  But the Beast Spirits who had regained their senses immediately realized that the human spirits would harm the Spiritual Bear and despite still not having a full picture of what was exactly happening, just that one point alone was enough to make them step forward!

  “Roar!”


  “This is the territory of the Beast Spirits, and we do not welcome the intrusion of the human spirits!”


  The Beast Spirits close by came running at almost the same moment to Flame Dragon’s side, their enormous bodies blocking Jun Wu Xie completely and securely. The densely packed rows of Beast Spirits grew more and more, the flying Beast Spirits quickly spreading the news to reach the ears of every single Beast Spirit at the fastest speed possible!

  The matter concerned the Spiritual Bear, and not a single Beast Spirit would stand back and do nothing.

  In just the blink of an eye, several thousand Beast Spirits came walking out from their lairs. They all came speeding straight towards Flame Dragon’s side.

  In mere moments, the number of Beast Spirits that gathered there had reached a staggering number.

  The mass of Beast Spirits formed a impenetrable wall before the human spirits, as the rocky mountains sitting on both sides grew crowded with more and more Beast Spirits!

  The Second Disciple stared in shock as he looked at the quickly increasing number of Beast Spirits who were rushing over with such lightning speed, having become more numerous than the combined numbers of them and the Weapon Spirits put together. At that moment, fear then rose up within the Second Disciple’s heart.

  The Beast Spirits had always been the biggest and most numerous spirit race in the Spirit World, having stood at the top of the Spirit World’s food chain for a long period of time. Going against the Beast Spirits would definitely be a mistake as even the haughty and arrogant Wu Jiu had not dared to openly capture the Spiritual Bear because he had wanted to avoid going against the Beast Spirits in open conflict.

  The shade of the Second Disciple’s face was becoming uglier and uglier. The Beast Spirits that could be seen everywhere one looked, their wary and guarded beastial gazes, caused the human spirits to lose all their earlier bravado, their shoulders slumping as they leaned inwards towards their centre, deeply fearful that they would be skinned and swallowed up alive by these Beast Spirits!

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  Everything that was happening had fallen right into what Jun Wu Xie had planned. She watched coldly on at the predicament that the human spirits were caught in. They only needed to come rush back into the Beast Spirits’ territory and even if the human spirits joined forces with the Weapon Spirits, they would have to tread warily as anything that concerned the Spiritual Bear concerned the entire Beast Spirit race. What they would face would then not just be one Beast Spirit, nor would it be vengeance from just a group of Beast Spirits, but the wrath of every single Beast Spirit throughout the entire Spirit World!

  The Second Disciple was a little flustered. As he looked at the roaring Beast Spirits with their fangs bared, his body immediately tensed up.

  Even though he was rather confident of the powers he possessed individually, he wouldn’t have the guts to dare say he would survive from an onslaught of so many Beast Spirits.

  Soul Slayer then arrived belatedly, leading his Weapon Spirits. Before they had even come close, they already saw that the Second Disciple and his men were completely blocked off. Soul Slayer who had thought to rush in to snatch up the Spiritual Bear suddenly halted its advance, to stand unmoving in its spot.

  “Boss? Aren’t we continuing with our pursuit?” A spiked mace hummed as it came hopping up beside Soul Slayer. Seeing that Soul Slayer did not seem to be going forward to lend their assistance, it could not help but become a little confused.

  “We’re not. We’re going back!” Soul Slayer’s voice was a little cold.

  “Go back? But, if we do not capture the Spiritual Bear, the Serene Spirit Tower……” The spiked mace did not understand.

  Soul Slayer suddenly said: “Do you really want the Weapon Spirits be become enemies with all the Beast Spirits?”


  Soul Slayer had dared to go against the Beast Spirits back at the Serene Spirit Tower because there hadn’t been that many Beast Spirits there then, and the temptation of the Serene Spirit Tower had just been too great. But now, no matter how great the allure of the Serene Spirit Tower was, it wasn’t great enough for it to want to use its own spirit soul to exchange for it.

  To declare that the Weapon Spirits were attempting to use the Spiritual Bear’s life to exchange for the Serene Spirit Tower before every single Beast Spirit in the Spirit World would undoubtedly be a declaration of war!

  When it saw the sides of the mountains completely filled with Beast Spirits, it was then that Soul Slayer thought of backing out from the whole thing for the first time.

  Although the Serene Spirit Tower was definitely a good thing, but it was not able to guarantee that they would be able to withstand the maniacal vengeance of the entire Beast Spirit race.

  Soul Slayer’s words startled quite a number of Weapon Spirits to their senses. They realized the gravity of the entire situation and they then followed Soul Slayer to tread back the way they had come quietly, without saying a word.

  The Second Disciple was already trembling with fright from the Beast Spirits’ aggressive stance and had thought that he would wait till Soul Slayer led the Weapon Spirits in before he would go against the Beast Spirits. But the instant that he had just seen the figure of Soul Slayer, he did not even have enough time to be relieved before he saw Soul Slayer suddenly turning itself around to lead the Weapon Spirits away from the place!

  Immediately, the Second Disciple felt as if a bucket of cold water had been thrown right over his head, extinguishing the last sliver of hope in his heart.

  Wu Jiu had been captured, Jiang Yun Long had been killed, and the Weapon Spirits had given up on providing reinforcements from fear…… The series of events seemed to have pushed the Second Disciple into a rather hard pressed position.

  “If you do not wish to die, then scram!” Qiao Chu said sneeringly, as he leapt off from the shoulder of the Yin Yang Bear, staring hard at the terrified Second Disciple.

  The Second Disciple stared mournfully at the horde of spirits before his eyes, his heart long filled up with numbing fear. It must be known that the Beast Spirits were the most cohesion and united race among all and even when just any one of their regular Beast Spirit was bullied, other Beast Spirits would readily lend a hand, what’s more they were talking about their Spiritual Bear here?

  “Second Senior, should we, go back now?” A man standing behind the Second Disciple said fearfully. With their numbers, it would not be possible for them to be a match for the army of Beast Spirits before them.

  The Second Disciple gritted his teeth tightly and then suddenly said: “Flame Dragon! Are you really going to lead the entire Beast Spirit race to openly defy the Spirit Lord’s orders! ?”


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  “Even up till this day, you’re still seeking to use the Spirit Lord to deceive me? The Spirit Lord is benevolent and he would never allow the Spiritual Bear to be sacrificed to go build the Serene Spirit Tower!” Flame Dragon said with a sneer.

  The Second Disciple then puffed up his chest and said: “I do not care whether you believe me or not. This is all carried out under the Spirit Lord’s orders. Your decision to hide that Spiritual Bear today and the fact that you wounded my Master today has doomed you to your fate!”


  “I’ll be waiting for that!” Flame Dragon was not giving in an inch, and the stances of the Beast Spirits there were all ready for battle.The Second Disciple could no longer hold himself up against Flame Dragon and he could do nothing but to sweep his gaze over all the spirits present there.

  “You win today! But you just wait! I will report all of this to the Spirit Lord and you have better not regret it at that time! Hmph!” The Second Disciple said vehemently, and then shouted out ruefully: “Let’s go!”


  The bunch of human spirits retreated in a fluster, under the baleful gaze of all the Beast Spirits, which sent chills right through them. They all seemed to not dare stay there a single moment longer as they quickly disappeared without a trace in a blink.

  It was only till all the human spirits had disappeared from sight that Flame Dragon could finally blow out a breath in relief.

  Many of the Beast Spirits still were not completely clear about what was happening but looking at the Spiritual Bear, their hearts lifted in delight and subservient worship.

  “Save Nalan Shan!” Brownie really could not be bothered with any of those ceremonial etiquette as it held up Nalan Shan, its eyes filled with anxiety.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head and went on to borrow Flame Dragon’s cave to quickly carry out treatment for Nalan Shan.

  Flame Dragon took charge of tying up the loose ends as it made the necessary arrangements for all the Beast Spirits, ordering them all to always keep their guard up, against any sneak attacks from the human spirits and Weapons Spirits.

  Nalan Shan’s injuries were grave. If Jun Wu Xie had not asked Brownie to use Spirit Reinforcement runes to stabilize Nalan Shan’s spirit, Nalan Shan’s spirit might have already scattered and dispersed by now.

  Jun Wu Xie carved out the Spirit Reinforcement runes with her own hand and placed Nalan Shan inside the circle to absorb the power of the spirit, to replenish the deficiencies.

  Several of the Plant Spirits who had stepped up to help them then came forward to greet Drunk Lotus and the others before they left without seeking any credit, but merely reminding them to be careful.

  Brownie stood watch beside Nalan Shan, not stepping away from him at all. Its injuries were not that light as well but it stubbornly refused to budge. Even Jun Wu Xie could not do anything about it but just let Brownie did what it wanted.

  “Whew! Today’s really exhilarating!” Qiao Chu exclaimed as he sat himself onto the ground, the sorry state of his body unable to cover over the excitement in his heart.

  “Speaking of which…… What do we do with this fella?” Fei Yan asked as he nudged the unconscious Wu Jiu on the ground with the tip of his foot. Although he wanted for nothing more than to be able to slaughter that scoundrel who was absolutely overflowing with evil, they were afterall still in the Spirit World, and there were many things that they could not wilfully do as they wished.

  “Hand him over to me.” Flame Dragon came in after it had finished up with business, its eyes filled with disgust as they gazed at Wu Jiu.

  “Are you really intending to go ask the Spirit Lord?” Poison Ivy who was standing on the side asked with his brows creased, seemingly not all that approving of Flame Dragon’s intentions.

  “This matter is beyond what I can decide upon. I need to ask the Spirit Lord to mete out the appropriate punishment. I shall go together with the Spiritual Bear tomorrow, and bring Wu Jiu with us to see the Spirit Lord. I shall report every single one of Wu Jiu’s deeds to the Spirit Lord, and follow the Spirit Lord’s orders from there. I am of the belief that the Spirit Lord will surely deliver justice to the Beast Spirits!” Flame Dragon was highly indignant and infuriated. It wasn’t that it did not want to have Wu Jiu killed, but although Wu Jiu was nefarious and hateful, he was afterall still the current leader of the human spirits. Killing him recklessly would only incite the conflict between the races to reach an irreconcilable stage. In any case, as Wu Jiu had committed such an evil deed, even if the Spirit Lord did not take his life, he would definitely not allow Wu Jiu to continue to hold the position of Spirit Master.

  Poison Ivy knitted his brows together and seemed like he was going to say something. In the end, he was unable to put them into words.

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  Jun Wu Xie did not have an opinion on Flame Dragon’s decision as this was afterall the Beast Spirits’ affair, and hence, as a spirit outside of their race, she did not feel she should interfere with it too much.

  Nalan Shan’s condition gradually became more stable but Brownie was still unwilling to take a single step away. Wu Jiu was still in a coma and Jun Wu Xie handed him right over to Flame Dragon for them to deal with him.

  Jun Wu Xie could not be certain whether the human spirits would retaliate but she must at least be prepared. Qiao Chu and the others did not leave but decided to remain here in the Beast Spirits’ territory for the moment. They would go back and continue with their cultivation only after the Spirit Lord had passed his judgement.

  The great battle had caused many among the Beast Spirits to be injured. Fortunately, their injuries were not that severe and they would all recover fully with just a little recuperation.

  Brownie was worried sick. With everything that had happened that day, it was feeling highly guilt ridden. Back from that time outside the Spiritual Spirit Loft, not a single one among those five Beast Spirits that had saved him remained. The rhinoceros had died on the spot then and the cheetah and the others had sacrificed themselves in today’s battle. The enormous sense of guilt almost crushed the Spiritual Bear that had undergone so many setbacks, its massive body sitting quietly in a corner, staying beside Nalan Shan without a word.

  Jun Wu Xie saw the miserable state Brownie was in and her heart could not help but feel pained.

  With conflict came death, and that was disaster that could never be avoided.

  Qiao Chu and the companions were not able to rest with their hearts at ease and as they still had a bit more energy, they busied themselves by taking care of the injured Beast Spirits.

  They were afterall comrades who had battled beside each other and the Beast Spirits who were originally rather resistant towards those few human spirits now saw Qiao Chu and the companions as one of their own. The three Ring Spirits together with the Yin Yang Bear had similarly been injured and they had now obediently gone back into their respective contracted owners’ bodies to recuperate as well.

  Early the next morning, Flame Dragon persuaded and reasoned with Brownie in every way it could to convince Brownie to go see the Spirit Lord together. Brownie looked on longingly, like it couldn’t bear to leave the still comatose Nalan Shan behind, as it trudged out with Flame Dragon to go see the Spirit Lord, lugging the unconscious Wu Jiu along with them.

  To prevent themselves from being stopped by human spirits or Weapon Spirits midway, Flame Dragon just went ahead and put Brownie and Wu Jiu upon its back, as they flew threw through the sky, with some flying Beast Spirits accompanying them as escort.

  “Wu Jiu is sure to be finished this time. Even if the Spirit Lord does not kill him, I do not think that he will be let off easily. I would like to see how he can still continue with his misdeeds from here on.” Having a night’s rest, Qiao Chu was feeling a whole lot better. He was smoothing out the Yin Yang Bear’s fur with a large comb and he prattled on as he combed.

  “Wait till this matter comes to an end and we’ll then be able to continue our cultivation in peace. I really had not thought that we would encounter something like this here in the Spirit World.” Fei Yan was similarly smoothing out the Great Ape’s fur and he was of the same mind as Qiao Chu, waiting for Wu Jiu to be executed.

  Hua Yao was applying medicine onto his Double Headed Bone Snake’s wounds at the side, Among their three Ring Spirits yesterday, the one that suffered the most serious injury was the most massive sized Double Headed Bone Snake. It had drawn the attention of the majority of the Weapon Spirits onto itself and its originally tough and resilient white bone body was now covered with injuries, with many of those bones cracked and broken. Hua Yao’s brows were furrowed up tightly together, looking highly pained as well.

  The medicine that Hua Yao was using, was an unknown herbal medicine that the Beast Spirits here had brought. According to what those Beast Spirits had said, that medicine was very useful for wounds suffered by spirit bodies.

  Jun Wu Xie had been very interested in looking into what the medicine of the Spirit World would really be like but as Nalan Shan was still recuperating and she had promised Brownie that she would take good care of Nalan Shan, she had to remain there to keep watch upon Nalan Shan, unable to free herself up enough to research into the medicine. She had to wait till the dust settled around this entire matter before she would be able to look into it properly.

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  Fan Zhuo’s Ring Spirit was a Weapon Spirit. This time, his and Rong Ruo’s Hell Butterfly suffered the lightest injuries. Even Poison Ivy, Poppy and Drunk Lotus were wounded. After Jun Wu Xie sabotaged the first Serene Spirit Tower’s Spirit Reinforcement runes, the little black cat had recovered and transformed into the black beast where it battled valiantly. It was now plopped in its little black cat form by Jun Wu Xie’s feet, looking highly obediently.

  Although Flame Dragon was not around, but the Beast Spirits were still sternly keeping watch, afraid that with their two leaders not with them, the human spirits would join hands with their Weapon Spirits and come stir up trouble. The Beast Spirits who had not gone to the first Serene Spirit Tower had already come to know Wu Jiu’s insidious plot from their companions and they all hated Wu Jiu right into their bones.

  All the spirits there were waiting, waiting for the Spirit Lord to provide them with a reasonable result.

  But that wait went on for the entire day. Under the dim skies of the Spirit World, it was impossible to tell day from night, but to count the time passing with their fingers.

  After waiting for a whole day, they did not see Flame Dragon and the others return and Qiao Chu was getting a little impatient.

  “What happened? Didn’t Flame Dragon say that it would come back after half a day at most?” Qiao Chu could not help but to go running out to the mouth of Flame Dragon’s cave and glance around , his head tilted up towards the sky, hating the fact he could not magically wish them back.

  “Wu Jiu has stirred up such a huge incident this time and the Spirit Lord must have flown into such a great rage that it wouldn’t be abnormal that he wasn’t able to calm himself down for quite awhile. That whatever Spirit Lord could very well be thinking how Wu Jiu is to be punished. We’ll just wait for a while more, what’s the rush.” Fei Yan said as he swept his glance over Qiao Chu. As a spirit now or when he was a normal human, that dolt had not possessed much in the way of patience.

  Qiao Chu pursed his lips in a pout, seemingly not calmed.

  Jun Wu Xie glanced over at Qiao Chu, and her gaze finally fell onto Poison Ivy standing over there on the same side.

  “Help me properly thank those Plant Spirits who stepped up to help yesterday.” The battle yesterday had been intense but she had not forgotten those few unfamiliar looking figures. It had been because of those Plant Spirits that the situation in that battle had stabilized.

  “Mm I’ve thanked them.” Poison Ivy answered, but he seemed a little distracted.

  “Poison Ivy.”


  “What?” Poison Ivy snapped back to his senses, to look at Jun Wu Xie in puzzlement.

  “What are you worried about?” Jun Wu Xie’s sharp instincts had detected that Poison Ivy was seemingly bothered.

  Poison Ivy furrowed up his brows and paused a second before he said slowly: “I’m not sure.”


  “What are you not sure of?”


  “Not sure whether what I am thinking is real.”


  “If you don’t tell us, how would we know if it’s real or not?”


  Poison Ivy sighed, and then walked over to come beside Jun Wu Xie to sit on the ground. It might be due to the fact of his relationship as Ring Spirit and contracted owner with Jun Wu Xie, but Poison Ivy who had always detested coming into contact with humans did not seem to notice his proximity to a human spirit.

  “I keep having the feeling that having Flame Dragon go see the Spirit Lord is not a correct decision.”


  “Before Flame Dragon left, you have been seemingly highly hesitant to speak your mind. Were you thinking of persuading him to not go?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  Poison Ivy nodded.

  “I do not doubt the Spirit Lord’s wisdom, but it’s just that in the last hundred years, the feeling the Spirit Lord gives me is rather strange……”


  The Spirit Lord is undoubtedly the ruler of the Spirit World. His existence not only symbolized supreme and unmatched power and authority, but he was also the creator of the Spirit World. Regardless of any spirit from any of the spirit races, they all held absolute respect and gratitude for the Spirit Lord. If not for the Spirit Lord’s creation of the Spirit World, all of them as spirits would then have no choice but to enter the cycle of reincarnation, or to become wild wandering spirits. It could be said that the Spirit Lord was the benefactor of every one of those spirits.

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  Poison Ivy was just as respectful of the Spirit Lord as the Spirit Lord had an upright character and would never be biased towards any of the spirit races. But that kind of a situation had suddenly taken on a subtle change over the past hundred years. Logically, the four spirit races all had a equally relevant presence beside the Spirit Lord, just like the Spirit Master of the human spirits.

  But it was not known from when it had started that the Plant Spirits, the Weapon Spirits and the Beast Spirits slowly lost the Spirit Lord’s favour. The leaders of the three spirit races became more distant with the Spirit Lord and only the human spirit’s Spirit Master Wu Jiu remained close by the Spirit Lord’s side, gaining deep trust from the Spirit Lord.

  The once balanced relationships had then been broken due to the bias shown by the Spirit Lord and the majority of the resources in the Spirit World began to lean towards the human spirits. It was until the construction of the Serene Spirit Tower, where the first Serene Spirit Tower occupied the territories of other spirit races that the original residents raised a protest up to the Spirit Lord. But the countless number of protests had seemingly sunk like rocks into the vast ocean, causing not even a significant wave upon the waters.

  The first Serene Spirit Tower was completed, the second Serene Spirit Tower was completed, the third Serene Spirit Tower was completed……

  As the number of Serene Spirit Towers grew greater in number, the leaders of the three other spirit races besides the human spirits almost had no chance of even being able to see the Spirit Lord, where every audience that they sought did not come back with any response, like the Spirit Lord was fully determined to support the human spirits in their quest to become stronger.

  Towards that, from initially feeling puzzled and aggrieved, the other spirit races then came to see that as the norm.

  “I do not think that the Spirit Lord is completely unaware of the things happening with the Serene Spirit Tower. The Spirit Lord created this very Spirit World, and every single spirit in here cannot escape his senses. It is not possible that he does not know that the next Spiritual Bear had appeared and he could not possibly be unaware that the Spiritual Bear’s powers was gradually declining……” All this time, a terrifying guess had always been swirling in Poison Ivy’s heart where it even caused him to develop doubts against the trust he had in the Spirit Lord’s impartiality.

  That was a point that was absolutely not permitted to manifest in the Spirit World.

  Hence, even if Poison Ivy had spoken his suspicions aloud before Flame Dragon had left, knowing Flame Dragon’s unbending character, Flame Dragon would not have only refused to listen to Poison Ivy, but would have turned hostile against Poison Ivy for doubting the Spirit Lord.

  Jun Wu Xie quietly listened to Poison Ivy’s words, and a faint ominous feeling rose up in her heart.

  For a sudden change to happen in any being, it always signalled that something unexpected has happened.

  Whenever something turns suddenly abnormal it must be the devil at work!

  “I could just be thinking too much into it. We’ll know when Flame Dragon comes back.” Poison Ivy said as he shook his head. For so many years in the Spirit World, his unconditional compliance to the Spirit Lord caused him to waver in his own suspicions.

  “Or you might not be overthinking it?” Jun Wu Xie suddenly said.

  Poison Ivy was startled.

  “Help me watch Nalan Shan.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly stood up, and walked over to her companions.

  “Little Xie? You do not need to look after Nalan Shan anymore?” Qiao Chu asked with a smile as he looked at Jun Wu Xie walking over.

  But there wasn’t the slightest hint of a smile on Jun Wu Xie’s face. She looked up at the dim skies of the Spirit World and her eyes narrowed slightly.

  “Have Nalan Shan hidden away immediately.” Jun Wu Xie then said.

  “What?” Qiao Chu was taken aback. Hua Yao and the others then came walking over. Jun Wu Xie’s words had drawn their attention.

  “There could be a change in plans, and Nalan Shan’s condition would not be able to withstand any further distress.” Jun Wu Xie’s voice had turned cold.

  “Little Xie, what has happened? Why are you suddenly saying that?” Rong Ruo could detect the tension in Jun Wu Xie’s tone.

  Jun Wu Xie was just about to reply when a tiny speck of a shadow came hurtling down from high up in the sky!

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  Jun Wu Xie and the companions immediately took a step back as they saw a magnificent eagle Beast Spirit crashing onto the ground before their feet.

  Jun Wu Xie immediately recognized the eagle at a glance, as one of the Beast Spirits who escorted Flame Dragon and the others to go see the Spirit Lord!

  But at that moment, the eagle before their eyes was far from being as majestic and valiant looking as the one they had seen that morning. Wounds so deep that its bones could be seen in its wings, the feathers badly battered and tattered. Sparkly dust were dissipating out from those wounds and its body was struggling to maintain its solid state!

  It was hard to imagine how it managed to drag that burnt out and depleted body back here in flight.

  “Leave! Leave here at once!” The eagle fallen on the ground could not even lift up its head, but it still managed to issue that broken and shattered warning from its mouth.

  “What is happening here? Where’s Flame Dragon? Where’s Brownie?” Qiao Chu asked, his eyes wide with shock.

  Hua Yao immediately squatted himself down, to smear some medicine he held in his hands upon the eagle’s wounds.

  “The Spirit Lord has captured Lord Flame Dragon and the Spiritual Bear. He is on his way here with his soldiers and all of you must leave quickly…… If you don’t leave immediately, it might be too late! !” The eagle struggled to push itself up with its badly battered wings, to give that final warning.

  The eagle’s words caused Jun Wu Xie and the companions to stand there frozen in shock, unable to believe what they had just heard.

  [Flame Dragon and Brownie have been captured?]

  [And it was the Spirit Lord’s doing?]

  [The Spirit Lord did not punish Wu Jiu! ?]

  [Just what exactly has happened! ?]

  The astounding news immediately exploded within the minds of Jun Wu Xie and the companions. The eagle who had been too severely injured could not hold out any longer. It had broken through all its lines of defence and fought with everything it had within to rush back here, to inform Jun Wu Xie and the others to immediately escape from there. Its body scattered and dispersed into bits before the companions’ eyes, disappearing bit by bit, leaving behind only its last words……

  “Just what is going on? Has that Spirit Lord gone mad? Not only has he not punished Wu Jiu, he has captured Flame Dragon and Brownie? What does he really want to do? Could it be that he has grown too old and his brain has been dotty! ?” Qiao Chu was in shock. What was really happening?

  Jun Wu Xie’s brows were tightly creased together. Poison Ivy’s suspicions were about to come true!

  “Go.” Jun Wu Xie said immediately. It was not the time to stand there in a daze.

  Jun Wu Xie did not have the time to move Nalan Shan at all. By the time the eagle brought in the news and in the instant that they were about to move……

  A loud explosion suddenly sounded not too far away!

  Under the dim sky, a strange glow suddenly revealed itself, and that light was approaching at an extremely fast speed as it flew towards them.

  The Beast Spirits that had been standing guards on the rocky mountain suddenly saw a large number of human spirits running towards them ferociously and they immediately took on an offensive stance. But in that instant when that ball of ice blue light flew over their heads, they were all immediately frozen in place.

  The Spirit Lord!

  It was already too late when Jun Wu Xie and the companions wanted to leave. Even though that ball of light still had not come close, they could already feel an enormous surge of power of the spirit gathering above their heads. They felt as if eyes that they could not see had locked onto them, and they would not be able to escape no matter where they went.

  “What do we do Little Xie?” Qiao Chu’s face paled. Though he did not know what was within that ball of light, but that powerful aura had already made him feel an enormously powerful oppression shrouding all around him.

  Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes. Poison Ivy then seemed to notice something as he rushed over with a swoosh. When he lifted his head up and saw that ball of ice blue light, his heart immediately fell right down into the bottom of a pit.

  “Spirit Lord. That is the Spirit Lord……”


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  Poison Ivy’s words were like the last straw that broke the camel’s back, that quashed the last sliver of hope in the hearts of Qiao Chu and the other companions.

  Jun Wu Xie did not say a word, but just went charging inside Flame Dragon’s cave with the fastest speed possible and pulled out the little awl she carried on her to immediately carve out a series of Spirit Reinforcement runes just beside Nalan Shan.

  “Little Xie…… What are you doing?” Qiao Chu asked as he turned his eyes around to look at Jun Wu Xie, not understanding what she was still doing at such a critical juncture?

  “We won’t be able to escape and Nalan Shan must not be caught now or he will die.” Jun Wu Xie carved out the last Spirit Reinforcement runes at the quickest speed possible without any expression. Adding that circle of Spirit Reinforcement runes would hide a person’s aura for a short period of time but she had only tried it on a human and did not know whether it works on spirits. But with the way things have turned out, she had to give it a try!

  She had promised Brownie that she would take good care of Nalan Shan and she would not go back on her word!

  “Then, what should we do now?” Hua Yao asked with furrowed brows, as things had progressed to a stage where it had surpassed anything they could have expected.

  All that waiting had not yielded them Wu Jiu being punished by the Spirit Lord but to give them such a result instead.

  Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath as she stared at the gradually approaching light, her mind constantly searching for possible way to resolve this.

  Unfortunately……

  She was not that familiar with things in the Spirit World, and knew absolutely nothing about the Spirit Lord, an opponent she knew nothing about, that deprived her of many conditions for her to make accurate judgements.

  The ball of ice blue light came to a stop right in front of Flame Dragon’s cave and he slowly descended, where all the Beast Spirits around the place fell to their knees in reverence and worship towards that light.

  The creator of the Spirit World, the Spirit Lord.

  The shade of Poison Ivy’s face was not looking too good.

  From within the light, a slender figure came walking out slowly. A handsome looking man appeared before the eyes of Jun Wu Xie and the companions. The man was tall, dressed in a light blue long robe, his head of long silver white hair looking extremely striking, but what surprised people the most was that pair of light grey eyes.

  The man who had appeared right before them was the Spirit Lord who created the entire Spirit World, the reigning ruler over all spirits!

  The Spirit Lord had not even opened his mouth to speak and a powerful oppressive aura was already shrouded around Jun Wu Xie and the companions. That intense oppression seemed to cause the power in their bodies to drain out in an instant, and the companions had to grit their teeth hard to prevent themselves from falling.

  Poison Ivy’s situation was the worst. His face had turned white, and his tall frame had gradually become bent and hunched over from withstanding that enormously powerful oppressive aura.

  “Poison Ivy, why do you not kneel upon seeing me?” The Spirit Lord asked, the light grey eyes looking at Poison Ivy filled with complete arrogance.

  Poison Ivy entire body was trembling uncontrollably under that stare, feeling as if endless streams of power were striking incessantly upon his body, rendering unable to stand, as he fell with a thud onto his knees on the ground.

  “Poison Ivy pays his respects…… to the Spirit Lord……” Every single word, was a great struggle for Poison Ivy to say.

  The Spirit Lord’s gaze then turned away from Poison Ivy in satisfaction. His eyes were half narrowed as he then looked at Jun Wu Xie and her companions who were struggling to hold themselves up.

  “Rather capable lot here. No wonder the Spirit Master Wu Jiu was defeated.” The Spirit Lord opened his mouth to say.

  It was merely a simple statement, but it made Jun Wu Xie and her companions feel that the oppressive aura their bodies were withstanding under suddenly increase y several folds, their legs feeling like they could break off any moment.

  “You are the Spirit Lord?” Jun Wu Xie forced herself to endure the highly intense oppressive aura, and her gaze was neither servile nor dominating as she looked at the man who reigned over the entire Spirit World before her.

  “I am.” The Spirit Lord responded with the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

  “Do all of you know what you have done?”


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  Jun Wu Xie wanted to open her mouth one more time but the surrounding spiritual aura suddenly grew more oppressive by another fold!

  The oppression poured in from the front and it was like she had fallen ten thousand metres into the sea, her entire body feeling as if it was being crushed by extremely high water pressure and she was about to explode into pieces.

  Qiao Chu and the other companions were in the same situation as Jun Wu Xie, the colour of their faces turning from white to green.

  As someone who had created the entire Spirit World with only his own power of the spirit, the kind of power the Spirit Lord possessed was one that went far beyond what the companions could compete with!

  The Beast Spirits surrounding them were in great agony under the oppressive aura being released. They raised their eyes up discreetly to look at Jun Wu Xie and the companions and saw that the Spirit Lord was treating Jun Wu Xie and the others as enemies. The highly loyal Beast Spirits just could not understand what was happening.

  Jun Wu Xie and her companions had saved the Spiritual Bear and the Beast Spirits were indebted to them. The Beast Spirits had even found themselves liking these few simple and sincere human spirits. But the Spirit Lord was an existence that the Beast Spirits were unable to defy and the conflicting feelings caused all the Beast Spirits to be very much at a loss. They wanted to open their mouths to speak up, to beg the Spirit Lord to hold his hand, and spare Jun Wu Xie and the companions, but trapped under the intense oppressive aura, not to mention being able to open their mouths, they were all unable to even stand up at all.

  [Everything…… has become so strange……]

  The Spirit Lord continued to pile on the oppressive aura upon Jun Wu Xie and the gang, to see them start to be unable to resist and waver and sway in their spots. There was no emotion in his eyes but for that high haughty arrogance, that seemed to see Jun Wu Xie and the companions as creatures as insignificant as mere ants.

  Jun Wu Xie almost bit through her teeth to keep herself standing. The malice behind the ferociously intense aura being released could not be any clearer to her.

  The Spirit Lord held great enmity against them!

  The oppressive aura then suddenly intensified by ten folds!

  The sudden and unexpected oppression that struck caused the spirits of Jun Wu Xie and her companions to fall into a dead silence. The youths did not even have the chance of even noticing anything before they descended into unseeing darkness, completely losing their consciousness!

  Jun Wu Xie and the others suddenly fell, and the corners of the Spirit Lord’s mouth curled up with a satisfied arc of a smirk before he then retracted all the spirit aura he was releasing completely. The human spirits who had rushed their way here now stood behind the Spirit Lord, and among them was the Second Disciple who had been driven off by the Beast Spirits.

  The Second Disciple looked on in delight at the fallen figures of Jun Wu Xie and the companions, and seeing the unconscious state they were in, his face broke out with a wide smile in glee.

  “The Spirit Lord is indeed brilliant. How could trash like these hope to stand against the Spirit Lord. For them to be able to set their eyes upon the Spirit Lord himself is already their greatest fortune.” The Second Disciple just could not wait to fawn and grovel.

  The Spirit Lord merely swept his gaze nonchalantly over him and then raised a hand to point at Jun Wu Xie and her companions to say: “Bring them back.”


  “Yes, Spirit Lord!” The Second Disciple almost could not wait to lead his men forward as they went walking towards Jun Wu Xie. The humiliation he had suffered before had caused him to hate Jun Wu Xie right to the bone and seeing Jun Wu Xie and her gang now unable to stand against the might of the Spirit Lord where they had fallen into unconsciousness, the expression on his face grew more gleeful.

  The Spirit Lord’s spiritual aura had mainly been directed upon Jun Wu Xie and her companions earlier and although Poison Ivy at their side had been in intense agony, he was still able to maintain consciousness. When he saw the Second Disciple suddenly coming forward and seeking to capture Jun Wu Xie, Poison Ivy bolstered up his courage and stood up, to place himself in front of Jun Wu Xie.

  “Spirit Lord, what are you trying to do here?” Poison Ivy asked the Spirit Lord incredulously.

  [The Spirit Lord would never employ such a forceful and high handed move on any spirit in the past. What has happened to him? !]

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  “Poison Ivy, you can’t even protect yourself here and you still want to stick your nose into other people’s affairs?” The Second Disciple’s eyes flashed with a moment of vicious malice and he immediately turned to say respectfully to the Spirit Lord: “Reporting to the Spirit Lord, Poison Ivy is involving himself into it.”


  The Spirit Lord’s eyes narrowed up slightly and his gaze swept over Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy suddenly felt as if an unseen power had his throat clutched in its grasp, and it was highly agonizing.

  “Bring him back as well” The Spirit Lord said coldly.

  “Yes, Spirit Lord!” Without another word, the Second Disciple immediately got his men to bind up the prisoners with a wave of his hand.

  Poison Ivy was not going to allow anyone to touch Jun Wu Xie and the companions and he fought against the oppressive aura the Spirit Lord had released to push his vines out, that speedily twirled and weaved into a web before Jun Wu Xie and the others.

  “What audacity! Poison Ivy! Are are rebelling against the Spirit Lord! ?” The Second Disciple roared.

  Poison Ivy did not even look at the Second Disciple at all, a fox borrowing on the ferocity of a tiger, but was looking with an unwavering gaze at the Spirit Lord, his eyes filled with doubt and disbelief.

  “Spirit Lord, why are you doing this?”


  The Spirit Lord turned to look at Poison Ivy. After a moment’s silence, he suddenly opened his mouth to say: “Poison Ivy, what am I like in your heart?”


  Poison Ivy lowered his eyes and then said feeling rather painfully and conflicted: “Spirit Lord, you created the Spirit World and gave us spirits a safe place to reside in. You are an irreplaceable benefactor in all our hearts and have always been righteous and impartial, benevolent and forgiving.”


  That was the impression all spirits had of the Spirit Lord in their hearts. What Poison Ivy said was just what all the other spirit felt.

  The Spirit Lord suddenly laughed as he looked at Poison Ivy’s conflicted expression before saying with a joyful laugh: “So, in all of your hearts, I am actually so perfect. I am truly very happy to hear that.”


  Seeing the Spirit Lord smile, Poison Ivy secretly heaved a sigh of relief inside. But before he could even recollect himself, a powerful surge of oppressive aura suddenly severed off his consciousness!

  Poison Ivy fell to the ground without a sound, and the vines blocking the human spirits’ way dissipated away together with that.

  “If I am truly so great, then why do you not obey my order?” The smile on the Spirit Lord’s face disappeared, to be replaced by a heart chilling callousness.

  “Take them all away.” The Spirit Lord tossed out that statement and then turned around to leave.

  The Beast Spirits at the sides were unable to move, suppressed by the spirit aura. They could do nothing but to stare in incredulity at the Spirit Lord they found so unfamiliar to them before their eyes.

  When did their Spirit Lord become so cruel?

  The Second Disciple acknowledged the order given to him and went on to gleefully and arrogantly get his men to bind Jun Wu Xie and the others up tightly before dragging them away.

  Under the countless pairs of eyes of the Beast Spirits, the group of human spirits blatantly dragged Jun Wu Xie and her companions away. Many of the Beast Spirits wanted to rush forward to stop them but they were all unable to move.

  It was until the team of human spirits had disappeared from sight that the spirit aura that engulfed their bodies started to fade away.

  “What is exactly…… happening here?” All the Beast Spirits began to stand up, their hearts filled with horror. They just could not understand what had happened in that scene they had just seen.

  Just what was their Spirit Lord really doing?

  While the mass of Beast Spirits were still stunned and frozen in their places, a dark shadow lay concealed within Flame Dragon’s cave, its sharp gaze from its pair of eyes peering through the swathe of darkness inside to watch everything that was happening outside. The dark shadow then soundlessly took a step back, and looked at Nalan Shan who lay protected within two Spirit Reinforcement circles. It was clear that Jun Wu Xie’s Spirit Reinforcement runes had worked and the Spirit Lord had not noticed Nalan Shan’s presence.

  Beneath the notice of all the other Beast Spirits, that little black shadow then shot out lightning quick from Flame Dragon’s dark lair, carrying itself at its fastest speed in a mad sprint towards its intended destination.

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  Jun Wu Xie woke up from her coma and beneath her, the floor was icy cold. Her head was throbbing with pain which caused her memory before she lost consciousness to become a fuzzy mess. She tried very hard to recall everything and suddenly remembered the scene where she stood against the Spirit Lord. Her brows creased together and she sat herself up, where she then heard a series of clear clinks.

  Four lengths of Soul Binding Chains shackled her four limbs, with the other end all linking to the wall, restricting all her movements.

  Jun Wu Xie froze slightly and then noticed that she was locked up in a dark and dank dungeon, her power of the spirit sealed up by the Soul Binding Chains, where she was unable to summon any of her powers.

  “How is it? Are you satisfied with your current accommodations?” A taunting laugh sounded suddenly from inside the dungeon.

  Jun Wu Xie lifted her head. It was not known from when the figure of Wu Jiu appeared outside the steel bars. All the wounds on his body had healed completely and upon that effeminate and handsome looking face, was a smile that sent a chill through people.

  “How pitiful. Such a beautiful young lady and you’ve actually been locked up in this dark dungeon that doesn’t see the light of day. It’s truly…… such a pity.” Wu Jiu said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie smilingly. It was hard to imagine that he could actually recover so completely within such a short period of time.

  Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes and looked at Wu Jiu who was absolutely filled with glee. Without even giving it a thought, she knew she was brought in here after she fell unconscious. She was unable to summon up any power of the spirit and she could not even probe one’s spirit aura.

  “Where are my companions?” Jun Wu Xie asked coldly. Qiao Chu and the others would have been imprisoned by the Spirit Lord like she was and since she was locked up in here, where would all of the others be?

  The corners of Wu Jiu’s mouth carried the hint of a smile as he crouched, bringing himself down to Jun Wu Xie’s eye level.

  “What if I told you that they are all dead?”


  Jun Wu Xie’s gaze was suddenly overflowing with chilling murder, the thick murderous intent causing Wu Jiu’s eyes to widen. Immediately, he began to laugh even more gleefully.

  “It was just a joke. With spirits who have reached the realm of Spirit Outflare, how could I possibly bear to kill them? Rest assured, they are all perfectly fine. Just like you, they have been locked up in other dungeons, and I will not harm them for now.”


  “What are you going to?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she stared coldly at Wu Jiu. She did not believe for a moment that Wu Jiu would really be so kind as to want to spare them. Otherwise, the Spirit Lord would not have appeared, and they would not be imprisoned.

  Wu Jiu smiled widely at Jun Wu Xie and replied: “What? Didn’t you want to save the Spiritual Bear? You know this as well. The Spiritual Bear is absolutely necessary for me to build the Serene Spirit Tower. But in order to make the Serene Spirit Tower more powerful, it is impossible to achieve with just one Spiritual Bear. I need more, more powerful spirits, and the lot of you, are the best sacrifices I am preparing to present to the Serene Spirit Towers.”


  Wu Jiu’s eyes then flashed with a glint of lunacy.

  “Just think about it. Six human spirits capable of Spirit Outflare, cleanly absorbed by Spirit Fire. What a wonderful thing that will be! With all of you being of such great use, how can I possibly bare to kill all of you? If all of you are to die, you can die after you have been sacrificed to the Serene Spirit Tower.”


  “You lunatic. The Serene Spirit Tower does not elevate anyone’s cultivation at all. Everything that you are doing is merely just providing nourishment to feed the Spirit Fire on the twelfth level.” Jun Wu Xie continued to look icily at Wu Jiu to say.

  Wu Jiu gave a light laugh and then replied: “You are rather smart. Everything you’ve just said is correct, but what can you do? Your words will not be believed by any spirit and you can’t even come out from this cell now. Does it even matter how much you know?”


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  “Jun Wu Xie, you really shouldn’t be standing on the Beast Spirits’ side. With your intelligence and capability, if you are to help me, I can give you everything that you could ever want.” Wu Jiu said temptingly.

  Jun Wu Xie snorted derisively and replied: “Everything I can ever want? Including having you dead?”


  Wu Jiu was taken aback a moment, before immediately recovering to place the smile back on his face.

  “You are still being too naive. Do you really think just one Spiritual Bear is all that important? Not to mention just one Spiritual Bear, even if it is the entire Spirit World, or the whole of the Middle Realm, so what? Compared to the three realms, it is so insignificant, and just utterly pathetic. If just by making a little bit of a sacrifice, you come to gain bigger and unmatched power, what does it matter?”


  “You are thinking to absorb power of the spirit from the Spirit Fire?” Jun Wu Xie faintly detected a little of Wu Jiu’s evil intentions.

  However, Wu Jiu shook his head.

  Regardless whether it is in the Lower Realm, Middle Realm, or Upper Realm, even the strongest person among all has a certain limit he can reach. But if there is a way to break through that limit, what will that bring for the future? That is something that you cannot even begin to imagine. Your sights are set too narrowly. It’s just a tiny little sacrifice and you already cannot accept it. That has doomed you to be unable to achieve great things. You will never be able to experience just how magnificent a feat it is to shatter through void!”


  “Shatter through void?” Jun Wu Xie repeated as she looked at Wu Jiu. She was hearing those words for the first time but she detected that everything that Wu Jiu was doing was linked to those three words.

  “That transcends all power in this world, to become a true god.” Wu Jiu’s eyes were flashing with a fiery fervour.

  Jun Wu Xie did not say anything more as she knew, even if she was to continue asking, Wu Jiu would not tell her anything more about that. She then shifted the topic. “So, you used shattering the void to draw in the Spirit Lord?”


  Wu Jiu shook his head, his gaze shifting slightly to glance towards the cell opposite Jun Wu Xie.

  Under that dim firelight, Jun Wu Xie saw a young child locked up within that shadowy cell. He seemed to be unconscious, and not only his four limbs were shackled by the Soul Binding Chains, but there were two more chains shackled around his waist and neck, and the Soul Binding Chains were at least double the thickness of the Soul Binding Chains on Jun Wu Xie.

  “That’s it. I’ve already said enough to you. I’ll advise that you enjoy the final moments you have as…… you do not have all that much time left to be alive.” Wu Jiu said as he stood up, seeming like he did not have anything more to say to Jun Wu Xie, slowly walking away to leave.

  Jun Wu Xie’s brows furrowed tightly together, as the situation before her could be said to be extremely bad.

  She tried to summon out Little Lotus and Poppy from inside her soul but there was no effect at all after several attempts. The Soul Binding Chains had not only sealed her power of the spirit, it had also trapped Little Lotus and the others within her soul, unable to break free.

  After attempting a few more times, she finally gave up. With the state she was in, she wasn’t even able to use her power of the spirit to fabricate a metal wire to undo the Soul Binding Chains.

  The only thing she had on her was the little awl and though that awl was small, to the keyhole in the Soul Binding Chain, it was slightly too big.

  She was at the end of her tethers.

  The only thing that was still fortunate was that she knew Qiao Chu and her other companions were currently not in any immediate danger. Wu Jiu had already stated his motives very clearly and he was keeping them for the Spirit Fire to absorb them, so they would at least still be safe temporarily.

  Although they would be safe for the moment, but it would be a calamity for Brownie!

  Having finally captured Brownie after so much trouble, Wu Jiu would not give up on his original plan. It wouldn’t be long before Brownie would surely be brought to the fourth Serene Spirit Tower, to undergo the same agony he had gone through before.

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  The situation could not be any worse. Jun Wu Xie ordered herself to calm down as if she were to lose her cool, then there would be no possibility of her being saved.

  Wu Jiu had dared to tell her so much only because Wu Jiu firmly believed that Jun Wu Xie would not be able to escape for calamity this time but only Jun Wu Xie knew that she still have a sliver of a chance.

  Because the little black cat was not at her side!

  What Jun Wu Xie wanted to do at that moment was to ensure her own survival and that of her companions, to make sure they last till a certain someone came to rescue them.

  Her heart calmed, Jun Wu Xie then regained her usual composed self. She still had one last move, one that Wu Jiu did not know about. Besides waiting for them to be rescued in the very close future, she still had another way to save herself.

  Jun Wu Xie raised her hand up to touch the Face of Selvan worn on her earlobe and her eyes flashed with a sharp glint. The Face of Selvan did not require her to summon any of her own power to use it, and if it came to the point that she was left with no other choice, she would use the Face of Selvan to ensure she and her companions would live, and what she needed to do now was only to wait.

  Having thought through the chips she held in her hands, Jun Wu Xie was not feeling that worried anymore.

  What really concerned her was the Spirit Lord himself.

  Based on what Poison Ivy said, the Spirit Lord reigned over the Spirit World he created, and was a benevolent and impartial man. Why had he changed so drastically in a mere hundred years?

  Not only had he sided with and favoured the human spirits, he had even covered for Wu Jiu when he clearly knew that Wu Jiu was using the Spiritual Bear as a sacrifice. Not only that, he had also incarcerated Flame Dragon…… All these signs, made Jun Wu Xie think that things were really strange.

  If Wu Jiu did not hold something that was just too irresistible to the Spirit Lord, that it would mean that the Spirit Lord must have been possessed for him to believe a person like Wu Jiu who held such voracious ambitions.

  Jun Wu Xie thought things through quietly. Besides all of that, she suddenly thought of something……

  She could still remember, back when she had met Jun Wu Yao for the first time, Jun Wu Yao had been shackled up with countless chains. As it had been pitch dark then, Jun Wu Xie had not been able to see properly, and as she had been in such a wretched condition at that time, she had not given things all that much thought. But now as she looked at the Soul Binding Chains around her four limbs, she could not help but to close her eyes, searching through her mind when her heart suddenly jumped in shock!

  The feel of these Soul Binding Chains, were almost exactly like those shackled around Jun Wu Yao back then, except a little thinner.

  Soul Binding Chains were effective only on spirit bodies as only spirits would not be able to summon up their powers because of Soul Binding Chains. But why had those Soul Binding Chains that affected only spirit bodies been on Jun Wu Yao?

  Could that mean……

  A strange thought formed up in Jun Wu Xie’s mind, but it was very quickly that she denied that very thought herself.

  She had seen Jun Wu Yao’s blood, which had been blood red.

  And spirit bodies would not bleed.

  Feeling a little lost by her very own guess, Jun Wu Xie then shook that idea right out of her head. The crisis before her eyes had not yet been resolved and she should not think too much about other things.

  Just as Jun Wu Xie was going to consider how she should deal with her current circumstances, a bout of clinking sounds, the dragging of chains against the stone floor suddenly rang out, and the source of that sound was coming from right in front of Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie immediately raised her head up, and her gaze was met with a pair of light grey eyes.

  Locked in the cell opposite Jun Wu Xie, the child who had been unconscious earlier had already come awake. He was dragging the Soul Binding Chains shackled around him as he came to lean against the metal bars of the cell door, his face expressionless as he looked at Jun Wu Xie opposite him.

  The little child leaned himself slightly forward, and it allowed Jun Wu Xie to be able to see him more clearly.

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  It was a little fella who had a face with handsome features, looking to be no more than seven or eight years old. His scrawny body was wrapped within loose clothes, skinny like a thin sheet of paper. But on that small little face, was a pair of eyes that did not fit his age, steady and calm. That pair of eyes, though the rest of him was looking rather wretched, gave people a feeling of composed elegance.

  Although that description when used upon a child about seven or eight years of age was rather strange, described him perfectly.

  Looking at that child made Jun Wu Xie unable to help herself but to think of Little Jue, the young bumbling little tyke. Back in the Dark Emperor’s tomb, Jun Wu Yao had tried all ways and means to improve his deficient consciousness and thinking about him now, he should have recovered by this time. Growing up over the past few years, he might have now matured to become a adolescent youth from that young little child.

  However, what really surprised Jun Wu Xie was this child’s looks. Exquisitely good looking, and it could well be imagined how handsome a specimen of a man he would surely grow up into. But that very same handsomely featured face made Jun Wu Xie feel as if she had seen it before, like he was a younger version of the Spirit Lord.

  That’s right……

  That face was exactly the same as that of the Spirit Lord that Jun Wu Xie had seen before!

  But a little more puerile and softer, his gaze completely different.

  “Are you thinking of escaping?” The child gazed at Jun Wu Xie for a while, before he suddenly opened his mouth to say.

  Jun Wu Xie was slightly taken aback.

  “I overheard your entire conversation with Wu Jiu earlier. You must really want to save yourself and your companions right? I can help you.” The child said in a tone that belied his age, steady and composed, without the slightest immaturity. If she disregarded that voice that was still slightly youthful sounding, no one could have imagined that such a tone of speech could possibly come out from the mouth of such a young child.

  “Who are you?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked at that strange child.

  The young child’s eyes lowered, and the pair of light grey eyes glinted with a tinge of bitter laughter.

  “If I were to tell you I am the Spirit Lord, will you believe it?”


  The child’s words caused Jun Wu Xie to freeze, as her gaze stared unwaveringly upon that small little face that looked exactly like the Spirit Lord’s, her mind analyzing incessantly, the believability of that statement.

  “It’s alright. It does not matter even if you do not believe it.” That child said as his lips stiffened, as his mouth revealed a bitter smile.

  “I believe you.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly said.

  The child immediately lifted his head up, like he had just grasped upon the last life saving straw of grass, the dimmed and lightless eyes suddenly rising up with a bright sparkle.

  “You believe what I said? Why?” The sparkle in the child’s eyes did not fade away, seeming to be anticipating for something.

  Jun Wu Xie then replied: “I am acquainted with a particular Plant Spirit, who told me what the Spirit Lord was like. But the current Spirit Lord is not anything like what he described at all and you also have a face that looks exactly like the Spirit Lord, except……”


  “Except that I am quite a bit younger?” The child said with a rather desolate laugh. He raised a hand to touch the chains upon himself, the slight movement tugging on the Soul Binding Chains that made a crisp clinking sounds ring out.

  Within that dark and dank dungeon, that sound pierced the ears painfully.

  “What is really happening? As the Spirit Lord, how did you end up in such a state? And who is that person out there?” Jun Wu Xie was willing to believe the child before her eyes was the real Spirit Lord but…… what was happening?

  The child sighed lightly.

  “Are you willing to hear me out?”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.

  The child’s measured voice then slowly rose within the dark and dank dungeon, unraveling the secret within the Spirit World.

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  The Spirit World was created by the Spirit Lord, for no other reason but for the fact that the Spirit Lord was a spirit body himself, an eternal spirit. He longed to create a place that could provide shelter and protect spirits, and hence, he made the Spirit World.

  The entire Spirit World was formed from his very own power of the spirit, where it could be said that the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit surpassed that of any other spirit. Ever since he descended into this world, he had not possessed a flesh body but had always existed in a spirit state, where his might had never been doubted.

  With the creation of the Spirit World, more and more spirits began to be selected to come into the place, where they would be like the Spirit Lord, to forever exist in the world as a spirit.

  Just like what Nalan Shan and Poison Ivy had said before, the Spirit Lord treated every single one of the different races impartially, and in their eyes, as long as one was a spirit, there was no discrimination or differentiation in terms of hierarchy, where regardless of the race they were from, the Spirit Lord saw them all as equals.

  In the vast Spirit World, the entire place was filled with mysterious and peculiar things, and all of that was built right upon the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit.

  But after over the span of hundreds of years, thousand of years, or even tens of thousands of years, the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit was unknowingly being drained. For every day that the Spirit World existed, it was eating at the Spirit Lord’s powers, and all of that was not known by all the other spirits.

  The Spirit Lord loved the entire Spirit World passionately. It was a home he had built single handedly, and he was not willing to destroy it, where he had then fought hard to maintain.

  With the Dark Emperor’s appearance, the Middle Realm underwent a great round of changes, and the Spirit World was not spared from it. The Dark Emperor then paid a visit to the Spirit World, and although he did not embark upon a massacre, he still brought about great upheaval to the Spirit World. It was exactly because of that confrontation against the Dark Emperor that one time where it accelerated the drain upon the Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit, that began to affect his form and the way he looked.

  At that time, the previous Spirit Master had blamed himself for not noticing that the Dark Emperor had appeared and he asked to be able to step down from his position as the Spirit Master. The Spirit Master had tried to dissuade him in any way he could, but the Spirit Master was unable to change his mind.

  The Spirit Master then went into seclusion, where his First Disciple Wu Jiu then replaced him, to become the new Spirit Master.

  Initially, everything went on as per the norm. Wu Jiu took over his Master’s responsibilities and position, obediently following everything the Spirit Lord decided, where he then went on to draw the human spirits together more cohesively.

  And it was from that time that the Spirit Lord gradually observed Wu Jiu less and less, his mind slowly being set at ease.

  And the Spirit Lord was finding it hard to deal with his depleting power of the spirit in that period where his body began to degenerate bit by bit from an adult man’s form, to become a youth, and then a child……

  Wu Jiu was the first person to notice the peculiarity, and it was a hundred years ago that Wu Jiu discovered that the Spirit Lord’s body was degenerating. He had been extremely worried and he then push up the suggestion to build the Serene Spirit Tower, only saying that he wanted to use the Serene Spirit Tower’s Spirit Fire to raise the powers of all the spirits, so that they would be able to share the load with the Spirit Lord.

  Because of his trust he had in the Spirit Master, and together with his observation of Wu Jiu in the past close to a thousand years, the Spirit Lord did not think too deeply into it and allowed Wu Jiu to attempt to build the Serene Spirit Tower.

  The Serene Spirit Tower built at that time was not the first Serene Spirit Tower that Jun Wu Xie and the others had seen but it was built in a place far and highly remote, where none of the spirit races resided in.

  In the beginning, the Spirit Lord did not discover anything unusual. But on one particular day, when he went to pay a visit to the Serene Spirit Tower, real calamity then struck!

  In that Serene Spirit Tower, he saw another one of himself, looking exactly like him; a “Spirit Lord” who held an equally matching amount of power. Detecting that something was not right, the Spirit Lord wanted to leave immediately, but was wounded by the other “Spirit Lord”, where he was then locked up in dark cell that did not see the light of day from that day ever since.

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  From then on, the one that appeared before all the spirits was no longer him but that imposter.

  Jun Wu Xie listened to it all quietly as she looked at the real Spirit Lord before her eyes. Putting together his words and those of Poison Ivy’s and her doubts, the truth of things was immediately unraveled!

  No wonder the Spirit Lord’s character had changed so drastically in a short period of time. No wonder he had shown so much favour to the human spirits and Wu Jiu. The truth was that he was not the Spirit Lord afterall, but an imposter all along!

  All the questions had their answers unraveled and the doubts from before dissipated together with the realization.

  “Wu Jiu has played a really good game of chess.” Even Jun Wu Xie had to admire the amount of thought Wu Jiu had put into this. According to what Nalan Shan had said, Wu Jiu had stayed at the Spirit Lord’s side for about two thousand years’ time and in the one thousand years before he took over the position of the Spirit Master, he was actually able to pretend to live under another guise so well that the previous Spirit Master had not even noticed his real personality at all. And after he assumed the position of Spirit Master, he had gone on to use another nine hundred years to bewitch the Spirit Lord, to make the Spirit Lord relax his guard before he usurped it all at one go!

  Holding the Spirit Lord in captivity. Such a maniacal deed. It was thought that besides Wu Jiu, no one else would be capable of that!

  “That’s right, even I was taken in by him. He is indeed rather amazing.” The Spirit Lord said with a bitter laugh.

  “What is he really after?” Jun Wu Xie was getting more confused the more she thought about it. The Spirit Lord ruled over all spirits and even though Wu Jiu was able to dream all of this up, from where did he come to find someone who could hold as much power as the Spirit Lord himself in replacement?

  Having experienced the power of the imposter herself, Jun Wu Xie did not think that it was just a superficial pretense of assuming the Spirit Lord’s identity.

  “He seeks to do something that will destroy the Three Realms.” The Spirit Lord said as his eyes narrowed slightly.

  “What?” Jun Wu Xie’s exclaimed, her eyes widened.

  “The Three Realms are made up of the Lower Realm Realm, the Middle Realm, and the Upper Realm. Although the Spirit World exists within the Three Realms, I myself, was from the Upper Realm. I am born from the Spirit Tree and before I created the Spirit World, I once roamed within the Upper Realm for a rather long time, and I would more or less know of quite a few things in the Upper Realm. From a very very long time ago, the Upper Realm had been hatching up a terrifying plot. They had wanted to present all living beings throughout the Three Realms up as a sacrifice, in order to deliver themselves up into another realm that no one is able reach, one that Wu Jiu mentioned earlier…… shattering the void.”


  “Sacrifice…… the Three Realms?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes flared wide. What the Spirit Lord said was really just too astounding!

  “That’s right. The true purpose of the Serene Spirit Towers is not anything else but a circle of power runes, totems set up for a sacrificial array. The Upper Realm seeks to use the Middle Realm as a link, to tie together all the power in the Three Realms, for them to achieve their aims for the sacrifice. When I first came to know about this, I thought that it was just a joke, as who could possibly achieve such a feat? A sacrifice of the Three Realms. How many lives would that be among all living beings? I had not believed it at all until the construction of the Serene Spirit Towers came about. That was when I finally understood that the Upper Realm’s plot was truly beginning……” The Spirit Lord’s eyes were tightly shut. The extent of such an apocalyptical calamity was not something a normal person could imagine.

  Once the Sacrificial Array was completed, then the entire Three Realms would have all living beings be reduced to ash, and with the exception of people playing a part in this plan, all humans, beasts, spirits, creatures, would become sacrifices in this grand plot, without any chances of surviving it!

  An uncountable number of lives, in exchange for peerless and unmatched power for just a group of people. Such a thing, just sounded too incredulous and unimaginable, so cruel that it sent chills running through people!

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  Jun Wu Xie could never have imagined that the thing Wu Jiu was plotting would be so big, and it was not something that just the Spirit World alone could possibly stand against!

  “To complete the Sacrificial Array, one hundred and eight totems is required to be established and this one hundred and eight totems will be spread out over the entire Middle Realm. When the totems are all completed and the medium for the sacrifice is done, disaster will then descend.” The Spirit Lord related with increasing helplessness. Having been held captive for so long, the composure he was showing came not from resignation of never being able to regain his freedom, but from being unable to stop the disastrous calamity.

  A gasp rose up within Jun Wu Xie’s chest. This was a matter of the gravest importance……

  “In order to stop the plot, the totems must be destroyed. Your name is Jun Wu Xie right? I can help to free you from your restraints to let you leave this place. If you are able to, will you please do everything you can to destroy the Serene Spirit Towers in the Spirit World? I can’t be bothered whether there are any other totems in existence in other parts of the Middle Realm but the Serene Spirit Towers were built up due to oversight on my part. And if I am not wrong, Wu Jiu and that fake Spirit Lord must have come from the Upper Realm and their objective is to construct the totems.” The Spirit Lord said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie seriously. He had come to choose Jun Wu Xie because he could sense that Jun Wu Xie possessed a significant amount of power and from the conversation Jun Wu Xie had with Wu Jiu, he realized that Jun Wu Xie was not alone. She had her companions and they shouldn’t be too weak as well.

  But Jun Wu Xie shook her head instead.

  The Spirit Lord was slightly taken aback.

  “You are not willing?”


  Jun Wu Xie then replied: “Not that I am unwilling, but the time is not ripe.”


  “Time is not ripe?” The Spirit Lord was a little confused.

  Jun Wu Xie then said helplessly: “Even if you free me now and I am able to rescue my companions successfully, with the amount of power we have, we will not be able to stand against the imposter at all. You have seen it for yourself here. We were not able to stand against his might and that is why we have been imprisoned here. So even if I escape from here now, it is feared that before I am able to touch the Serene Spirit Tower, I would be recaptured by them. And being captured by them for the second time, I do not think that I will be allowed to live anymore.”


  It wasn’t that Jun Wu Xie was unwilling to help, as the matter no longer only concerned the Spirit World, but was linked to the Three Realms, that included herself, and all the people that she cared about. So how could she possibly stand by and not do anything about it?

  But just not now, as it was not yet the right time.

  The Spirit Lord realized that he had been a little too hasty but……

  “From what you are saying, the right time might not ever come.” The Spirit Lord said with a bitter laugh. If Jun Wu Xie had another way to deal with it, why would she have fallen into her current state?

  “That’s not entirely correct.” Jun Wu Xie said with a shrug of her shoulders. She was captured within the Beast Spirits’ territory this time. If it had been in another place……

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed slightly, and she suddenly opened her mouth to ask the Spirit Lord.

  “Back when the Dark Emperor came to the Spirit World, did you fight him then?”


  The Spirit Lord did not understand why Jun Wu Xie would suddenly mention the Dark Emperor. Thinking that she was merely curious, he did not think too much of it and just replied: “I have naturally battled him.”


  “Who won and lost?” Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.

  The Spirit Lord didn’t know whether laugh or cry as that puerile looking little face revealed a slightly abashed and bitter smile.

  “If I had won, why would the Spirit World have submitted to the Dark Emperor back then?”


  “Oh.” Jun Wu Xie nodded and then went on to ask: “Lost very badly?”


  “.……” The Spirit Lord then felt like he just wanted to cry. Was all this digging up of old wounds really appropriate! ?

  “Very badly. Completely not his match.”


  [Can you not ask anymore?] He was starting to pity himself a little

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  “Then how will the imposter compare to you?” Jun Wu Xie continued to ask.

  “.……” He did not feel like answering at all……

  “My power of the spirit had already weakened by quite a lot at that time. But if it was before I was weakened, then he would still pale slightly in comparison.” The Spirit Lord answered despite the pain in his heart, fighting to maintain his composure.

  “Then, there will not be a problem.”


  “No problem?” The Spirit Lord was getting more confused. [ Just what kind of medicine was Jun Wu Xie selling in that gourd of hers .

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  Jun Wu Xie did not say anything more but just sat inside her cell. The Spirit Lord had said quite a lot earlier and besides the Upper Realm’s plot in seeking to offer the Three Realms up in a sacrifice in blood, there was another point that got Jun Wu Xie’s attention, which was the Spirit Tree!

  Jun Wu Yao had once planted a seed from the Spirit Tree into her body and the Spirit Lord said that his soul was born from the Spirit Tree. Would that then mean…… that the Spirit Tree was in the Upper Realm?

  But how did the seed of the Spirit Tree come to fall into Jun Wu Yao’s hands?

  Doubts and suspicions grew layer upon layer, and Jun Wu Xie could not fathom things out clearly at that moment.

  Wu Jiu was in an extremely good mood from having captured Jun Wu Xie and the others. After he went to see the imprisoned Qiao Chu and the others one after another, the then walked out from the dungeons and went off to seek an audience with the “Spirit Lord”.

  However, Wu Jiu’s front foot had just stepped out from the dungeons when a dark shadow slipped fleetingly into the place. Before the two guards standing at both sides of the entrance even realized what was happening, they already found themselves completely engulfed by a black mist, and they fell to the ground unconscious.

  “Has Little Xie even missed me at all?”


  The voice that was tinged with smiles suddenly floated over from outside the dungeon. Jun Wu Xie who had her eyes closed in rest opened them up suddenly, as a delighted sparkle of surprise she did not even realize herself rising up within!

  She saw a tall slender figure standing silently outside the dungeon, where the dim firelight shone upon that extraordinarily handsome countenance, and fell right into Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.

  “You’re just too much. Didn’t we agree that I was to wait for you at home? How could you have come running to such a place instead? People who break their promises should be punished you know?” The corners of Jun Wu Yao’s lips had a lazy smile hanging from them as he stood leaning against the outside the jail cell, his devilish purple eyes filled with thick smiles.

  “Wu Yao.” Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao, her eyes then rising with a smile.

  Jun Wu Yao then lightly touched the metal bars of the cage in front of him two times, and the three finger thick metal bars immediately broke right off!

  Striding with a graceful gait, Jun Wu Yao walked into the jail cell and came to crouch down right in front of Jun Wu Xie, where he then held Jun Wu Xie’s hands so naturally. Seeing the Soul Binding Chains around her wrists, his eyes flashed with an almost imperceptible glint of murder.

  “These things are really…… such a huge eyesore.”Jun Wu Yao’s eyes narrowed slightly, and the palm holding Jun Wu Xie’s small hand suddenly lifted up a finger, to lightly draw a line over the Soul Binding Chain……

  With a loud thunk, the Soul Binding Chain shackled around Jun Wu Xie’s wrist actually snapped apart, and fell right onto the floor.

  In the instant that the Soul Binding Chain came off, Jun Wu Xie could feel her arm recovering a bit of her power of the spirit.

  Jun Wu Yao raised his hand and passed it over Jun Wu Xie’s four limbs fleetingly, and all the Soul Binding Chains were broken open in an instant.

  Having regained freedom, Jun Wu Xie immediately stood up.

  Jun Wu Yao then stood up with her.

  “For breaking a promise, you are going to punish me?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked thoughtfully at Jun Wu Yao. She had not forgotten what Jun Wu Yao had said earlier.

  Jun Wu Yao laughed lightly and lowered his head as he lifted up the wisps of hair that had fallen over the side of Jun Wu Xie’s face to his nose to take a whiff, his enchanting eyes slightly narrowed.

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  “That’s right. Why not…… you cajole and wheedle a little for me to spare you?” Jun Wu Yao said with an absolutely roguish augh.

  Jun Wu Xie glanced up at him and then said indifferently: “No need.”


  Her voice had just fallen when her arm hooked around Jun Wu Yao’s neck and pulled his head down hard, as she pushed herself up on her toes to plant a great kiss onto his lips.

  “.……”


  Against Jun Wu Xie’s brash and unrestrained self that appeared out of the blue from time to time, Jun Wu Yao gradually went from flabbergasted shock to it gradually becoming diminished surprise…… If Ye Mei and his gang were here to see Jun Wu Yao in that state, they would have been speechless.

  “Is that enough?” Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly pulled away from Jun Wu Yao slightly, the bright sparkling eyes reflecting his face in them.

  Which was still slightly tinged with pink……

  “Cough……” A cough suddenly sounded.

  Jun Wu Xie turned to the source of that sound, and happened to see the Spirit Lord directly opposite her cell looking at her and Jun Wu Yao with an expression showing great hesitation to speak.

  Those eyes seemed to be protesting their “lovey-doveyness”.

  “When you said that there will not be a problem, was it because you were certain that someone would come rescue you?” The Spirit Lord’s gaze was conflicted as he looked at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao. Because Jun Wu Yao had swooped in too fast and the light inside the dungeon was too dim, the Spirit Lord had completely been unable to see what Jun Wu Yao looked like at all, merely able to see that a tall man was standing beside Jun Wu Xie.

  Because his power of the spirit was sealed by the Soul Binding Chains, the Spirit Lord was not even able to sense the man aura at all.

  But he could be certain of one point.

  The man who had suddenly appeared in here was definitely not weak!

  The intricate Soul Binding Chains had not been able to withstand his power in the slightest and the Spirit Lord was not even certain he could accomplish that when he was at his peak.

  “Mm.” Jun Wu Xie had no intention of hiding anything and she nodded her head.

  The Spirit Lord’s eyes then had a glint of surprise rise up in them.

  Jun Wu Xie turned her head and tugged at a corner of Jun Wu Yao’s sleeve.

  “He……”


  “I know, the Spirit Lord.” Jun Wu Yao did not wait for Jun Wu Xie to speak and just went ahead to reveal the Spirit Lord’s identity.

  Thinking about it quickly, as Jun Wu Yao had at least fought the Spirit Lord before, Jun Wu Xie then thought it was quite normal that he was able to recognize the Spirit Lord.

  But the Spirit Lord was rather surprised that his identity had been recognized so readily. But with the circumstances he was in, there wasn’t much time for him to think too much about that.

  “Qiao Chu and the others were also captured. Wu Jiu and that imposter are hiding insidious intentions……” Jun Wu Xie briefly told Jun Wu Yao everything she had heard from the Spirit Lord about sacrificing the Three Realms in blood, and Jun Wu Yao quietly listened to everything she had to say without showing the slightest surprise.

  “That is indeed the style of the Upper Realm. Let’s not talk about these things here. Let’s get the lot of you out of here first.” Jun Wu Yao said with a laugh, as if the earth shattering plot he just heard was nothing significant at all.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded in agreement. If they were going to rescue people, they would naturally not abandon the Spirit Lord. She tugged at Jun Wu Yao’s sleeve and Jun Wu Yao immediately understood what she meant. He walked out from the cell and went right before the Spirit Lord’s cell door.

  The Spirit Lord’s face was still filled with joy as he had not expected that Jun Wu Xie would really have such a trump card hidden up her sleeve. Having been trapped in this dark dungeon for so long without having ever seen the light of day, he had already lost all hope. He had never thought that his fate would actually be rewritten right from this moment on.

  However, before the Spirit Lord’s joy had subsided, in the instant when that tall figure gradually came to be revealed under the sparse amount of light, the smile at the edges of the Spirit Lord’s lips congealed at that very moment and his eyes bulged as he stared at Jun Wu Yao who was just an arm’s length away from him, his face twisting up in disbelieving incredulity!

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  “Dark…… Dark……” The Spirit Lord was staring at that devilishly handsome countenance. Even if that face had been turned to ashes, he would still be able to recognize it!

  That was obviously the Dark Emperor! !

  Jun Wu Yao raised up his brow slightly as he looked at the Spirit Lord who was overcome with shock and he went on to say teasingly: “Having not seen you for so many years, I would not have thought that you would turn into such a shortie”


  The Spirit Lord’s face flushed a deep red immediately and it was not known whether it was from rage or humiliation.

  [What kind of a joke was that?]

  [Jun Wu Xie’s trump card is actually the Dark Emperor?]

  “You are not dead afterall.” The Spirit Lord was finally able to regain his composure after a long while and he said thoughtfully as he stared at that countenance that had not changed for a thousand years.

  Jun Wu Yao just laughed but did not respond.

  The steel bars could not stand against Jun Wu Yao at all and the thick Soul Binding Chains immediately broke apart under a casual touch of Jun Wu Yao’s finger.

  Having been imprisoned for a hundred years, the Spirit Lord was finally freed from his bonds and the suppressed power once again returned to his entire body. The feeling made him want to roar out in exhilaration and never in his dreams had the Spirit Lord ever thought that the one to break him free from his predicament would turn out to be Jun Wu Yao!

  “I still need to…… thank you.” The Spirit Lord expressed his gratitude to Jun Wu Yao a little bashfully.

  The corners of Jun Wu Yao’s mouth curled up into a devilish smile that just made the Spirit Lord’s skin crawl.

  “That little tyke is really the Spirit Lord?” The little black cat that had followed Jun Wu Yao here leapt up onto Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder. Back when Jun Wu Xie and her companions had been captured, only the little black cat had not appeared, but had remained hidden within the Flame Dragon’s cave. Only after the imposter had left, it had then rushed back to Jun Wu Xie’s house in the shortest time possible and extended an invitation for this great demon lord to come.

  “Mm.” Jun Wu Xie nodded her head.

  The little black cat’s gaze that was looking at the Spirit Lord then turned thought provoking.

  But Jun Wu Xie did not have the leisure to discuss the Spirit Lord’s “miniature” stature further with the little black cat but to immediately drag Jun Wu Yao to go rescue Qiao Chu and the others……

  In the Spirit Palace’s grand hall, Wu Jiu stood on the lower segment as he looked up at the imposter seated up upon the throne, a strange smile upon his face.

  “The Spiritual Bear is now in our hands. Now, the fourth Serene Spirit Tower’s construction must continue immediately. There must be no further delay.” The imitation “Spirit Lord” said as he stared gravely at Wu Jiu from his seat high above.

  Wu Jiu then replied with a smile: “Rest assured my Lord, the matter will be resolved very soon. It won’t only be about completing the fourth Serene Spirit Tower. We have not only captured he Spiritual Bear this time, but we’ve also gotten Flame Dragon, Poison Ivy, and Jun Wu Xie together with her companions. With that, the fourth Serene Spirit Tower’s Spirit Fire will be able to grow very quickly and stabilizing the totems is now well within sight.”


  The imposter nodded his head slightly, seemingly highly satisfied with the current situation.

  “We have already spent so much time in the Spirit World. In order to come into the Spirit World, the price you and I have paid should be very clear to you. If we do not get everything completed as soon as possible, both of us will definitely find it hard to answer or it in future.” The imposter continued to say.

  Wu Jiu replied: “Now that everything is within our grasp, there will be not be anymore accidents cropping up. Throughout the entire Spirit World, who could possibly be a match for my Lord? But there is one matter that I have yet to be able to report to my Lord.

  “Oh? What is it?” The imposter asked.

  “Among the human spirits that my Lord managed to capture, the only young female among them, which would be Jun Wu Xie, she carries the Face of Sylvan on her.” Wu Jiu said with his eyes narrowed. How could he be able to forget the scene where Jun Wu Xie had used the Face of Sylvan to defeat him?

  If not for the great might of the Face of Sylvan, how could he possibly have been defeated?

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  “Face of Sylvan? Are you certain?” Hearing the three words, Face of Sylvan, the imposter’s eyes suddenly lit up.

  “I could not have been mistaken. For something that could morph and change into so many forms, besides the Face of Sylvan, no other magical artifact is like that.” Wu Jiu said with clear certainty.

  The imposter then creased up his brows.

  “Hasn’t the Face of Sylvan already been taken away by that person? There was a rumour in the Middle Realm before that after that person was captured, his subordinates had mistakenly thought that he had fallen in battle and buried all his treasures into his tomb. Why would…… it suddenly show up on a human spirit?”


  “That’s right, I had thought that it was rather strange as well, but now that Jun Wu Xie has already been caught by us, this matter about the Face of Sylvan will be cleared up sooner or later.” Wu Jiu went on to say. “That person had taken away quite a number of the Upper Realm’s magical artifacts and the Supreme Lord was greatly infuriated by that. Unfortunately the whereabouts of all those magical artifacts are still not known and if we are able to establish a breaking lead through the Face of Sylvan, we might just be able to bring back an extra gift to the Supreme Lord.”


  “If that is true, that would naturally be for the best.” The imposter then replied.

  Just as the two of them were secretly scheming up their plot, a cold clear voice suddenly came floating into the grand hall!

  “What will be for the best? Why not tell me about it as well?”


  In almost the same instant, Wu Jiu snapped his head up and looked towards the source of the voice, to see a figure that had appeared at the doors into the grand hall suddenly!

  It was a petite little figure, but as it fell into Wu Jiu’s eyes, it kicked up a Heaven stirring wave inside him!

  “Jun Wu Xie? How did you come to be here! ?” Wu Jiu stared with incredulous disbelief at Jun Wu Xie who had appeared at the doors of the grand hall, unable to believe what he was seeing.

  A mere half an hour ago, he had just spoken to Jun Wu Xie down in the dungeons and he clearly remembered that Jun Wu Xie’s limbs had been securely shackled up with Soul Binding Chains. With her power of the spirit sealed, how could she possibly have escaped out from the dungeons? And how did she come to appear here?

  Jun Wu Xie walked into the grand hall calm and composed, her gaze sweeping over Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord.

  “If my memory serves me correctly, didn’t you “invite” me to come?”


  The fake Spirit Lord narrowed his eyes and stared calmly at Jun Wu Xie, as a glint of malice flashed within his eyes.

  “I have underestimated you. I had not thought that you would be capable of shaking off the binding restraints of the Soul Binding Chains and escaping from the dungeons. But just as well, as I have a few things I want to ask you about.” The fake Spirit Lord said as he looked at Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly. From his point of view, Jun Wu Xie was just so insignificantly small, and also so foolish. It did not matter how she had managed to escape out from the dungeon, but even when she knew that the difference between their powers were so far apart, she had not gone into hiding nor try to run away, instead sending herself to her own doom, which was just so laughable.

  Even though she had escaped, the fake Spirit Lord was certain that he would be able to throw her back into captivity once again

  “Oh? What could it be about?” There wasn’t the slightest bit of nervousness on Jun Wu Xie’s face.

  “You have the Face of Selvan on you?” The fake Spirit Lord asked.

  Jun Wu Xie was silent for a moment before she suddenly nodded her head.

  “That’s right. I hold the Face of Selvan.”


  “Where did you get the Face of Selvan from? If you come clean without any subterfuge, I might make things a little easier for you, or I might just choose to allow you to leave. However you are going to choose, depends entirely on you.” The fake Spirit Lord was employing the stick and carrot, seeking to coax out information about the Face of Selvan from Jun Wu Xie’s mouth.

  Jun Wu Xie was no fool, and she could naturally see the interest the fake Spirit Lord was showing towards the Face of Selvan.

  But……

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  Jun Wu Xie was not intending to tell them about the origins of the Face of Selvan.

  “Oh? What if I refuse to tell you?” Jun Wu Xie said rather fearlessly.

  The fake Spirit Lord narrowed his eyes, and a sneer hung over the ends of his mouth.

  “You really are not afraid of death are you? You’re just a tiny little human spirit and you dare to speak to me like this. Are you aware that the entire Spirit World is created by me? And you here, are just a mere ant in my hand whom I can kill whenever I want. How are you even able to stop me at all? I am giving you a chance here and you do not care for it at all. Are you tired of living?”


  “This Spirit World is created by you?” Jun Wu Xie raised an eyebrow slightly, and the eyes looking at the fake Spirit Lord seemed as if they was staring at a joke.

  The fake Spirit Lord hated to see those eyes very much. He just could not understand why a tiny insignificant human spirit that he could easily crush to death would come challenge his might with complete disregard for her own life.

  “If not me, could it then possibly be you?”


  Jun Wu Xie laughed lightly, but but continued to look at the fake Spirit Lord with those eyes filled with ridicule.

  Suddenly, a slightly young and childish sounding voice rang out within the grand hall!

  “As to who was the one that created the Spirit World, I think, no one knows it better than I do.”


  The moment that voice fell, a small little figure suddenly came walking into the grand hall from outside, to stand right beside Jun Wu Xie!

  When that figure appeared, it immediately caused the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu to stare with their eyes wide, incredulity rising to show within them!

  The person standing beside Jun Wu Xie was not anyone else but the one that had been imprisoned by Wu Jiu for a hundred years, the real ruler of the Spirit World, the Spirit Lord!

  “You……” The fake Spirit Lord stared at the face he had not seen for such a long time, high crashing waves surging within his heart. The Spirit Lord had been held in captivity for a hundred years, and restrained by six thick lengths of reinforced Soul Binding Chains. Not to mention that the Spirit Lord’s current power was already far from being as strong as before, but even when the Spirit Lord was at the peak of his power, he would still not have been able to break those restraints.

  But, the person who should not have appeared the most was now standing there blatantly right before them, and that scene was something the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu had least expected!

  The Spirit Lord’s icy gaze swept over the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu, the suffering of having been imprisoned for a hundred years causing a sliver of hatred to grow from his heart for the first time. His seemingly weak and frail body then suddenly burned with a raging spirit fire, and the air within the grand hall immediately turned thick and heavy!

  “You had not expected this have you? I’ve regained my freedom.” The Spirit Lord said in a cold voice, his words filled with so much rage and aggrievement it was terrifying to see.

  Wu Jiu stared in shock at the Spirit Lord that had suddenly appeared, his gaze suddenly turning towards Jun Wu Xie. On Jun Wu Xie’s face, a faint smile rose up, and though it was faint, it felt highly taunting and filled with ridicule.

  “It’s you! You were the one that freed him? Impossible…… How could you possibly be capable of that.” Wu Jiu asked as he glared with Jun Wu Xie. He had thought that with Jun Wu Xie locked up in the dungeon, the fate that awaited her was only for her to be absorbed by the Spirit Fire. Never could he ever have thought that his casual handling of the matter would bring such dire consequences.

  It was as if anything that happened when it came to Jun Wu Xie, would no longer be normal.

  Jun Wu Xie merely looked at Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord calmly, her eyes not showing the slightest emotion.

  “A hundred years’ imprisonment. What you have given to me, I will definitely return it all to you today!” The Spirit Lord said, his eyes flashing with intense hatred. He could no longer tolerate how he had been locked with in solidarity, and could no longer tolerate the fact that Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord was seeking to use the Spirit World to initiate such a maniacally cruel blood sacrifice!

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  “And you think you can?” The fake Spirit Lord recovered from his shock and he stared at the Spirit Lord who looked to be only about seven or eight years old through narrowed eyes, suddenly laughing out loud.

  “Just how laughable is this? So what if you have regained your freedom? Do you really think the current you are qualified to stand against me? For me to crush you to death, it’s as easy as crushing an ant. I spared you your dog’s life for so many years only to use you to maintain the Spirit World, or otherwise, I have thousands and thousands of ways to make you disappear from this world. Do you really think that I do not dare to kill you? Since I was able to throw you into captivity once, I will be able to capture you another time.” The corners of the fake Spirit Lord’s lips hooked up into an extremely cruel smile, an icy chill rising up into his eyes. The venomous pair of eyes narrowed and his gaze slithered over the Spirit Lord’s frail figure, overflowing with contempt.

  “I can only say that you’re so foolish. You had foolishly treated Wu Jiu as your most trusted aide in the beginning, to foolishly fall into my trap. So many years have passed and not only have you not learnt anything from it, you have become even more foolish instead. Having regained freedom and you did not even think of running away but come here with delusions of fighting me? Hahaha…… How could such a foolish spirit like you have possibly created the Spirit World?” The fake Spirit Lord had been greatly pricked by the words he heard and he was using the most venomous words he could to slice into the Spirit Lord’s heart. “But it is to be expected. It is exactly because of your foolishness that it has made all the spirits in the Spirit World become as incurably foolish as you. Or, how else would they be driven to split apart into such disunity?”


  “What a bunch of sad and pitiful bunch of spirits, for them to be unable to even recognize their own Spirit Lord. It merely took a little it of scheming and trickery and I was able to make them go at each other’s throats. Tell me…… spirits that are so stupid, what use would they be alive? Why not just feed them to the Spirit Fire where they would at least have done something impressive which would make them more useful.” The fake Spirit Lord said highly arrogantly.

  The shade of the Spirit Lord’s face changed. Even though he had been trapped within the dungeons all these years, but Wu Jiu had gone to see him frequently, most likely with the aim of ridiculing him for his incompetence, and more to brag and flaunt their achievements. So, even though he had not been able to leave the dungeons, the Spirit Lord still knew very much about the things that had been happening in the Spirit World.

  The human spirits had thought that the Serene Spirit Towers would bring to them great powers and they wrecked their brains wanting to enter into the Serene Spirit Towers to cultivate, not knowing that they would end up becoming nourishment to feed the Spirit Fire in the Serene Spirit Towers.

  And the construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower had even caused the Weapon Spirits and the Beast Spirits to become entangled in battle.

  And all of this was known by the Spirit Lord, as Wu Jiu had seen that to be a form of torment for the Spirit Lord, where he frequently sent people to go gossip into his ears.

  “Aren’t you afraid of retribution by doing all this! ?” The Spirit Lord just could not imagine that anyone could be so hard hearted and merciless under the Heavens where they could really take the lives of others to be used as chips to achieve their aims.

  “Retribution?” The fake Spirit Lord raised up an eyebrow. He then looked with a pitying gaze at the ashen faced Spirit Lord and said: “Talking about retribution, you’re really so childish to bring up such a ridiculous argument. Instead of throwing such a superfluous concept like retribution at me, why not think about yourself instead? You have so wholeheartedly striven to create a paradise for spirits, but what did you get in the end? Having your spirit weakening as the days passed, to harbour a bunch of fools with malice in their hearts. Tell me…… could this be punishment from the Heavens for your foolishness? All those ignorant spirits have no right to live in this world and allowing them to become sacrifices to achieve the grand plan would be a deed of inestimable honour for them.”


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  “Enough!” The Spirit Lord shouted loudly, interrupting the inhuman words of the fake Spirit Lord.

  “Whatever state the Spirit World is in, is not for you to say! This place is home to all the spirits! And we do not welcome disgusting fellows like you here.”


  The fake Spirit Lord laughed contemptuously and Wu Jiu snorted derisively from the side.

  “Don’t you feel that having you say all this now is just so laughable? My dear esteemed Spirit Lord, I kept you around only because you created this Spirit World and only while you’re alive would the Spirit World not disappear. Keep that benevolence of yours away now. Before absolute power, that is just too funny.” Wu Jiu said as he looked at the Spirit Lord, not showing the slightest remorse for his betrayal, but exhibiting only the gleeful arrogance of victory.

  The Spirit Lord’s face was turning green from rage towards Wu Jiu’s and the fake Spirit Lord’s echoing words. He had never been a spirit that was all that eloquent as he had always only been around simple and pure hearted spirits, so how could he possibly understand the mind of such vicious people.

  It was precisely because of the Spirit Lord’s benevolent personality that he had drained his own powers to create the Spirit World where he had then fallen to Wu Jiu’s scheme so unguardedly.

  It was at that moment that the Spirit Lord realized what was truly terrifying was not the Dark Emperor’s invasion, but was instead malicious and cunning plots such as this.

  What the Dark Emperor brought to them, was more of a kind of deterrent pressure for them to submit to him, but all of that had been straightforward and clear. Even though the Dark Emperor unified the Middle Realm under one rule back then, there had not been any crafty plotting or wicked scheming. It might have been due to the Dark Emperor’s might that he did not need to do any of that. The Spirit Lord did not think that the Dark Emperor’s reign in the past was any good but compared to Wu Jiu, he would rather accept the Dark Emperor’s rule.

  Afterall, all the spirits in the Spirit World were safe at that time, and as long as they submitted themselves to his rule, they would not be harmed, and were even accorded a corresponding level of protection.

  But in Wu Jiu’s world, there were only plots and schemes, where under that dignified looking face, was a heart more cruel and vicious than an animal, selfish, ruthless…… That’s what was truly terrifying!

  “Oh? Absolute power?” Jun Wu Xie suddenly opened her mouth to speak, and both the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu turned to look at her.

  Regardless of how miniscule and insignificant they felt that Jun Wu Xie was, there was one point that they could not deny. Everytime that Jun Wu Xie appeared, it would always disrupt their original plans. It was the case when capturing the Spiritual Bear, and the same when imprisoning her in the dungeons.

  They just could not fathom how so many unimaginable and incredulous things could possibly manifest out from that petite and little young lady.

  “Right. Absolute power. Just like you and your companions are unable to retaliate at all before me. Lowly weaklings can only submit themselves to what fate has laid out for them. All of you do not possess the ability to resist at all and in my eyes, you are all merely like a bunch of defenceless and helpless dogs.” The fake Spirit Lord said threateningly with his eyes narrowed, the venom spewing from his mouth terrifying.

  The smile then faded from the corners of Jun Wu Xie’s mouth as she raised her head up, her icy cold gaze sweeping over the fake Spirit Lord.

  Without knowing why, being stared at by those eyes of Jun Wu Xie’s, it made one shiver when one did not feel cold at all.

  Even the confident and haughty fake Spirit Lord gradually restrained the smile on his face under Jun Wu Xie’s gaze, a strange fear swirling in his heart. That feeling had struck him for no good reason but it could clearly be felt.

  “I hope, that the two of you will not regret what you have just said earlier.” Jun Wu Xie said slowly, her clear voice echoing in the ears of the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu.

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  “Regret? Why would I regret it? Just because of a piece of trash like you and that worthless Spirit Lord? Hahaha……” The fake Spirit Lord laughed even more arrogantly.

  “What if you include us as well?” A voice suddenly rose up within the grand hall.

  Several figures suddenly came walking into the grand hall. It was Qiao Chu and the other companions. Besides them, there were Flame Dragon, Poison Ivy, Drunk Lotus and Poppy who came walking out together with them.

  Flame Dragon stood right at the back, its gargantuan body slipping into the immense hall, magnificent like an insurmountable high.mountain.

  Qiao Chu and the companions came over to stand beside Jun Wu Xie, standing by her shoulders and those of the Spirit Lord.

  “I’ve seen shamelessness, but never one as despicable as this. As a dove occupying the magpie’s nest, he’s still being so thick skinned I am left gasping in amazement. Does he really think he is peerlessly unmatched under the Heavens?” Qiao Chu said with a sneer as he looked at the fake Spirit Lord and Wu Jiu.

  “You can’t blame them for being overconfident. You must understand that they have not seen much of the world you know?” Fei Yan chirped in from the side, sounding like he was explaining the situation, but the sarcasm in his words could not be any clearer.

  “All of you have been rescued as well as I have thought.” Wu Jiu said as he narrowed his eyes, to look at the people before him. He was naturally able to recognize them, as he had almost fallen into their hands. How could he possibly be able to forget all that humiliation?

  “We would naturally have to be here, or I would not be able to admire the scene where the scums here suffer a fate that’s worse than death. That would be such a pity.” Qiao Chu said highly fearlessly.

  The gazes of Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy had been locked upon the figure of the genuine Spirit Lord all this time where Poison Ivy then suddenly took a step forward to kneel before the Spirit Lord.

  “Your subordinate Poison Ivy had not been able to discover Wu Jiu’s wicked intentions earlier and have caused the Spirit Lord to undergo so much suffering. Your subordinate has been sorely incompetent!”


  Flame Dragon lowered its enormous head, similarly exhibiting remorse and guilt.

  If not for Jun Wu Xie’s rescue of the Spirit Lord, how could they have imagined that the most supreme Spirit Lord of their hearts had been held in captivity by Wu Jiu for a hundred long years! ? And in that one hundred years, the Spirit Lord’s position had actually be occupied by such a despicable scoundrel.

  “Flame Dragon is guilty, and I beg for the Spirit Lord to mete out punishment.”


  The moment they saw the Spirit Lord, they immediately realized that the Spirit Lord had not changed in those one hundred years, but that the one who had been thought to have lost his equitability was not their Spirit Lord at all!

  “Get up. This has nothing to do with both of you. I was a bad judge of people myself, and the fault does not lie with you. The thing that has caused the Spirit World to suffer such great losses is my fault.” The Spirit Lord said with a sigh. How could he possibly blame anyone else? Everything that was happening today, weren’t they all irrefutable proof of his very own incompetence?

  “Are all of you done with the blabbering? All of you are about to die anyway, is there even any use of saying all that?” Wu Jiu said sneeringly, staring at Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy.

  Flame Dragon raised its head, and glared angrily at Wu Jiu.

  “Wu Jiu! As a member of the Spirit World, you betrayed the trust the Spirit Lord had in you, and committed such a vicious and unpardonable crime that brought harm to so many spirits, inciting conflict among the various races. I, Flame Dragon hereby vow, that you and I will not coexist in this life!”


  “Tch! Against you?” Wu Jiu did not show the slightest bit of fear, his face filled with utter contempt, as his gaze swept over Jun Wu Xie and the rest of them.

  “I had been think how you two rats would have the guts to come make noise here. It seems that you’ve gathered yourself quite a number of helpers. But…… with a whole bunch of losers who had been defeated by my Lord, even gathered together, what kind of a stir will you be able to kick up? You are all merely seeking to be humiliated once again!

  “Alright, since all of you are being so obstinate, I will not spare you any more chances.” Wu Jiu narrowed his eyes, and suddenly raised his hands to clap his hands together.

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  The instant that clap of his hands sounded, a shadow appeared slowly from the back of the grand hall.

  Soul Slayer came out from under the Spirit Lord’s shocked gaze, to come stand beside Wu Jiu.

  “Soul Slayer?” Flame Dragon’s eyes widened, as he stared in disbelief at the figure of Soul Slayer standing beside Wu Jiu.

  “The Spirit World does not only consist of stubborn and obstinate fools like you. There are also outstanding talents who know what’s good for them.” Wu Jiu said with a sneering laugh.

  Wincing pain spread through Flame Dragon’s heart. It could not understand why Soul Slayer would want to stand on Wu Jiu’s side. Didn’t Soul Slayer hear everything that had just been said?

  “Soul Slayer! Wu Jiu harboured such evil intentions and held the Spirit Lord captive. The one sitting up there upon the throne now is not the Spirit Lord that all of us have pledged allegiance to! Our Spirit Lord is the one standing here, how could you……”


  “Flame Dragon, there’s no need to continue.” Poison Ivy’s brows were knitted together. Towards all this, he did not seem to be surprised.

  “Why?” Flame Dragon’s face was filled with incomprehension.

  “You’re still being such a fool Flame Dragon. Do you really think that just because he’s some useless Spirit Lord and he is worth having all spirits bodies pleading their loyalty to him? Stop pulling my leg. With one’s self interest before them, real loyalty does not exist at all.” Wu Jiu continued to sneer.

  Flame Dragon stared at Wu Jiu, and then turned to stare at Soul Slayer, still unable to believe all of that.

  “Soul Slayer, just what…… are you thinking? It’s the Spirit Lord who created the Spirit World and that gave all of us a place to live in, allowing us to escape the fate of living as homeless wandering spirits. You clearly know that Wu Jiu and that imposter have evil intentions, so why would you go stand on their side! ? Soul Slayer! Answer me!”


  Flame Dragon’s sense of loyalty caused it to be unable to accept Soul Slayer’s betrayal.

  Flame Dragon was not on too familiar terms with Soul Slayer, hence, when Soul Slayer had fought aggressively during the struggle for fourth Serene Spirit Tower, and when Soul Slayer had chosen to stand on Wu Jiu’s side when they were trying to capture the Spiritual Bear, though Soul Slayer’s choices were showing a lack of righteousness and justice, Flame Dragon could still see it as Soul Slayer caring more about the strengthening the might of the Weapon Spirits and Soul Slayer might have been bewitched by Wu Jiu. But when it came to loyalty to the Spirit Lord, how could it choose to be a traitor?

  To betray the Spirit Lord who gave them everything here?

  Why?

  Wu Jiu glanced at Soul Slayer, the corners of his mouth curling up with a smile, seeming like he wanted Soul Slayer to answer Flame Dragon’s question.

  Soul Slayer was silent for a rather long while before its voice then rang out within the grand hall.

  “Don’t the humans have a saying that people are willing to die for riches and birds die for food? I am very grateful to the Spirit Lord for what he has done, that allowed all of us to have a place to live in. But a person will climb up to greater heights while water flows down into lower depths. Flame Dragon, I do not think there is anything wrong with the choice I made. What Wu Jiu promised to me, is what the Spirit Lord is unable to give. So what is wrong with choosing as per my wish?”


  “Soul Slayer!” Flame Dragon’s eyes were filled with shock, unable to believe that it had just heard such callous and unfeeling words coming out from Soul Slayer’s mouth.

  Wu Jiu nodded his head in satisfaction and turned to say to Jun Wu Xie and the others: “Is there anything wrong with what Soul Slayer has chosen to do? I promised Soul Slayer that if they help us complete the construction of the fourth Serene Spirit Tower, not only will we give to them more powerful might, we will give them back their original bodies, where they no longer need to live as spirits.”


  New bodies……

  That was something that so many spirits could only dream of. Although mighty power of the spirit was great, it could not beat having one’s own body, where the allure of being able to live in the world was just irresistible.

  And Wu Jiu was using just that most enticing temptation to reinforce Soul Slayer’s determination in his betrayal.

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  “It’s not just for Soul Slayer, Poison Ivy, and Flame Dragon. If all of you are willing to submit to us, I can also let all of you regain back your bodies. How does that sound? To be able to live in the state like you had before in the world, no longer limited to within the confines of the Spirit World, no longer tied by the constraints of having to become a human’s Ring Spirit before you are able to leave this place. Throughout the vast skies and the limitless seas, where you will be able to go wherever you want to.” Wu Jiu said, extending a highly irresistible invitation to Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy.

  “In your dreams! To have to work together with someone like you to bring harm upon the spirits, I would rather continue to live as a spirit forever!” Poison Ivy said with a cold sneer.

  “I shall not rest till I see thou meet thy death!” Flame Dragon avowed solemnly.

  “You don’t know what’s good for you.” Wu Jiu jeered, and he turned his head to look at the imposter.

  “My Lord, since they have refused our generous offer, we do not need to let them have the opportunity to see that happen.”


  The fake Spirit Lord nodded his head and then stood up from the throne, where he then came down slowly a step at a time. A powerful blast of power of the spirit then swirled around his entire body, and an oppressive spirit aura then filled the grand hall. In just one instant, Jun Wu Xie and the others immediately felt an aura so oppressive like nothing they had ever felt before.

  The Spirit Lord released his own power of the spirit at the same moment, that crashed against the imposter’s powerful aura.

  The oppressive aura that engulfed Jun Wu Xie and the others suddenly disappeared.

  “You think that you are able to stop me?” The imposter said as he stared at the Spirit Lord who was struggling to resist the oppressive aura and his eyes gleamed with a sliver of malice. He then immediately increased the intensity of the oppressive aura he was releasing.

  The Spirit Lord’s power of the spirit already had a great part of it depleted and in his current state, he was not a match for the imposter at all. As the imposter’s oppressive aura intensified, the Spirit Lord’s face then began to turn more and more pale, and seeing that pale countenance, the imposter and Wu Jiu just felt nothing but glee.

  “How dull and boring……” A mirthful sigh sounded out from behind Jun Wu Xie and the others. The moment that voice rang out, Jun Wu Xie’s eyes immediately rose up with a smile.

  A black shadow shot into the grand hall quick as lightning, as a tyrannical force with the power of a tempest swept in to completely crush both the auras of the imposter and that of the Spirit Lord!

  The overwhelming power that had appeared so suddenly stuck hard, catching the imposter completely unprepared, as the oppressive aura was turned right around to rush straight onto his own body!

  The imposter’s haughty and arrogant stance then wavered and tilted under the powerful force that came back to bite onto him, his feet falling back a few steps!

  “Who is that! ?” Wu Jiu stared in shock at the imposter’s wretched looking figure, his eyes filled with utter disbelief.

  [How is it possible? In this Spirit World, there was actually someone who was capable of hurting the Lord!]

  “You are not even qualified to raise a question.” Filled with unmatched haughtiness, the graceful figure of Jun Wu Yao descended right before Jun Wu Xie. The instant that tall slender figure was revealed, utter shock and hopeless despair immediately showed on the faces of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord……

  Jun Wu Yao who stood before their faces, was unbelievably graceful and composed, and the seemingly nonchalant stance of his body felt like it carried the dominating air that belonged to kings, while that pair of violet eyes immediately threw Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord right over the edge into the deep pits of hopelessness!

  “Dark Emperor……” Wu Jiu stared with wide disbelieving eyes. In the instant he recognized Jun Wu Yao’s identity, all the confidence and arrogance he held immediately disappeared out of him without a single trace left, and his body began to shiver uncontrollably.

  [How is this possible?]

  [How is it even possible! ?]

  [Why would the Dark Emperor appear here in the Spirit World! ! ?]

  Mind numbing terror hung right over Wu Jiu’s head, and after getting a clear view of Jun Wu Yao, the fake Spirit Lord stood rooted in his spot.

  No matter how much he was capable of, when standing before Jun Wu Yao, everything about them was immediately turned into one big joke!

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  One with overwhelming magnificence who holds absolute power, in the true sense of the word……

  The return of the king!

  Jun Wu Yao raised up an eyebrow slightly as he looked at Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord who were dumbstruck with terror. The pair of violet eyes then narrowed lazily, not in the least wary or guarded at all, like the two beings before him were two completely unarmed children, who were not even qualified to make him look at them seriously.

  “Dark Emperor, why are you……” Brimming with confidence just moments ago, the fake Spirit Lord who had thought himself invincible under the Heavens now stared at Jun Wu Yao in disbelief, where however arrogant he had been before, he was just as fearful now!

  In the entire world, only one person had ever unified the Middle Realm.

  Commanded the Dark Regions, fought the four sides, shook the Nine Temples, swept right through the Twelve Palaces…… making the tens of millions living beings submit themselves to his reign, the one and only ruler of the Middle Realm, the Dark Emperor!

  In front of Jun Wu Yao, even the ever confident and arrogant fake Spirit Lord could not help but show fear in his gaze.

  Even if they were beaten to death, they would never have thought that Jun Wu Yao would actually appear here! !

  “Did I allow you to speak?” Jun Wu Yao’s violet eyes swept over the figure of the fake Spirit Lord, and he lifted one hand slightly, where a stream of black mist shot straight towards the fake Spirit Lord’s face in an instant!

  A loud clear smack immediately reverberated within the grand hall!

  The fake Spirit Lord was actually thrown off his feet by the smack from the stream of black mist, his tall body crashing right onto the throne behind him, where upon that face that had a congealed layer of his own power of the spirit, suddenly showed cracklines that spread across in a web!

  The fake Spirit Lord fell heavily onto the floor, and he found himself unable to even stand up.

  Wu Jiu on the side was already so terrified he was shaking all over, acting just like a startled fledgling.

  Back when he had concealed himself at the Spirit Lord’s side to play the part of an obedient disciple, he had witnessed the Dark Emperor’s majestic glory. But the battle between the Dark Emperor and the Spirit Lord was witnessed only by the previous Spirit Master alone, leaving him clueless about the Dark Emperor’s power. The only thing they knew about when the Dark Emperor came to the Spirit World was that within a short half an hour, the Spirit World had submitted down at his feet.

  Half an hour……

  The time the battle between the Dark Emperor and the Spirit Lord had taken merely a blink of an eye.

  Such mysterious and powerful strength, one that caused all the spirits in the Spirit World to tremble before it.

  And when Wu Jiu was witnessing with his own eyes Jun Wu Yao’s power, paralysing fear shrouded his entire body. His legs shook uncontrollably, feeling so weak that he did not even have enough strength to remain standing where he fell to his knees with a crash, his terror filled eyes staring at the languid and completely calm Jun Wu Yao.

  Just how strong the fake Spirit Lord was could not be any clearer to Wu Jiu. Even pitted against the Spirit Lord at his peak, the fake Spirit Lord still possessed enough power to battle him.

  But even for such a powerful pugilist, before Jun Wu Yao, he could not even withstand a single strike!

  It was merely a slight lift of the hand and it already delivered such powerful damage…… Fear like he had never known before poured out from Wu Jiu’s heart. One who was so unimaginably powerful…… how could they even stand against him at all?

  No need to talk about standing against him as before Jun Wu Yao’s overwhelming might, Wu Jiu did not even dare to harbour the slightest thought of escape.

  Jun Wu Yao’s might had not only almost scared the living daylights out of Wu Jiu but even Poison Ivy and Flame Dragon were staring wide eyed. It was the same for them just like Wu Jiu, where the battle between Jun Wu Yao and the Spirit Lord was something they knew nothing about, but just a thought that remained in their heads, where they had assumed that the disparity in power between the Spirit Lord and the Dark Emperor was not that hard to imagine.

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  But it was till today in the instant when Jun Wu Yao delivered that one single strike that Poison Ivy and Flame Dragon realized their thinking before could not be any more laughable……

  [Not that great a difference?]

  [Are you joking! ?]

  [Jun Wu Yao’s powers had truly far surpassed the limits of anything they could imagine!

  The fake Spirit Lord’s powers and the Spirit Lord’s power was not that far different. But before Jun Wu Yao, those powers made them useless pieces of trash that were unable to retaliate at all.

  Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy immediately understood that this man who had once unified the entire Middle Realm under his reign was mighty way beyond anything they could imagine and the Spirit Lord’s decision to lead the entire Spirit World to submit at the feet of the Dark Emperor could not have been a more correct decision to make!

  [Going against this great demon lord with such heaven defying powers?]

  [What else could it be but to court death! ?]

  “Everytime I see Big Brother Wu Yao bash people up, I always feel such an indescribable comfort deep inside.” Qiao Chu said as he rubbed at his chin, his eyes sparkling as he stared at Jun Wu Yao’s back.

  [This here is what true might is!]

  The holder of absolute might, where it reflects the true meaning of a supreme existence capable of executing an instant kill of all powerful pugilists!]

  “If I am able to achieve even one percent of Big Brother Wu Yao’s power in this life, I will be content.” Fei Yan said as he clutched at his chest, his worship of Jun Wu Yao like the endless torrents of a raging river, flowing out incessantly.

  At that moment, however hopeless Wu Jiu and the Spirit Lord felt, Qiao Chu and the others were feeling equally just as excited!

  Jun Wu Yao would clearly not spare Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord who had the audacity to imprison Jun Wu Xie. His fingers hooked up slightly and two streams of black mist immediately shot towards the fake Spirit Lord in an instant to immediately wind around their necks, and lifting them up into the air.

  “Dark Emperor…… Mercy……” Wu Jiu’s face was already tear streaked and sobbing with terror. He had thought that Jun Wu Xie and the others had not known what was for their own good and came running here to seek death, never having expected that the ones courting death was themselves instead!

  With such a great demon lord standing behind them like a deity, where in the entire Middle Realm would Jun Wu Xie and the others not be able to reach?

  “Hmm?” Jun Wu Yao glimpsed at Wu Jiu lazily, and the black mist choking Wu Jiu’s neck immediately tightened.

  Spirits did not need to breathe and strangling their necks would not bring them any discomfort. But that only applied to other people. In the instant when the black mist constricted, Wu Jiu immediately felt a strong surge of power spreading out from his neck, his entire body feeling as if it was being struck by lightning, the pain so agonizing that he almost lose consciousness!

  “ARRGGGHHH!” A pitiful wail exploded out from Wu Jiu’s mouth, his entire body twitching violently in midair.

  Spirits did not share the limitations of a flesh body and unless they suffered highly severe trauma, it was hard for them to lose consciousness. Jun Wu Yao had struck right at the very edge of the boundaries before they would faint, so that they would suffer the most immense torment, while at the same time maintaining consciousness.

  People who had the temerity to harm Little Xie. How could he possibly let them die off so easily?

  Wu Jiu already could not speak at all, but to only wail pitifully in agony.

  And the fake Spirit Lord’s situation was not any better than him in any way. He had already been severely injured by Jun Wu Yao’s first strike earlier, but as his power of the spirit was stronger than Wu Jiu’s, the amount of hurt he could withstand was also higher by a few folds. Jun Wu Yao had naturally not treated him kindly, and the additional torment he inflicted upon him caused the fake Spirit Lord’s face to turn from white to purple, the pain so excruciating he could not even make himself cry out, every single spot upon his body feeling like he was being burnt within a blazing fire!

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  The amount of torment that Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord suffered was something that was hard to imagine by normal people. Seeing their faces contorted and twisted up in agony, it caused Soul Slayer to become completely stunned. At that moment, despair and fear filled its body as all his words of betrayal earlier stuck onto his body like life sucking talismans.

  “Spare my life, Dark Emperor! Spare my life!” Soul Slayer was unable to kneel and it could only fall flat onto the ground, where its body was seen to be trembling faintly, his words of plea accompanying Wu Jiu’s mournful wails that reverberated through the grand hall.

  However, Jun Wu Yao did not even once glance towards Soul Slayer at all, as if even giving hims a single glance would be too much of a waste in his eyes.

  “That fool there, will be left for you to deal with.” Jun Wu Yao said with a sidelong glance at the Spirit Lord.

  The Spirit Lord immediately fell onto one knee and lowered his head to say sincerely: “Thank you Dark Emperor for your help, the Spirit World will forever submit ourselves to you.”


  After having experienced all this, the Spirit Lord finally understood that there was no disadvantage in pledging their allegiance to Jun Wu Yao. Jun Wu Yao was not a tyrannical ruler and he only seeks for them to submit themselves to him. To people who submit to him, he never made harsh demands, and would not order them to do anything that went against their morals or Heaven’s ethics.

  Back when Jun Wu Yao unified and ruled the Middle Realm, besides the initial thrashing he gave till they submitted, he had not struck against them anymore after that, and did not interfere with their ways at all. Things had gone back to being as peaceful as if he had never appeared before.

  Jun Wu Yao did not hold much interest in having the Spirit Lord’s pledge of allegiance as if not for Jun Wu Xie, he wouldn’t have bothered himself with the Spirit World’s affairs.

  Tossing the matter of the Spirit Lord’s submission to the back of his mind, Jun Wu Yao stretched his hand out to pull Jun Wu Xie into his embrace. Compared to the cold indifference from before, his face then rose with a smile.

  “Little Xie, in what manner do you want them to die?” Jun Wu Yao asked with a smile. It was feared that only he was qualified to spout such arrogant words.

  “Anything,” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord calmly. Letting them live another second in the Spirit World would just disgust people.

  “Little Xie, you’re still as benevolent as ever.” Jun Wu Yao said with a laugh. He went on to raise his hand and the black mist clutched around Wu Jiu’s and the fake Spirit Lord’s neck suddenly bored into their bodies. Countless lines of black blood covered over their bodies at a speed visible to the human eye, the bulging veins burrowing under their skin and beginning to swell, twisting up as they snaked to reach every single part.

  At the moment when the black blood lines filled every single part of their skin, the blood veins then exploded!

  Black mist wafted in the air within the grand hall, and there was no sign of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord to be found in there.

  The two biggest culprits who had stirred up so much turmoil in the Spirit World for the past hundred years had their lives taken away by Jun Wu Yao so nonchalantly……

  It was till the black mist had gradually dissipated that Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy who stood shell shocked in the grand hall slowly regained their senses. Their gazes swept over every corner of the grand hall, as if they were trying to look for a sign of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord.

  But, no matter how hard they searched, there wasn’t the slightest trace of them left.

  The deaths of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord, had occurred so effortlessly under Jun Wu Yao’s hands, which had been as easy as crushing two tiny ants!

  If they had not seen it with their own eyes, who would have believed that the Dark Emperor who had thrown the Spirit World into panic would now become their benefactor who saved the entire Spirit World?

  Flame Dragon and Poison Ivy looked at each other and they saw in each others’ eyes, shock and deference……

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  The deaths of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord indicated that the Spirit World was finally freed from the enormous conspiracy.

  Soul Slayer was immediately thrown into the dungeons by the Spirit Lord. Towards Soul Slayer’s selfish ambitions, the Spirit Lord was highly pained, but his benevolent character caused him to be unable to steel his heart and have Soul Slayer executed.

  It was Flame Dragon who was wishing that it could just tear that traitor up in shreds.

  The Spirit Palace was once again returned into the Spirit Lord’s hands. Having gone through so much, the Spirit Lord came to feel that there was no place in the world where peace and security would be assured. The Spirit World itself had a unique selection process and the process was one where even the Spirit Lord himself was not be able to control what kind of spirits were accepted. But with Wu Jiu’s and the fake Spirit Lord’s appearance, it meant that the Higher Realm already had their eye set upon the Spirit World. The Spirit Lord did not know what method they had used to gain entry in but he was more concerned whether a similar incident like this would happen again.

  Jun Wu Xie did not delay much longer and went rushing straight to the fourth Serene Spirit Tower to have Brownie rescued. At the same time, the Spirit Lord revealed the evil plans of Wu Jiu and the fake Spirit Lord to all the spirits, and destroyed all four Serene Spirit Towers!

  The revelation of that fact caused a huge stir within the Spirit World. Human spirits who had gone into the Serene Spirit Tower felt fear like they had never felt before. They had been obsessed with the Serene Spirit Towers for as long as a hundred years and it was only at this moment that they came to know that the towers were not heaven but a place from Hell!

  It was known now that all those human spirits who had mysteriously disappeared had been devoured by the twelfth level’s Spirit Fire and the human spirits were all relieved that they had not been that gifted to have been able to go up into the twelfth level.

  After the Serene Spirit Towers were destroyed, the spirits then came to realize in horror that underneath every Serene Spirit Tower, an incredibly spacious underground dungeon had been built. And within the dungeon, there were remains of lengths and lengths of battered looking Soul Binding Chains. None of them would ever know which highly powerful spirit had actually been imprisoned in there when these Serene Spirit Towers were being built.

  When they came to realize that while they had been cultivating in the towers, the spirit in the underground dungeon was faced with nothing but impending death, mourning in despair, the thought causing them to shiver involuntarily.

  And the ominous shadow that had blanketed the Spirit World faded away……

  With Soul Slayer imprisoned and Wu Jiu dead, the leaders of the Spirit World’s various races underwent a good reshuffling.

  Given not much of a choice, the Spirit Lord invited the previous Spirit Master to come out of seclusion, hoping that he could assume the position of Spirit Master once more. But the previous Spirit Master rejected the offer, saying that his bad judgement of people had caused the entire Spirit World to be dragged into all this and refused the Spirit Lord’s invitation. This time, he firmly recommended for Nalan Shan to take up the position to become the new Spirit Master.

  Nalan Shan had not even fully recovered from his injuries before he was shoved up into the seat of Spirit Master, which caused him to become rather flustered and nervous.

  The Spirit Lord then picked one with a pure and kindly character from among the Weapon Spirits to replace Soul Slayer’s position. There were no changes with the arrangements among the Beast Spirits and it was until the situation had stabilized that Poison Ivy asked for himself to be relieved of his responsibility over the Plant Spirits, merely saying that he had become too used to his unworldly and leisurely ways and did not want to be restrained.

  The Spirit Lord could do nothing about it but to grant him his wish.

  Everything in the Spirit World fell back into the peaceful ways of the past and all the spirits who had died under Wu Jiu’s insidious plot were deeply engraved into the memories of their fellow spirits.

  The Weapon Spirits descended into a long and lengthy silence. Soul Slayer’s betrayal and the fact they had succumbed under Wu Jiu’s incitement to fight the Beast Spirits caused all of them to feel highly remorseful and uneasy, to the extent that the Weapon Spirits would detour in a roundabout way whenever they encountered the Beast Spirits.

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  With the matter in the Spirit World settled, Qiao Chu and the others were finally able to continue their cultivation with any worries. Brownie was always ignoring the Beast Spirits’ incessant pursuit and interception, doggedly running off to mix around with Nalan Shan, causing countless Beast Spirits to want to cry but no tears came out, feeling that their very own Spiritual Bear had been snatched away from them.

  But Jun Wu Xie’s heart did not fall back into peaceful calm. Having been in the Spirit World for so long and after Little Lotus and Poppy had searched for so long, she still had not managed to locate any sign of her father, Jun Gu, giving her no choice but to go seek the Spirit Lord’s help.

  The Spirit Lord was the Spirit World’s creator and his perceptive senses encompassed the entire Spirit World. If he chose to, he would be able to find any single spirit he wanted to seek.

  But even after the Spirit Lord searched through the Spirit World more than ten times, he was not able to find Jun Gu’s spirit soul, a point that the Spirit Lord found hard to comprehend.

  “I’m sorry. I really can’t find your father’s spirit. Are you certain…… that he has come to the Spirit World?” The Spirit Lord asked as he looked apologetically at Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie’s brows knitted up slightly. The Soul Calming Jade had protected her father’s soul and logically, her father’s spirit should have come to the Spirit World. But…… why was she unable to find him? Jun Wu Yao who was seated beside her then gave her tiny hand a squeeze, as a form of consolation.

  “I have sent people do look into it and in the last ten plus years, we did not have anyone who looks like your father come to the Spirit World.” The Spirit Lord said carefully as he looked ar Jun Wu Xie. Every spirit who comes into the Spirit World, would go through a certain form of registration soon upon their arrival. He had checked through it, and he had not found anything.

  “I don’t know……” Jun Wu Xie sighed. She had thought that she would be able to find Jun Gu’s spirit on this trip to the Spirit World and let her father return home, but…… things were not turning out as she wished.

  “You mustn’t be too disappointed though. Do you remember the Spirit Tree I told you about?” The Spirit Lord then asked.

  Jun Wu Xie raised her head slightly, and nodded her head as she looked at the Spirit Lord.

  “The Spirit Tree, is the purest spirit form that birthed the entire world. The Middle Realm has the Spirit World, and up there in the Upper Realm, they have the Spirit Tree. Back when I created this Spirit World here, I had just emulated the way the Spirit Tree did it. At the place where the Spirit Tree stands as its support, there are spirit souls living there as well. Maybe…… Just maybe your father might be there.” The Spirit Lord said with a laugh.

  Upon hearing that, Jun Wu Xie’s eyes immediately lit up.

  But the Spirit Lord’s words suddenly took a sharp turn.

  “Although that might be the case, I do not suggest that you go to the Upper Realm. I have already told you about the Sacrifice of the Three Realms. It is highly possible that Wu Jiu and that imposter were sent here by the Upper Realm and from the way things stood, they had started moving from a long time ago and it was feared that things were not all that peaceful within the Three Realms. Although the four totems in the Spirit World were destroyed, there are one hundred and eight totems for the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms. They had even been able to infiltrate into the Spirit World so gaining entry into all the other places would be a piece of cake. I am inclined to think that the Middle Realm is already filled with other totems and we do not know when their plans will be complete.” The Spirit Lord could not help but be worried. This was no longer turmoil that affected just the Spirit World alone. It now encompassed the entire Three Realms.

  Jun Wu Xie narrowed up her eyes and an image of the enormous runes circles carved in the dungeons beneath the Serene Spirit Towers rose up in her mind involuntarily. The four rune circles were exactly the same, all seemingly depicting strange ferocious beasts like a dragon or tiger. And it was not known what they drew those runes with that they could not be erased. They could only break it by completely destroying the objects the runes were appended onto.

  “You are saying that they could possibly have drawn up these rune totems in other places throughout the Middle Realm?” Jun Wu Xie then asked.

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  “To sacrifice the Three Realms in blood, you cannot do away with the Blood Sacrificial Array and the sacrificial medium.” The Spirit Lord said.

  “What is a sacrificial medium?” Jun Wu Xie did not really comprehend the term.

  The Spirit Lord then replied: “I do not know in detail, but just the general gist of it. They will require a spirit soul not from this world, and with the unique qualities of the otherworldly soul, they will then be able to open up a channel for the sacrifice.”


  [Otherworldly soul?]

  When Jun Wu Xie heard those words, her heart trembled slightly. On the surface, those two words possibly meant a soul that did not belong to this world, and Jun Wu Xie herself had been a foreign soul that had been warped here, which also meant she was not of this world.

  Caught up in her shock, Jun Wu Xie did not notice the cold glint that flashed in the eyes of Jun Wu Yao seated right beside her.

  “Talk about otherworldly souls has been around from a very long time ago, but as to what it is exactly, I do not know clearly, and am not aware whether they have found it. But now that they have started on building the Sacrificial Array, I would assume that they have already found their target.” The Spirit Lord went on to explain further with a sigh.

  “If their plan is allowed to succeed, then it was be calamitous for the Three Realms, as all living beings in the Three Realms will then be wiped out.” The Spirit Lord said, suddenly raising his head up to look at Jun Wu Yao.

  “Dark Emperor, I know that you are indifferent and have never liked to be constrained. But this matter concerns the entire Middle Realm and I beg for the Dark Emperor to help us! Save the Three Realms from its disastrous fate!” As he spoke, the Spirit Lord stood up and knelt.

  But before his knees could even land, Jun Wu Yao stuck one of his long legs out and lifted the Spirit Lord’s feet right off the ground.

  “There is no need for that. Even if it’s not for the Three Realms, I will not allow their plan to succeed.” Jun Wu Yao said, his eyes flashing with a cold sneer.

  The Spirit Lord was taken aback and he froze for a good while before he recovered and said: “The Dark Emperor already knew of this matter before?” He had not seen Jun Wu Yao show the slightest sign of surprise or shock all this while.

  “Mm.” Jun Wu Yao answered half heartedly.

  “We will have to trouble the Dark Emperor. If there is anything that the Spirit World is able to do to help, the Spirit World will spare no effort!” The Spirit Lord then said in delighted surprise. Jun Wu Yao’s might made him dare to hold more hope towards the entire matter.

  Afterall, the one that would be able to stand against the Upper Realm, would not be an ordinary person.

  Jun Wu Yao waved his hand dismissively, not really caring for the Spirit Lord’s generous gratitude.

  Instead, it was Jun Wu Xie who suddenly said: “I want to go back.”


  “Hm?” Jun Wu Yao raised up an eyebrow slightly.

  Jun Wu Xie turned her head to look at Jun Wu Yao, her eyes with determination written all over them

  “Since the Upper Realm is intending to set up the Sacrificial Array in the Middle Realm, then I must go find all the totems and destroy them.” Jun Wu Xie had a feeling that the Twelve Palaces would definitely have such rune totems among them!

  “Alright, if you say we go back, then we’ll go back. As per your wish.” Jun Wu Yao said with a highly indulgent smile.

  “What are you talking about? Go back?” The Spirit Lord was a little confused as he listened at the side.

  Jun Wu Xie then said: “My flesh body is not dead, and I am not a dead spirit, but a living soul.”


  The Spirit Lord’s eyes widened, his eyes utterly incredulous.

  Since time immemorial, only one person had been able to come walking into the Spirit World as a living person, only Jun Wu Yao! Even if you beat him to death, he would never have imagined that Jun Wu Xie had actually also…… But as he turned to see Jun Wu Yao’s doting and indulgent eyes as they looked at Jun Wu Xie, the Spirit Lord was immediately dumbstruck.

  Unless he was blind, or he would not be able to miss the tender lovingness Jun Wu Yao was showering upon Jun Wu Xie.

  But……

  The Dark Emperor had actually fallen in love with another person?

  Just the thought of it was already so unbelievable. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, the Spirit Lord would never have believed such a thing at all.

  “Cough…… The Dark Emperor is indeed all powerful.” The Spirit Lord was highly tactful, but even thinking with just his big toe, he already knew who had brought Jun Wu Xie in here.

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  Although Jun Wu Xie wanted to go back sooner to check if there would be any rune totems among the Twelve Palaces, it was still at least a month or two till the time that the bodies of Qiao Chu and the others would fully recover. And if Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie were to leave, then it would be very tough for Qiao Chu and the companions to leave the Spirit World.

  It was Jun Wu Yao who came up with a solution to that. He left the Spirit World first temporarily, and handed the task of searching for the rune totems over to Ye Mei and the others.

  And over that period, Jun Wu Xie and her companions used the time to continue with their cultivation, to increase their power of the spirit as much as possible, as only by strengthening their spirits would they be able to make themselves much more invincible.

  The Spirit Lord’s soul was weakening, but Jun Wu Xie was able to make use of the Spirit Reinforcement runes to let the Spirit Lord cultivate his power of the spirit as quickly as possible and she shared the method with the Spirit Lord completely as well. That made the Spirit Lord feel as if he had been given the greatest treasure and he immediately promised to provide Jun Wu Xie and her companions the best of environments for their cultivation.

  The couple of months passed in a blink, and the powers of Jun Wu Xie and the companions came to a peak. Even the Spirit Lord was greatly impressed with their current level of powers.

  That one year had seemed long and endless, but in the passage of time, it was merely an unnoticeable moment.

  On the last day before they were to part, the Spirit Lord booked the entire Spiritual Spirit Loft to hold a feast for Jun Wu Xie and the companions. He had also dragged Nalan Shan, Brownie, Flame Dragon and the previous Spirit Master as company.

  “Are you guys really going to leave?” Brownie said as it sat on a special chair. Because it’s body was too massive, when it lowered its head to look at Jun Wu Xie, the Spiritual Bear was just like a giant. But within that pair of jet black eyes, they were filled with thick reluctance to part, looking highly aggrieved like those of a small child’s.

  Although Brownie had already regained the power due to the Spiritual Bear, and was now capable of human speech, deep in its heart, it still felt extremely affectionate towards Jun Wu Xie and her companions who had helped it before. Speaking from its age as the Spiritual Bear, Brownie was still a very young spirit existence. The size of a fully mature Spiritual Bear would be one whole time bigger than the Ying Yang Bear.

  It might be the deaths of the cheetah and the others that was making Brownie’s heart feel highly remorseful and uneasy. Despite the fact that peace had returned to the Spirit World, the unease in its heart had not dissipated.

  Jun Wu Xie raised her hand up and rubbed Brownie on the head, the furry texture under her hand so comforting her eyes narrowed up.

  “Can’t you just not go?” Brownie asked as it stared highly pitifully at Jun Wu Xie. Nalan Shan beside Brownie could not help but gave a sigh. Towards the young lady Jun Wu Xie, the longer he knew her, the more surprised he was with her. If not for her arrival into the Spirit World, Wu Jiu’s insidious scheme would have succeeded one fine day.

  It was as if Jun Wu Xie was like a gift the Heavens had specially bestowed onto the Spirit World.

  “I will still come back here in future.” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes turned soft and gentle. She then raised her eyes, to seemingly look askance at Jun Wu Yao.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded his head slightly, like he was agreeing to the expectant look from her. “Really? Then when will you guys be coming again?” Brownie asked, its eyes shining brightly.

  Jun Wu Xie was feeling rather helpless under Brownie’s adorable pair of eyes.

  When they would be coming back to the Spirit World? She was not certain. If it was possible, she would naturally wish for it to be after she had dismantled at Upper Realm’s Sacrificial Array, as it would only be at that time that she would have the leisure to revisit old places.

  But looking at Brownie’s highly eager eyes filled with so much anticipation, she could not bear to say all that aloud.

  Qiao Chu at the side noticed Jun Wu Xie’s quandary and he immediately broke into a wide smile as he lifted his foot to discreetly nudge the Yin Yang Bear who was happily huddled beside him, chewing on bamboo.

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  Rolly’s face was one of bewilderment from being kicked as its adorable face turned to look puzzledly at Qiao Chu, seemingly asking its own Master why he was interrupting its meal.

  Qiao Chu signalled with his eyes towards Brownie, his lips pursed up and gesturing wordlessly.

  Rolly turned its head to look at Brownie and then looked at Jun Wu Xie whose face was in some sort of a dilemma before finally staring at the half eaten bamboo in its paws……

  In the end, Rolly gave up on the bamboo it held in its paws and crawled lumberingly towards Brownie.

  “Roar roar! !” With a great bear pounce, Rolly pushed Brownie who was one size smaller down into the ground and two bear spirits, one dark gold and the other black and white rolled together into a ball as Rolly clasped its paws affectionately around Brownie’s neck.

  The sudden and unexpected show of affection shocked Brownie. Feeling the passion from Rolly’s embrace, the eager anticipation towards hearing Jun Wu Xie’s reply was then quickly diluted.

  The kind of significance the Spiritual Bear was to Beast Spirits was naturally self evident. Since Qiao Chu and the others were going to leave the Spirit World, Rolly, the Double Headed Bone Snake and the others would naturally have to follow. Hence, towards the affection that Rolly was showing, Brownie had not suspected a thing.

  It was not known, that all of that was however clearly seen by the eyes of Nalan Shan and the Spirit Lord. They had already noticed the hesitance in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes all along.

  Although there was Jun Wu Yao with them who was able to freely bring them in and out of the Spirit World, but they were afterall not spirits who lived in the Spirit World. They were still very much alive, living beings that existed in the mortal realm. Their companions were not just these here in the Spirit World, but also family and friends outside the Spirit World, ties they could not sever just like that.

  The Spirit Lord knew clearly that after Jun Wu Xie leaves the Spirit World, she would definitely investigate into the Upper Realm’s Sacrificial Array, and one need not need to even think to know the kind of danger she would be in. Not to mention being able to come back to the Spirit World often, just wanting to protecting herself would already be taking up a great big part of her energy.

  And because of that, all the others merely looked on as Rolly diverted Brownie’s attention away and did not say a single word to expose Brownie’s actions.

  “I have not thanked you properly for all that happened before. If not for you, I fear I would already have disappeared.” Nalan Shan said with a smile on his face as he turned his gaze away from Brownie, lifting up the wine glass before him to look at Jun Wu Xie.

  That day, he was so severely injured by Wu Jiu that even he himself had thought he would undoubtedly die this time. He had not thought that he would still wake up to see another day till the moment he discovered himself hidden within darkness and his hand felt the Spirit Reinforcement runes carved into the ground around him. That was when he knew clearly that he was really still alive.

  Everything after that made Nalan Shan realize that the reason he was able to still live was all due to Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie had used Spirit Reinforcement to stabilize its gradually dispersing soul and had made use of those final moments just before the fake Spirit Lord reached them to inscribe Spirit Reinforcement runes that concealed spirit aura around him. Otherwise, with the state that he was in, not to mention whether Wu Jiu who hated him to the bone would have immediately taken his life, even if he was just thrown into the dungeon and left on his own, it wouldn’t even be an hour before he would succumb and die from his injuries, without any possibility for revival!

  To him, Jun Wu Xie was the benefactor who saved his life, and that was a debt of gratitude he would never be able to forget.

  Unfortunately……

  With the level of powers he possessed, it was not enough to help Jun Wu Xie much.

  Jun Wu Xie picked up the cup of clear tea before her and clinked it lightly against Nalan Shan’s raised cup before she finished it in a single gulp. With everything that have happened in the Spirit World, some were good and some were bad, but regardless of that, she would never forget it.

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  With a song, and a cup of wine, this night, was to be their final time of revelry in the Spirit World.

  The Spirit Lord spared no expense with his own power of the spirit to magically create the best wine, and the most delicious food.

  The Hell Butterfly fluttered around in a dance within the loft, the Double Headed Bone Snake slid and slithered it nimble body happily on the floor, their movements coming together to form a beautiful and mystical dance.

  As Jun Wu Xie saw song and dance rising up, her heart was comforted by a strong feeling of tranquility. What she looked forward to the most, was for life to be like this, where there wasn’t all that much of ups and downs, plain and simple, like a narrow stream that flowed a long way, that was real life for her.

  “In the future, we’ll come back.” Jun Wu Yao said, his hand grasped around Jun Wu Xie’s under the table.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.

  The day of parting finally arrived and the fiery skeleton horse appeared once again before Jun Wu Xie and the others. Stepping onto the carriage, it also signalled the end of their trip here to the Spirit World.

  As the skeletal horse trod upon the blazing flames and went further away, Brownie who stood in its spot could finally no longer hold back as it let out a roar of sadness……

  Upon boundless grass plains in the Middle Realm, a wild wind howled that blew over the fresh green grass sending ripples to wash over the fields. The iron shod hooves of the stallions pumped through the waving grass in full sprint, and upon the two white stallions, a stunning male and female pair urged their horses forward.

  The gracefully elegant figures were like two white streaks of light, quickly disappearing like two flashes of lightning.

  One year ago, the Twelve Palaces were struck by heavy disaster. All the Palace Lords were wiped out completely and the Summit of the Twelve Palaces that had many people gasping in awe back then had now become the Twelve Palaces’ turning point into decline and decay. From then on, the Twelve Palaces had disappeared from everyone’s sight, and in their place, was now the Spirit Jade Palace that the Twelve Palaces had oppressed for a thousand years.

  The Spirit Jade Palace had emerged as a strong force to be reckoned with where they swept out all remnants of the Twelve Palaces. Under their oppressive powerful might, they captured and assumed all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces, to become the final beneficiary of the Twelve Palaces’ demise in a single bound. They consolidated all the remaining strength of the Twelve Palaces and people who did not want to leave from the Twelve Palaces were taken in and reassigned by the Spirit Jade Palace. The conflict and strife that had plagued the Twelve Palaces for a thousand years was finally brought to an end by the Spirit Jade Palace.

  The demise of the Twelve Palaces brought success to the Spirit Jade Palace, where the Spirit Jade Palace had merely taken just one year to become a tremendous force powerful enough to stand against the Nine Temples.

  Initially, the disparity between the might of the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples was not considered to be all that great but because of the Twelve Palaces’ refusal to give in to each other, bringing about constant fighting that increasingly drained them internally, which caused them to be unable to catch up with the Nine Temples’ pace.

  And now, with divided forces gathered together as one, even if they were unable to surpass the Nine Temples within a short period of time, they had become far stronger than the previous Twelve Palaces who were locked in a constant struggle for supremacy.

  Towards the Spirit Jade Palace’s rise, rumours in the Middle Realm were rife and they differed greatly. Before the Summit of the Twelve Palaces, no one could have ever thought that the Spirit Jade Palace that had been backed into a corner with no way out would actually still be able to see the day they could spring back and rise again!

  Someone had once said that the rise of the Spirit Jade Palace was only because they managed to find themselves a mysterious and powerful ally. And it was the Spirit Jade Palace’s mysterious ally that had used oppressive might to overwhelm everyone during the Summit of the Twelve Palaces and sent the Twelve Palaces straight into Hell. From then on, the words Twelve Palaces were then pushed right out from the books of history. The Spirit Jade Palace’s return to power, the Twelve Palaces’ history irrecoverably altered, the powers that previously submitted to the Twelve Palaces all at the feet of the Spirit Jade Palace. In an instant, the Spirit Jade Palace had suddenly become a hot and burning might among the Middle Realm’s powers.

  With all that said, why had they done that and where had that powerful and mysterious army come from? Why had they disappeared without a single trace after the Twelve Palaces had been destroyed? All these doubts and questions remained in the minds of everyone, but no one knew the answers to them.

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  The wind whistled through the place that had once originally been the Flame Dragons Palace. The once sacred and glorious Palace had been flattened completely, and a new stylishly elegant building now stood over its original location. It was the Spirit Jade Palace’s branch for the region. Although the Spirit Jade Palace consolidated all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces, it did not do like what the Twelve Palaces did, forcing their subordinate powers to offer up tributes.

  They had even handed the land where the people lived, back to the citizenry, benefits that the Twelve Palaces had once seized.

  Immediately, the people in the territories of all the Twelve Palaces were feeling deeply grateful to the Spirit Jade Palace as back when they were living under the oppression of the Twelve Palaces, all of them could barely even eke out a living. For so many long years, the Twelve Palaces had been constantly locked in their struggle to locate the Dark Emperor’s tomb. Throughout that period, the amount of manpower and material resources depleted had been hard to imagine, with the money required for such an expedition squeezed out from the common citizens and their various vassal powers.

  With the Spirit Jade Palace taking over the position of the Twelve Palaces, it allowed the oppressed people to enjoy great reprieve, to live a more peaceful life.

  In that instant, the Spirit Jade Palace’s reign had then not only not encountered any resistance, they even enjoyed a great deal of support where some of the citizens had even taken the initiative to help the Spirit Jade Palace capture the Twelve Palaces’ surviving remnants.

  In the city that the Flame Dragons Palace once stood, the citizens were all filled with respect and gratitude towards the Spirit Jade Palace.

  “Miss Xue Er, you’ve come. These are some fruits we have just harvested this year. Will you bring some back?” When the citizens of the city saw one of the young ladies from the Spirit Jade Palace, they immediately crowded around her, everyone of them holding fresh produce in their hands, eagerly offering them as a gift to her.

  Although those things were not worth a lot of money, but they were gifts that well represented the gratitude in their hearts.

  The young lady named Xue Er, looked to be only about eighteen or nineteen years of age and her rosy little face was filled with complete helplessness at that moment. It wasn’t just her. As long as any of their sisters from the palace came out on a trip, they would all be met with such a passionate reception from the citizens. Such hospitality, quickly caused the young ladies who had not had much interaction with the outside world before to become flustered and helpless.

  Having been persecuted by the Twelve Palaces for a thousand years, how many of the Spirit Jade Palace disciples had lost their lives mysteriously out here in the world? How could they have imagined that they would see a day where they could really come out from that dim cave within Mount Fu Yao? They would never have imagined that they would be able to be just like any regular person, to be able to stand at ease under the sun’s rays, to interact with people out there in the world.

  Towards such passion, the disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace went from feeling panic to gratitude. The people who were truly grateful were them. They were finally able to live freely and in contentment just like a normal person.

  Before the passionate citizens, Xue Er politely refused all their offerings as she tried to escape from them.

  After the Spirit Jade Palace assimilated all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces, the first thing they did was not to build a palace for the Spirit Jade Palace themselves, but to gather all of their existing disciples together, to order them that they were not to use the Spirit Jade Palace’s might to bully or oppress the citizens, and that they were not allowed to carelessly accept gifts from the citizens, or they would be immediately thrown out of the Spirit Jade Palace, never to return.

  Towards this warning from the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, every single one of the ladies remembered in deep in their hearts. They were ladies of simple and honest character and to be able to freely walk out from Mount Fu Yao was already the greatest fortune to them and they did not need to ask for more.

  Finally walking out from the city after much difficulty, Xue Er blew out a breath of relief and raised her head, to look up at the slender figure on top of a slope before the city gates.

  That figure was petite and thin, looking a little grim. The wind blew her hair up, the black hair fluttering freely behind her as she stood facing the strong breeze, where she looked like she stood apart from the rest of the world.

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  Xue Er looked at the lonely figure and her eyes flashed with a sliver of sadness and helplessness. But very quickly, she pushed back the look in her eyes and put on a brilliant smile on her face as she walked herself towards the figure.

  The figure remained standing in its spot, not moving an inch. Xue Er walked over to the figure’s side and she still did not show any reaction. On her face, she wore a dark bronze mask. The mask covered her entire face, revealing only a pair of calm but slightly expectant eyes.

  “Senior, life is really great now. I had never thought that we will ever be able live like this. The past one year has been the happiest time of my life.” Xue Er said as she followed the other girl’s gaze that was looking a far way off, her little round face rosy, looking very much like an apple.

  The girl with the mask turned her head slightly, to look at Xue Er who was smiling prettily like a flower and she nodded her head slightly.

  Xue Er went on to say smilingly on her own: “Senior, would you say that the Palace Lord’s words are true? Our benefactor is really coming back?”


  The eyes of the masked girl flashed briefly as the bright sparkling eyes lowered in remorse.

  “Since that was what Lord Ye Mei said to the Palace Lord, then it should be true.” The masked girl replied.

  “No wonder the Palace Lord has been urging us to tidy up the various branches properly. It seems that our Lord wants to let our benefactor see how the lands have been reborn?” Xue Er said with a laugh.

  Throughout the Spirit Jade Palace, the fact that not a single one among them would covet anything from the citizens was not just because the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had issued strict orders against it, but it was more due to the fact that all of them were well aware of where everything they had gained today really came from.

  They were not the ones who obliterated the Twelve Palaces, and these rewards were not supposed to be theirs to enjoy. They were merely managing things on someone’s behalf and though the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had never said anything about it, they knew very clearly that everything the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was doing was merely trying to cleanse these filthy forsaken lands and return them to that person.

  This was not what they should be getting afterall.

  The Spirit Jade Palace had never seen themselves as the successor of the Twelve Palaces. What they had always sought and pursued had never been supreme authority, but just a breath of freedom.

  “Mm” The masked girl answered softly, her eyes still peering far off into the distance. This time, her eyes were tinged with sadness and a little conflicted.

  They seemed a little expectant, but fearful of something at the same time.

  Suddenly, over the line where the Heavens and Earth joined, two black specks appeared over the horizon. Under the sunlight, they gradually became bigger.

  The masked girl’s eyes widened slightly, her breathing becoming a little hurried.

  In an instant, three figures suddenly appeared beside her and Xue Er. The three people were all dressed in black, and it was Ye Sha, Ye Gu, and Ye Mei. The three men’s eyes were bright as torches as they watched the two black specks slowly magnify, excitement and anxiety rising in their eyes.

  They stood there barely for just a blink when they suddenly shot themselves forward straight towards the two dark figures!

  Xue Er held the masked girl’s hand nervously while feeling excited at the same time, before she said anxiously: “Senior! ! Senior! ! That…… That……”


  “She’s back.” The masked girl’s eyes narrowed slightly, filling up with a smile.

  Xue Er was staring with her eyes wide, as she watched the two figures gradually coming clearer into view.

  Upon the magnificent white horses, a flawlessly beautiful young lady and a man with peerlessly handsome countenance rode shoulder to shoulder. The wild wind blew their hair up behind them, the two figures seemingly leaving a trail of themselves behind the places they passed.

  Ye Sha and the two others sped forward at great speed to welcome them, and in the instant just before they were to meet the two figures, the three of them fell in uniform onto one knee!

  “Your subordinate Ye Sha, Ye Mei, and Ye Gu, welcomes Lord Jue and the Eldest Miss on your return!”


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  Jun Wu Xie pulled back on the reins and the magnificent horse raised itself up as it kicked its front hooves, coming to a stop about five steps before Ye Sha and the others.

  “MEH MEH MEH~! ! !” A spherical white ball suddenly shot out from Ye Sha’s arms, burying its head right into Jun Wu Xie’s embrace.

  Jun Wu Xie lowered her head and looked at Lord Meh Meh who was madly being an absolutely adorable fluff ball and her eyes could not help but show traces of a smile.

  “Meh meh……” Lord Meh Meh raised up a tiny hoof and stroked Jun Wu Xie’s body, its underbelly facing up to reveal its soft unprotected belly as it made highly aggrieved noises for having missed Jun Wu Xie so much, the sounds making people’s hearts melt.

  A year’s time, to Jun Wu Xie had passed in just a blink of an eye. But to Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit who were filled with nothing but longing, every single day felt like a year. Having gotten so used to being by Jun Wu Xie’s side and smelling the refreshing scent on her, used to munching upon the scrumptious green grass around Jun Wu Xie’s feet. Being parted for one whole year, it only made the two adorable and foolish beasts miss Jun Wu Xie increasingly.

  Jun Wu Xie lifted a hand up to rub Lord Meh Mehs tummy and Ye Mei who was on one side also stood up, to carry the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit who was trembling hard with excitement over into Jun Wu Xie’s arms.

  The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit was trembling so hard it could not even stand firmly but to lean into Jun Wu Xie’s arms as it rubbed its furry little head against Jun Wu Xie’s chest.

  The little black cat stood upon Jun Wu Xie’s shoulders as it stared at the two dumb beasts whose eyes were brimming with tears and it harrumphed indignantly. Seemingly haughty and proud, its swishing curled up tail however revealed the amount of joy it was feeling.

  Jun Wu Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie who was surrounded by the ignorant beasts with an indiscernible smile. When he saw the gentleness in her eyes when she lowered her head, his heart turned uncharacteristically soft, where he wished that she would be free from worries in this life for her.

  “Lord Jue.” Ye Sha said respectfully to Jun Wu Yao.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded slightly.

  “Everything has all been prepared. Will Lord Jue and Eldest Miss first go get some rest?” Ye Mei said

  Lord Mei Mei and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit were so excited that they could not calm themselves. With the two adorable beasts acting all coy and cute in her arms, Jun Wu Xie was not able to ride her horse at all. Hence, Jun Wu Yao carried Jun Wu Xie up and let her sit side saddle before him, before he rode forward together with her. Ye Sha then took the initiative to lead Jun Wu Xie’s stallion, and followed behind with Ye Mei and Ye Gu.

  Urging the horse to go before the city gates, Xue Er and the masked girl standing upon the slope immediately came running down, to kneel respectfully before the horse carrying Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie.

  “Disciples of the Spirit Jade Palace, have under the orders of the Palace Lord, come to welcome you.” Xue Er’s voice rang out loud and clear, while the masked girl just knelt quietly beside her, her head lowered in silence.

  Jun Wu Xie glanced at Jun Wu Yao, knowing that the news of their return must have been sent out by Jun Wu Yao through some special method to Ye Mei and the others in advance, and that piece of news had then been transmitted to reach the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s ears.

  “The Palace Lord has already prepared places for both of you to rest so will you two please come with us?” Xue Er said pliantly.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head slightly.

  “Thank you.”


  Xue Er was immediately shocked by the favour shown to her and she quickly shook her head.

  “Miss Jun is the Spirit Jade Palace’s great benefactor and you do not need to mention it at all. We are merely just doing what we should be doing.” Xue Er had only seen Jun Wu Xie dressed as a male before and had never seen Jun Wu Xie’s real looks. Seeing it today, she was so shocked she thought she was gazing upon a celestial being. She had not known that there was such a beautiful looking young lady in this world. Her eyes and brows were like Heaven’s most perfect creation, where not the slightest flaw could be seen. Even though she was a girl, under that countenance, it was feared that she would be mesmerized and enthralled just the same.

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  Jun Wu Xie was feeling slightly helpless. The gratitude and sincerity in Xue Er’s words was something she was unable to overlook. But Jun Wu Xie had never thought that she would gain such great gratitude from the Spirit Jade Palace. To her, she had merely kept her side of the bargain she had made initially. After the Twelve Palaces were destroyed, the Spirit Jade Palace was to be to be pushed to stand at the top. All of this had been the promise made between the Spirit Jade Palace Lord and her, hence, she did not feel that she had done anything that was worthy of such gratitude from the Spirit Jade Palace.

  Although that was how Jun Wu Xie considered the entire matter, but that was not what everyone in the the Spirit Jade Palace thought.

  Before Xue Er’s eager hospitality, Jun Wu Xie could do nothing but to follow the lead of Ye Mei and the others to go into the city.

  It was until the figures of Jun Wu Xie and the others had gone into the city that Xue Er and the masked girl climbed to their feet. But even after they did, the astonishment in Xue Er’s eyes did not fade as her mouth remained slightly open while her hand clutched at her chest, discreetly gasping a little.

  “So Miss Jun is actually such a beautiful lady. She’s just too beautiful for words. Compared to Miss Jun, all the beauties in the Middle Realm will have to stand aside.” Xue Er was highly sincere with her words. After seeing Jun Wu Xie, the beauties in the Middle Realm suddenly lost the allure they previously possessed. Especially when compared against the image of Jun Wu Xie quietly sitting there in Jun Wu Yao’s embrace, it was as entrancing as a painting. A peerless beauty leaning in the arms of a man with a flawless countenance. That was an image that made one unable to turn their eyes away from.

  The masked girl lowered her eyes. When she had seen Jun Wu Xie and the others, she had not spoken a single word, to the extent that she did not even dare to gaze upon Jun Wu Xie at all, but was just trying her best to diminish her presence.

  “She has always been so perfect.” The gentle voice rang out under the mask, tinged with a trace of yearning and helplessness.

  Xue Er was at a loss as she looked at the masked girl, her lips moving but hesitant to speak. In the end, she did not say anything but just sighed, feeling powerless.

  When Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao went into the city, the countenance of the two of them immediately drew the attention of the citizens in the city. The highly bustling main street had quietened almost instantly, as all eyes were turned upon the magnificent stallion, to stare at the two figures leaning against each other.

  The looks of those two people had far surpassed the boundaries of the people’s imagination and everyone just stopped what they were doing as their faces twisted up in amazement to stare at the couple, a match made in Heaven.

  The place that the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had prepared for Jun Wu Xie and the others was at the Spirit Jade Palace’s branch. The rooms were highly spacious, elegantly classy and not ostentatious. Exquisite and intricately detailed everywhere, where even the tea set casually placed upon the table were of the supreme grade ceramic glaze, which was considered to be extremely luxurious, but not gawdy.

  “The Spirit Jade Palace Lord has prepared one room that is exactly the same as this in every single one of the branches.” Ye Mei said.

  Jun Wu Xie raised one of her eyebrows slightly.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s personality was really rather eccentric, but…… he made for quite a good partner in an alliance.

  “Why do we not see Qiao Chu and the others?” Ye Sha could not stop himself from asking after he escorted Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao into the room.

  If his memory served him correctly, Qiao Chu and the others had gone to the Spirit World with Jun Wu Xie.

  “Their flesh bodies are in the Lower Realm, so after we left the Spirit World, they went straight back to the Lower Realm. They should have returned back into their bodies by now.” Jun Wu Xie answered. It wasn’t that she did not want to bring her companions with her, but as their flesh bodies were not in the Middle Realm, if she dragged them to come along with her here into the Middle Realm straight away, wouldn’t that turn them into wandering spirits?

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  Although Qiao Chu and the others had initially suggested whether they should come to the Middle Realm to try and see if they could remain here in their spirit forms, they were finally frightened into going back by Jun Wu Yao’s statement saying: “When the spirit leaves the body for too long, they might no longer be able to return”. Of course Jun Wu Xie was deeply suspicious whether Jun Wu Yao was intentionally scaring them but it was a fact that the Spirit Lord had mentioned before that when a living soul leaves its body for too long a period, even if it did not cause one the severe consequences of being unable to return to his body, it would still affect them greatly, possibly leading to a spirit soul to become unable to perfectly join with his flesh body, to show symptoms of repelling.

  Ye Sha nodded.

  “Did any of you discover anything within the Twelve Palaces?” Playing teasingly with Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit, Jun Wu Xie had not forgotten the important business at hand. Jun Wu Yao had come out from the Spirit World for a while before to order Ye Mei and the others to go investigate whether there were any Sacrificial Array totems within the Twelve Palaces and they did not know whether they had discovered anything.

  Upon mentioning about that, Ye Sha’s expression immediately changed, and his gaze grew grim.

  “Reporting to Young Miss, in regards to the orders from Lord Jue, we have looked into it clearly jointly with the Spirit Jade Palace. In the territories of each palace’s subordinate powers among the Twelve Palaces, every palace had four branches each hiding a secret underground chamber. In those underground chambers, we found strange runes.” Ye Sha said with his brows creased together. Back when the Twelve Palaces were destroyed, the Spirit Jade Palace had absorbed all of the Twelve Palaces’ forces. Although they had checked to see whether they were things like secret passages and such, they paid more attention on the main palaces and were not that meticulous with the branches.

  Until Jun Wu Yao came back and handed the task over to them, they then had to look into it carefully. They took a few months to turn the Twelve Palaces inside out to finally find the runes in the hidden underground chambers where they then destroyed them one by one.

  “Every palace among the Twelve Palaces had four branches with those runes, a total of forty eight locations. We have followed Lord Jue’s orders to have them destroyed.”


  Speaking about runes, the eyes of Ye Sha and the others could not help but show intense loathing, to the extent that they were suppressing their hatred. Those feelings rose up in them for no rhyme or reason and Jun Wu Xie did not notice anything strange.

  “As expected, the Upper Realm is preparing to make a move.” Jun Wu Xie said as her eyes narrowed slightly. Based on what Ye Sha said, the forty eight underground chambers found within the Twelve Palaces seemed to have existed from a long time ago. It was obvious that they were not just built within the past hundred years. They did not have any entrances and were completely sealed. It was feared that even the Twelve Palace Lords themselves did not know that those underground chambers were actually hidden under their branches. If not for the fact that Ye Mei and the others had checked so thoroughly where they broke through the floors of the branches, they would not have discovered the underground chambers that were hidden two meters below.

  Such well concealed underground chambers would have been almost impossible to discover if they had not been told beforehand.

  But it was not known when those runes were carved and who had been responsible for them.

  Although the rune totems in the Spirit World had been carved out within the past one hundred years, but Wu Jiu had concealed himself at the previous Spirit Master’s side for almost a thousand years, and it was not known when the fake Spirit Lord had appeared in the Spirit World.

  Jun Wu Xie vaguely felt that the Upper Realm’s plot to sacrifice the Three Realms must have been carried out from a very very long time ago, with one hundred and eight rune totems spread out all over the Middle Realm. Jun Wu Xie and her people had currently destroyed only less than half that number, and it was not known where the other fifty six rune totems were hidden.

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  “Your subordinate has already discussed it with the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, to continue to search the areas around the Twelve Palaces’ forces for the existence of other rune totems. The locations of the forty eight rune totems are not without a common trait. In the places where the runes have been carved, they are all places where spirit power is most robust. Your subordinate thinks that other rune totems might be in such similar locations and we have determined some targets. Preparations are being made to go investigate them.” Ye Sha reported.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded and suddenly, she thought of something.

  “Places where spirit energy is most robust? Throughout the Middle Realm, is there a place that with more robust spirit energy than Mount Fu Yao?” Mount Fu Yao, held special meaning to both Jun Wu Xie and the Spirit Jade Palace.

  After the Twelve Palaces were destroyed, all the members of the Spirit Jade Palace had come out from the cave in Mount Fu Yao and never gone back. But hearing Jun Wu Xie say that now, it made Ye Sha suddenly remember the place that all of them had missed out on.

  That’s right. If they’re talking about robust spirit energy, then Mount Fu Yao would naturally take first place.

  “Has any of you gone to Mount Fu Yao?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  Ye Sha shook his head.

  “We did not have the chance to……”


  Just searching for the forty eight rune totems concealed within the Twelve Palaces had already taken up all their time. They had just managed to find the Twelve Palaces’ last rune totem yesterday. The Twelve Palaces’ branches and main palace had had their floors all dug up and they had just found those forty eight totems and there was nothing more.

  “I want to make a trip to Mount Fu Yao.” Jun Wu Xie said as she looked at Jun Wu Yao.

  “Sure, I’ll accompany you.” Jun Wu Yao said with a slight nod of his head.

  Based on the forty eight places Ye Sha and the others had discovered inscriptions of the rune totems, it was highly possible that Mount Fu Yao was concealing a place just like that as well. Making a trip there might just yield some unexpected results.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was currently deploying his disciples under him to search for any signs of other rune totems within the original territories of the Twelve Palaces and it was not yet known if there would be any results.

  “Over this period, has there been any unusual movements with the Nine Temples?” Jun Wu Xie turned to Ye Mei to ask. Her plans back at the Twelve Palace’s summit had almost resulted in an accident because of Gu Ying. Although Jun Wu Yao’s appearance had turned the whole situation around, it was thought that the people Gu Ying brought were very possibly from one of the Nine Temples, people from the Spirit Void Temple. Although Jun Wu Yao had slaughtered them entirely, but it was impossible that the Spirit Void Palace were not aware of their deaths.

  Ye Mei shook his head and said: “They haven’t made any unusual moves. The Nine Temples is still as quiet as before. In the beginning after Young Miss and Lord Jue had just left, we were worried whether they would carry out any acts of vengeance, but they did not. Even the Spirit Void Palace had been extraordinarily quiet.”


  Jun Wu Xie lifted an eyebrow slightly, feeling that something was not right. The Nine Temples had always been cohesive and united, completely different from the Twelve Palaces where internal conflict had been strife. The Nine Temples had never fought each other which allowed their might to always remain oppressively above the Twelve Temples.

  But over this period, the Nine Temples had been too quiet. It could even be said that the Nine Temples had been unusually quiet for the past thousand years where they had shown an attitude of total disregard towards the Twelve Palaces’ attempts to expand. Such a change might not have seemed obvious over such a long period of time but if one was to carefully think about it, they would feel that the Nine Temples’ docility seemed to have begun right after the Dark Emperor “fell”.

  Regardless whether Gu Ying had brought his band of people to come to the Twelve Palaces’ summit without authorization or not, since he was able to mobilize the power of the Spirit Void Palace, it also proved that the Spirit Void Palace had acknowledged Gu Ying’s identity.

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  And Gu Ying had been severely wounded. Not only had there not been any movements from the Nine Temples, but even the Spirit Void Temple itself had not shown the slightest reaction. That in itself was highly abnormal.

  Jun Wu Xie felt that the Nine Temples’ lack of reaction was not mere coincidence and they must have other motives.

  “It’s strange to say in the least. The Nine Temples have been too docile throughout all this, and it’s not like their style like they were in the past.” Ye Mei said as he creased up his brows slightly. They, the Night Regime had followed Jun Wu Yao to conquer the entire Middle Realm, and they had encountered all the major powers of the Middle Realm before. The Twelve Palaces’ might back at that time was not as great as what they were commanding more recently and the Nine Temples reigned. The Four Sides did not involve themselves in worldly affairs like in present times and though it could be said that the Nine Temples style of doing things were not as arrogant as how the Twelve Palaces carried themselves, they kept a very tight rein on holding their position as the highest power in the Middle Realm.

  Not to mention allowing the Twelve Palaces to expand unrestrained, even if they had stepped out of line a little, the Nine Temples would immediately knock some sense into them.

  But over this period, the Nine Temples had really been too quiet, the kind of quiet that would not only make others become unable to be as ease, it would make people feel nervous.

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed. Towards the Nine Temples, she knew nothing about them, but just the things she had heard from the mouths of Ye Mei and the others, while Jun Wu Yao was not even interested in knowing anything about Nine Temples, Twelve Palaces and such.

  “Continue to observe them, and do not let down your guard.” Jun Wu Xie said.

  “Yes.” Ye Mei nodded.

  As Jun Wu Xie was speaking with them, the sound of knocking sounded from behind the door and Ye Sha immediately went to open it.

  Upon opening the door, Ye Sha was slightly taken aback when he saw the person standing outside.

  “I have no ill intentions. I only want to see her for a moment.” A gentle female voice sounded.

  The voice reached Jun Wu Xie’s ears and Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes up slightly. Ye Sha’s towering figure completely blocked out the person outside the door but the sound of that voice was so familiar to her.

  “Ye Sha, let her come in.” Jun Wu Xie said.

  Ye Sha hesitated slightly, but then quickly moved to allow the person a way in.

  A young lady wearing a rice white dress with a beautiful countenance stood outside the door, her long black hair draped loosely over her shoulders. The young lady’s looks were rather outstanding, but upon that countenance was also a steady calm that should not appear on a person her age.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at the young lady before her eyes, her heart unusually calm.

  “You’ve come back.” The young lady said slowly, the eyes gazing at Jun Wu Xie looking highly conflicted, tinged with traces of surprise, and also a bit of bitterness, but were mostly filled with a kind of calm.

  “Mm.” Jun Wu Xie nodded her head slightly.

  For a moment, the two of them looked at each other without a word, and a awkward silence fell upon the room.

  The young lady’s head then lowered slightly, her eyes looking down.

  Jun Wu Xie was silent for a moment before she suddenly asked: “You do not hate me?”


  The young lady raised her head up to look at Jun Wu Xie, before she slowly revealed a slight bitter smile.

  “Maybe I should hate you, but I can’t make myself do it.”


  “Gu Xin Yan, I brought people to destroy your father’s power and his forces. Don’t you hate me for that?” Jun Wu Xie said slowly.

  The young lady standing before Jun Wu Xie was not anyone else but the Blood Fiend Palace’s Young Mistress from before, Gu Xin Yan.

  Back then, on the day of the Twelve Palaces’ summit, Jun Wu Xie had lead men to wipe out the members of the Twelve Palaces. Gu Xin Yan was severely wounded by Jun Wu Xie when she tried to save Gu Yi, which lead to Gu Ying flying into a rage. Jun Wu Xie had saved Gu Xin Yan in the end but as Gu Xin Yan had been to seriously wounded then, Jun Wu Xie had had no choice but to hand her over into the care of Granny Yue from the Spirit Jade Palace, where she left behind medicine for the wound before she set forth on her journey to the Spirit World.

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  Thus, after Gu Xin Yan regained consciousness, she had not met with Jun Wu Xie. Although Gu Yi did not die under Jun Wu Xie’s hands, but Jun Wu Xie had every intention of killing Gu Yi, but just that that final strike was blocked by Gu Xin Yan.

  From a certain perspective, wouldn’t it make Jun Wu Xie the killer who murdered Gu Xin Yan’s father?

  Jun Wu Xie had never thought that Gu Xin Yan would not hate her, and for her to not mind it all that much. She had saved Gu Xin Yan only because she was not evil at heart, nor had she committed much evil, and just because of that.

  A sliver of pain glinted in Gu Xin Yan’s eyes. She drew in a deep breath and shook her head slightly.

  “My Father…… was not killed by you. I do not hate you.” Pain grew in Gu Xin Yan’s chest, and an indescribable emotion spread inside. Maybe she should be feeling hatred, but the hate would not come. Especially after the crimes of the Twelve Palaces had been exposed to the people, Gu Xin Yan really didn’t know whether she should feel any hate.

  In the past, she was the Eldest Miss of the Blood Fiend Palace, a proud daughter of Heaven that everyone cradled in their palms. Gu Yi indulged her in every way, doing everything he could to groom her, seeking to make her become the next Palace Lord of the Blood Fiend Palace. But as Gu Xin Yan was still very young and moreover she was also a girl, Gu Xi had intentionally and unintentionally diverted all unspeakable deeds of the palace away from Gu Xin Yan. All that Gu Xin Yan knew was that her father might have committed some bad deeds and when all the crimes were revealed and made known, it was only then that Gu Xin Yan realized just how terrifying the deeds and actions of her father and all the other Palace Lords had truly been.

  But……

  That was her father, so how could she detest him?

  After she woke up, she was greeted with news of her father’s death, and the person who killed her father was Gu Ying…… the person she saw as her brother in her heart.

  The Blood Fiend Palace was destroyed. She had initially almost lost her mind, a little crazed for a period where her heart had been filled with hate. The people in the Spirit Jade Palace had not made things difficult for her as she had been saved by Jun Wu Xie and they treated her with courtesy, not even restricting her freedom in any way.

  That was the biggest setback Gu Xin Yan had ever encountered in her life. She had muddleheadedly escaped out from the Spirit Jade Palace’s branch and gone back to the city where the Blood Fiend Palace had originally been. But when she went into the city that had been all too familiar to her, where everything before her eyes were things she knew so well…… but felt so foreign at the same time.

  The citizens who had lived in fear and trepidation in the past were all showing uninhibited smiles. They still lived the same lives like they had before, but were happier, and more blissful.

  Gu Xin Yan stayed in the city for more than a month, and in that period of time, she could clearly feel the level of joy the destruction of the Blood Fiend Palace had brought to the citizens……

  She had not known that the citizens would really hate her father that much.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Gu Xin Yan and from Gu Xin Yan’s clear eyes, she did not see the slightest pretense or deceit, like all that she said was what Gu Xin Yan was thinking in her heart.

  “I came here to look for you today for nothing else but to say this. I want to…… thank you…… for saving me.” Gu Xin Yan looked at Jun Wu Xie whose countenance had changed, the image of the handsome youth imprinted in her heart already gradually becoming blurry, but just felt a strange emotion that still lingered in her heart, causing her to be unable to hate Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie then said indifferently: “I was the one who wounded you. There is no need for you to thank me. Wherever you want to go in future, no one will stop you, and you can come seek revenge against me anytime you want. There is no debt owed between us.”


  Jun Wu Xie’s voice was soft, but it caused Gu Xin Yan to startle slightly, and the corners of her mouth could not help but rise to reveal a faint bitter smile.

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  Jun Wu Xie’s voice was soft, but it caused Gu Xin Yan to startle slightly, and the corners of her mouth could not help but rise to reveal a faint bitter smile.

  That was really cold and cruel.

  Gu Xin Yan’s heart winced with pain upon hearing Jun Wu Xie’s words, the emotions suppressed in her heart indecipherable as thick depressing hurt filled her heart.

  Revenge?

  How was she able to do that? Not to mention that she had saved her life in the end, even if she were to disregard that debt of gratitude, how was she expected to be able to strike at the owner of that pair of eyes?

  WIth that bitter smile at the edges of her mouth, she knew it was useless no matter what she said. Jun Wu Xie did not fear her exacting revenge, or it could be said that Jun Wu Xie did not even care whether she hated her at all. All of this caused a wincing pain to tug at Gu Xin Yan’s heart and the wisp of sentiments she held hidden deep in her heart was finally quashed to never again see the light of day again.

  “I will never harm you, no matter whether you believe me or not.” Gu Xin Yan said with a bitter smile. She raised her head up, and her limpid eyes swept fleetingly over Jun Wu Xie’s divinely beautiful countenance. In the past, the people of the Twelve Palaces had always said that she, Gu Xin Yan, was the top beauty of the Twelve Palaces, none of them knowing that before Jun Wu Xie, what her own looks would even count as. Even Gu Ying’s biological mother, the princess known to be the greatest beauty of the Nine Temples, when placed before Jun Wu Xie’s looks, had been deemed to have lost much of its lustre.

  The young lady before her eyes, was coldly beautiful, possessing a pair of bright eyes that exuded steady calm. If she had not fallen in love with this pair of eyes back then, then maybe…… she would never have to experience the pain and despair she was feeling today.

  Never to seek, never able to obtain……

  Gu Xin Yan did not say anything more, but just nodded her head slightly at Jun Wu Xie.

  She had remained at the Spirit Jade Palace, only to be able to see Jun Wu Xie once more. With her wish now achieved, there was no need for her to continue to remain here. The shadow that had been branded right in her soul could not be wiped away, and she would not be able to remain at Jun Wu Xie’s side, remaining behind, would only bring her increasing grief.

  Gu Xin Yan left, not bringing anything with her, and wearing only the clothes from when she had been saved, she departed from the Spirit Jade Palace’s branch silently. No one knew where she went and did not even know that she had left so quietly.

  After Jun Wu Xie knew about it, she let out a long sigh. Under the night sky, Jun Wu Xie stood upon the city’s gates, to gaze out into the boundless land, her heart heavy with thoughts.

  She missed her family, missed the Lin Palace, missed her Grandfather, Uncle, missed Little Jue whom she saw as her little brother, missing very much more all the warm and peaceful times she had.

  She had thought that she would be able to return back to the Lower Realm after she came out from the Spirit World, to reunite with her family. Never had she expected that she would accidentally stumble upon such a thing about the Sacrifice of the Three Realms.

  This was a catastrophe for the Three Realms and Jun Wu Xie could not afford to not try to put a stop to it. Otherwise, she would lose everything she had in her hands, things that she had not possessed in her previous life……

  Every small little bit of it all, to her, was exceptionally precious.

  Jun Wu Yao stepped up onto the top of the city gates. Seeing Jun Wu Xie standing there staring into the cold night wind, he quietly wrapped her small petite body within his arms.

  Hidden in the shadows outside the city gates, Gu Xin Yan stood looking up at the two people locked in a tight embrace, her heart feeling a cold emptiness. She had not been in a hurry to leave, and had paced back and forth outside the city. But with this last look, it strengthened her resolve to leave.

  Gu Xin Yan left without a sound, unaware that under an enormous tree not too far away from her, the girl wearing a mask had been just like her, lifting her head up to look at the two people up there upon the city’s gates, the eyes showing through the mask filled with an indescribable emotion.

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  On the second day that she returned to the Spirit Jade Palace, Jun Wu Xie did not rush herself to go to Mount Fu Yao immediately, but instead gave herself one good day of rest. Over the past one year, her spirit had lived outside of her body and before she came back, the Spirit Lord had said that she might be a little unused to it, where she would need a period of time for her to adjust back to the way it was before.

  But though she had waited a few days on her way back here, Jun Wu Xie did not discover any signs that her spirit did not meld completely with her body, which differed with what the Spirit Lord had said. She had asked Jun Wu Yao about it but Jun Wu Yao’s reply had been very vague, only telling her that she had two souls in one body which was rather unique and the fact that the Spirit Tree’s seed acted as reinforcement, her discomfort would then be reduced.

  But……

  It did not feel like it had been reduced, but just that there wasn’t any discomfort at all!

  “What is the Mistress looking at?” The little black cat asked as it jumped up onto Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder. Standing beside the stool, Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit were not as agile as the little black cat and all they could do was to just hop foolishly by Jun Wu Xie’s feet as they attempted to jump into her arms to seek her caress.

  Jun Wu Xie stared at her hands, her mind seemingly thoughtful.

  Having come back for so long, she had not felt any signs of her spirit power coursing through her. If not for the fact that the sense of touch of her hands felt different from when she was a spirit body, she really wouldn’t be able to tell that her spirit had already returned into her flesh body.

  Jun Wu Xie stared for a while, and then suddenly turned her palms up, to attempt to turn her spirit power into flames within her palm like she had done before.

  But……

  The purple flame she expected to see did not appear.

  But a ball of silverish flame that was tinged with gold? That was what suddenly appeared in the palm of her hand.

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes flared wide as she stared, looking in surprise at the ball of silver flames dancing in her palm.

  ‘BAM!’


  Hiding high up on a beam in the room to watch over Jun Wu Xie, Ye Sha suddenly crashed heavily onto the ground. His eyes were filled with utter shock, where it was clear he could have landed on the ground nimbly, he had fallen clumsily on his face.

  But his eyes were fixed unwaveringly upon the dancing flames that was a mix of silver and gold in Jun Wu Xie’s hand.

  “Young Miss…… You…… You are about to rise up into the realm of the Gold Spirit! !” Ye Sha quickly climbed to his feet, the shock still evident on his face. The ball of fire in Jun Wu Xie’s hand was just too blindingly alluring and he just could not take his eyes off it.

  “What?” Jun Wu Xie was lightly taken aback, unable to react properly.

  Ye Sha immediately fell to one knee, and his voice was filled with immense delight.

  “Congratulations Young Miss! You’re about to embark on a breakthrough to the Gold Spirit!”


  “Gold Spirit?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked at Ye Sha, and then turned back to look at the flames she had conjured up with her spirit power, staring a little entranced at it. She had rushed the entire way back here and not summoned up her spirit powers at all. Moreover with Jun Wu Yao at her side, there wasn’t even the chance for her to need to do that and hence, she did not know the level of her current powers at all. It was the tranquil and peaceful state of her spirit powers that made her feel as if they had disappeared instead.

  Never ever had she thought……

  Ye Sha’s heart was more shocked than Jun Wu Xie was feeling. Beginning all the way back from the Lower Realm, he had remained by Jun Wu Xie’s side. Towards the speed that Jun Wu Xie’s powers grew at, he knew it better than anyone else. Jun Wu Xie’s growth in spirit power had been extremely fast, and it was also because she possessed a plant type Ring Spirit. Her speed surpassed those of all the supposed prodigies, and it could be said to be rather Heaven defying.

  But……

  However Heaven defying it was, it could not compare to the change he was seeing right before his eyes.

  Above the Purple Spirit was the Silver Spirit, and the Palace Lords of the Twelve Palaces from before had only been Silver Spirits. When Jun Wu Xie left, she was clearly only at the Purple Spirit’s fourth stage! Who would have thought that after staying in the Spirit World for only one year, Jun Wu Xie had completely skipped the Silver Spirit level, to charge straight towards the Gold Spirit! ?

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  The Gold Spirit was power at the highest peak in the Middle Realm. Looking throughout the entire Middle Realm, only the Nine Temple Lords of the Nine Temples held such a level of power.

  Never had the past generations of Palace Lords of the Twelve Palaces ever seen one who did not seek to attain the Gold Spirit. But the requirements the Gold Spirit called for was not just as simple as cultivation, but it had something to do directly with one’s soul. Regardless how gifted one was, if the aptitude of their spirit soul was inadequate, even if they cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years, they would never be able to attempt for the Gold Spirit.

  To the people of the Middle Realm, the Gold Spirit was a realm that was almost legendary. Only the Nine Temple Lords of the Nine Temples had such ability. It must be known that after the Nine Temples were established, they had never once had a change of Temple Lords. The Nine Temples had existed in the Middle Realm for as long as several thousand years and the Nine Temple Lords have lived for those thousands of years…… Several thousand years of cultivation, and add that to their great aptitude, all this then gave them the opportunity to step into the realm of the Gold Spirit. In these several thousand years for the Twelve Palaces, not a single person had possessed that kind of power. Not just the Twelve Palaces, since time immemorial in the Middle Realm, there had only been nine Gold Spirits!

  And Ye Sha would never in his dreams ever thought that Jun Wu Xie would be charging straight for the Gold Spirit after just spending one year’s time in the Spirit World!

  Although he had never gone to the Spirit World himself personally, Ye Sha had heard of things about the Spirit World from Jun Wu Yao before. Nothing had ever been as Heaven defying as Jun Wu Xie!

  Jun Wu Xie was stunned for quite a good while. The sudden incredible increase in spirit power had caught her slightly unprepared. In sudden realization, she came to understand why Jun Wu Yao would want to take the effort to insist to bring her into the Spirit World to temper her spirit. No wonder Jun Wu Yao had said, to want to possess truly great power, one had to work upon one’s very spirit soul!

  But……

  This was a little too ridiculous.

  Jun Wu Xie was shocked by her own increase in powers. She had previously thought that even f she cultivated for a year in the Spirit World, spirit power and power of the spirit were two completely different things. Even if it really helped, it would at most enable her to breakthrough to the Silver Spirit.

  Never had she thought……

  That she was going to breakthrough to the Gold Spirit?

  “Where is Wu Yao?” Jun Wu Xie suddenly raised her head up and looked at Ye Sha to ask.

  Ye Sha immediately replied: “Lord Jue has gone to check the destroyed rune totem in the city.”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded, still feeling that the growth in her powers was just too terrifying.

  Not knowing that……

  Such an increase in her powers was most logically and to be expected. Things that could attract Jun Wu Yao’s eyes were rare and few throughout the world. The fact that he would take the effort to bring Jun Wu Xie to the Spirit World meant that he had his reasons for doing so. Not to mention that Jun Wu Xie had two souls living in one body, spirit souls were by nature equipped to devour. Even if she had not devoured any spirits in the Spirit World, with the power of the spirit so thick and robust in the Spirit World, she would only need to just remain in there and she would be able to gain such powers. But it was impossible to turn such power into power of the spirit and it had instead become a source that propped up her spirit powers!

  Added to that, Jun Wu Xie managed to develop Spirit Reinforcement runes that sped up the elevation of her power of the spirit, which grew her power of the spirit at a Heaven defying rate. She used just a year’s time to cultivate to a level that other spirits were not able to achieve in a hundred years and due to the effects of the Spirit Tree’s seed, it allowed her power of the spirit to slowly meld together with her spirit powers bit by bit, which brought together the factors for her to attain powers almost breaking through to the Gold Spirit!

  Such a level of power gave Jun Wu Xie sheer delight. What she lacked most now was strong powers and since she was seeking to disrupt the Upper Realm’s plan, the Purple Spirit was no longer adequate.

  “I’ll go look for him.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly stood up to say, deciding that she should go ask Jun Wu Yao about it properly.

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  When she went out, Jun Wu Xie did not forget to alter her appearance. As afterall, when she had come into the city with this face, it had caused quite a stir. Jun Wu Xie was highly averse towards such reactions and in order to not draw anybody’s attention, she pulled out “Jun Xie’s” face and put the mask on before dressing herself up as a male youth. She then stepped out through the door. But on this trip, she brought along “the entire family”.

  The little black cat had naturally occupied the position on Jun Wu Xie’s shoulders, while having just been reunited, Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit had most definitely not wanted to be left behind at home to wait, but tagged along behind, leaving only Ye Sha alone to follow hidden within the shadows.

  Jun Wu Xie came walking out into the Spirit Jade Palace’s branch and when she was passing the main hall, she bumped right into Xue Er coincidentally. Xue Er looked in surprise at Jun Wu Xie dressed up in male clothing as the masked girl stood silently without a word at Xue Er’s side.

  That countenance was not unfamiliar to Xue Er. Wasn’t that the way Jun Wu Xie had altered her looks into when she came to the Spirit Jade Palace for the first time?

  “Young Mas…… Miss Jun, where are you going out to?” In that instant, Xue Er really did not know how to address Jun Wu Xie.

  [She is rather strange. Miss Jun is as beautiful as a Heavenly goddess, why does she always like to dress herself up in male clothing? Although her disguise as a young youth could also be considered as delicately attractive, but compared to Jun Wu Xie’s real looks, this is as unremarkable as dust.]

  “Where are the runes in the city located?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  “Ah! That’s where you want to go!” It immediately dawned upon Xue Er. She was just about to open her mouth when she suddenly glanced at the girl beside her before she said: “The way to that place is a little too confusing to direct you to, why not let my Senior bring you there?”


  Jun Wu Xie’s gaze then moved to fall upon the girl wearing a mask on her face.

  Feeling Jun Wu Xie’s gaze on her, the body of the girl stiffened slightly and she lowered her head down, not daring to meet Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.

  “We’ve troubled you.” Jun Wu Xie said.

  The girl shook her head silently, still not saying a single word but just turned and went walking towards the door, seemingly like she was leading the way for Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie went on to follow her.

  Xue Er blinked her eyes as she watched the figures of her Senior and Jun Wu Xie leaving one behind the other. Looking at Jun Wu Xie walk out from the Spirit Jade Palace branch, she saw the little black cat resting upon Jun Wu Xie shoulders and also two adorable beasts hopping and leaping as they followed behind. Seeing that, she could not help but burst out with a tinkling laugh before she went on to continue with her tasks in a great mood.

  When they came out of the Spirit Jade Palace branch, the masked girl continued to walk ahead of Jun Wu Xie, maintaining a distance away that wasn’t close but close enough to not let Jun Wu Xie lose sight of her. She remained very quiet, not saying a single word the entire way, but stopped slightly to look at Jun Wu Xie when they needed to make a turn. When she saw Jun Wu Xie was still following her, she would then continue on her way forward.

  “That fella is a little strange.” The little black cat said wrinkling up its nose, its furry tail swishing behind Jun Wu Xie’s back.

  Jun Wu Xie had naturally noticed the masked girl’s strange demeanor but she did not detect any enmity coming from the masked girl. She did not feel that the masked girl disliked her, but it was more like she was fearful of her.

  Even after thinking for a long while, Jun Wu Xie still could not recall having seen that disciple in the Spirit Jade Palace before. If they had not encountered each other before, why was there such fear? Jun Wu Xie could not understand it but she did not think too deep into it as she wasn’t a person who liked to stick her nose into other people’s affairs. Everyone had their own way of living their lives and she had no right to interfere.

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  A hunched over figure was shuffling his way past through the crowded street. The figure had a tall and large framed body but it was not known why his back was hunched over so much. The clothes on his body were covered over with filth and his hands that were exposed out of those clothes were festering with sores. His face was completely covered in wounds with most of them rotting and badly inflamed, looking very much a frightful sight.

  People who passed him on the road were rather fearful of him where they subconsciously avoided him, the eyes gazing at him helplessly filling up with pity.

  This past year, with the Twelve Palaces destroyed, the Spirit Jade Palace rose in power. The places that the Twelve Palaces originally occupied were liberated and the people in the various major cities found their lives becoming a whole lot better. It was hard to imagine that under such circumstances, such a wretched and pitiful person would still appear. From the way he looked, he would seem to be a beggar who was afflicted with a severe illness.

  “Ay! Big Brother over there! There’s some steaming hot buns here. Have a few!” A kind hearted youth selling buns could not help himself but to call out when he saw the person’s pitiful state.

  That person’s footsteps paused slightly as he turned his head back to look. When the face that had more than half of it rotten was revealed to the youth, the youth was taken by shock with a jump and the smile on his face froze, a trace of horror rising up in his eyes.

  The person quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look at the other party anymore, but just said in a hoarse and raspy voice: “No…… No need…… I…… have no money……”


  That voice was extraordinarily grating on the ears, like someone was throttling his throat. If one was to look carefully, they would then discover that the person’s neck had several wounds on it, the flesh at the edges of those wounds curled to expose the insides, where it was clear that he had injured his throat.

  The youth gulped saliva back down his throat and only managed to collect back his senses after quite a struggle. He glanced up at his father beside him and saw his father give him a nod. He immediately grabbed a piece of paper and wrapped it around a few buns before running with quick steps to that person’s side, and shoved the buns into his hands.

  “You don’t need to pay for these. Just go ahead and eat them. If you go hungry in future, just come to our shop. We do not have much else here, but we can still afford to give you a few buns.” The youth said with a smile.

  The person was slightly taken aback, and it was clear that he had not expected to encounter such a kind hearted person as he nodded his head repeatedly looking highly choked up, unable to say another word.

  “Looking at the state you’re in, I think you are carrying wounds on your body. You can go to the Spirit Jade Palace branch. They have a free physician there and they will treat you for free.” The youth said kind heartedly.

  Ever since the Spirit Jade Palace took over the city, the citizens lived in peace and contentment. With their hands feeling richer, kindness grew more abundant as well.

  That person merely lowered his head and nodded slowly, his dry and parched throat squeezing out an almost inaudible “thank you”.

  Seeing the man reacting like that, the youth did not say anything more, thinking that the person would go seek treatment.

  The person held the steaming hot buns and picked up one with a hand that was covered with festering sores to slowly raise it up to his mouth. When the soft bun went into his mouth, what was just the most common of foods was at that moment more delicious than any exotic delicacy.

  Two hot streams of tears fell from his eyes, his hunched over back trembling slightly as he suppressed the agonizing torment he felt inside.

  “Meh meh! !” Suddenly, a strange sound sounded out in the street. That person turned his head to look and saw a masked girl together with a youth delicate with delicately attractive features weaving through the people on the street. A big eared rabbit and a rotund little lamb was following behind the youth, the little lamb bleating as it followed, seemingly in high spirits.

  But when that person saw the face of the youthful male, he froze completely, and the bun in his hand suddenly fell to the ground……

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  “Meh meh! !” Lord Meh Meh followed behind Jun Wu Xie, bouncing along the entire way as it looked at the little black cat seated safely upon Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder, its little heart filled with envy, jealousy and hatred, hating the fact that it was not small enough, or it would be able to stand upon Jun Wu Xie’s other shoulder! !

  Jun Wu Xie’s heel was then stepped upon by one of Lord Meh Meh’s hoof and she couldn’t help but halt in her steps. She turned around to look at Lord Meh Meh who knew it had done something wrong and she immediately felt like she didn’t know whether to cry or laugh.

  Lord Meh Meh had its eyes turned away, looking like a little guilt ridden child, not daring to look into Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.

  Jun Wu Xie finally could not help but laugh and shook her head as she bent down to scoop Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit up into her arms. The two adorable little beasts were not really that heavy, but also not that light at the same time. But with the great increase in Jun Wu Xie’s powers, she would be able to carry them all even if there were a few more of them.

  When the masked girl saw that Jun Wu Xie had stopped, she halted her steps as well.

  Jun Wu Xie had just carried up the two adorable beasts securely in her arms and straightened her body to continue to make her way forward when she suddenly saw a highly wretched looking person making a mad dash through the crowd of people to come rushing hurriedly straight towards her.

  The girl wearing the mask immediately narrowed her eyes and she suddenly moved her body to come right in front of Jun Wu Xie to block the way, immediately pulling out the sword hanging from her hip.

  That person was running frantically, and bumping his way through the crowd, he finally came before Jun Wu Xie, but was knocked in the shoulder by someone and he fell in a flurry right onto the ground right in front of Jun Wu Xie.

  A rotting stench wafted out from that person’s body, and Jun Wu Xie just stood there to stare at the person on the ground.

  “Jun…… Jun……” The person struggled, wanting to get up. But that fall had further weakened his already frail body. He forcefully propped his upper body up, and a pool of blood could be seen to have collected under him.

  “Who are you! ?” It was the first time the masked girl opened her mouth to speak in front of Jun Wu Xie, and Jun Wu Xie actually felt a sliver of familiarity in that voice.

  But without waiting for Jun Wu Xie to think further, the person on the ground opened his mouth and he was barely able to utter out two words that shook Jun Wu Xie right to the core.

  “Su…… Ya……”


  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes quivered, as she stared in surprise at the person.

  Su Ya.

  Her Master, the Master who was willing to risk her life to protect her!

  Jun Wu Xie immediately sensed that something was not right and she immediately crouched herself down, putting Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit back on the ground, to go forward and lift the person’s shoulders to look into the person’s face.

  That face, could no longer be called a person’s face. From his forehead to his chin, there wasn’t a single piece of healthy flesh anymore, the rotten wounds dripping with thick sticky pus, looking highly disgusting.

  “Jun Xie…… Save…… save…… Su…… Ya……” The person tore out those heartrending words from his parched throat.

  Those stuttering words, caused Jun Wu Xie to freeze in spot.

  Save Su Ya……

  That did those words really mean?

  The person seemed to be highly distraught, and unable to hold out any longer, he fell into a complete dead faint after saying those words!

  The figure of Ye Sha appeared beside Jun Wu Xie in the next instant.

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes widened slightly, and an ominous feeling rise up in her heart right at that moment.

  “Young Miss?” Ye Sha said in a low voice.

  “Bring him back!” Jun Wu Xie said immediately. No matter who this person is, his words had greatly shook Jun Wu Xie’s heart.

  “Yes, Young Miss!” Without another word, Ye Sha immediately carried that person up onto his shoulder.

  Jun Wu Xie had already lost the heart to go find Jun Wu Yao, but immediately got Ye Sha to bring that person back to the Spirit Jade Palace branch!

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  The person that Ye Sha carried back was brought right into her own room by Jun Wu Xie. Ye Sha carefully laid the person down onto the bed and retreated to the side.

  Xue Er saw Jun Wu Xie and her group suddenly return and was actually feeling a little curious where she was about to go in to ask about it when she saw the masked girl shaking her head at her. She immediately did not dare to ask any questions but just stood by the door.

  The person lying on the bed caused Jun Wu Xie to crease up her brows. The amount of wounds on his person was shocking to see and after looking through his condition, it made Jun Wu Xie’s breathing become slightly repressed.

  The wounds on the person’s body did not have a single one that was fatal, but were inflicted on every part of him to give him the most agony. The nails on both his hands and feet have been pulled right off and there were two bleeding holes about two thumbs’ width at his shoulder blades. His arms, face, back and chest were filled with gory wounds and a chunk of flesh had been sliced off from his thigh.

  It was hard to imagine how this person could have held out with such a badly battered body to drag himself all the way to this place.

  With such severe injuries, even if none of them were fatal, add them all together with the rotting and inflammation, it would be able to take a person’s life as well!

  Jun Wu Xie did not dare to delay another moment. The words the man had said before he fainted had terrified her. She must save this person no matter what, or she would not be able to eat or sleep well.

  She brought out a whole bunch of elixirs and medicines, generously pouring them into the person’s mouth. She used a small scalpel to cut away the rotten dead flesh and cleaned out the wounds, disinfected them and proceeded to sew them together……

  Jun Wu Xie conducted herself systematically without getting flustered. Although she worked speedily, she did not miss anything out.

  Xue Er who stood by the door watched Jun Wu Xie work her godly hands of healing, and her eyes could not help but widen, her face one of complete amazement.

  “Miss Jun is just superb. One will not be able to find a physician that would be able to match her healing skills throughout the entire Middle Realm.” Xue Er said in a low voice to the masked girl.

  But the masked girl did not reply to her words, but just looked on a little worriedly as she watched the busy Jun Wu Xie carrying on with the treatment.

  The name Su Ya was one that she had heard before. That was the name of Jun Wu Xie’s Master in the Cloudy Brook Academy. Jun Wu Xie valued her Master very much and that person’s words earlier would definitely have worried Jun Wu Xie.

  Basin after basin of blood filled water were carried out. Xue Er and the masked girl wanted to help and they silently went to prepare hot water, taking up the menial task.

  The round of treatment went on for an entire day, going on until Jun Wu Yao came back. Jun Wu Xie had just finished with all her treatments and throughout one whole day, she had not even had a sip of water, the anxiety in her heart causing her to be unable to stop for even a second.

  “What happened here?” Jun Wu Yao asked with an eyebrow raised as he looked at the blood covered Jun Wu Xie standing by the bed. If not for the fact he knew that the blood was not Jun Wu Xie’s, it was feared that he would already have given to rage.

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head, and Ye Sha hurriedly walked over to come over to Jun Wu Yao from the side, to relate the series of events that had happened earlier to Jun Wu Yao.

  Jun Wu Yao’s brows furrowed together slightly. Jun Wu Xie was seemingly cold and indifferent, but her heart inside highly valued her ties and bonds in her relationships with her loved ones. She was like that with family, and she was the same with her Masters.

  Jun Wu Yao immediately walked over to the side of the bed, and looked at Jun Wu Xie who stood beside him with her head lowered. Understanding the kind of worry and unease that filled her heart, he did not say a word, but merely bit through the skin on his finger, and dripped a drop of his blood into the person’s mouth.

  Jun Wu Xie’s healing abilities was unparalleled, but that person was just too severely injured. Even if all his wounds were tended to, it was feared that he would still need a few days before he would regain consciousness, and Jun Wu Yao knew that Jun Wu Xie would not be able to wait that long.

  Upon seeing Jun Wu Yao’s action, Ye Sha who was standing at the side wanted to say something, but was finally unable to voice it out.

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  The fresh drop of blood went into his mouth, and the person lying on the bed did not move at all. Jun Wu Xie watched the man intently, not taking a single step away. As the man’s injuries had been too severe, to the extent that she was unable to find any signs of familiarity from his features, as his face had been disfigured so completely that no one would be able to recognise him and Jun Wu Xie had through the process of saving him discovered that not only had there been countless wounds on the surface, even his throat had been badly hurt, where it must have felt like it had been burnt by fire, contorting his voice.

  Suddenly, the eyelids of the man lying upon the bed moved. Although it was slight, but it made Jun Wu Xie stand up from her chair, her gaze not moving away from him the slightest inch.

  The wounds on the man’s body had already been properly tended to under Jun Wu Xie’s hands but his injuries had really been so severe with wounds so deep you could literally see the bone. More than half of his face had rotted and after the rotten flesh was scraped away, there was only a thin layer of flesh on his face, which had been wrapped up with in layers of bandages by Ju Wu Xie.

  ‘Arrrgh! !” A mournful wail escaped from the mouth of the man. He suddenly opened his eyes, which were so terrifyingly bloodshot they looked as if they had been scooped out from blood!

  The man sat up from the bed with a swoosh, his horror filled eyes staring fearfully at people in the room. At the moment that his gaze fell upon Jun Wu Xie, his body started to tremble uncontrollably. He pulled on Jun Wu Xie’s sleeve, his eyes wide and his gaze fixed upon her.

  “Save Su Ya! Save Su Ya! ! !” That hoarse and raspy voice caused goosebumps to rise when they heard it, the utter despair and begging plea in it enough to make people tear.

  Jun Wu Xie held the man up by his arms. His injuries were too severe and his body would not be able to hold up under such emotional trauma. Jun Wu Xie was guessing that the fact that man had awakened so soon must have something to do with that drop of blood from Jun Wu Yao.

  “What really happened? Tell me slowly.” Jun Wu Xie suppressed the anxiety she felt in her heart, maintaining her calm.

  That man’s body shook slightly and the despair in his eyes turned into endless agony. He lowered his head and stared at his hands, his long slender fingers now wrapped in bandages. Intense pain was being felt under those bandages where he seemed to have returned back into that nightmare, unable to help himself as a shiver ran through his body.

  “Who are you? What happened to my Master?” When Jun Wu Xie saw that the man was lost in a daze, she could not help open her mouth to ask.

  That man looked at the wretched state he was in and he suddenly let out a mournful howl. He buried his face into hands uncontrollably, his choked sobs spilling out through his fingers.

  “I am Tian Ze…… The Cloudy Brook Academy’s Tian Ze……” An almost inaudible voice escaped out from the man’s mouth.

  Jun Wu Xie stared in disbelief, her eyes wide as she looked at the man who currently did not look like either man or ghost.

  Tian Ze……

  It could still be remembered back when she had just been admitted into the Cloudy Brook Academy, he had been a tall and dominating figure, full of mettle and spirited…… How did he come to be reduced to such a state?

  Jun Wu Xie could still remember that Tian Ze would occasionally make his way over to Su Ya’s little loft, and the stone faced Tian Ze in the academy would not be able to summon up the same unbending demeanor in that place, often tormented by Su Ya till he wanted to cry but no tears came out. That was when Jun Wu Xie came to know that Tian Ze and Su Ya were fellow disciples.

  Tian Ze’s powers were not weak, just slightly inferior to Su Ya’s by a bit, but had still held the powers of a Silver Spirit. One would then ask, in the Middle Realm, a Silver Spirit was almost able to make all look up to him with awe, and besides the Nine Temple Lords of the Nine Temples, who would be able to wound him?

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  “Master Uncle Tian Ze…… Just what really happened?” An ominous premonition swirled in Jun Wu Xie’s heart.

  Tian Ze’s condition was so bad that she could not recognize him at all. Such severe wounds were definitely not left from a battle. Sword wounds, burn wounds, whip wounds…… covering his entire body had completely tormented that once good looking man at the prime of his life into looking like neither man nor ghost……

  Tian Ze struggled to suppress the sorrowful agony in his heart. He drew in a deep breath and raised his head up awash in sadness, his bloodshot eyes looking straight at Jun Wu Xie as he told Jun Wu Xie the truth that made her body turn cold.

  After Jun Wu Xie’s batch of disciples left, the Cloudy Brook Academy was completely shut down and their teachers were all dismissed. For some reason, Tian Ze’s and Su Ya’s Master, who was also the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster had no choice but to take his two disciples to leave the Cloudy Brook Academy, to live under concealed identities, hiding from persecution by certain powers.

  The powers the three of them possessed were not weak and though they were being persecuted, they still possessed the ability to defend themselves. But things took a turn for the worse when their whereabouts were discovered. The enemy came in with several thousand people, besieging them from all sides. Although they were powerful pugilists, faced with such great numbers, their two fists found it hard to fight against four hands.

  During the great battle, Tian Ze and Su Ya were separated from their Master under the onslaught. Although they managed to break out from the encirclement after fighting with everything they had, their bodies were laden with injuries. They had escaped for just a few days when the enemy caught up with them, where Su Ya and Tian Ze were immediately thrown into jail. Those people still did not give up on their pursuit of their Master as their real target had always been the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster!

  But how could the little old man who was able to teach two Silver Spirits possibly be someone those people could capture? They searched and investigated for a good half year’s time to absolutely no avail. Left with no other choice, they diverted their frustration and rage upon Tian Ze and Su Ya instead.

  The wounds and injuries on Tian Ze were inflicted at that time. When they were captured, they were already injured. Locked up within the dungeon, they were not given any treatment. Half a year’s time caused his condition and Su Ya’s to worsen and deteriorate into an extremely terrible state, where they were placed under torture without any opportunity for them to resist.

  Those people inflicted torment upon their bodies time and time again, attempting to force them into revealing their Master’s whereabouts. The two of them gritted their teeth tightly together, unwilling to say a single word.

  Helpless as to what else they could do, those people then thought up the most vicious thing they could do. Throwing Tian Ze who was almost on his last breaths out, they told Tian Ze that after a month’s time, if their Master still remaining in hiding, then they would hold an open execution of his Senior Su Ya.

  Tian Ze ran away in escape, but having lost contact with the little old man, how was he supposed to inform him of the news?

  In a muddled daze, he had come to this city. He had already given in to despair and had not expected he would suddenly see Jun Wu Xie who had disappeared for a rather long while!

  At that moment. Tian Ze felt as if his hands had grasped onto the final life saving straws of grass, and he went running with no regard for his own life straight towards Jun Wu Xie……

  As Tian Ze’s throat had been injured, throughout the process of his narration, his words were interrupted intermittently, constantly coughing as blood spewed out from his mouth. He did not care about that in the slightest, but just wanted to tell Jun Wu Xie everything as quickly as possible.

  Wiping away the blood at the edge of his mouth, Tian Ze stared at Jun Wu Xie fervently.

  “I can’t find Master. In another five days, they will kill Su Ya…… I am at my wits end. Jun Xie, you are Su Ya’s disciple. You must save her! They are inhuman! They will really kill Su Ya!”


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  Jun Wu Xie’s hand was held in a tight grip by Tian Ze, the great amount of strength used causing the closed wounds to burst open once again. Hot blood seeped through the bandages and stained Jun Wu Xie’s hand, the bright red blood stinging her eyes.

  She had never thought that the parting back at the Cloudy Brook Academy could very well have been the final time they bade each other goodbye.

  She just could not imagine that suave and unbending Master of hers was actually locked up in a dungeon that did not see the light of day, suffering such agonizing torment.

  “Who are the people responsible?” Jun Wu Xie’s voice had turned light and soft, her breathing slowed, her slightly narrowed eyes holding in murder that would rock the Heavens.

  “It’s the Nine Temples.” Tian Ze replied.

  “Nine Temples……” Jun Wu Xie squeezed those two words out through her tightly clenched teeth.

  They actually dared!

  At that moment, Jun Wu Xie finally understood the reason why the Nine Temples had kept such a low profile and remained so quiet. They had not given on the struggle with the Twelve Palaces but had found themselves a new objective!

  “Why do they want to capture Grandmaster?” Jun Wu Xie forcibly pushed down the hatred in her heart.

  Tian Ze shook his head.

  “I do not know. They had been highly respectful to Master before this and had never dared to show any disrespect towards Master. But this time, things had happened too suddenly and we were caught completely off guard. Do you still remember that all of you were released from the Cloudy Brook Academy prematurely? That was because the Cloudy Brook Academy was attacked before that, and Master felt that there was something strange about it. Hence, he immediately shut down the academy, and led me and Senior to run away from the place. Master had never mentioned what the enemy’s objectives were, but had just vaguely told us that it concerned a certain magical treasure, and that those people had to get their hands of the treasure before they would be able to achieve their aims, seemingly something to do with some sort of array.”


  Array! !

  Jun Wu Xie’s mind flew into a whirl!

  At almost the same instant, the words “Blood Sacrifice Array” rose up in her mind!

  Could it be…… that the Nine Temples were involved in the Upper Realm’s plans for the Blood Sacrifice?

  And what could be the thing that they wanted to retrieve from the hands of the little old man?

  Great clouds of doubts swirled around in Jun Wu Xie’s head, the chaotic mess of clues and hints causing her to be unable to clear up her thoughts immediately, but to just feel that the reign of the Middle Realm was about to change!

  “Jun Xie, there no more time…… Those people will execute Su Ya on Mount Fu Yao in another five days…… You must save her! !” Tian Ze begged as he looked at Jun Wu Xie in despair. He knew that it was very harsh of him to be making such a request of a junior, but there was no other way out for him! If he was unable to find his Master, Su Ya would undoubtedly die five days later!

  Jun Wu Xie drew in a deep breath, and turned her hands over to hold Tian Ze’s, her cold clear eyes glinting coldly with unwavering resolve.

  “Uncle Master, rest assured. I will definitely save Master.”


  So what if it’s the Nine Temples?

  To save Su Ya, even if she had to go against everyone under the Heavens, she would not hesitate in the slightest.

  She could still remember the words that Su Ya had told her right be her ear.

  Her disciple, must not ever suffer the slightest grievance under the hand of others. If Jun Wu Xie was able to fight them, then she would fight them herself. But if she was unable to take them on, then she, as the Master would fight on her behalf!

  Those firm and unyielding words resounded in Jun Wu Xie’s chest, causing her soul to stir.

  And today, Jun Wu Xie wished to tell Su Ya……

  She was the same!

  Whoever dares to harm her Master in the slightest, she would slaughter their entire clan!

  Hearing Jun Wu Xie’s promise, the despair that had Tian Ze had been bogged down with finally got a slight reprieve. He was really very tired. He looked at Jun Wu Xie, his eyes seemingly tinted with a hint of a smile, and the moment just before he slipped into unconsciousness, he could not help but think.

  His Senior, had definitely not accepted the wrong disciple!

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  Tian Ze had withstood utter exhaustion for him to hold up till now. Seeing Tian Ze completely drained of energy and falling into unconsciousness, Jun Wu Xie’s heart felt as if a huge boulder was pressed down on her heart, suffocating her so much her heart felt pain.

  Tian Ze was already wounded so severely, then for Su Ya who was still in the Nine Temple’s hands……

  Jun Wu Xie could not continue on with that thought. Her hands were stained red with Tian Ze’s blood and the warm sticky blood was gradually losing temperature, turning icy cold, that chilled her hands.

  Her blood caked hands clenched into fists, and Jun Wu Xie turned to Xue Er and the masked girl who were standing at the side in a daze to say to them: “I will have to trouble the two of you to look after my Uncle Master for the next few days.”


  Xue Er struggled to recover from the shock she was in. Everything she had heard earlier caused her entire body to turn cold. As a disciple of the Spirit Jade Palace, they had not been able to match up to the Twelve Palaces’ might before. So how could they possibly go against such a enormous entity like the Nine Temples? But judging from Jun Wu Xie’s eyes, Xue Er could see that Jun Wu Xie was determined to make the Nine Temples her enemy!

  “Yes……” Xue Er answered, her voice beginning to tremble.

  Jun Wu Xie’s breathing had become deep and long as she went walking outside with her eyes lowered, and Jun Wu Yao followed behind her with Ye Sha trailing behind.

  Xue Er looked at Tian Ze lying upon the bed. The heart wrenching howl of anguish that had tore out from Tian Ze’s throat earlier had shocked her so much she still had not fully regained her senses.

  “Se…… Senior…… What…… What do we…… do now……” Xue Er was so nervous she felt like crying.

  The masked girl remained silent and did not say a word. She turned around suddenly and went running out to follow Jun Wu Xie’s footsteps.

  In just an instant, the masked girl spotted Jun Wu Xie who had walked just some distance away and she called out suddenly: “Miss Jun! Please hold your step for a moment!”


  Jun Wu Xie’s footsteps halted, but she did not turn her head. If she was to turn herself around at that moment, the masked girl would then see that the delicately featured face, was filled with terrifying murder.

  “Miss Jun, are you intending to save the hostage out from the hands of the Nine Temples?” The masked girl asked, her voice unconsciously tinged tinged with intense nervousness.

  “Yes.” Jun Wu Xie spat out that one word icily.

  Her Master was captured, the entire sect persecuted, and if she were to stand back and not do anything, how could she have the cheek to address Su Ya as her Master! ?

  The masked girl was slightly taken aback. Jun Wu Xie’s answer was exactly as she had thought it would be, but hearing it with her own ears still caused her heart to shiver with fear.

  “The Nine Temples is not like the Twelve Palaces. There is no animosity between them, and it could be said that the Nine Temples are one. If you are really going to save your Master, that would mean that you will be going against the entire Nine Temples! Your enemy will not just be a single force, but one that is more powerful than all the Twelve Palaces put together, the Nine Temples!” The masked girl said, her arms held tightly against the sides of her body, her hands clenched into fists, shivering slightly.

  Her pair of eyes had long lost the calm and cool indifference seen in them so far, worry filling up within them.

  “So what?” Jun Wu Xie turned around suddenly, and within her icy gaze, chilling murder rose that felt suffocating to behold.

  “No matter who they are, why should I fear? At most I’ll fight them to death! How could I possibly abandon my Master! ?”


  The masked girl was so shaken by Jun Wu Xie’s words she stood rooted to her spot. She could even detect the strong resolve from those words to fight them to her death. Jun Wu Xie did not have all that many people she cared about at her side. But this seemingly callous and cold hearted young lady was willing to give up her own life for every single person she came to care about.

  Even if she knew that she might not be a match for the enemy, she would not back down.

  The masked girl was dumbfounded, unable to say a word. Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze over her, and then left without turning back again.

  The masked girl’s eyes lowered down and her heart winced with pain.

  That’s right. How could she not know that she would not be able to dissuade her? She had always known that Jun Wu Xie was a person who did not fear death……

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  Jun Wu Xie went to Jun Wu Yao’s room and did not say a word as she stood by the table, using water to clean the blood off her hands bit by bit, the icy air emanating from her making Ye Sha and the others to not go forward. They could feel that Jun Wu Xie’s rage had reached beyond its peak, and the calm she was showing under that extreme rage was instead even more terrifying.

  “Ye Mei, go check on the situation at Mount Fu Yao.” Jun Wu Yao went ahead to order Ye Mei on his own accord.

  “Yes! My Lord!” The moment Ye Mei’s voice fell, he disappeared from the room.

  “Ye Sha.”


  “Your subordinate’s here!” Ye Sha took a step forward.

  “Keep a close watch on the Nine Temples’ movements.”


  “Yes! My Lord!” Ye Sha then disappeared.

  “Ye Gu.”


  “Your subordinate awaits.” Ye Gu took a step forward.

  Jun Wu Yao pulled a jade token out from his robes, and handed it over to Ye Gu.

  When Ye Gu saw the jade token, his eyes immediately widened, staring at it in disbelief.

  “Lord Jue! You are……” Ye Gu’s tone of voice revealed the shock and panic he was feeling.

  But Jun Wu Yao waved his hand casually.

  “Go.”


  Ye Gu clenched his jaw as he stared at the jade token in his hand. He took a deep breath, his hand holding the token tightly.

  “Yes! My Lord!”


  Ye Gu left, and there was only Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao in the room. Jun Wu Yao stood up and walked over to go beside Jun Wu Xie. Watching her rubbing her small tender hands almost masochistically as she cleaned them, like she wanted to rub the flesh off, Jun Wu Yao’s brows creased up and he held the pair of small hands in his, bringing them to up to press against his chest while he pulled Jun Wu Xie into his arms, holding her little head to lean against him.

  “It’ll be alright. You will definitely be able to rescue Su Ya.” Jun Wu Yao comforted Jun Wu Xie in a soft tone. Having stayed by Jun Wu Xie’s side for so long, how could he not know how much she cared about her family, friends and Master.

  It was exactly because Jun Wu Xie had suffered her fill of torment in her past life, having not felt any warmth, nor gotten too close to people much, that in this life, the most ordinary and common forms of kinship, friendship and love to any regular person was to her, something the Heavens had bestowed upon her. Although she had never spoken of it, but all of that was remembered deep in her heart, embedded in her bones, where it was impossible to scrape off.

  Jun Wu Xie still did not speak, her mind constantly replaying bits and pieces of things that happened back in the Cloudy Brook Academy. What Tian Ze had said earlier, seemingly like a nightmare that interjected those beautiful memories, shredding up the harmonious images little by little.

  Jun Wu Xie did not dare to think just how vicious and cruel the torture they inflicted upon Su Ya could truly be.

  “I am going to kill them.” Having remained silent for quite a while, Jun Wu Xie finally spat out those words, a vow chill as winter’s ice.

  “Sure…… Sure…… Kill them as you wish.” Jun Wu Yao coaxed in a soft tone.

  The two of them were locked in embrace for a long while, till Jun Wu Xie’s emotions finally calmed down. She did not rush off to go do anything, but instead stayed in that room to put a brush to paper to write a out a letter, before asking Jun Wu Yao to release an Ink Snake, to deliver the letter to the Lower Realm.

  Five days’ time was too short. Even if she send the news out, they would not be able to make it in time here. But doing something about it, was better than not doing anything.

  At that same moment, the masked girl was already on a horse at full sprint, rushing straight to the Spirit Jade Palace Lord. As the distance was not too far apart, at the moment dawn broke, she reached her destination. Flipping herself off the horse fluidly, she charged her way right into the Spirit Jade Palace’s main hall.

  The sun’s rays had not brightened the place up yet and the inside of the palace was cold and cheerless. Only two female disciples were wiping the floor and when they saw the masked girl, they immediately went up to her smilingly in welcome.

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  “Senior, why are you here?” A young girl asked with a grin.

  However, the masked girl was not in the mood to engage in idle chat.

  “Where is the Palace Lord?”


  “The Palace Lord is in his chambers. Senior, are you going to……” The two younger girls looked at the highly anxious masked girl, and before they could finish asking their question, the masked girl had already rushed past them.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was sleeping peacefully in his bedchambers when the door suddenly opened with a crash. He opened his eyes immediately and saw the masked girl kneeling right before him.

  “My Lord!”


  “You…… Why have you come back? And you’re in such a hurry. Did something happen?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord asked as he sat up lazily, to look smilingly at his disciple. The days were now so much better for the Spirit Jade Palace and he did not hold all that much ambition, merely seeking to see the days pass peacefully.

  “My Lord, Miss Jun is seeking to go up against the Nine Temples!” The masked girl said, straight to the point.

  That statement completely shocked any hint of sleepiness still remaining in the Spirit Jade Palace Lord out to dissipate into the clouds. His eyes flared wide open, as he stared in surprise at the masked girl kneeling before him.

  “What did you say? Jun Wu Xie is going to go against the Nine Temples? Has she gone mad! ?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord exclaimed in shock. He had seen bold people, but never one with guts like this. Although he knew that Jun Wu Xie always liked to do things that people had never expected, and knew that she possessed abilities that were able to turn the Heavens upside down, but…… The Twelve Palaces had been wiped out only a year ago, why had she suddenly come to face off with the Nine Temples?

  “Miss Jun’s Master has been captured by the Nine Temples and will be publicly executed at Mount Fu Yao in five days. Miss Jun is enraged and has decided that she will go save her Master even if she dies in the attempt.” The masked girl said anxiously.

  “What……” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was not able to digest the news completely in that instant.

  “My Lord! We cannot let Miss Jun go to Mount Fu Yao on her own!” The masked girl begged, kowtowing as she struck her head heavily on the ground.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s eyes became highly complicated.

  “The Nine Temples are not like the Twelve Palaces and although Jun Wu Xie is adept at coming up with outstanding schemes, she only has five days time, which will only be enough for her to rush her way over to Mount Fu Yao on a horse, how would she be able to devise a stratagem to turn the odds? That…… That will be just too difficult.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord face did not look too good. To the Spirit Jade Palace, they owe Jun Wu Xie the debt of having given them a new lease of life. She had not only avenged them but had handed over the entire empire on a platter to the Spirit Jade Palace. The benevolence Jun Wu Xie had shown the Spirit Jade Palace, was higher than the tallest mountain there is.

  “My Lord, are we…… just going to watch Miss Jun deliver herself into death like this?” The masked girl asked in a choked voice.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord bit on his lip, his gaze highly conflicted.

  He believed, that if Jun Wu Xie was given a year, Jun Wu Xie would definitely have the ability to devise a scheme that would wipe out the Nine Temples completely. But now, there’s only five days…… What could be done in five days? It already wasn’t enough for the journey there so how was it impossible to plan for everything? For Jun Wu Xie to risk it all like that, it was clear that she had given up on leaving herself a way out from this.

  “Why would the Nine Temples want to capture Jun Wu Xie’s Master?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord then asked.

  The masked girl then immediately repeated Tian Ze’s words.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord flashed with a sliver of shock upon hearing that.

  “So I see…… I see…… I had thought that he would be able to escape the calamity this time…… I had not thought……” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord suddenly let out a long sigh.

  “My Lord, you know something about the matter?” The masked girl asked, looking at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord in surprise.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord nodded his head in helplessness.

  “How could I not know? If not for the fact that the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster reached his hand out to help, I fear our Spirit Jade Palace would not even have the chance to be able to survive till today at all.”


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  Back when the Spirit Jade Palace was persecuted by the Twelve Palaces, throughout the vast lands the entire Middle Realm was, there wasn’t a place for them to hide, till they were pursued to the foot of Mount Fu Yao, where they had no choice but to run into the mountains.

  Mount Fu Yao had Mount Fu Yao’s own set of rules. Without permission, even the leaders of the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces were not allowed to enter. But as the Spirit Jade Palace had no other way out, in order to survive, they barged their way in. As the pursuers from the Twelve Palaces were fearful of the Cloudy Brook Academy’s power and influence, they had to withdraw from the place. The Spirit Jade Palace’s people hid in the mountains for several days and they had thought that they would be chased out by the Cloudy Brook Academy. Never would they have expected that the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster would suddenly appear, and not only did he not chase them away, he allowed them to use a cave in Mount Fu Yao to hide themselves.

  And it was from that time that the Spirit Jade Palace began to live inside Mount Fu Yao. Although the Twelve Palaces suspected that the Spirit Jade Palace had never left the place, they did not dare to charge in there because they feared the Cloudy Brook Academy’s might.

  It could be said that the Spirit Jade Palace owed the Cloudy Brook Academy a debt as big as the Heavens as if not for the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster’s offer of shelter, they would all have died under the Twelve Palaces’ persecution.

  All of that were things the masked girl had never heard before. Hearing about it today, her eyes were filled with shock.

  “Back when the Cloudy Brook Academy closed, I had thought that something was strange. I thought that they would be able to escape and not expected that……” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s brows creased up. In Mount Fu Yao, it was all due to the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster help that allowed them to live through one of their most trying period. At that time, the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster had often gone to the Spirit Jade Palace for idle chat. It wasn’t due to anything else but just because of the benevolence shown to them even though the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was resistant against any form of contact with other men, he still engaged in merry chat with the Headmaster. Throughout the frequent conversation between them, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord could sense that the Headmaster was seemingly hiding from certain forces, but as to who those people were exactly, he did not know.

  “How could it be the Nine Temples?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was rather puzzled.

  Back before the Spirit Jade Palace went into decline, they had had some interaction with the Nine Temples. The Nine Temples greatly respected the Cloudy Brook Academy, just like the Twelve Palaces, never going against the Cloudy Brook Academy’s wishes. All of a sudden, why had it all changed?

  “This does not seem like what the Nine Temples will do. If my guess is correct, someone must be pulling the strings from behind.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said gravely.

  “My Lord…… then what should we do? Both Miss Jun and the Cloudy Brook Academy are our benefactors, so we cannot sit back and wash out hands of this!” The masked girl said anxiously.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was quiet for a long, long while before he lifted his head to look at the anxiously masked girl and said: “Are you…… afraid of death?”


  The masked girl was taken aback a moment before she immediately said: “Your disciple is not afraid of death!”


  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord suddenly laughed out loud.

  “Good. As expected of a disciple of our Spirit Jade Palace.”


  “My Lord……”


  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord got up, and pulled his cape over his shoulders.

  “Go get Granny Yue. Our Spirit Jade Palace has laid dormant for a thousand years, and the entire Middle Realm thinks our Spirit Jade Palace has lost its backbone. It is time that we let all of them know just what kind of a bunch of people we are in the Spirit Jade Palace.”


  The masked girl’s eyes shone with a glint of delight, and she immediately kowtowed in gratitude of the Palace Lord’s benevolence, before scuttling out to go fetch Granny Yue without wasting a single moment.

  On the way in with the masked girl, Granny Yue was already told about everything that was happening and when she came before the Spirit Jade Palace Lord, her hunched back form halted with one hand held behind her, the other hand gripped around her walking stick, her eyes shining brightly as she looked at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord.

  “My Lord, you’ve decided?”


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  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord stood before the full length mirror and looked at himself in the suit of light armour he had just changed himself into. After eyeing himself critically for a rather long while, he then turned his head to look at Granny Yue.

  “Little Yue, dressed in this, does it look good?”


  Standing before Granny Yue and the masked girl, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had shed off the light and thin clothes on his body, and changed into a suit of fiery red armour. He had always had a tall figure but was always laid back and slothful, his body wrapped within loose robes where it was not obvious to see. Now that he had changed into a suit of light armour, it made him look exceptionally towering and valiant, and upon that bewitching countenance, there was a lack of his usual frivolous allure, but an added sharpness and gallant valor.

  Granny Yue’s eyes were filled with smiles as she nodded and said: “Very good, my Lord looks very good like that.”


  The masked girl at the side was stunned. She had been in the Spirit Jade Palace for so many years, but never had she seen the Palace Lord so serious about his dressing. The Spirit Jade Palace Lord who had changed out of his normal clothes now seemed like a totally different person, handsome and not lacking in imposing manliness, carrying a completely different air around him.

  [This is their Palace Lord?]

  “I think I look good in it as well. I have not seen this suit of armour for more than a thousand years and had thought that I would not have another chance to wear it again in this life. Back when all of you risked your lives to bring it out from our original palace, I had still admonished you all. Looking back at it now, I have been too shortsighted.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord smiled handsomely, and turned around with a grand flourish to sit heroically upon the soft couch, exuding an imposing and terrifying flair.

  “Go gather up all of the disciples in here outside the palace. I have something to announce.”


  “Yes, my Lord.” Granny Yue nodded, before retreating silently away.

  The masked girl stood at the side to look at the Spirit Jade Palace Lord whose demeanor felt entirely different and her eyes flashed with a glint of awe.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord turned to look at the masked girl whose eyes were filled with surprise and he said with a light laugh: “What? Never seen your Lord looking like this?”


  The masked girl nodded her head.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord lifted his eyes and looked out through the doors.

  “It has also been a long time…… since I’ve seen myself like this……”


  From the day that the Spirit Jade Palace was brought down, that him of the past, had died.

  Not knowing why, the masked girl seemed to have heard a sliver of sorrow from the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s mouth, and she lowered her eyes in silence.

  “You’ve been here in the Spirit Jade Palace for quite a long time, but not long enough to know this. Do you know why the Twelve Palaces had wanted to annihilate our Spirit Jade Palace back then?” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord asked suddenly.

  “Your disciple does not know.”


  “Because, I am the one and only person among the original Thirteen Palaces, from the time the palaces were founded, to hold the position of a Palace Lord.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said and started to laugh.

  The masked girl lifted her head up immediately.

  It had already been several thousand years since the founding of the Spirit Jade Palace! Did that mean…… their Palace Lord had been alive for several thousand years?

  “What they feared, was merely me, the only Gold Spirit within the Thirteen Palaces.” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said, his eyes suddenly narrowing, and the silver spirit glow swirling around his body turned a blinding gold in that instant!

  Gold Spirit!

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord was actually a Gold Spirit!

  Not even in her dreams would the masked girl ever have thought, that over the span of so many years, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had actually been hiding his real powers. Outside of the Nine Temple Lords, he was the one and only Gold Spirit in existence!

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord stared at the Gold Spirit glow around his own body, but was not feeling the least bit proud of himself, but just a kind of imperceptible anguish that other people had not noticed.

  In the eyes of people, the Gold Spirit was a realm so high it could not be reached, but they did not know that such peerless power, had instead pushed the Spirit Jade Palace into endless danger. What crime had been the Spirit Jade Palace’s disciples been guilty of?

  Just because of this Gold Spirit of his, how many of the Spirit Jade Palace’s disciples have died?

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  The Spirit Jade Palace’s disciples gathered within the main hall. Their numbers were not that many due to the long period of persecution but every single one of them were fiercely loyal. After the Spirit Jade Palace took over everything that the Twelve Palaces left behind and they had more members joining them, those new members were deployed to the various branches. All those in the who remained in the main Spirit Jade Palace were women who had followed the Spirit Jade Palace the entire way.

  Granny Yue stood before everyone, her hunched back now straightened, her eyes bright and full of life, looking like she had become younger.

  Although there were so many people gathered there, they were exceptionally quiet, every pair of their eyes looking up at the elevated primary seat in the main hall.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord came in slowly, his suit of fiery red armour eliciting a bout of surprised gasps under all those gazes.

  They had never seen their Palace Lord looking like this.

  Only Granny Yue stood there with tears brimming in her eyes, seemingly holding herself back from crying.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord planted his feet down firmly before everyone’s surprised gazes as the masked girl stood at his side without a word.

  “For so many years, our Spirit Jade Palace have lived in seclusion, hiding deep within the mountains, the days hard and harsh, never once thinking that we’ll be able to see the sun in the sky again one day. All here are disciples of our Spirit Jade Palace and you must all remember, under the Heavens, there are but two whom our Spirit Jade Palace owes a great debt of benevolence. One of them is the Cloudy Brook Academy’s Headmaster, and the second person is Jun Wu Xie who helped us to be able to see the light of day once more. These two people have saved our Spirit Jade Palace from fiery pits one after the other and if not for their help, I fear our Spirit Jade Palace would already have been destroyed. I have gathered all of you here today for just one matter of grave importance.” The usual lazy slothfulness on the Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s face had been swept clean away and on it now, was a look of strong and imposing resolve. His gaze swung over the crowd and he continued on.

  “Our two benefactors’ loved ones have fallen into tumultuous disaster and Miss Jun is determined to embark upon a rescue. The Spirit Jade Palace is never one to forget benevolence shown to us and when our benefactors are trapped in such a difficult situation, all of us cannot possibly stand by and watch with our hands in our sleeves. I hereby announce that the Spirit Jade Palace shall follow at Miss Jun’s side, and vow to save the person she seeks to rescue. With such a decision, I will have to tell all of you that the enemy we shall be facing is one more powerful than the Twelve Palaces of the past, the Nine Temples! With this battle, I fear we may not be able to return alive. All of you have been with me for many years and I will only ask you one thing today. Who is willing to come with me? If anyone is hesitant, just come stand forward and I will not force you. But one who spurns their benefactor and abandons them in their time of need will not longer be fit to carry the name of the Spirit Jade Palace!”


  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord’s words caused everyone to gasp in shock.

  The Nine Temples!

  That was a highly powerful enemy that they had never thought of.

  Though the Spirit Jade Palace had been able to rest and recuperate for a year, but the past one thousand years had harmed the Spirit Jade Palace’s very foundation. Using just one year’s time would not not enough to allow them to climb back up to its peak like in the past. Moreover, even at the Spirit Jade Palace’s peak, they still would not possess adequate power to fight against the Nine Temples!

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord said they may not be able to return alive, but all of them knew it clearly that there would be no chance of returning from this trip!

  “This old subordinate is willing to follow my Lord.” Granny Yue immediately knelt to say without a moment’s hesitation.

  “Your disciple is willing to follow my Lord!” The masked girl knelt down right after, her eyes filled with a surge of emotions.

  Nobody had thought that their lazy and slothful Spirit Jade Palace Lord would step forth at a moment like this.

  “Your disciple is also willing to follow my Lord!” Inside the large hall, the resolute women knelt one after another, declaring their decision aloud with their clear voices.

  In that vast palace hall, they all knelt down in that instant, not a single one fearful.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord drew in a deep breath, his eyes bright as he surveyed the glorious scene before him, the corners of his mouth raising up into a faint smile.

  “Excellent! Everyone of you great ladies of the Spirit Jade Palace!”


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  The Spirit Jade Palace’s disciples had resolved to follow their Lord. Though the Spirit Jade Palace Lord was moved, he did not relax but immediately went on to make arrangements for several of his disciples to spread the news to all the territories once occupied by the Twelve Palaces in the past.

  “My Lord, what are you planning?” The masked girl did not understand. The news that the Spirit Jade Palace Lord wanted her fellow sisters to spread was that a teacher of the Cloudy Brook Academy had been captured. Towards that, she did not understand why.

  The Spirit Jade Palace Lord then said: “The Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces have from a very long time ago started to pick out outstanding disciples through the Battle of Deities Grand Meet. All of the disciple selected from there had then been sent into the Cloudy Brook Academy to further their cultivation practice, and released only when they meet the required standards. You must not underestimate the powers of these people though they have pledged their allegiance to powers on various sides, as they all had come out through the Cloudy Brook Academy’s doors afterall, the powers they possess tempered by the Cloudy Brook Academy. It is said that a day as one’s Master makes him one’s father for life! Although I wouldn’t know how many people this piece of news will bring, but even if only a few of them holds some conscience in their hearts, they would still be an additional bit of strength.”


  Towards that decision, the Spirit Jade Palace Lord had not had much of a choice. They had only five days, and that was just too short. The army in Jun Wu Xie’s hands before had disappeared from everyone’s sight since the Twelve Palaces’ Summit and she had immediately received such news the moment she returned. It was feared that she wouldn’t have enough time to summon for reinforcements.

  “We won’t know…… how many people will turn up……” The Spirit Jade Palace Lord could feel his heart drumming with nerves……

  In that afternoon on that day, Jun Wu Xie went to see Tian Ze one more time. Treating Tian Ze’s injuries for the last time, she left behind a large amount of elixirs, and asked Xue Er to take care of Tian Ze on her behalf.

  “Jun Xie! Are you going to Mount Fu Yao?” Tian Ze saw that Jun Wu Xie was readying things before she set out, and he could not help but feel anxious. Not caring about the wounds on his body, he started to want to get up.

  That startled Xue Er to jump over to his side to help him.

  “You…… You shouldn’t move yourself too much…… Your wounds will split open again.” Xue Er said with anxiety in her voice.

  But Tian Ze could not concern himself with that as he looked at Jun Wu Xie who had already reached the door. “I’m coming with all of you!”


  Jun Wu Xie’s footsteps halted and she turned herself around, to look at Tian Ze who was struggling so hard to even get up before shaking her head slowly.

  “Master Uncle needs to get some good rest. I will save Master. There is no need for Master Uncle to worry.”


  How could Tian Ze possibly listen to her. He forced himself to hobble shakily over to Jun Wu Xie, and gripped Jun Wu Xie by the wrist, his eyes firm and resolute as he said: “I’m coming with you.” Having survived from the very brink of death, Tian Ze’s mind had grown to become calmer.

  With such a massively tremendous enemy like the Nine Temples before them, how could Jun Wu Xie and the others possibly be able to stand against them? If he had not told her, Jun Wu Xie would not have even known about the matter at all, and she would not have thrown herself into such a crisis. Knowing very well just how powerful the Nine Temples were, how could he possibly just watch Jun Wu Xie go resist the Nine Temples alone?

  Jun Wu Xie pulled Tian Ze’s hand off and said indifferently: “Master Uncle, with the state you are in, not to mention having you help. I fear that when we get to Mount Fu Yao, I will have to split up my attention to look after you.”


  Tian Ze was slightly shook, his eyes showing despair and grief.

  Jun Wu Xie’s words were cruel and harsh, but it truthfully revealed the reality before Tian Ze’s eyes. Tian Ze looked at his broken and wretched body, a highly bitter taste in his mouth.

  That’s right. With the state he was in, it was such an arduous task for him to even walk, so how was he going to take part in the battle?

  Even if he managed to drag this badly battered body over to Mount Fu Yao, he would only add on to Jun Wu Xie’s burden.

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  “I…… am really such a burden.” Tian Ze’s voice was raspy, tinged with a large dose of bitterness. At one time in the past, the tall and gallant Teacher Tian Ze in the Cloudy Brook Academy had been reduced to such a state. A useless good for nothing that he himself despised.

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes looked down and she did not open her mouth to comfort Tian Ze. She glanced at Jun Wu Yao and nodded her head, where she then went walking outside together with him.

  Tian Ze looked at the backs of those two walking side by side, and he tried to push down the guilt and helplessness he was feeling in his heart before breaking down completely. He was like a child, who crouched there on the floor to sob and wail heart wrenchingly. Xue Er who stood at the side could not bear to watch as she silently wiped the tears from her eyes, feeling her heart wince.

  Tian Ze’s raspy and sorrowful voice sounded out behind them. Jun Wu Xie’s footsteps then grew heavier with every step.

  Jun Wu Yao walked without a word by her side, and then held up her little hand that was cold as ice.

  The harsh words that Jun Wu Xie said to Tian Ze, hadn’t that been her way of protecting him?

  Walking out from the Spirit Jade Palace branch, Jun Wu Yao did not hesitate for a single moment as he carried up Jun Wu Xie across his arms, and with a tap of his feet, he flew up into the sky in an instant.

  That figure that turned into a beam of light that streaked across the sky in a flash, so fast that no one in the city noticed them at all……

  Mount Fu Yao.

  Once the most tranquil and harmonious place in the Middle Realm. But now, the place had changed completely.

  No one knew why the Cloudy Brook Academy had suddenly closed, including the teachers who had been dismissed who were all filled with suspicions. The position the Cloudy Brook Academy held in the Middle Realm was unique as it did not belong to any one power, but it was a place that made the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palace had to respect.

  But all of that……

  Had not changed completely.

  At the foot of Mount Fu Yao, there was suddenly some people dressed in the liveries of the Nine Temples. Those people held control over the entire entrance into the mountain and the citizens who had originally lived at the foot of Mount Fu Yao had no choice but to make detour around them.

  A beam of light streaked through the sky over Mount Fu Yao, and none of the Nine Temple’s disciples guarding the foot of the mountain noticed anything.

  The beam of light landed within the dense forest on the mountain and as it was dusk at that time, with the light just fading, it did not draw any attention to itself.

  Jun Wu Xie stood once again on the grass upon Mount Fu Yao, but the state of her mind this time was completely different from how she had felt before.

  Upon Mount Fu Yao, it was as quiet as before, with only the call of birds and the chirping of insects sounding throughout the mountain.

  Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes. Jun Wu Yao had flown extremely fast, and they had merely taken a day and a half to come to Mount Fu Yao. To the time that Tian Ze had mentioned, she still had three days.

  Three days. This was Jun Wu Xie’s final chance. She had to make full use of the time she had to locate Su Ya!

  A black shadow came slipping out silently from within the dense trees.

  The figure of Ye Mei suddenly appeared before Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao.

  “How?” Jun Wu Yao opened his mouth to ask.

  Ye Mei knelt with one knee on the ground and said in a low voice: “Your subordinate has already investigated and has found that Mount Fu Yao is now filled with the Nine Temple’s disciples everywhere. All the various temples of the Nine Temples have sent their people here and they have mobilized a bunch of people who are at least of the Elder status, but I have not seen any of the Nine Temples Lords appear……”


  Mount Fu Yao had been occupied by the Nine Temples from top to bottom and it was impossible for anyone to come into the mountain with a temple token from the Nine Temples. Not only the foot of the mountain had the Nine Temples’ disciples garrisoned there, but they also have many teams of people, several tens at least searching around the middle of the mountain. And right upon the summit, the Nine Temples had taken it over completely, with what was once the Cloudy Brook Academy filled with the Nine Temples’ disciples.

  “Did you manage to find Su Ya?” Jun Wu Xie asked immediately.

  And Ye Mei shook his head regretfully.

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  “Your subordinate has checked many places but still have yet to find any signs of Su Ya.”


  Jun Wu Xie’s brows knitted up slightly. Su Ya and Tian Ze were both Silver Spirits and the little old man as their Master would naturally possess more exceptional powers than them. For the Nine Temples to have hidden Su Ya so well and to have sent out such a large number of people to patrol the place, they must fear that the little old man would sneak in and bring Su Ya out of the place. Jun Wu Xie had guessed that it was impossible that they would just casually hide Su Ya anywhere but if even Ye Mei was unable to find her……

  “Are you saying that the Nine Temple Lords had not come here?” Jun Wu Xie then asked.

  Ye Mei nodded. “Ye Sha sent news to me earlier. He is following Lord Jue’s orders and has been keeping close watch on the movements of the Nine Temple Lords. He has discovered that the Nine Temple Lords have gathered together in the Heavenly Wolf Temple and they seem to be discussing about something. As all of them possess Gold Spirits, Ye Sha did not dare to get too close and hence could not be clear about what they were discussing about. The only point to note was that they did not seem to have any intentions of coming to Mount Fu Yao.”


  Mount Fu Yao could be said to be the demarcation line between the boundaries of the Twelve Palaces’ and the Nine Temples’ forces. The journey to Mount Fu Yao from the Heavenly Wolf Temple would take at least nine days. Although a Gold Spirit was highly powerful, but they wouldn’t be able to fly through the air like Jun Wu Yao. Hence, it was basically impossible for them to rush their way over to Mount Fu Yao within the next three days.

  “The Nine Temple Lords are not coming?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed up slightly, a slight feeling telling her that something was not right.

  To have been able to produce two disciples possessing Silver Spirits, it goes without having to say that the little old man’s powers would naturally be stronger, maybe already a gold spirit, and the prowess of a Gold Spirit was definitely not what Silver Spirits could stand against. Although he would not be able to take down tens of millions enemies, but having him rescue Su Ya while being heavily surrounded would not be too hard.

  Since the Nine Temples had already spent so much effort to force the little old man to show himself, how could they possibly not know what kind of powers he possess? But the nine Gold Spirits of the Nine Temples were however sitting back and would not be appearing here at Mount Fu Yao. Wouldn’t that be presenting a great big flaw in their plans to the little old man?

  “Besides the Nine Temples, are there any others on Mount Fu Yao?” Jun Wu Xie suddenly asked.

  Ye Mei was slightly taken aback, not knowing why Jun Wu Xie would suddenly ask such a question, but he went on to answer: “Your subordinate did not see any others but I am not entirely certain of it.”


  Ye Mei’s powers could not be compared to Ye Gu’s and if the target’s powers were above his, Ye Mei would then not be able to find out much.

  But there was one point that Ye Mei felt was rather suspicious.

  “I tailed several of the Nine Temples’ Elders and I discovered that they would gather everyday at a particular loft building in the Cloudy Brook Academy. But as their numbers were too many, your subordinate did not dare to follow them inside to investigate, and I do not know if there are more people in there.” Ye Mei was very careful with his report, as this was a matter of grave importance and he did not dare to be too stubborn about things.

  “Loft……” Jun Wu Xie bit her lip thoughtfully. She just did not believe that after the Nine Temples captured Su Ya to force the little old man to appear, they would still leave such a fatal flaw in their plot. Without the Gold Spirits to hold the fort, how could they possibly dare to invite the enemy to come in?

  In the Middle Realm, people who had attained the Gold Spirit were only a rare few. Could it be possible that there were more Gold Spirits hidden?

  Jun Wu Xie’s mind whirred quickly, seeking to fully decipher the entire situation on Mount Fu Yao in the shortest time possible.

  “Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms…… Nine Temples…… Upper Realm……” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes suddenly lit up and she lifted her head to look at Jun Wu Yao.

  “Could it be that the people who wants to capture my Grandmaster isn’t the Nine Temples…… but the Upper Realm? It’s people from the Upper Realm who is trying to capture my Grandmaster?”


  If that was true, then everything would make sense!

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  Tian Ze had said it before. These people were trying to capture the little old man to force him to hand over a precious artifact, and that artifact had something to do with the Blood Sacrifice Array.

  The Blood Sacrifice Array was a plot by the Upper Realm. The Nine Temples had always been respectful to Mount Fu Yao before and had never shown the slightest disrespect. But they have suddenly struck…… This did not seem like the way the Nine Temples would act.

  “Does Little Xie mean to say that upon Mount Fu Yao now, there are people from the Upper Realm hidden currently?” Jun Wu Yao asked, his brow slightly arched up as a glint of murder flashed in his eyes.

  Jun Wu Xie then said: “I cannot be certain. It is just my guess.”


  But looking at the the current circumstances, it was highly possible the situation was as she had thought. If this was truly the Upper Realm’s doing, then it was obvious that inside the loft that Ye Mei did not dare to go into would be hiding powerful people from the Upper Realm, and that was why the Nine Temple Lords had not come.

  But there was another thought that Jun Wu Xie had in her heart. She beckoned with her hand for Ye Mei to come forward, and she then whispered a few sentences in his ear. Ye Mei immediately nodded his head and disappeared from his spot. But in a blink, Ye Mei came back. Upon his return, he held a set of clothes embroidered with a wolf emblem in his hands.

  Jun Wu Xie took the clothes and changed into them under Jun Wu Yao’s cover. She altered her looks and looking at Jun Wu Xie wearing the Heavenly Wolf Temple’s uniform, she had changed herself into a unremarkable looking youth.

  “There’s still three more days’ time and I need to check whether there is any other thing that is strange here on Mount Fu Yao.” Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes and said. If this was in the past, she might not dare to infiltrate herself among the Nine Temples’ forces as the Nine Temples were afterall not like the Twelve Palaces. Powerful pugilists were abundant among them and just the number of Silver Spirits were terrifyingly many. But now, Jun Wu Xie’s powers was already about to breakthrough to the Gold Spirit and as long as they were people with powers below that of the Gold Spirit, they would not be able to detect her true level of strength.

  For the Nine Temples to choose to be subservient to the Upper Realm, it was something that should not surprise anyone. But if that was truly the case, then why had the Nine Temple Lords shut themselves in? Wouldn’t this be a great opportunity for them to show their loyalty to the Upper Realm?

  A vague guess swirled in Jun Wu Xie’s head which made Jun Wu Xie feel she really needed to get a clear picture of the situation on Mount Fu Yao.

  “If you want to check things out further, just go ahead and do it. I’ll just stand back and protect you.” Jun Wu Yao said with a smile as his finger hooked up a lock of Jun Wu Xie’s dark hair and toyed with it at the end of his fingertips.

  With Jun Wu Yao’s powers, even Gold Spirits could not possibly be able to detect his presence, and there was no need for him to change his looks.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head. It was the final three days, she had to keep a tight grasp on them!

  The sky gradually turned dark and Mount Fu Yao was enveloped by night. Changed into the Heavenly Wolf Temple’s uniform, Jun Wu Xie already petite figure that was concealed by the darkness of night slipped silently through the mountains. With her current level of power, not a single one of the patrolling soldiers detected a thing.

  From mid mountain to the peak, it took just a few moments. The night shrouded Mount Fu Yao became exceptionally quiet, and the clusters of firelight weaved through the mountain forest like a roaming dragon, the bright lights illuminating the way to the Cloudy Brook Academy right at the top.

  Based on what Ye Sha had said, the number of people the Nine Temples had sent here numbered in the tens of thousands. If the Cloudy Brook Academy had not been so vast, it would be hard to accommodate every single one of them. But among the tens of thousands, a large part of them have been sent out to patrol the mid mountain areas and to guard the mountain’s foot, leaving only a small portion of their people up on the summit.

  Jun Wu Xie slipped into the Cloudy Brook Academy without a sound. Having left from this place for such a long while, she had not thought that she would come set foot into the Cloudy Brook Academy again, and to find that the place was still the same, but the people have completely changed.

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  In the Cloudy Brook Academy, every blade of grass and wood she was once familiar with was still there, but the many faces that she knew from before were no longer there. Upon the academy’s wide main avenue, several teams of people were carrying torches while they patrolled. The closer it was to the peak, the denser the number of patrols were. And within the Cloudy Brook Academy itself, there were a guard post every ten steps, the entire place tightly guarded. If not for the fact that Jun Wu Xie used powers almost comparable to that of a Gold Spirit, it was feared that she would have exposed her location the moment she got close to the Cloudy Brook Academy.

  Jun Wu Xie passed fleetingly through the darkness without anyone noticing anything. She wasn’t blindly searching aimlessly around the academy but was carefully observing every bit of movement in there.

  Ye Mei had almost turned the entire Cloudy Brook Academy upside down and the only place he had not gone into was coincidentally the Spirit Mastery Faculty that Jun Wu Xie was at back then!

  Jun Wu Xie had spent an uncountable amount of time with Su Ya in the Spirit Mastery Faculty and now that she had come to the outside of the Spirit Mastery Faculty, a sliver of chagrin rose up in her heart, and that sense of indignation went on to fuel the hatred she felt towards the enemy.

  Even with Jun Wu Xie’s current level of power, she could not sense the presence of anyone inside the Spirit Mastery Faculty but that, fundamentally speaking, could not possibly be a fact as the inside of the Spirit Mastery Faculty was at that moment well lit with lights, and Jun Wu Xie had clearly seen from the windows the vague shadows of several people but had not been able to sense anyone inside.

  As she had thought, they had kept a hand well hidden!

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed. She had thought that there must be something strange with the place that Ye Mei was unable to investigate and now that she had come here herself, she was more certain that her guess was correct. People that she was unable to sense, must definitely hold powers of the Gold Spirit and above!

  As far as the eye could see in the entire Middle Realm, how many Gold Spirits were there in total? Even if there were reclusive ones who hid themselves, their numbers could not possibly be more than she could count on one hand. But the number of people in that loft was clearly more than five people!

  Jun Wu Xie could almost be certain that Su Ya was being hidden in the Spirit Mastery Faculty!

  That thought had just risen up in her mind when Jun Wu Xie almost could not suppress the impulse to charge into the Spirit Mastery Faculty to rescue Su Ya, but she finally managed to hold herself back in the end.

  Su Ya was at that moment in their hands, and if she were to charge in there recklessly, even with Jun Wu Yao beside her, the enemy would still have a chance of killing Su Ya first.

  And Jun Wu Xie was not about to take Su Ya’s life as a joke!

  Since those people were using Su Ya as a lure to force the little old man to show himself, it was thought that before deadline in the next three days, Su Ya would be safe.

  Jun Wu Xie silently retreated back under the darkness, her cold eyes hidden under the darkness of night shining with a sinister icy glint. No matter who those people were, anyone who dared to harm her Master, would have to pay the price in blood!

  Within the Cloudy Brook Academy, besides the Nine Temples’ disciples patrolling the place back and forth, some of the Nine Temples’ Elders would also pass occasionally. The went about silent without a word throughout, and even when they saw people they were on familiar terms with, they only exchanged glances. The atmosphere in the whole Cloudy Brook Academy was extremely queer, and deathly quiet.

  A handsome looking man carried a wine urn in his hand and walked by on the academy’s main avenue. The elderly man by his shoulder merely nodded his head at the handsome man but did not say anything, passing each other just like that.

  A sliver of a smile hooked up the corners of the man’s mouth as he went walking towards the place he was staying at.

  Walking till he came beside the dark and shady trees, the man suddenly heard a faint sound. His steps slowed slightly as a unremarkable looking youth dressed in the Heavenly Wolf uniform came walking towards him. In the instant that the youth was just passing his shoulder, the man suddenly halted his step and he said.

  “Hold it.”


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  The Heavenly Wolf Temple’s disciple immediately paused in his steps and turned around, to stand respectfully in place.

  “You are a disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Temple?” The man raised up an eyebrow slightly, his face filled with an easy smile, his gaze falling upon upon the wolf emblem on the other party’s chest. Those clothes were the standard uniform of the Heavenly Wolf Temple and the clothes on the man’s body had the same wolf emblem, but his were more luxurious compared to those on the youth, and it could be seen with just one look that his position in the Heavenly Wolf Temple was not ordinary.

  “Yes.” The youth nodded and replied.

  The man stared with measuring gaze at the youth, and it seemed thoughts of teasing the kid had risen up in his mind.

  “Since you’re a disciple of the Heavenly Wolf Temple, why did you not greet me when you saw me? Could you have forgotten your manners?”


  The youth’s shoulders stiffened and it looked like he had suffered a shock as he said hurriedly: “Your disciple wouldn’t dare. Your disciple greets Elder Su! It was too dark just now and your disciple was in a hurry and failed to notice Elder Su. I beg for Elder Su to not take offence.”


  The voice of that youth was clear, and was a little frantic, a little anxious, not sounding like he was pretending.

  Su Jing Yan’s brows lifted up slightly, completely not expecting the other party to really be able to recognize him and his position. He had initially thought that the disciple looked highly unfamiliar and was suspicious of the other party’s identity, never expecting that the kid would be able to immediately know that he was the Heavenly Wolf Temple’s Elder Su the moment he opened his mouth.

  [Could he have thought too much about it?]

  Su Jing Yan’s brows creased up slightly, as his sliver of suspicion towards the youth faded away with the call of “Elder Su”.

  “Where are you going to from here?” Su Jing Yan asked without showing any change in his expression.

  “Your disciple has just gone to the toilet and lost my patrol mates. I am rushing to go join them…… and that is why I was a little anxious. I beg for Elder Su to forgive me.” The youth was still trembling, like he was feeling rather frightened.

  Su Jing Yan was silent for a while and really could not find anything strange. For this mission, the Heavenly Wolf Temple had sent a whole contingent of one thousand five hundred men. With such a great number, even he would not be able to recognize them all. But as he had felt that the youth’s actions had been rather peculiar, he had stopped and questioned the kid, though he had gotten nothing out of him.

  Maybe he had just been overthinking it. Mount Fu Yao was now under heavy guard and it was all in preparation of setting up an inescapable web for a particular person, and how could any regular person be able to sneak in here undetected? Moreover, although one might be able to alter their looks but they would not be able to hide their age. The youth was petite in size and his limbs thin and slender, not a single sign of old age on his skin. There was also that clear and puerile voice, which was not something that person would be able to imitate even if he wanted to.

  Thinking about that, Su Jing Yan then waved his hand dismissively, and said disinterestedly: “Go.”


  The youth quickly nodded and was his face filled up with delight as he turned around to leave.

  Su Jing Yan watched the youth’s small back and could not help but feel how funny his jumpy suspicions seemed now. He then turned around as well and went walking towards his intended destination.

  But……

  He had not even taken five steps when an icy cold dagger was suddenly held horizontally across his throat.

  “Do not make a single sound or I cannot guarantee that I will not slit your throat.” A low raspy voice of a man suddenly sounded from behind Su Jing Yan’s back. That man had come in so suddenly that Su Jing Yan had not even had the chance to defend himself. His arms were twisted behind his back by the man and he could not move, as a drop of cold sweat slid down Su Jing Yan’s forehead without a sound.

  [He had been too careless!]

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  Su Jing Yan was well aware that his own powers were inferior to that of the man behind him and naturally he did not dare to make any move carelessly.

  That man then brought him to come to a loft building nearby.

  That building was originally used as lodgings for the Cloudy Brook Academy’s disciples and it now looked a little run down. Because this loft building was in a highly remote location in the academy and it was a rather old building, there wasn’t any of the Nine Temples’ people staying in there.

  Su Jing Yan was taken prisoner and taken into a room. He had just stepped through the room’s door when he immediately saw a slender figure standing right in front of the window. Moonlight spilled in through the window and the person stood bathed under the silvery light, his body seemingly surrounded by a halo of the moon’s rays.

  It was only when that person turned around that Su Jing Yan was stunned, his feet rooted to the spot!

  Isn’t the person standing at the window the very same Heavenly Wolf Temple disciple he had stopped just earlier! ?

  But there wasn’t that panicked fear in those clear eyes but were now tinged with a certain cold calm.

  “Who are you really?” Su Jing Yan asked as he narrowed his eyes. That face was so foreign to him and he was certain that he had never seen that face before.

  The youth standing at the window then walked slowly over to a chair at the side to sit down as that pair of great looking legs crossed casually, chin propped up in a palm as the eyes looked at Su Jing Yan with an imperceptible smile.

  “It’s been quite awhile and Elder Su is rather forgetful.” The youth’s voice was a little cold and distant, and compared to the tone earlier, it was a little more high pitched now.

  “I have never seen you before. What do you really want by having me captured and brought here?” Su Jing Yan was a little perplexed. Knowing that he had clearly felt that there was something strange with this youth, why had he still fallen for the deception?

  “No hurry. Have a seat first while we talk.” The youth said slowly.

  But Su Jing Yan did not move a muscle and just stood in place.

  The youth’s cold eyes then swept over the man behind Su Jing Yan and said: “Ye Mei, invite Elder Su to take a seat.”


  Su Jing Yan suddenly felt an excruciating pain on his shoulder and that tyrannical strength was not one that he could fight against. He was suddenly being properly held down in a chair and although he was seated in a chair, the colour on his face was rather wretched, his wary gaze fixed upon the youth. [The youth clearly knew who he is. Why does he not recognize the youth?]

  “It might be because of the way I look that is causing Elder Su to not remember me. Wait a moment.” The youth then shrugged and then raised a hand to reach behind his ear. A gossamer thin mask then fell off the youth’s face and replaced in its place was a stunningly mesmerizing countenance that could bring down cities!

  In an instant, Su Jing Yan was bedazzled as he stared. Under the moonlight, the youth had turned into a stunning young lady, the highly mesmerizing looks so beautiful like he had never seen before.

  But the young lady did not pause in her actions as her hands then pulled out another mask out of her Cosmic Sack which she casually wore on her face. This look, was significantly prettier than that inconspicuous countenance he had seen before, but compared to her original looks, it could only be said to be normal and ordinary.

  But upon laying eyes on that face, Su Jing Yan’s eyes immediately grew wide, filling up with shock and surprise!

  “Jun Xie! It’s you!” Su Jing Yan would not have thought even in his dreams that the person holding him captive would actually be “Jun Xie!” ! The youth from the Spirit Mastery Tribe who had stood out from all others in the Battle of the Deities Grand Meet!

  [How could it possibly be him? !]

  “How is this? Elder Su, do you recognize me now?” Jun Wu Xie asked as she crossed her hands calmly over her abdomen, looking expressionlessly at Su Jing Yan’s stunned expression.

  “You…… You’re here to save Su Ya?” After Su Jing Yan realized who Jun Wu Xie was, his mind immediately came to this conclusion.

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  During the last Battle of Deities Grand Meet, Su Jing Yan did not have make any moves at all. He only stood by as a bystander and watched silently. Seeing the Twelve Palaces vying for all the promising youths that participated in the grand meet, during that heated battle, the one and only person that had caught his attention was Jun Wu Xie.

  Coming from the Spirit Mastery Tribe of the Middle Realm, this was the key reason for him remembering this youth. At that time, Jun Wu Xie represented the already fallen Spirit Jade Palace and was adamant on entering the Cloudy Brook Academy with the identity as a disciple of the Spirit Jade Palace. That itself had stirred up quite a commotion. Hence, Su Jing Yan’s curiosity had also been piqued about this strange youth and this was how he had an impression of Jun Wu Xie in his memory.

  He initially thought that being the sole person from the Spirit Mastery Tribe, Jun Wu Xie would set off a wave of storms in the Twelve Palaces. However, he never had thought that after this youth had left the Cloudy Brook Academy, he seemed to have disappeared entirely and slowly over time, the memory of this youth started to fade.

  Suddenly meeting Jun Wu Xie, moreover in such a situation, unless Su Jing Yan was a fool, how could he not see that the reason for Jun Wu Xie to appear here was Su Ya?

  “That’s right.” Jun Wu Xie did not evade her answer at all and responded directly to Su Jing Yan’s words.

  Su Jing Yan’s expression revealed a slight trace of shock, such a honest and straightforward answer? Just like that?

  “Since you know that Su Ya had been caught by the Nine Temples, why do you still dare to come here? Are you seeking your own death?” Su Jing Yan frowned.

  “Su Ya is my Master.” Jun Wu Xie replied curtly.

  Su Jing Yan was stunned momentarily.

  Master?

  Just because Su Ya was his Master, he would not hesitate to break into Mount Fu Yao without any regards? Did he not know what kind of people he would make enemies out of?

  “What about that? Although Su Ya is your Master, but she has become the prisoner of the Nine Temples. Us knowing each other can also be a form of fate, let me tell you this, even if you have any heaven defying abilities and go all out, there is absolutely no possibility to bring her out of Mount Fu Yao. I advise you to leave as soon as possible, as for today’s matter, I shall take it as it had never happened.” Su Jing Yan said in a low tone and although his words all sounded high and arrogant, but it was strange that his words were all the truth and there were even some anxiety mixed in.

  Jun Wu Xie had met all sorts of people that were crafty as foxes and venomous as snakes. They deliberately deceived people with their flowery words, but she could tell that Su Jing Yan was speaking the truth. He was not trying to protect himself and tried to trick her, he was sincerely persuading her to leave for her own safety.

  Why was this so?

  “Su Ya is my Master, I will not abandon her.” Jun Wu Xie said resolutely.

  Su Jing Yan’s brows furrowed even deeper. He had a pretty good impression of Jun Wu Xie. He was rather fond of this interesting youth. But because of the of the Heavenly Wolf Temple’s circumstances that he was unable to invite this youth. Or else, he wouldn’t let go of such a talent to the Spirit Jade Palace.

  “Wu Xie, I don’t care who you are but for the matters happening at Mount Fu Yao, these are things that you cannot meddle in. Since you are Su Ya’s disciple, then you should naturally know her strength. But the way things stand, she doesn’t even have the power to turn things around, so even if you risk all you’ve got and come here with the intention to die, nothing will change the outcome. You can’t save Su Ya and will only throw your own life away as well! Since it is a futile effort, why are you still seeking the path of death?”


  “Seeking the path of death?” Jun Wu Xie lowered her eyes and looked at her shadow that was illuminated by the moonlight. In a sombre tone, she said: “So you want me to watch my own Master die and do nothing?”


  Her voice was very faint, but it was filled with deep oppression. Su Jing Yan even felt a trace of killing intent……

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  “It’s not that I’m letting you do this, but this is the only thing that you can do.” Su Jing Yan said in a grave tone with his brows wrinkled. If it was possible, he really didn’t want Jun Wu Xie to be embroiled in this matter. The situation was too complicated and it was not something that Jun Wu Xie could intervene in.

  “I can tell you that even if you’ve exhausted all means to save Su Ya, you still can’t walk out of Mount Fu Yao alive. Su Ya’s destined to die here, catching her is to force her Master to appear. Everything has been set up as an inescapable net and Su Ya is bait. For you to have snuck here undiscovered is because you are unable to find traces of her and even if you managed to find it, she’s heavily guarded. Wu Xie, I know that you are extraordinary but how many Gold Spirits can you contend against?” Su Jing Yan raised his head and looked directly at Jun Wu Xie.

  “Gold Spirits, sure enough……the people who caught Su Ya are from the Upper Realm.” Jun Wu Xie’s expression suddenly changed.

  Su Jing Yan was completely stunned, the killing intent that Jun Wu Xie exuded was thick and murderous, her face showed the thirst for murder, yet in a split second……how did everything change back to a calm?

  Unless……

  The previous set of actions was just a facade that she had deliberately showed?

  Su Jing Yan suddenly felt that he had been duped by Jun Wu Xie and had said something that he should not have said.

  “What are you talking about? I don’t seem to understand.” Su Jing Yan removed his gaze and acted as if he had no idea on what she was talking about.

  Jun Wu Xie had no intention to let him muddle through this so easily.

  “There is only a handful of Gold Spirits in the Middle Realm. The nine people who are known to the world are the Nine Temple Lords of the Nine Temples. Other than these nine, in the entire Middle Realm, the others who’ve attained the Gold Spirit are all reclusive masters. Currently, the Nine Temple Lords have all gathered together in the Heavenly Wolf Temple. Since they are not here, then who could be the Gold Spirits at Mount Fu Yao? And you also mentioned earlier, how many Gold Spirits can I contend against? It is obvious that the number of Gold Spirits in Cloudy Brook Academy is definitely more than one or two. This is not the power that the Middle Realm can come up with. The Nine Temples has always respected Cloudy Brook Academy and never did any disrespectful things. However, they suddenly turned and caught Su Ya to force the Headmaster of Cloudy Brook Academy to appear. This is not something like what the Nine Temples will do…… Su Jing Yan, whether you admit it or not, I have already determined that the people who caught Su Ya are from the Upper Realm.” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes slowly raised her gaze. She had pretended to be indignant and desperate before, just to let Su Jing Yan relax his vigilance.

  Su Jing Yan was not a bad person and it was not difficult to see that he did not want her to be embroiled in this and lose her life in the process. And it was also because of this that she did not take his life away to silence him right after she had attained the answers she wanted.

  Never in his dreams would he have thought that he would have been swindled by Jun Wu Xie and his expression was ugly to the extreme. Jun Wu Xie had already identified everything and no matter how much he tried to change his words, she would not believe him.

  After a moment, Su Jing Yan started to sweat profusely and he was soon drenched in cold sweat. He raised his head and covered his face as he remained silent for a long while.

  After deep contemplation, he sighed and said: “Since you already know who you’re up against, do you still have to come forward to die? I didn’t lie to you, you really do not have any chance to save Su Ya. Those people aren’t in the same league and are not ones that you can contend against.”


  “No matter what, I must save her.” Jun Wu Xie replied in a resolute and determined voice.

  Su Jing Yan took in a deep breath and raised his head to look at her. He did not understand, how could Jun Wu Xie be so determined and unfaltered despite knowing who the enemies are?

  Was she really not afraid of death?

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  “The Upper Realm is not something that you and I can contend against.” Su Jing Yan shook his head and smiled wryly. “Why are you so persistent?”


  The division of the three realms, the Lower Realm, the Middle Realm, the Upper Realms. Just from the first word, the division of powers was apparent. With just the words alone, the powers were visible. The people from the Lower Realm were just like ants to the Middle Realm and in the eyes of the Upper Realm, those from the Middle Realm were just like fish meat.

  Among the three realms, the Upper Realm was almost legendary. The Middle Realm may have some connections with the Lower Realm. However, the Upper Realm had already formed at the beginning of the creation of the Three Realms. At that time, there wasn’t any Lower Realm nor Middle Realm. It just comprised of a chaotic mix of barbaric forces where dynasties had yet been established and it was none other than the chaotic savage lands.

  In the eyes of many, the Upper Realm was akin to the realm of the gods. Rumours had it that the strongest of the Upper Realm were omnipotent; they could call forth the wind and rain, and could even transform beans into soldiers. What difference was there between them and the Gods?

  There were even rumours that the existence of the Lower Realm and the Middle Realm was created on the whim of the leaders of the Upper Realm. The two realms did not exist then. Only because of this novel thought from the Upper Realm did the current realms come into existence.

  “Perhaps in the eyes of others, the Nine Temples are already strong enough, but I am not afraid to tell you that in comparison with the Upper Realm, we are even not even comparable to an ant. The strongest Gold Spirits in the Middle Realm are only ordinary in the Upper Realm and just anyone from the Upper Realm is as powerful. I am not an alarmist, I can tell you now that there is a thousand Gold Spirits in Cloudy Brook Academy! Can you even fathom what this means? Even if you have three heads and six arms, you can’t compete with these thousand Gold Spirits!” Su Jing Yan’s voice held a trace of despair, everyone here knows the Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces, but they didn’t know that in the eyes of the Upper Realm, what were they even?

  A thousand Gold Spirits!

  Jun Wu Xie was shocked!

  She had already guessed that it was not easy to go against the Upper Realm, but she did not think that the highest levels in the Middle Realms, the supreme Gold Spirit, once the Upper Realm decided to start, the first strike would be …… a thousand Gold Spirits?

  A thousand Gold Spirits! ! !

  What a horrific number!

  Don’t even mention Jun Wu Xie herself, even if she mobilizes the forces of the Lower Realm, and even if the Twelve Palaces are willing to help, and adding on the Nine Temples , however, even with the might of all three forces, just based on hundreds of thousands of army, that itself was not enough to contend against this thousand Gold Spirits!

  “The ones who had tortured my Master and Master Uncle, was it the doing of the Nine Temples?” Jun Wu Xie suddenly asked.

  Su Jing Yan was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Jun Wu Xie was referring to Su Ya and Tian Ze.

  Su Jing Yan shook his head.

  “Torture? They don’t even want these two people to be held under us. From catching to imprisonment, they did it all by themselves. Do you think that in their eyes, we are qualified to intervene in their affairs? I’m not afraid of your jokes, in the eyes of the people from the Upper Realm, us Nine Temples are just like their dogs, a dog I tell you, how can I dare to act?”


  Su Jing Yan’s words were not fake. Tian Ze thought that it was the doing of the Nine Temples because he saw the disciples of the Nine Temples and had mistakenly thought that those from the Upper Realm were also from the Nine Temples. He did not know that the Nine Temples was only a bystander from the beginning to the end. They did not even have the qualifications to touch their prisoners.

  Although Tian Ze was an apprentice of the little old man, there were some things that the little old man did not let his apprentice know too much.

  Knowing too much was dangerous for Tian Ze and Su Ya.

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  “I have already said all that’s needed to be said. I think that you should have already comprehended the current situation. If you still insist on this, I will not ask any further. Rest assured, I will not talk to anyone about the matters today no matter whether you believe it or not. In the case of Nine Temples, the Upper Realm are enemies and not friends, we are just simply powerless.” Su Jing Yan smiled bitterly. If this was not the case, as the elder of the Heavenly Wolf Temple, I am afraid that no one could imagine that the illustrious Nine Temples, one of the major powerhouses in the Middle Realm could reveal such helplessness and weakness.

  “Is the reason for the peace in the Nine Temples simply because of the Upper Realm or because of the Blood Sacrifice Array?” Jun Wu Xie suddenly asked.

  Su Jing Yan looked at Jun Wu Xie strangely, he thought that she was here just to save people, but never did he expect…… that she would actually know about the existence of the Blood Sacrifice Array.

  “Yes.” Su Jing Yan gritted his teeth.

  “The Upper Realm has ordered us to search for a precious artifact, and build the rune totems needed for the Blood Sacrifice Array in the Middle Realm. We didn’t know where the artifact was at first, until the news came from the Spirit Void Palace and divulged that it was hidden within Cloudy Brook Academy. It was from then on that……”


  Before the Nine Temples, there was no malice against Cloudy Brook Academy until the news was released, which brought about the disaster to Cloudy Brook Academy.

  “Spirit Void Palace……” The eyes of Jun Wu Xie narrowed as a dangerous glint flashed by.

  Wasn’t the Young Palace Lord of the Spirit Void Palace the birth mother of Gu Ying? Wouldn’t that make the Palace Lord of the Spirit Void Palace the grandfather of Gu Ying?

  In a mere moment, all the clues that were once scattered about in the mind of Jun Wu Xie gradually became clear. According to the information provided by Tian Ze, the very first time that Cloudy Brook Academy had noticed strange movements was precisely just the night before Gu Ying had left Cloudy Brook Academy. It was then that the news of the artifact being at Cloudy Brook Academy was divulged from Spirit Void Palace. All of this seems too coincidental and could only show prove that the news all came from Gu Ying!

  Jun Wu Xie fell into silence. She also knew about the attack and they themselves had solved many killers. At that time, they did not think that it was actually a sign that was the start of the disaster of Cloudy Brook Academy……

  “Nine Temples and the Upper Realm are enemies and not friends? That is not true.” A sudden voice that was filled with mirth transmitted over from the door.

  Su Jing Yan was shocked and immediately turned to look.

  However, just one glance and Su Jing Yan’s blood almost flowed backwards!

  The handsome man standing in front of the door had a pair of violet eyes. The sexy thin lips evoked a sinuous arc. That pair of enchanting eyes clearly had a hint of smile, but Su Jing Yan only felt cold and terror.

  “Dark Emperor……” Su Jing Yan uttered out in shock and couldn’t believe his eyes.

  The very person standing at the door was the Dark Emperor that reigned over the Dark Regions that had fallen over a thousand years ago!

  Wasn’t……wasn’t he already dead?!

  The huge shock shrouded Su Jing Yan’s heart, and his heart felt like it was ready to jump out at anytime.

  Jun Wu Yao strode over to the side of Jun Wu Xie in a leisurely manner, and rested one hand at the back of her chair. That pair of violet eyes fell on Su Jing Yan’s body.

  “If I remember correctly, aren’t the Nine Temple Lords from the Upper Realm?” That voice that contained a hint of smile was very magnetic, but when it fell into Su Jing Yan’s ears, he could not help but tremble.

  “The Palace Lords of the Nine Temples are from the Upper Realm?” There was a hint of surprise in the eyes of Jun Wu Xie. This piece of news was really amazing.

  Jun Wu Yao curled his lips into a smirk and said: “In the past, the Upper Realm started the Lower Realm and the Middle Realm. In order to control the Middle Realm, nine people were sent to establish power in the Middle Realm. The nine people are now the Palace Lords of the Nine Temples.”


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  Su Jing Yan’s gaze started to tremble. He didn’t dare to look directly at the Dark Emperor, and that pair of purple eyes seemed to be able to see through everything.

  “The Nine Temple Lords are people from the Upper Realm?” Jun Wu Xie asked curiously as these things have never been mentioned before.

  Jun Wu Yao reached his arms out and pulled a chair to the side of Jun Wu Xie and sat down. He then casually crossed his legs, with one arm hung on the back of Jun Wu Xie’s chair, his fingers lazily twirled about her hair, and said in a carefree manner: “The people from the Upper Realm are comparable to the gods, but yet they are not true gods. It can be said that they are only one step away from the position of the gods, but this one step is still a clear and distinct line that forever separates them from the divine entity. They are not willing to resign to such a fate and because of this insane resolution, they want to make use of the Lower and Middle Realm and hence, they created the Blood Sacrifice Array in an attempt to break through this boundary. To complete this, just relying on the Upper Realm on its own would not suffice, so they picked nine people to enter the Middle Realm to pave the way for themselves. These nine people were exceptionally talented and had extraordinary wisdom and very soon, the forces of the Nine Temples were established.”


  “The Twelve Palaces were established by the people of the Middle Realm. They wholeheartedly wanted to compete with the Nine Temples but these pitiful fools did not know that the minds of the Nine Temples had never been placed on this at all. As far as I know, the reason why the Upper Realm were willing to release these nine people because they had no other way out. When they had entered the Middle Realm, they had to take sterilization medicine. It can also be said that from the beginning, the Nine Temples were just mere tools for the Upper Realm to achieve their twisted goals. Just one thing that I am very surprised with is that the Nine Temples’ behaviour had been rather perfunctory of late, does it mean that a rebellious notion has blossomed within the Nine Temples against the Upper Realm?” Jun Wu Yao’s voice wasn’t very loud, but once it reached Su Jing Yan’s ears, his hair all stood on ends.

  The Dark Emperor who once unified the Middle Realm was really not an ordinary person. In a few words, he managed to let Su Jing Yan lose his composure.

  “Sterilization? But isn’t the Young Palace Lord of the Spirit Void Palace……” Jun Wu Xie was somewhat puzzled.

  Jun Wu Yao laughed and said: “She is just but a foster daughter. The Nine Temples want to stabilize their power and would naturally not let others know their secrets. If they let their men know that they are a group of infertile pitiful creatures, who knows what kind of untoward thoughts may sprout.”


  Not only the Spirit Void Palace, but the other Eight Lords of the Nine Temples also secretly adopted a lot of children, and when they were still babies, they were secretly brought into the Nine Temples and crowned with the titles of the sons and daughters of the Lords. But this has gone on for so many years and those children gradually grew up, and many of them even died of old age yet their fathers still remained healthy. The millennium did not leave any traces on them and the people in the Middle Realm grew suspicious on why the Nine Palace Lords did not pass on their immortality to their children. Now, Jun Wu Yao had uncovered the millenium year old truth.

  Jun Wu Xie was enthralled as she listened to his magnetic voice uncovering bits and pieces of the secret history, but Su Jing Yan has long been stunned by Jun Wu Yao. His fearful eyes looked at Jun Wu Yao with trepidation.

  “Elder Su, you have not answered my question yet.” Jun Wu Yao did not seem to notice the fear in Su Jing Yan’s eyes. The origin of the Nine Temples was extremely confidential. Even in the Nine Temples, there were only a handful of people who know it. Jun Wu Yao was sure that Su Jing Yan knows all this, otherwise why would he know that the people were sent by the Upper Realm?

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  Su Jing Yan was trembling, although Jun Wu Yao spoke with a smile, yet all he felt was unprecedented fear.

  “How do you know…… all these……” Su Jing Yan looked at Jun Wu Yao apprehensively. Towards the Dark Emperor, the Middle Realm knew very little about him. The Dark Emperor suddenly appeared in the Middle Realm which he then suppressed it with absolute strength. Initially, the Nine Temples thought that the Dark Emperor was also sent by the Upper Realm and was ready to reach out to him, in the end, they were utterly crushed under his violent oppression ……

  Who was the Dark Emperor?

  No one in the Middle Realm knows and his very existence was a huge mystery.

  However, he knew the Three Realms like the back of his hands; he even knew the secret of the Nine Temples so clearly.

  “Don’t ask me how do I know, you just need to answer my question. I think…… you shouldn’t want to suffer too much?” Jun Wu Yao narrowed his eyes, as he slightly lifted his hand that was on his lap. A dark spirit suddenly appeared at his fingertips.

  When Su Jing Yan saw the dark spirit, his face immediately paled to a shade of white. The dark spirit of the Dark Emperor was not the same as spirit energy. This mysterious power had evoked a whole new wave of fear in the Middle Realm.

  “You……you’ve guessed it. The Nine Temples are dissatisfied with the practice of the Upper Realm.” Su Jing Yan gnashed his teeth, he was very clear, even if he does not say it, there would be other ways to make him open his mouth.

  “When the Palace Lords first came to the Middle Realms, they were really loyal to the Upper Realm. Without knowing what kind of array they were going to construct, they simply followed the orders……”


  Due to their loyalty to the Upper Realm, the Nine Lords of the Nine Temples never questioned a thing. They were like monsters without feelings, and everything was done in accordance with the instructions of the Upper Realm.

  The construction of the Nine Temples, the strengthening of the forces, the engraving of the rune totems, and the hiding their own origins have nothing to do with them. For thousands of years, they have been doing this. In order to hide their own defects, they even married wives, and they raised their babies. These were originally intended to cover up their secrets, but after thousands of years passed, these eventually melted the hearts of the nine people.

  For people that uphold loyalty, their heart wouldn’t be too bad, hence when they watched their adopted babies grow up to children, calling them father with a crisp voice…… emotions other than loyalty started to manifest in their hearts.

  These changes were quietly happening. They began to have more feelings. Although they couldn’t have their own children, they also fell in love with those gentle companions of theirs, and also loved the children who called them fathers……

  Without knowing, these changes in their hearts made them start to think about their wives and children. When they gradually realized the real purpose of the Upper Realm, there was a crack in their loyalty.

  Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms!

  How cruel was that? For them who had spent thousands of years in the Middle Realm, how could they bear it?

  Although their wives and children could not accompany them for life, their grandchildren and generation after generations continued on. The hearts of the nine had been eroded with emotions and they couldn’t bear to destroy all of this.

  But after all, they had all came from the Upper Realm and know how powerful the strength of the Upper Realm was. Even if they don’t want to, they couldn’t change anything with the ability of just nine of them. Hence, they chose to be perfunctory, as much as possible. To try to delay the arrival of that nightmare.

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  “As for the things that happened in Cloudy Brook Academy, we had no intention to intervene initially, but the grandson of the Spirit Void Palace suddenly brought news and said that the artifact that the Upper Realm had been seeking was most likely to be in Cloudy Brook Academy. Over the years, although the Nine Temple Lords have a vague idea, they had not done anything and just tried to delay the time. But that person had people from the Upper Realm at his side so even if the Nine Temple Lords wanted to suppress the news, they didn’t have the ability to.” Su Jing Yan gritted his teeth as a trace of resentment flashed in his eyes.

  Because this piece of news had spread to the Upper Realm, the Upper Realm began to be suspicious of the Nine Temples, and even imposed punishment on the Nine Temple Lords. They even gave them an ultimatum and asked them to cooperate with the action, otherwise they would not mind to completely obliterate them.

  In desperation, the Nine Temples had sent some people and together with some people from the Upper Realm, they caught Su Ya. Perhaps because the Upper Realm had already discovered the changes in the Nine Temples, they were not willing to let the people of the Nine Temples intervene any point after that.

  “The Dark Emperor, what you’ve asked, I have already said. These are the truth.” Su Jing Yan said, he was not worried that these news will fall into the ears of Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao, nor was he he worried that the Upper Realm would know of his betrayal. Not to mention, Jun Wu Xie had already realized that Su Jing Yan had deliberately disclosed more information to them.

  When he knew the maliciousness of the Upper Realm, Su Jing Yan could not bear it anymore, but he was too weak and powerless to retaliate. But when Jun Wu Yao appeared before him, he saw a glimmer of hope, and revealed all the things he knew, all with a single wish to stop that nightmare.

  Noticing the intention of Su Jing Yan, Jun Wu Xie could not help but sigh in her heart.

  In the end, the Nine Temples were just disposable chess pieces that had been manipulated by the Upper Realm. Even if they still had a shred of conscience, they were powerless against such a strong enemy.

  “Which step of the plan have the Upper Realm progressed to?” Jun Wu Yao asked.

  Su Jing Yan said: “Most of the rune totems had already been completed. It should have been done much earlier, but I don’t know why it was dragged up to the present. A thousand years ago, the Upper Realm had suddenly issued instructions and ordered the Temple Lords to complete the work as soon as possible. It seems that they were anxious to use it.”


  The Nine Temples have been in the Middle Realm for thousands of years, but the urging of the Upper Realm began only a thousand years ago. Before that, they had not rushed anything and were taking things slowly. All till a thousand years ago, they seemed to have been sufficiently prepared and that would be……

  An incredulous thought flashed by and Su Jing Yan suddenly jerked his head up and looked bewildered at the smiling Jun Wu Yao.

  There were three major factors in the formation of the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms. The construction of the array was ​​the first. The artifact was the second, and the most important thing was the outworldly soul that could open up the door to immeasurable power!

  If you want to gain supreme power from the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms, the Upper Realm must tear open the limits of the world but they themselves do not have this ability. Only the outworldly soul world could be used as a sacrificial medium.

  The outworldly soul world refers to the spirit soul that does not belong to this world!

  Su Jing Yan looked incredulously at Jun Wu Yao……The sudden appearance of the Dark Emperor who was powerful and mysterious. The fall of the Dark Emperor was coincidentally a thousand years ago when the Upper Realm began to urge the Nine Temples to speed up the progress.

  When all of these began to click and connect, a shocking revelation suddenly formed in Su Jing Yan’s mind!

  “It turns out that you are……” Su Jing Yan just said a little bit, but when saw a cold glint flash by Jun Wu Yao’s eyes, all the words that he originally wanted to say were stuck in his throat.

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  He knows! He really knows it! Cold sweat trickled down from his forehead and understanding Jun Wu Yao’s implicit meaning, he did not continue his words.

  A hint of suspicion flashed by Jun Wu Xie’s eye. The sentence that Su Jing Yan did not complete made her think of something and she immediately turned to look at Jun Wu Yao, but found that he was also looking back at her with a smile. Under that intense gaze from that pair of violet eyes, she saw her own reflection.

  “Little Xie, what else do you want to ask?” Jun Wu Yao asked her with an enchanting smile.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Su Jing Yan and continued to ask him a few more questions.

  Su Jing Yan was naturally aware of what should be said and what shouldn’t be mentioned after that.

  As she had guessed, Su Ya was indeed locked in the loft of the Spirit Mastery Faculty, but it only had a few levels. He did not know that the thousand Gold Spirits lived there and be it day or night, they guarded her closely.

  Jun Wu Xie also asked Su Jing Yan, what was the artifact that the Upper Realm wanted that was in the hands of the little old man, but this point, even Su Jing Yan did not know. In fact, no one even knew the real identity of the little old man.

  If it is said that the Dark Emperor’s appearance was very mysterious, then the headmaster of Cloudy Brook Academy wasn’t too far off. He appeared in the Middle Realm earlier than the Nine Temples. The Nine Temple Lords originally had the intention of ruling the entire Middle Realm. However, despite the nine of them joining forces, they still suffered a big loss in the hands of the little old man. They were beaten into a sorry state and they didn’t have the power to fight back. It was because of the very existence of the little old man that the initial ambition of the Nine Temples did not become successful; to rule the Middle Realm under hegemony.

  Who was the little old man? No one knows the answer to that. The only thing that is known is that the little old man seem to be guarding the Middle Realm.

  Hearing the strength of the little old man, Jun Wu Xie was shocked. One person fighting against nine Gold Spirits…… This strength was really heaven defying. She thought that the little old man would be a Gold Spirit, but now it seems to be……

  After she asked everything she wanted to know, Jun Wu Xie looked at Su Jing Yan and said: “You can leave now.”


  Su Jing Yan was taken by surprise. “Are you really letting me leave? Aren’t you afraid that I will tell the Upper Realm about you?”


  Jun Wu Xie said: “You wouldn’t.”


  Su Jing Yan had on a bewildered expression for a moment but in the blink of an eye, it had turned into a smirk. He raised his hand and touched the small wound on his neck that was cut by the sword of Ye Mei. A complicated gaze fell between Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie.

  “Thank you for your trust. Nothing happened tonight.” After that, Su Jing Yan turned and left.

  Ye Mei looked towards Jun Wu Yao in an inquiring gaze. Jun Wu Yao simply waved his hand in dismissal and Ye Mei instantly disappeared into the darkness.

  In the room, only the two of them were left. Jun Wu Yao seemed to be very interested in Jun Wu Xie’s long hair. He was enthralled by the smooth feeling that lingered at his fingertips as he continued to twirl her hair.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at him and her eyes looked more charming under the baptism of the moonlight.

  However, Jun Wu Yao fell silent. He didn’t seem to notice her gaze as he just stared at her long hair.

  “Wu Yao.” Jun Wu Xie broke the silence.

  “Hmm?” Jun Wu Yao casually responded.

  “For the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms, the outworldly soul that they need is you.” Jun Wu Xie said with affirmation.

  A glint of smile flashed by his eyes.

  Sure enough, nothing could be hidden from her.

  Su Jing Yan’s words had already made Jun Wu Xie aware of the anomaly.

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  “Mn.” Jun Wu Yao admitted it easily.

  Although he had admitted it in such a casual and straightforward manner, countless turbid waves stirred up within Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.

  “Leave now.” Jun Wu Xie immediately said.

  Jun Wu Yao’s hand suddenly stopped and he slightly raised his head as that pair of violet eyes met hers that sparkled under the radiance of the moonlight.

  “I can’t leave.”


  “I don’t need you here. You have to leave immediately.” For the first time ever, Jun Wu Xie’s voice was tense and there was even a trace of anxiety mixed in.

  Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms was the ultimate goal of the Upper Realm. The most important thing that they need for it to succeed was the Otherworldly Soul and that was Jun Wu Yao! In the Cloudy Brook Academy, there were a thousand Gold Spirits! Even if she believed in his abilities, however against such a large number of powerful enemies, there was no guarantee that an accident wouldn’t occur. After all, this was a trap set for the little old man who was similarly powerful.

  Jun Wu Xie was certain that once the people from the Upper Realm was in the vicinity, they would rather give up the pursuit of the little man and would risk it all to catch Jun Wu Yao!

  “Are you worried about me?” Jun Wu Yao laughed lightly as his enchanting eyes looked at her, reflecting a deep smile in his eyes.

  “That time that you were locked up in the Lower Realm, was their doing?” Jun Wu Xie glazed over his question and asked him instead.

  “Yes, that’s right.” Jun Wu Yao shrugged, in his eyes, a thousand years of captivity was insignificant.

  However, the more he trivialised the matter, the deeper her heart sank.

  No matter how much he played the matter down, he could not dispute the fact that he had once lost in the hands of the Upper Realm. Yes, it was true that Jun Wu Xie wanted to rescue Su Ya but she had no intention of exchanging Jun Wu Yao. She was not willing to give up any of them.

  “Little Xie, the current you is still not able to face the Upper Realm as your opponent. If I were to leave and you still insist on saving your Master, you won’t be able to save her.” It was the first time that Jun Wu Yao had said such ruthless words to her.

  Jun Wu Xie was strong, for her age and the environment she grew up in, she was already a heaven defying existence.

  However, the enemies that she was facing now were not just any ordinary people but people of the Upper Realms. She was still too young and had insufficient experience. How could she contend against them?

  A trace of self loathe flashed by her eyes. It was not the words of Jun Wu Yao but it was the incompetency that she felt from the depths of her heart. She once vowed that she would become stronger, strong enough to be able to stand by his side with him. At that time, she would no longer need to worry about being unable to fight against his enemies, but the time had came too soon and too suddenly.

  What Jun Wu Yao said was the cold hard truth, even if she had a few trump cards, but to contend against a thousand Gold Spirits, even if she used them all, it was still a fruitless attempt. Moreover, those people did not even leave the loft making it harder for Jun Wu Xie to come up with any viable plans.

  If they wanted to save Su Ya, it was imperative for Jun Wu Yao to strike as well. If he did not participate in this, Su Ya would only have one ending and that would be death!

  Never before had Jun Wu Xie ever encountered such a precarious situation that needed to make such a heart rendering choice.

  Making a choice was the last thing she wanted to do.

  Jun Wu Yao suddenly reached out and pulled the frowning Jun Wu Xie into his arms as he whispered gently: “Don’t worry, ever since I have left the cave, they have long known that I had escaped. All these years, never had they once given up on hunting me down, so even if I do not show up today, the hunt for me would never stop.”


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  Jun Wu Xie knew that what Jun Wu Yao said was the truth. In the past, Jun Wu Yao frequently disappeared and when he came back, there was always a strong smell of blood lingering on his body. At first, she didn’t really care much but gradually after time passed, she started to guess that every time he disappeared, he was dealing with his enemies that were hot in pursuit. The stench of blood came from those people.

  Those people had long set their eyes on Jun Wu Yao.

  In order for the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms to succeed, to break through the boundaries and reach the powers of the true gods, they would never ever let go of Jun Wu Yao.

  “Otherworldly Soul, does that mean that you’re not from this world? Who are you then?” Jun Wu Xie asked softly.

  Jun Wu Yao looked at her and said, “I don’t know.”


  “You don’t know?”


  “When I arrived in this world, I didn’t have any memory at all. The only thing I knew was that I do not belong here. I first arrived at the Upper Realm and it was until then when they discovered that I was an Otherworldly Soul that I came down to the Middle Realm. That year when I was trapped in the cave, I was filled with hatred. But that was all before I had met you. After meeting you, I realised that this was the greatest gift that this world had given to me.” Jun Wu Yao tilted her small face up as he looked at her with a scorching gaze that was filled with indulgence.

  “Being able to meet you, even if my soul scatters, I have no regrets.”


  Jun Wu Yao had no good feelings towards this world, be it a person or any matter, everything was just like a game to him. If he felt like it, he could unify the Middle realm and suppress all the other forces. Once he was tired of it, he could simply get rid of the Upper Realm’s encirclement. Only her, who had suddenly appeared could have brought forth a ray of light into this gloomy world of his.

  He had once thought about letting those people pay with the price of their own blood to satiate his hatred.

  But now, all he wished for was to be able to stay by her side for a long time, passing each day ordinarily. Building a small hut in the mountainous forest, spending the rest of their lives together.

  Once, he fought for hate. But now, he fought for love.

  With just a difference of a word, he felt as if he had been given a new lease of life.

  The past seemed to have dissipated like a cloud of smoke, the only thing that remained unchanged was only her.

  “I don’t want you take any risks.” Jun Wu Xie said in a stifled voice.

  The smile on his face deepened as he discovered a thread of worry that he had never seen before in her eyes. But the cause of this worry was because of him and he felt exhilarated. This was an emotion that was solely for him, and it made him feel like a hundred flowers had bloomed and the sun was shining brightly.

  “Seeing you like this makes me very happy. It makes me so happy that…… I can’t help but want to kiss you,hmm?” He had purposefully made an exaggerated expression of being in a dilemma as he teased her.

  The moment he finished his words, Jun Wu Xie suddenly looked up and leaned forward and pressed her warm lips to his.

  Jun Wu Yao was stunned for a moment but he tightened his arms around her, the sweetness of her lips made everything that was on his mind disappear at once.

  He slowly closed his eyes as he embraced the warmth and love that she had delivered as his arms tightened bit by bit, as if he would never let her leave his embrace.

  There was one thing that he would never ever say.

  The Otherworldly Soul of the three realms was no longer him alone and the other person was someone that he would give his life up to protect!

  Even if he was in danger, he was willing to bear it all alone.

  Just to protect her and let her world be filled with flowers, all in exchange for a lifetime of peace.

  Under the silvery moonlight, the two of them were lost in a kiss, a moment that was so beautiful and sweet.

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  Jun Wu Xie locked herself up in a room and did not allow anyone else to come close.

  They were pressed for time and after speaking with Su Jing Yan, she had a thorough understanding of the entire situation at hand. If she could, she was not willing to let Jun Wu Yao have a hand in this that was why she had to come up with another solution. She had to personally prepare for the fight against those thousand Gold Spirits.

  Reaching the realm of the Gold Spirit was so powerful that it was beyond an ordinary person’s imagination. Not only did the powerful spiritual power give them strength, but it also shielded and protected their bodies.

  Jun Wu Xie took out all the herbs that were stored in the Cosmos Sack, fortunately it was big enough and she had the habit of bringing all these things with her all the time which was why she had all these on her.

  She was not so stupid to strike something hard with brute force. If she really did that, it was imperative that Jun Wu Yao would have to be involved so she decided to utilise what she was best skilled in and use all her knowledge in the concoction of medicine as well as poison to minimise this possibility.

  The most poisonous herbs, the most toxic juices and the most poisonous powders, she started to think of all the poisons that she could remember and started to work.

  Now that she was about to become a Gold Spirit herself, she had a better understanding on how powerful and resistant a Gold Spirit was towards poison. To poison a Gold Spirit, not any ordinary poison would suffice.

  Over and over again, Jun Wu Xie delved into a state of enlightenment as she continued to experiment poison after poison, as the surroundings around her seem to blur into nothingness. She concentrated fully to concocting the poison, putting it all in this last strike!

  The little black cat lay quietly by the side, with it, there was Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit. The three stayed there in dumb silence as they were afraid that they would disturb her.

  A thick scent of herbs permeated throughout the entire house, tinged with bitterness. Due to their heightened sense of smell, this strong scent made Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit extremely uncomfortable. The little black cat was a soul and hence it was not the least bit affected but it had a great impact on Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit.

  Jun Wu Xie was trying to formulate a poison that could affect a Gold Spirit, so even if it was just a tiny whiff, the toxicity was deadly. However, Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit were stubborn and refused to budge, although they weren’t telepathic like the black cat and Jun Wu Xie, however, they could feel her fervent sense of anxiety.

  Seeing that those two silly fluffballs had been smouldered with the various smells that their expression had long turned listless, the little black cat immediately morphed into the black beast and grabbed them with it’s jaws and threw them out.

  “Meh!!”


  Lord Meh Meh immediately protested and scuttled to return into the room, similarly, the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit hopped back in an attempt to slip back in. However, with a swish of its claws, Little Black blocked their way.

  “The things inside are harmful to you, I know that you don’t care but we need you to conserve your energy and be at your best condition otherwise you won’t be able to help Mistress at all.” A glint of determination flashed by its eyes, being the companion that stayed by her side for the longest time, from the past life to the present life, they had never separated. It knew best what she was going through right now and how anxious she felt.

  Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit understood the words of the little black cat and no longer dared to clamour. They could only plop sullenly to the ground and guard silently by the door.

  The little black cat glanced at them before returning into the room. It then lay down, just like the past where countless years had gone by, with it quietly accompanying her by her side.

  No one knows more than the little black cat on how she was feeling at the moment, in the past, she had no attachments. No matter what she did, she only needed to do it in the most effective way. However, now that she had family, friends and even a loved one, she had to ensure their safety.

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  Be it Su Ya or Jun Wu Yao, she refused to make a choice between the two of them.

  The little black cat sighed softly as it quietly watched her immersed self from behind. The smell in the entire room was extremely toxic as it watched her busy formulating the poison and constantly putting in various poison pills in her mouth. These were so toxic that even powerful spirit beasts in the ranks like Lord Meh Meh was unable to resist, let alone people?

  Jun Wu Xie’s distance from these poisons was the closest and not only was she constantly engulfed in the smell, she also directly came into contact with those herbs that were highly poisonous. If not for using the detoxifying pills, she herself would be poisoned.

  Outside the room, Jun Wu Yao watched the two silly fluffballs that had been thrown out by the black cat. He narrowed his eyes but not a single emotion could be seen from that pair of deep purple eyes.

  “Lord Jue.” Ye Mei silently appeared beside him.

  “Mmn?” Jun Wu Yao raised his gaze slightly.

  “Ye Gu has brought news that the things that Lord Jue has instructed has all been arranged.” Ye Mei replied.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded his head slightly, his face did not reveal any hint of emotion.

  Ye Mei remained silent but his eyes were filled with complexity.

  “Lord Jue, do you really want to do this? I know that you are doing it all for the sake of Young Miss but if you expose your whereabouts so soon, I’m afraid that those from the Upper Realm would gain the upper hand and it would do you no good.” Ye Mei could not bear it anymore and spoke out, the things that Jun Wu Yao wanted to do made him worry.

  “Tell me then, if I don’t do anything, will they not harm me?” Jun Wu Yao raised his brows and said in a sneer.

  Ye Mei stiffened when he heard this, in fact, no matter what he did, those people had their sights set on Jun Wu Yao and would never let him go.

  “Since I dare to arrange this, then it means that I can bear the consequences. There’s no need for you to say anymore.” Jun Wu Yao did not let anyone question his orders.

  From the eyes of Ye Mei, it could be seen that he was struggling to hold something back.

  Jun Wu Yao looked at the tightly shut door thoughtfully, but what exactly was on his mind was something no one knew.

  If it was not him, then it would be Jun Wu Xie. If the Upper Realm knew that there was another Otherworldly Soul other than him, and know that Jun Wu Xie was one as well, then they would never let go of her.

  In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong with the Sacrifice of the Three Realms, they would be more than happy to have a few more Otherworldly Souls. This was one thing that Jun Wu Yao would absolutely not allow.

  “Ye Mei, come here.” Jun Wu Yao suddenly called him over.

  Ye Mei stood up and walked closer to him.

  Jun Wu Yao whispered something into Ye Mei’s ears and after listening, Ye Mei’s eyes suddenly flared wide open. His complexion paled instantly to a shade of white and with a bam, both knees slammed onto the ground, with a terrified expression, he looked at Jun Wu Yao pleadingly.

  “Lord Jue, please consider it again!!! Please think twice! This matter……it is absolutely impossible! Even if Lord is willing, if Young Miss finds out, she will definitely……”


  “Little Xie is far stronger than you think she is.” Jun Wu Yao smiled as a glint of maliciousness flashed by his eyes that initially had a hint of indulgence.

  Ye Mei’s face was white as sheet, his shoulders trembled uncontrollably. Never had he felt such fear, no words could even come out.

  “Ye Mei, you have to remember clearly what we’ve talked about today. Do not ever forget.” Although Jun Wu Yao’s gaze was not on him, but his words were clearly meant for him.

  Sweat trickled down Ye Mei’s forehead, with furrowed brows and pained eyes, he could only reply with a choked and sombre tone: “Your……your subordinate obeys……”


  These words were spoken with an incredible amount of restraint as he suppressed the overflowing emotions that wreaked havoc within him.

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  For the entire three days, Jun Wu Xie did not leave the room half a step, except for the black cat, no one knows what she did in there.

  On the third day, when the sun peeked out over the horizon, a ray of sunlight shone through the window and illuminated the lands.

  In the quiet room, there were scattered herbal residues all over the ground and it was also filled with bottles.

  Sitting on the floor, she covered the lid of the last bottle. She sighed softly and her eyes fell on the pill bottle in her hand. Her eyes were cold and vacant, what was going on in her mind could not be deciphered one bit.

  The black cat stood up, and its small claws nimbly stepped on the empty spaces between the clutter on the floor and reached her side.

  “Meow.” It made a soft and gentle purr and rubbed affectionately against the back of Jun Wu Xie’s hand.

  Jun Wu Xie raised her head, reached out and gently stroked its head before she swept all the bottles on the ground into the Cosmos Sack.

  Could the three day struggle be exchanged victory?

  No one knows……

  It was a pleasant day in spring and the sun was shining brightly high in the sky. There was not a cloud in the sky, under the sunlight, the green hills dazzled like emeralds and the birds were chirping merrily alongside the gentle sound of flowing water from the stream. No one would ever think that it was a completely different scene at Mount Fu Yao.

  The Cloudy Brook Academy, which had been abandoned for more than half a year, suddenly had a group of uninvited guests, which disrupted the tranquility of the academy.

  Under the bright sunshine, team after team of people streamed out of the loft of Cloudy Brook Academy as countless people gathered in the largest square of Cloudy Brook Academy.

  In front of the cloud stone statue, which once symbolized the glory of Cloudy Brook Academy, the neatly dressed Nine Temples disciples stood on both sides. They each had on a sombre expression and stood there without uttering a single word.

  The large stream of people that spilled out of the Spirit Mastery Faculty were tall and majestic, and they each had outstanding temperaments despite being dressed in simple understated luxurious black robes .

  Amongst the Middle Realm, the Nine Temples disciples were considered to be dragons among men, however when the men in black appeared, the Nine Temples disciples on both sides breathing had a trace of disarray. They did not even dare not look directly at the faces of those men in black and could only lower their heads to sneak a peek.

  Among the group of awe inspiring black robed men, a shocking figure suddenly emerged.

  The clanging sound of the gong reverberated across the vast square. A frail and thin woman gradually entered the sight of the Nine Temples disciples under the admonishment of those black robed men. She looked to be a woman in her twenties. She was tall and slender with a pair of subversive eyes. She should have been a beautiful woman, but at this moment, no one was in the mood to appreciate her beauty.

  She was bound with heavy fetters of iron around her ankles, and her fair skin was covered with bloody wounds caused by the tightly bounded shackles around her ankles. She was walking barefooted, and the skin on her feet were broken, as a trail of blood followed behind. Each step she took left a blood red footprint, as she left a bloody trail wherever she walked, the sight of the blood red footprints were chilling.

  Not only her feet, but on the woman’s body, she was covered with raw wounds and almost no part had her skin intact. The robes she wore were ragged and tattered, stained with blood and mud, even the original colour of the clothes could not be distinguished. On the that pair of bone thin hands, a pair of handcuffs were attached, and a long chain extended from the handcuffs to her back. A large iron ball with the size of a head was placed behind her, making every step she made a huge torment.

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  That once beautiful and alluring face was now covered with countless wounds. Lacerations deep enough to even see the bones were slashed across her cheeks, and seeing the raw flesh and blood that had upturned slightly made people feel their blood curdle from the depths of their heart.

  That woman’s arm was hanging weakly, as a piece of white bone was jutting out of her elbow……

  Without question, she had been tortured to a breaking point and it seemed that with just one touch, her fragile life would be snuffed out. But in that woman’s eyes, you can’t find a single thread of fear or sorrow. In that pair of bright eyes, it was full of arrogance and disdain.

  Su Jing Yan stood among the elders of the Nine Palaces. When he saw the appearance of the woman with his own eyes, his heart could not help but tremble.

  That woman wasn’t any stranger, it was the very Su Ya who had been caught by the Upper Realm!

  Since the day that Su Ya was caught, other than seeing her on the first day, the people from the Nine Temples never had the chance to see her again. Until today, Su Jing Yan still remembers that she remained proud despite being captured. She was not at all like a prisoner who had been defeated at the hand of others.

  However, the Su Ya of that day and her today, was completely different. Just looking at the countless wounds on Su Ya’s entire body, Su Jing Yan could already guess what Su Ya suffered what kind of torture in the hands of the Upper Realm. That pair of slender and beautiful hands, had now been twisted and contorted that the original shape of her fingers could not even been recognized and they were just hanging weakly.

  How much pain did she have to endure?!

  Su Jing Yan took in a deep breath, even knowing that Su Ya fell into the hands of the Upper Realm, he knew that she wouldn’t have it easy but seeing her today, it made Su Jing Yan scared witless, such a heavy injury, wasn’t it enough to kill a person? The reason why Su Ya could live to this day definitely was not the people from the Upper Realm being merciful but they must have used some special methods to keep her life hanging by a single line.

  Such a wound, even if she survives, she would be left with a disability that she cannot recover from for life. Such a startling beautiful woman was tortured into such an appearance.

  At this moment, Su Jing Yan was mortified at the cruelty of the Upper Realm.

  Su Ya was taken to the stone statue, where the high platform with a cross wooden frame had already been set up, and that high platform was filled with dry wood.

  “Go up.” A black robed man barked as he impatiently looked at the unkempt Su Ya, and there was not a trace of pity in his eyes.

  Su Ya glanced at the man calmly as her cracked mouth lifted into a sneer, but the smile made her unhealed wound split again and blood started to trickle from the corner of her mouth as the crimson fresh blood made her look extremely devilish!

  Su Ya looked at the execution ground prepared for her. She did not hesitate one bit but raised her wounded feet and stepped up the ladder.

  The black robed man tied her to the wooden frame and poured a bucket of oil from the top of her head until she was completely soaked in it. He then left the platform and moved away from the long ladder. A dozen black robed men with torches surrounded the platform. There were also traces of oil on the dry wood piled up under the elevated frame. It was apparent that they had been poured over similarly with oil beforehand.

  Although there were a dozen torches, in such a scenario, even if a small spark fell on it, it would cause a fire and burn everything in an instant.

  Su Jing Yan looked at it all furtively as his gaze rested at the man standing in front of the black robed men. That man had a towering stature with an imposing disposition and on his eyebrows there was a scar.

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  Ba He, that was the name of the man.

  Although Su Jing Yan only heard Ba He’s companion call out his name once, but he already understood that Ba He was the commander of these Gold Spirits. All the Gold Spirits here obeyed Ba He, and the strength of this person made even their Nine Temples Lords extremely afraid of him.

  He still remembered the moment when Ba He first brought people to the Nine Temples. The moment the Nine Temple Lords saw Ba He, each of their faces paled one by one and were trying to suppress their fears but they still trembled involuntarily.

  This man had the strength to make the Nine Temple Lords fear.

  Su Jing Yan’s heart was tight, and his eyes fell on Su Ya on the high platform.

  Her whole body was soaked with oil. Under the flushing of the smoldering oil, the blood on her face was lighter, revealing the colour she had. In such a dangerous place, she did not show a little bit of fear of death, only calm. …… abnormal calm…… as if she was waiting for the advent of death.

  Even though he knows that Su Ya was not Ba He’s opponent, Su Jing Yan still admired the woman silently. She didn’t show any pain or torment on her face despite such torture. It was not that she didn’t feel any pain but she refused to reveal any weaknesses in front of her enemy – her pride did not allow her to.

  She was extremely endurant, all just to preserve her dignity!

  Su Jing Yan’s breathing became more and more heavy, and his mind continued to show the scene of that the night that he met Jun Wu Xie.

  It had been three days, but he had not seen her. Su Jing Yan thought that she would forcibly save Su Ya during the past three days, but she did not appear at all, what was she up to?

  From the bottom of his heart, Su Jing Yan hoped that Jun Wu Xie would give up rescuing Su Ya. After all, it was difficult to save Su Ya under the eyes of a thousand Gold Spirits, even if there was the Dark Emperor on her side, it was still an extremely dangerous feat.

  Thousands of thoughts swirled in his mind, but Su Jing Yan knew that he couldn’t do anything. He was the elder of the Heavenly Wolf Temple. Even if he was dissatisfied with the cruelty and sinisterness of the Upper Realm, he could not speak a word lest he receives the anger of the Upper Realm. It would spell the doom of the entire Nine Temples!

  There was a blanket of unusual silence in the entire square, as the disciples of Nine Temples were suppressed by the might of the black robed men. Even if they see Su Ya’s horrifying appearance and desperate situation, they did not dare to make a single sound. They could only lower their heads as the pungent smell of the oil assaulted their noses as the wind bellowed.

  A Nine Temples disciple secretly clenched his fist. He was hiding among the Nine Temples disciples. A pair of burning gaze crossed the crowd and looked at Su Ya on the high platform.

  “Don’t be impulsive, we can’t fight them.” The companion standing next to him secretly pulled his wrist.

  The man gnashed his teeth, but his eyes revealed helplessness.

  He once stood out from the Battle of Deities Grand Meet, and had enrolled into the Cloudy Brook Academy. Although he was not a disciple of Su Ya, but he had met her on several occasions. If it was not an unintentional sentence from Su Ya’s that had guided him, he was afraid that he would not have the opportunity to graduate from the Cloudy Brook Academy and joined the forces of the Heavenly Wolf Temple.

  Even though she was a teacher that had helped him greatly, but he could only watch Su Ya suffer under the hands of the Upper Realm. The incompetent condemnation felt like countless ants biting his heart.

  Not only him, but among the other disciples of the Nine Temples, there were also a few men who had malevolent eyes. They had to endure hard and restrain themselves.

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  Ba He raised his head up and looked at the sky. Not a shred of emotion could be seen on his face. The silence in the entire square was so stifling that no one dared to utter a word.

  Su Ya looked up weakly and her clear eyes peered into the blue sky above. It looked to be just an ordinary gaze, not at all like a person who was at the brink of death.

  “You don’t have to waste your time, my Master will not come.” After staring at the vast skies for a while, Su Ya finally opened her mouth and spoke.

  There was no change in Ba He’s expression but he looked at the battered and exhausted Su Ya. After the woman had fallen into his hands, she had not said a single word since. No matter what kind of coercion and torture they rendered, including breaking her beautiful slender fingers like twigs one by one, she remained silent. They even deliberately beat her Junior Brother in front of her until he became a waste, she still did not speak a word. Today, Su Ya finally spoke, but it was not what Ba He wanted.

  “Whether he comes or not, it’s not what you have the final say in.” Ba He said coldly.

  Su Ya hooked her lips up into a smile filled with disdain.

  “Did you really think that if you catch me and my Junior Brother, you can use us as bait and lure my Master out? You are really ridiculous. Or should I say that you are childish, or are you just plain stupid? Compared with the three realms, what can my life be counted as? Even if you kill me, it’s useless.Since you can’t catch my Master, you resort to use such a shameless way to set a trap. Are all the people in the Upper Realm so stupid and ridiculous like you?”


  Ba He’s eyes narrowed slightly as a dangerous cold glint flashed through his eyes.

  Su Jing Yan was shocked when he heard this. He didn’t understand what Su Ya was up to. Each and every single word was just her own sentence to death, didn’t she know that whatever she said could make Ba He slaughter her in a fit of anger?!

  Suddenly, Su Jing Yan seemed to have thought of something.

  The reason why Su Ya said this was not that she didn’t care about life or death but she was bent on death!

  She wanted to force Ba He to kill her before her Master arrived!

  Losing her, this important chip, her Master will never be in danger!

  It was clear that Su Ya was bent on sending herself to the doors of death!

  “This is all you have? A bunch of impotent wastes with only so much, this old lady here did not put any of you in my eyes, hmph, I really feel sad for you.” Su Ya started laughing eccentrically and the more she laughed, the more blood started gushing out. Her laughter reverberated throughout the square, and once it entered the ears of the people, it hit their soul!

  Ba He’s eyes became more and more gloomy. He glared at her but suddenly his lips curled up into a smirk.

  “You don’t have to waste your strength, I won’t kill you until sunset. Don’t worry, if by sunset and yet your cowardly Master is still not here, I will use the most cruel method in the world to torture you bit by bit. That’s why, for now, you should save your saliva and just wait quietly for your Master. See if he would really save your life, or as you said, completely abandon you.”


  Su Ya’s laughter came to an abrupt end for she knew that she had failed to incite Ba He. Although this man was seemingly cold and cruel, he is not without a brain. It was not so easy to irritate him.

  In the midst of the silence, a pair of cold eyes in the dark, stared at everything that happened in the square. That bloodied figure on the platform was etched deeply into the eyes, as it stirred up ripples of killing intent from within. After the owner to this pair of eyes quietly blended in with the crowd, the figure moved with amazing speed and bore through the crowd at an incredible speed so fast that no one noticed!

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  Time passed slowly as minutes and seconds ticked by and the oppressive silence in the square made even simple breathing more stifling.

  The bright sun hung up in the mid sky and the gentle rays of the morning sun had gradually turned into a blazing hot sun. Su Ya who had been drenched in oil started to feel extremely hot due to the scorching rays of the sun. Ba He ordered people to feed her a few pills a few times and from the number of times she had taken the pills, it could be seen that she was an arrow at the end of its flight and she had to depend on the pills to hang onto her last breath.

  What Ba He did was just as he had said before. If the little old man did not appear, he would not let Su Ya die before sunset.

  Su Ya’s condition was worsening with each passing moment, but she couldn’t incite Ba He to kill her out of anger. Under the harsh rays of the sun, the heat became unbearable for her. She was already at the brink of death and despite eating so many pills, she could feel her impending doom. Since she was already just a small step away from death, a sudden glint of determination flashed by her eyes. She squeezed up every last ounce of energy she had left in her as she opened her mouth and bit her tongue with all her might!

  A black shadow flashed past, before she had bitten down. Ba He had rushed up onto the high platform and his big hand clamped her jaw firmly in place rendering her completely immobile, unable to move half an inch.

  “Time hasn’t arrived yet. Hmm? Want to die, not so easy.” Ba He’s eyes flashed a trace of viciousness.

  Su Ya screamed at Ba He, and her eyes could not wait to swallow him up.

  A loud crack resounded!

  Ba He dislocated Su Ya’s jaw, and the dislocated jaw ended Su Ya’s last hope. Her fiery gaze looked as if she wanted to burn Ba He into ashes.

  “Hate me? Unfortunately, you are too weak. You are destined to be a loser, a pawn, a bait. Maybe after your master appears, I should let him look at you being tortured to death bit by bit. Then again maybe letting you witness his tragic death is also a good choice.” Ba He’s eyes flashed coldly with a sinister glint, evidently he treated Su Ya’s torture as a pastime.

  Su Ya could no longer speak and could only glare angrily at Ba He.

  All of a sudden, a gust of torrential wind swept wildly into the square, hurling up clouds of dust!

  A hint of triumph flashed by Ba He’s eyes, while Su Ya’s eyes were filled with despair.

  “Treating my disciple like that, are you really not afraid of death?” A sorrowful and low voice echoed throughout the square. Appearing from within the torrential wind, a figure suddenly appeared in the eyes of everyone!

  With both hands behind him, the little old man stood in front of everyone, and on his face was an anger that had never been seen before!

  The gust of wind lingering around him gradually dissipated as he appeared, leaving a circle of swirling dust around his body.

  All the Nine Temple disciples were shocked to see the little old man who suddenly appeared. Many of them were once students of the Cloudy Brook Academy, so they recognized the old man that had appeared in front of them!

  Standing in front of them, wasn’t that the headmaster of Cloudy Brook Academy?

  The headmaster of Cloudy Brook Academy rarely appeared in front of people, but when they graduate from the academy, he would personally pin the badges bearing the crest of Cloudy Brook Academy, and having this badge was their pride.