Translator: Misty Cloud Translations Editor: Misty Cloud Translations

  The footsteps stopped abruptly outside the door, and the atmosphere inside the room began to tense up. Those spirit envoys who were at first looking down quietly raised their heads up cautiously and looked in the direction of the door.

  Suddenly, a sonorous voice came from outside the door!

  “Old Five!! Old Five! Are you here! I’m Long Jiu! Say something if you’re here!!”


  The deafening shout shredded apart the dead silence in the room, causing Qin Song who was sitting at the corner to be staggered at the moment.

  The voice……

  It was such a familiar voice!

  “Brother Five, is he calling you?” asked a teen boy timidly.

  After recovering from the stun, Qin Song immediately stood up and rushed towards the door in the most possible shortest time. He then looked outside the door through the air outlet which was just the size of two palms.

  Outside the door, the big and tall figure of Long Jiu was standing steadily in front of his eyes!

  “Long Jiu?! Why are you here? You dumbass, why are you still standing there? Do you want to die? Quickly, run!” The moment Qin Song saw Long Jiu, he was so shocked that his entire body broke out in a cold sweat. He was afraid that both of them would be caught at the same time and that was why he decided to split up with Long Jiu at that time.

  Furthermore, Long Jiu was such a short fuse. Once he was caught by those traitors, he might probably suffer a lot, but…… Qin Song never expected Long Jiu to still come in the end……

  The moment Long Jiu who was standing outside the door saw Qin Song, a smile immediately hung onto his face, but before he could even speak, Qin Song had already bawled him out, causing him to be dumbfounded at the moment.

  Through the air outlet on the door, Long Jiu saw the pair of agitating eyes of Qin Song. Unknowingly why, he suddenly felt a strong sense of poignancy arising within himself.

  He was a carefree person who always act without using his brain, and it was Qin Song who had been leading him all the time. But now, even Qin Song himself had gotten himself into trouble, he was still busy thinking of asking him to run away. Such ties of friendship had made the eye rims of Long Jiu to instantly turn red.

  “Old Five, what are you talking about! I won’t run! I’m here to save you!” Sniffing, Long Jiu said in a pretentiously firm manner.

  “Save me? Long Jiu, stop kidding, this isn’t the time for you to joke. Leave before those people find you and run as far as you could. It’ll be the best if you can leave the Soul World. Go wherever you want, just don’t come back!” said Qin Song earnestly.

  Startled, Long Jiu didn’t really know how should he reply at the moment. Suddenly, a hand grasped onto Long Jiu’s shoulder and tugged him over!

  A sense of horror went across the heart of Qin Song who had witnessed everything, but after he saw the person who was walking towards the door, his entire person was struck dumb.

  There was a petite figure reflecting on his eyes. Although the face wasn’t the same one as the face he saw during the past five years, it was the exact same face when she was in the Spirit World. Even if the face had changed, the aura that belonged to the soul wouldn’t have any bits of change. The thing that they, the spirit envoys, sensed was never the appearance, but the aura of the soul……

  “Miss Jun……” Eyes widening, Qin Song looked astonishingly at Jun Wu Xie who had just appeared outside the door. He simply couldn’t believe what he had just seen.

  Why was she here?

  “It’s me.” Jun Wu Xie slightly nodded her head.

  “What are you doing in the Soul World? It’s too dangerous here, you should leave now.” Not having the time to bother the throb that suddenly emerged from his heart, Qin Song said quickly.

  “Dangerous? You do know something, don’t you?” Jun Wu Xie had no intention to leave at all, whereas it was the anxiety in Qin Song’s speaking tone that had made her to vaguely notice something.

  Qin Song had asked Long Jiu to escape from the Soul World just now. This didn’t seem to be something that Qin Song would say, but still, he said it. He must have found something big that had led him in making such a decision.

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  “It doesn’t matter what have I found, there’s nothing to do with you. You don’t belong to the Soul World, don’t get yourself involved in the matters here. Things are way more worse than what we’ve thought, you and Long Jiu need to get out of here as soon as possible.” With an unhideable despair in his tone, Qin Song frowned.

  What had actually happened, to the point that it had gotten Qin Song to lose all his confidence?

  Though Jun Wu Xie was confused, she did not follow what Qin Song had asked her to do.

  Long Jiu who was standing aside got more distressed as he listened to Qin Song’s words. Anxiously, he squeezed himself beside the door and said, “Old Five! What the hell are you talking about? Why should we leave the Soul World? The Soul World is our home, and now it’s in danger, how could we leave? Old Five, what have you found? I won’t believe that you would say such words.” Long Jiu stared at Qin Song. He often had the impression in his mind that Qin Song was always loyal to the Soul World. Even though he knew that the Soul World was fraught with peril, he had still chosen to come back no matter what, and even sneaked into the surroundings of the Spirit Tree to spy on the land, but the Qin Song in front of Long Jiu now was so strange to him. He shouldn’t be speaking such things.

  A trace of bitter smile appeared on Qin Song’s face. If he was able to, how was he willing to give up on the Soul World?

  But……

  “Meng Qiu has betrayed the Soul World,” said Qin Song all of a sudden.

  The sentence had caused Long Jiu to be thunderstruck at the moment. With his eyes widened implausibly, he looked astoundingly at Qin Song.

  “Master…… Master he…… had betrayed the Soul World? That’s impossible!! How would Master betrayed the Spirit Tree!!” Long Jiu couldn’t accept everything that Qin Song had just said at all.

  “Who is Meng Qiu?” Jun Wu Xie gathered her brows into a frown. Considering Long Jiu’s reaction, Meng Qiu should be a spirit envoy who had a very high standing position, and he was also the Master of Long Jiu. But why was it that the betrayal of a spirit envoy would let Qin Song experience such despair?

  With the shock and puzzlement interlacing in his eyes, the colour on Long Jiu’s face turned pale in a split second. It was such an appalling news that he had lost the ability to regain his consciousness.

  Qin Song let out a soft sigh, he then looked at Jun Wu Xie and explained, “Meng Qiu is the First Spirit Envoy in the Soul World. He is also one of the oldest souls created by the Spirit Tree. He could be commensurate with the Spirit Lord of the Spirit World, but in terms of strength, Meng Qiu is stronger than the Spirit Lord. Though the Spirit Lord has left the Soul World in the early years, Meng Qiu has always been staying here. He is deeply trusted by the Spirit Tree, and throughout all these years, Meng Qiu is the one to manage all the things in the Soul World, no matter if it’s the trivial one or the important one. Even when we, the spirit envoys, are created, he’s the one who teaches us…… He is also the Master of mine and Long Jiu……”


  The moment those words came out from Qin Song’s mouth, a trace of agony flashed across his eyes.

  He believed that all the spirit envoys would betray the Spirit Tree, but he would never want to believe that Meng Qiu would actually do something like this.

  Meng Qiu had already obtained the highest status in the Soul World, and he was such an upright and honourable person in front of the public. Although he did not speak much, he was a man of the highest integrity. Meng Qiu was once the role model that most of the spirit envoys looked up to in the Soul World. All the spirit envoys trusted him and admired him very much.

  It had never occurred to Qin Song that Meng Qiu would betray the Spirit Tree. Compared to the betrayal of any spirit envoys, this was even more unacceptable to him.

  “Is he strong?” Jun Wu Xie raised her brows.

  Qin Song forced a smile and said, “Of course. Even Long Jiu and I team up against him, we would probably still be defeated by him within three attacks. He is the strongest soul entity. Among the entire Soul World, no any other soul entity is able to fight against him except for the Spirit Tree…… If it isn’t for his betrayal, how is it that there are so many spirit envoys who have chosen the path of rebellion?”


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  Before returning to Soul World, Qin Song and Long Jiu didn’t think that things would become this state. They suspected that people in the Upper Realm might have bribed some Spirit Envoys, but as long as Meng Qiu was in charge of Soul World, there would absolutely no trouble, because there was no Soul Envoy that could defeat Meng Qiu.

  However……

  When Qin Song understood everything, it was only then he realised that it was actually a disaster and it was actually Meng Qiu who masterminded it.

  “Why did Master betray the Spirit Tree? I…… I cannot accept it……” Long Jiu was fuming with rage between gritted teeth, as he clenched his fist tightly. When Qin Song and him were born, they were mentored by Meng Qiu. They stayed with Meng Qiu to cultivate their soul power. It can be said that they have long considered Meng Qiu to be family, strong and upright.

  But Qin Song’s words made the figure in Long Jiu’s heart, that was placed upon a pedestal, to completely collapse.

  “I can’t accept it too, but this is the truth. After we separated, I snuck to the location of the Spirit Tree because I want to see what actually happened……” Although Qin Song spoke lightly, but it revealed the images that he least wanted to recall.

  When Qin Song went to the Spirit Tree, the Spirit Tree was already surrounded by the Soul Envoy traitors, and Qin Song spent considerable effort to sneak in.

  When he saw the Spirit Tree once again, when he once again saw that familiar, tall and upright figure, his whole body was numb with shock. He saw his own Master standing under the Spirit Tree, his once plain clothes, were replaced by a black, light armour, exactly the same as those donned by the traitors.

  Before Qin Song could figure out what happened, he was discovered by Meng Qiu, and he immediately captured Qin Song without saying a word. Until Qin Song was sent to the Soul Prison, he still could not accept Meng Qiu’s betrayal.

  “Meng Qiu has not only betrayed the Spirit Tree, but because the Spirit Tree and him had lived together for the longest, so he had plenty of opportunity to scheme against the Spirit Tree. They now have complete control of the Spirit Tree. Meng Qiu used an ancient method of burying many Soul Reaping Stones around the Spirit Tree. And he had a seal stamped into the body of the Spirit Tree. Now, the safety of the Spirit Tree is in the hands of Meng Qiu, we cannot do anything……”


  Qin Song casted his gaze downwards, Meng Qiu’s betrayal shocked him and made him truly despair. Meng Qiu used his understanding of the Spirit Tree, accumulated over days and months, planted a seal on the Spirit Tree. All these went undiscovered by them, and until everything happened, did they realise the malicious intent behind Meng Qiu’s hypocrisy.

  Long Jiu stupefied with what he had heard, the Spirit Tree was sealed?

  Meng Qiu had been planning for this for a long time!

  “Now, we have no other solutions. If we rise up and fight, Meng Qiu can destroy the Spirit Tree at any time. We can’t risk……” Qin Song had a trace of bitterness in his forced smile. The most desperate was not how strong the enemy was, but that their most precious thing was in the hands of the enemy. It made them unable to fight back.

  Meng Qiu could conquer the entire Soul World effortlessly, by virtue of this, the seal of the Spirit Tree was held by Meng Qiu. If and when they decide to fight back, Meng Qiu would use this point as a form of coercion, keeping their hands tied and capturing them easily.

  “What exactly does Meng Qiu have?” Jun Wu Xie, who was standing to one side, suddenly asked. The Soul World had a traitor, and was one with great influence who wanted nothing more than to enslave the whole Soul World.

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  “He himself,” said Qin Song suddenly.

  “He himself?” Jun Wu Xie was confused.

  Qin Song narrowed his eyes, “He has turned himself into the root of the seal that was being cast on the Spirit Tree. Whoever that tries to hurt him is the same as destroying the Spirit Tree.”


  Qin Song’s words had gotten Jun Wu Xie stunned at the moment.

  She finally understood why would Qin Song feel so hopeless. The life of their enemy was connected to the Spirit Tree, and if they wanted to defeat their opponent and save the Spirit Tree, they must cause damages to Meng Qiu, but the injuries on Meng Qiu’s body would then be converted onto the Spirit Tree.

  It might well be asked……

  Which loyal and devoted spirit envoy would dare to do such a thing?

  Though Jun Wu Xie had never met Meng Qiu, just by the scheme which he prepared beforehand, it was already enough to prove that he was an extremely cunning and resourceful foe.

  “Do you guys understand about the situation in the Soul World now? We could only choose to surrender if we want the Spirit Tree to be safe. There’s no way for us to fight against Meng Qiu, or else the one to be hurt isn’t him but the Spirit Tree.” Qin Song’s eyes were filled with despair. Not a single spirit envoy who was being locked up in the prison was willing to do things that were able to hurt the Spirit Tree, and when facing Meng Qiu, there was only endless despair and helplessness left awaiting them.

  While looking at Qin Song who had sunk into despair, Jun Wu Xie slightly narrowed her eyes.

  The trick that conducted by Meng Qiu had completely cut off Qin Song’s and the others’ thoughts of rebelling. What a savage man of him.

  “This is interesting. I didn’t know that there’s actually spirit life in the Soul World who knows about the Contemporaneous Knot.” A smiling voice came out of nowhere all of a sudden.

  Abruptly, Qin Song who was in a state of despair tilted his head up. Looking through the air outlet, he saw a familiar figure stepping forward from behind Jun Wu Xie. The figure got bigger and bigger in size in Qin Song’s eyes, instantly driving away all his consciousness from his mind.

  “Ye Jue?” With his eyes widening, Qin Song gazed at Jun Wu Yao who had walked into his sight without him knowing when.

  Since when Jun Wu Yao left the Upper Realm, they had never once met face to face with him again. The purpose of he, Long Jiu and Situ Heng leaving the Soul World to travel around the Three Realms for thousands years was to search for him, but…… even before they returned to the Soul World, they hadn’t been able to meet Jun Wu Yao.

  Who knew that……

  They would be going to meet again with each other in such a circumstance.

  “Lord Ye Jue, what do you mean by those words just now? The Contemporaneous Knot?” Qin Song was so surprised at the instant. Subconsciously, he called Jun Wu Yao with the honorific title that was given to him in the past.

  Before Jun Wu Yao left the Upper Realm, he was said to be the constant visitor of the Soul World. Although the Spirit Tree was unable to speak, they could still feel that the Spirit Tree welcomed the visit of Jun Wu Yao very much. Furthermore, due to the powerfulness owned by Jun Wu Yao, the spirit envoys in the Soul World during that period of time often showed their great reverence for him.

  It was just that the words “Lord Ye Jue” had long disappeared in the Soul World for years.

  “The Contemporaneous Knot is a type of seal that could be only used among the soul entities. Meng Qiu is quite talented, and he might be the only one in the entire Three Realms who is able to build the knot with the Spirit Tree, whereas you guys…… It had been so many years but no one of you has actually noticed even a bit of unusualness. You guys are really…… dumb.” Jun Wu Yao stood in front of the door, looking at the astounded face of Qin Song and casually let out a chuckle.

  “Lord Ye Jue, you know about the seal? If so, do you have any solutions……” Vehemently, Qin Song leaned against the door with his pair of eyes seemingly to be lit on fire.

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  Since Jun Wu Yao had come, maybe he would have the solutions to save the current Soul World!

  At this moment, Qin Song had already forgotten the conflict that existed between Jun Wu Yao and the Soul World. Compared to the fate of the Spirit Tree, everything didn’t seem to be that important anymore.

  “It’s simple,” said Jun Wu Yao.

  Qin Song’s eyes immediately lit up, even Long Jiu was looking at Jun Wu Yao with a blazing gaze.

  They were waiting.

  They were all waiting for the very last hope to descend.

  “The Contemporaneous Knot, as the name suggests, it’s the sharing of fate between two individuals. The one who casts the knot is able to totally seal off the energy of the one who is being knotted, and they will share the same wounds and injuries. It’s not hard to remove the seal. One just needs to bury the soul entity who has cast the knot, into the soul that has been cast with the knot.” In a flat tone, Jun Wu Yao stated. This was a rare seal, and its sealing progression was long and complicated. Not a single mistake was allowed to make while carrying out the sealing.

  And once the knot was cast, there would be certain risks that both the individuals would need to take on. Even Meng Qiu would need to bear the huge danger after he cast the knot on the Spirit Tree, which if there was someone else who had injured the Spirit Tree beforehand, then Meng Qiu would also have to suffer the same damage.

  Moreover, once the seal was activated, Meng Qiu too, had no way to stop it.

  He truly went all in on this matter.

  “Lord Ye Jue! Please! Save the Spirit Tree!!” How Qin Song wished that he was able to get out of the Soul Prison immediately, not for the others but just for Jun Wu Yao to agree to lend them his hand to save the Spirit Tree.

  “If I don’t want to save it, why would I come here?” Jun Wu Yao arched his eyebrows. He actually wasn’t much interested with the things in the Soul World, but the Spirit Tree was the only one that was able to resolve the chaotic energy of Jun Wu Xie, and so…… no matter how apathetic he was about it, he would still have to interfere in this matter.

  Just thought about it as a way to pay back for his behaviour of taking away the seed from the Spirit Tree.

  While being overjoyed at the news, Qin Song was so surprised that he couldn’t even speak a word. He was just looking at Jun Wu Yao with his mouth open.

  Meanwhile, their conversations had already been delivered into the bamboo shed, causing those spirit envoys who earlier had the despair expression holding onto their faces to finally gleam with a trace of brightness in their eyes after listening to everything they said. All of them stood up and squeezed themselves to the door, looking at Jun Wu Yao through the narrow air outlet with their eyes glowing.

  They could feel it vaguely, that maybe…… there was still hope for the Soul World!

  If it was Jun Wu Yao…… maybe there was still a chance for them to turn the tables!

  “Lord Ye Jue! We’ll leave the Soul World to you!”


  “Lord Ye Jue, representing the entire Soul World, we’re really grateful for your great kindness!”


  Since when the spirit envoys in the room were captured, this was their first time to show their vitality. Even though they weren’t able to leave the Soul Prison, it still couldn’t hinder the imperative desire inside them.

  The teen boy who was originally sitting huddled in the corner had also stood up due to the excitement shown by his comrades. Because of his short stature, he couldn’t get to the door, and also, he couldn’t see what kind of person the “Lord Ye Jue” who his comrades kept on calling was. The only thing he knew was that, this name had brought them hope.

  While facing the exhilaration of those spirit envoys, there weren’t much emotions on Jun Wu Yao’s face. With the demonic smile still hanging on his face, his eyes fell onto Jun Wu Xie.

  “Little Xie, what are you thinking about?” Jun Wu Yao noticed that a moment ago, Jun Wu Xie looked a bit out of sorts in her eyes, seemingly to be thinking of something.

  Recovering from the daze, Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao’s pair of eyes and slightly stunned. After a while, she then asked, “What’s their purpose?”


  “Huh?” Jun Wu Yao looked at her, puzzled.

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  “People from the Upper Realm have spent so much effort, what exactly do they want from Soul World?” Jun Wu Xie squinted her eyes, it wasn’t an easy thing to bribe Meng Qiu and the rest of the Spirit Envoys. Even though they were not as loyal as Qin Song and Long Jiu, but they were souls of the Soul World, they were born with a high degree of loyalty to the Spirit Tree. To have made them completely abandon the Spirit Tree and choosing to rebel, was absolutely not a simple thing.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t know exactly what scheme the Upper Realm used to poison such a large number of Spirit Envoys, but even Spirit Envoys the likes of Meng Qiu could be persuaded by the Upper Realm showed that the Upper Realm spent considerable effort to do so.

  They paid a great price that even Meng Qiu was willing to use The Contemporaneous Knot, what was their purpose?

  This point, Jun Wu Xie still could not comprehend.

  She did not think that the Upper Realm was simply trying to attack the Soul World. After all, the Soul World had existed for so many years. Before Jun Wu Yao left the Upper Realm, he often went into the Soul World, with his acute intuition, if at that time, there were Spirit Envoys who had rebellious intent, he couldn’t not realise it.

  Very clearly, everything started after Jun Wu Yao left the Upper Realm. Within this thousand years, what was it that the Upper Realm have discovered in the Soul World that made them pay such a great price to control the Soul World?

  The more Qin Song spoke, the more Jun Wu Xie could not comprehend the secret. The more energy the Upper Realm spent, the more it proved that the Soul World was of great significance to them.

  But……

  Exactly what is it?

  Jun Wu Xie’s suspicion caused Jun Wu Yao to be a little shocked. The little guy’s thinking was always a step ahead of others. She was thinking not only about the conspiracy she sees right now, but also the purpose behind the conspiracy.

  “Qin Song, did you discover anything abnormal here?” Jun Wu Xie looked towards Qin Song.

  Qin Song looked at Jun Wu Xie in a daze, Jun Wu Xie doubt he heard her question. This point…… they have not thought of before.

  “Strange? I……” Qin Song tried hard to recall more details, but all that he could think of was just too little.

  “Those seniors who were taken away……” A shy voice suddenly sounded from inside the house.

  Qin Song turned around and looked at the boy who spoke. It was the scared teenager from before.

  When the boy and Qin Song looked at each other, the boy was a bit timid. He was not sure if what he said was considered abnormal. But it was what he felt in his gut, so he said it.

  “I…… I am not sure too…… I just…… Just feel…… There is something wrong…… Apart from the detention place in Soul World, they only took the seniors away from Soul Prison…… And they never came back…… Isn’t this…… strange?” The youth stuttered as he spoke, the fear and helplessness in his heart made his voice tremble.

  But what he didn’t know was, his stuttering speech made a new idea pop into Qin Song’s head.

  An idea that had always been ignored!

  “Kid! You are right!” A touch of joy flashed in Qin Song’s eyes as he turned and looked at Jun Wu Xie.

  “If there’s anything abnormal, then the Spirit Envoys locked up here and the way they are treated in itself is a very abnormal occurrence.”


  “Hmm? What do you mean?” Jun Wu Xie quirked her eyebrows.

  “I haven’t been locked in here long, so I don’t know the details. But since I’ve been here, there were many Spirit Envoys who got taken away.”


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  Those spirit envoys who were taken away had no commonality at all, but everyday, there would be a batch of spirit envoys being brought out of the Soul Prison, and they would never appear again after that.

  At first, Qin Song did not notice anything suspicious about this matter but the words from the boy had reminded him something.

  If they wanted to destroy their souls, they could just burn them down with the spirit fire, why would they need to bring those people out everyday?

  In the Soul World, the Soul Prison was the only place which was suitable to lock the soul entity up. Where had those spirit envoys been taken too? Were they dead? Or were they still alive? If it wasn’t for the purpose of slaughtering them, why were they brought out?

  A huge mystery was brought up due to the fact stated by the boy, causing Qin Song to be at a lost, enshrouded with a dense fog, not being able to view or touch anything, and there was only the cold breeze blowing bleak across his neck.

  Listening to Qin Song’s every single word, Jun Wu Xie could vaguely notice the fact that those spirit envoys were being taken away was unlikely to be a simple matter.

  “We can slowly think about these later, or we can just find a way to beat Meng Qiu and asked him.” Standing aside, Long Jiu said. Even Qin Song and Jun Wu Xie weren’t able to figure it out in the meantime, it would be even more confusing for him to understand it.

  Since Jun Wu Yao had the solution to remove the Contemporaneous Knot, then…… let’s just save the Spirit Tree first!

  Though Long Jiu was really anxious, he did not dare to show any signs of him restlessly prodding them to quickly take action in his words, worrying that the moody Satan might be annoyed and decided to leave right away without giving any help. By then, they could do nothing except to bawl their eyes out.

  “There are a lot of spirit envoys around Meng Qiu. I’m afraid that it won’t be easy for us to deal with him if we go face to face against him.” Qin Ge frowned. Of course it would be good if Jun Wu Yao was willing to intervene in this matter, but the problem now was that…… if they were going to have a fight with Meng Qiu, then the Spirit Tree would be the one to be hurt.

  “If he carries out the threat using the Spirit Tree……” Looking at Jun Wu Yao, Qin Song spoke hesitantly.

  Jun Wu Yao cocked his brows.

  “What does it have to do with me?”


  “.……” Qin Song looked unbelievably at Jun Wu Yao with his eyes widened.

  What…… What did he say?

  What did it have to do with him?

  “Hold on! Lord Ye Jue…… What do you mean?” Long Jiu couldn’t hold it back anymore. Didn’t Jun Wu Yao have just agreed to help them? Why…… did he change his mind in just a blink of an eye?

  “Wu Yao is right,” said Jun Wu Xie suddenly.

  Long Jiu almost broke into tears.

  What was wrong with them?

  “Jun’s girl, you guys…… Don’t you guys…… This is such a critical moment, you guys can’t just leave it alone!!” Long Jiu was so close to kneel down for both the two of them. What were they going to do if the couple just threw everything up and left after getting all the information? How about the Soul World?

  Qin Song staggered. It was as if the whole room of spirit envoys who had just gotten their hopes up were being splashed with a pale of frosty water from the top at the very moment, causing them to shiver in cold.

  While looking at their reactions, Jun Wu Xie gave out a small sigh and said, “Are you guys going to let Meng Qiu know that you guys have teamed up with Wu Yao? Isn’t this a way to give the others the opportunity to trip you up? Don’t forget that he’s the top “wanted” man in the Soul World.” Speaking, Jun Wu Xie lifted her hand up and gently knocked on Jun Wu Yao’s chest.

  At that time, everyone regained their wits and had finally gotten the exact meaning in Jun Wu Yao’s words!

  Yes, Meng Qiu was able to threaten all the spirit envoys in the Soul World using the Spirit Tree, but he couldn’t apply the threat on the people outside the Soul World.

  And Jun Wu Yao……

  He belonged to the latter!

  Meng Qiu had been staying in the Soul World for years, there was no way he wouldn’t know about the things that were done by Jun Wu Yao during that year. He would have never thought that the return of Jun Wu Yao was to help the Soul World.

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  The identity of Jun Wu Yao was originally very sensitive to the Soul World, but for the Soul World now…… there was no any identity that could be more well-suited than his when dealing with Meng Qiu.

  Qin Song and the others were immediately enlightened. With the despair on their faces turning into surprise, every single one of them stared at Jun Wu Yao. Gazes flaming, as if they were going to pounce onto Jun Wu Xie and gave a kiss on his handsome face.

  “So, shall we let Old Five and the others out and find a place to hide them, and after that we would just need to wait for Lord Ye Jue you to take action?” Long Jiu clenched his fists and set his jaws, making the posture as if he was ready to smash open the door of the Soul Prison.

  But Jun Wu Xie suddenly raised her hand and stopped Long Jiu’s behaviour.

  “Qin Song and the others can’t leave now.”


  “Why?” Long Jiu stunned.

  They had already found the people but they couldn’t save them?

  Qin Song agreed, “Miss Jun is right. If we leave, Meng Qiu will surely be aware of it and start to take precautions. There are so many guards in the Soul Prison, if it isn’t someone with a very powerful strength, there’s absolutely no way that the spirit envoys who are being locked up in here can be saved. Once we leave, with the acuity Meng Qiu has, he will soon notice that something had happened, and by the time when Lord Ye Jue turns up, the first thing Meng Qiu will question will be whether if everything that has happened is related to Lord Ye Jue. Thus, to prevent Meng Qiu from getting suspicious, I can’t leave.”


  “But…… But…… If you guys don’t leave…… what if those guards come and take you away?” Long Jiu was slightly distressed. There were spirit envoys who would be taken away from the Soul Prison everyday, and Qin Song and the others had also mentioned it themselves, that they were uncertain about the place where those spirit envoys were taken to. If they continued to stay here…… wouldn’t it be too dangerous for them?!

  Qin Song shook his head.

  “We can still bear the risk. As long as Meng Qiu can be defeated and the seal on the Spirit Tree can be removed, no matter how much we sacrifice, it’s all worthy.”


  Qin Song and the rest of them must stay, and this was also why Jun Wu Yao didn’t straight off kill those guards but just drugged them with the Black Snake when they came to the Soul Prison. Before learning thoroughly about the situation in the Soul World, they must do their best to not beat the bush and startle the snake since nobody knew what was going to happen next.

  The spirit envoys in the Soul World could do nothing about the seal on the Spirit Tree. They could only entrust their hopes onto Jun Wu Yao.

  Long Jiu had nothing to say anymore. If he still insisted on getting Qin Song and the others out of the prison, then he would be really dumb, but the moment he thought about the risk that his comrades might probably suffer from, he felt extremely depressed. Now, all he wanted to do was just to get rid off those traitors and revive the serenity of the Soul World!

  “Lord Ye Jue, we’ll leave everything to you.” Once again, Qin Song looked at Jun Wu Yao and said genuinely.

  Jun Wu Yao responded, “Even if it’s not for you, I’ll still save the Spirit Tree.” He wasn’t going to accept the indebtedness.

  Jun Wu Yao slowly raised his hand and wrapped his arm around Jun Wu Xie.

  “All the things I do are for the sake of my wife. There’s nothing to do with the others.” He had no intention in making himself the saviour of the Soul World when he came to this place.

  Dumbfounded, Qin Song looked at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao who were hugging each other. The things that he missed to catch just now due to nervousness were now fully displaying in front of his eyes. He felt an unreasonable catch of suffocation radiating from his heart, it was so painful that the colour on his face went pale.

  After making the effort in finding his voice back, slightly trembling, he spoke, “I see. Anyhow…… I still want to thank you.”


  Jun Wu Yao did not say anything. Since they had already known about the condition of the Spirit Tree, then it would be up to him and Jun Wu Xie in taking the next step.

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  Long Jiu spoke with Qin Song for quite a while before leaving with Jun Wu Yao and the others.

  Before Jun Wu Xie left, she instructed Qin Song on some things; she wanted him to pay attention to what the Spirit Envoys, who were taken away, had in common with each other, and also to listen to the dialogue between the guards to find out more clues.

  Qin Song listened quietly, his heart filled with bitterness, that inexplicable bitterness made him cold. He also knew that at this moment, he should not be so depressed. There were still many things that he needed to do. He could only cheer up and fight hard.

  After leaving the Soul Prison, Long Jiu’s eyes were slightly red after witnessing his brothers-in-arms were forced to stay in that narrow bamboo house, watching so many of his companions subjected to the control of the traitors, he felt extremely terrible.

  “Are you crying?” Jun Wu Xie turned to look at the red eyed Long Jiu as she walked through the forest.

  Long Jiu blew his nose, pretending to be strong, and said in a muffled voice, “No, some dust flew into my eyes.”


  “Everything will get better.” Jun Wu Xie rarely consoled people, and although her words were simple, it made Long Jiu feel much better.

  Looking at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao, he tried his best to be strong. It was not the end yet, they still had a chance!

  “Lord Ye Jue, what do you need me to do?” Long Jiu asked seriously.

  Jun Wu Yao said, “Don’t fret.” Finished, he turned to Jun Wu Xie his eye reflected in an indulgent light, “What good ideas does Little Xie have?”


  This little girl’s brain is quick, she must have thought of some schemes.

  Jun Wu Xie wasn’t in a hurry to speak as she stared at the grass in deep thought.

  Jun Wu Yao was not in a hurry as well, he just stood quietly beside her.

  “We need to first find Meng Qiu.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly spoke.

  “Head to the Spirit Tree?” Jun Wu Yao asked.

  “No.” Jun Wu Xie shook her head, “Let him come find us on his own volition.”


  “Hmm? How do we get him to do that?” Jun Wu Yao’s interest was perked.

  Jun Wu Xie’s gaze fell upon Long Jiu.

  Long Jiu grew nervous under her stare as he started to check himself from head to toe, but didn’t discover anything wrong with his person. But for reasons unknown, Jun Wu Xie’s gaze made him feel a little creeped out.

  “Don’t…… Don’t look at me like this……” He felt a little weak.

  Jun Wu Xie crooked her finger and beckoned to Long Jiu, Long Jiu shivered because he felt a bad premonition coming. But, under Jun Wu Yao’s scrutiny, he could only brace himself and strode forward.

  “Meng Qiu is your Master?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  “He used to be! Now, he cannot be considered my master! I don’t have such a malevolent master.” Long Jiu spat disdainfully.

  Jun Wu Xie did not bother with his outburst.

  “You being captured, does Meng Qiu know?”


  Long Jiu shook his head, “I was caught halfway. After they caught me, they brought me along their journey. They most likely did not report it to Meng Qiu.”


  “Does Meng Qiu know that you came back together with Qin Song?” Jun Wu Xie asked again.

  “I guess…… He knows…… Old Five and I always travel together. When we initially were dispatched, Meng Qiu knew.” Long Jiu was more and more confused about what exactly Jun Wu Xie was planning.

  “You go.” Jun Wu Xie said.

  “Go? Where do I go?” Long Jiu was a little stumped.

  Jun Wu Yao’s eyes narrowed slightly.

  “To see Meng Qiu.”


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  In the Soul World, there was a big broad man, dressed in a black light armor, sitting up straight on the ground under the Spirit Tree. The lofty tree behind him soared high up into the clouds, whereas its thick and sturdy trunk was as broad as a skyscraper. Its packed leaves were glowing with faint light, overlapping with each other, as if it was a huge umbrella.

  The man had a calm expression on his face with a pair of dashing eyebrows projecting an aura of dignity. He looked tough and handsome, seemingly to be in his early thirties.

  “Lord Meng Qiu.” A spirit envoy, dressed in a black armor, walked towards the Spirit Tree and bowed to the man with his waist slightly bending forward.

  Meng Qiu turned his head over slowly and looked indifferently at the spirit envoy. A low and deep voice came under the Spirit Tree.

  “What is it?”


  Meng Qiu, the strongest spirit envoy in the Soul World of all time, was created by the Spirit Tree in the early years when the Soul World was established. It could be said that he was one of the oldest spirit envoys created by the Spirit Tree. He had no predecessor to guide him, and could only nesciently figure the connotation of his existence all by himself. Since he had been serving beside the Spirit Tree for many years, everyone would often think of him as the very first guardian of the Spirit Tree.

  But now, he had become the first spirit envoy to betray the Spirit Tree.

  “Lord Meng Qiu, we seem to have discovered the trace of Long Jiu,” said the spirit envoy.

  “Long Jiu?” The expression on Meng Qiu’s face remained calm and steady, and there wasn’t any specific tone heard in his speaking voice. With his mouth mumbling the familiar name, he raised his eyes and looked at the Spirit Tree behind him.

  It had been countless years and the Spirit Tree had always been silently rooting itself in this place. Neither would it get angry or speak. There were vines dangling from the branches with a faint halo radiating from them, as if they were the galaxies that had been falling from the sky. Once, those gentle vines were just like the pair of hands of the Spirit Tree, sending the newborn souls into the Soul World with a soft pat, but now, those vines were just hanging on the branches of the tree without even moving a bit, let alone expressing the feelings of the Spirit Tree.

  While being in a daze, it was as if the tremendous glowing tree in his eyes was just a normal tree with no spirituality inside it.

  “Of course he’ll be back. He has a close relationship with Qin Song since young. Since Qin Song has returned to the Soul World, it’s certain that Long Jiu will also come back.” There wasn’t any emotion in Meng Qiu’s flat voice. He just lifted his hand up and touched the vine that dangled from the tree.

  The sense of coldness under his fingers was just like the cold skin of the plant that he stroked over, which had long lost its warmth that it usually had in the past.

  “Then, do we need to capture him?” The black armored spirit envoy narrowed his eyes, “Since Qin Song has the ability to sneak into the surroundings of the Spirit Tree, the strength of Long Jiu too, isn’t weak, if he breaks in here……”


  “What’s the matter if he comes?” Abruptly, Meng Qiu interrupted the black armored spirit envoy who hadn’t finished his words and said.

  The spirit envoy stunned. By the time he raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Meng Qiu, Meng Qiu had already stood up with both his hands clenched on his back, giving out an invisible pressure from his big and tall stature.

  Even the black armored spirit envoy who belonged to the same party as him couldn’t help himself from getting frightened when he saw how imposing Meng Qiu was with his manner.

  Meng Qiu had yet to show his power, but that was already enough for him to bring them such a strong pressure, what if he began to attack……

  Suddenly realizing that the worry he mentioned just now was such a ridiculous joke, the black armored spirit envoy quickly responded, “It’s your subordinate that has made an indiscreet remark! There’s Lord Meng Qiu guarding the Spirit Tree, even if there are ten Long Jius, they still aren’t the opponent of Lord Meng Qiu, not to mention that there’s only one Long Jiu. Of course…… Of course there’s nothing to worry about.”


  Meng Qiu slightly lowered his eyes, “Speak about it, it’s been a long time since I, the Master, and Long Jiu meet each other. Just settle it yourselves, lock him up in the Soul Prison. It will be nice for him to meet his bestie Qin Song.

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  A weird phenomenon suddenly appeared in the Soul World that had already been taken over by Meng Qiu.

  Whenever there were a large number of traitors on the march, an eye-catching figure would always hop into their sights.

  “You these bastards! If you guys got the nerves to betray, then shall you guys got the nerves to catch me! You’re all a bunch of rubbish!” Standing dauntlessly on the crest of the mountain with his legs stepping on the hard huge rock, Long Jiu pointed at the group of black armored spirit envoys who were moving halfway up the mountain. He looked a little miserable in his clothes, but there was the word “disdain” clearly written all over his face!

  Every single one of those black armored spirit envoys below him was foamed with rage that even smoke began to come out from their orifices, wishing that they could drag Long Jiu down and beat his ass up!

  But the strange thing was, that although Long Jiu was quite strong, his strength still couldn’t be considered as the top in the Soul World, and before this, those black armored spirit envoys had already caught numerous spirit envoys who were stronger than Long Jiu, but it was the time to face Long Jiu, all they felt was just huge helplessness.

  Two days ago, Long Jiu suddenly became really “active” all around the Soul World. Wherever he appeared, not a single place was able to escape from falling into chaos because of him.

  In the past during the peacetime of the Soul World, the bad-tempered and clumsy personalities of Long Jiu had often gotten himself into quite a lot of trouble, and at that time, all the spirit envoys would mostly just let out a helpless laugh, but now…… after facing Long Jiu the scourge, all they wanted to do was just to toss a rock onto this idiot and crush him down!

  They had no idea where did Long Jiu learn those wretched tricks from, shooting randomly at them from a very far distance with his soul power, causing them to suffer a lot from the dispersed flying attacks. But till the moment when they began to take the counter and attack Long Jiu, this fella would actually run away, faster than anyone else, as if he had applied oil under his foot!!

  “Damn it! This fella has been staying in the Three Realms for such a long time, what the hell has he learned! Is he going to fight or not!!” The black armored spirit envoys had been running and chasing after Long Jiu for quite a distance to the point that they almost coughed their blood out. Standing on the mountainside while glaring at Long Jiu who was acting wildly on the top of the mountain, flame almost spurted out from their eyes.

  Qin Song too, had gone to the Three Realms but there wasn’t much effort needed for them to capture him. In the entire Soul World, for all the spirit envoys who were unwilling to give in, which one of them that didn’t they use only little effort to capture? But when it was Long Jiu who they were going to face, they suddenly had the urge to gnash their teeth.

  The thinking of the soul entity in the Soul World was relatively simple. Most of them would fight face to face with each other, and they seldom escaped from the battle, which was also the very last dignity of theirs.

  However, when it came to Long Jiu, once he noticed that they started to show their stances in chasing after him, he would then run away, even faster than the rabbit, and don’t even bother to mention the fight!

  After Long Jiu had pulled his distance slightly away from those spirit envoys, he would halt his steps and once again poured scorn on them. Listening to the way he spat out the filthy words, it almost shredded their cognition of lives.

  “You idiots! Are you tired? Just come after me if you have the guts to! You bastards! Do you think that I’m afraid of you! You’re just a bunch of idiots, don’t think that you are going to catch me!!” Standing in the wind, Long Jiu pointed at those black armored spirit envoys who were chasing after him and shouted scornfully at them while withstanding the strong wind that was blowing onto his face. When he was staying in the Three Realms, he and Qiao Chu had become “buddies”, and it was all thanks to that, as both the two people had done nothing except for learning the essence of the methods to disdain people in the Three Realms. In the daily life, Long Jiu wouldn’t have the guts to speak those nasty words, but now, since Jun Wu Xie had given him the permission to do so, he could curse whatever he wanted to and it would be all fine!

  The more filthier he cursed, the better it was!

  How could those black armored spirit envoys who were born and raised in the Soul World were able to fight against Long Jiu in such things? Everyone was so angry that their faces went green.

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  If there was an axe in hand, those black clad Spirit Envoys would hack him to death!

  Not fighting back?

  Not escaping!

  He’s here to create trouble!

  As he looked at the black armoured Spirit Envoys nearing the mountain, Long Jiu didn’t hesitate as he turned tail and ran. Looking at the way he broke into a wild run, he no longer had that abusive attitude from just now.

  The black armoured Spirit Envoys were spitting mad as they flew into a rage because of Long Jiu’s humiliation, as they shouted their murderous intents. They couldn’t manage more than a few lines because they lacked more curse words.

  “Long Jiu! If you got guts, don’t run!”


  “You better stop!”


  “Dammit! Still running!”


  Long Jiu ran on madly, even if the screams sounded one after another, he turned a deaf ear towards them as he ran at the fastest speed possible.

  Although Long Jiu’s strength was not at the top of the Soul World, but he was also considered an exponent. Amongst those black armoured Spirit Envoys, there were some who are on par with Long Jiu. If they were to seriously engage in a fight, it would be difficult to win.

  But the problem was……

  Long Jiu had no intention of fighting them. He kept dodging them in order to not give them a chance to close in on him. Once he was a little distance from them, he would stop, turn his head and shouted curses at them. Those black armoured Spirit Envoys following close behind would get so mad that their blood vessels were on the verge of bursting!

  In the dark, Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao were observing that scene of chaos. With regard to Long Jiu’s action, Jun Wu Xie was rather speechless.

  “I didn’t think that……” Jun Wu Xie looked at Long Jiu who had stopped to curse at those Spirit Envoys once more, her expression was slightly confused.

  She really didn’t think that the vocabulary of Long Jiu’s curses would be so rich. She still remembered that when she was in the evil domain, Long Jiu was not like this……who had he learnt this from?

  Jun Wu Yao originally wanted Long Jiu to distract the black armoured Spirit Envoys but he didn’t expect that not only did Long Jiu fulfilled his task so well, he even…… Exceeded beyond Jun Wu Yao’s expectations.

  “Don’t listen anymore.” Jun Wu Yao covered Jun Wu Xie’s ears with his hands.

  The more Long Jiu cursed at them, the worse the words became. Although it was part of Jun Wu Xie’s plan, but Jun Wu Yao didn’t want those nasty words to taint Jun Wu Xie’s ears.

  Jun Wu Xie lifted her head to Jun Wu Yao, helplessness in her eyes.

  Long Jiu kept dodging the black armoured Spirit Envoys for a few days. They didn’t even touched the corner of his clothes, they no longer had the energy to chase after Long Jiu. At the beginning, they were cursing back loudly at Long Jiu, but now, they didn’t even have an interest in chasing after him. But, if they didn’t chase, Long Jiu would start cursing at them, he cursed at them until they were fuming mad and rushed at him.

  The end was tragic……

  On the seventh day, Long Jiu led more than a hundred black armoured Spirit Envoys on a wild goose chase, and those people finally couldn’t take it anymore.

  “Lord Meng Qiu!!! That damn Long Jiu, our comrades are about to be tormented to death by him!” A black armoured Spirit Envoy, with tears and snot covering his face, kneeled before Meng Qiu as he accused Long Jiu of ‘many evil deeds’.

  They were the actual traitors, but after meeting Long Jiu, they lived in agony as if they have met their fathers’ killer. In their hearts, they have considered Long Jiu to be the root of evil that needed to be vanquished.

  Meng Qiu knitted his brows slightly as he looked at the Spirit Envoy who knelt at his feet. His calm face finally showed a little unhappiness.

  “You can’t even capture him?” Meng Qiu’s face held mild anger. Long Jiu was his disciple, and Meng Qiu knew exactly what he was capable of.

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  Based on strength, Long Jiu cannot be compared to Qin Song. In terms of intelligence, he had an inflexible, one-track mind, he only acted rashly and didn’t know how to adapt to circumstances. So upon knowing that Long Jiu was back, Meng Qiu didn’t spend much effort as he thought that he would be able to capture Long Jiu in a couple of days. Who knew……

  As he looked at the bunch of snivelling black armoured Spirit Envoys, Meng Qiu could not help but wonder if Long Jiu had been “bought” by someone.

  With Long Jiu’s character, if he knew the current situation of Soul World, they wouldn’t have to find him, he would have angrily barged up to them. Even though he knew he could not win, he would have just acted recklessly rather than employing such circuitous tactics.

  “Lord Meng Qiu, we really don’t know what to do with that Long Jiu. He would fight then retreat. If we don’t chase after him, he would just stand there and curse at us. If he meets the prison warden team, he would create a disturbance, tormenting people till they fall off their horses…… Please, we request Lord Meng Qiu help us subdue this devil!” A black armoured Spirit Envoy kowtowed to Meng Qiu. The destructive force of Long Jiu might not be big, but that was too nauseating! Now when they saw Long Jiu, they got a tingling sensation, they were slowly developing trauma.

  “Where is he now?” Meng Qiu asked coldly.

  “Near Yun Ling Mountain.” The black armoured Spirit Envoy replied hurriedly.

  Meng Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, and stood from under the Spirit Tree, “That’s fine. I’ll go meet with him myself.”


  Upon hearing Meng Qiu’s words, the black armoured Spirit Envoys beamed. Meng Qiu was extremely strong, if he met with Long Jiu, even if Long Jiu tried his best, it would be hard to escape from Meng Qiu.

  “Thank you for your trouble, Lord Meng Qiu!” the group of Spirit Envoys kowtowed in gratitude.

  Meng Qiu waved his hand, “Go watch over him, I need to visit the Soul Ascending Altar first.”


  When it came to the Soul Ascending Altar, the black armoured Spirit Envoys’ smiles froze on their faces in an instant, and their eyes became a little cautious and fearful.

  In the Soul World, there were two areas the Spirit Envoys did not dare to visit, one was the Reincarnation Path and the other was the Soul Ascending Altar.

  Reincarnation Path was for those spirit lives who wanted to be born human. Any spirit life who wanted to reincarnate to a human would walk into the Reincarnation Path and be reborn as a human in the Upper Realm. However, whoever who entered the Reincarnation Path would have their memories wiped; everything of the Soul World would no longer be a part of their memories. They would be each born into a household, and become the people of the Upper Realm.

  It can be said that in a certain sense, the reincarnation would bring new life to the spirit life.

  And the Soul Ascending Altar was the scariest place in Soul World.

  Different from Reincarnation Path, once the spirit life stepped onto the Soul Ascending Altar, the spirit life would be scattered and disappear from Upper Realm forever.

  The Reincarnation Path and the Soul Ascending Altar were respectively guarded by the strongest Spirit Envoys, Meng Qiu was in charge of the Soul Ascending Altar.

  All Spirit Envoys, who upon hearing about the Soul Ascending Altar, could not control the fear from within their hearts.

  In fact, in the Soul World, the Soul Ascending Altar was rarely used. Few souls will be punished by the rising soul station. Even if they make mistakes, most of them are also locked into the soul wall. From ancient times to the present, in the soul world. In the middle of it, there is no sin that has made it necessary to succumb to the ascendant, but the horror of the sorrowful platform was still lingering in the heart of every soul.

  When Meng Qiu left the Spirit Tree, none of the Spirit Envoys followed him to the Soul Ascending Altar. He walked through Soul World alone, headed to the most forbidden place within Soul World.

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  The Soul Ascending Altar was located at the corner of Soul World, and it sat atop the Soul Mountain, with the Soul Devourer behind it.

  The surrounding was silent, even those bird-type spirit lives did not dare near this area. Ashen green water ran through the Soul Devourer River at the foot of the mountain. The river was seemingly clear but it looked like a deep abyss as the bottom of the river could not be seen. The water in the Soul Devourer River was rumoured to drank by those who have committed grave mistakes or by those who had impure thoughts. Drinking water from the river would bring severe pain to the soul, but at the same time, it could wash away the seven emotions and desires in the soul.

  The seemingly clear river, but it seems to have no bottom, the end of the year cannot see the bottom of the river, the water in the soul-seeking river, the rumour is to give those who made mistakes, and the mind is not pure, let the people drink, the river will drink The soul brings the pain of heart-breaking, but at the same time, it would wash away the seven emotions and six sensory pleasures within the soul.

  To erase the growing darkness from within the soul and to restore the original purity.

  At the beginning of the establishment of the Soul World, every five years, all the souls who were born and stayed in the Soul World would go to the Soul Devourer River and drank the water from the river in order to wash away the darkness that might have been retained in the past years.

  But the pain brought by the water was indescribable, that heart-rending, soul-splitting torment, was the Soul World’s greatest torture.

  Every five years, those spirit lives who come to drink the river water, came with a very heavy sense of tension, as they waited for the inevitable pain.

  This habit was sustained for many years, one generation after another, they long considered it to be one of the rules of Soul World.

  It was unknown which year it started, but a Spirit Envoy, who after drinking the water, went to the Spirit Tree to lament about the torment after ingesting the Soul Devourer River water. The benevolent Spirit Tree could not stand it, and erased this tradition from Soul World.

  Right at the start, there were still some stubborn and old fashioned Spirit Envoys who persisted with the tradition. However, as time passed, the Spirit Envoys who made the journey grew lesser.

  Within the last thousand years, there was no longer any Spirit Envoys who came to the Soul Devourer River to drink its water.

  Meng Qiu walked to the Soul Devourer River alone. He looked down at his reflection floating on the surface of the river; tall, straight, cold, calm, he could not remember how he looked when he first saw himself reflected by the water. He also could no longer remember the pain which permeated the soul when he drank the water.

  After a moment’s pause, Meng Qiu continued on to Soul Mountain.

  On top of Soul Mountain sat the Soul Ascending Altar. It was supposed to be guarded by Meng Qiu and several other powerful Spirit Envoys. But now, those who had guarded the place were long gone. The mountain was filled instead with many black armoured, resolute and murderous soldiers.

  The strange thing was, the eyes of the soldiers were not gray as they should be if they were from Soul World, but their eyes were brown…… just like the humans from the Upper Realm.

  The spirit lives who had not experienced reincarnation, their eyes were gray. The spirit lives who had entered reincarnation, and even if they returned to Soul World after death, their eyes would still hold traces of black or brown, a reflection of their time in the Upper Realm.

  Very evidently, the men guarding the Soul Mountain these days were not Spirit Envoys from the Soul World, but in fact a group of human souls from the Upper Realm.

  Those soldiers, who saw that Meng Qiu had arrived at the peak, took a uniformed and orderly step back to make way for Meng Qiu. The weapons they held were cursed and could bring great harm to a spirit life.

  From the foot of the mountain to the peak, the sacred altar that stood on the top of the mountain could be seen. It was built by with a whole piece of Soul Reaping Stone. Beside the altar, the number of souls from the Upper Realm was somewhat overwhelming.

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  Those soldiers did not make their way immediately for Meng Qiu when they saw his figure. Instead, they blocked in front of Meng Qiu with a cold face, standing stone still.

  However, Meng Qiu, the one who had taken the entire Soul World under his control, had not aroused any bits of discontent within him due to their blockage. Contrarily, he kept away the imperiousness in his eyes and spoke in a deep voice, “This is Meng Qiu, who has some important things to meet Lord Jun Gu.”


  Still, those soldiers did not give out the way but just let someone enter the Soul Ascending Altar to inform the said person. After receiving the order a few moments later, only then they let Meng Qiu in.

  Entering the region of the Soul Ascending Altar, even though he hadn’t stepped into the exact place yet, the energy produced by the large amount of Soul Reaping Stones had already given Meng Qiu the feeling of his soul power being suppressed. Instead of looking around, he kept his eyes straight and followed behind the soldier who was leading him moving forward.

  Not knowingly when, there were rows of sheds built beside the Soul Ascending Altar. They were all made of the Soul Reaping Stones, and there wasn’t any vents in the room, except that the sides of the sheds that were facing the altar were all enclosed with numerous iron poles. Behind the poles, it could be clearly seen that there were a lot of spirit envoys imprisoned inside the sheds. Eyes losing focus, they looked extremely wan and dejected, curling themselves up in the narrow space while trembling in fear.

  Compared to those spirit envoys who were locked up in the Soul Prison, the conditions of these spirit envoys were way more scarier. It was as if they had lost their souls. Even when Meng Qiu passed by in front of them, there was still no response coming from them. They were just crouching in a group with their bodies trembling, as if they were a group of sheep that were waiting to be slaughtered.

  There was a spacious and huge palace towering splendidly among the rows of crude and somber small dwellings. A few of brown-eyed soldiers were standing in front of the entrance with their hands carrying the cursed artefacts. After seeing Meng Qiu who was brought by their comrade, they slowly opened the entrance door of the palace.

  As the door was being pushed open, a creaking sound was heard, echoing beside the ears of Meng Qiu. With his eyes looking deep, Meng Qiu stood still while he waited for the path in front of him to be opened.

  “Please,” said the soldier who had led him to the palace in a deep voice.

  Only then Meng Qiu raised his head and walked into the palace.

  There was a strange aroma pervading inside the big and bright palace. It wasn’t as sweet as the fragrance of a flower but more of the smell of an incense wood. On the main seat in the big hall, there sat a charming looking and charismatic man, dressed in a black armor. It was the deepest colour of all, but he looked unreasonably stunning in the armor. He was sitting on the highest position, well-postured. The handsome face seemed to be a masterpiece created by God, whereas there was a trace of sharpness and composed quality, which did not match well with his appearance, found in his pair of clear eyes.

  The man seemed to be in his early twenties, but the imposing aura radiated from all over his body was so strong that it couldn’t be neglected by anyone else. Even when it was Meng Qiu who was facing the man, the aura he possessed submissively got weaker.

  “Meng Qiu has come to meet you, Lord Jun Gu.” Lifting the hem of his clothes, Meng Qiu kneeled on his single knee in front of the man.

  Jun Gu who was sitting on the main seat slightly raised his eyes and looked at Meng Qiu. There was a petite woman with a tender but gloomy face standing beside the man, who too, looked in the direction of Meng Qiu.

  “What’s the matter?” Casually, Jun Gu spoke. It was such a euphonious voice, gentle without losing its domineering tone.

  Gazing down at the shiny marble floor, Meng Qiu was able to look clearly at Jun Gu’s face from the reflections on the floor. His eyes were deep and abstruse, and his face was so familiar to him, but at the same time, strange.

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  Before this, he wasn’t like this, but now……

  Meng Qiu let in a deep breath and said at one go, “Recently, all the spirit envoys in the Soul World have already been captured, may I ask when is Lord Jun Gu planning to carry out the Soul Sacrificing Event? So that your subordinate has the time to get everything ready.”


  Not speaking a word, Jun Gu was just looking at Meng Qiu with one of his hands supporting under his chin, seemingly to be thinking of something.

  Whereas, the gloomy woman who was standing aside suddenly became the one to speak.

  “Meng Qiu, are you hustling Lord Jun Gu now?” There was a trace of reproach in her tone, and not a bit of respect was found.

  The expression on Meng Qiu’s face changed slightly. He then hurriedly responded, “How dare I! It’s your subordinate who has crossed the line. It’s just that the amount of spirit envoys that can be accommodated in the Soul Prison is limited, and now, since the Spirit Tree has been sealed by the Contemporaneous Knot, it isn’t able to create new souls. Only when the spirit envoys in the Soul Prison are sacrificed, then can we imprison the new souls, and that’s why…… I’m thinking if……”


  Brows furrowed, it seemed like the woman was annoyed by Meng Qiu’s words, but just at the moment when she was going to say something again, Jun Gu raised his hand all of a sudden and halted the behaviour of the woman.

  With his body slightly straightened, he looked at Meng Qiu and said, “The preparation for the sacrificial event is still going on but we’ll be starting it within a few days. You are allowed to remove a little of the knot from the Spirit Tree after three days for it to create new souls.”


  Meng Qiu replied, “Your subordinate got it.”


  Jun Gu nodded his head, “Is there anything else?”


  Meng Qiu, “No, that’s it. Everything in the Soul World is stable now, please do not worry, my Lord.”


  After giving out a low hum as his response, Jun Gu waved his hand and said, “Alright, you may leave now.”


  “Yes.” Meng Qiu got up and left the palace courteously with his waist bent.

  When the door of the palace was once again closed, looking at the tightly shut door, the woman sneered, “What an impatient guy of Meng Qiu, and he thinks that he has the right to push you, Lord.”


  The speaking tone of the woman was full with her disdain towards Meng Qiu.

  There wasn’t any expression on Jun Gu’s face. Flatly, he said, “Since he has agreed to pay his allegiance to us, and he also does his tasks well, there’s no need for us to care for the other things. Our main point is to complete the mission given by His Lord, as for Meng Qiu, just let him be.”


  “You’re too kind, Lord. And that’s why Meng Qiu is getting more and more fearless these days. He’s such a treacherous spirit envoy, that he could even betray the Soul World in just a whim. Who knows if he’s planning to do something else on the sly?” The woman frowned, seemingly to look down on Meng Qiu.

  Jun Gu turned his eyes onto the woman. After noticing the discontent on the woman’s face, he suddenly smiled. He was originally good looking, and even if it was only a faint smile, it would still cause the people who saw it to lose their thoughts. The woman went stunned the moment she saw his smile, with her heart began to pound uncontrollably.

  “Yan Xi, do you dislike Meng Qiu that much?” There was a smile heard in Jun Gu’s voice.

  Being dazzled by his smile, Yan Xi blushed. She quickly lowered her head down and said, “No. It’s just that he is quite disrespectful to you in my opinion, my Lord.”


  Jun Gu shook his head gently, “What’s the matter if he disrespects me? The main point is to complete the mission given by His Lord. That’s fine, you don’t have to throw him your cold eyes all the time, we don’t see him often.”


  Obediently, Yan Xi nodded her head.

  Jun Gu stood up. The strange aroma whirled around his breath and went into his nose, causing his mind to be in a state of daze. He raised his eyes and looked at the furnace that was smouldering the incense burner, frowning.

  “I don’t like the smell of the incense, stop using it.”


  The smell often gave him an indescribable feeling.

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  Yan Xi’s expression changed subtly, but she managed to hide it well. She said calmly, “His Lord said that My Lord’s soul had gone through a great trauma. This incense can heal My Lord’s soul. Even if My Lord doesn’t like it, but for your health, please bear with it for a little while more. Once My Lord’s soul has been healed, I will throw the incense far away.”


  “Is that right? I don’t remember though.” Jun Gu lifted his hand to rub his brows. Regarding the past, he had always drawn a blank. When the dreams came at night, a mes of images flashed in his mind, but it was in fragments so it was hard to connect them.

  Yan Xi brought her gaze down, and said gently, “My Lord suffered grave injuries, with almost no chance of recovery. If His Lord had not exhausted his strength, I’m afraid My Lord’s soul would have been destroyed. Right now, My Lord you have not recovered, the trauma on your soul is still present, so it’s normal if you can’t recall things. The battle was horrifying, it’s a good thing My Lord can’t remember because there is nothing good to remember.”


  “Still I am regretful. Regardless of good or bad, they were at least what I have experienced.” Jun Gu sighed lightly. Even though he held this position now, he didn’t know why he still felt empty inside. It seemed like there was something important that he has forgotten. Jun Gu was not comfortable feeling like this.

  Yan Xi didn’t respond, she paused for a moment and said, “My Lord, have you finally prepared the Soul Sacrificing Event?”


  The Soul Sacrificing Event should have started but Jun Gu had delayed giving the order to go ahead, and hence it had dragged on till now.

  Jun Gu’s brows were slightly wrinkled, and there was a resistance within his heart. But with the fragrance lingering in the air, the strong resistance of his heart was slowly wiped away. He looked like conflicted but returned to normal after a while.

  “Hm.”


  Finished speaking, Jun Gu seemed to not want to continue this topic, he turned around and left.

  Yan Xi stood at the dais, and until Jun Gu had left, then she gently lifted her head, as her gaze fell upon the furnace at the side.

  She walked towards the furnace, and with a gentle wave of her hand, the incense burning in the furnace was extinguished. She opened the furnace to see that the incense had burned with only a little bit left. But upon closer examination, there was a distinction. It was not incense at all, it was actually a rhinoceros’s horn the size of the fingernail.

  Yan Xi took out the remaining bit of the rhinoceros’s horn and replaced it with a palm sized piece which she took from her waist. She lit it up and covered the furnace.

  Looking at the green smoke emanating from the furnace, Yan Xi took a deep breath.

  “If not, how would you be willing to harm those spirit lives?” Yu Xi’s mouth curved into a bitter smile. After a while, she erased the abnormality of her face and walked out of the hall. The soldiers near the Soul Ascending Altar saw Yan Xi, and they immediately saluted with respect. There was clearly a distinction when compared to the indifference they showed to Meng Qiu.

  “Immediately prepare the Soul Sacrificing Event. Do not delay any longer.” Yan Xi ordered coldly.

  Those soldiers immediately followed the orders.

  “Miss Yan Xi, Lord Jun Gu has finally decided to start the Soul Sacrificing Event? We have already prepared the necessary, and are awaiting your permission to go ahead.” The commander of the soldiers replied.

  Yan Xi cast a glance at him.

  “Lord Jun Gu has his own reasons for what he does. It’s not up to you to second guess his instructions. You surely got the guts!”


  That person was stunned, and realised immediately that he had misspoken, and apologised profusely.

  “I will be fully in charge for the Soul Sacrificing Event. Lord Jun Gu does not need to personally handle such trivial matters. Understand?” Yan Xi said coldly.

  “Yes!”


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  Meng Qiu left the Soul Mountain. It was until when he walked out from the region of the Soul Mountain that the expression on his face began to have a slight change.

  “Jun Gu, uh…… Look how the table has turned!” Sneered, Meng Qiu turned his head and looked at the Soul Mountain which was already far away from him with a trace of coldness in his eyes.

  He knew very well what was the woman, Yan Xi, worrying about, but since things had already come to this point, he certainly wouldn’t choose to expose everything out. He had his own plan and target, no matter what was the purpose of the Upper Realm, as long as he was able to achieve everything he wanted to, then it would be alright!

  “The aroma of the Rhinoceros Horn…… The Upper Realm has surely made a lot of effort, how unexpected…… that they actually favour Jun Gu so much, haha…… He’s just a human soul who has undergone the metempsychosis once…… Who would have known that the aroma of the Rhinoceros Horn would actually make such a huge change in a person’s mind? The Upper Realm is really something else.” Meng Qiu snorted as he moved his legs and stepped forward.

  The Soul Sacrificing Event was going to be held three days later. By the time when everything had been settled down, no matter who it was, he or she had absolutely no way to twist it back. And now, the only thing he needed to do was just to go and capture his disobedient “disciple”.

  At the same time, while there wasn’t anyone following behind him, Long Jiu who had just fooled a group of black armored spirit envoys nipped into a dense forest. After making sure that there wasn’t anyone after him, he then sat under a big tree, gasping heavily.

  “You enjoy it very much, don’t you?” Jun Wu Yao’s voice suddenly came out from the other side.

  Eyes widening, Long Jiu followed the voice and looked in the direction of the voice. He then immediately noticed Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie who were walking abreast towards him. The moment he saw them, Long Jiu let out a sigh of relief. Looking half dead, he leaned on the trunk of the tree. The exultation and presumptuousness that he projected during the time when he tricked the black armored spirit envoys were nowhere to be found.

  “Gosh, how is it that I’m enjoying? I’m almost going to lose half of my life. You guys didn’t know that, now, when those guys saw me, their eyes almost bleed. I think once they catch me, I’ll definitely be taken to the Soul Ascending Altar and they’ll straight up strip apart my soul.” Plaintively, Long Jiu complained.

  At first, it felt quite interesting for him to fool those black armored spirit envoys, but after doing it for consecutive days, he couldn’t stand it anymore. Though he looked like he was flaunting on the face, but actually, he needed to be chased by a lot of black armored spirit envoys, and at the same time, he couldn’t be caught. After that, he needed to trigger them again so that they would continue to run after him. Moreover, he needed to provoke them, to the point that they began to harbour an intense hatred toward him. This job wasn’t as relaxing as he thought it was!

  “By the way…… Jun’s girl, is Meng Qiu really coming if I follow your instructions? I’ve never thought that he’ll take me seriously.” Long Jiu scratched his head. Jun Wu Xie had asked him to incite the enmity of the black armored spirit envoys towards him with all his effort, and he thought that he had already succeeded in doing so, but could he, the only scourge, really force Meng Qiu to show himself up?

  Long Jiu was slightly unsure about it. Although he was once a student of Meng Qiu, but among all the students, his strength was considered in the low ranking. Compared to those geniuses like Qin Song, there was no way he was able to attract Meng Qiu’s attraction. Even when it was during the past, he could feel the refusal shown by Meng Qiu in acknowledging him.

  While looking at Long Jiu who was extremely tired, she replied flatly, “He’ll come.”


  During these few days, besides letting Long Jiu distract the attention of the black armored spirit envoys, they had also gone to the Soul Prison for a few times to keep in touch with Qin Song. Qin Song hadn’t found anything yet, and the black armored spirit envoys didn’t take any more spirit envoys out of the Soul Prison during these few days, leading Jun Wu Xie in thinking that something was going to happen.

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  If it was true that something was going to happen, Meng Qiu would definitely not leave Long Jiu the troublemaker alone and let him fool around the Soul World.

  Moreover, just by looking at the disparity of Meng Qiu and Long Jiu in terms of strength, it was such an effortless act for him to take Long Jiu down, so why wouldn’t he make any action?

  “Really? Don’t bluff me. I almost broke my legs after running so much for these few days, if we fail to make it, then I…… I’m really going to cry,” said Long Jiu pitifully. Luckily he was a soul entity, if it was a body of a mortal human, his legs would probably be fractured by now.

  Being chased and attacked by more than a hundred spirit envoys wasn’t really something to be joked about. If it wasn’t for Jun Wu Yao who had secretly given him some help from time to time, he would have been caught by the group of black armored spirit envoys who were all acting either like a fierce wolf or a violent tiger.

  Jun Wu Xie couldn’t help but gently shook her head.

  Long Jiu’s personality was truly similar with Qiao Chu’s. There had been many times where she doubted that if there was any unknown relationship between both the two people.

  Both of them were just dumb and dumber!

  “But…… if he really comes, you guys must show up in time…… I…… I really can’t beat him.” Long Jiu suddenly changed his expression and looked at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao with a pretentiously dolorous gaze.

  Meng Qiu was his Master and he was the weakest one among all of his students. One just needed to think by using the legs and would then immediately know that there was no way for him to be the opponent of Meng Qiu. Maybe not more than three attacks, and his ass would already be beaten up by Meng Qiu.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head.

  After grasping the time to take some rest, Long Jiu aimed at those black armored spirit envoys in the mountain who were busy searching for him, and once again, he got out of the forest. Stepping on the rock, arms akimbo, he warmed his throat up and began to shout, “You bastards! Your grandpa is here! Come and chase me!”


  One shout and all the creatures in the forest fled.

  At the instant, those black armored spirit envoys took their aims at Long Jiu, but this time, they didn’t rush recklessly forward and play hide and seek with Long Jiu. Instead, each of them was just standing there, staring at Long Jiu without even moving a muscle.

  Their gazes crept Long Jiu out with no reasons, constantly giving him the feeling that there was something wrong.

  But before Long Jiu could even figure it out, a familiar voice came abruptly into Long Jiu’s ears!

  “Long Jiu.”


  The moment the voice was heard, his whole body shuddered, as if he had gotten an electric shock. He raised his eyes subconsciously and suddenly saw a familiar figure slowly walking into his sight from behind the group of the black armored spirit envoys.

  Just a glance, and Long Jiu’s mind was blown off!

  Imposingly, Meng Qiu moved forward as all the black armored spirit envoys gave out their way for him.

  Long Jiu stared at Meng Qiu who he hadn’t been seeing for years. The spirit envoy who he once admired the most, his Master……

  “Ma……” Long Jiu looked at Meng Qiu in stunned. While losing himself in the reverie, it was as if he had gone back to thousand years ago when the havoc in the Soul World had not happened, and Meng Qiu was still the most honorable and the strongest Master of him.

  But just as the word was about to come out from his mouth, Long Jiu suddenly regained his consciousness. The expression on his face too, changed immediately!

  “Meng Qiu!” There was an unhideable wrath coming from his tone!

  Leisurely, Meng Qiu stepped forward and stood more than ten metres away from Long Jiu.

  “Long Jiu, you’re getting ruder and ruder now. You actually have the nerves to directly call your Master by his name?” Meng Qiu narrowed his eyes, there wasn’t much expression on his face but he looked domineering.

  Glaring furiously at Meng Qiu, Long Jiu covertly clenched his fists as he forced his rage down.

  “You betrayed the Spirit Tree! You don’t deserve to be my Master!”


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  Meng Qiu looked at the furious Long Jiu, but his face still held the cold arrogance.

  “Betrayed? Long Jiu, do you think so?” Meng Qiu smiled and shook his head.

  Long Jiu frowned and looked at Meng Qiu. He once believed in every sentence Meng Qiu said, but now everything in the past made him feel disgusted, and he was unable to accept it.

  Meng Qiu raised his hand and his eyes looked around the surroundings.

  “Long Jiu, do you think that Soul World is still the Soul World of the past? It has already changed, it has changed many years ago, the benevolence of the Spirit Tree has caused everything here to no longer be as pure as before. How many spirit entities have darkness growing in their hearts? What is the difference between here and the Upper Realms? If you continue, it will only become as filthy as the Upper Realm. Don’t tell me you want your Soul World to become like that?”


  Long Jiu looked at Meng Qiu, his eyes became a bit conflicted. After the Soul Devourer River was not used, the Soul World has nothing to cleanse the spirit entity. In the span of a thousand years, the growth of the spirit entities’ wants and desires were the same as human beings, such that there was little difference. The only difference was that the Soul World had no power, no wealth, and no desires that humanity blindly pursued.

  This also allowed the Soul World to keep a thread of purity.

  However, this purity was not easily maintained. As Meng Qiu said, the longer the spirit entity survived, the more complicated its soul would become. The Soul Devourer River could help them to stabilize it, but nowadays, this method had long been abandoned.

  No one wanted to endure the pain of drinking the water from the Soul Devourer River, they were strangely convinced that their hearts would not be polluted by any emotions.

  But……

  The appearance of Situ Heng and other spirit entities refuted this point.

  “Long Jiu, I just want to let the Soul World return to the past, back to the time when there is no darkness, no desires, don’t you want to go back to the past?” Meng Qiu looked at the Long Jiu, the deep and steady voice made people felt involuntarily convinced.

  Long Jiu looked at Meng Qiu, and returned to the millennium. At that time, he stayed with Meng Qiu and Qin Qi, and looked at the powerful and loyal Master.

  At that time, Meng Qiu once said that the Soul World was the only pure land among the three realms. The Spirit Envoys who remained in the Spirit World had only one mission, which was to protect the pure land from being tainted by any desires.

  Those words, clearly imprinted in his mind, have been the belief of Long Jiu for many years.

  But……

  Meng Qiu, who said this in the past, became the chief culprit in destroying all of this!

  “Enough! No matter what you say, it is just to whitewash all the sins you have committed! What is going back to the past! The Soul World has never changed! The ones who really changed are you group of bastards who betrayed the Spirit Tree!” Long Jiu suddenly paused, Meng Qiu’s words held a certain magical temptation, it was easy to convince others of what he said, once Long Jiu felt that this was the strength of belief, but now he was conscious that this was the result of Meng Qiu secretly infusing his words with his soul power to enforce that belief!

  “Stop using your soul power! Your eloquent words can’t lie to me! You are the ones betraying the Spirit Tree! You are the ones with the tainted souls! To achieve your goals, you bow down to the Upper Realm! You are not worthy to stay in Soul World!”


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  Meng Qiu blinked and looked at Long Jiu. “You are learning to be smart. It is no wonder that you can toss out these things. Long Jiu, it seems that you really learned a lot in the Three Realms.”


  The powerful soul power could silently and secretly lead a spirit entity’s thoughts. Meng Qiu, in the past, had always done this, so in the Soul World, his position was second only to the Spirit Tree. Throughout the whole of Soul World, there wasn’t any Spirit Envoy who was stronger than him. As to his method, no one ever found out.

  Unexpectedly, Long Jiu actually broke the spell.

  “Whether you believe it or not, Soul World has already changed, it’s just that you’ve not realised it yet.” Meng Qiu’s spoke lightly, not caring that his movements were exposed by Long Jiu.

  “Why?” Long Jiu suddenly said.

  “Why are you betraying the Spirit Tree!”


  “You are already supreme in the Soul World, the Spirit Tree trusted you. What more are you unsatisfied with! Why did you betray the Spirit Tree! Betray the Soul World!” Long Jiu clenched his fists tightly, and trembled with repressed rage, as he shouted out the biggest doubt in his heart.

  Despite seeing Meng Qiu, despite already knowing that he had betrayed Soul World, Long Jiu still could not accept all of this, he did not understand what was unsatisfactory to Meng Qiu?

  However, this time, Meng Qiu did not answer him. Meng Qiu’s eyes were unusually cold. Looking at an extremely agitated Long Jiu, he was still calm. As if everything that Long Jiu said had nothing to do with him. He was just looking at Long Jiu as if Long Jiu was a poor idiot.

  “Say it! Why won’t you answer me!” Long Jiu looked at Meng Qiu, how he hoped that Meng Qiu would tell him that he didn’t have a choice, that he was forced……

  However, Meng Qiu’s eyes made that last hope in Long Jiu’s heart extinguished.

  All of this was through Meng Qiu’s willingness.

  “You are a traitor!” Long Jiu’s eyes were red, and his heart had forgotten the plan between Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yaol. He summoned his soul power and rushed toward Meng Qiu!

  Loyalty to Spirit Tree and the many years of trust in Meng Qiu caused Long Jiu’s heart to be filled with rage, and he had long lost his mind to that anger.

  Seeing Long Jiu rushed toward himself, Meng Qiu’s mouth broke into a sneer, and he stood still without fear as his thick voice sounded at this moment.

  “Long Jiu, you are still too naive.”


  The moment his voice sounded, Long Jiu had already rushed to his front, but Meng Qiu just raised his hand and waved it hard!

  The body of Long Jiu shot out in an instant!

  He slammed into the tree by the side and squatted on the ground!

  The pain in his body made the soul of Long Jiu tremble. The gap between him and Meng Qiu was so great!

  The power of the first soul of the Soul World was something he could not resist!

  Long Jiu has not yet climbed up, Meng Qiu’s figure has already flashed to his side, stepping on the back of Long Jiu, and stepping on the ground.

  “Long Jiu, do you know that you are so stupid? I used to think that you are really stupid and incorrigible. If it is not for Qin Song who protected you, do you think that a piece of trash like you can have me as your Master?” Meng Qiu looked down at a battered and exhausted Long Jiu. Since a long time ago, he did not like this disciple who was rude and impetus, impulsive and inflexible; like a piece of unbreakable stone. If Qin Song had not been pulling Long Jiu along, Meng Qiu was not willing to teach an idiot.

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  With his teeth clenched, Long Jiu tried to get himself up, but before he could even lift his body up even an inch from the ground, he was then kicked violently back onto the ground by Meng Qiu. Meng Qiu’s foot was just like a huge rock pressing on his back, not letting him move at all.

  “Who wants you to be my Master! It’s the shame of my life to have such a Master like you! Just kill me if you got the balls!” Long Jiu bawled.

  “You’re still acting stubborn, huh?” Meng Qiu sneered.

  Seeing that Long Jiu who had been fooling them for days was finally being stomped under Meng Qiu’s leg, there wasn’t any sympathy and pitifulness found on the faces of those black armored spirit envoys but just full of exultation.

  “Long Jiu, aren’t you good at running? Why aren’t you running now?”


  “Hahaha, he’s just like a dead dog now, being stepped on the ground by Lord Meng Qiu, how should he run? It’s better for him to crawl!”


  Those harsh voice of insults went into Long Jiu’s ears. He couldn’t believe that those words were actually spoken out by his past comrades. These black armored spirit envoys were once the most devoted disciples in the Soul World, protecting the Soul World for hundreds or even thousands of years. Long Jiu had once travelled all around the places in the Soul World together with them, and had also listened to the rustling sound made by the leaves of the Spirit Tree due to the blowing breeze. But now, these spirit envoys had already betrayed the Spirit Tree, the faith that they once strongly believed with their whole hearts.

  “Bring him to the Soul Prison.” The moment Meng Qiu looked at those black armored spirit envoys, they quickly hid the complacent on their faces and moved forwards submissively, getting ready to cuffed Long Jiu who had been causing chaos for days up with the chains which they had earlier prepared on their hands.

  “What a crowded place is here.”


  Suddenly!

  A sonorous voice came abruptly from the forest.

  All the black armored spirit envoys shuddered and immediately got alert. Meng Qiu raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the source of the voice.

  Just a glance and it had instantly gotten Meng Qiu stunned.

  There came two figures, one big and one small, walking gracefully out from the heavy forest. It was a tall and handsome man, as if it was the God who had descended into the mortal world, whereas for the maiden who was staying beside him, she was peerlessly beautiful.

  Meng Qiu fixed his eyes on the handsome man. The moment his eyes met the pair of purple eyes, it was as if his heart was heavily hit by someone using a hammer.

  “Ye Jue?” With his eyes widened, Meng Qiu looked at the figure who shouldn’t be appearing in the Soul World, almost thinking that it was just an illusion which he created by himself.

  The Ye Jue, who had once caused a huge panic in the Soul World……had actually appeared again!

  Jun Wu Yao tripped into the sights of all the black armored spirit envoys. There was a naturally born charisma radiating from the tall and firm body. With a faint but devilish smile hanging on his perfectly sculpted face, he slightly narrowed his pair of eyes and glanced casually over the black armored spirit envoys in front of him.

  “It’s been years since I last visited the Soul World. I didn’t expect that this place will change so much.” Insinuatingly, Jun Wu Yao looked at Long Jiu who was being stepped under Meng Qiu’s leg. It wasn’t hard for them to notice the sarcasm in his words.

  The expression of Meng Qiu changed slightly, and even the other black armored spirit envoys felt chills running all over their bodies.

  Except for the soul entities who were created within the thousand years, there wasn’t a single person in the Soul World who didn’t know about the person who was now standing in front of them.

  Ye Jue, the one who was once the most important guest of the Soul World, and also the one and only human in the Three Realms who had gotten the attention of the Spirit Tree. He was allowed to enter and leave the Spirit Tree without any restriction, sit beside the Spirit Tree in parity, receive the acknowledgement of the Spirit Tree, and enjoy the greatest hospitality in the Soul World.

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  But it was also him who had brought turmoil to the entire Soul World when he left the Upper Realm.

  Taking away the most precious seed of the Spirit Tree and caused the entire Soul World to fall into panic. It was until hundreds of years later that the situation had slowly gotten stabilized.

  Ye Jue was the one and only “honored guest” of all time in the Soul World, and also the one and only “wanted criminal” throughout the history of the Soul World!

  The appearance of Jun Wu Yao had caused the expression on Meng Qiu’s face to subsequently change, but it then returned to its calm expression as he suddenly put a light smile on his face.

  “Lord Ye Jue, it’s been a long time, how are you?” Meng Qiu’s attitude towards Jun Wu Yao was exceedingly courteous, as if Jun Wu Yao was never the “wanted criminal” of the Soul World. Without leaving any trace behind, his gaze glimpsed at Jun Wu Xie who was standing beside Jun Wu Yao, secretly scrutinizing the maiden who he was unfamiliar with.

  When did such a figure begin to appear beside Jun Wu Yao?

  “What do you think?” Jun Wu Yao raised his brows. It could be said that his attitude towards Meng Qiu was extremely arrogant and supercilious.

  However, Meng Qiu did not dare to have any bits of discontent inside him.

  The strength of Jun Wu Yao was so strong that even Meng Qiu wouldn’t have the courage to disrespect him. He still remembered the time when Jun Wu Yao visited the Soul World for the very first time. As the guardian of the Spirit Tree, Meng Qiu had led his fellow people and gone to stop Jun Wu Yao from trespassing on the land of the Spirit Tree, but the consequences came out as wretched and miserable.

  Hundreds of the strongest spirit envoys in the Soul World, which he was also included in the list, couldn’t even withstand one attack from Jun Wu Yao. In just a twinkling, everyone had collapsed onto the ground. During that time, Jun Wu Yao just stepped casually over them who were unable to move and walked towards the Spirit Tree, and he was then accepted by the Spirit Tree.

  Since then, he had also gotten the Soul World’s permission to enter and leave the Soul World whenever he wanted and nobody was allowed to restrict him.

  Meng Qiu had once fought with Jun Wu Yao, but it was exactly this one time that had become the most miserable fight which he had ever experienced before in his life. This was the first time he realized that his power was actually so weak. He looked so pathetic when he was in front of Jun Wu Yao, as if he was just a tiny dust.

  Even after a thousand years, Meng Qiu was still able to picture every scene of the incident that had happened in that particular year.

  “Just by looking at Lord Ye Jue’s face, I know that you must be all good.” Although Meng Qiu’s face was holding onto a reverent smile, he was inwardly pondering the current situation.

  Jun Wu Yao hadn’t been visiting the Soul World for a very long time. During that time, in order to find Jun Wu Yao, they had sent Long Jiu and the others to the Three Realms, but ever since, they hadn’t been receiving any news from them. It was until when Meng Qiu got in touch with the Upper Realm, only then he was able to vaguely learn about the things that were related to Jun Wu Yao.

  But……

  Wasn’t Jun Wu Yao imprisoned in the Upper Realm now?

  Why would he suddenly appear in the Soul World?

  Meng Qiu totally had no idea about it, but he was a little panicked. Speaking on strengths, he was definitely unmatched to Jun Wu Yao. Moreover, Jun Wu Yao and the Upper Realm were deadly enemies of each other, if the matter about him cooperating with the Upper Realm was found out by Jun Wu Yao……

  A sense of horror went across Meng Qiu’s mind. Carefully to not give himself away, all he could do was just to covertly observe Jun Wu Yao’s reaction, making sure whether if Jun Wu Yao had already known about the havoc in the Soul World.

  “We haven’t been seeing each other for a long time, but you’re getting better at speaking,” said Jun Wu Yao perfunctorily.

  Not daring to show any unhappiness, Meng Qiu could only save his face by responding with a smile, “Thanks for your compliment, Lord Ye Jue. May I ask that…… if there’s any important things for you to visit the Soul World all of a sudden?”


  “Of course there is, but looks like you’re busy too?” Jun Wu Yao arched his brows with his gaze naturally fell onto Long Jiu who was being stepped under Meng Qiu’s leg.

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  At the moment, Long Jiu was still trying to say something but he failed to do so as Meng Qiu had secretly used his power to restrict him from opening his mouth. Meng Qiu then covertly made a gesture to the black armored spirit envoys who were still standing aside, stunned. Those black armored spirit envoys immediately moved forwards and tied Long Jiu up. After sealing his mouth, they dragged him to the side.

  “It’s just a spirit envoy who has done something wrong, and we’re going to send him to the Soul Prison so that he could reflect on himself.” With a natural expression on his face, Meng Qiu smiled and said.

  “Oh, really?” While holding onto an unfathomable expression, Jun Wu Yao cocked his eyebrows.

  Meng Qiu quickly changed the topic of the conversation and asked, “Is there anything that Lord Ye Jue wants me to do? If there’s anything that needs my help, I’ll definitely do my best.”


  Meng Qiu was trying to sound Jun Wu Yao out about the reason of him coming to the Soul World.

  If it wasn’t necessary, he totally didn’t want to have anything to do with Jun Wu Yao, but…… on second thoughts, Jun Wu Yao was the person wanted by His Lord, and now that he was here, did this mean that he had already broken free from the restrains of the Upper Realm?

  If he was able to deliver the news to Jun Gu……

  Although there was a trace of smile starting to emerge within Meng Qiu’s heart, it was still a complete calmness on his face.

  While looking at Jun Wu Xie who was standing beside him, Jun Wu Yao raised his hand and pulled the petite lady into his arms, “My wife has cultivated the Soul Cultivation Method of the Soul World with her mortal body by accident, and she has been suffering the torments brought by the chaotic energy since then. The Soul Cultivation Method belonged to the Soul World, the Spirit Tree should have the methods to solve the problem.”


  Jun Wu Yao’s words had loosened the tightened heartstrings of Meng Qiu. The havoc in the Soul World was held furtively, plus it had been many years since Jun Wu Yao stepped into the Soul World, of course it was impossible for him to know about the matter. It was him who had been overthinking. Then, his gaze fell onto Jun Wu Xie.

  When Jun Wu Yao appeared, Meng Qiu had already noticed the existence of Jun Wu Xie. It was just that he had never expected Jun Wu Yao to get married!

  Despite looking small while standing beside Jun Wu Yao, she was born with a gorgeous face. She looked young, but the pair of cold clear eyes seemed to have the ability to look through a person’s mind. Meng Qiu had actually lost his courage to make eye contact with her. The moment their eyes met with each other, there was always a kind of indescribable nervousness felt inside him, as if the pair of eyes had already figured everything out.

  With the discerning skill of Meng Qiu, he had actually failed to discern the strength of the soul power that Jun Wu Xie got, and this had truly made him a little bewildered. But, there was one question which had been confusing him very much…… How did Jun Wu Xie get to learn the Soul Cultivation Method of the Soul World?

  The Soul Cultivation Method was the profound cultivation of the Soul World. It was able to show an exceedingly great effect in boosting up the soul power. Such profound cultivation method could also be cultivated by the ordinary people. It was just that it would bring the person who cultivated it a really huge side effect. Although it was able to enhance both the soul power and the spirit energy, since it was the cultivation method used by the soul entity, it will cause the boundary between the soul power and the spirit energy to weaken, resulting both the energies in blending together, forming the chaotic energy.

  Although the strength of the chaotic energy was strong, it would endanger one’s life, and this was why Jun Wu Yao had decided to bring Jun Wu Xie here.

  “I see. It’s not hard to solve the problem, it’s just that resolve it will take a rather long time. May I ask if there’s any other important thing that Lord Ye Jue needs to do? If no, you may stay in the Soul World for a period of time so that your wife is able to recuperate from the chaotic energy.” Maintaining his composure, Meng Qiu said. While the suspicions within him reduced, another thought was stealthily produced inside his mind.

  Not only he wouldn’t let Jun Wu Yao find out about his cooperation with the Upper Realm, he also wouldn’t let him leave the Soul World in such a peaceful way. Although he wasn’t the opponent of Jun Wu Yao, but for the current Jun Gu…… It might not be impossible for him to fight against Jun Wu Yao!

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  “Alright.” Without hesitating, Jun Wu Yao agreed.

  There was a touch of gladness emerging from Meng Qiu’s eyes, but he had failed to notice, that Jun Wu Xie who hadn’t been speaking anything for the entire time was secretly observing his every single movement.

  “If that’s so, how about I bring both of you to have some rest first?” Smiling, Meng Qiu asked.

  Jun Wu Yao slightly nodded his head.

  “You guys bring him to the Soul Prison.” Meng Qiu immediately ordered those black armored spirit envoys to take Long Jiu away. Still struggling to break himself free, Long Jiu who was being tied up by the chains glared furiously at Meng Qiu with his pair of eyes.

  Ignoring the gaze, all Meng Qiu did was just leading Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie to the other direction, worrying that the other black armored spirit envoys would show the cloven hoof due to the fear they felt for Jun Wu Yao.

  Surreptitiously, Jun Wu Xie observed every movement of Meng Qiu as she slowed down her walking pace. Meng Qiu was talking with Jun Wu Yao at the front. During the conversation, quite a lot of compliments could be heard from his words. He didn’t pay any attention to Jun Wu Xie who was left behind them since for him, Jun Wu Yao was the main person who he should be tackling with.

  A trace of coldness flashed across Jun Wu Xie’s eyes. Soundlessly, she called Blood Velvet out.

  “Meng Qiu,” said Jun Wu Xie all of a sudden.

  Subconsciously, Meng Qiu turned his head back.

  Suddenly, a beam of red light pierced into his chest, causing him to feel a slight pain. Eyes widening, Meng Qiu looked at Blood Velvet who had appeared, without him knowing when, beside Jun Wu Xie!

  An inauspicious feeling began to arise in Meng Qiu. With the knowledge of the soul entity he had, he could easily tell that the real identity of the teen boy was actually a stalk of Blood Velvet!

  It was almost in just an instant, Meng Qiu had drawn himself away from Jun Wu Yao for quite a distance.

  “Lord Ye Jue, what are you doing?” Heart heavily pounding, Meng Qiu asked.

  Jun Wu Yao slowly walked back to Jun Wu Xie and casually stroked on Jun Wu Xie’s smooth hair.

  “Take a guess.”


  The expression on Meng Qiu’s face changed abruptly the moment he realized that things weren’t actually as simple as the way he thought to be!

  “You’ve already known about it?” Meng Qiu narrowed his eyes.

  “Do you really think that you’ve hidden it well?” Jun Wu Yao chuckled.

  Meng Qiu immediately understood that the appearance of Jun Wu Yao in the Soul World wasn’t a coincidence. All the things he told him just now was just for the purpose of taking his vigilance down!

  “Lord Ye Jue, this is the internal matters of the Soul World. You wouldn’t want to interfere in these things, will you?” Meng Qiu forcefully calmed himself down, but the agitation inside him was getting larger and larger.

  Not speaking a word, Jun Wu Yao was just smiling, but the smile had caused Meng Qiu to fall into a great trepidation.

  “Ye Jue, I was being respectful to you, but I didn’t expect you to actually act so boldly. I won’t stop you from helping the Soul World, but let me remind you something, I’ve already cast the Contemporaneous Knot to the Spirit Tree. If you’re going to attack, hurting me was just the same as hurting the Spirit Tree! You better think carefully!” Holding tightly onto the very last bargaining chip, Meng Qiu let in a deep breath. He couldn’t understand why would Jun Wu Yao involve himself in this matter, but if he wanted to take any action, then there should be some scruples that could make him reconsider his decision, and the Spirit Tree would be the strongest lucky charm of Meng Qiu!

  Jun Wu Yao looked at Meng Qiu with a spurious smile in his gaze, as if he was just looking at some hilarious jokes.

  “Do you think that I’ll give a damn about it?”


  Though it was a cheerful speaking tone, it had actually caused Meng Qiu to go cold all over with no reasons.

  “I’m supposed to be the heir of the Spirit Tree since I’ve taken its seed during that year. Killing you means to destroy the Spirit Tree. Well, killing two birds with one stone, this sounds like a good method. Wouldn’t it be better if I just grow a new Spirit Tree again using the seed?” Jun Wu Yao sneered.

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  Jun Wu Yao’s words had caused Meng Qiu’s face to take on an extremely ghastly expression.

  Just to know that the person standing in front of him now wasn’t those loyal spirit envoys of the Soul World but the “wanted man” who had personally stolen the seed of the Spirit Tree! It was simply just a silly joke to threaten Jun Wu Yao using the Spirit Tree.

  Not to mention that Jun Wu Yao had totally nothing to do with the fate of the Spirit Tree, even the chaotic energy that he mentioned just now was probably just a lie he made to throw dust in his eyes.

  At first, Meng Qiu was still questioning how would a human get to learn the Soul Cultivation Method of the Soul World. However, he was busy covering his crime during that time, resulting him in mistakenly missing such a suspicious point. Thinking aback, Jun Wu Yao had actually had everything planned beforehand!

  The skeptical character of Meng Qiu had made him believe that everything Jun Wu Yao did was just a camouflage, without knowing that he had, unluckily, left out the one and only truth spoken by Jun Wu Yao.

  It was true that Jun Wu Xie was suffering from the chaotic energy.

  Jun Wu Yao dared to tell Meng Qiu about this because he was sure that with the personality of Meng Qiu, he wouldn’t believe it at all.

  And now, it was as if Meng Qiu had fallen into an endless abyss, the bargaining chip which he grasped tightly in his hand was totally useless to Jun Wu Yao!

  “Ye Jue, what are you trying to do? We have no rancour with each other, why would you come at me?” Meng Qiu began to panic. The Spirit Tree had no use in coercing Jun Wu Yao, and this meant that he had lost all his conditions that he was able to rely on. Moreover, he had purposefully drawn all the black armored spirit envoys away, even if they were really going to have a fight now, nobody would come and help him.

  Considering his strength, once he faced Jun Wu Yao, death would be the only fate left awaiting him!

  While looking at Meng Qiu who looked a little miserable, Jun Wu Yao didn’t even bother to pay any attention at him but just moved his gaze attentively onto Jun Wu Xie.

  “Little Xie, what are we going to do now?”


  Jun Wu Xie cast a glimpse at Jun Wu Yao. She had to admit that this guy was really good at confounding white and black and talking barefaced nonsense. It was obvious that he did care for the Spirit Tree, but the attitude he displayed was just as if he was saying, “Just destroy it if you want to, I don’t give a damn”, aggressively pressuring Meng Qiu to the point that he had nowhere else to escape. Killing two birds with one stone? Huh…… The seed of the Spirit Tree had already blended into her soul, how was he going to grow a new Spirit Tree?

  Was he going to bury her into the soil of the Soul World?

  This was the first time Jun Wu Xie saw Jun Wu Yao jerking someone around, and it was truly eye-opening.

  It seemed that not only was the strength of this man strong as hell, so was his skills of acting.

  “Since you dislike him, just kill him.” Cooperatively, Jun Wu Xie replied.

  It was just a casual and simple sentence, but it had caused Meng Qiu to be on guard.

  “As you wish.” The figure of Jun Wu Yao disappeared from the side of Jun Wu Xie in just a twinkling. The whole body of Meng Qiu suddenly jittered, and it was almost at the same instant, he turned around and ran.

  While smiling with his eyes squinting, Blood Velvet who was standing beside Jun Wu Xie looked at the fleeing back figure of Meng Qiu, he couldn’t help but scoffed, “Master, we’ll just let him run away like this?”


  “Can he?” Jun Wu Xie slightly raised her eyebrows.

  It was almost at the same moment when she had just finished her words, there came a huge banging sound!

  The figure of Jun Wu Yao had landed in front of Meng Qiu. Not even giving Meng Qiu the time to make any responds, just as how Meng Qiu had treated Long Jiu a moment ago, he lifted his long leg up and straight off kicked on Meng Qiu!

  It was just that this time, Jun Wu Yao didn’t even want to raise his hand even a bit, refusing to touch the filthy spirit to prevent his hand from being dirtied.

  Meng Qiu fell heavily onto the ground. The force Jun Wu Yao used when kicking him was much stronger than the force Meng Qiu used when he was beating Long Jiu!

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  Meng Qiu who had collapsed on the ground couldn’t even make a sound, let alone getting up.

  It was so painful all over his body, as if it was going to shred apart anytime. He could only lie feebly on the ground with his eyes big widening.

  This was the gap between him and Jun Wu Yao.

  Even the First Spirit Envoy of the Soul World seemed to be so weak in front of Jun Wu Yao, not even able to withstand a single blow. It was as if the incident that had happened thousands of years ago had once again reoccurred. However, Meng Qiu had now been labeled as a traitor, he was no longer fighting for the Spirit Tree.

  “I’ll leave him to you.” Jun Wu Yao strode back and turned his head, looking at Blood Velvet.

  Blood Velvet smiled exceedingly brightly as he walked near Meng Qiu who was lying limply on the ground. While grinning, he squatted down and looked at Meng Qiu who was unable to move.

  “Hi, I’m Blood Velvet, nice to meet you.” Blood Velvet gave out an extremely dazzling smile, just like the handsome teenage boy from the neighbourhood. His head of red hair looked particularly striking under the sunlight.

  “What…… What do you want to do……” Eyes widening, Meng Qiu stared at Blood Velvet. There were also a lot of plant soul entities living in the Soul World, but those soul entities were behaving really quiet ever since they were born. They were planted all around the places in the Soul World, and they seldom turned themselves into the shape of a human and moved around.

  “Nothing. I’m just following the instructions given by Lord Jue to remove the Contemporaneous Knot from your soul,” said Blood Velvet, giggling.

  “Wh…… What……” Staring incredulously at Blood Velvet, Meng Qiu simply couldn’t believe his ears!

  Remove the Contemporaneous Knot?

  Ye Jue really wanted to remove the Contemporaneous Knot?

  Wasn’t he going to destroy the Spirit Tree?

  At this moment, Meng Qiu had finally come to a realization that his constant ego had completely gotten him into a big, big trouble!

  He shouldn’t be assuming that Jun Wu Yao would really leave the fate of the Spirit Tree aside.

  “You want to save the Spirit Tree…… but you’re actually hurting me?” Meng Qiu felt so painful that he couldn’t even move his body. All he could do was just moving the pupils in his eyes and looked at Jun Wu Yao with an appalling gaze.

  He and the Spirit Tree had already been synced together by the Contemporaneous Knot, but Jun Wu Yao had still given him such a sharp blow!

  For information purposes, any injuries that existed on his body would be aggregated ten times worse on the Spirit Tree. Jun Wu Yao’s assault had nearly taken half of Meng Qiu’s life, in that way, the damage it brought to the Spirit Tree would be worse!

  However, Jun Wu Yao didn’t even cast a glance at him but just wrapping his arm around Jun Wu Xie.

  Slap!

  Blood Velvet straight away gave Meng Qiu a slap, causing Meng Qiu to be dumbfounded at the moment.

  “I’m saying hello to you, do you know that it is very rude of you to not look at me?” Still keeping the smile on his face, there was a tenebrous gaze coming out from Blood Velvet’s scarlet eyes, making one’s hair stand on end.

  “You!” Even in his dream, Meng Qiu couldn’t have thought that he would actually receive a slap from a plant spirit!

  “Though I did say that you’re dumb, but you’re actually really dumb. My Master had earlier told me to bury the seed of the Blood Velvet into your body. Although it can’t remove the Contemporaneous Knot, my seed is still able to block off the connection of the knot, and so……” Blood Velvet rolled his sleeves up, exposing his pair of fair and pretty hands in the air. Just at the moment when Meng Qiu’s fear soar up all of a sudden, both his hands turned into numerous thin roots and they then pierced vigorously into Meng Qiu’s chest.

  “There’s no need for you to worry about the Spirit Tree being affected at all. Even if you are beaten to death, the Spirit Tree will still be fine.”


  The roots of Blood Velvet pierced into Meng Qiu’s soul, resonating with the seed in his body. At the instant, there came an acute pain, almost blowing apart the soul of Meng Qiu!

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  The severe pain that Meng Qiu had never experienced before had made his soul tremble. The roots of Blood Velvet submerge into his soul, causing Meng Qiu to be on the verge of breaking down due to the strong repulsion and inescapable suffering.

  The kind of suffering when the soul power of the other soul entity penetrated into your soul was completely incomparable by any other pain.

  The expression on Meng Qiu’s face was extremely awful, but there was nothing he could do except for wailing in pain.

  The roots of Blood Velvet groped inside Meng Qiu’s soul for quite a long time. With the smile on his face suddenly fading away, he raised his head and looked at Jun Wu Yao with a state of confusion in his eyes.

  “Lord Jue, I can feel the energy that you’ve mentioned, but there are too many areas that have been affected by the energy, I can’t immediately dig it out. If we want to fully remove it, I’m afraid that I alone isn’t able to do it. We need to call Poison Ivy out, and it only will work if we dig it out bilaterally.”


  Before this, Jun Wu Yao had already told Blood Velvet the method to remove the Contemporaneous Knot, but it was until this moment that Blood Velvet only realized that things were way more complicated than what Jun Wu Yao had said.

  With his brows slightly cocking, Jun Wu Yao looked at Meng Qiu who was colourless on the face and suddenly curved the corners of his lips up into a smile.

  “It seemed like you’ve cast the Contemporaneous Knot on the Spirit Tree way far more before this.”


  The Contemporaneous Knot was a bilateral seal. The longer the time, the wider the area it would be spreading across to. At first, Jun Wu Yao thought that it was just around these one thousand years that Meng Qiu had cast the Contemporaneous Knot on the Spirit Tree, but according to the narration of Blood Velvet, the Contemporaneous Knot might probably have been cast for a much longer time, at the very least, it should have been existing for thousands of years.

  This was weird, since it wasn’t such a long time ago when Jun Wu Yao appeared in the Three Realms, and the person in the Upper Realm had not yet thought about the Blood Sacrifice of The Three Realms at such an early time, but it was obvious that the time when Meng Qiu cast the Contemporaneous Knot on the Spirit Tree was far before the time when he got in touch with the Upper Realm.

  Didn’t this mean that…… even if the Upper Realm didn’t intervene in this matter, the thought of sealing the Spirit Tree had already long hidden in Meng Qiu’s mind?

  Meng Qiu felt so painful to the point that he couldn’t even speak a word, there was no way he was able to make any response regarding Jun Wu Yao’s words. He was just deeply frowning with his gaze full of pain.

  “Stop it first.” Casually, Jun Wu Yao shook his hand.

  It seemed like they had to go near the Spirit Tree if they wanted to remove the Contemporaneous Knot.

  Blood Velvet moved a step backwards and got his roots out. With his whole body terribly convulsing, Meng Qiu collapsed on the ground. After experiencing everything, it was as if he had fallen into a deep abyss, not being able to climb up back to the ground.

  “Are we going to find the Spirit Tree now?” Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes and looked at Jun Wu Yao. By looking at the current situation, they needed to make a slight adjustment on their plan.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded his head as he patted on Jun Wu Xie’s small little head with his eyes filling with affection.

  “You haven’t met the Spirit Tree before. You can meet it today. Although it had no mouth to speak, it’s still a nice ‘person’.”


  Since it was rare to hear compliments for the others coming out from Jun Wu Yao’s mouth, Jun Wu Xie couldn’t help her curiosity towards the Spirit Tree, the origin of all the souls, from being excited

  “Get him up.” Looking at Meng Qiu, Jun Wu Yao said.

  Blood Velvet immediately lifted Meng Qiu who was feeble all over up. Meng Qiu felt so painful that all his energy had drained out of his body. He could only just let Blood Velvet simply drag him up, and stood wobbly.

  “Well, we can keep your life longer.” Jun Wu Yao looked at Meng Qiu.

  Face paled, Meng Qiu looked at Jun Wu Yao with his teeth tightly clenching, refusing from speaking a word.

  “Lord Jue, what if he counters back?” Blood Velvet asked while looking at the uncooperative attitude shown by Meng Qiu.

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  Jun Wu Yao gave out a light laugh. He raised his hand and there was a tiny little black snake coiling around his long finger. Followed by a flick from his finger, swoosh, the black snake flew towards Meng Qiu. When it landed on Meng Qiu’s body, it perforated swiftly into Meng Qiu’s soul.

  “That’s not up to him,” said Jun Wu Yao flatly.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao. Even though Jun Wu Yao didn’t say anything, she had still understood his intention in making such an action.

  The black snake was formed from the dark spirit of Jun Wu Yao, which it was able to control one’s mind and behaviour. Jun Wu Yao had once used this little thing during that time when he was lurking in the Lin Palace. But after the relationship between him and Jun Wu Xie got intimately closer, he had then kept the black snakes that he put on all the people in the Lin Palace back.

  The black snake would not take Meng Qiu’s life but it will force him to move according to Jun Wu Yao’s instructions.

  “Let him go,” ordered Jun Wu Yao.

  Blood Velvet let his hands go. Standing wobbly, Meng Qiu glared furiously at Jun Wu Yao with a raging gaze inside his eyes. However, he could no longer control his body anymore. He kneeled on one of his knees in front of Jun Wu Yao with an obeisance expression on his face as he began to speak something that was against his thoughts.

  “Meng Qiu is here to give Lord Jue my service.”


  When these words came out of his mouth, Meng Qiu’s mind was still remaining conscious, but it wasn’t able to control his every word and action anymore. It was as if he was being locked into a marionette, Jun Wu Yao would just need to move his fingers and he was then able to control him.

  The feeling of his entire soul being grasped in Jun Wu Yao’s hand almost made Meng Qiu crack up.

  Under Jun Wu Yao’s control, Meng Qiu brought Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao to the place where the Spirit Tree was planted at. Along their way, they had met quite a lot of black armored spirit envoys and all their faces went pale when they saw Jun Wu Yao. If it wasn’t for Meng Qiu who was walking in the front, holding onto a normal face, they probably would have already gotten panic and ran away.

  The fear that Jun Wu Yao once brought to the Soul World was still there. Before those black armored spirit envoys get to figure out the reason of Jun Wu Yao coming to the Soul World, they saw them passing by with Meng Qiu leading in the front. After the terror inside them subsided, they couldn’t help but feel a great admiration towards Meng Qiu who was powerful enough to get along with Jun Wu Yao.

  However, what they didn’t know was that it was actually verging on the break down inside Meng Qiu at the moment.

  How he wished he could ask for help from all the black armored spirit envoys, but unfortunately, his entire soul had already been controlled by the black snake, preventing him from doing what he wanted to do.

  That was the first time Jun Wu Xie saw the Spirit Tree. It was huge and magnificent.

  With just a glance and nearly all her sight had been occupied by the huge and beautiful Spirit Tree. Just step a little closer to it and she could feel that it was as if her soul was bathing in the warm spring water- it was so comfortable.

  “This is the Spirit Tree?” Jun Wu Xie lifted her head and looked at the quiet and gorgeous tree. The dense leaves were overlapping each other, glowing with faint halo. Even under the sunlight, there seemed to be stars hidden between the pieces of leaves.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded. Soundlessly, he slightly moved his finger. Meng Qiu who was standing aside immediately turned around. Facing those black armored spirit envoys who were guarding beside the Spirit Tree, he placed his order, “This is none of your business. Leave.”


  Those black armored spirit envoys had earlier been scared out of their wits due to the appearance of Jun Wu Yao, hoping that they could leave as early as possible. One after another, they quickly nodded their heads.

  “Remember to bring Long Jiu and Qin Song who are being locked up in the Soul Prison here.” It was plain solemnity on Meng Qiu’s face, and of course the black armored spirit envoys wouldn’t doubt him. After receiving the order, they left.

  After all the black armored spirit envoys had gone, Jun Wu Xie straight off called Blood Velvet and Poison Ivy out.

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  She actually wanted to summon Blood Velvet and Poison Ivy, but who knew, with one summoned by Jun Wu Xie, six figures appeared in front of her eyes.

  Little Lotus, Poppy, Crystal Orchid and Corpse Flower actually jumped out as well.

  Jun Wu Xie was slightly stunned, without waiting for her reaction, Little Lotus, with stars in its eyes, ran towards the Spirit Tree, both its arms wide open as if it wanted to cling onto the Spirit Tree.

  “So comfy……” Little Lotus squinted its eyes, its little face stuck on rough bark of the tree trunk, fully intoxicated.

  Although Poppy and the others’ expressions were of comfort, they still maintained some form of self-control. Although uninvited, they stood earnestly to the side.

  “What are you guys doing?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Corpse Flower and the rest of the Plant Spirits in confusion, this was the first time that they have shown up voluntarily.

  Corpse Flower wanted to speak, Crystal Orchid slapped a hand to his mouth. When the hand was brought now, there was a layer of ice on Corpse Flower’s mouth, in an instant, tightly sealing his ‘disastrous’ mouth.

  Corpse Flower looked at frigid Crystal Orchid woefully, his eyes looked like they were going to drop tears.

  He didn’t even say anything!

  However, Crystal Orchid couldn’t even be bothered to look at him.

  “Every soul originates from the Spirit Tree, and the Spirit Tree is considered a Plant Spirit, any spirit life near it will generate an undeniable sense of closeness. So……” Poppy was a bit embarrassed he spoke. As soon as Jun Wu Xie walked near the Spirit Tree, they were stirring restlessly. The most primitive impulse from the soul made them want to get closer to the Spirit Tree impatiently. So when Jun Wu Xie summoned Poison Ivy and Blood Velvet, the rest sneaked out together.

  Jun Wu Xie raised her eyebrows, it was no wonder that when she neared the Spirit Tree, she felt an unusual comfort to her soul.

  “Since a large part of the Spirit Tree’s powers are sealed, they are considered good like this.” Jun Wu Yao was lightly laughing as he stood to one side. Right now, Poppy and the others could still maintain self-control, but until the seal on the Spirit Tree was fully released, in terms of the scent of the Spirit Tree, having entered the Reincarnation Path and Poppy and the others who were born of the Three Realms would find that they were unable to completely resist the attraction of the Spirit Tree.

  Jun Wu Yao wasn’t going to care that much, just let them be.

  Blood Velvet and Poison Ivy walked behind Jun Wu Xie obediently.

  In order to release the seal from the Spirit Tree, it was necessary to dispel both Meng Qiu and the Spirit Tree at the same time. It wasn’t any burden to them to deal with Meng Qiu, but to face the powerful Spirit Tree……

  There was a sense of hesitation from Poison Ivy and Blood Velvet. They were now pure souls; the spirit lives were born with an innate reverence to the Spirit Tree, to ask them to use their roots and vines to invade the Spirit Tree, that required courage.

  After a moment of discussion, they finally decided that Blood Velvet was the one to unseal the Spirit Tree. Although Blood Velvet is usually all smiles, but within the Three Realms, he was the strongest Wood Spirit, and he was the only one who could slightly resist the reverence of the Spirit Tree.

  Standing to one side, Meng Qiu finished commanding the black armoured Spirit Envoys and was ordered by Jun Wu Yao to quietly stand to the side. He could only look on helplessly watch was Little Lotus and the others appeared, his eyes silently widened.

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  Meng Qiu had not once left the Soul World, but he also knew that to possess a Ring Spirit, it was only in the Lower and Middle Realms. According to rumours, he learned that the people in the Lower and Middle Realm only possessed one Ring Spirit in their lifetimes.

  When Jun Wu Xie summoned Blood Velvet, Meng Qiu thought that Blood Velvet was Jun Wu Xie’s only Ring Spirit, but he did not think that with one move, Jun Wu Xie actually had six Ring Spirits!

  And these were all very powerful Plant Spirits!

  Maybe because the Spirit Tree itself was a Plant Spirit, so the Plant Spirits born from the Spirit Tree were stronger than the spirits of other races. Fortunately, the character of Plant Spirits was happy and calm, choosing to ignore what was around them. They just wanted to find a quiet place to grow, almost not moving for thousands of years.

  If those Plant Spirits had similar passions and desires of human spirits, and were willing to cultivate, then the First Spirit Envoy in Soul World would not be Meng Qiu!

  When Meng Qiu saw Little Lotus lying on the Spirit Tree, his eyes widened even more!

  Among the many Plant Spirits bred by the Spirit Tree, there had been such an unconventional existence; dual soul form cultivation!

  A confused and ignorant, timid and feeble, a violent and powerful, superior!

  That particular Plant Spirit, at the beginning of his birth, confidently transformed into a human form, and was no different from the human soul. The dual soul made his character more elusive to read. He once became the most troublesome soul in the Soul World. He not only transformed into a human soul but he also cultivated together with many Spirit Envoys, his soul power grew exponentially, such that everyone could only bow before him. If that Plant Spirit was still present, Meng Qiu would not be able to attain the First Spirit Envoy position.

  Unless……

  The Plant Spirit belief was still unchanged within that Plant Spirit’s heart. In the end, he did not give more thought to becoming even stronger. Instead, he chose to enter Reincarnation Path. If not, it would be very difficult for Meng Qiu to wreak havoc in the Soul World.

  However, Meng Qiu did not think that he would see the Plant Spirit again.

  However, a certain Plant Spirit who had entered the Reincarnation Path, apparently lost all its memories. Sticking to the Spirit Tree with its naive attitude, just like an octopus.

  “Can you start?” Blood Velvet looked at Jun Wu Yao. He wanted to unseal the Spirit Tree this time, and even with his carefree nature, he was still a little nervous.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded slightly. The method to erase the Contemporaneous Knot, he had already instructed Blood Velvet and Poison Ivy, the rest was up to them.

  In fact, it was not difficult to untie that knot. The only tricky thing was that after the knot enters the soul, it would spread immediately and become fragments throughout the soul. The longer the time spent, the larger the area of ​​diffusion. It would be basically impossible to dispel using a human soul. On the contrary, with a delicate soul like a Plant Spirit, it was easy to deal with those problems.

  The thing that Jun Wu Xie was not missing was the Plant Spirits!

  Poison Ivy was standing by Meng Qiu’s side. Under the control of the ink snake, Meng Qiu stood rooted in the same place, and Blood Velvet walked to the side of theSpirit Tree, raising his hand and detangling Little Lotus from the Spirit Tree, and threw it towards Poppy.

  The two Plant Spirits shared a look as they waited for the most suitable window of opportunity. Only when the two sides were unsealed at the same time could they ensure success!

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  After the tacit agreement was reached, the vines of Poison Ivy entered into Meng Qiu’s soul the exact moment that Blood Velvet buried his roots into the Spirit Tree.

  The situation was easy to control for Poison Ivy, but it was not the case for Blood Velvet. Immediately after entering the Spirit Tree, he almost fainted due to the powerful soul force of the Spirit Tree!

  Fortunately, Crystal Orchid was prepared, and stabilized Blood Velvet’s body in time, hence the roots of the Blood Velvet were not separated from the Spirit Tree.

  Even though the Spirit Tree was sealed at this moment, the power it contained was not something that any soul could bear. The Blood Velvet could only feel powerful surges of soul power constantly passed through his roots, which were buried in the Spirit Tree, to his whole body; the power was strong but very gentle, if not, his body would have exploded the moment he buried his roots into the Spirit Tree!

  That being the case, the Blood Velvet’s forehead was already covered with a thin layer of sweat, and beads of sweat trailed down his white cheeks. The usual banter and jokes in his expressions had long vanished like a puff of smoke. In his eyes instead, a never-seen-before expression of seriousness and caution.

  “You go help him.” Jun Wu Yao saw that Blood Velvet was exerting strenuous effort, as he said quietly to Jun Wu Xie.

  “Me?” There was some doubt in Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Yao said, “The Blood Velvet is your Ring Spirit, and he is connected to your soul. With his strength alone, he can’t resist the power of the Spirit Tree. You need to pass your soul power onto him. Using him as a guide and send your soul power into the Spirit Tree.”


  The Spirit Tree was the source of all souls, even if it did not have any aggressiveness, the vast power, like that of the ocean, would make any intruder implode. The strength of Blood Velvet was already top-notch among the Wood Spirits, and his attributes and soul were similar to that of the Spirit Tree, otherwise he would not be able to maintain until now.

  However, Jun Wu Yao discovered that the situation of Blood Velvet was worsening. If it continued, Blood Velvet would not be able to support that moment when they removed the knot.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly and she walked to the side of Blood Velvet, under the guidance of Jun Wu Yao, she put a hand on the shoulder of Blood Velvet as she slowly released her soul power. Using Blood Velvet as a medium, she guided her soul power into the Spirit Tree.

  However, just as her soul power touched the Spirit Tree, Jun Wu Xie’s mind suddenly blanked out; and the tremendous power was like a galaxy. The soul power that she exported was poured back into her mind!

  Jun Wu Xie felt like her brain was going to explode in the next second as the tremendous force continued to pour in!

  After blanking out in her mind, it was followed very quickly by a short and fragmentary picture that flashed in her mind!

  There were fragments of memory, but there were also some images that she had never experienced before. The pictures were like lightning. They flashed quickly in her mind. The speed was too fast and the number was so large that Jun Wu Xie couldn’t capture a single thing!

  Jun Wu Xie’s subconsciously wanted to stabilise her mind, but in the next second, everything in front of her eyes disappeared, and in an instant it suddenly fell into darkness!

  When the darkness disappeared, everything in front of her eyes was so weird.

  In the midst of chaos, two young children were sitting in the muddy haze and looking up at her.

  The eyes of the two children turned out to be so weird.

  A pair of golden eyes, a pair of purple eyes!

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  Jun Wu Xie was shocked by the picture in front of her, but her body walked uncontrollably toward the two children.

  The two children were very small, they looked like they were at the age of just learning to walk, two pairs of different coloured eyes looked at her with undisguised curiosity.

  “Who are you?” The child with the golden eyes looked at her with a squint and asked in a soft voice that was a little nervous.

  The other child with the purple eyes kept quiet, and stared at her with a guarded look.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t know what exactly was this strange scenario, she couldn’t control any of her own actions; she bent down and held the two children in her arms. Within the chaos of the haze, the two children’s appearances became clearer.

  Although they were still young children, but the two children were very good-looking, just like the porcelain dolls that were carved with jade, unable to take one’s eyes off them.

  “Who are you?” the golden eyed child asked again.

  Jun Wu Xie’s mouth opened involuntarily, as she slowly said a word that made her feel strange.

  “Li Ya.”


  The two children looked at her confusedly, but she did not open her mouth again. Her voice sounded with the usual the coldness, but it also revealed a hint of gentleness.

  “From today, I will teach you to create this world.”


  The moment she spoke, the eyes of the child, who had been silent, lit up in an instant…… Those eyes held a trace of familiarity to Jun Wu Xie……

  However, the picture abruptly stopped.

  The chaos of the mist disappeared. Jun Wu Xie didn’t realise when, but she was standing by a meandering stream. In the stream, a beautiful boy was bathed in sunlight. The golden eyes held a bright smile, and the boy turned around and saw Jun Wu Xie, the smile on his face suddenly widened. He raised his hand, water droplets dripped from his fingertips, refracting the radiant light in the sunshine.

  “Sister Li Ya! Look! Water! I created the water!” The golden eyed young boy spoke with unabashed joy.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t know what expression she held as she just stood calmly by the stream.

  What was the splendid sun shining high, but suddenly there were clouds covering the sky!

  The sun was swallowed up by the clouds, a shadow fell upon the land.

  Jun Wu Xie raised her head, but within the dark clouds she saw a teenager, floating in the air with his hands spread out. There seemed to be thunder and lightning flashing from his hands, which is related to the dark clouds in the sky.

  The juvenile’s appearance was beautiful with a devilish charm, his face held some inexperience and frivolity; as that pair of purple eyes stared unblinkingly at Jun Wu Xie.

  “Li Ya, this is thunder.” The voice of the purple eyed boy was impudent and egotistical. Jun Wu Xie didn’t know why but she felt such a familiarity to the boy.

  Distractedly, the youth and her maintained eye contact for a while and without understanding why, it felt so unfamiliar……

  The chaos split sky and earth apart, the mountains and rivers……were born in succession. Transcending the passage of time, the images in front of Jun Wu Xie continued to flash, and finally it paused at a moonlit night. She stood under the moonlight, as a touch of warmth appeared from behind her.

  “Li Ya, can you stay with me forever?” The low-pitched, soothing voice suddenly came from behind her, and her hand hanging from the side of her body was suddenly held!

  Jun Wu Xie turned and met the eyes of the other person, but in an instant, Jun Wu Xie’s heart was shattered.

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  The violent impact caused the mind of Jun Wu Xie to become extremely chaotic in an instant, and the picture in her mind suddenly became distorted, and the fragmentary pictures were still constantly flashing from her eyes!

  Darkness covered her sight for a short moment. When she opened her eyes again, there was only Blood Velvet’s pale face in front of her.

  “Mistress?” Blood Velvet was barely supporting the connection with the Spirit Tree, but the pain radiating from his shoulder made him turned to look at Jun Wu Xie in worry.

  Jun Wu Xie had come to give him the soul power to let him resist the power of the Spirit Tree, and at the same time, used him as a medium to send soul power into the body of the Spirit Tree, in order to remove the Contemporaneous Knot bit by bit .

  The moment when Blood Velvet slightly relaxed, he suddenly felt the power of the Spirit Tree rushed back along with the soul power sent by Jun Wu Xie!

  This strange situation made Blood Velvet startled, he turned to see Jun Wu Xie, and found that the eyes of Jun Wu Xie eyes had lost their focus. The hands on his shoulders were constantly exerting strength and gripping. Blood Velvet did not dare to move an inch, the Contemporaneous Knot in the Spirit Tree had been resolved halfway. If it was disconnected at this moment, both Jun Wu Xie and himself would suffer damage would suffer trauma from the Contemporaneous Knot!

  Seeing that Jun Wu Xie came back into being, Blood Velvet immediately opened his mouth.

  Jun Wu Xie looked distractedly at Blood Velvet in front of her, whatever she experienced moments ago caused her to be dazed. Her brows were slightly wrinkled and she seemed to want to determine the images that appeared in front of her eyes were real or illusions.

  The touch on her palm was solid, and completely different from the emptiness of the environment, and Jun Wu Xie was secretly relieved.

  “Little Xie? What happened?” Jun Wu Yao was unaware of the abnormality in Jun Wu Xie, and walked quickly to her side. His heart was anxious, but he did not dare to raise his hand to touch her.

  Contact with the Spirit Tree was a very dangerous move, especially for the soul of a human being. Because Jun Wu Xie was spiritually connected with Blood Velvet, therefore using Blood Velvet as a medium, she could be contacted with the Spirit Tree. If he touched it randomly, it would only harm her.

  However, the reaction of Jun Wu Xie caused Jun Wu Yao to be alarmed.

  It was reasonable to say that there would be no damage when removing the Contemporaneous Knot. At most, they would be attacked by the Spirit Tree’s power. Jun Wu Xie had long harmonized with the seed of the Spirit Tree. It could be said that she had a certain connection with the Spirit Tree, so even if she suffered an attack, the seed of the Spirit Tree would neutralise the attack in the first instance, without further accidents.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao, but her eyes became blurred. Her look was awkward. She raised her hand subconsciously as she wanted to touch him, as if she wanted to prove that it was not an illusion.

  Jun Wu Yao should avoid it, but unknowingly, Jun Wu Xie’s bewildered expression rooted him to the spot, unable to move.

  The moment Jun Wu Xie’s hands touched Jun Wu Yao, an irreversible force suddenly broke into the soul of Jun Wu Yao, and pulled him into the darkness in an instant!

  Jun Wu Yao dreamt, an illusory but real dream, everything in the dream seemed to have happened.

  Within the unresolved chaos, he became a young child with a pair of purple eyes, ignorant and confused, helpless and indecisive in the darkness. By his side, a little devil who was as big as him, but that person had shiny, golden eyes and looked a bit silly.

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  In the meantime, it was so cold all around, he was at a loss and did not dare to move.

  Until……

  A pair of gentle hands, hugged him from the cold ground.

  He saw a delicate but cold face. It was a beautiful woman. The pure black eyes were as shiny as black diamonds, but they did not contain a trace of warmth. It was only that pair of hands that held some warmth.

  The golden-eyed child was crying, the beautiful woman held him in her arms, but there was no expression on her face. When the golden-eyed child’s nose blew a big bubble of snot, the corners of her mouth lifted slightly.

  It was a very shallow smile, so slight that it was almost undetectable.

  But it was that faint smile that made his heart jerked. He could never in his lifetime erase that face from his soul.

  As he and the golden-eyed child grew up day by day, there were no creatures around them except for the beautiful woman. The surrounding was still chaotic. Only one cabin accommodated the three of them.

  The golden-eyed child laughed all day, and began to learn how to use the method the woman taught him to make a variety of small things.

  But his heart couldn’t hold anything, a pair of eyes were always staring at her.

  The woman rarely laughed, except for the smile that she had when she first met them, he never saw her laughing again.

  Time seemed so vague in the chaos. He didn’t know how long had passed, each day he grew taller and taller still; from looking up at her, meeting her eyes at the level, and then bowing slightly. The pair of warm hands that once held him in her arms became so petite.

  The woman talked a lot with him and the golden-eyed child, she taught them, and used their powers to create new creatures.

  Gradually, he was not just looking at her from behind, he wanted to be closer to her, he no longer wanted to be taken care of like a child.

  On that day, he held onto her and asked her if she could be with him forever.

  It was the first time he saw a strange look on the woman’s face, and there was a trace of trouble floating in her eyes, without the joy he expected.

  The woman did not respond to his request, and the days seemed to continue.

  Until one day, when he awoke from his sleep and pushed open the woman’s door, he could no longer find that piece of memory.

  She…… had disappeared.

  She completely disappeared from his life, no matter how he looked, he could not find any clues.

  He could not accept her departure, but in desperation he remembered her words. She taught them to build a new world. This might be her wish.

  He looked forward to completing it himself. If and when she appeared again, she, together with him and the golden-eyed child could build a new world and a new life.

  Mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, and the pictures she once painted, he realized them one by one.

  But she still didn’t appear. .

  Seeking and yearning, repeated dreams at night, he always remembered the warm hands which embraced him in a warm hug.

  The golden-eyed child had grown up and he proposed to build a race that belonged to them both.

  The golden-eyed man built a handsome man with his own hand bone, but he locked himself in the room, opened his chest, and removed the rib closest to the heart, and according to his memory made a copy in her likeness.

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  He named the little girl who he created with the same name as hers.

  He strictly demanded that the girl grow according to everything that was related to her, but as the girl eventually grew up, she was far different from the woman in his memory.

  Nonetheless, he was still acting stubborn, thinking that the little girl was her. He caressed the little girl so much, treating her as the most important younger sister of his. All he wished was that this tiny little girl wouldn’t, once again, disappear. Even if there was only a tiny bit of similarity between both of them, he could still find her reflection from the girl. He told everything about her to the girl, as if he had made the girl his sustenance, whereas the little girl too, had become the one and only existence to connect her heart with his, making her the only one to know about the depression which he suppressed within him.

  As time flowed, his temperament became really moody. Everything that existed in the world looked so boring in his eyes. He created them, but at the same time, he destroyed them. In an almost revengeful attitude, he wanted to sabotage the world which he built according to her preferences.

  The woman he deeply loved was gone, so did the little girl who he was attached to. He had lost all his nostalgia for everything in this world, and at last, everything returned to the darkness.

  When Jun Wu Yao woke from the darkness, the pain was still radiating from his chest, as if he had fallen into the chasm of despair. It felt so painful to the point that it almost suffocated him.

  It seemed like he was able to clearly feel himself in the ambience, suffering from the wretchedness after the icy woman disappeared, and also the depression he went through after his younger sister who he found sustenance in died.

  The one he loved had disappeared forever, and the only one family of his had also left him, there was no longer anything left for him to care about in this world……

  While being in a trance, Jun Wu Yao opened his eyes big and a face which was exactly the same as the face he saw in his illusion came into his eyes. It was just that compared to the face in his illusion, the cold lady in his eyes looked slightly younger.

  “Little…… Xie……” Frowned, Jun Wu Yao seemed to find the same puzzlement that he had, in the bottom of Jun Wu Xie’s eyes.

  It seemed like she too…… had seen something that wasn’t supposed to be appearing.

  Without speaking a word, Jun Wu Xie was just staring at Jun Wu Yao. After quite a long time, she asked, “What did you see?”


  Jun Wu Yao was stunned. What did he see?

  He had no idea about it. Every single one of those scenes was so unfamiliar to him, but…… they were so real.

  “No matter what those are, they are all meaningless to us.” Jun Wu Yao let in a deep breath as he forced the inexplicable emotion inside him down. He didn’t care whether if those things that had happened in the illusion were authentic or not, or whether if they had actually existed before, not at all. For him, he was just Jun Wu Yao and she was just Jun Wu Xie. He existed because of her, she was his wife, and that was it.

  There was nothing more to do with anything else!

  Jun Wu Xie suddenly raised a soft light smile on her face. As she slowly put her hand down, the perplexity that had been pervading in her eyes disappeared at the moment, with the calmness and tranquility that she once had emerging again from her eyes at the same moment.

  It was because of the Spirit Tree that they saw those scenes. Jun Wu Xie could vaguely notice that the Spirit Tree was trying to guide them into something, but what was its intention in doing so? Jun Wu Xie had no way to know. It was true that those messy pictures were astounding, but…… what did it have to do with them?

  All she knew was that she was Jun Wu Xie, while him, Jun Wu Yao, was her husband.

  No matter what had happened in their previous lives, the only thing that mattered to them was now, the present life.

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  The sudden scenes had caused Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie to sink into a temporary state of bewilderment, but both the two hearts had successfully broken through the heavy clouds, with their perseverance and tenacious still remaining.

  Even if it was their previous lives, so what?

  Since they had already gone through reincarnations, were now using different bodies and had all their past memories removed, then these would be their rebirths. These were their brand new lives, and they had nothing to do with the previous lives.

  The only thing that was worthy enough for them to feel sentimental about was the little bits of connection between them that was left after undergoing their reincarnations, which had led them in getting together. Though they appreciated it, they had no plans in inheriting everything about their past lives. The paths that they had walked on during their present lives were all paved by themselves, what had it to do with their previous lives?

  Jun Wu Yao had finally understood the reason of him reacting abnormally during the moment when he saw the appearance of Jun Wu Xie’s soul. It might probably be the memory pieces from his previous life. There was too much obsession in it that it couldn’t be completely wiped off, but now, the uncontrollable emotions had totally disappeared. Jun Wu Yao was very sure about it, that the very last fixation had already vanished quietly.

  Slowly, Jun Wu Yao moved a step backwards, slightly distanced himself away from Jun Wu Xie since now wasn’t the time for them to tangle themselves up in their previous lives that had long, just like the flowing water, gone. The most critical thing now was to remove the Contemporaneous Knot on the Spirit Tree and resolve the peril of the Soul World.

  Little Lotus and the others had totally no idea about what both of them had just experienced. They were just thinking that Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie looked a little dazed, but very soon, they were back to normal.

  After stabilizing the condition of her mind, Jun Wu Xie began to focus on delivering her soul power, and weird things never appeared again after that.

  Everything went back into serenity. Poison Ivy and Blood Velvet were going really smooth with the elimination. No matter how hard Meng Qiu glared at them, even to the extent of making himself blind, he was still unable to alter the current situation. He could only looked at the halo emitted by the Spirit Tree spreading out bits by bits, with its brightness going from weak to strong. The kind of despair which he had never experienced before soared up from the bottom of his eyes……

  It was up till the moment when Blood Velvet took out the last piece of Contemporaneous Knot using his roots that the Spirit Tree could finally regain its glory!

  Blood Velvet and Poison Ivy drew themselves away from the Spirit Tree and Meng Qiu at the same time. The condition of Poison Ivy was rather good, but Blood Velvet seemed to have lost all his energy, causing him to straight off stumble onto the ground. He looked very weak with his pale face.

  If it wasn’t for Jun Wu Xie who had acted as his support, Blood Velvet would probably not be able to fully remove the Contemporaneous Knot from the Spirit Tree even after using up all his soul power!

  Jun Wu Xie raised her head up. Looking at the Spirit Tree who had gotten its halo spread all across itself, Jun Wu Xie slightly widened her eyes. The Spirit Tree before this had already given her a sacred feeling, and after the seal of the Contemporaneous Knot was removed, the Spirit Tree had also gotten to display its exact appearance. Those leaves that were originally sticking tightly together began to spread out little by little, whereas those vines that were dangling lifelessly on the branches suddenly started to swing gently. In just a twinkling, there came a gold halo covering on those green vines!

  One of the vines that was enshrouded with the gold light slowly held itself aloft and stretched towards Jun Wu Xie. Subconsciously, Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao. Seeing that Jun Wu Yao slightly nodded his head to her, only then she chose not to avoid the upcoming vine.

  When the vine touched the centre part between Jun Wu Xie’s eyebrows, a soft and gentle voice was suddenly heard inside her mind.

  “Thank you, the kid who came from afar. You’ve let me free from the suffering. Welcome to the Soul World.”


  The voice was as gentle as the water. Whoever that had heard it, even if it was only a sentence, he or she would naturally arouse the thoughts of protecting the voice inside them.

  This was the voice of the Spirit Tree, and also the voice of the origin of all the souls in this world.

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  Jun Wu Xie blinked her eyes gently, the feeling was very subtle, but she did not reject it.

  After experiencing betrayal and being sealed, the Spirit Tree was still so peaceful, and could also say words of welcome. It really made Jun Wu Xie highly respect the Spirit Tree who was the source of all souls look like a sinless. What Long Jiu and others considered as its benevolence and love, there was really no exaggeration in thinking that way.

  The other vine of the Spirit Tree had been lifted up, and headed towards Jun Wu Yao. Jun Wu Yao saw the hint of laughter in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes and realised that this little guy did not reject the Spirit Tree. And so was unperturbed in having contact with the only “friend” in the Three Realms.

  “You are back, but you have changed a lot. It is a good thing.” The voice of the Spirit Tree echoed in the mind of Jun Wu Yao.

  Jun Wu Yao laughed lightly, he knew that he had changed. He no longer was the cold-blooded, ruthless Ye Jue. Today, he had changed because of her, he only belonged to her.

  “I haven’t seen you for many years, but you haven’t changed, just……the Soul World has changed a lot.” Jun Wu Yao slowly opened his mouth and responded to the greetings of the Spirit Tree.

  Although the Spirit Tree couldn’t speak, it could use those vines to establish a spiritual connection with the soul body, but it did so rarely. Today, it actually made contact with him and Jun Wu Xie, it was indeed rarely seen.

  When Jun Wu Yao roamed the Soul World for hundreds of years, the Spirit Tree had just “said” five sentences to him.

  As Jun Wu Yao spoke, his eyes fell on Meng Qiu who had collapsed on the ground.

  After the release of the Contemporaneous Knot, Meng Qiu was subjected to a huge counter-attack. As the caster of the seal, after the Contemporaneous Knot was destroyed, his soul would suffer devastating damage. At this moment, Meng Qiu’s soul was wasting away an extremely fast speed. The power that had once made him the top Spirit Envoy was gradually slipping away. The anti-phago effect of the Contemporaneous Knot will increase or decrease according to the strength of the caster. The power of the Spirit Tree was beyond doubt. This counter-attack was enough to make Meng Qiu’s soul scatter.

  Meng Qiu’s soul had become very unstable. Even if Jun Wu Yao was not controlling, he could not stand up and could only sit on the ground with shivering.

  The Spirit Tree felt the gaze of Jun Wu Yao, and a sigh travelled into the ears of Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao.

  The long vine slowly extended to Meng Qiu, Meng Qiu’s shaking became more violent as he looked at the vine gradually approaching him. His expression was about to collapse in desperation, there was no hatred, no unwillingness, only a deep sadness……

  Meng Qiu’s reaction was completely different from those who were destroyed after the conspiracy. He suddenly became calm, but with a strong sense of fear, he was not worried about the revenge of the Spirit Tree, but it was more like an escape.

  “Don’t…… don’t touch me!” Meng Qiu looked at the vine that was close and screamed loudly, That roar shook the sky, almost exhausting all his existing strength!

  The vine of the Spirit Tree suddenly stopped moving, the distance to Meng Qiu’s forehead was only half a finger away.

  Meng Qiu stared at the end of the vine as his expression trembled fiercely, his eyes suddenly became red, and his mood seemed to be boiling over.

  “Spirit Tree!” A cry exclaimed!

  Qin Song and Long Jiu were brought forth by the black armoured Spirit Envoys as “commanded” by Meng Qiu. After arriving, having seen the Spirit Tree regain its glory, it left both of them and the black armoured Spirit Envoys completely stunned.

  The Spirit Tree which exuded a dazzling light was as holy and full of vitality as they remembered!

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  Both Qin Song and Long Jiu still had the cuffs on them, but it seemed like they had already forgotten their plight, and were just looking at the Spirit Tree in front of them with their eyes widening.

  However, the group of black armored spirit envoys who were standing behind them were all panic-stricken to the point that their souls almost flew away. When they saw Meng Qiu who had fallen onto the ground, an ominous premonition suddenly arose in their minds!

  It was over!

  Everything was over!

  Not even having the time to think about any other things, those black armored spirit envoys threw Qin Song and Long Jiu down right away and broke into a crazy sprint!

  Meng Qiu lost!

  The Contemporaneous Knot on the Spirit Tree had been removed!

  What kind of ending were them, the traitors, going to face?

  The fact that Meng Qiu was able to incite such a large number of spirit envoys to betray the Spirit Tree was mainly because he had sealed off the energy of the Spirit Tree. Due to their fears for the powerfulness of the Spirit Tree, those soul entities who had their dark sides hidden in their minds had no choice but to suppress their lusts and desires.

  After the Spirit Tree was sealed by Meng Qiu, their very last scruple had also disappeared, not even a bit of trace was left inside them. While facing the lures given by Meng Qiu and the Upper Realm, without hesitating, they chose to betray the Spirit Tree and the Soul World.

  However, the Spirit Tree they had once afraid of had now regained its strong power. To them, this meant that their schemes would all be destroyed!

  With the screams came one after another, the black armored spirit envoys scattered and ran for their lives, as if they would be punished by the wrath of the Spirit Tree if they escaped even a second slower.

  Only Qin Song and Long Jiu were left standing dumb at their places, staring at the paramount faith of theirs.

  “The Spirit Tree…… You’ve recovered…… You’ve really recovered……” Qin Song widened his eyes. During the moment when he saw Long Jiu being caught into the Soul Prison, he was inwardly terrified, and since both of them were locked up separately, he had no way to ask Long Jiu what had actually happened.

  Even when they were brought to the Spirit Tree’s place by the black armored spirit envoys just now, he had absolutely zero chance to talk with Long Jiu along the way. All he could vaguely notice was that Long Jiu didn’t seem to be as pessimistic as the way he thought he would be, leading him in thinking that Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao had actually planned to move a step more forwards in dealing with the problem, but he couldn’t have thought that……

  He would actually receive such a surprise!

  The Spirit Tree had actually recovered!

  At the moment, there wasn’t any words that was able to express Qin Song’s excitement!

  Long Jiu’s reaction was way more straight forward then Qin Song’s. After staring at the Spirit Tree in stunned for quite a while, Long Jiu let out a wail and straight off thud himself down on the ground. He, a fully grown man, had actually burst into a rage of tears like a little kid while sitting on the floor.

  “Boohoo…… Spirit Tree…… You…… You’ve fina…… finally…… Boohoo……”


  The crying sound of Long Jiu could even shake the ground and scared the ghosts away, that even Qin Song was pulled back from the shock by his cry. Qin Song looked in the direction of Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao who were standing together aside. Even though there was a trace of sourness inside him, it was then covered by the joy. Looking genuinely at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao, he said, “Thank you…… Thank you so much…… I…… I really didn’t expect that……”


  Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao had really saved the Spirit Tree!

  There was hope for the Soul World!

  Briefly, Jun Wu Xie nodded at Qin Song. Qin Song and Long Jiu had helped her before in the Dark Region, it was reasonable for her to do these things for them.

  Qin Song was trying hard to force his happiness down, but the moment his gaze touched Meng Qiu who was sitting aside, the gladness in his eyes immediately dimmed.

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  Meng Qiu sat down on the ground, lost and hopeless, he did not notice the gaze of Qin Song.

  Long Jiu was still bawling, until he almost could not breathe, the sound made people collapse. Crystal Orchid glanced at Corpse Flower, lifted his foot and kicked Corpse Flower’s buttocks.

  Corpse Flower, whose mouth was sealed shut, smashed into the front of Long Jiu, he could not break his fall in time, and slammed into Long Jiu’s face. At the same time, Crystal Orchid immediately dispelled the frozen seal on Corpse’s Flower’s mouth.

  “Wu wu…… vomit!!!” Long Jiu’s face was smothered by Corpse Flower’s “poison gas”, the taste instantly made Long Jiu forget about his wailing as he fell down to one side and retched.

  Corpse Flower quickly covered his mouth as his other hand pointed accusingly at the Crystal Orchid, indicating that he was framed!

  However, Long Jiu, who had been fumigated till he nearly cried, didn’t have any energy left to bother about it.

  “Take off their chains.” Jun Wu Xie raised her hand, and she threw the long whip, which she took from the black armored Spirit Envoy, to Poison Ivy, who caught it. He gave a couple of flourishes of the whip and broke the chains binding Long Jiu and Qin Song.

  Long Jiu, who regained his freedom, had no time to rejoice, as the smell of Corpse Flower caused his tears to continue flowing down madly.

  Qin Song rushed to the front of Meng Qiu, who was sitting on the ground, and dragged him upright in one move. Qin Song directed a fierce punch onto Meng Qiu’s face.

  Meng Qiu, who had been adversely affected by the Contemporaneous Knot, and whose power was already rapidly deteriorating, and thus he was hurt by Qin Song’s punch. He fell straight to the ground, and he was embarrassed. Meng Qiu didn’t say anything, he just stared at the ground, no one knew what he was thinking about.

  “Why?” Qin Song glared at Meng Qiu, the anger in his chest was burning bright.

  He would never forget that when he sneaked into the area of the Spirit Tree and saw that image of Meng Qiu’s betrayal. He could never forgive Meng Qiu’s betrayal!

  Meng Qiu used to be the mentor of Long Jiu and him, and was also the most admired Spirit Envoy. Once upon a time, he and Long Jiu’s goal was to become a powerful Spirit Envoy like Meng Qiu and guard the Spirit Tree. However Meng Qiu’s betrayal shattered that trust in the both of them.

  The betrayal of a Spirit Envoy was not enough to make Qin Song so angry, only Meng Qiu was different.

  “Why did you betray the Spirit Tree! What benefits did the Upper Realm give you? That you could do such a thing!” This was the first time Qin Song flew into a rage. The mentor who was once supreme in his heart became the lackey of the Upper Realm. How could he accept that?

  Meng Qiu propped up his upper body and slowly turned his head to look at the angry Qin Song. He turned his gaze towards Long Jiu, and his gaze finally fell on the vine that belonged to the Spirit Tree, which was held suspended in the air for a long while.

  Suddenly, Meng Qiu laughed, his laughter turned from small to large, full of complex emotions.

  “You both are really good brothers. What you said, Long Jiu has also asked me, the exact same question.” Meng Qiu looked at Qin Song, the apprentice he once admired.

  As the first Spirit Envoy of the Soul World, Meng Qiu had taught many Spirit Envoys. The innate talents of Spirit Envoys were similar to human beings. There was good and bad. Qin Song was the one with excellent qualifications, his heart was calm and he was keen. Meng Qiu spared no effort to help cultivate Qin Song.

  As Meng Qiu had said, he looked down on Long Jiu, but he appreciated Qin Song very much. Because Qin Song has a good relationship with Long Jiu and always brought him along, Meng Qiu eventually acquiesced to Long Jiu learning beside Qin Song.

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  “Why?” When Meng Qiu looked at Qin Song, the trace of despair in his eyes had silently disappeared. Even though he looked miserable, but the expression on his face had been as calm and arrogant as ever.

  “What does my purpose of doing this have anything to do with you guys? You won’t know what I want, you guys will never know.”


  Looking at Meng Qiu, Qin Song never thought that his Master would actually turn into such a person, and up until this moment, there was still no regrets found from his attitude.

  “What exactly do we need to know about? Your betrayal? Your lies? I wish that I will never know about it.” Qin Song was completely disappointed with Meng Qiu. The trust and admiration that he had for Meng Qiu after so many years had caused him to hold onto an unrealistic fantasy all the time.

  He thought that Meng Qiu might either be threatened by the Upper Realm or he might just be momentarily bedeviled by his mistaken thoughts, resulting him in doing such things, but it was at this moment after witnessing Meng Qiu’s reaction, Qin Song realized that everything that was done by Meng Qiu were all out of his own will. He was never forced.

  “Ha! Why would I need your understanding? I was defeated, and that’s my fault for being useless. Life or death, it’s all up to you, do whatever you want.” Meng Qiu sneered.

  Qin Song shook his head as he took a few steps backwards. He could feel that Meng Qiu’s soul was vanishing bits by bits. Even if they did nothing, the rebound of the Contemporaneous Knot would also take Meng Qiu’s life.

  Why should he dirty his pair of hands then?

  Long Jiu had already recovered from the sentiment. He heard Meng Qiu’s words very clearly, but compared to the Master and student relationship between Meng Qiu and Qin Song, Long Jiu’s relationship with Meng Qiu was slightly weaker, because he knew it from the very beginning that it wasn’t Meng Qiu’s genuine thought to look him as his student.

  “Old Five, we don’t have to feel sorry for such a guy,” said Long Jiu.

  Qin Song let in a deep breath, not speaking anything more.

  No one would want to handle Meng Qiu. All they needed to do was just to silently wait for the time to wipe him off from this world.

  Meng Qiu himself too, knew that there wasn’t much time left for him as the strong soul power of his was crazily flowing away from his body. At this moment, his dream had gone far away from him, to the end of the world, and he could no longer touch it. Head up, he looked at the stiffened vine that was halting in the mid air with a complex gaze in his eyes.

  He was still able to recall the moment when he was first born into the Soul World. As the very first batch of soul entities created by the Spirit Tree, he was so lost, not knowing what to do, and there were just the other soul entities around him, who too, felt the same bewilderment as him. During that period of time, he had no idea about who himself was, and where was he. Even more, he knew nothing about life and death.

  And it was this firm and gentle vine that had embraced and softly rocked him who was straying and wandering around.

  That was the first time Meng Qiu heard the voice of the Spirit Tree, and this was what it said.

  [My kid, don’t be afraid. This is your home, and you are going to live here without having any worries.]

  The voice had awakened Meng Qiu’s soul. The very first voice of his life, that it had been deeply stamped in Meng Qiu’s memory, not being able to be gotten rid off.

  Since they were the first batch of spirit envoys, they had no seniors to teach them, and hence, they were lucky enough to be personally guided by the Spirit Tree itself.

  That was an honor that the other spirit envoys had never experienced before.

  Under the attentive nurture of the Spirit Tree, nearly hundred soul entities got to learn about the Soul World. Despite having their own names, they had also understood that they were soul entities. They knew about the Metempsychosis Path, the Soul Devouring River……

  During that time, Meng Qiu felt that he was the happiest person living in the world because he had the tenderest Spirit Tree staying by his side. He loved the Soul World and the Spirit Tree that had given him his life very much. When there were lots of his comrades who had chosen to enter the Reincarnation Path, Meng Qiu had made his choice in continue staying in the Soul World.

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  Meng Qiu wholeheartedly guarded the Spirit Tree, making that his only goal. Within the thousand years, his goal never changed.

  As long as it was matters instructed by the Spirit Tree, he would do it accordingly, only because he wanted to hear the Spirit Tree’s voice.

  Even if it were only a few words.

  But……

  As spirit lives in the Soul World increased, the Spirit Tree had handed over the Spirit Envoy teachings to those Spirit Envoys who had been in the Soul World for many years. Meng Qiu had initially mentored a lot of Spirit Envoys and felt that this was the mission given to him by the Spirit Tree. And he did his best every time. However……

  The Spirit Tree spoke to him less and less, the Spirit Envoys kept increasing; the Spirit Tree named each new Spirit Envoy and as there were too many, it consumed much of the Spirit Tree’s time. As more Spirit Envoys were born, Meng Qiu’s sense of existence became lower, and he began to hate that feeling. He did not like to stand at a distance and look at the Spirit Tree being surrounded by other Spirit Envoys. It was an eye sore to Meng Qiu

  That gentle and soothing voice gradually drifted further away from him.

  Even if he struggled to cultivate and surpassed all the Spirit Envoys in the Soul World, and was most qualified to guard the Spirit Tree, the Spirit Tree still did not increase the number of times it spoke with him.

  Even until later……

  The connection between the Spirit Tree and Meng Qiu was severed, and Meng Qiu did not hear the Spirit Tree’s voice for a thousand years. He was not used to it, and even hated the situation.

  Every time he saw the newly born Spirit Envoys being embraced by the vines, in his heart, that sense of hatred could not be covered up. Only the water from the Soul Devourer River could calm his raging heart.

  But, because of one Spirit Envoy’s entreatment, the Spirit Tree abolished the use of the Soul Devourer River.

  In that moment, Meng Qiu realised that the warmth of the Spirit Tree never belonged to him……

  As long as there were other Spirit Envoys, and as long as there were new births of souls, the Spirit Tree would never belong to only him!

  The darkness in his heart grew bigger little by little, as it gradually consumed Meng Qiu’s soul. He no longer desired for the Spirit Tree’s appreciation. He found the Contemporaneous Knot and buried it within himself and the Spirit Tree undetected.

  He thought……

  Only like this will make the Spirit Tree belong to him.

  Meng Qiu looked at the vine that hadn’t touched him in a thousand years, and sorrow shone through his eyes.

  “In your heart, am I just like any other Spirit Envoy? There is no difference?” Meng Qiu suddenly spoke, his tone held a mix of sorrow, pain and disappointment.

  He looked at the Spirit Tree, that tree which had stood unmoving for a thousand years, it was clear that it could only be heard in the spiritual world, but subconsciously, in Meng Qiu’s heart, the Spirit Tree was no longer a tree, it became an obsession that he was unable to give up.

  “Even if I betrayed you, you also can’t be bothered right? Ha ha…… No matter what I do, in your eyes, I’m dispensable.”


  He did not care about the conditions given by the Upper Realm, he did not care if he could gather more power, from now until the end, the thing he wanted most to possess, was IT.

  The soul was disintegrating bit by bit, weakness made Meng Qiu unable to hold on to his last dignity, suppressing the unwillingness and grief in his heart for many years.

  His accusation made Qin Song and Long Jiu slide into shock.

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  The eyes of Qin Song and Long Jiu were filled with disbelief. They heard a strange trace of pain from Meng Qiu’s words.

  This pain came from the Spirit Tree.

  “I have done so much. I desperately want to become the most powerful Spirit Envoy. As I hope that you talk to me more, but you have forgotten about me. I am so unsatisfied…… I am reluctant…… ……why those stupid Spirit Envoys can receive your care, but I can’t? Even when I betrayed you, betrayed the Soul World, you are still indifferent. In your eyes, what am I……” Meng Qiu’s soul had become a bit transparent. He knew that his time was running out. Some words, if not said, could no longer be said.

  He didn’t care if Long Jiu and Qin Song listened to his own words. He didn’t care if they thought of him as a sad loser. He just wanted to get the only answer that had troubled him for thousands of years.

  What was he to the Spirit Tree!

  However, no one could answer Meng Qiu’s doubts, and the vine of the Spirit Tree slowly retracted back.

  The vine which was retracted back slowly was like the straw that broke the camel’s back. Meng Qiu laid on the ground in exhaustion, and his soul was still slowing dissipating away. His body had become extremely transparent, like the form of tulle; faintly discernible.

  Everyone knew that Meng Qiu was dying. This was death’s true form. The dissipating of the soul could no longer be restored. He would disappear into the Three Realms forever and ever. There was no reincarnation and left no trace.

  Qin Song and Long Jiu fell into silence. Meng Qiu’s last words made them realize that Meng Qiu’s betrayal was not about the temptation offered by the Upper Realms.

  It came from his distorted feelings about the Spirit Tree. He wanted to monopolize the Spirit Tree. The reverent heart slowly changed with the passage of time. It gradually distorted, that even the distortion was beyond his control and finally led him on a path of no return.

  At this moment, their hatred for Meng Qiu seemed to have faded a little, sympathy and helplessness floated into their hearts.

  Meng Qiu closed his eyes and waited for the advent of his death. He still could not get the answer he wanted. If he died, it would not be contentedly.

  Jun Wu Yao looked on in silence at Meng Qiu, who was getting weaker and thinner. Suddenly, he realised that Meng Qiu’s actions were similar to those in his dreams.

  For the love in his heart, regardless of anything, he would rather be the enemy of the world and carry those curses.

  Everyone was waiting for the moment in which Meng Qiu would completely disappear.

  The quiet Spirit Tree suddenly trembled, and the dense foliage gave off a rustling sound, even though there was no wind, and it sounded so clearly in this quiet moment.

  Suddenly, the leaves that were drenched in light started falling, and there seemed to be a force that gathered the leaves together, layers upon layers, in front of the eyes of Jun Wu Xie and the others, as they gradually transformed into a strange shape with a human appearance.

  Suddenly, the light on the leaves blossomed!

  A gust of wind rose from the ground and blew away the fallen leaves!

  The leaves drifted along with the wind as they are turned into dark green clothes, and a slender figure was revealed from within the leaves and wind.

  Dark green hair, contrasted with clear and fair skin, that pair of pale green eyes which were gentle and delicate like a spring breeze; it was a very beautiful yet gentle “person”. No one could tell the gender, but the beautiful ‘person’ made people drunk with enchantment.

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  The moment the figure appeared, all the sounds coming from the surroundings disappeared instantly, and everyone had gotten their eyes fixed on that “person”.

  Eyes widening, Long Jiu and Qin Song were just standing there with their whole bodies stiffening.

  There was a familiar ambience enshrouding around them, but they still couldn’t believe all the things that they had just seen.

  Stepping onto the grass, the tender and pretty figure walked slowly towards Meng Qiu. Wherever the person stepped onto, there would be flowers blooming from the ground, as if it was the fireworks that were coming out from the bottom of the feet, they were dazzling and beautiful.

  The person walked to Meng Qiu and crouched down while looking at Meng Qiu who was almost transparent. The fair and long fingers stroked softly and faintly on Meng Qiu’s forehead

  Meng Qiu, who was so weak that he couldn’t even move, suddenly sensed a familiar vibe whirling around him. He opened his eyes strenuously and a strange, but at the same time, extremely familiar face came into his sight.

  It was an unfamiliar face, but the thing that he was familiar with was the aura that belonged to the Spirit Tree.

  “I’m sorry for neglecting you.” A melodious voice echoed beside everyone’s ears, causing everyone to be thunderstruck!

  It was the exact same voice as the Spirit Tree!

  The gorgeous human with unknown gender in front of their eyes was actually an incarnation of the Spirit Tree!

  The Spirit Tree had actually never once turned into its human form before during the past hundred million years. Everyone in the Soul World thought that the Spirit Tree was unable to transform itself but they wouldn’t have thought that they were actually going to witness it today.

  How beautiful, how perfect, as if that was how the Spirit Tree should be.

  Meng Qiu widened his eyes and slightly opened his mouth. There were thousands of words that he wanted to voice at this moment, but almost his entire soul had shattered into pieces, causing him to no longer have the energy to speak. He could only stared silently at the figure who he had always been yearning, protecting and also waiting for the past thousands of years.

  “I always thought that you’re the most outstanding spirit envoy in the Soul World. You are wise, smart, courageous and powerful, and I have no worries in letting you handle the Soul World. I thought that you’ve mastered everything that I’m able to teach you, and that you no longer need my guidance, but I couldn’t have thought that…… it was my negligence that has made you suffer.” There were traces of helplessness and repentance on the face of the Spirit Tree. The things that it needed to bear on its shoulders were all the souls in the Three Realms, even it itself wasn’t able to attend to each and every aspect of the matters. Thus, it was necessary for it to get help from the spirit envoys.

  Among all the spirit envoys that it had ever created, there were a few of them who were the best, and also the smartest one. It was just that most of them had their own thoughts, some of them had chosen to enter the Reincarnation Path while some had chosen to leave the Soul World and build the Spirit World, and Meng Qiu was the only one who had always been staying beside it from the very beginning.

  The betrayal of Meng Qiu was what the Spirit Tree could never have expected. Even up till now, it never once had any grudge against Meng Qiu’s behaviour. Even when Meng Qiu cast the Contemporaneous Knot onto it, there was only helplessness arising from its heart, but never enmity.

  It was because of it taking everything for granted that had caused Meng Qius to be forced into such an extent. If it was able to notice it earlier, how would it not realize what Meng Qiu was actually hoping for?

  Meng Qiu was always thoughtful and proficient, and this was the exact reason which had caused the Spirit Tree to mistakenly assume that he would no longer need its guidance, but it didn’t know that the fact that Meng Qiu put in all his effort and did his best was just so that he was able to receive its compliments and hear its voice.

  While looking at Meng Qiu, the eyes of the Spirit Tree were overflowed with sorrow.

  If Meng Qiu was able to tell the Spirit Tree about his discontent earlier, it wouldn’t neglect his wish, and everything that had happened today wouldn’t have occured.

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  Meng Qiu blinked his eyes as he stared at the Spirit Tree, it was as if he wanted to imprint the face he’s seen in this life as his final moment.

  Silent tears slipped from his eyes.

  Unwillingness, remorse, desperation, joy……

  If he could tell the Spirit Tree earlier what he felt and thought, then…… would everything not happen?

  If he knew earlier that in the heart of the Spirit Tree he was actually so important, would he be reluctant to do all this?

  “Ah……” Meng Qiu used his last sliver strength to open his mouth but he couldn’t even form a word.

  Under the eyes of the Spirit Tree, Meng Qiu’s figure fluttered with the breeze and turned into tiny stars, as he forever disappeared into the Three Realms. Silent but with repentance which he realized as he died.

  Sorry.

  That was what Meng Qiu did not managed to say when he died.

  The obsession within his heart made this loyal Spirit Envoy of thousands of years eventually embark on a path of destruction. However, unknown to him, everything he had done in his traitorous quest was already things that he had long possessed.

  Long Jiu and Qin Song watched as Meng Qiu gradually disappeared and with that, the last bit of hate in their hearts also flew away with Meng Qiu’s spirit.

  It was until the moment Meng Qiu left, did they realized that Meng Qiu’s request was not for the supremacy of the Three Realms, nor were the conditions given by the Upper Realm. From the beginning to the end, all he wanted was just a bit of attention and care from the Spirit Tree. He was willing to use the Contemporaneous Knot and buried it between himself and the Spirit Tree in order to tie his life and the Spirit Tree together.

  He controlled the entire Soul World, but did not hurt the Spirit Tree.

  His loyalty to the Spirit Tree had never changed. His faithfulness was only towards the Spirit Tree from beginning to end, not the Upper Realm, not the Soul World.

  So even if the entire Soul World is destroyed, as long as the Spirit Tree was still there, he had no qualms.

  What kind of obsession was it that made Meng Qiu’s mind twist to such a point?

  The millennium-long desire, the millennium-long expectation, that could not escape the catalysis of obsession.

  It destroyed the Soul World and ruined him.

  Long Jiu and the others, at this moment, did not know whether to resent of Meng Qiu’s ruthlessness, or to sympathise with Meng Qiu’s sentimental obsession.

  The soul had scattered. From now on, with the Three Realms, there was no such person. Even the Spirit Tree had no way to regenerate that broken soul.

  One step wrong made, every step that followed was wrong.

  “Sigh……” Long Jiu couldn’t help but sigh. He couldn’t understand the obsession in Meng Qiu’s heart, but he understood that the catalyst which forced Meng Qiu to embark on this was not something that could be easily explained.

  As Qin Song looked blankly at the image of Meng Qiu dissipating, his heart was inextricably painful. The lingering light of his eyes passed over the petite figure standing side by side with Jun Wu Yao, and his heart felt like it was being crushed. A touch of panic emerged from his eyes.

  Long Jiu could not understand, but Qin Song could understand.

  If one asks and doesn’t receive, it will eventually drive even saints mad. If one doesn’t resolve the issue, then no one can escape.

  Qin Song turned his gaze downwards as he didn’t dare to look more.

  In his heart, he knew that some people would not belong to him after all.

  “Qin Song pays his respect to the Spirit Tree.” Qin Song took a deep breath, stepped forward and knelt in front of the Spirit Tree, and Long Jiu, who was standing at the side, immediately regained his focus and knelt in front of the Spirit Tree.

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  The Spirit Tree crouched on the ground until the last piece of Meng Qiu’s soul slid across its fingertips. It then slowly stood up. Instead of turning its back and looked at Qin Song and the others, it just raised its head and looked in the direction which Meng Qiu’s soul had gone to.

  That was the kid which it had guided for thousands of years……

  It had watched him grew, became matured, and managed the entire Soul World orderly and methodically. It had also watched him walked step by step into the path of self-extermination. It had witnessed the whole life of Meng Qiu, but was unable to save him.

  The Spirit Tree was the origin of the souls. It knew nothing about the emotions and lusts owned by the humans as excess feelings would only reduce the pureness of its soul. It had always thought that this was right, but it didn’t realize that it was its affectionate but also ruthless attitude that had destroyed Meng Qiu.

  “Qin Song.” The voice of the Spirit Tree was suddenly heard.

  “Qin Song is here.”


  “Was I wrong?”


  Qin Song stunned. He wanted to say something, but it was as if his voice was stuck in his throat and it felt so painful.

  Was the Spirit Tree wrong?

  The Spirit Tree was equitable, lenient and benevolent. It treated all the soul entities in the Soul World equally. There was nothing wrong about it since this was a commendable behaviour that a high standing person could ever have. This was considered as a good thing in the Soul World.

  However, on the contrary, there was too much of benevolence coming from the Spirit Tree. It was the same when it came to any spirit envoys, but for those spirit envoys who were very deep in emotive, this wasn’t a good thing but a kind of torture.

  When the feelings came gushing out, the thing they seeked for wasn’t the equality that was given to everyone, but the unique treatment which was only accorded to them.

  Qin Song suddenly thought of a saying which he had once heard the people joking about when he was in the Lower Realm.

  [If the thing that you have given to me is the same as the thing that you have given to the others, then I don’t want it.]

  It wasn’t the resemblance that one’s heart was looking for, but the difference.

  Not knowing how should he answer the question, Qin Song was only remaining silent. Inside his mind, there was also such a thing which he could only hope for……

  “Spirit Tree, it’s not your fault! It’s…… It’s Master, he himself, has thought in the wrong way and chosen the wrong path. It has nothing to do with you,” said Long Jiu abruptly. Although he had already cut off his relationship with Meng Qiu, the moment he saw Meng Qiu’s regretful tears after he had gone, he suddenly felt like letting go of the past disputes and finally let out a call of Master.

  As the quote said, a tutor for a day was a father for a lifetime. Even though he was wrong, he was now gone……

  The Spirit Tree raised its eyes and looked at Long Jiu.

  This was the first time Long Jiu made eye contact with the Spirit Tree in its human form. In the meantime, he was actually a little panic. With his face blushed, he quickly lowered his head.

  The appearance of the incarnation of the Spirit Tree was truly stunning.

  Meng Qiu was gone forever and the Spirit Tree had regained its freedom. This should be some good news, but the compulsion of Meng Qiu that had led him in doing all those crimes had caused everyone to involuntarily went into contemplations.

  Jun Wu Yao suddenly recalled the things that had previously happened in his illusion. Inside the illusion, “he” had fallen into an endless compulsion due to her disappearance. At the end, not only he had destroyed everything, he had also destroyed himself. At the dazing moment, Jun Wu Yao found that it seemed like he was able to understand the moment of despair and helplessness of Meng Qiu.

  Subconsciously, he landed his gaze onto Jun Wu Xie who was beside him.

  If such things happened to him, would he react the same way as the way “he himself” reacted in the illusion and destroyed everything?

  Jun Wu Xie had probably noticed Jun Wu Yao’s gaze, causing her to suddenly lift her head up and look into Jun Wu Yao’s eyes with her clear eyes. There was his face reflecting on her bright eyes. Jun Wu Yao saw a mark inside her eyes, telling him that he was her only one.

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  Jun Wu Yao suddenly tightened his hand on her shoulder.

  Even if there was such a day, he would not do that.

  Because in this world, there were so many loved ones and friends cherished by the little fellow, even if he was under the illusion, he would not destroy the world; the world she once existed in, he would continue to guard it for her. The people she cared about, the land that she cared about. As long as the world still existed, there would always be traces of her.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t know what Jun Wu Yao was thinking, she just vaguely noticed that Jun Wu Yao’s mood fluctuated a little but eventually fell into peace.

  The Spirit Tree was quiet for a long time it was unknown if it had comprehend or not. It turned around and looked at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao. It nodded slightly, and that androgynous face was beautiful made people felt that they shouldn’t sin by speaking loudly.

  Meng Qiu’s obsession with the Spirit Tree was not without reason. How many people could resist falling in love with such a gentle and perfect soul, especially if they accompanied it day and night?

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t know why but she suddenly thought of the Spirit Lord.

  Why did the Spirit Lord suddenly chose to leave the Soul World? And why wasn’t he willing to return to his homeland?

  Like Meng Qiu, the Spirit Lord was once part of the first batch of Spirit Envoys in the Soul World, and was one of the well-used Spirit Envoys by the Spirit Tree. However, he chose to leave the Soul World, left the Spirit Tree, and even abandoned the name given by the Spirit Tree. He thus named himself Spirit Lord.

  Did this mean that the departure of the Spirit Lord that year was also due to the precipitation of the obsession in which his heart should not possess?

  Only, it was different from how Meng Qiu chose to handle it. The Spirit Lord knew the danger of this obsession, so he chose to leave and draw a line between himself and the Spirit Tree.

  However, all of this was just Jun Wu Xie’s speculation. Whether it was true or not, no one knew.

  “Sorry that you have to witness all these.” The Spirit Tree sighed softly. This time, if it wasn’t for Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao, no one would be able to stop Meng Qiu from doing what he wanted.

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head.

  Jun Wu Yao suddenly said: “I feel that I have misread you before.”


  The Spirit Tree was a little shocked.

  “Why do you say that?”


  “I wasn’t aware you can assume human form.” Jun Wu Yao raised his eyebrows. His contact with the Spirit Tree was transmitted through those vines. It was also his first time seeing Spirit Tree materialise.

  The Spirit Tree looked down at its own appearance and said with a helpless smile: “The body is just a passing cloud. I turned into this shape because you are used to the appearance of humans. I myself prefer my original image. Also, I can assume this form because when I was sealed, I could not nurture any spirit lives. If it was before, when I am nurturing these spirit lives, I won’t dare to leave my body.”


  “Oh? Since this is the case, there is one thing I want to ask you.” Jun Wu Yao continued.

  “Please go ahead.” The Spirit Tree was extremely polite.

  Jun Wu Yao’s eyes slightly perked up as he looked at the delicate face of the Spirit Tree, his voice suddenly cooled.

  “That time, you attracted my attention with the Spirit Tree seed and allowed me to take it away without much trouble. Was it because you have already noticed that Meng Qiu had bad intentions?”


  Jun Wu Yao finished his question which shocked Qin Song and Long Jiu.

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  What did Jun Wu Yao mean by those words?

  “Lord Ye Jue, what do you mean? What’s……” Long Jiu stared at Jun Wu Yao, not daring to think deeply about the meaning of Jun Wu Yao’s words.

  Even Qin Song couldn’t help his eyes from widening.

  There wasn’t any astonishment found on the face of the Spirit Tree. While looking calmly at Jun Wu Yao, it suddenly spoke, “You’ve guessed it.”


  Long Jiu and Qin Song were completely dumbfounded at the moment.

  The Spirit Tree didn’t even deny Jun Wu Yao’s statement. Instead, it responded with……”You’ve guessed it”?

  What had he guessed?

  Did this mean that it was the Spirit Tree who had planned for its seed to be taken away by Jun Wu Yao at that time? Had the Spirit Tree earlier known that Meng Qiu would betray the Soul World?!!

  Long Jiu and Qin Song were astounded by their own thoughts!

  They didn’t even want to think more about it.

  Jun Wu Yao simply just shrugged his shoulders, “Before this, I was just a little doubtful about it, but after Blood Velvet told me that the area covered by the Contemporaneous Knot was wide, I was then sure about it.”


  During that year, Jun Wu Yao didn’t really have much interest in the seed. It was the Spirit Tree who had told him a lot of interesting information on the contrary, causing him to seize with an idea of stealing the seed. There wasn’t any difficulties faced when he took the seed away. Although the Spirit Tree did send its people to search for him, but the fact that no news was heard after that had caused Jun Wu Yao to feel a little weird.

  After all, the seed that was taken by him was the seed that the Spirit Tree prepared to make it as its heir. Wasn’t it too easy for him to just simply take the seed away?

  At first, Jun Wu Yao thought that it was after Meng Qiu had gotten in touch with the Upper Realm that he had decided to persecute the Spirit Tree all of a sudden, but the existence of the Contemporaneous Knot was far before the past thousand years. It was obvious that the time when the Spirit Tree was cast with the Contemporaneous Knot was much earlier than the time when Meng Qiu began to be in contact with the Upper Realm.

  Hence, by inference, the fact that Jun Wu Yao was able to take the seed away so smoothly, this might probably be the premeditation of the Spirit Tree.

  “You knew that Meng Qiu had the thoughts of treachery but because you had no idea what was he actually planning to do, and so you handed me the seed and let me take it out of the Soul World?” Looking at the Spirit Tree, although the gaze of Jun Wu Yao was slightly sharp, there was no rage in his eyes.

  The Spirit Tree let out a soft sigh. While facing Jun Wu Yao’s query, it didn’t make any refutation about it except for one.

  “I’d been aware of Meng Qiu’s things before that. However, this isn’t the reason of me letting you take away the seed. In fact, it’s the other two reasons, which one of it was because of the Upper Realm, and for the other one……” The Spirit Tree didn’t finish its words but with a trace of bizarreness in its eyes, its gaze fell onto Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie stunned a little. What the Spirit Tree was trying to say…… was that she was the second reason of it letting Jun Wu Yao to take the seed?

  “Qin Song, Long Jiu.” The voice of the Spirit Tree suddenly changed.

  Long Jiu and Qin Song, who had earlier been flabbergasted by the truth to the point that their souls left their bodies, were still being in a state of confusion uptil now. Even after they were called by the Spirit Tree, they were still feeling a little dizzy.

  “Please leave first,” the Spirit Tree requested.

  The following topic wasn’t something that they were allowed to listen to.

  Though Long Jiu and Qin Song appeared to be a little dazed, they wouldn’t hesitate to follow the orders given by the Spirit Tree. Obediently, they left the Spirit Tree and guarded at the outer side spontaneously, preventing the other spirit envoys from getting near to the Spirit Tree.

  They could vaguely notice that the things that the Spirit Tree was going to talk about after this might probably be something really important.

  After Long Jiu and Qin Song left the place, only then the Spirit Tree raised its eyes and looked in the direction of Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao.

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  “I have already discovered the issue with Meng Qiu, but I just didn’t think that he would be used by the Upper Realm. I let you take the seed away, in order to maintain the ‘bloodline’, and it was also for the one beside you.” The Spirit Tree looked at Jun Wu Xie, its eyes were unusually gentle, with a smile on the corner of its mouth.

  “Me?” Jun Wu Xie felt a little bit strange, “How do you know that Jun Wu Yao will meet me?”


  The encounter between her and Jun Wu Yao was an accident. Moreover, she was not a soul of this world, but she was born again and took up her current shell.

  When Jun Wu Yao left the Upper Realm, she did not exist in this world at all. Yet, the Spirit Tree said that it was for her?

  The Spirit Tree smiled and said: “All things in the world are predestined, I know that you will eventually meet.”


  Jun Wu Xie cast a glance at Jun Wu Yao, she felt that what the Spirit Tree said was very strange.

  “How did you know?” Jun Wu Yao frowned.

  The Spirit Tree replied: “Did you not just see the past that belongs to both of you.”


  The words of the Spirit Tree made the hearts of Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie trembled slightly. They all knew that the Spirit Tree was referring to the illusions and realistic dreamscape. What Jun Wu Xie thought was right, that dreamscape was what the Spirit Tree wanted them to see.

  “I don’t think that those things hold any meaning for us.” Jun Wu Yao said coldly. How was the past related to their present?

  “It doesn’t make much sense, but amidst everything, you would still have met. You are not souls of this world, but you are sent here by the power of another world. Have you ever thought about the reason?” The Spirit Tree spoke, neither too fast nor slow.

  “Even if you don’t want to think about it, it did happen before. The Upper Realm want the souls from the outside world to activate the Blood Sacrifice Array, smash the void into pieces; if is not you, then it is her. The beings of the Three Realms are innocent, although I don’t dare affect cause and effect in the world, but I can give it a push. Ye Jue, I know why you are returning to the Upper Realm. But I want to tell you that what you know is not everything. The Upper Realm cooperating with Meng Qiu to capture the Soul World is not just for the occupation of this piece of land.”


  “What do you know about it?” Jun Wu Yao perceived that the Spirit Tree knew much more than him.

  The Spirit Tree was not supposed to intervene in anything in the Three Realms. It existed as a nurturer of souls for the Three Realms. It was a creator; the creator of this world’s souls, but in a sense, it was also a bystander; unable to control the changes in the Three Realms and could only exist in this Soul World.

  “Some things, I can’t say, but you can find clues on your own. I can only tell you now that the enemies you will face, only you can resolve. If you like this world, then you should guard and protect it with your heart, and it will bring you unexpected returns.” When the Spirit Tree finished speaking, the figure gradually faded, turning into a body of blue smoke and melting into the body behind.

  “In the Soul World, your enemies have not left yet. The Blood Sacrifice Array, apart from the spell casting, can be casted with 999,000 souls with the sacrifice of a million souls. Even if the souls of the outside world and the soul bones which escape to the ends of the earth, as long as they are still within the Three Realms, the Blood Sacrifice Array can still be carried out. This is the only thing I can tell you…… The rest must be discovered by yourselves……” The Spirit Tree eventually returned to its body, the human form dissipated and the golden light which was suspended in the air, slowly floated towards Jun Wu Xie.

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  Jun Wu Xie looked at the light sphere that was floating in front of her. She then raised her eyes and looked at Jun Wu Yao.

  The light sphere consisted the purest soul power in the world. It was a treasure given by the Spirit Tree to settle the chaotic energy in Jun Wu Xie’s body.

  Jun Wu Yao slightly nodded his head to Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie stretched her hands out and placed the light sphere between her hands.

  The light sphere landed on Jun Wu Xie’s palms and turned into a gold mist in that instant before it infiltrated into Jun Wu Xie’s hands.

  Jun Wu Xie could clearly feel that when the energy blended into her body, the chaotic energy which was tangling inside her had been cleansed up little by little!

  They hadn’t even say anything yet but the Spirit Tree had already known about their purpose of visiting the Soul World. This showed that the things that were previously said by the Spirit Tree weren’t just some groundless rumours.

  “Why won’t it finish the words?” After Jun Wu Xie had fully absorbed the light sphere, she looked at the quiet and huge Spirit Tree. It had already gone back to its original form. Every single sentence that it said just now had caused Jun Wu Xie to rack her brains, trying to figure out the meaning hidden in its words.

  The Spirit Tree was the spirit life that had appeared the earliest in the Three Realms. It was because of its existence that there were so many souls existing in the Three Realms, and that there was this thing called the Metempsychosis Path in the Soul World.

  The things it knew should probably be much more than anyone else in this world.

  “It’s the causality that isn’t allowing the Spirit Tree to say it. Once it says it, it will then destruct the causality.” Jun Wu Yao slightly narrowed his eyes. There were some words that even if the Spirit Tree wanted to tell them, it was unlikely that the Principle of Causality would let it do so. The world had its own rules, and even if it was the Spirit Tree, it would also be restrained by the rules.

  Jun Wu Xie drew in a deep breath. The Spirit tree had given them some hints, and for the rest, they needed to figure it out themselves.

  “The Spirit Tree has mentioned that the enemy of the Soul World have not left yet. I don’t think it is talking about those spirit envoys who has betrayed the Soul World. Does this mean that…… there are the people from the Upper Realm staying in the Soul World?” Jun Wu Xie was thinking about the words that were said by the Spirit Tree just now. She had no time to think about the others in detail, but the matter related to the Soul World was her first priority.

  After the Contemporaneous Knot was removed from the Spirit Tree, those spirit envoys who had turned their backs on the Soul World could no longer pose any threats to them. Without Meng Qiu, they were just a plate of loose sand. The kind of enemy that was able to let the Spirit Tree to specially warn them definitely wouldn’t be those spirit envoys in the Soul World.

  “Before this, I’d been feeling that the way the Upper Realm took their actions was very weird. Why would they want to take the Soul World under their control? But I think I’ve roughly understood it now.” The pair of Jun Wu Xie’s eyes slightly narrowed.

  The Spirit Tree had mentioned that in order to conduct the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms, besides building the array, there was a second way to hold the event, which was sacrificing 999,000 souls, and use the energy produced from the sacrifices to sheathe the entire Three Realms. As long as Jun Wu Yao and the soul bone were still in the Three Realms, the souls that were sacrificed in the Soul Sacrificing Event would then form an array that was able to swathe everything up, and the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realm could still be carried out!

  This was also the reason why the Upper Realm must take over the Soul World. Only the Soul World was able to supply such a large amount of souls.

  If it wasn’t for Jun Wu Xie visiting the Soul World in the purpose of looking for the souls of her father, her Master and her Grandmaster, and if it wasn’t for Jun Wu Yao coming to the Soul World in order to find the solution to resolve Jun Wu Xie’s chaotic energy, perhaps they wouldn’t have come to the Soul World in such a short time, and they also wouldn’t have figured out the surreptitious plan of the Upper Realm.

  It was most likely that all the plans that the Upper Realm had carried out for the Blood Sacrifice Array were just the camouflage they projected on the surface, whereas under the ground, they had actually prepared another method, which was using the soul entities in the Soul World to pave another road for them to crash the void apart!

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  “That is very clever.” Jun Wu Yao sneered. What Jun Wu Xie thought of, naturally he too thought of it.

  If not for their trip to the Soul World, they would have really missed out on this great piece of news!

  Once the plan of the Upper Realm was successful, it would be very difficult for them to try and stop it!

  Jun Wu Xie was silent for a moment. Suddenly, she took a step toward the Spirit Tree. She looked at the tall Spirit Tree and said: “Spirit Tree, thank you for your help, I still have one more thing to ask for your help with. You know everything about this world, then…… Can you tell me, my father, my master and my grandmaster, are their souls in the Soul World?”


  Jun Wu Xie’s voice echoed in the empty surrounding.

  After a long time, a vine of the Spirit Tree slowly lifted up and gently rested on Jun Wu Xie’s eyebrow.

  The gentle voice once again sounded in the mind of Jun Wu Xie.

  “Your master and grandmaster have entered the reincarnation, they will be born again, but they will have no memory of their past. If you want to find them, after they are reborn, I can tell you where their souls are. They have outstanding souls, and they will be reborn into the Soul World. Whether they stay or leave, depends on them.”


  Jun Wu Xie’s heart was overcome with joy as the Spirit Tree’s words were very euphemistic. Jun Wu Xie knew that Great Master Ren Huang and Yan Bui Gui were dead, but their souls could be reincarnated, it was unlike that of Meng Qiu’s soul. There was a chance to be born again, although they won’t remember their past.

  Perhaps, this could be considered a good outcome.

  “May I bother you, Tree Spirit, again to let me know when they are reborn.”


  Jun Wu Xie sighed, but suddenly noticed that the Spirit Tree only answered with the news of Great Master Ren Huang and Yan Bu Gui, but only did not reply regarding her father.

  “Spirit Tree, then my father…… Is his soul in the Soul World?”


  When Jun Wu Xie asked this question, her heartbeat accelerated unconsciously. The soul of Jun Gu had always been the most concerning issue in Lin Palace. If she couldn’t find it again, she did not know how to face Grandpa and Uncle.

  This time, the Spirit Tree fall into a long silence.

  After a long time, the voice of the Spirit Tree sounded again.

  “Here.”


  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes shone bright!

  An indescribable joy spread wildly in her chest.

  Even though she never had “contact” with Jun Gu, but the word ‘father’ had some sort of magical power that made Jun Wu Xie could not help but want to find him.

  “Where is he?” Jun Wu Xie’s voice held a hint of urgency.

  Found him, finally found him!

  “Soul Ascending Altar.” After the Spirit Tree conveyed these three words, the vines were pulled back. Evidently there was nothing more to be said.

  However, these answers had already made Jun Wu Xie feel unusually satisfied.

  Her father, really was in the Soul World!

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes were slightly bright, and her subtle changes allowed Jun Wu Yao to smile involuntarily.

  “Little Xie, you have good news?”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded. “Master and grandmaster can be reborn, my father…… he is in the Soul World!”


  Jun Wu Yao smiled more comfortably, and for now, their purpose in the Soul World had been achieved.

  “Where is he?” Jun Wu Yao asked.

  Jun Wu Xie took a deep breath and said, “Soul Ascending Altar.”


  There was a slight change on Jun Wu Yao’s face!

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  Jun Wu Xue noticed the change in Jun Wu Yao and the ecstasy in her eyes went down a little, “What’s wrong? The Soul Ascending Alter…… Is there anything wrong about it?”


  Jun Wu Yao recovered from the shock and slightly shook his head.

  “There’s nothing wrong with the place. It’s just that the Soul Ascending Altar is a place where the spirit envoy who has committed a serious crime in the Soul World is executed, but ever since the day the Soul World is established, the Soul Ascending Altar has never been used. Why…… is your father there?” Without thinking much about the other things, Jun Wu Yao was just feeling a little weird about the fact that her father was there.

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head. She knew nothing more. The Spirit Tree had only given her three words, “Soul Ascending Altar”, regarding the location of Jun Gu.

  They could only asked Long Jiu and Qin Song if they wanted to know about the detailed situation of the Soul Ascending Altar. Although Jun Wu Yao had visited the Soul World many times, he always spent most of his time staying together with the Spirit Tree, and he rarely went to the other places in the Soul World.

  Both of them walked out and saw Qin Song and Long Jiu standing outside, seemingly to be thinking of something. After they saw them coming, Long Jiu and Qin Song quickly stepped forwards and greeted them.

  Although they were really curious about the conversations between the Spirit Tree and the couple, Qin Song and Long Jiu were sensible enough to not ask anything.

  “Where’s the Soul Ascending Altar?” While looking at them, Jun Wu Xie asked.

  “The Soul Ascending Altar?” Long Jiu and Qin Song looked at each other, not expecting that Jun Wu Xie would actually asked about the location of the Soul Ascending Altar.

  To be honest, the Soul Ascending Altar was considered a forbidden area to all the spirit envoys in the Soul World. Except for those who were guarding there, it was rare for the spirit envoys to go to the Soul Ascending Altar.

  “Why do you want to go to the Soul Ascending Altar? That…… isn’t really a nice place for you to go.” Long Jiu scratched his head. Could it be that the Spirit Tree had told both Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao something about the Soul Ascending Altar?

  “I want to go and find my father. The Spirit Tree said that my father is at the Soul Ascending Altar,” explained Jun Wu Xie.

  Long Jiu and Qin Song were immediately enlightened. Before this when they left the Lower Realm, Jun Wu Xie had once asked them to help her find Jun Gu, Yan Bu Gui and Ren Huang in the Soul World. However, when they got back to the Soul World, the chaos had already happened and they didn’t have the time to look for them.

  “If you guys want to go, we can bring you there,” said Qin Song. Now that Meng Qiu was dead, those black armored spirit envoys were just a flock of sheep without a shepherd leading them, and most importantly, the Contemporaneous Knot on the Spirit Tree had been removed. Those spirit envoys who were faithful to the Spirit Tree would no longer have to restrain themselves. In terms of numbers, the amount of the black armored spirit envoys was far behind Qin Song them.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head. However, instead of hurrying to the Soul Ascending Altar, she went to the Soul Prison together with Qin Song and Long Jiu to free those spirit envoys who were locked up.

  When the black armored spirit envoys who were guarding outside the Soul Prison noticed the appearance of Jun Wu Yao, they couldn’t even pluck up their courage to fight. There was no need for Jun Wu Yao to do anything as the black armored spirit envoys had just straight off fled from the place.

  Even until the moment when those spirit envoys got out of the prison, they had still not realized the change in the Soul World. After Long Jiu told them everything, only then they came to an enlightenment that the Soul World had actually been extricated from Meng Qiu’s control!

  “The Spirit Tree said that the enemy of the Soul World is still here. In my opinion, there might be people from the Upper Realm staying in the Soul World.” While looking at all the spirit envoys who had regained their freedom, Jun Wu Xie repeated the words that were said by the Spirit Tree to them.

  However, there wasn’t any bits of nervousness seen from those spirit envoys at all. As long as the Spirit Tree had gotten rid of the Contemporaneous Knot, they had nothing to be afraid of.

  Qin Song had sent part of the spirit envoys to the location of the Spirit Tree in order to protect its safety whereas the others had started a battle to hunt down all the traitors in the entire Soul World.

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  After Qin Song and Long Jiu released the Spirit Envoys, they were ready to accompany Jun Wu Xie and the others to the Soul Ascending Altar. However, amongst those Spirit Envoys who were locked up, there was a Spirit Envoy who once guarded the Soul Ascending Altar, and upon hearing that Jun Wu Xie and friends wanted to go there, that Spirit Envoy immediately tensed.

  “Do you really want to go to the Soul Ascending Altar?” The Spirit Envoy stared widely at Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.

  Qin Song noticed the strange behaviour of the Spirit Envoy, and immediately asked: “Is there something strange going on at the Soul Ascending Altar?”


  The Spirit Envoy replied, “Miss Jun conveyed the instructions of the Spirit Tree, that the enemy is still in Soul World. I used to guard the Soul Ascending Altar. When Meng Qiu brought the insurgents to attack, I was there when we were arrested, but the insurgents were not Spirit Envoys of the Soul World. They seem like they came from the Upper Realm.”


  The words of the Spirit Envoy immediately aroused alarm in Jun Wu Xie.

  Qin Song continued rapidly questioning the Spirit Envoy; he did not dare hide and told them everything he knew.

  When he and his companions were arrested, they were not taken to the Soul Prison straightaway. Instead, they were detained for several days at the Soul Ascending Altar. It was during those days that he found out the people who took over the Soul Ascending Altar were the souls from the Upper Realm.

  “How many of them are there?” Qin Song was slightly shocked. He and Longjiu were in a hurry when they returned to the Soul World, so they didn’t have time to go to the Soul Ascending Altar to check on the situation, but they did not expect that the army from the Upper Realm would actually be at the Soul Ascending Altar!

  The Spirit Envoy shook his head. “I didn’t see clearly and I didn’t count them. They arrived one after another. When I was taken to the Soul Prison, their troops were incomplete, but I estimate not less than tens of thousands of people.”


  Tens of thousands?!

  Qin Song was shocked.

  “My grandmother! That group of bastards better not leave! The fire in my stomach has been burning for so long, and it’s just as well that these Upper Realm bastards are here so that I can beat them up!” Long Jiu was already rolling up his sleeves and getting ready for a big battle.

  Qin Song glanced at the impulsive Long Jiu, and shook his head helplessly.

  “Since the Upper Realm dare to send people over, it will definitely not be an ordinary role. We still don’t understand their strengths. We must not act rashly. It is not important whether we win or lose. But if they cause a mess in the Soul World and hurt the Spirit Tree, then the loss outweighs any gain.” Qin Song replied.

  Once they started fighting, it would be a big battle in the Soul World. They were not afraid of war, but they didn’t want to let the other party have the opportunity to destroy the Spirit Tree.

  Long Jiu, after being told off by Qin Song, calmed himself down.

  “I am afraid that this battle is inevitable.” Jun Wu Yao raised his eyebrows. “Meng Qiu is dead, the Soul Prison has been broken. Those black armoured Spirit Envoys cannot not know that they no longer have a leader. They will definitely go to the Upper Realm for help. And those from the Upper Realm will know sooner or later.”


  Qin Song’s thoughts were very good, but in Jun Wu Yao’s opinion, it was too conservative. This war was inevitable in any case. Instead of waiting for the people from the Upper Realm to be fully prepared, it was better to launch a surprise attack and defeat them by surprise.

  “That……” Qin Song was hesitant. He hadn’t participated in any major wars after all.

  “Leave it to us.” Jun Wu Xie suddenly spoke, her father was on the Soul Ascending Altar, this battle, she must participate!

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  There were so many wars that Jun Wu Xie and Jun have participated in, and they knew how to control the situation in front of them.

  Qin Song nodded and immediately organized the rescued Spirit Envoys, and handed the command over to Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie. The number of Spirit Envoys which were assigned to the Spirit Tree more than doubled.

  At the same time, the black armoured Spirit Envoys had fled upon learning of Meng Qiu’s demise. In their horror to escape, they had fled toward the Soul Ascending Altar just as Jun Wu Yao had predicted.

  At the Soul Ascending Altar, Yan Xi frowned as she looked at the black armoured Spirit Envoys kneeling on the ground. Her gentle face held a trace of anger. Those black armoured Spirit Envoys narrated in anguish everything that had happened in the Soul World. They were now so easily frightened that their faces were all white with fear.

  “What a bunch of trash!” Yan Xi screamed in dismay, turned and walked into the main hall behind her.

  In the main hall, that particular fragrance pervaded, Jun Gu sat on the seat of honour, his eyes were calm.

  Yan Xi looked at the handsome face of Jun Gu, her troubled heart became a little calmer, but her brow was furrowed.

  “What happened outside? Why is it so noisy?” Jun Gu looked up at Yan Xi. The cries of black armoured Spirit Envoys outside made his head, which was initially quite groggy, swell with pain.

  Yan Xi stepped forward and said: “Meng Qiu that idiot is dead.”


  “Oh? Someone in the Soul World killed him?” Jun Gu raised his eyebrows slightly, Meng Qiu’s strength could be said to be the most outstanding in Soul World, which was why His Lord chose to cooperate with Meng Qiu. Meng Qiu had come to Soul Ascending Altar a few days before and asked when the Blood Sacrifice Array could begin, and how did he get killed today?

  The three-day period has passed, and matter of sacrifice has been prepared. It will start soon. However, no one expected trouble to turn up now.

  “Do you know who did it?” Jun Gu’s brows were wrinkled. With Meng Qiu dead, they would lose control of their firm grasp of the Soul World; which was not good news for them.

  Yan Xi’s face became even more unsightly, and she said after a moment of silence: “It’s Ye Jue.”


  Jun Gu was slightly shocked.

  “Ye Jue?”


  The name of Ye Jue was of great significance to the Upper Realm.

  “Isn’t he locked up in the Upper Realm? How can he appear in Soul World?” Jun Gu could not help but had some doubts. He had never seen the legendary Ye Jue, he had just heard of the name from His Lord. This person was related to the success or failure of the Blood Sacrifice Array, which was the main focus of the Upper Realm.

  Yan Xi shook her head. “Not long ago, a woman from the Lower Realm provoked Luo Qingcheng. That person possesses a Soul Bone. She made Luo Qingcheng bring Ye Jue to the Lower Realm. His Lord agreed, however, I heard that Luo Qingcheng was defeated, and Ye Jue had also escaped. Thus, His Lord wants us complete the Blood Array Sacrifice as soon as possible.”


  Jun Gu was a bit stunned, “The people in the Lower Realm provoked Luo Qingcheng?”


  Although Jun Gu and Luo Qingcheng did not have much contact, but he knew the strength of Luo Qingcheng. With the great disparity between the Lower Realm and Upper Realm, it was almost a fantasy to defeat Luo Qingcheng.

  “Who is that?” An involuntary hint of curiosity rose within Jun Gu.

  “I heard it is someone called Jun Wu Xie.”


  “Jun……Wu Xie……” Unknowingly, when Jun Gu heard the name, a sudden blurry image flashed in his mind. His expression was slightly stunned as if something had flashed through his heart. But it was so quick that he was unable to capture it.

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  There was a weird feeling arising from the bottom of Jun Gu’s heart. The words “Jun Wu Xie” sounded inexpressibly familiar to him. He seemed to have heard the name before but he simply couldn’t bring it to his mind no matter how.

  “It feels like I’ve heard the name before from somewhere else.” Jun Gu slightly knitted his brows into a frown. There seemed to be a voice constantly urging him to recall something, but it was completely blank in his mind.

  Yan Xi’s heart gave out a shudder, but she was still pretending to be calm on the face.

  “It’s just a trash from the Lower Realm. You don’t have to waste your time for her, Lord Jun Gu. The problem now is that Meng Qiu is dead, and now that Ye Jue is in the Soul World, we’re not sure if he has noticed us. Hence, we should no longer delay the Soul Sacrificing Event anymore. We need to settle it down as soon as possible before getting into trouble.”


  “You want to avoid the battle?” Jun Gu looked at Yan Xi, seemingly to be absorbed in thoughts.

  Yan Xi nodded her head.

  “Although half of Ye Jue’s power has been suppressed, it’s still not that easy to deal with him with the remaining strength he has. If we keep entangling with him, it might probably obstruct our plan in carrying out the Soul Sacrificing Event. Although Meng Qiu is dead now, we’ve already gotten everything ready. There’s no need for us to fight face to face against Ye Jue. We just have to activate the Soul Sacrificing Array and everything will be done.”


  While speaking, Yan Xi was just staring at the floor in front of her feet. In terms of strength, His Lord was the only person among the entire Three Realms who was able to rival Ye Jue during the period of time when Ye Jue was in his apex. But now, half of Ye Jue’s strength had been sealed off, and with the recent power Jun Gu got, there wasn’t really anything for him to be afraid of, it was just that……

  A trace of trepidation flashed across Yan Xi’s eyes. The condition of Jun Gu was still unstable as his temperament was yet to be fully finalized. If something went wrong during the battle, which led his state of mind into turbulence, the responsibilities would then be something that Yan Xi was unable to take on.

  Jun Gu frowned. He was quite confident with the power he owned, but the fact that Yan Xi was so quick in proposing the suggestion to avoid the battle had caused him to be a little frustrated. There seemed to have a kind of passion raging invisibly inside him, leading him in having a craving for a hearty and contented battle, and also for the great satisfaction when fighting against a strong opponent.

  There was a weird aroma pervading in the main hall, constantly stimulating the nerves of Jun Gu, as if it was trying to extinguish his passion.

  “Lord Jun Gu, I know that you have no fear for Ye Jue’s power, but please do look more into the overall interests, surely that His Lord is not willing to let you suffer from any injuries.” After noticing the defiance shown by Jun Gu, purposefully, Yan Xi softened her voice.

  It seemed like there was some kind of special energy added into the voice. With the voice blending into the incense of the Rhinoceros Horn, the defiance of Jun Gu eventually subsided.

  “Fine, just go and make the arrangement.” Jun Fu was slightly annoyed. It was certain that he was unwilling to accept all of these, but he was unable to control his mind. Such feeling irritated him very much.

  “Yes.” Inwardly, Yan Xi let out a sigh of relief. She then immediately left the hall to prepare for the Soul Sacrificing Array.

  Ever since the day Meng Qiu came and asked about the preparation of the event, they had already gotten the Soul Sacrificing Array ready, and it could be activated anytime.

  Walking out of the palace, Yan Xi’s face had completely changed into a different expression. With her eyes filling with arrogance, she looked at those soldiers from the Upper Realm. Her gaze then swept across those spirit envoys who were empty in the eyes, being locked up in the prisons, with a quick glance.

  “Activate the Soul Sacrificing Array now.” Yan Xi’s voice was heard abruptly around the Soul Ascending Altar.

  Followed by Yan Xi’s voice was the one hundred and eight beacon towers, which were located around the Soul Ascending Altar, being lit up. There were numerous green flames burning, causing the bright Soul Ascending Altar to be enshrouded with a peculiar green light!

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  In a twinkling, the green flames gathered at the centre of the Soul Ascending Altar with numerous beams of green rays connecting to the one hundred and eight beacon towers. There were prisons where the soul entities were being locked up between each beacon towers. While being enshrouded with the green light, those wretched soul entities looked even more miserable at the moment. Screams coming from the depth of their souls could be heard, one after another, around the Soul Ascending Altar. It was such a bloodcurdling wail, as if a nightmare had befallen!

  The moment the beacon towers were lit up, all the human souls from the Upper Realm pinned an emerald badge onto their chests. The badge seemed to have formed a protective shield around each of them, isolating them from the green light.

  The beams of light converged above the Soul Ascending Altar. The runes that were engraved into the floor of the Soul Ascending Altar were covered under the light. The runes gave out a gold halo, which then connected with each other into a circle. The halo shoot upwards all of a sudden, straight towards the ball of green light!

  And that was at the right moment, as if the green light sphere had gotten exploded, the cloud of eerie light spread across the entire Soul World!

  Long Jiu and Qin Song were hastily leading Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao to the Soul Ascending Altar with a bunch of spirit envoys following behind them. When they were just not far from the Soul Mountain, they stopped their steps abruptly.

  “What’s that?” Long Jiu looked up with his eyes big widening in disbelief. Coming above from the Soul Mountain, there was a green light spreading in all directions at an extremely high speed!

  An ominous feeling began to hover over the heart of every spirit envoy.

  “Oh no! The Upper Realm must have done something, they’ve known about the death of Meng Qiu.” The heart of Qin Song beat tremulously.

  However, just as the moment they stopped, the green light had already come dashing towards them.

  When the green light went over their heads, all the spirit envoys lost their energy at the instant, and in just the blink of an eye, those spirit envoys who were following behind Jun Wu Xie collectively collapsed onto the ground, legs flaccid, not being able to stand up.

  Even Long Jiu and Qin Song had crumpled on the floor, feeling all sluggish, as if all their soul power had been sucked out by someone.

  Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao were the only two people who did not feel anything, but there wasn’t any single spirit envoy around them who was able to get up.

  “What’s going on?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Long Jiu and the others who had fallen onto the ground with a trace of shock coming out from her eyes.

  “I…… I don’t know…… There’s something wrong…… with this light…… It feels like our soul power has been sucked out by someone else……” Arduously, Qin Song responded. It was just a simple sentence, but it took so much energy for Qin Song to speak it out.

  The bodies of Qin Song and the others were turning transparent at a speed that was visible to the naked eyes. This was the exact same condition as Meng Qiu’s condition before he vanished!

  “Looks like the Spirit Tree is right. The Upper Realm wants to sacrifice all the soul entities in the Soul World. The light is the sign of them activating the array.” Jun Wu Yao narrowed his pair of eyes. As expected, the Upper Realm was fast with their actions. How pitiful of Meng Qiu thinking that he was able to have the Spirit Tree all for himself if he cooperated with the Upper Realm. He had no idea that the array used by the Upper Realm was actually aiming to sacrifice the whole Soul World. Once the array was activated, even the Spirit Tree couldn’t be excluded from being affected.

  “Lord Ye Jue…… please…… save the…… Soul World……” Not even having the energy to raise himself up, Qin Song could only raise his head miserably and looked at Jun Wu Yao with his imploring eyes.

  Jun Wu Yao nodded.

  “Why are we fine?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao. All the spirit envoys had been affected by the light, but she and Jun Wu Yao were the only two people who didn’t suffer from any abnormality.

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  Jun Wu Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie, “We’re not the souls of this world.”


  Jun Wu Xie was enlightened.

  Jun Wu Yao reached out his hand and wrapped Jun Wu Xie around his arms, “Let’s go now.”


  The speed of the light that was spreading across the Soul World was too fast. If they continued to let it be, the entire Soul World would be annihilated. Jun Wu Yao wasn’t afraid of being sacrificed. In the past, he just didn’t like the feeling of being used by someone, but now, he definitely wouldn’t allow the plan of the Upper Realm to be carried out successfully.

  It was all just because……

  He was no longer the only otherworldly soul in the Three Realms. Once the Soul Sacrificing Event was held successfully, Jun Wu Xie too, would be sacrificed!

  Not even wanting to waste a second of time, Jun Wu Yao immediately flew towards the summit of the Soul Mountain while carrying Jun Wu Xie in his arms!

  All Qin Song and Long Jiu could do was just watching the back figures of both the two people who were leaving with an expectant gaze.

  On the peak of the Soul Mountain, wails of the souls kept on bursting one after another. It was such a shrill scream that it almost pierced through one’s eardrums!

  While standing beside the Soul Ascending Altar, Yan Xi looked at the light which was gradually spreading through the entire Soul World with a trace of viciousness flaring across her eyes. Inside the prisons that were located around the Soul Ascending Altar, the first batch of spirit envoys who were being affected had already become the oblation of the Soul Sacrificing Event. The soul entities of theirs were getting more and more transparent. While twitching with their mouths opened and eyes staring big, it could be vaguely seen that the soul power was still constantly evaporating from their bodies, flowing towards the light sphere, making the spirit envoys the sacrificial offerings of the Soul Sacrificing Event.

  “Very good. It won’t take long before the plan of His Lord succeeds.” Yan Xi looked at everything that happened in front of her eyes in satisfaction. Even if Ye Jue was in the Soul World, so what? Once the Soul Sacrificing Event began to show its effect, it would be the time for him to be sacrificed, and the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms…… would soon turn into reality.

  By that time, no one else was able to stop all of these!

  “Lord Yan Xi!” All of a sudden, a soldier from the Upper Realm came anxiously to Yan Xi with an extremely ghastly expression hanging on his face.

  “What’s wrong?” Yan Xi frowned slightly. She didn’t want to be bothered by anything in such a critical timing.

  “There are enemies on the Soul Mountain! They are heading here at a very fast pace!” Shivering in fear, the soldier responded.

  “There are soul entities who are able to resist the Soul Sacrificing Event?” Yan Xi knitted her brows into a deep frown. Once the Soul Sacrificing Event began, the soul power of all the soul entities who were enshrouded under the light would immediately be extracted out from their bodies, same went to the people coming from the Upper Realm, and this was why they had all pinned up the badges, that were used to isolate themselves from the Soul Sacrificing Event, beforehand.

  Nevertheless, it was said that there were still soul entities who were coming over here?

  “It’s…… It’s Ye Jue……” said the soldier, trembling.

  Yan Xi’s eyes suddenly widened!

  This was too fast!

  Yan Xi raised her head and looked at the huge sphere of light that was still constantly absorbing the soul power, eyes narrowed.

  “No matter how, stop him! Do not let him get near to the Soul Sacrificing Event!” Severely, Yan Xi placed her order.

  Just give her a little more time and the Soul Sacrificing Event would be completed!

  Just stall for a few moments!

  The blood of every single soldier from the Upper Realm ran cold in terror. The name of Ye Jue was just like a nightmare which couldn’t be gotten rid off from their minds, but Yan Xi had given her order, there was no way they would have the courage to disobey her, and thus, they could only forced themselves to the mountainside of the Soul Mountain to block the route of Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie!

  “Everyone, go and block him! Do not let him get to the peak of the mountain!” Yan Xi shouted. The plan was so close to succeed, she definitely wouldn’t allow any mishaps to occur at this period of time!

  A large amount of soldiers rushed towards the mountainside of the Soul Mountain, and at the same time, Jun Wu Yao had already stepped onto the Soul Mountain with Jun Wu Xie. There was only one path to the summit of the mountain in the dense mountain forest, and the whole Soul Mountain had already been sheathed by the green light.

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  The closer they got to the top of the Soul Mountain, the more dazzling the green light was.

  With the strong light shining, even Jun Wu Yao wasn’t able to fly up directly to the peak of the mountain. He could only choose to stop flying at the mountainside.

  The moment Jun Wu Xie landed on the ground, there came a large number of armored soldiers whizzing down from the top of the mountain, completely blocking in front of her and Jun Wu Yao.

  Jun Wu Xie’s gaze turned extremely cold at the moment. By looking at the reactions of Qin Song and the others, she had already known about the greatness of the green light. The moment the thought of her father being at the Soul Ascending Altar came into her mind, it felt like there was a scorching fire burning her heart.

  It had been so many years and she had finally gotten some news regarding Jun Gu. Both the father and the daughter would soon reunite with each other, but she couldn’t have thought that they would actually meet each other in such a situation……

  Wrath was burning inside Jun Wu Xie.

  If she wasn’t able to save her father, how was she going to face her grandfather and little uncle?

  “Those who block my way shall die.” With a cold gaze glinting in her eyes, Jun Wu Xie slightly narrowed her pair of eyes.

  At first, the soldiers from the Upper Realm were just busy keeping Jun Wu Yao on guard without paying much attention to Jun Wu Xie, but the moment when the soul power of Jun Wu Xie went up all of a sudden, the invisible pressure formed had caused those soldiers to covertly feel a thrill of terror!

  Who the hell was this woman?

  How came she had such a strong soul power?

  “They have no way to stop us.” Jun Wu Yao was aware of the murderous intent shown by Jun Wu Xie. While chuckling, he raised his left hand casually, and a dark spirit shoot out of his fingertip. It seemed to be just a soft and simple attack, but it had actually blown off the bunch of soldiers who were blocking in front of their way, forcibly opening up a bloody path!

  Jun Wu Yao was so strong that his powerfulness had actually made the soldiers go all weak at their knees!

  Just as the moment when Jun Wu Yao launched his attack, the figure of Jun Wu Xie vanished from the ground which she originally was standing on and turned into a beam of ray, dashing into the battlefield, just like a thunderbolt!

  At the instant……

  There were wails of dread coming from all directions.

  The chaotic energy in Jun Wu Xie’s body had already been resolved by the Spirit Tree. Although the Spirit Rings couldn’t be used in the Soul World, the power of her dual soul form cultivation had gotten a perfect upgrade, and hence, the soldiers of the Upper Realm could no longer withstand the strength of her soul power.

  The so called Gold Spirits were just a flock of sheep that were waiting to be slaughtered when they were in front of Jun Wu Xie. Before they could even get to catch a look at Jun Wu Xie’s figure, they had already been beaten up in the ass by her, let alone carrying out a counterattack!

  While looking at the intrepid and valiant figure of Jun Wu Xie on the battlefield, there wasn’t any uneasiness in Jun Wu Yao’s eyes, but more of a pride.

  His Little Xie had grown up. Just as what she had promised earlier, she was now able to fight beside him!

  Without thinking much, Jun Wu Yao joined the battle at the moment. Together with Jun Wu Xie, he reaped all the lives of their enemies!

  On the top of the Soul Mountain, Yan Xi stared at the huge light sphere which was floating on the centre of the Soul Ascending Altar with a trace of nervousness in her eyes.

  “Lord Yan Xi! The strengths of Ye Jue and the woman he brought are too strong, we…… we might not be able to hold them back!” A soldier ran back hastily and kneeled in front of Yan Xi while holding a wretched expression onto the face.

  There were more than ten thousand souls of the Gold Spirits but with Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao teaming up against them, they had actually made no use in blocking them. What was even worse was that Jun Wu Xie had called all her six Ring Spirits and the black beast out. Due to the boosting effect of the Spirit Tree, the strengths of the Ring Spirits had gotten to be doubled up, causing them to be able to fight against those Gold Spirits without having any stress!

  The troops of the Upper Realm were being slaughtered all the way. There was no way for them to stop Jun Wu Xie’s step!

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  “What?” Yan Xi slightly widened her eyes, that snivelling soldier reported about the strength of Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao.

  Yan Xi’s face suddenly turned hideous to the extreme. She thought that the one who could bypass the Soul Sacrificing Event and rush to Soul Mountain would be only Jun Wu Yao. True, Jun Wu Yao was very powerful, but his strength was sealed with a strong spell, also with his own power, tens of thousands of enemy soldiers couldn’t possibly force him into retreat, but it was not difficult to temporarily delay the pace of his offensive attack.

  But no one expected that with the arrival of Jun Wu Yao, wasn’t just him alone!

  From what the soldier said, Yan Xi learned that there was not only a strong and intrepid woman with Jun Wu Yao but she also possessed a number of powerful Wood Spirits!

  Wood Spirits attacks were inherently strong and aggressive, and the killing effect would multiply in such a large melee. This situation was not what Yan Xi expected.

  “What woman? Where is the woman from?” Yan Xi grabbed and lifted the soldier up in anger, as she stared at him like she wanted to peel and swallow him alive.

  “I…… I don’t know…… the woman is terrifying…… The Wood Spirit and the Beast Spirit which she summoned are too strong, we……we are not their opponents at all.” The soldier was already scared witless. He saw Jun Wu Xie pass through the battlefield like a hurricane, reaping through the lives of countless companions. And those Wood Spirits summoned by Jun Wu Xie were one more ferocious and violent than the previous. A huge vine swept through everything and instantly killed nearly a thousand people!

  This was definitely a nightmare!

  “Trash! You are really a bunch of trash! 30,000 people can’t hold the battle for a while, what do I need you for?” Yan Xi threw the man on the ground and stomped angrily. She looked at the Soul Sacrificing Event which was reaching completion. If Jun Wu Yao and his team could not be stopped at this time, then the Upper Realm’s plan that was deployed in the Soul World for so long, it would be game over for them!

  At this moment, Yan Xi’s heart fell to the bottom of the valley. Who would have thought that Jun Wu Yao would actually mount an attack in the Soul World at this time?

  If it was a day later……even a half day, their plans would be completed.

  “Forget it. Their strength is simply not enough to stop Ye Jue. Eve if you killed him, it does not help the situation.” Just as Yan Xi was flustered, a gentle voice drifted into her ears.

  Yan Xi froze for a moment and she turned her head to look. She didn’t realise when Jun Gu had walked out of the main hall as he looked at him very calmly.

  “Get up. Don’t let everyone fear the battle. Even if it is a strong enemy, we must not lose the will to fight.” Jun Gu looked at the scared soldier, his heart was a little uncomfortable. The fear on the soldier’s face made him feel very bad, as if in his subconscious, the soldiers under his command should not be so timid.

  “Lord Jun Gu…… Why did you come out?” Yan Xi looked at Jun Gu with shock. After coming to the Soul World, Jun Gu had never left the main hall. This was what Yan Xi always intended to do, even now. Yan Xi had not intended for Jun Gu to appear.

  “The enemy is currently advancing, and you want me to avoid it?” Jun Gu’s brows wrinkled.

  “No……not……” Yan Xi was a little surprised at his words.

  “They are not the opponents of Ye Jue. To stop Ye Jue from advancing, I have to step up. The matters of the Soul World are handed over to you. I will go meet him.” Jun Gu smiled lightly as he pointed his toes gently, and suddenly flew toward the side of Soul Mountain!

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  Jun Gu left too fast, such that Yan Xi could not even begin to stop him. Seeing Jun Gu’s departing figure disappeared in front of her, Yan Xi suddenly shuddered.

  No!

  Jun Gu can never enter a battlefield!

  The never-before intense fear permeated Yan Xi’s heart.

  When Jun Gu heard Jun Wu Xie, those three words, he displayed a vague sense of strangeness. Yan Xi did not dare to let the both of them meet!

  Yan Xi’s vague gut feeling was that the woman who was with Jun Wu Yao, was actually Jun Wu Xie from the Lower Realm!

  Yan Xi’s heart was filled with fear.

  Jun Gu was from the Soul World, but she is not very clear about the origin of Jun Gu. She only knew that Jun Gu was the person who held the favour of His Lord, and even surpassed the importance previously attached to Luo Qingcheng. Jun Gu’s past had been wiped clean by His Lord. The only thing he remembered was his own name. No matter how his past was cleansed, he was not able to wipe clean Jun Gu, this name and thus this name as kept.

  Jun Gu……Jun Wu Xie……

  Even though there were many surnames in the Three Realms, the abject fear of Yan Xi’s heart was not reduced.

  “Look after the Soul Sacrifice!” Under the great pressure of fear, Yan Xi did not dare to hesitate for a moment longer. She issued an order to that soldier and immediately gave chase after Jun Gu!

  Within the Soul Mountain, the army of the Upper Realm was utterly defeated. Death here did not stain the area suddenly red as the death of souls would not leave even a trace.

  Only the number of the army which had been steadily decreasing that made people look terrified.

  On the battlefield, it became the playground of Poison Ivy. The vines that burrowed deep into the ground came and went without a trace, yet it could take away human life in an instant. The seeds of Blood Velvet dispersed with spread with his hands and feet and fell upon and was absorbed into the bodies of the Upper Realm soldiers, the seeds snatched their souls wildly.

  The happiest thing on the battlefield was Corpse Flower. In the past, he was bullied till he could not speak, but now, he was now without any scruples. His body, which was thick and strong, was like a meat grinder on a rampage. Anyone who wanted to escape was blocked by Crystal Orchid’s ice wall, awaiting their demise.

  On the entire battlefield, the soldiers from the Upper Realm mourned, and the war showed a one-sided situation.

  Jun Wu Xie was a killing machine reincarnate. She swept through the whole area, with her current strength, the existence of Upper Realm soldiers were like ants.

  With a raised hand, a soldier from the Upper Realm flew, and the figure of Jun Wu Xie once again turned into a flowing light which rushed into the battle.

  Just as she was about to start killing more, a cold intent suddenly came from behind her!

  Jun Wu Xie changed her direction in almost an instant, the moment her body flew up, a huge crater was blasted into the spot she was previously standing on!

  Jun Wu Xie was shocked, and before she could even think more closely, a voice drilled into her ears.

  “Little Miss, you have good capabilities.” The voice was gentle and smiling, but it was contrary to the fierceness on the battlefield. As Jun Wu Xie was about to look up to see the owner of the voice, that person had already turned into a black shadow, so fast that even Jun Wu Xie couldn’t see clearly!

  Astonishment floated into the heart of Jun Wu Xie, she did not expect that there was such an exponent in the Upper Realm, but there was no time to consider further as the shadow had already come at her again!

  The speed of the man was extremely fast, and Jun Wu Xie could only use all her power to defend, the two figures flashes, but they couldn’t see each other’s appearance.

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  As they exchanged blows, it was obvious to Jun Wu Xie that her opponent was stronger than her. And that astounded Jun Wu Xie.

  According to what she had learned before, among the entire Upper Realm, except for the person sitting behind, the strongest exponent was Luo Qingcheng, but Luo Qingcheng had been defeated by her. It was reasonable to say that among the Upper Realm, unless that person personally came out, otherwise no one would be her opponent again.

  However, the person who appeared today was obviously stronger than Luo Qingcheng, in fact, he was very much stronger!

  It was but a short fight, and Jun Wu Xie already felt strained. The man’s moves flowed smoothly like water but each stroke was fatal. If the chaotic energy within Jun Wu Xie hadn’t been resolved, she would have been defeated.

  Jun Wu Xie couldn’t help but wrinkled her brows faintly, she couldn’t relax her attack or defence.

  On the other hand, Jun Wu Yao was cutting through the soldiers of the Three Realms like grass, sending them straight to hell. However, suddenly, he felt a strong presence entered the battlefield. He cast a glance at that direction and found a figure engaging Jun Wu Xie in an intense battle!

  Jun Wu Yao was stunned. He shook his arms and waved away all the enemy soldiers surrounding him, and rushes towards Jun Wu Xie!

  When Jun Gu arrived at the battlefield, he thought that all this was provoked by Jun Wu Yao. He did not expect to see a petite Grim Reaper-like figure sweep across the battlefield, utterly defeating the Upper Realm soldiers. He didn’t hesitate to attack the little guy.

  This fight had made Jun Gu feel very surprised.

  This little guy looked young, but his strength was even more dauntless than he had imagined. If he wasn’t the enemy, Jun Gu would have liked to chat with this devil-like little fellow. After all, at this age, with this strength, even placed among talents of the Upper Realm, he would still be considered a top-notch powerhouse.

  It’s a pity that it was not the right time. Jun Gu felt a trace of regret but he also wanted to find a way to quickly rid himself of the little guy in front of him.

  At the moment when Jun Gu was ready to attack, a black shadow rushed into his battle with Jun Wu Xie, and a tyrannical force followed!

  Jun Wu Yao hugged Jun Wu Xie into his arms, and threw a palm out at Jun Gu!

  Jun Gu’s palm met his and the strong shockwave pushed both of them away in an instant!

  The soldiers around them were unable to block the shockwave of this aftermath, and they were thrown back!

  When Jun Gu’s figure landed and regained his footing, he looked at Jun Wu Yao who had interrupted their fight, the corner of Jun Gu’s mouth curved into a smile.

  “So it seems, you are Ye Jue.”


  Jun Wu Yao held onto Jun Wu Xie as they landed, and lifted his head toward the person who spoke. Jun Wu Yao was about to reply but was stunned.

  Jun Wu Xie gasped slightly. If not for Jun Wu Yao who lent a hand, she would inevitably have to suffer a blow and a half. However when Jun Wu Yao landed on the ground, his body stiffened for a moment and this made Jun Wu Xie suspicious. She subconsciously raised her head, trying to see who was the exponent the Upper Realm was hiding. But when she saw the face of that person, she felt like she was struck by lightning.

  The clear eyes widened and stared in disbelief at that ethereal and unaffected figure.

  That beautiful face perfectly overlapped with the appearance in her memory!

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  Time seemed to have stopped at this moment as Jun Wu Xie stared unblinkingly at the man who was a few steps away, her brows wrinkled together. If not for the sounds of battle raging on, Jun Wu Xie would have thought she entered the realm of fantasy.

  The slender and tall figure stood alone in the scuffle, and the wind blew his black hair. The delicately handsome features were perfect, like a carved jade statue, quiet and elegant.

  Jun Wu Xie just stood at the same spot, staring at Jun Gu who stood not far away. Her doubts and incomprehension crashed around like huge waves.

  Jun Gu thought that Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie would attack again, and readied himself for a two prong attack. But the two of them just stood rooted in their spot watching him with eyes wide in shock.

  Jun Gu’s interest was piqued, “What? Why are you looking at me like that? In the battle, it’s not wise to reveal such a void.”


  If he wanted to, he could take a shot at them as they stood stunned. But Jun Gu didn’t like to take advantage of such situations.

  “Ye Jue, I respect you for you are the strongest of the generation. Even though we are enemies, I won’t take advantage of you. But…… have you stared at me enough? Is my face better looking than the girl next to you?” Jun Gu tinned his chin. If it wasn’t that the venue was incorrect, he would have laughed. These two fellows ought to be fighting properly but instead were just staring hard at him.

  Jun Wu Xie regained some presence of mind but found that Jun Gu had only cast a quick glance to her face, as he focused more on Jun Wu Yao. Her heart unconsciously clenched, even for a person as smart as her, she didn’t know what exactly was this person in front of her.

  Why……

  Why did he look exactly the same as her father?

  Jun Wu Xie subconsciously clutched her chest; the body of Jun Gu was still preserved in the Lin Palace, and that lifelike appearance was like being caught in an endless sleep. Jun Wu Xie had seen it countless times and long memorised Jun Gu’s appearance. The face in her memory was duplicated onto this person in front of her.

  Even though there were people who looked similar, she didn’t know that two people could be this identical.

  What made Jun Wu Xie even more uneasy was what the Spirit Tree had said……

  The Spirit Tree said that her father was on the Soul Ascending Altar!

  And now, she was only a short distance from the Soul Ascending Altar but she didn’t expect to meet a person who looked exactly the same as Jun Gu.

  Who was he?

  Doubt and shock were swimming in Jun Wu Xie’s mind. She was eager to clarify her doubts. Her nervousness was detected by Jun Wu Yao due to the stiffness in her body.

  Jun Wu Yao squinted his eyes as he looked at the man in front of him. He had seen Jun Gu’s body many times as he wanted to help Jun Xu Xie find her father as soon as possible, and because of that, the moment he saw the other party, he stiffened momentarily

  Jun Wu Yao took a deep breath, this person recognized him, and from the tone of his voice, he should be from the Upper Realm. However, Jun Wu Yao had no memory of him. This person’s strength was stronger than Luo Qingcheng. Logically speaking, it was impossible for Jun Wu Yao to not know him.

  “Who are you?”


  The gentleman paused a moment and suddenly laughed softly as he bowed elegantly and said: “I am Jun Gu.”


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  Jun Gu!!

  When Jun Wu Xie heard the two words, it was as if a strong punch had hit her straight in her heart, causing the last bit of puzzlement that was left in her heart to completely disappear at the moment.

  It was the same face, the same name, and even the age was exactly the same as the age when Jun Gu passed away. No matter how much Jun Wu Xie wanted to doubt it, the words of the Spirit Tree came lingering in her mind.

  She thought what the Spirit Tree meant was that her father was imprisoned in the Soul Ascending Altar, but it had never occurred to her that…… the reunion of both the father and the daughter would actually happen in such a way.

  “You are…… Jun Gu?” asked Jun Wu Xie in a soft voice. It seemed like even she herself was unable to believe such a “coincidence”.

  “Yes.” Casually, Jun Gu responded.

  Even in the face of his foes, he was still behaving so calmly and elegantly.

  Jun Wu Xie could still remember that this was exactly what she had heard from Jun Qing when he was describing Jun Gu, that no matter how worse the situation he was dealing with, he was always calm and steady, with a faint smile hanging on his face all the time.

  He was once the faith and the spirit of the Rui Lin Army, Jun Gu, the man with the title of the Charming Ashura!

  Jun Wu Yao was totally confused. The current situation had truly caught him off guard.

  While looking at Jun Gu, Jun Wu Xie suddenly took a step forward. Her clear eyes were slightly widening but the killing intent was no longer there.

  The gaze had gotten Jun Gu to be in a trance.

  “You are Jun Gu……” Jun Wu Xie murmured, as if it was the only belief in her mind.

  “You know me?” Jun Gu looked at Jun Wu Xie, not understanding why his will to fight would actually fade away soundlessly. While watching Jun Wu Xie walked step by step closer to him, Jun Gu couldn’t raise his hand and launch any attack.

  Somehow, there seemed to be a voice admonishing him to not take any action and hurt the maiden in front of him.

  “Young lady, who are you?” Jun Gu looked at Jun Wu Xie with a question suddenly arose in his mind.

  Jun Wu Xie paused her step and looked at Jun Gu who was only three steps away from her.

  “I…… I’m Jun Wu Xie…… The Jun Wu Xie from the Lin Palace.” With her voice turning a little depressing, Jun Wu Xie fixed her eyes onto Jun Gu, trying to search for even a tiny little reminiscent point from his eyes.

  However, there was just a plain bewilderment on Jun Gu’s face. It was only when he heard the name “Jun Wu Xie” that the expression on his face changed slightly.

  “Oh, so you are Jun Wu Xie, the little guy who actually has the nerves to provoke Luo Qingcheng, but in terms of strength, you do have the right to do so.” The smile of Jun Gu became really soft and gentle. He didn’t know why but he just simply couldn’t harbor any bellicosity towards the young little lady in front of him.

  “Don’t you remember?” Jun Wu Xie stunned.

  Her name was taken by Jun Gu and her mother. It was already confirmed before she was even born. If it was true that the person standing in front of her eyes was Jun Gu, why wouldn’t he remember anything?

  “What’s the thing that I don’t remember?” Jun Gu looked confusingly at Jun Wu Xie. He had totally no idea what was she talking about.

  “Don’t you remember me? Or the Lin Palace? Have you forgotten everything?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Gu in misery. She was now almost certain that the person in front of her was her father who she had been looking hard for for many years.

  But……

  He seemed to remember nothing, and even the costume he wore was the light armor which belonged to the military of the Upper Realm.

  They had a father and daughter relationship, but now, they were standing against each other!

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  “The Lin Palace?” Jun Gu frowned. With a stinging pain suddenly transmitted into his brain, the smile on his face disappeared, and there came a trace of agony emerging from the bottom of his eyes.

  It was as if his dizzy brain had been churned up by someone using a knife, it felt extremely painful.

  The words “Lin Palace” was just like a lightning bolt, striking into his brain, illuminating the pictures that had been long buried under his memory.

  Pieces of pictures flashed across his mind!

  While being in a daze, he seemed to have seen a familiar building. In the tranquil yard, there seemed to be an elderly, dressed in a light armor, admonishing him about something.

  However, everything came so suddenly and also disappeared in such a quick speed, that Jun Gu couldn’t catch a look of anything at all in the middle of the great pain.

  “Have you forgotten everything? The Lin Palace? The Rui Lin Army? Grandfather and little uncle?” Jun Wu Xie kept pushing on him. The reaction of Jun Gu had given her some hope. Eagerly, she wanted to know the answer.

  “What are you…… talking about……” A sharp pain came overwhelming and Jun Gu felt that his brain was almost going to explode. Scurrily, he stepped backwards with one of his hands pressing on his temple, forcing himself to bear the pain which was constantly gushing over him.

  The battle was still going on but no one had the guts to get near both of them, not even one step closer.

  The colour on Jun Gu’s face was getting worse and worse. While pressing on his head in pain, he looked at Jun Wu Xie who was in front of his eyes, and it seemed like something was going to break through and burst out of his brain.

  “Father…… Can’t you remember it?” Brows furrowed, Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Gu.

  Boom!

  Jun Wu Xie’s words were just like a thunderbolt, striking into his brain!

  Eyes slightly widening, he stared at Jun Wu Xie who was standing in front of him.

  “What…… What did you call me?”


  Father?!

  “Jun Wu Xie, this is the name that you and mother have given to me, don’t you remember?”


  While looking at Jun Wu Xie in stunned, the acute pain in his head seemed to have completely disappeared at the moment. It was as if the havoc around him had gone so far away from him, and Jun Wu Xie’s voice was the only sound left in his ears.

  Father……

  She said that he was her father.

  But……

  Why couldn’t he recall anything?

  “Jun Wu Xie, my…… daughter?” Toilsomely, Jun Gu spoke Jun Wu Xie’s name. They were such simple words, but the moment when the words left his tongue, his throat felt so painful, as if it had been cut by a sharp blade.

  Jun Wu Xie slightly nodded.

  Suddenly, the perplexity in Jun Gu’s eyes disappeared. He looked sober, as if he had just woken up from a dream. Dumbly, he looked at Jun Wu Xie.

  It was as if the fog that was winding around his brain all the time had been dispersed by the strike of lightning. The dusty memory began to emerge and it seemed like those…… clear and vivid scenes were narrating the past story which he had long forgotten.

  When he was young, he was dressed in an armor, involving himself in the military expedition with his father, and after becoming an adult, he was the one who had led the Rui Lin Army and conquered the battlefield. Showering under the moonlight while standing in the sea of flowers, he held his wife’s hand and stood beside her……

  He had no idea how long had these scenes been forgotten, but they were so clear and lucid.

  Suddenly, the corners of the lips of Jun Gu hooked up and curved into a fond and gentle smile.

  “You’ve grown up so much?” Jun Gu lifted his hand up and caressed naturally on Jun Wu Xie’s head.

  Jun Wu Xie’s heart throbbed.

  “Why am I here?” Jun Gu looked around. Everything in front of him felt so unfamiliar to him. He clearly remembered that…… he was dead. Amid the flames of war, he had foreseen his death, but…… why was he still alive?

  While observing the change of Jun Gu, without having the time to think about any other things, Jun Wu Xie felt inwardly relieved.

  She was right, he was her father!

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  “All these are unimportant. What’s important, is that you are back.” For the first time, Jun Wu Xie felt an inexplicable excitement. In the Lin Palace, Grandpa and Uncle had looked forward for many years…… and finally, there was a conclusion.

  No matter what he had experienced, at least at this moment, he had returned.

  No one noticed that in the midst of the chaotic battlefield, a slender figure was quietly watching all of this.

  Not far, Yan Xi, who had followed Jun Gu all the way there, was shocked to see Jun Gu wearing a smile with a gentleness she had never seen before. It was obviously different from the rest of the days and without knowing why, Yan Xi felt that it was such an eyesore.

  In the meantime, Yan Xi’s gaze fell onto Jun Wu Xie, and coldness seeped into her eyes.

  It’s all because of her!

  Yan Xi picked up the copper pipe hanging at her waist, ignited the rhinoceros horn in the copper furnace, the green smoke floated out of the copper furnace, and floated onto the battlefield.

  No one will notice it.

  On the other hand, Jun Wu Xie’s words shocked Jun Gu as he lightly smiled and said:

  “Is it?”


  He seemed to have missed out on a lot of things, he wanted to remember, but felt a little confused in his mind.

  Just as he wanted to say something to Jun Wu Xie, suddenly, a strange smell floated out of the chaotic battlefield, and quietly broke into his breathing.

  In the blink of an eye, there was a sharp pain in Jun Gu’s mind, and the hard-won, newly recovered memory was smashed in an instant!

  The colour of pain permeated his face, and this sudden change shocked Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie’s chest tightened and she wanted to reach out and help Jun Gu.

  But a figure appeared in between Jun Gu and her!

  “Whoever allowed you to touch Lord Jun Gu!” Yan Xi stood in front, determinedly blocking Jun Gu from Jun Wu Xie. As she glared at Jun Wu Xie, her expression was as if she can’t wait to eat Jun Wu Xie alive!

  It’s all because of her!

  Otherwise, how could Jun Gu remember amidst the confusion?

  “Who are you?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes froze in an instant.

  Yan Xi gritted her teeth and clenched her jaw tight as she glared at Jun Wu Xie. She wanted to attack but he gaze was drawn to Jun Wu Yao who was standing just behind Jun Wu Xie.

  She cannot fight against Ye Jue!

  Yan Xi had already confirmed this point.

  Having made a decision in her heart, Yan Xi took a step back and pull Jun Gu, who was in intense pain, away!

  She could not let Jun Gu fall into the hands of Ye Jue

  “Trying to leave?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes turned cold and gave chase.

  “Deter them!” Yan Xi immediately ordered, and the soldiers of the Upper Realm suddenly surged forward, like they didn’t care about their lives, and madly piled towards Jun Wu Xie!

  Seeing that Yan Xi was taking Jun Gu away, the killing intent resurfaced in Jun Wu Xie’s heart once again. Jun Wu Yao caught up to her, and using himself as a shield for Jun Wu Xie, he cut down those Upper Realm soldier S in the quickest way.

  Jun Wu Xie stared unblinkingly at Yan Xi.

  Although the strength of Yan Xi was not comparable to Jun Wu Xie, but her speed was astonishingly fast. Instead it was not much slower than that of Jun Gu. In a blink of an eye, they’ve already opened up quite a distance from Jun Wu Xie and others.

  Jun Wu Xie wanted to give chase, but the soldiers from the Upper Realm have blocked her way. No matter how fast she and Jun Wu Yao killed them, those people were constantly rushing up and disregarding their lives!

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  “Wu Yao!” Jun Wu Xie turned her head and looked at Jun Wu Yao.

  The figure of Jun Wu Yao flashed across the battlefield. The moment he came beside Jun Wu Xie, he held her in his arms. With a kick on the ground, he flew away from the battlefield while carrying Jun Wu Xie and straight off flew towards Yan Xi!

  The green light on the Soul Ascending Altar had reached its strongest brightness. The green light that was shrouding the entire Soul Mountain suddenly burst with a glaring light at the moment!

  A valiant energy spread out of the whole mountain, forcibly pulling Jun Wu Yao who was flying in the mid air into a huge soul eddy!

  Even Jun Wu Yao wasn’t able to withstand the strong spiritual pressure released during the moment when the Soul Sacrificing Event was almost done. For a moment, Jun Wu Xie who he protected in his arms felt so dizzy and lightheaded, as if something was going to be stripped off from her soul!

  In the moment of chaos, Jun Wu Xie opened her eyes arduously. However, she could only watch the figures of Yan Xi and Jun Gu getting further and further away……

  Father……

  Jun Gu was dragged away by Yan Xi. Instinctively, he wanted to resist, but due to the severe pain in his head, he didn’t even have the energy to stand properly.

  “Lord Jun Gu, you’ll be alright. I’ll bring you back…… back to meet His Lord. His Lord knows what to do, and soon, you’ll be alright.” With her teeth clenched, Yan Xi murmured as her hatred towards Jun Wu Xie got thicker and thicker. It didn’t matter to her who Jun Gu once was, but for the Jun Gu now, no one else could snatch him away from her, not even Lord Jun Gu himself!

  Yan Xi turned her head and looked at the light above the Soul Mountain. With a trace of malice flashing across her eyes, she crumbled the badge on her chest all of a sudden and physically tore open a passage which was connected to the Upper Realm in the Soul World. While bringing along Jun Gu together with her, she escaped into the passage!

  After Yan Xi and Jun Gu entered the passage, the entrance of the passage closed instantly, causing the chaotic Soul World to be completely sealed off!

  Under the Soul Mountain, all the spirit envoys who had gotten their freedom back had sunk into a huge torment. Their soul powers were flowing rapidly away from them, and their bodies were turning transparent in the most possible fastest speed!

  The light had covered the entire Soul World, and there wasn’t any soul entity in the Soul World who was lucky enough to be spared from the light. Even those soldiers from the Upper Realm who had the badges worn on their costumes had fallen into a tremendous torture due to the strong Soul Sacrificing Event. The badges which they wore on their chest broke apart one after another. They could no longer fight. Painfully hollering, every single one of them collapsed and fell onto the ground. The pain that they brought to all the spirit envoys in the Soul World was now appended onto them with no exceptions.

  Even Drunk Lotus and the rest of them had been greatly affected. With an extremely horrible expression on their faces, they knelt on the ground, trembling.

  While holding Jun Wu Xie in his arms, Jun Wu Yao released his dark spirit non-stop to resist the power produced from the Soul Sacrificing event, but there was an ominous premonition came climbing onto his heart.

  The Soul Sacrificing Event wouldn’t bring any damage to him and Jun Wu Xie, the otherworldly souls, but once the event was done, the array of the Blood Sacrifice of Three Realms would start to function. The critical point in conducting the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms was to use an otherworldly soul as the medium. Hence, wherever they escaped to, as long as they were in the Three Realms, they would never break free from the Blood Sacrifice!

  He was an otherworldly soul, so was Jun Wu Xie. If the Soul Sacrificing Event got to be fully carried out, then…… he and Jun Wu Xie would definitely be sacrificed!

  Just at the moment when the entire Soul World had come to a dead end, a beam of gold ray shone from the place of the Spirit Tree!

  The gold light had formed an opposing power under the mantle of the green light. Countless sparkles drifted into the air from the leaves of the Spirit Tree, making a gold aureole which eliminated the power released during the Soul Sacrificing Event bit by bit.

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  While being enveloped in the golden light, the spirit envoys noticed that their soul powers were returning, little by little, into their souls. With the frailty and feebleness slowly fading away, their bodies were no longer transparent. It was as if their souls were bathing in a warm spring, it felt as comfortable as the time they felt when they were first born into the world.

  Bits by bits, the golden light spread wider and wider, trying its best to get rid off the light of the Soul Sacrificing Event.

  In the midst of suffering, Jun Wu Xie suddenly felt a warm energy radiating from her soul. Soundlessly, a ray of gold light permeated out from her soul, wrapping itself around her and Jun Wu Yao, and at the same time, clearing out the discomfort that was brought by the Soul Sacrificing Event.

  “This light……” Finally being able to catch a breath, Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes and looked at the gold light that was surrounding her.

  “It’s the Spirit Tree.” With his brows slightly furrowed, Jun Wu Yao looked up at the green light which was shrouding the Soul Mountain. “The Soul Sacrificing Event is almost done, and by the time when the whole thing comes to an end, even the Spirit Tree has no way to stop it. It’s helping to buy us some time. Little Xie, the seed of the Spirit Tree has fused into your soul, you’re the only one who is able to resist the energy of the Soul Sacrificing Event, go and destroy it.”


  Jun Wu Yao looked seriously at Jun Wu Xie. At this moment, they had no other choices. He knew that Jun Wu Xie was worried about Jun Gu but once the Soul Sacrificing Event was successfully carried out, putting aside the problem of whether if Jun Gu will be fine or not, all the people in the Lower Realm and the Middle Realms who Jun Wu Xie cared so much would also be sacrificed!

  This was the first time Jun Wu Xie saw such an earnest and cautious gaze in Jun Wu Yao’s eyes. She understood what was the thing that she should be doing now.

  “I’ll do it.” Jun Wu Xie nodded her head as she stood resolutely up from Jun Wu Yao’s arms.

  All the spirit envoys around her had lost all their energy to get up. There were screams and cries coming one after another into Jun Wu Xie’s ears, as if the place she was standing at was a purgatory.

  Jun Wu Xie cast a glance over her surroundings. Drunk Lotus, Poppy, Corpse Flower, Crystal Orchid, Poison Ivy and Blood Velvet had become so weak that they had all turned back into their original plant forms, and since the soul of the black beast had blended together with her soul, it had also gotten the protection from the seed of the Spirit Tree, being the only one who was able to temporarily withstand the damage brought by the Soul Sacrificing Event.

  “Little Black.” In a low voice, Jun Wu Xie called its name.

  The black beast immediately came to Jun Wu Xie.

  “Take me there.” With a cold but determined gaze, Jun Wu Xie rode on the back of the black beast.

  She would find her father. After settling the Soul Sacrificing Event, she would definitely bring Jun Gu back!

  “Roar!” The black beast let out a furious roar as its four powerful claws began to sprint, bringing Jun Wu Xie to the apex of the Soul Mountain!

  Along the way, all those people who had collapsed onto the ground were the soldiers from the Upper Realm. Perhaps they couldn’t even have thought it in their dreams, that the mission which they carried on their shoulders was actually the main culprit of them being destroyed at the end.

  Amid the wails of pain, the black beast forced itself to withstand the intimidating pressure brought by the Soul Sacrificing Event while running wildly along the way with Jun Wu Xie sitting on its back. In the most possible shortest time, it darted up the Soul Ascending Altar!

  There were green flames raging vigorously in the one hundred and eight beacon towers, with the broiling waves burning the air to the point that the atmosphere began to twist. There was a huge green light sphere on the Soul Ascending Altar, constantly emitting an overwhelming energy. Even though they had the seed of the Spirit Tree protecting them, Jun Wu Xie and the black beast could still feel the strong pressure. Whenever they took one step closer to the Soul Ascending Altar, it was as if there was a thousand weights pressing on their shoulders, and they could hardly move forward!

  “Don’t be afraid, you’re the only one now who can destroy it.” The voice of the Spirit Tree came into in Jun Wu Xie’s mind at the moment. As the voice appeared, the golden light on Jun Wu Xie’s body suddenly became brighter, causing the pressure that was pressing onto her to reduce!

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  Jun Wu Xie drew in a deep breath. While looking at the enormous green sphere of light on the Soul Ascending Altar, she moved closer to the light sphere, step by step, indomitably.

  The light sphere was still constantly exuding the engulfing light. Force after force came surging towards her just like the waves of the sea while the golden light on Jun Wu Xie kept shielding the strong hits away again and again. The colour of gold was so dazzling and striking in the green light, betokening the hope of the Soul World.

  At the moment, Jun Wu Xie felt that there was a kind of energy gushing out from her body. When she walked to the bottom of the light sphere, the energy in her soul lifted her up, making her float in the mid air. She would just need to raise her hand up, and was then able to touch the light.

  Jun Wu Xie stretched her hand out. Just as the moment both her hands that were enfolded with the gold light went into the green light, the gold light that was covering all over her body too, flooded into the sphere!

  At the instant, countless beams of gold light spread all over the green sphere, and the light sphere began to distort. Even when she was being protected by the power of the Spirit Tree, Jun Wu Xie could still vividly feel the aggressive energy that was coming from the green light, as if those energy was an invisible blade in the air, slashing her entire soul so much that it felt so painful.

  Nevertheless, at this moment, Jun Wu Xie did not dare to slacken any bits of her effort. The hands which she stretched into the light did not shrink even half an inch back.

  She must stop the Soul Sacrificing Event.

  No matter if it was for the sake of the Three Realms, or for the sake of herself and Jun Wu Yao!

  And suddenly!

  A golden light blast out of the green light sphere, and in a twinkling, the gold light shrouded the sphere while engulfing the green light rapidly!

  The Soul Sacrificing Event that almost annihilated the entire Soul World and the Three Realms was shredded into pieces at this moment, with the one hundred and eight beacon towers exploding alongside with the green sphere of light!

  Clusters of green flames spattered in all directions from the beacon towers, but they were then swallowed by the golden light before even falling onto the ground.

  The explosion had caused the whole person of Jun Wu Xie to be blown away, with her entire vision being occupied by the colour of gold……

  While being enshrouded with the colour of gold, Jun Wu Xie’s soul had experienced a huge tremor. With her sight abruptly turning black, she then lost all her consciousness.

  In the dark, Jun Wu Xie seemed to have seen the figure of Jun Gu. The familiar, but at the same time, strange figure was just standing a few steps away from her. In the complete darkness, it seemed like there was a bit of faint warm and soft halo radiating from the figure of Jun Gu.

  He was standing in the dark, looking straight at her with a gentle smile hanging on his face.

  But the moment when Jun Wu Xie wanted to stretch her hand out and touch him, just like the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water, the figure turned into nothing and just vanished in the darkness, and even the very last beam of light had completely been swallowed up by the blackness!

  Jun Wu Xie was startled and she suddenly opened her eyes.

  The moment she opened her eyes, the thing that first came into her sight was the peerlessly handsome face of Jun Wu Yao.

  “You’re awake?” Jun Wu Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie who had regained her consciousness with a sense of relief flashing across his eyes.

  With her head feeling a little painful, Jun Wu Xie managed to sit up from Jun Wu Yao’s arms and raised her eyes to have a look at the surroundings. Wherever she looked at, it was just a complete wreckage.

  The Soul Ascending Altar which was originally magnificent had turned into a ruin, where the scattered debris and wood piled up together and the floor was all blackened.

  “I……” Jun Wu Xie’s mind was in turmoil. She could still vaguely remember that following the guidance of the Spirit Tree, she had tried to destroy the Soul Sacrificing Event, but…… she didn’t seem to remember anything that happened afterwards.

  “You’ve succeeded.” While looking at the stunned little face of Jun Wu Xie, Jun Wu Yao said in a soft voice.

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  Jun Wu Xie was slightly shocked.

  “I heard the voice of the Spirit Tree.” Jun Wu Xie raised her head. At that last moment, if it was not for the power the Spirit Tree had lent her, she was afraid that she could not get close to the Soul Ascending Altar.

  Jun Wu Yao held her tighter in his arms. Jun Wu Xie’s soul was a little weak. Although Jun Wu Yao hugged her tighter, he did not use much strength. He whispered: “I know, the seed in your body is still too young, and it is not enough to counter the power of the Soul Sacrifice Array. But it is a medium through which the Spirit Tree can send power to your soul.”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded in agreement and asked about the condition of Drunk Lotus and the other Wood Spirits. Jun Wu Yao asked that after the Soul Ascending Altar was destroyed, they were immediately taken back into Jun Wu Xie’s soul. Even with the help of the Spirit Tree, destroying the Soul Sacrifice Array Array was too taxing on Jun Wu Xie, hence Drunk Lotus and the others returned back into Jun Wu Xie’s soul at the first instance, using themselves to bolster Jun Wu Xie’s soul gently.

  This was also the unique power of the Wood Spirit, although the effect was very small, but for Jun Wu Xie who had just experienced immense wear and tear, it was tantamount to helping her soul in a great time of need.

  “I will take you to see the Spirit Tree.” Jun Wu Yao lifted Jun Wu Xie. When the power of Soul Sacrifice Array Array dissipated, Jun Wu Yao immediately rushed to the top of the mountain and what he saw in front of him was an unconscious Jun Wu Xie, lying on the body of Little Black, and Little Black was very exhausted as well, but it was working hard to hold on to its last thread of consciousness. The moment it saw Jun Wu Yao, it returned back to its little black cat form.

  There was no strength left in Jun Wu Xie and she could only lie in Jun Wu Yao’s arms. Although her soul was weak, her heart was bright. No matter what, they foiled the plan of the Upper Realm. If the Upper Realm was allowed to succeed, then it would be a disaster for the Three Realms.

  Walking down from the top of the Soul Mountain, all the soldiers from the Upper Realm were everywhere. The closer they were when the Soul Sacrifice Array Array was activated, the more obvious the impact on them was. They were all human souls who entered the Reincarnation Path. They had already used a special method to enter the Soul World, they were not like the original Spirit Envoys of the Soul World; they had become accustomed to the fluctuations of the soul. Even if the Soul Sacrifice Array Array was destroyed today, the previous influence still lingered as the soldiers fell to the ground, one by one, twitching with no energy to move even a finger.

  However, at this moment, Jun Wu Xie couldn’t be bothered about the condition of the soldiers. The Soul Sacrifice Array has been destroyed, and the Soul World would be returned into the hands of the Spirit Tree again. Jun Wu Xie need not be involved with these people from the Upper Realm again; the Spirit Envoys would be enough…… to handle them.

  Qin Song and other people, who were previously unable to move due to the Soul Sacrifice Array, were already standing by the foot of the Soul Mountain. They were preparing to ascend the mountain, but when they saw Jun Wu Yao carrying Jun Wu Xie down the mountain, Long Jiu and him ran up and greeted them in the first instance.

  “How was it?” Qin Song was nervously watching Jun Wu Yao, his gaze glimmered and trembled as it touched Jun Wu Xie who laid weak within Jun Wu Yao’s embrace. He moved his gaze away without a trace of lingering, as he tried not to think of something that was not his……

  “The Soul Sacrifice Array has been destroyed, and the Soul World is temporarily safe.” Jun Wu Yao said lightly, but the meaning within his words did not make Qin Song and the rest feel relaxed.

  He said it was temporary, not permanent.

  The meaning of these words, how could Qin Song not understand?

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  “Little Jun girl…… What happened?” Long Jiu did not notice the meaning of Jun Wu Yao’s words, but looked at Jun Wu Xie worriedly.

  Jun Wu Xie looked at Long Jiu and shook her head faintly. It was not that she didn’t want to speak, but she had no more strength left.

  The Soul Sacrifice Array prepared by the Upper Realm was to sacrifice all the souls of the Soul World and a spell that needed a sacrifice of 999,000 souls. How powerful was it?

  It seemed easy enough for Jun Wu Xie to destroy it on her own, but its destructive nature was unknown. If the Spirit Tree had not helped, even if Jun Wu Xie could stop the Soul Sacrifice Array, her soul might have been torn away by the power of the spell.

  Now, she was able to retain her life and it was all thanks to the Spirit Tree seed that had melded with her soul.

  “Little Xie ruined the Soul Sacrifice Array, now her soul is very unstable. I want to take her to see the Spirit Tree.” Jun Wu Yao’s brows were furrowed. If it was possible, he would have rather replaced Jun Wu Xie is resolving that Soul Sacrifice Array.

  Jun Wu Yao’s words shocked Long Jiu. They stared unblinkingly at Jun Wu Xie, and were unable to believe that she alone could destroy the Soul Sacrifice Array, which threatened to swallow the whole Soul World!

  Qin Song was also shocked, but amidst his shock, his heart was seized with pain. He forced down the painful wave which should not exist, and made a calm decision: “This time, thank you Miss Jun and the Lord Ye Jue. Please come with us, we will escort you to see the Spirit Tree.”


  Jun Wu Yao nodded.

  A group of Spirit Envoys turned extremely quiet at this moment, and they followed behind Jun Wu Yao and escorted Jun Wu Xie hurriedly to the Spirit Tree.

  In fact, their position was also very close to the Soul Ascending Altar. After the Soul Sacrifice Array was destroyed, the souls of these Spirit Envoys were still weak, but they were in a much better condition than Jun Wu Xie.

  Along the way, Long Jiu was constantly watching Jun Wu Xie with worry, he had wanted to say some comforting words but when he saw the pale face of Jun Wu Xie, he dared not say anything.

  Soon, the group came to where the Spirit Tree is.

  But when they saw the Spirit Tree, all the Spirit Envoys were stunned.

  The huge and lush Spirit Tree had lost its vitality.

  The green leaves have been replaced by the yellow, and the leaves were falling with the wind, scattered on the ground……

  “Spirit…… Spirit Tree……” Long Jiu was stunned as he looked at the Spirit Tree which was gradually withering, with a loud bang in his brain, he suddenly fell on the ground full of dead leaves.

  Qin Song took a step backwards in panic. He had never dreamed that this could happen but within just half a day, the Spirit Tree turned out like this!

  Even when the Spirit Tree was sealed by the knot, it never turned haggard like so.

  Now just looking at it, the Spirit Tree seem like it was walking towards death.

  Jun Wu Yao took a look at the Spirit Tree in front of him, and he was stunned. He knew that in order to fight against the tremendous power of the Soul Sacrifice Array, the Spirit Tree had to pay a certain price, but he did not expect that such a contribution was more serious than he had expected!

  “Spirit Tree!!” A group of Spirit Envoys couldn’t believe what they saw at the moment. They shouted with sorrow and ran to the Spirit Tree at the fastest speed. They wanted to reach out and touch its thick trunk, but just a gentle caress caused the bark on the trunk of the Spirit Tree to fall like a crumbling wall……

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  At the moment, a dread that they had never experienced before came overwhelming every single spirit envoy. This was the first time they had ever felt…… that the Spirit Tree was enshrouded with the shadow of death.

  Eyes slightly widening, Jun Wu Xie looked at the Spirit Tree in front of her that was rapidly withering.

  No wonder…… No wonder it was so simple for her to destroy the Soul Sacrificing Event even though she herself hadn’t been much backfired by it.

  This was because she was just a medium of the Spirit Tree. It was the Spirit Tree that had used the seed in her body to secretly send its power into the Soul Sacrificing Event, destroying the scheme of the Upper Realm.

  The one who had been truly taken the brunt of the Soul Sacrifice wasn’t her, but the Spirit Tree!

  Jun Wu Yao once said that the Spirit Tree wouldn’t interfere in the things that happened in this world. Jun Wu Xie believed it and she thought that even when the Soul World was being taken advantage of, the Spirit Tree would still not take any actions, but…… at the end, it had failed to hold onto its principles.

  The Soul World, the world which the Spirit Tree personally created and built with its own hands, and those spirit envoys who it had given birth to and raised had aroused an affection which shouldn’t be existing in the first place within itself.

  The actions it made came from its reluctance towards the Soul World.

  Even if it was just a plant, it wasn’t emotionless at all.

  The withered yellow leaves fell onto the ground. The Spirit Tree that had once amazed Jun Wu Xie was no longer as what it had been.

  The shrivelling of the Spirit Tree had gotten Jun Wu Xie stunned.

  Long Jiu and Qin Song seemed to have been given a heavy blow. They didn’t want to believe the fact that the Spirit Tree was really withering.

  The moment Qin Song recovered from the shock, he immediately rushed towards Jun Wu Yao. The calmness that he always had in his eyes had now been taken over by fear.

  “Lord Ye Jue! What has happened to the Spirit Tree?”


  Every single heart of the spirit envoy was permeated with an unprecedented fear. They couldn’t imagine it at all, the moment when the Spirit Tree left them……

  The Spirit Tree had created the Soul World. It had also created the spirit envoys. To them, the Spirit Tree was immortal, and no matter how long had the time elapsed, it would always exist in the Soul World. But, the change shown on the Spirit Tree in front of their eyes had brutally demolished the faith which they had been holding onto for thousands of years!

  “The Spirit Tree has taken the most damage from the Soul Sacrifice.” Jun Wu Yao frowned.

  Qin Song was staggered at the fact. Suddenly, he kneeled in front of Jun Wu Xie on one of his knees, “Lord Ye Jue! Please save the Spirit Tree!”


  Jun Wu Yao did not make any response, but he noticed that someone was gently pulling on the sleeve of his clothes. He turned his head and found out that it was Jun Wu Xie who was pulling his sleeve in his arms, brows furrowed.

  “Let me go and have a look……” said Jun Wu Xie weakly.

  Jun Wu Yao then brought Jun Wu Xie closer to the Spirit Tree. The face of every single spirit envoy was deadly pale. When they saw the figure of Jun Wu Yao, they looked at him with a gaze of pleading in their eyes. They couldn’t accept the withering of the Spirit Tree, and all they could only hope was that Jun Wu Yao had the solution to save the Spirit Tree.

  Jun Wu Yao gently put Jun Wu Xie down, according to her request, beside the trunk of the Spirit Tree. After spending some effort in raising her head up, Jun Wu Xie stroke the rough trunk of the Spirit Tree. The originally tough bark was now as weak as the burnt soil. Just a slight touch and it would then dropped off from the trunk onto the ground, interlacing together with the withered leaves.

  Unknowingly why, when the hand of Jun Wu Xie came into contact with the Spirit Tree, it seemed like she was able to sense the current feeblement of the Spirit Tree clearly. The originally tempestuous and surging power had disappeared from its soul, and there was only the last bit of soul power left inside the Spirit Tree. The Spirit Tree was astoundingly weak.

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  The weakening of the Spirit Tree had made the heartstrings of Jun Wu Xie tighten. Although they had just met once, the Spirit Tree had still intervened into this matter and rescued everything at the most crucial moment of the Soul Sacrificing Event. Jun Wu Xie believed that even if the entire Soul World was sacrificed, with the strength the Spirit Tree got, it was not difficult for it to keep itself safe. After all, it was much easier to use the power which it had used to destroy the Soul Sacrificing Event to protect itself.

  Even if the Soul World was demolished, as long as the Spirit Tree still existed, it could still rebuild another Soul World and create more souls.

  However, instead of doing such a thing, it had chosen to sacrifice itself to protect the entire Soul World and those spirit envoys who were always loyal and faithful to it.

  Though there was the weeping voice of the spirit envoys echoing beside Jun Wu Xie’s ears, it was exceedingly calm inside her. This was the choice made by the Spirit Tree – it was willing to do anything for the sake of the spirit envoys who it valued so much. Such feeling wasn’t unfamiliar to Jun Wu Xie. If she was the Spirit Tree, she too, would make the same choice to protect the people who she cared for.

  It was just that……

  Jun Wu Xie lowered her eyes down. She really did not want the Spirit Tree to die.

  At the moment when all the spirit envoys were grieving, one of the vines that was hanging on the Spirit Tree suddenly moved a bit, but it was this one tiny movement that had caused all the eyes of the spirit envoys to instantly lit up. It was as if those despairing souls had once again caught the light of hope.

  All spirit envoys had their mouths shut at the moment, not having the courage to make even a sound. All their eyes were focusing on the vine which was slowly moving upwards.

  At last, the vine landed between Jun Wu Xie’s brows.

  Once again, the voice of the Spirit Tree appeared in Jun Wu Xie’s mind. It was still such a gentle and serene voice. However, there were too much of weariness and debility in the voice.

  “Thanks, little lady.”


  There was a trace of smile heard in the tired voice of the Spirit Tree.

  “Are you going to die?” With her brows slightly frowning, Jun Wu Xie felt indescribably depressed.

  “Not yet,” said the Spirit Tree slowly. It was just a simple sentence with only two words, but it had caused Jun Wu Xie to feel a sense of relief.

  “The power of the Soul Sacrificing Event is too strong, and there’s no way that an ordinary soul is able to resist it. You shouldn’t risk your life here as you’ve something more important to deal with. I’m the one who has created the Soul World, and there are my kids staying here, so I’m responsible for protecting them. Tell them, that I’m alright. It’s just that I’ve used up too much of my energy, and I need some time to recuperate from the damage.”


  The words of the Spirit Tree had made Jun Wu Xie let out a sigh of relief, but the following things mentioned by the Spirit Tree had once again gotten her nerves tightened!

  “The Upper Realm will not give up the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms so easily. If they aren’t able to capture Ye Jue and find the soul bone, they will still do something to the Soul World. In order to prevent them from continuing into the Soul World, I’ll be isolating the entire Soul World for a period of time in the future. It will take all my energy to seal off the Soul World and I’ll then sink into a deep sleep. Little lady, I hope that I’ll be able to see a brand new Upper Realm the moment I wake up. I believe in you, and I also believe in Ye Jue.”


  Although the Soul Sacrificing Event which was conducted by the Upper Realm had been destroyed, but as long as the Soul World still existed, the Soul Sacrificing Event could still be carried out again, and the millions of soul entities in the Soul World would forever be the targets of the Upper Realm. The Spirit Tree had no choice but to block off the entire Soul World to avoid the invasion of the Upper Realm.

  The past Spirit Tree would never make such a tough action, but after experiencing the calamity this time, it had fully understood that it was impossible for it to just watch the spirit envoys who it created being sacrificed, and thus, it could only use it own ways to protect these “kids” who it cared for so much.

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  This was also a last resort. Once the Soul World was closed, it meant that there would be no new souls born into the Three Realms. There would be no newborns. The Reincarnation Oath would be completely sealed and completely isolated from the Three Realms.

  This decision of the Spirit Tree was no longer related to just the Soul World, but the whole of the Three Realms!

  However, Jun Wu Xie was clear that the decision of the Spirit Tree was wise. The Upper Realm could sneak into the Spirit World once, they could sneak in a second time. After finding out the situation of the Soul World, even if there was no betrayal like what Meng Qiu did, they would have done whatever they could to achieve their goals!

  “If you exhaust the power to seal off Soul World, then what else can support the whole Soul World?” Jun Wu Xie’s brow was slightly wrinkled. If she remembered correctly, the Soul World was the same as the Spirit World; it existed because of the strong spiritual support.

  It was the Spirit Lord who supported the Spirit World, and the Spirit Tree supported the Soul World!

  If the Spirit Tree used all its power to seal off the Soul World, then…… what kind of power could support the Soul World for it to continue to exist?

  The Spirit Tree did not immediately answer Jun Wu Xie, a vine touched her brow and gave off a touch of golden light. Jun Wu Xie subconsciously closed her eyes, feeling the light enter through her brow and sank deeply into her soul……

  Within her soul, a little golden light was hidden in the darkness, but when the power from the Spirit Tree resonated with it, it caused that little golden light to be increasingly resplendent!

  Jun Wu Xie was slightly shocked!

  The golden light in her soul was the seed of the Spirit Tree. The seed had been integrated with her soul for many years, but it was still only a large bean. However, at this moment, under nourishment from the Spirit Tree, the seed grew quietly, gradually growing into a young and tender tree; using her soul as soil as it quietly grew.

  Although far less grand than the Spirit Tree, but it had begun to exude the purest spiritual power.

  “As long as you are still here, it is still here, the Soul World will not disappear.” The voice of the Spirit Tree echoed in the mind of Jun Wu Xie. That time when it allowed Jun Wu Yao to take away the seed, originally it was because it wanted to leave a successor for itself, even if the Spirit Tree fell, that seed would have replaced it and became the new Spirit Tree to continue nurturing new souls.

  Only a slight deviation occurred in the Spirit Tree’s plan; it did not think that this seed would have completely integrate with Jun Wu Xie’s soul, and both could no longer be separated. Hence, this seed could no longer be planted in Soul World to be grown into a new Spirit Tree.

  But……

  It could replace the role of the Spirit Tree in another way, and the key to all this was Jun Wu Xie!

  It was just that the Spirit Tree didn’t mean to tell Jun Wu Xie any of this, the world’s reincarnation was fixed, it was looking forward to a miracle.

  After the last thread of power was delivered, the Spirit Tree kept its vine. It had no more power to tell the Spirit Envoys of the Soul World, and it could convey its messages through Jun Wu Xie.

  After feeling the little Spirit Tree grow within her soul, Jun Wu Xie told the Spirit Envoys of the Spirit Tree’s intentions.

  It was known that the Spirit Tree had not withered, the desperation of the Spirit Envoys was greatly relieved.

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  It wouldn’t take only a short time for the Spirit Tree to completely blocked off the entire Soul World. Moreover, after destroying the Soul Sacrificing Event, its power had been heavily used up. To complete the blockade, the spirit envoys needed to build the Soul Power Totems all around the borderies of the Soul World to reduce the energy consumption of the Spirit Tree.

  Although the Soul World had gone through a lot of severe mishaps, fortunately, the damage caused was still within the acceptable range.

  Now that Meng Qiu, the leader of the betrayal was dead, those black armored spirit envoys who had betrayed the Soul World were just a host of dragons without a head. Furthermore, the soldiers from the Upper Realms were defeated and Yan Xi had escaped, resulting them in becoming the street mice that every soul entity would yell at and beat up once they saw them!

  Long Jiu had led a group of spirit envoys to go around and capture those traitors. If the Soul Ascending Altar had not been destroyed during the Soul Sacrificing Event, how Long Jiu wished he could throw those deceitful traitors onto the Soul Ascending Altar and let their souls get shredded into pieces.

  The betrayers who were caught were all imprisoned in the Soul Prison. The “custom” which had already been neglected for years was once again brought up by Long Jiu. With pails of water from the Soul Devouring River placed outside the Soul Prison, Long Jiu had compelled those traitors to drink one sip of it everyday until the seamy side inside them was completely washed away.

  It was rather easy to settle those traitors of the Soul World, but the soldiers from the Upper Realm were the one who had given Long Jiu a headache.

  Since the Soul Ascending Altar was gone now, it was impossible to annihilate all these intruders. Besides, with the merciful character owned by the Spirit Tree, there was no way it was able to destroy up to ten thousand souls within minutes.

  Long Jiu could only lock those soldiers up in the Soul Prison separately from the traitors.

  And since the soldiers were in the Soul World, of course they would also need to adapt to the “custom” of the Soul World, that was drinking the water of the Soul Devouring River

  However, the pain brought by the water of the Soul Devouring River was closely related to the dark side of one’s soul. The more turbid the soul was, the stronger the pain brought by the water of the Soul Devouring River was, and that was why after having their first sip, those soldiers gave out a soul curdling scream as they collapsed onto the ground. It was so painful that it almost ripped them apart, and that it felt better for them to die rather than staying alive……

  Long Jiu got to work his anger off by looking at the soldiers suffered. Hence, he had ordered the spirit envoys to give them a fully filled bowl of water and had forced them to drink it all.

  It was euphemistically said that this was to scour their souls, but actually, it was simply just a revenge!

  Although the Soul Sacrificing Event was destroyed, those spirit envoys who were imprisoned around the Soul Ascending Altar had become the oblation during the activation of the Soul Sacrificing Event. Even if the Soul Sacrificing Event wasn’t completed, their souls had already been devoured by the power released during the Soul Sacrificing Event.

  There were thousands of them who had been sacrificed!

  How could Long Jiu not hate them?

  After going through the matter this time, the soul envoys had noticed the importance of the Soul Devouring River. In order to prevent such an incident from happening again, those spirit envoys who were always loyal to the Soul World had all gone to the Soul Devouring River spontaneously and took a sip of the water, worrying that the negative thoughts would arouse within themselves one day.

  Qin Song had brought quite an amount of spirit devoys to every border in the Soul World to build the Soul Power Totems. The power of the entire Soul World had been mobilized. Forgetting the treachery, the initiative and the cohesion of the Soul World were definitely unparalleled to the others.

  When the entire Soul World was bustling around, Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao had gotten a momentary period of free time. In order to ensure that there wouldn’t be anything happened again in the Soul World, instead of leaving hurriedly, they chose to stay beside the weak Spirit Tree to protect it.

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  With the seed of the Spirit Tree being catalysed, Jun Wu Xie had noticed the change in her soul in these few days. The soul which was damaged when destroying the Soul Sacrificing Event was healing up really quickly, and during the healing process, Jun Wu Xie could clearly feel that her soul was gradually getting stronger and stronger. Once it was fully recovered, the strength of her soul would definitely surpass the previous condition of her soul!

  Due to the little Spirit Tree in her soul, not only her soul had become stronger, even Drunk Lotus and the others had also turned more and more powerful because of the influence of the little Spirit Tree.

  It didn’t need to take much thought to realize that the Spirit Tree of the Soul World was the one who had taken the responsibility for the souls of the Three Realms all by itself. Although the little Spirit Tree in Jun Wu Xie’s soul had just started to grow, the power it held could be easily approximated.

  But, this was just the advantages brought by the little Spirit Tree that had just begun to grow. As time passed, the bigger the little Spirit Tree grew, the stronger the soul power it would emit.

  Not to mention what kind of changes it would cause to Jun Wu Xie, the fact that those plant Ring Spirits that were staying inside Jun Wu Xie’s body were able to acquire the nourishment from the little Spirit Tree was already enough to let them scream in excitement!

  While feeling glad about it, there was still an unsolved mystery that kept wandering in Jun Wu Xie’s mind. During this period of free time, Jun Wu Xie had taken the opportunity to ask the Spirit Tree and her question was related to Jun Gu……

  At that time, the Spirit Tree had told her that her father was at the Soul Ascending Altar, and she too, had actually met him, but…… the way they met each other wasn’t what she had once imagined.

  Too many things had happened that day, and even Jun Wu Xie wasn’t able to figure everything out in detail at that moment, but now, as she thought about it again, she noticed a lot of things which she had been neglecting all the time.

  Jun Gu was still alive, but he wasn’t staying in the Soul World as the way Jun Wu Xie expected, instead…… He belonged to the Upper Realm!

  Even until now, Jun Wu Xie could still recall the astonishment she felt when she first saw Jun Gu, and also the bewilderment Jun Gu showed when he saw her.

  Jun Gu did not remember her. If it wasn’t for her who had stimulated Jun Gu’s memory, Jun Gu might not be able to recognize her at all, and after Yan Xi appeared, the reaction displayed by Jun Gu was just an utmost agony. To be said even more precisely, a few moments before Yan Xi showed up, Jun Gu was already slightly out of sorts.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t notice it before, but now it suddenly came to her mind, that the moment when Jun Gu showed his abnormality, she seemed to have smelled a scent.

  To Jun Wu Xie, it wasn’t an unfamiliar smell.

  It was the scent of a burnt Rhinoceros Horn.

  Since ancient times, the Rhinoceros Horn was said to be a type of weird incense. There were countless myths and rumours about the Rhinoceros Horn, and what Jun Wu Xie had learnt about, was that the Rhinoceros Horn could make a certain impact on one’s memory and mind, and as the time of taking the scent increased, the effect it showed would also increase!

  If she wasn’t wrong, every weird reactions shown by Jun Gu were all because of the Rhinoceros Horn!

  But……

  How would Jun Gu fall into the hands of the Upper Realm?

  Wasn’t he supposed to be in the Soul World?

  Only the Spirit Tree was able to answer the question.

  “Looks like you’ve already met your father.” The vine of the Spirit Tree touched the centre part of Jun Wu Xie’s eyebrows. During these few days, due to the little Spirit Tree always staying beside it, the Spirit Tree got to recover a little bit of its power, causing it to be finally able to converse with Jun Wu Xie.

  “My father…… What has happened to him? Why is it that he……” Jun Wu Xie narrowed her eyes.

  “This is an incident which no one could have foreseen.” There was a trace of helplessness heard in the voice of the Spirit Tree.

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  When Jun Gu died, because of the Soul Calming Jade, his soul was protected but because of a combination of many erroneous factors, his soul entered into Soul World and became a Spirit Envoy. After entering Soul World, Jun Gu didn’t forget things of his past but because his soul was temporarily stabilized by the Soul Calming Jade, it wasn’t very stable and often times his memories would become chaotic and messy. Although not a dead soul, Jun Gu was intelligent and possessed extraordinary talent, and so when he entered Soul World, he attracted the attention of the Spirit Tree. In order to repair the soul of Jun Gu, the Spirit Tree also gave him a lot of soul power as a support, and taught him to cultivate his own soul power in the way of the Soul World.

  Jun Gu had only been in the Soul World for a short dozen years, but the speed of his spiritual cultivation was extremely fast, his character was very composed, so the Spirit Tree arranged for him to be at the Soul Ascending Altar.

  However, with this arrangement made, the subsequent incident suddenly occurred.

  There was no connection between the Soul World and the Upper Realm, therefore it was also safe and sound. After Jun Wu Xie had entered the Soul World many years after, His Lord of the Upper Realm suddenly visited the Soul World. His sudden arrival also caused suspicion within the Spirit Tree. In order to not provoke any incidents, and also because the other party did not pull any strange tricks, the Spirit Tree did not think much.

  However, when His Lord left that day, Jun Gu whom had been guarding the Soul Ascending Altar also disappeared from the Soul World. However, the matters of the Soul Ascending Altar was left to Meng Qiu to manage and it was not until Jun Gu had disappeared for a long time did the Spirit Tree realised that he was no longer in Soul World.

  To think……

  It should be the day when His Lord came, and took the soul of Jun Gu away with him.

  But the Spirit Tree couldn’t figure out the reason why Jun Gu was taken away.

  Jun Gu once again reappeared in the Soul World, but he was completely changed as a person. He could not remember anything during his time in the Soul World and he had become the commander of the Upper Realm and entered the Soul World.

  Regarding this matter, the Spirit Tree was quite helpless. Even though it could speculate on the workings of Heaven and reincarnation, it wasn’t all-knowing. It was even more unexpected that Jun Gu, who was taken away by His Lord previously, was actually the father of Jun Wu Xie!

  “The man took your father away but I don’t know what for specifically. This time, when he returned the Soul World, his power has increased drastically, and his body soul should have been there with his soul.” The Spirit Tree was quite helpless.

  After the Soul Sacrifice Array was destroyed, it also searched for the souls of Jun Gu and Yan Xi in the Soul World, but no matter how hard it was searched, there was no clue.

  Obviously, Jun Gu had been taken away from the Soul World by Yan Xi, and it was highly possible that he had returned to the Upper Realm.

  Jun Wu Xie quietly listened to everything concerning Jun Gu, the doubts in her heart were not reduced.

  Just as the Spirit Tree couldn’t comprehend, Jun Wu Xie was also puzzled over the fact that the Upper Realm took her father away.

  The soul of Jun Gu belonged to the Three Realms, his soul was not spirits of the outside world like hers and Jun Wu Yao’s. The Upper Realm was so eager to take Jun Gu away and reconstruct his body, for what exact purpose??

  Judging from the situation of Jun Gu and the army of the Upper Realm, even in the Upper Realm, Jun Gu occupied a high status, and from the perspective of Jun Gu’s strength, it was obvious that he had exceeded the top ten exponents of the Upper Realm!

  What did the Upper Realm want to achieve??

  Jun Wu Xie’s brow was furrowed.

  It wasn’t easy to find Jun Gu, and it was unexpected…… that Jun Gu’s situation was so peculiar.

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  Tremendous strength, lofty status and the weird rhinoceros horn fragrance; all made for a fairly sinister scheme which Jun Wu Xie felt that the Upper Realm had indeed spent much time and effort on.

  However, what exactly did they want?

  Jun Gu was Jun Wu Xie’s father, and for her, he was naturally irreplaceable and his significance was extraordinary. But to the Upper Realm, why would they spend so much effort on a soul from the Lower Realm? And why did they push him into such a high position?

  Jun Wu Xie couldn’t comprehend nor guess the significance of it.

  She had very little information of the ruler of the Upper Realms, and what little was provided by Jun Wu Yao.

  But……

  That time when Jun Wu Yao was in the Upper Realm, Jun Wu Yao didn’t like that person much and hence did not come into contact with that person often. The only thing he knew about that person was that he was extremely strong and he had a peculiar character.

  The news that the Spirit Tree provided had been clearly known to Jun Wu Xie.

  Even though there were many doubts, there was only one point which was good news for Jun Wu Xie.

  That is, Jun Gu was still alive. Regardless he was now controlled by the Upper Realm, at least he still existed in the Three Realms. She didn’t have to worry about facing the despair of Jun Xi and Jun Qing. Even if it would be difficult, Jun Wu Xie needed to take Jun Gu back!

  Qin Song and the rest were very fast, and the rune totems have been built in just a few days. During the last few days, the Spirit Tree, with its powers slightly restored, helped Jun Wu Xie stabalize her soul.

  Jun Wu Xie’s soul was not just a simple otherworldly soul. She had one body containing two souls. Jun Wu Xie’s soul was already inseparable from the soul of Little Black. However, this kind of double soul was made from the pain of the previous life and forcibly merged; parts of Jun Wu Xie’s soul was more or less missing. This point, the Spirit Tree had no other way to help. Only when the little Spirit Tree within Jun Wu Xie had grown, only then would Jun Wu Xie’s soul be fully repaired.

  Regarding this matter, Jun Wu Xie didn’t really care. She has lived like this for two lives and cannot be separated from Little Black any longer.

  After Soul World has stabilized, Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao had to leave. And once they leave, Soul World would be completely sealed off until…… Jun Wu Xie had destroyed the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms plan of the Upper Realm.

  At the last moment of leaving Soul World, Jun Wu Xie turned to look at the peaceful Soul World.

  Qin Song and Long Jiu stood not far away, sending her and Jun Wu Yao off.

  The farewell this time, she didn’t know when they would meet again. The closure of the Soul World would signify a great change in the Three Realms. If Jun Wu Xie and the rest were unable to destroy the Upper Realm’s scheme, the Soul World will never open again!

  “Everything will pass.” Jun Wu Yao raised his hand and brought Jun Wu Xie into his embrace.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.

  The two left Soul World without taking extra trouble.

  In Sea Soul City, ships coming and going were docked. It was different from the past. When the ships returned from the sea, there was no longer the stench of blood, and no more piles of Sea Spirit Beasts that were transported into Sea Spirit City.

  Once a city filled with the scent of blood, now it was covered with the smell from the moisture of the sea water.

  The tall, calm-looking men walked down from the newly docked boats, and the once noisy scenes on the pier no longer existed. Standing on two sides of the docks were men with cool temperament and sharp gazed, which made it obvious that they were no idle coolies.

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  In the city palace of the Sea Spirit City, Zi Fei who was wearing a mask was sitting beside the pond in the backyard while watching the little Sea Spirit Beasts swimming happily in the pond with a soft and tender gaze in her eyes.

  After receiving Jun Wu Xie’s message, Zi Fei and the members of the Night Regime had gone to the Sea Spirit City by ships, and after she arrived, she found out how scarily had the entire Sea Spirit City changed.

  Zi Fei was once a part of the Upper Realm, and she wasn’t that unfamiliar to the Sea Spirit City. That year when she was being chased after by the Upper Realm, the Sea Spirit City was the last place where she had escaped to. She could still remember that the Sea Spirit City during that time was pervaded with disgusting smell of blood and there were people who had the blood stains of the Sea Spirit Beasts on their clothing walking on the streets and alleys like it was nothing.

  This place was just like a purgatory, cruel and ruthless.

  But now, the Sea Spirit City was completely different.

  It hadn’t been a month yet since Zi Fei came to the Sea Spirit City, but she was already able to notice the change of this city. The members of the Night Regime and the Ghost Army were successively transferred to the Sea Spirit City, replacing the original residents of the Sea Spirit City, and now, the people who were seen walking in the entire Sea Spirit City were all disguised by the Night Regime and the Ghost Army.

  Without everyone realizing, the entire Sea Spirit City had already been completely taken over by Jun Wu Xie!

  “Senior Zi Fei.” Qiao Chu walked into the yard in a hurry pace. While looking at Zi Fei who was playing with the little Sea Spirit Beasts beside the pool, he grinned and said.

  Zi Fei turned her head. Looking at Qiao Chu, she slightly nodded.

  “How are these little things doing these days? Seems like they are fully recovered. Maybe they can return to the Sea of Death not long after this?” With his neck stretched, Qiao Chu took a glimpse at the pond. Before this, Jun Wu Xie had invited Zi Fei to the city mainly to save and heal those Sea Spirit Beasts that were being bred in captivity.

  During the whole month, all Zi Fei did was healing those Sea Spirit Beasts. Those Sea Spirit Beasts that were once perennially caged while constantly supplying their blood to the Sea Spirit City had almost recovered after being taken care of by Zi Fei. It was just that the wounds on the Sea Spirit Beasts which were caused by the bamboo pipes were too severe that they were yet to fully heal up. If they let the Sea Spirit Beasts get back to the Sea of Death right away, it might probably cause their wounds to deteriorate, and thus, all they could only do was just to let the Sea Spirit Beasts stay in the Sea Spirit City momentarily, so that they were able to recuperate from the damage.

  What was even more knotty was those little Sea Spirit Beasts that had been caught since young. They had been locked up in the Sea Spirit City when they were still innocent, not knowing anything about the world but just looking at their comrades suffered. They had no parents to guide and look after them. They didn’t even know the swimming direction to head to the Sea of Death.

  At first, Qiao Chu and the others tried to release those little Sea Spirit Beasts that had been rescued, back to the Sea of Death, but the outcome had gotten them appalled. The moment those little Sea Spirit Beasts that had long left the ocean returned to the Sea of Death, they immediately let out a blood curdling and confusing scream, wandering at the seacoast, not willing to leave.

  Without having any other options, Qiao Chu and the rest of them could just only bring those little things back and let Zi Fei teach them bit by bit, about the basic knowledge that should be known by a Sea Spirit Beast.

  “It’s almost time. Just wait for a few days more and we can then send them back to the isolated island. There, the adult Sea Spirit Beasts will teach them more things.” Zi Fei chuckled. She wholeheartedly liked these little lives coming from the Sea of Death.

  “That’s good.” Qiao Chu scratched his head. He too, liked the little Sea Spirit Beasts, but he was born to be a clumsy person who didn’t know how to hold himself back, that everytime when he carried the little Sea Spirit Beasts in his arms, those small little creatures would become so scared that they just screamed the hell out of their lungs. And now, all he could do was just to quietly watch them from aside.

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  Just when Qiao Chu and Zi Fei were talking, Ye Sha happened to pass through the courtyard while holding a stack of files. When he saw them, his footsteps slightly halted.

  “Brother Ye Sha!” When Qiao Chu saw Ye Sha, he greeted him with such hyped up enthusiasm . Usually, when Ye Sha was not secretly protecting Jun Wu Xie, he was being sent out on errands by Jun Wu Yao. Chu Qiao and the others couldn’t find a good time to learn from Ye Sha and his other peers. This time however, with Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao gone in the Soul World, and the members of the Night Regime were guarding Sea Spirit City, it gave Chu Qiao and the others enough time to understand the legendary Night Regime.

  Within just one short month, Qiao Chu and the rest managed to find out many training secrets of the Night Regime from Ye Sha and Ye Mei. Several people have been boiling with rage for a long while now and also learnt many cultivation methods, if only to become stronger for a real battle with the Upper Realm in the future.

  “Well?” Ye Sha looked at the energetic Qiao Chu quite helplessly.

  The members of the Night Regime possessed temperaments which were calm and stable, contrary to the character of Qiao Chu, which was hot blooded and jumpy. Till now, Ye She couldn’t understand how Qiao Chu maintained his over eager enthusiasm all day long.

  “The Night Regime and the Ghost Army have all arrived today?” Qiao Chu asked with a smile.

  Ye Sha nodded.

  During this month, with Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie gone, he and Ye Mei were not idle. The task of transporting the rest of the Night Regime and Ghost Army from the island fell on them.

  Ye Gu was not reliable, apart from being fearsome on the battlefield and slaying their enemies, he was useless and avoided like the plague when it came to meticulous and detailed matters.

  By now, the last boat transporting the remaining members of the Ghost Army had arrived in the Sea Spirit City. Apart from the couple hundreds of Night Regime members protecting the Sea Spirit Beasts on the isolated island, the rest of the Jun Wu Yao’s men were gathered in the Sea Spirit City.

  “That’s good, I don’t know when they will come back. They have been gone for a while.” Qiao Chu scratched his head.

  Speaking of Jun Wu Xie, the smile in the eyes of Zi Fei suddenly disappeared, her eyes turned down involuntarily and the trace of loneliness hit her eyes.

  “It should be soon.” Ye Sha said.

  “What is soon?” A voice suddenly sounded from the courtyard.

  Ye Sha and the other two immediately looked up and followed the sound, but they saw the Ye Mei smiling as he walked over, and his expression shining with unhidden joy.

  “Tell you a piece of good news, Lord Jue just sent a message back. This evening, he and Missy will arrive at the Sea Spirit City. Stop being so stunned Ye Sha, hurry up and come with me to prepare.”


  A jingle sounded!

  With no time to digest the news, Qiao Chu and Ye Sha were distracted by the sound of the bell.

  The ladle that Zi Fei held in her hands had unknowingly dropped onto the ground, and had shattered!

  “Elder Zi Fei?” Qiao Chu looked at Zi Fei strangely.

  Zi Fei regained her focus, weaky and quietly pulled her still-trembling fingers into her sleeves. She pretended to be calm and said: “There was some water on my hand and the ladle slipped. Go do what you need to do, I’ll go check on the wounds of the Sea Spirit Beasts to see if there are any improvements.”


  After Zi Fei finished her words in a rush, she didn’t even clean up the mess on the ground but she turned around and left hurriedly.

  Qiao Chu scratched his head questioningly, Elder Zi Fei was usually very calm and stable. How could she have…… mishandled something?

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  The fact that Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao were coming back had made Qiao Chu so happy that he immediately ran to inform Hua Yao and the rest of his friends.

  Nobody was able to understand the grievance of Hua Yao who had disguised himself into Yan Hai and pretended to be the fake “fake Yan Hai” for a month. Fortunately, due to the local residents of the Sea Spirit City being replaced gradually by the members of the Night Regime and the Ghost Army, Hua Yao was able to suffer less when playing the role.

  “Little Xie is finally going to be back. Brother Hua too, is going to get free soon.” While grinning, Fei Yan looked at Hua Yao. Though this was what he said, there wasn’t any bits of diminution with the gloat in his eyes.

  Hua Yao rolled his eyes at Fei Yan, not wanting to waste his energy to argue with him.

  “It’s certainly good that Little Xie is going to come back, but…… how shall we deal with those people?” Rong Ruo who was sitting aside furrowed her brows.

  Listening to Rong Ruo’s words, the expressions on the face of the few of them who were at first smiling cheerfully suddenly became a little weird.

  “Cough…… Let’s just wait for Little Xie to come back and see what will she do. At the worst, we can just fudge the issue and make them leave,” said Qiao Chu after clearing his throat.

  Hua Yao and the others looked at each other and there was actually a trace of wry smile in each of their eyes.

  As the night fell, there came two figures landed gracefully outside the official residence of the Sea Spirit City.

  Qiao Chu and the others who had been waiting for quite a long time outside the entrance immediately went forward once they saw the two of them.

  “Lord Jue, Young Miss.” Ye Mei and Ye Sha stepped forward and bowed at Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie who had just returned.

  “Is everything fine in the Sea Spirit City?” Looking at everyone who had come to greet them, Jun Wu Xie asked.

  “Everything is alright, please do not worry, Young Miss,” replied Ye Sha.

  Jun Wu Xie slightly nodded her head. Hastily, Qiao Chu and the rest of them welcomed her and Jun Wu Yao into the official residence while constantly asking them about the Soul World along their way into the building. However, there was a skinny figure walking behind everyone, quietly gazing at Jun Wu Xie who was walking beside Jun Wu Yao.

  “How was your trip to the Soul World? Have you settled the chaotic energy, Little Xie?” Among all of them, Qiao Chu was the most excited person. He felt really sad for not being able to visit the Soul World since he had always been curious about the Soul World, the origin of the billions souls in this world.

  “It’s settled,” said Jun Wu Xie flatly. There wasn’t any joy but a trace of indescribable depression in her tone.

  However, careless Qiao Chu had failed to notice Jun Wu Xie’s unusualness.

  “That’s good, that’s good, then…… what about Grandmaster Ren Huang and Master……” With a hint of expectancy in his eyes, the speaking tone of Qiao Chu changed slightly. The deaths of Ren Huang and Yan Bu Gui had always been a sore point stuck in their hearts. They didn’t want to believe that they were really gone. It had been years and they were still insisting that maybe the souls of Ren Huang and Yan Bu Gui were still living somewhere else in the Three Realms.

  Jun Wu Xie had told the words of the Spirit Tree to them. After being told that the souls of Ren Huang and Yan Bu Gui had gone into the Reincarnation Path, Hua Yao and the others couldn’t help themselves from showing a feeling of desolation in their eyes, but after thinking that Ren Huang and Yan Bu Gui would still descend into this world again on their second thoughts, they felt relieved.

  With their strengths getting stronger, the lifespans of Qiao Chu and the others would also increase. They had the time to wait for the return of Yan Bu Gui and Ren Huang.

  Even though the identity and the appearance had changed, but as long as it was the same soul, then the person who owned the soul would still be their Master.

  Qiao Chu didn’t notice the unusualness of Jun Wu Xie, but Rong Ruo who was always attentive had vaguely noticed that there was something wrong with the condition of Jun Wu Xie. If everything was going well in the Soul World, why wasn’t there any merriment shown on her face?

  Rong Ruo couldn’t help but asked, “Is it that something bad has happened to the Soul World?”


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  Jun Wu Xie hesitated and her footsteps slowed as well. Her eyes drooped but she didn’t say anything.

  The once lively atmosphere suddenly calmed down and even Qiao Chu who was quite insensitive also noticed Jun Wu Xie’s peculiar behaviour. Everyone’s focus was on Jun Wu Xie.

  “Little Xie…… What exactly happened?” Qiao Chu carefully asked.

  Jun Wu Xie furrowed her brow as she slowly looked up at Qiao Chu and the others who had concerned by eager eyes, and she finally whispered: “Remember the time when we were in the Spirit World, the matter involving Situ Heng?”


  Qiao Chu and others were shocked, as they suddenly remembered the things that were almost forgotten by them.

  At the beginning when they were in Spirit World, Situ Heng, along with Qin Song and Long Jiu, helped stabilize the chaotic energy within Jun Wu Xie. However, he harboured ill intentions and schemed to destroy Jun Wu Xie’s soul during the process. If Jun Wu Yao hadn’t found out in time and revealed the scheme, the consequence was simply unimaginable.

  “Don’t tell me…… The traitors in the Soul World acted on their scheme?” asked Fan Zhuo, frowning.

  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  “When we reached the Soul World, the rebels had already enacted their plan, and they admitted the people of the Upper Realm into the Soul World. The Upper Realm was trying to use the Soul World to carry out the Soul Sacrificing Event, and thereby achieving their purpose of the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms.”


  Jun Wu Xie’s words caused everyone to be frightened. Jun Wu Yao then narrated to everyone what had actually happened in the Soul World, including the relation between the Soul Sacrificing Event and Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms.

  Even though they knew that the Upper Realm’s plan had been destroyed, but after hearing everything that Jun Wu Yao said, the shock and fear within the hearts of everyone did not disappear for a long while. They could not imagine that if Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao were not coincidentally in Soul World, how the situation would have evolved.

  If the plan of Upper Realm was really successful, then the Three Realms would really be destroyed!

  Who would have thought that, besides what they did in the Middle Realm, that the Upper Realm would still have a scheme like this?

  “So, the Soul World is now completely sealed? If Grand Master and Master wants to re-enter the Three Realms, they would have to wait till the Soul World reopens?” Qiao Chu gulped, the Soul World’s closure meant that no new soul could enter the Reincarnation Path, and there will be no newborn within the Three Realms for the foreseeable future!

  Jun Wu Xie nodded. “This is our last resort as the Upper Realm have too many schemes. It’s impossible for Soul World to defend well. Although we managed to put a stop to their plans this time, it’s hard to be certain that we will be able to do so without further problems.”


  Sealing Soul World was the safest method, and with the current state of the Spirit Tree, unfortunately it would not be able to destroy the Soul Sacrificing Event within this short span of time. To cut off the path which the Upper Realm intended to use for the Blood Sacrifice of the Three Realms, this was the only feasible method.

  Everyone nodded with lingering fears.

  The news that they brought back was too shocking, and they found it somewhat difficult to digest at the moment.

  Only one person, who after hearing everything, didn’t have any shock displayed in her eyes, but with only a trace of relaxation. After a moment, the person suddenly thought of something and called out: “Wu Xie.”


  The gentle call drifted into Jun Wu Xie’s ears and she lifted her head to look at the person who had spoken.

  Zi Fei stood behind the crowd and looked at Jun Wu Xie, her eyes held complex yet gentle emotions.

  “Elder Zi Fei.” Jun Wu Xie slightly nodded to Zi Fei.

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  There was always an inexplicable amiability that Jun Wu Xie felt towards Zi Fei when she saw her. Even though the time of them interacting with each other wasn’t really that much, the depression which was originally suppressed within Jun Wu Xie got to abate for no reason after she saw Zi Fei.

  Looking at Jun Wu Xie who looked a little tired, a sign of hesitation flashed across Zi Fei’s eyes.

  “So many things have happened in the Soul World, then…… the thing you said previously…… that you want to look for your father in the Soul World……” The voice of Zi Fei was so soft that it almost couldn’t be heard clearly by the other people.

  Jun Wu Xie shuddered. With the picture of Jun Gu being taken away suddenly gushed into her brain at the moment, her gaze came to a stunned, mouth slightly opened and not a sound was heard from her.

  The reaction given out by Jun Wu Xie had made Zi Fei’s heart feel as if it had leapt up to her throat.

  “I’ve…… found my father.” Jun Wu Xie looked down as she hid the trace of unusualness away from the bottom of her eyes.

  “How is he doing?” Not being able to restrain herself, Zi Fei asked.

  Soundlessly, Jun Wu Xie lowered her head down.

  The silence of Jun Wu Xie had caused Zi Fei to once again sink into an apprehension, but she somewhat felt that she shouldn’t be continuing the question anymore.

  “You say it.” Jun Wu Xie pulled Jun Wu Yao’s sleeve. She wasn’t able to speak about the matter of Jun Gu.

  Jun Wu Yao let out a soft sigh, “Little Xie’s father has been controlled by the Upper Realm. When we saw him in the Soul World, his memory had already been wiped off. We couldn’t save him at the moment since the Soul Sacrificing Event had already begun. He was then taken away by the people from the Upper Realm.”


  At the instant, Zi Fei drew in a cold breath with her pair of eyes slightly widening as her figure staggered all of a sudden, almost going to stumble onto the ground.

  “How…… How come……” Zi Fei widened her eyes in disbelief.

  After listening to everything, Qiao Chu and the others held an astounding expression onto their faces. They knew better than anyone else, that how many years had Jun Wu Xie tried to find Jun Gu. At first, they thought that she would be able to find her father after entering the Soul World, but who could have known that…… they would actually encounter in such a situation.

  They couldn’t help but move their gazes onto Jun Wu Xie. They could finally understand why there wasn’t any bits of happiness shown on Jun Wu Xie’s face when she came back. After going through all the hardships, she managed to find her father at the end but it turned out that the Upper Realm had taken him and he was most probably being controlled by those people. There was a big possibility that one day in the future, he would become her enemy. How would any child be able to endure such kind of things?

  Neither did Jun Wu Xie speak anything nor did she raise her head, nobody knew what was she thinking about at the moment.

  The moment Zi Fei saw how distressed Jun Wu Xie looked after recovering from the stupefaction, her heartstrings tightened. The words that she wanted to tell after thinking for so many restless nights which lasted for a whole month were now stuck in her throat and not even a word was able to get out of her mouth.

  Without speaking a word, Zi Fei stepped forward and embraced Jun Wu Xie who had been having her head down all the time into her arms. Gently, she said, “It’s okay. Since you’ve found him, he will definitely come back to you. Don’t be afraid, if he is able to recognize you, he will certainly be proud of you.”


  Although Zi Fei’s voice was soft and gentle, with a sharp cold glare flaring across her eyes, the blood inside her which had been frozen for many years was soundlessly boiling.

  She was sick of ducking and hiding herself.

  And now, she will get everything which she had once lost back one by one!

  No one else was allowed to hurt her child and her husband anymore!

  “Wu Xie, listen, if everything is as what you have said, then at the very least, for now, your father is safe. There must be something that the person in the Upper Realm wants to get from your father. Before he achieved his goal, your father will be safe. You still have time.” With her eyes narrowed, Zi Fei said slowly.

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  Zi Fei knew exactly what kind of personality the person in the Upper Realm had, and knew what she needed to do now.

  Under the comfort of Zi Fei, Jun Wu Xie’s emotions gradually stabilized. As Zi Fei said, she had no time to let herself sink into despair, she still had to face the future on her own.

  “I will save my father.” Jun Wu Xie said lowly.

  “I know, you will.” Zi Fei gently caressed Jun Wu Xie’s long hair, just like the picture that had appeared in her dreams for so many years.

  “Thank you.” Jun Wu Xie stood up straight, slightly distance herself from Zi Fei. She could clearly see the face under Zi Fei’s mask, but her eyes were the best looking pair of eyes Jun Wu Xie had ever seen; it was gentle like water but yet so warm.

  “Silly child.” Zi Fei was reluctant to look at Jun Wu Xie, raised her hand and rubbed Jun Wu Xie’s head, her eyes were laughing. But the fingers that brushed passed Jun Wu were stiff, as if trying to restrain the trembling that would appear at anytime.

  “Don’t think about it anymore. Since you are back, you should rest. Even if you want to do something, you need enough energy, right?”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  Qiao Chu and others did not dare to say anything more. They could only look on with eyes filled with care and concern as Jun Wu Xie returned to her room to rest.

  Everyone had left, but Zi Fei still stood outside the Jun Wu Xie’s room, looking at the locked door. Moonlight sprinkled over the quiet courtyard, and also on Zi Fei’s figure, as her silhouette slowly lengthened on the ground.

  “If I remember correctly, the full name of the Holy Maiden who fled from the Upper Realm should be Han Zi Fei?” Suddenly, the voice of Jun Wu Yao appeared in the courtyard.

  Zi Fei did not turn her head, but kept looking at Jun Wu Xie’s room with a forlorn gaze.

  “When I was at Lin Palace, I found a portrait. It belongs to Jun Gu. Old Master Jun said that the painting was drawn for Jun Gu by Little Xie’s mother. Under the portrait, there is a signature. – Han.” Jun Wu Yao looked at Zi Fei’s back, thoughtful.

  The figure of Zi Fei stiffened.

  “Why don’t you acknowledge her?” Jun Wu Yao was slightly frowning. At first, he didn’t notice anything strange about Zi Fei, but tonight, when Jun Wu Xie mentioned about Jun Gu’s situation, Zi Fei’s reaction was extremely abnormal, and the words she said last time were also somewhat intriguing.

  In fact, early on when Zi Fei and Jun Wu Xie met each other, the atmosphere of the two people was harmonious and somewhat amazing. It seemed that there was a natural tacit understanding. If this tacit understanding was placed on others, it might not be obvious, but when placed on Jun Wu Xie, who had a naturally cold character, it was extremely rare.

  Even when she first met with Qiao Chu and the others, Jun Wu Xie was always slightly distant, completely unlike the interaction with Zi Fei.

  This point, Jun Wu Yao had realised, but he did not think that there would be such a coincidence in the world.

  If the reaction of Zi Fei hadn’t been too strong tonight, Jun Wu Yao would not have connected all these things.

  Zi Fei didn’t turn her head. After a long silence, she said: “Ye, if you really love her, don’t tell her. I am leaving tonight, who am I, she doesn’t need to know.”


  Jun Wu Yao’s eyes squinted slightly. “You want to rescue Jun Gu?”


  Zi Fei chuckled and said: “Yes, but also not really, I am just going to finish what I did not finish in the past. To Jun Wu Xie, I am dead so just let her continue to think that way.”


  Zi Fei’s tone was decisive, free and easy. She did not wait for Jun Wu Yao’s response, but instead turned to leave and her figure gradually disappeared into the night.

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  Jun Wu Xie dreamt. In her dream, she was covered in darkness and it was so dark that she couldn’t see her hand in front of her, and she was surrounded in silence. Two faint lights appeared silently on her left and right sides, wrapped in darkness, she could see a faintly discernible figure in the light.

  One was tall and upright, the other slender and petite, only fuzzy outlines, but was unable to see the features clearly.

  When the first rays of the morning sun shone, Jun Wu Xie hasn’t yet woken up from her dream but a cacophony of sounds broke the silence of the morning. Jun Wu Xie immediately sat up and Little Black, who was lying next to her, got up and followed her.

  “Meow?”


  There was a commotion!

  Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed slightly. It was quite noisy, some high-pitched roars could be heard, as if there was some argument going on. She got up and dressed, looked subconsciously at the bed with residual warmth but didn’t see Jun Wu Yao’s person.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t think too much and departed from her room toward the source of the sound.

  A few tall figures were sitting in the hall of the official residence. A man with a burly figure and a rough appearance, wearing a brocade suit, with his face stretched taut, was shouting at Fan Zhuo who stood opposite him, “How long do you intend to drag this matter on? Day after day, we don’t have the time to play around with you! If you don’t give us a satisfactoy answer by today, we are not going to play nice anymore!”


  “Get your City Lord out here! Every time you’re beating around the bush, this time we fall for it. You, you are not qualified to speak to us!” Another man pointed at Fan Zhuo’s nose and yelled.

  Fan Zhuo was sprayed with a faceful of spittle, but he maintained his good temper.

  When Jun Wu Xie reached the back door of the hall, she found Qiao Chu and gang standing at the back of the hall, looking depressed.

  “What’s wrong?” Jun Wu Xie frowned slightly. The voices of those people were very loud, and she could hear everything clearly.

  When Qiao Chu saw Jun Wu Xie, he immediately cried and said: “They are the people from Long Xuan City.”


  Jun Wu Xie raised her eyebrows slightly.

  Long Xuan City was one of the seventy two cities. In terms of geographical location, it was closer to the Sea Spirit City, but in terms of land area, it was twice as large as the Sea Spirit City. Although the Sea Spirit City was dependent on the sea for its livelihood, but what was supporting the existence of the city was not the strength of the Sea Spirit Lord. Instead, it was because within the Sea of Death, they possessed the prowess of hunting the Sea Spirit Beasts; which allowed the Sea Spirit City to have a certain standing amongst the seventy-two cities. But in terms of strength, the Sea Spirit City resided in the tail end of the group.

  This Long Xuan City was also not famous amongst the seventy-two cities, but in front of the Sea Spirit City, they were shamelessly arrogant because the Sea Spirit City was the weakest city amongst the seventy-two cities. If not for the Sea Spirit Beasts, Sea Spirit City would have already been swallowed up by the other cities.

  “What are they doing here?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Qiao Chu, although the Upper Realm seventy-two cities were collectively called that, but there was not much relations between the cities. The in-fighting among the seventy-two cities were not comparable to the schemes and plots between the countries of the Upper Realm. But since they all possessed large forces, no one could occupy the other cities.

  The Sea Spirit City was not only the weakest among the seventy-two cities, but also had the smallest area, so it had never held the attention of the other cities. Apart from the monthly supply of the Sea Spirit Beasts, they had very little contact with the other cities, and it was rare for people from other cities have taken the initiative to come to the Sea Spirit City.

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  “They are here for the Sea Spirit Beast.” Qiao Chu curled his lips.

  Ever since Jun Wu Xie came to the Sea Spirit City, there was hardly any Sea Spirit Beasts brought back to the city. Before this, Yan Wan wanted to frame Jun Wu Xie so he had handed the departure course of the ships to Jun Wu Xie for a period of time, and this had directly caused the severely lack of supplements of the Sea Spirit Beasts in the city, resulting Yan Wan in having no choice but giving out the stocks to the Upper Realm.

  However, after Yan Wan took back the authority of handling the departure course of the ships from Jun Wu Xie, he was then killed by Jun Wu Xie not long after that, and after Jun Wu Xie took over the entire Sea Spirit City, not only did she terminate the Sea Spirit Beasts hunting activities, she had also let the Sea Spirit Beasts that were reared in captivity in the Sea Spirit City for the purpose of blood exploitation free. There was not much stock left in the warehouse, and after Jun Wu Xie went to the Soul World, besides busy transferring the members of the Night Regime and the Ghost Army from the isolated island to the Sea Spirit City, Qiao Chu and the others had also used the stock left to hedge on the parties from the Upper Realm who had come to ask for the blood of the Sea Spirit Beast.

  But there was just a little stock left in Sea Spirit City and they were all then used up in less than a month. All the people in the Upper Realm had long gotten used to the practice of feeding the blood of the Sea Spirit Beast to their newborn children and also the practice of eating the meat of the Sea Spirit Beast.

  The fact that the Sea Spirit City had the provision of the Sea Spirit Beasts reduced all of a sudden was already enough to piss them off, but then, the Sea Spirit City had decided to completely cut off the provision recently, how would the other seventy-one cities not be totally enraged?

  How were they going to raise their newborns without the blood of the Sea Spirit Beast?

  The Long Xuan City was the impatient one as few days ago, they had sent several experts to the Sea Spirit City to request for the provision of the Sea Spirit Beast. Jun Wu Xie wasn’t in the city during that time. Although there was Hua Yao disguising as “Yan Hai”, in order to prevent from being exposed, they didn’t dare to let Hua Yao meet those people from the Long Xuan City face to face, leading them in keep on finding excuses to stall for time.

  And today, the people from the Long Xuan City could no longer hold it back anymore. Truculently, they went to the city palace and began to make a fuss in the early morning.

  At first, Qiao Chu and the others were planning to tell Jun Wu Xie about this matter after she came back and let her be the one to settle it, but no one would have thought that Jun Wu Xie would actually bring so many shocking news back after she returned from the Soul World. Since it would be quite inappropriate for them to burden Jun Wu Xie with even more irritating problems, they had chosen to put the issue aside.

  As a result……

  The next morning after Jun Wu Xie came back, these people from the Long Xuan City had then come to the city palace.

  “You’ve no idea how arrogant these people are. Not to mention that they are all cocky, acting like a peacock for the entire time when they are in the Sea Spirit City, wherever they go, they are just like the boss, eating everything they want by fraud but still be picky as hell. If it wasn’t for the sake of the overall plan, me and Fei Yan would have already broken their legs and thrown these idiots into the sea to feed the fish!” With a furious expression on his face, Qiao Chu snorted. Just by looking at the indignation he showed, it wasn’t difficult to realize how resentful he was during this period of time.

  Now, the people in the entire Sea Spirit City were no longer the local residents of the Sea Spirit City but the subordinates of Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao. The people from the Long Xuan City had always been feeling extremely superior when they came to the Sea Spirit City. They disdained the residents in the Sea Spirit City, always acting so presumptuously by bossing them around. If this was in the previous time, those people who lived in the Sea Spirit City would probably embarrassingly obsequious to them due to their powerfulness, but now……

  The ones who were living in the Sea Spirit City were the Night Regime and the Ghost Army who wouldn’t even blink their eyes when they killed!

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  If it weren’t for Ye Mei and Ye Sha holding the fort, these brutes from Long Xuan City would have died many times before in the Sea Spirit City.

  Jun Wu Xie quietly listened to everything that Qiao Chu said, looked up at Hua Yao and the rest who were standing at the back hall. Although they were as agitated as Qiao Chu, but in their eyes held a certain anger, they were obviously tormented by the people of Long Xuan City.

  This sort of opponent who could be easily crushed with one finger, but yet for practical reasons, they had to allow them to run amok in order to keep the peace, must have really depressed the rest. This was not something that ordinary people could endure.

  “Only Fan Zhuo’s temperament could withstand them a little. We don’t dare to meet those guys now, we’re afraid that if we can’t stand it anymore, we will just take their heads off.” Fei Yan was eager to roll up his sleeves for battle.

  At first, they could still withstand it, but in the end, the thing that angered Fei Yan the most was……

  Rong Ruo had once talked to these people. The result was that the shameless bastards actually dared eyed the beauty of Rong Ruo and even hinted for Rong Ruo to accompany them. At this, it really angered Fei Yan and if Rong Ruo hadn’t stopped him, he would have chopped the Long Xuan City people up into meat sauce.

  “Little Xie, what do you think? Do you want to…… coax them first to stabilize the situation?” Qiao Chu touched his chin, they had just established their base in the Sea Spirit City, and in order to ensure that they were not noticed by the Upper Realm, they would have to conceal their strengths and bide their time.

  Jun Wu Xie did not speak, but took the mask and wore it. The appearance of Yan Hai obscured the stunning face. After Jun Wu Xie made sure that her true appearance was well masked, she stepped into the hall.

  In the hall, the people of Long Xuan City were still yelling at Fan Zhuo, and even the good-tempered Fan Zhuo was already burning with rage.

  “What can you do? If you can’t do anything, get lost! The Sea Spirit City has no one else? They actually let a brat like you take care of us? Where’s Yan Wan that old man? Call him out, I am not interested in dealing with an immature, little brat like you!” A man from Long Xuan City looked impatiently at Fan Zhuo.

  Fan Zhuo took a deep breath and forced down the dissatisfaction in his heart. Just as he was about to say something, a hand was placed on his shoulder.

  Fan Zhuo turned his head to look at the owner of the hand and he saw Jun Wu Xie who was pretending to be Yan Hai, whom without his realisation had entered the hall. The quiet and cold eyes sent him a slight signal to stay calm.

  Fan Zhuo was slightly stunned.

  “Let me handle this.” Jun Wu Xie spoke slowly.

  Fan Zhuo hesitated slightly, and finally nodded and retreated to the side.

  The men of Long Xuan City, who simmering with anger, suddenly saw the appearance of Jun Wu Xie, and one by one had wrinkled brows.

  “Who is this little brat, let you handle? Who do you think you are?” A big, fouled mouth man started shouting.

  Jun Wu Xie, lightly and calmly sat down in the main chair of the hall, her face held no trace of anger, she was totally calm as she sat leisurely. Her cold eyes lifted slightly while looking at the ‘uninvited guests’ from Long Xuan City and slowly said,

  “I am Yan Hai.”


  “Yan Hai? What the hell?” The man of Long Xuan City did not buy it, but what another person said suddenly: “You are Yan Hai? The son of Yan Wan?”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.

  “Yes.”


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  “Big brother, that’s the son of Yan Wan.” The man nudged the fouled-mouth, brawny man.

  The brawny man was named Xu Zu and he was considered a strong exponent in Long Xuan City because of his capabilities in handling matters. And thus was held in high regard by the Lord of Long Xuan City, and so he was nominated to head to Sea Spirit City to demand for the Sea Spirit Beasts.

  Xu Zu curled his lips in disgust. He looked at Jun Wu Xie from head to toe and he did not bother to hide his scorn.

  This kid seemed young, with delicate features that did not align with being a powerful Lord. Yan Wan was not considered one of the strongest among the seventy-two city lords, but few people could be comparable to his ruthless and malevolent inclinations. The matter of Yan Wan’s few sons who died during infancy was well-known within the seventy-two cities. Everyone knew that it was Yan Wan’s fear of his sons surpassing his own strength and usurp his position that drove him to strike first in order to ‘gain an upper hand’.

  The only one left was Yan Hai, but it was because at that time when he was born, his innate talent was very average and that saved his life.

  A little brat that Yan Wan did not spare a thought to, how could he have good prospects?

  Xu Zu was very disapproving, and the look on his face was unchanging. He did not care if he was sitting in front of the Young Lord of the Sea Spirit City.

  “Yan Hai is it? We are not looking for you, but your old man, Yan Wan. Don’t dawdle with us, we are not interested in engaging in pointless conversation with you! Hurry and call your old man out! The fouled-mouth, brawny man shouted.

  On one side, Fan Zhuo frowned slightly, but did not say anything. Qiao Chu and others, who were hiding in the back hall, were observing the movements in the hall through a small dark hole. They were all curious at how Jun Wu Xie was going to deal with the group from Long Xuan City

  Jun Wu Xie sat calmly on her chair, with a light and airy look about her. She unhurriedly took the cup of tea from the table and took a sip, with a look of contentment, as if she did not hear Xu Zu curse them out.

  “Little imp, did you hear what I was saying?!” Xu Zu glared at Jun Wu Xie. Although his strength was not as powerful as the Lord of Long Xuan Cheng, but he was considered as top among the Gold Spirits. In the end, he was ignored by Jun Wu Xie, a young brat, and he felt he had ‘lost face’.

  Disregarding whether Jun Wu Xie was the Young Lord of the Sea Spirit City or not, to the other people in the city, the two words ‘Young Lord’ was not even a consideration. In the dog-eat-dog world of the Upper Realm, the father-son relationships are far less close as compared to that of the Lower Realm or Middle Realm. Even if one was now a Young Lord, it was not implausible that her father had taken precautions against her. It was commonplace to remove an important chess piece.

  Xu Zu naturally would not even bother with the Young Lord, Jun Wu Xie.

  Jun Wu Xie was still slowly drinking tea from her cup, her cold eyes lifted slightly and started impatiently at Xu Zu.

  “Who are you looking for?” Jun Wu Xie asked.

  Xu Zu impatiently said: “We are looking for the Lord of Sea Spirit City, not the Young Lord. Do you have bad hearing? Do you not understand?”


  Jun Wu Xie’s eyebrows were slightly lifted, and the empty cup was placed on the table, and she rested her chin on one hand, as she stared unruffled at Xu Zu, “I am the Lord of Sea Spirit City.”


  “What?” Xu Zu was dumbfounded. He looked at Jun Wu Xie and could hardly believe what he had heard.

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  He was the City Lord?

  How was it possible!

  Wasn’t the Sea Spirit City the land of Yan Wan?

  Hardly recovered from the shock, Xu Zu looked at the delicate looking boy who was just casually sitting in front of him, simply couldn’t believe everything that he had just heard.

  Yan Wan’s fixation towards the Sea Spirit City was extremely deep. He valued power and authorities more than anything else, if not, he wouldn’t have personally killed so many of his kids in the past. The fact that Yan Hai was lucky enough to have his life spared was all because the aptitude he showed wasn’t that outstanding in the beginning. How was it possible for Yan Wan to let his kid who would turn into a threat of his in the future stay in the Sea Spirit City?

  “Are you kidding me?” Xu Zu immediately repudiated Jun Wu Xie’s words. Not to mention that the strength of Jun Wu Xie had already been negated by Yan Wan from the very beginning, there was no way her age would overtake Yan Wan’s age. No matter how talented a person was, how would someone surpassed Yan Wan who was already over one hundred years old at such a young age?

  This was totally a joke!

  “Kidding? I’m sorry but I never joke with outsiders. If I’m not the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City, why would you think that I have the right to sit here?” With her brows slightly cocking, a domineering gaze suddenly emerged from Jun Wu Xie’s cold clear eyes.

  The body of Xu Zu stiffened in that instant. It was definitely not a gaze which an ordinary person would own. If it wasn’t for him to witness it with his own eyes, he too, couldn’t have believed that such a young boy would actually have such a sharp gaze.

  With an extremely indecipherable expression on the faces of the other people from the Long Xuan City, the way they looked at Jun Wu Xie became really weird.

  Though they hadn’t been paying much attention to the Sea Spirit City, they still knew about the most rudimentary information of the city.

  Yan Wan had already moved Yan Hai out of the official residence. He didn’t even allow Yan Hai to stay long in the official residence. They didn’t notice it just now, but after listening to what Jun Wu Xie said, only then they suddenly came to a realization that it was actually abnormal for Jun Wu Xie to appear in this place, and what got them even more astonished was the seat which Jun Wu Xie was now sitting on. Wasn’t it the main seat which only the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City had the right to sit on?

  If Yan Wan wasn’t defeated by Jun Wu Xie, how was it possible for Jun Wu Xie to sit on that position?

  “You…… are the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City?” Xu Zu’s voice suddenly became weaker. If everything Jun Wu Xie said was true, then he would need to reappraise her strength.

  A teenage boy who was able to snatch the position of the City Lord from his father’s hand at such a young age was definitely not an ordinary character.

  Even though Xu Zu didn’t believe that Jun Wu Xie was able to breakthrough the level of a Gold Spirit and condense spirit inscriptions at such a young age, but if it was true that she was capable of taking down such a cunning opponent like Yan Wan, then the artifice used by Jun Wu Xie to trick people would probably be way more appalling than her strength.

  Subconsciously, Xu Zu released an unnoticeable spirit energy, trying to scrutinize the strength of Jun Wu Xie, but such an action had caused Xu Zu to break into cold sweats!

  He couldn’t sense how exactly strong Jun Wu Xie was!

  Such a case would only happen in one situation, that Jun Wu Xie’s strength had far gone beyond Xu Zu’s strength, resulting him in not being able to detect anything.

  Just at the moment when Xu Zu was inwardly feeling terrified, a violent spirit energy suddenly traced onto the probing spirit energy which he released and gushed back into him, smashing on the pulse of Xu Zu in the twinkling. The vigorous hit had caused an acute pain to radiate from Xu Zu’s chest, leading him in spatting out a mouthful of blood!

  A pungent smell of blood permeated through the main hall of the city palace within seconds. All the people from the Long Xuan City was so shocked that they stood up subconsciously and stared at Xu Zu who was coughing blood, dumbfounded!

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  Xu Zu was the most powerful among them, but now, he vomited blood in front of their eyes. This picture really shocked the people of Long Xuan City.

  Of course.

  But Jun Wu Xie sat umoving in her chair as her eyes, which were as cold as a thousand year old iceberg, swept across everyone from Long Xuan City.

  “These little people of Long Xuan City want to test my strength, isn’t there proper etiquette in Long Xuan City?” Jun Wu Xie said coldly, that bloody color bloomed from her eyes, as the scent of blood made her wrinkled her brow.

  Xu Zu suddenly raised his hand and signaled to those frightened companions to sit down. He raised his hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, as he looked up at an indifferent Jun Wu Xie, but he no longer had suspicion and disdain in his eyes.

  He could clearly feel the tremendous strength of Jun Wu Xie’s spiritual power. Don’t talk about a confrontation, unless the other party did not want his life, he was afraid that he would have already died just now.

  “It was indeed rude of me, please forgive me Lord.” Xu Zu was forcefully enduring the immense pain in his chest as he got up to apologise to Jun Wu Xie. He no longer dared to be scornful and disrespectful.

  Exactly how strong was Jun Wu Xie, Xu Zu was not all that clear, but he knew that it was definitely much stronger than him.

  “If you are disrespectful again, I don’t mind helping your City Lord teach you all a lesson.” Jun Wu Xie said it nonchalantly.

  Xu Zu’s heart clenched as he gulped tensely. He was extremely depressed.

  Yan Wan was treacherous, but he was also extremely cunning. Even if there was really a city that made trouble for him, he would laugh and put priority in maintaining good relations with the other city. But evidently, this new City Lord did not care about such matters as he handled Xu Zu without any sense of kindness.

  This depressing loss, Xu Zu could only suffer in silence as he knew that he was not Jun Wu Xie’s match. So even if there was hatred in his heart, he could not show even a trace of it.

  “Yes, I humbly accept your lesson.” Xu Zu said obediently.

  Jun Wu Xie sneered.

  Xu Zu sat back with fear in his heart. When he raised his eyes again, it was with respect as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.

  “Speak, why are you here at Sea Spirit City?” Jun Wu Xie asked slowly and deliberately. By the side, Fan Zhuo’s timely approach to fill up Jun Wu Xie’s teacup, as he lowered his eyes to conceal the laughter in his eyes.

  The show of strength by Little Xie was swift and efficient, and what a joy it was to watch!

  When he thought about how arrogant and tyrannical Xu Zu and his gang was since they arrived in Sea Spirit City, and then now Xu Zu looked like an obedient grandson, Fan Zhuo felt extremely satisfied.

  Xu Zu ignored the pain wrecking through his body as he put a bold face on and said, “The blood of the Sea Spirit Beast for Long Xuan City is supplied by the Sea Spirit City previously, but now Sea Spirit City has not supplied the blood, flesh and skin of the Sea Spirit Beasts for more than half a month. There has been a lot of newborn in Long Xuan City, and we are in need of the Sea Spirit Beast blood. Thus, my City Lord commanded me to come and ask you, Lord of Sea Spirit City, with regards to the flesh and blood of this Sea Spirit Beast…… When will it be available again?”


  Xu Zu’s speech had become more cautious, as he was deeply afraid of offending Jun Wu Xie, his words and sentences were measured.

  Jun Wu Xie’s cold eyes focused on Xu Zu who was filled with trepidation, and she replied unhurriedly, “Not available.”


  “Ah?” Xu Zu was stunned.

  Not available?

  What did he mean? ? ?

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  “City Lord…… what do you mean? I don’t understand.” Though Xu Zu was feeling really anxious inside, he didn’t have the courage to voice his question in truculence.

  Jun Wu Xie cast a glance on Xu Zu and said, “Just as the literal meaning.”


  “.……” Xu Ze became even more confused.

  Qiao Chu and the others who were hiding in the back hall too, had no idea what was Jun Wu Xie planning to do. There wasn’t any bits of meat or blood of the Sea Spirit Beast left in the Sea Spirit City, and there was no way Jun Wu Xie would go and hunt for the Sea Spirit Beasts just for her to put the Upper Realm off. They had been thinking on how to fudge the issue of them not being able to supply the Sea Spirit Beasts to the Upper Realm even before Jun Wu Xie came back, but they had failed to come out with any nice solution to solve the problem. They could only wait for the return of Jun Wu Xie and let her deal with the problem.

  Since Jun Wu Xie had decided to make her appearance in front of those people, they thought that Jun Wu Xie had thought of some good ideas to solve the problem, but……

  Her solution was to straight up tell the people from the Long Xuan City that…… the Sea Spirit City was unable to provide them the Sea Spirit Beasts?

  At the moment, Qiao Chu and the rest of them didn’t seem to be confident with Jun Wu Xie’s solution. It would be fine if it was the other city that they had taken control of, but the main function of the Sea Spirit City was to provide the Sea Spirit Beasts to the Upper Realm, if the provision was discontinued all of a sudden, it was uncertain that it wouldn’t arouse the suspicion of the Upper Realm.

  Wouldn’t it be too perfunctory for Jun Wu Xie to give out such a response?

  While looking at each other, Qiao Chu and the others had all seen a huge puzzlement in each other’s eyes. Nonetheless, they could do nothing but just quietly wait for the sequel.

  “Ermm…… City Lord, regarding to what you have just said…… I am afraid that it isn’t really appropriate for us to report back to our City Lord. Not only the Long Xuan City and the Sea Spirit City have always been in diplomatic relations, both the cities are also near to each other. It’s been so many years but nothing bad has ever happened between the two cities, and both cities too, often take care of each other. We know that quite a lot of things have happened in the Sea of Death recently, but…… since there are so many newborns, we can’t have the blood of the Sea Spirit Beast be in a shortage. If it’s allowed, could you please provide us some of it?” Putting up an ingratiating smile on his face, Xu Zu said. Ever since the Sea Spirit City was established, never once before had any cities sent their people to the Sea Spirit City to “beg” for the meat and blood of the Sea Spirit Beast.

  The significance of the existence of the Sea Spirit City was to hunt for the Sea Spirit Beasts, whereas providing the creatures’ meat and blood to every city in the Upper Realm was the condition to secure the safety of the Sea Spirit City. Every successive City Lord of the Sea Spirit City would rack their brains to hunt for the Sea Spirit Beasts and used them to exchange for the amicable relationships with the other cities since with the weak strength and the small population of the Sea Spirit City, there was no way the Sea Spirit City was able to go against the enmity shown by the other cities.

  Although there were the title of the seventy-two cities in the Upper Realm, the ruler of the Upper Realm had never prohibited the occurrence of warfare between the cities. If the Lord of the city had the capability, he or she could just take down the other cities and make them theirs. The ruler of the Upper Realm would actually be glad to see such things happened.

  In the early time, either it was a big one or a small one, there were more than hundreds of cities in the Upper Realm with countless City Lords managing them. Later then, the relatively stronger cities had raised up and attacked neighbouring cities, dominating those cities in order to expand their territories, and after many years of disputes and battles, only then the situation was finally stabilized with the seventy-two cities existing in the Upper Realm until now.

  In terms of strength, any other cities in the seventy-two cities was able to defeat the Sea Spirit City easily. The reason they let the Sea Spirit City survive was just that it would be more convenient for them to get the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast.

  Once the supply of the Sea Spirit Beasts was cut off, then the reason for the existence of the Sea Spirit City and the main key for the city to survive would just vanish.

  Xu Zu simply couldn’t understand what was the new City Lord of the Sea Spirit City thinking about. Did he want to set the Sea Spirit City against the other cities?

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  While looking at Xu Zu who was working hard to put up an appeasing face, Jun Wu Xie suddenly let her hand which was originally supporting under her chin down. With her pair of long legs crossing in the chair, she placed both her hands, overlapped, on her legs.

  “Go back and tell your City Lord,” said Jun Wu Xie all of a sudden.

  Xu Zu straightened his clothes and sit in all seriousness.

  “Nope, to be more precise, tell all the people in the seventy-two cities.” Jun Wu Xie narrowed her pair of eyes.

  With an inauspicious presage suddenly emerging from his heart, Xu Zu had a feeling that the following thing that Jun Wu Xie was going to mention was definitely not some nice words.

  “From today onwards, the Sea Spirit City will not provide any resources of the Sea Spirit Beast to any cities in the Upper Realm. Neither it was the meat, the bones, the organs, nor the blood, not even a drop of it will be provided!” The piercingly cold declaration of Jun Wu Xie was just like a thunderbolt, striking on the top of the heads of everybody from the Long Xuan City, causing everyone to quake their souls off in stunned.

  From today onwards, the Sea Spirit City would not provide any resources of the Sea Spirit Beast?

  This was absolutely ridiculous!

  Even though Xu Zu was slightly fear for Jun Wu Xie, he had still been flabbergasted by the shocking announcement made by Jun Wu Xie.

  “City Lord, do you really know what are you actually talking about? Discontinuing the provision? This means that the Sea Spirit City……” Xu Zu stood up, flustered. Once the Sea Spirit City halted the provision of the Sea Spirit Beasts, all the cities in the Upper Realm would then lose all their methods to train their newborns, causing the possibility of obtaining a Gold Spirit after they were born to be cut off!

  The uniqueness of the Sea Spirit Beast couldn’t be replaced by any other medicine, or else the Upper Realm wouldn’t have relied on the Sea Spirit Beast so much.

  Jun Wu Xie’s words were just the same as amputating a powerful arm of the Upper Realm!

  Not to mention those infants who had just been born, even adults like them who were still cultivating would also need to take the meat and the haslet of the Sea Spirit Beast to refine their spirit energies. If Jun Wu Xie really implemented her decision in terminating the provision of the Sea Spirit Beasts, it would definitely cause a mighty uproar in the entire Upper Realm!

  The expression of Xu Zu looked extremely ghastly at the moment. With the way Jun Wu Xie moved, not only would the entire Sea Spirit City be pushed to the teeth of the storm, even the seventy-two cities would also be hugely affected!

  “I am the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City, and I am the one who has the final say here.” Without giving a damn about the agitation shown by Xu Zu and his comrades, Jun Wu Xie had completely cut off Xu Zu’s words which he hadn’t finished speaking out, with her decisive and sharp words.

  The colour on Xu Zu’s face turned blue. The reason they waited in the Sea Spirit City for such a long time was to get more meat and blood of the Sea Spirit Beast from the city, but who could have known that at last, the thing which they had been waiting for had turned out to be such a shocking news!

  The Sea Spirit City would no longer provide the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast to the Upper Realm……

  Xu Zu simply couldn’t imagine how horribly would the entire Long Xuan City be affected after he brought the news back. If this matter was spread out, perhaps all the seventy-two cities would fall into turmoil!

  “If there’s no any other things left, you may return to your city,” said Jun Wu Xie coolly. She had already finished saying all she wanted to say.

  With his face alternatively turning from green to pale, and from pale to green, Xu Zu sat on the chair, stiffened, not knowing whether to leave or stay. Seeing that Jun Wu Xie was about to get up and leave, Xu Zu quickly stood up and said, “City Lord, don’t you worry that you’re going to bring the tragedy of annihilation to the Sea Spirit City by committing the public anger?”


  Jun Wu Xie slightly paused her steps and turned around gracefully. With her clear cold eyes glancing over the frightened face of Xu Zu, she moved her red lips and said, “Whoever has the nerves to mess with the Sea Spirit City, I’ll surely make it a one-way trip for them.”


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  Xu Zu stood still at his own place in stunned, as if someone had poured a pail of cold water onto him, it felt so cold that every single pore on his body shrank.

  After giving out the commitment, Jun Wu Xie left without even looking back, leaving those dumbfounded people from the Long Xuan City who hadn’t been able to restore their calmness since then alone in the main hall.

  Everyone did not expect that there was actually this one day where the inferior Sea Spirit City would release such a brave and militant utterance.

  “Everyone, please?” While forcing himself to hold back the laughter, in a pretentiously elegant manner, Fan Zhuo gestured them to leave.

  Face greened, Xu Zu pursed his lips so hard that blood drained from his lips. He gave Fan Zhuo a deadly stare before he left the place together with his people from the Long Xuan City.

  However, the astonishment was still inside them, not being able to subside.

  Jun Wu Xie’s decision would bring a change to the situation of the entire Sea Spirit City. To Xu Zu’s party, it was no doubt that Jun Wu Xie’s decision was nothing different from drawing ruins upon herself, but what they had failed to realize was that it was actually a nightmare that was awaiting the Upper Realm in the future.

  After Xu Zu them left the city palace, Jun Wu Xie turned into the back hall. Before she could even speak anything, Qiao Chu and the others who had been eavesdropping in the back hall all the time immediately moved towards her, packly crowding around her in just an instant.

  “Little Xie, what are you trying to do?” Qiao Chu stared at Jun Wu Xie. They had been waiting for Jun Wu Xie to come back to solve the problem of the resources of the Sea Spirit Beasts, but even if they were beaten to death, they still couldn’t have thought that Jun Wu Xie would actually go to such an extent.

  Everything that had happened today seemed to just be Jun Wu Xie informing the emissaries of the Long Xuan City about the matter of terminating the provision of the Sea Spirit Beast, but in fact, it was Jun Wu Xie announcing to the entire Upper Realm, that the Sea Spirit City was going to completely cut off the supply of all the Sea Spirit Beast resources!

  The people in the Upper Realm had long accustomed to using everything in the Sea Spirit Beast, and the decision that was made by Jun Wu Xie had totally broken the rules of the Upper Realm which had been complied for thousands of years!

  Not only it wouldn’t solve the awkward situation which the Sea Spirit City was now in, it would instantly push the entire Sea Spirit City to the cusp of the public opinion. It wouldn’t even need a moment of thought for them to know that the moment Xu Zu got back to the Long Xuan City, the decision Jun Wu Xie made would just act like a wildfire, burning the prairie, spreading rapidly to every single place in the Upper Realm. The tremor that came after that would then set up an upsurge of chaos in the whole Upper Realm!

  By that time, it would be impossible for the Sea Spirit City to remain lowkey even if they wanted to.

  Qiao Chu and the others couldn’t understand it at all, why would Jun Wu Xie changed her strategy all of a sudden? Before going to the Soul World, wasn’t she planning to keep a low profile and move step by step by using the Sea Spirit City as the camouflage?

  Then how came…… the way she acted would suddenly become so extreme?

  Not only did Qiao Chu not understand it, even Hua Yao and Rong Ruo who were usually wise thinking were also confused by the decision Jun Wu Xie made.

  Looking at her fellow friends who were all showing an anxious expression on their faces, Jun Wu Xie said slowly, “I’m doing what I’m supposed to do.”


  “Huh? What does that mean? Are you planning to destroy the Sea Spirit City? Is it that you want to change the location of our base?” Qiao Chu scratched his head, puzzled, not being able to keep up with Jun Wu Xie’s mind.

  Jun Wu Xie then explained, “Any lies will eventually be revealed one day. Since we’ve chosen the Sea Spirit City, sooner or later, the Upper Realm will notice that something had gone wrong if we stop providing the Sea Spirit Beasts to them for a long period of time. It’s as well better to straight away tell them that we’re going to cut off the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast, and there’s nothing they could do about it.”


  “I know, but…… isn’t this too risky? Once the news are spread out, the City Lords of the other seventy-one cities might break into outrage.” Qiao Chu felt a little helpless. If they didn’t choose to take over the Sea Spirit City but the other cities during that time, there wouldn’t be so many problems now.

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  It was the uniqueness of the Sea Spirit City that had made its unspoken rules.

  No matter how disinclined Jun Wu Xie and the others were, there was no way they were able to change the position of the Sea Spirit City in the Upper Realm. If Jun Wu Xie did according to what Qiao Chu and the others thought, which was finding an excuse to temporarily fudge the issue of the city not being able to provide the Sea Spirit Beasts, it was able to solve the problem for some time, but just as what Jun Wu Xie had said, with the amount of reliance that the Upper Realm placed on the Sea Spirit Beast, such excuse could definitely not last too long. In the lack of supply of the Sea Spirit Beasts, the people of the Upper Realm would crazily barged into the Sea Spirit City to find the reasons, and by that time…… it would be even harder for Jun Wu Xie to deal with the problem.

  Once the Upper Realm found out that the Sea Spirit City was no longer hunting the Sea Spirit Beasts, then it wouldn’t take long time for them to notice the abnormality in the city.

  However, the utterance made by Jun Wu Xie today had resolved the possibly existing peril. By saying that the Sea Spirit City was going to discontinue the supply of the Sea Spirit Beasts, she meant monopolization, indicating that the Sea Spirit Beast would be fully owned by the Sea Spirit City. Hence, the people from the other cities would only criticize the despotism of the Sea Spirit City without knowing that they had already stopped harming the Sea Spirit Beasts.

  It could be said that such action of Jun Wu Xie had avoided some plight, but at the same time, it had also brought her even greater risks.

  No matter how one weighed, it felt like there were both pros and cons in the decision Jun Wu Xie made.

  “Just let them be. If they are unsatisfied with it, they can just come. The title of the seventy-two cities will eventually change one day.” Jun Wu Xie glanced over her comrades with some thoughts wandering in her mind. The messages hinted in the casual speaking tone of her had gotten Fei Yan and the rest of them astounded.

  The title of the seventy-two cities…… would eventually change?

  With her eyes slightly widening, an astonishing guess formed rapidly in Rong Ruo’s mind. Staring at Jun Wu Xie, she asked, “Is it that…… you want to launch attack at the seventy-two cities?”


  “Why not?” Jun Wu Xie raised her eyebrows.

  “But the ranking of the Sea Spirit City in terms of strength is simply not enough to fight against the other cities. Even though we have the Night Regime and the Ghost Army now, won’t it be strange if there’s a sudden boost in our power?” Rong Ruo frowned. Though Jun Wu Xie’s idea was good, it didn’t suit the situation of the Sea Spirit City. If there was someone who was heedful enough to pay a little more attention to the matter, it wasn’t guaranteed that he or she wouldn’t notice that something had gone wrong.

  Jun Wu Xie shook her head.

  “No, it won’t.”


  “It won’t?”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded her head, “With the words that I’ve said just now, it won’t.”


  “What does that mean?” Even Rong Ruo couldn’t figure out the intention of Jun Wu Xie in taking such an action.

  “The existence of the Sea Spirit Beast is unique. Their bones, flesh and blood have a really great effect in boosting up the spirit energy. Though the Upper Realm has already made full use of the Sea Spirit Beast, it still hasn’t been fully developed yet. The time when I was at the isolated island, Senior Zi Fei had once told me that if one got to truly make full use of all the special characteristics of the Sea Spirit Beast, not only the spirit energy will be enhanced, but also the whole aspects of the person. It’s just that there’s only a few of them in the Upper Realm who know about this, but once someone finds it out and uses it on oneself and one’s subordinates, then it wouldn’t be impossible for one to build a troop of strong forces in a short period of time.” There was a gaze of coldness glinting in Jun Wu Xie’s eyes. The Sea Spirit Beast was extremely useful, and in the perspective of the Upper Realm, the Sea Spirit City was lacking in everything, but the city would never be bereft of the Sea Spirit Beasts!

  Jun Wu Xie’s words had caused Rong Ruo and the others to fall into astonishment. They then immediately got what Jun Wu Xie meant.

  The reason of the Sea Spirit City monopolizing the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast was that the city had discovered the methods to strengthen their power by using the Sea Spirit Beast. If such an explanation was used in the Upper Realm, a place where only the strong should rule over the weak, then it would truly be the most reasonable exposition ever!

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  No wonder Jun Wu Xie would speak such arrogant words to Xu Zu them, she was setting up for the future ascend of the Sea Spirit City!

  With the personality which everyone in the Upper Realm had, one would never share the methods of getting stronger with the others if one had mastered them.

  “Gosh! You’re going to do something big with this!” Qiao Chu gave a slap on his forehead. Jun Wu Xie was obviously going to fight face to face against the seventy-two cities in the Upper Realm.

  Jun Wu Xie slightly lowered her eyes. She had been thinking of this solution for the whole night, and for the current Sea Spirit City, this was the safest way to deal with the problem. The people in the Upper Realm would no longer suspect that the Sea Spirit City had been taken over by someone since no one would really believe the fact that all the people in the city had actually been replaced by other people.

  Furthermore……

  “I want to find my father,” said Jun Wu Xie in a low voice.

  With a slight astonishment, Hua Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie.

  “I don’t know which part of the Upper Realm he’s at. The only thing I know is that he has a rather high position in the Upper Realm. If I want to find him, all I can do is just to climb higher.” A sense of coldness flared across the bottom of Jun Wu Xie’s eyes. In the Upper Realm, she would only have the chance to find Jun Gu if she got to a higher place. The strength of Jun Gu had already surpassed the Top Ten Experts, and he was definitely not a person who a City Lord could simply have the chance to meet, but…… what if she annihilated all the cities and wiped off the title of the seventy-two cities……

  Then she would surely catch the attention of that person in the Upper Realm, as the higher she went, only then she would have the chance to save Jun Gu.

  Jun Wu Xie had no any other choice except for driving herself into the desperation, forcing herself to fight for her life.

  No matter if it was the Blood Sacrifice of the Upper Realm, Jun Gu being controlled by the enemy or the life and death worm inside Jun Wu Yao’s body, they were all pushing her, making her in having no choice but to take the risks and dangers.

  She couldn’t step back.

  Once she stepped back, there would be no home, no family and no love left for her anymore. Everything that she valued and treasured so much would vanish at the instant.

  Jun Wu Xie’s words had caused Qiao Chu and the others to sink into silence. It was at the moment that they realized that the extremity and the risks that Jun Wu Xie did were all because there was already no way back for her. Take a step backward and it would be the endless deep abyss; a careless mistake was made and her body would then be crushed into pieces.

  The things that she were bearing on her shoulders weren’t as simple as the things dealt by a person, a family, or a country.

  “Don’t worry, you’ll definitely find your father.” When Fan Zhuo came back after sending Xu Zu and the people from the Long Xuan City out, he heard all the words Jun Wu Xie said. While smiling, he walked towards Jun Wu Xie and encouragingly patted on Jun Wu Xie’s shoulder.

  “That’s right! We’ll help you to find him. Since you’ve met Uncle Jun, there will be hope for everything. Isn’t it just fighting against the seventy-two cities? Why would we be afraid of them! We’ll kill them all no matter there are how many of them! It can also be considered of taking revenge for the Lower Realm and the Middle Realm.” Hitting on his chest, Qiao Chu let out his heroic sayings.

  “Since we’re going to make the Upper Realm think into the direction which you’re talking about, then I’ll go and make some arrangements. I’ll let the Night Regime spread some stories,” said Hua Yao calmly. They would still need some instigation and “rumors” if they wanted to substantiate the matter.

  “Yeah, we should make use of it when Xu Ze them are still here,” agreed Rong Ruo.

  As the supporting words of her comrades echoed beside her ears, Jun Wu Xie raised her head and looked at her fellow friends who had gone through thick and thin together with her for years. With a touch of warmth flowing across her heart, the corner of her lips slowly hooked up and curved into a smile.

  Was there anything for her to be afraid of when there was such a group of people who were willing to live and die with her, staying beside her?

  “I’ll go and ask Senior Zi Fei about the details now so that the Night Regime can be more precise when they spread the news,” said Hua Yao immediately.

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  “Senior Zi Fei…… I don’t think I’ve seen her today,” said Rong Ruo.

  Han Zi Fei usually woke up early, and they could always see her playing with the little Sea Spirit Beasts in the yard of the city palace early in the morning. However, she hadn’t showed up today.

  “I’ll go and find her,” said Fei Yan.

  However, before Fei Yan left the back hall, Jun Wu Yao had already come walking in.

  “You don’t need to go,” said Jun Wu Yao.

  “Big Brother Wu Yao,” Fei Yan stunned slightly.

  Jun Wu Yao’s gaze looked straight at Jun Wu Xie. It seemed like there was something inscrutable in the pair of his purple eyes.

  “Zi Fei has already left last night as she has something to deal with. She has asked me to come and say farewell to you guys.” Naturally, Jun Wu Yao walked to the side of Jun Wu Xie.

  “She has left?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Jun Wu Yao, surprised, “What happened to Senior Zi Fei? She left so suddenly.”


  She left so suddenly that she didn’t even have the time to say goodbye.

  Unknowingly why, there was an inexplicable sense of loss suddenly emerging from Jun Wu Xie’s heart.

  Jun Wu Yao could only sigh inwardly while watching Jun Wu Xie’s reaction without showing any emotions on his face. He lifted his hand up and gently rubbed on Jun Wu Xie’s small little head as he said, “Zi Fei is from the Upper Realm, and the reason she comes back this time, besides being invited by you to the Upper Realm, she has something which she needs to deal with by herself. I’m sure she has already thought about it carefully before deciding to leave. If she needs help, she’ll tell us, but if she doesn’t say anything, we’ll just cause her trouble if we go and ask her.”


  Without having further thoughts, Jun Wu Xie nodded her head. She too, had a really independent character, and hence, she wouldn’t specifically doubt Han Zi Fei’s behaviour.

  “If that so, ask everyone to keep an eye out so that we can reach out to Senior Zi Fei in time whenever she needs help,” said Jun Wu Xie while looking at Jun Wu Yao. Even she herself had failed to realize that the way she cared for Han Zi Fei had gone a little too much.

  However, Jun Wu Yao’s eyes did not miss to catch all of these. While smiling, there was a trace of helplessness coming out from his eyes. Even though both the mother and the daughter did not acknowledge each other, it still wouldn’t cut off the imperceptible induction between the consanguinity no matter what.

  “I’ll inform them.”


  Jun Wu Xie gave a slight hum as her response.

  “Since Senior Zi Fei has left, you’ll need to tell me about the information of the Sea Spirit Beast, Little Xie.” Hua Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie. Besides Han Zi Fei, the person who knew about the Sea Spirit Beast the most should be Jun Wu Xie.

  “Alright, I’ll tell you letter,” Jun Wu Xie responded.

  “What are you planning to do? Seems like you guys are doing something big.” Jun Wu Yao looked at Jun Wu Xie serious side profile with a trace of a smile gushing out from the bottom of his eyes. Just by looking at her, he was already able to know that this small little lady was going to do something big and earth-shattering.

  Of course, Jun Wu Xie had then told everything about her plan to Jun Wu Yao without hiding any contents.

  After listening to her plan, Jun Wu Yao couldn’t hold himself from letting out his laughter.

  “Only you’ll do such crazy things.”


  Inciting the wrath of the seventy-two cities just by using the Sea Spirit City, the only weapon they got in their hands. Exactly whose insanity and extremity had this girl resembled from?

  “Isn’t that good?” Jun Wu Xie raised her eyebrows.

  Jun Wu Yao chuckled and responded, “Yeah yeah yeah, every decision you make is good.”


  To ensure that Xu Zu and his people were able to “find out” the rumors before they left the city, Jun Wu Yao immediately called Ye Gu, Ye Sha and Ye Mei and placed his order regarding Jun Wu Xie’s plan, whereas the Ghost Army was still remaining their original acting style, which was mainly moving in the dark.

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  It took quite a long time for Xu Zu and the others to recover from the shock after leaving the official residence.

  “B…… Boss, the thing that Yan Hai said just now…… Is it true? Why do I feel like this is kind of suspicious?” One of them held onto a bewildered expression on his face. The words that Jun Wu Xie said just now were ambiguous. They didn’t even get to make any response before they were “asked” to leave.

  With a ghastly expression on his face, Xu Zu frowned, seemingly to be thinking of something.

  “Boss, if this is true, what should we do?” The people from the Long Xuan City began to panic. They didn’t expect things will turn out to be like this when they came.

  Not providing the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast?

  Things like this had never happened before in the past thousands of years.

  “In my opinion, that bastard isn’t trustworthy. He has just taken over the position of the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City and he thinks that he is very powerful, but what he doesn’t know, is that the Sea Spirit City is just a nobody among the seventy-two cities! Does he really think that he can just do whatever he wants? Let’s report this to the City Lord when we get back to the city and let the City Lord teach Yan Hai a lesson. Didn’t there’s this old saying, that a man with downy lips is bound to make slips? Under the management of Yan Hai, the Sea Spirit City will come to an end one day,” said a disciple from the Long Xuan City deprecatingly.

  “Yeah, once His Lord knows about this matter, he will no longer sit on the position of the City Lord.”


  “What the hell do you know about it!” Furious, Xu Zu hooted. Meanwhile, in his mind, he was thinking about everything that Jun Wu Xie had said today.

  The Sea Spirit City would send an ample amount of the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast to the seventy-two cities every month. Therefore, even when the provision had been halted for a month, with the reserved stocks they had in every city, there wouldn’t be any problems. Just take the Long Xuan City as an example, the amount of the blood of the Sea Spirit Beast that they stored was enough to sustain for half a year. However, that was the very last shot of their storage. The situation wasn’t that distressed now, but if Jun Wu Xie really decided to completely cut off the provision, there would surely come a day when the storage was all used up.

  “His Lord wouldn’t care whether if the Sea Spirit City will provide the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast or not, even the Top Ten Experts don’t really need the Sea Spirit Beast anymore. We, the people from the seventy-two cities, are the ones who need the Sea Spirit Beast. Do you really think that everyone will take the Sea Spirit Beast as some kind of treasures?” Brows furrowed, Xu Zu wasn’t really in a good mood.

  “His Lord wouldn’t care about it?” One of the men from the Long Xuan City was stunned.

  “His Lord has never touch the matters of the Sea Spirit Beast. These are all managed by the seventy-two cities. His Lord would only care whether if there’s any talented experts in the cities. He doesn’t even bother to meddle in other things.” Xu Zu had been serving beside the City Lord of the Long Xuan City for quite a long time. Though Xu Zu had never seen His Lord before, he had heard quite a lot of rumors regarding His Lord from the City Lord of the Long Xuan City.

  The managing system of the Upper Realm was very disorganized. The excessive freedom they owned had often caused a lot of things to be out of control. It seemed to be a really free and easy management, but in reality, there were always huge risks coming along with it no matter where you were, and what position that you were holding on.

  “Then…… Then what should we do?” The people from the Long Xuan City began to go weak in their bodies.

  “What can we still do? To be honest, it’s all up to the City Lord, but it’s true that Yan Hai the bastard is acting a little too arrogant. We need to blunt his edge and let him learn about the rules of the seventy-two cities.” Xu Zu touched his chest which was still faintly radiating pain.

  “Take a look around the Sea Spirit City before we leave. Yan Hai’s decision comes so suddenly, and the matter about him taking over Yan Wan is quite fishy. He might be hiding something,” said Xu Zu with his eyes narrowed.

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  “Boss, what do you mean?”


  Xu Zu let out a sneer.

  “I won’t believe that an idiot is capable of taking Yan Wan down. There’s no way he wouldn’t know how huge the consequences is to discontinue the provision of the Sea Spirit Beast, but he still had the guts to speak such presumptuous words. There’s definitely something hidden in his hand.”


  Although Xu Zu was arrogant and imperious, he had been working beside the City Lord of the Long Xuan City for a long time, and he was certainly not some kind of moron. The wild and insolent words of Jun Wu Xie had, indeed, gotten him mad to the point that he almost coughed blood out, but after he calmed himself down and gave a thought about it, he realized that it was such an overly extreme decision to be made, causing him to suspect that Jun Wu Xie might be secretly planning to do something behind the scene.

  With such a plan in his mind, Xu Zu and his people didn’t hurry themselves to leave the Sea Spirit City. Though Jun Wu Xie had requested them to leave, there shouldn’t be a big problem for them to stay for one or two days longer.

  After returning to their lodging, Xu Zu had immediately asked his people to find him some residents of the Sea Spirit City who had strong cupidity with weak personality.

  Due to the rules of the Upper Realm, there basically wasn’t any sense of belonging and feeling of honor in the residents of the seventy-two cities. They respected their City Lords because they held them in awe, but that didn’t mean they would always be loyal to only one city. Every city had a really huge floating population. If there was a talented expert in a low ranking city, it was usually hard to get him or her stay at the particular city as most of them would choose to settle themselves down in a city which was more powerful.

  Hence, Xu Zu didn’t think that there was anything wrong about the fact of him spending some money to get information from the residents of the Sea Spirit City.

  The people from the Long Xuan City immediately headed to the slums of the Sea Spirit City, where most of the people with the weakest strength and lowest status in the city lived.

  They had found more than ten people, and had brought them to Xu Zu by separating them into two batches.

  Just as the moment Xu Zu took a medicine pill to stabilize his heart meridian which had been injured by Jun Wu Xie, he saw his subordinates leading two men who were wearing dirty, ragged clothes behind them as they walked into the room.

  Brows furrowed, Xu Zu looked up and down at the two men. There were patches on most parts of their clothes, and their faces were so grey that it seemed like they had not washed themselves since an unmeasured time. Although they had tall stature, Xu Zu could tell that both the two people were living in the lowest position in the city just by looking at their hunched backs and shrinking shoulders.

  During the normal days, Xu Zu wouldn’t even want to cast a glance at people like these, but now, for the sake of disclosing the secrets of the Sea Spirit City, he could only hold his annoyance back and talk to them. Instead of speaking any nonsense, he straight off threw a pouch of coins on the table, causing a solid brisk clinking sound to be heard.

  The moment the two anaemic men heard the clinking sound of the coins, their eyes immediately lit up, staring avariciously at the table.

  A trace of scorn flashed across the bottom of Xu Zu’s eyes, “The purpose I find both of you today is that I have something to ask you. If you guys answer my questions nicely, the coins on the table will be yours.”


  There wasn’t any need for the strong ones in the Upper Realm to own any wealth as their fists were already enough to get them everything they wanted, but for those weaker ones, money was something that could get them fed.

  “Yes yes yes, please ask your questions, Lord.” After using some time to finally move their eyes away from those money, both the two men nodded their heads repetitively in eagerness, not to mention how fawning their expressions were.

  Xu Zu had seen expression like this numerous times, of course he wouldn’t care much about it.

  “Do you guys know that the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City has been changed?” asked Xu Zu.

  “Sure, the Young Master killed Yan Wan and he is the City Lord now,” answered one of them quickly.

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  “Oh? How did he kill him?”


  “Erm…… We’re not sure about this.” Both of them replied honestly.

  Since Xu Zu knew that these people had a very low status, and that it wasn’t possible for them to know about the details, he didn’t really tangle in the question, what he actually cared about was that……

  “Recently, the Sea Spirit City has terminated the provision of the Sea Spirit Beast for the other cities, is it that there are some problems in hunting for the Sea Spirit Beasts?” asked Xu Zu.

  “I have never heard anything about that?”


  “I don’t think so? I’d just seen the ships which the City Lord dispatched brought quite an amount of the carsasses of the Sea Spirit Beast back half a month ago.”


  “Yeah! I went to help at the harbour that time.”


  Both the two people spoke one after another, saying that they didn’t find anything suspicious about the matter at all.

  Xu Zu had asked a lot of questions after that, but he didn’t get any useful information. Both the two people would answer any questions he asked as all they wanted was to take the money, but neither of their answers were the outcomes he wanted.

  Xu Zu got frustrated as he listened to their narratives. After waving his hand, gesturing them to leave, he then called another two residents of the Sea Spirit City and asked them similar questions. All these people came from different places in the Sea Spirit City. Xu Zu was quite smart. Worrying that there might be spy attaching himself or herself into the group of people they found, the people he found were all from different places in the Sea Spirit City. However, after finished questioning all of them, the answers they gave were surprisingly similar.

  At first, Xu Zu was slightly doubtful about it, but after questioning the tenth person and he still couldn’t find anything weird, only then he began to believe it.

  However, when he was questioning the last two people, Xu Zu got some interesting answers.

  “You are saying that, those Sea Spirit Beasts that were brought back by the ships had been sent to the other place?” Finally, Xu Zu got to buck himself up.

  “Yes. During the previous time, the Sea Spirit Beasts would usually be sent to the workshop and the workers in the workshop would be the one to handle them, but ever since the succession of the new City Lord, the workshop has been closed and all the Sea Spirit Beasts are sent to the other place. We’re not sure exactly where those carcasses are sent to, but recently, we seldom see the Sea Spirit Beasts in the city,” said a man in fear.

  Suddenly, the other man who was standing beside him said, “Lord! I know it! I’ve helped to ship those Sea Spirit Beasts before. Seems like those carcasses have been sent to a newly built workshop, but the workshop is strictly guarded, there’s no way for me to get into it. I can only watch from the outside, but…… although I’ve shipped quite a lot of Sea Spirit Beasts to the workshop, I’ve never seen them bring any resources of the Sea Spirit Beast out from the workshop, it’s just that…… just that……”


  “Just what?” Vaguely feeling that he had found the main key, Xu Zu couldn’t help but straightened his back.

  “It’s just that quite a lot of boxes that are filled with medicine pills have been carried out from the workshop. I didn’t get to take a close look at what kind of pill it is. The only thing I know is that these pills have all been given to the close confidantes of the new City Lord.” That person said honestly.

  “Medicine pills? A new workshop…… Close subordinates……” Xu Zu pondered the relations between the three factors, vaguely feeling that there must be something big hidden behind this.

  He still wanted to ask further about it, but both the two of them had already gotten all the information they knew out, and he could only let them receive the money and leave.

  “You guys think of a way to bring me a soldier of the Sea Spirit City. It’ll be the best to find the close confidante of Yan Hai,” Xu Zu immediately placed his order to his subordinates.

  He could only choose to fork it out if he wanted to find out what was Jun Wu Xie actually doing under the surface.

  It wasn’t as easy as dealing with the civilians when bribing the soldiers of the city. However, there was this one thing where the Sea Spirit City couldn’t be matched to the Long Xuan City, which was the status it had among the seventy-two cities. Xu Zu straight off asked his people to bribe the soldier of the Sea Spirit City by promising the soldier that they would let him emigrate to the Long Xuan City, and this was way more effective than using the money as the chip of bargain.

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  Xu Zu’s attempt at throwing out temptation did not mean that someone would take the bait.

  His men brought him a thin and small soldier, who looked young and had a slender body.

  The soldier was somewhat unwilling, because he was young and was bullied by the other soldiers. When Xu Zu’s men found him, he was being ridiculed by a group of soldiers. This made Xu Zu’s men made up their minds and secretly found a time to speak with the young soldier.

  When the youth learned that he had the opportunity to go to Long Xuan City, naturally he was completely willing, and had followed them to meet Xu Zu.

  The news that Xu Zu obtained from the youth shocked him.

  “What are you talking about? Yan Hai really refined that kind of medicine?” Xu Zu narrowed his eyes and looked at that thin youth.

  The boy tightened his shoulders and nodded. “I don’t dare to lie to you, my lord. The City Lord obtained the method from somewhere, and using the the Sea Spirit Beast, refined the medicine. Many soldiers in the city have taken it. If My Lord does not believe me, you can go to the city to find a soldier to test your skills. They are not weak, and only someone weak like me…… was not able to get the medicine.” The teenager couldn’t help but contained some resentment.

  From the youth, Xu Zu had learned that the newly constructed workshop of Jun Wu Xie could use the Sea Spirit Beast to refine a kind of medicinal pills. The kind of medicine could improve a person’s strength greatly within in a short time. However, the consumption of the Sea Spirit Beast is huge.

  “Boss, is there really such a thing?” The people of Long Xuan City listened to the youth’s words and couldn’t believe that the Sea Spirit Beast could be used to refine this controversial medicine.

  Xu Zu rubbed his chin, and hesitated.

  “I have heard before that there are many effects of the Sea Spirit Beasts. It seems that some people have said that the bone and blood of the Sea Spirit Beast could be used to refine the medicinal pills, but the specific method has already been lost…… So how did this Yan Hai obtain the method for it?” Xu Zu was somewhat suspicious of this matter, but he thought that Jun Wu Xie’s intention of monopolizing the Sea Spirit Beasts was even more unbelievable.

  “That cannot do, we have to go back to Long Xuan City immediately and tell the City Lord!” Xu Zu immediately stood up. If Jun Wu Xie could really use the Sea Spirit Beast to refine the medicinal pills, then …… that changed things! !

  Stunned that they were just going to leave, the youth’s face immediately held a hint of panic.

  “My Lord, I’ve already told you what you wanted to know. If you leave, I…… What should I do?”


  Xu Zu glanced at the boy, his eyes flashed a bit of cunning as he smiled and said: “Naturally I will not forget you, Long Xuan City will leave a place for you, but I still need you to do something. ”


  “What is it?”


  “Look for a way to get me one of those medicinal pills you mentioned. There is no rush as we will soon return to Long Xuan City. You have a month or so before we return to Sea Spirit city again.”


  Once Xu Zu had appeased the boy, and he rushed back to Long Xuan City with his own men.

  The teenager, who was stuffed with a lot of money, watched the carriages depart from the main city gate of Sea Spirit City. The panic on his face had already disappeared. His mouth kicked up a scornful smile as he played with the silver in his hand, throwing them up in the air; they gave off a crisp sound as they knocked against each other.

  “With this level of skills and they still dare to go against Little Xie? They are seeking their own deaths.” Keeping the silver casually, the teenager raised his hand and pulled the mask off on his face. It revealed the handsome face of Fei Yan!

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  Fei Yan succeeded in duping Xu Zu. He immediately rushed back to the City’s official residence, and informed his friends who were waiting for his news.

  “The information has been put out. What do we want to do now?” Fei Yan looked up at Jun Wu Xie who was sitting on the main seat of the hall. Xu Zu was considered cautious, as he “bought” off a lot of “residents” of the Sea Spirit City, and he managed to find out quite a bit of information. However, even though he was careful and cautious, he could not stop the fact that the whole city had replaced its core. Those who were “bought” by Xu Zu; whether civilian or soldier, none of them were not from the Night Regime. And Fei Yan had played along as well.

  “Wait.” Jun Wu Xie said unhurriedly.

  “Wait?” Fei Yan was a little puzzled.

  “Long Xuan City will not easily believe that the information is real. They will continue to probe. In a month, after you have given them the thing, they will test it out and be sure.” Jun Wu Xie picked up her cup of tea as she slowly savoured it. Although the Upper Realm was not a pleasant place, but then things here were quite good; for example the tea at Yan Wan’s residence was so much better than the best tea in the Lower Realm.

  It was no wonder that Jun Wu Yao in the past had despised the Jade Nectar.

  “But…… what do I give to them?” Fei Yan was confused, everything that he said to them was purposefully instructed by Jun Wu Xie. As for what kind of medicinal pills…… where to find them.

  Jun Wu Xie flung a little pill bottle that was in her hand as Fei Yan quickly rushed to catch it.

  “When it’s time, give them this.”


  Fei Yan was full of curiosity as he opened the bottle, a strange smell was emitted from the bottle and Qiao Chu, who was sitting beside him, could not help but stretched over to snoop.

  The scent was unfamiliar and hard to place, there was some bitterness from the herbs used, but contained some fragrance as well. After careful smelling, the smell was also mixed with a touch of blood.

  “This medicine……” Hua Yao noticed the faint bloody smell, and couldn’t help but look at Jun Wu Xie. As far as he knows, Jun Wu Xie detested the bloody smell the most, and even till today, her dislike had not changed. She categorically did not using any blood to prepare remedies.

  “Dragon Blood Grass.” said Jun Wu Xie.

  The Dragon Blood Grass was a rare medicinal material. The grass was reddish and when crushed, its sap would give off a faint bloody smell, and it was often used as a medicine primer. Except that the Dragon’s Blood Grass was very rare, when Jun Wu Xie attacked Qing Yun Clan, she only managed to find just a few Dragon’s Blood Grass.

  The news which Jun Wu Xie released, was that the medicinal pills were refined with the use of Sea Spirit Beasts. It was not uncommon to refine the medicinal herbs with flesh and blood. However, those medicinal pills had a certain characteristic, that no matter what kind of refining method was used, and however many herbs were combined, the bloody smell could not be covered.

  Jun Wu Xie had replaced the Sea Spirit Beast’s blood with Dragon Blood Grass, hence it was impossible to tell the exact component in this medicinal pills.

  Obviously, Jun Wu Xie had prepared this medicine earlier on, as the plan had formed in her heart.

  “Done! Then I will give this medicine to them when the time comes. Little Xie, tell me honestly, this medicine…… Is there any special effects?” Fei Yan looked at Jun Wu Xie meaningfully.

  Jun Wu Xie glanced at the curious expression of her little friend. She just lowered her eyes slowly and did not explain anything.

  Whether this medicine could make Long Xuan City believe in the rumors that she released, only time can prove so.

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  After Xu Zu and his people left the Sea Spirit City, they rode with whip and spur to Long Xuan City without wasting any time along the journey, and finally arrived at the city gate of the Long Xuan City after travelling for several days and nights.

  Xu Zu straight off urged his horse and rushed into the city. He then leapt off the horse outside the official residence of the Long Xuan City and walked into the building.

  Compared to the Sea Spirit City that was built at the seacoast, not only the area covered by the Long Xuan City was wide, everything inside the city was also way more prosperous. The people who were walking here and there in the city were all wearing colourful and luxurious clothes. The whole city was divided into two regions, where one was the “Rich Area”, which belonged to the Gold Spirits, whereas the other one was the “Poor Area”, a place where the plebeian people with poor strength lived. Both the two regions were parted clearly, that normal people weren’t allowed to step into the Rich Area besides working time. Except for doing the dirtiest and the most exhausting work, they didn’t even have the right to walk on the streets of the Rich Area.

  Although the Long Xuan City wasn’t considered that powerful among the seventy-two cities, it was still better than the Sea Spirit City. Its City Lord, Ruan Chongshan, had been holding onto the position for thousands of years, which it could be considered a really long duration among the other City Lords in the seventy-two cities. Although every City Lord was the apex in their respective cities, it still couldn’t deny the fact that there will always be talented people born in this mortal land every age, and there surely would be one day where they were surpassed by the others, being taken down from the position of the City Lord.

  Ruan Chongshan certainly had his own ways and capabilities for him to be able to work as the City Lord of the Long Xuan City for such a long time.

  Xu Zu entered the city palace in a hurry pace. Inside the palace was interspersed with halls, pavilions, and lofts. There were clouds of flowers decorating all over the place. Even the maids who were sweeping the floor of the corridor were prettier than one after another, it was just that Xu Zu had no thoughts in admiring those beautiful maidens now.

  “Xu Zu, you’re back?” The majordomo of the city palace said with a smile on his face when he saw Xu Zu.

  “Is the City Lord there? His subordinate here has something urgent to talk to him!” said Xu Zu quickly.

  The steward responded, “The City Lord is now having flower viewing with the Young Miss from the Discerning Moon City. If you have anything urgent, I’ll inform the City Lord.”


  Stunned, Xu Zu was startled by the news.

  Different from the Long Xuan City and the Sea Spirit City which were located at the outlying area, the Discerning Moon City was located near the middle part of the Upper Realm. With countless experts living in the city, the powerfulness of the Discerning Moon City ranked really high among the seventy-two cities.

  Normally, such a strong city like the Discerning Moon City wouldn’t even bother to interact with cities of such level like the Long Xuan City, but…… Xu Zu had been to the Sea Spirit City for just a period of half a month, he was then told about this news when he returned.

  “The Young Miss from Discerning Moon City…… why is she here?” Heart heavily pounding, the yearning he had for the stronger city could hardly make him calm himself down. If it wasn’t for him worrying that the majordomo would find something wrong about him and report it to Ruan Chongshan, how Xu Zu wished he could immediately rush forward and made his appearance in front of the Young Miss from the Discerning Moon City.

  “Seems like it’s something about the Sea Spirit Beast, but I’m not sure about the details,” replied the majordomo.

  While being fully aware that there were things which he had no place to ask further about it, Xu Zu didn’t insist on getting to the bottom of the matter. Instead, he had chosen to change the topic of the conversation, “I have something about the Sea Spirit City to report to the City Lord. This is really urgent, please help me to inform the City Lord.”


  After nodding his head, the majordomo immediately turned and went into the backyard, leaving Xu Zu alone in the fronthall to wait for him.

  Few moments later, the majordomo returned to the fronthall and told Xu Zu, “The City Lord said that he’ll be waiting for you in the study room, I’ll bring you there now.”


  “Sorry to trouble you,” said Xu Zu in a respectful manner as he followed the majordomo to Ruan Chongshan’s study room.

  The moment Xu Zu passed by one of the side yards which was located in the backyard, a silvery laugh came into his ears, leading him in subconsciously wanting to raise his head up……

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  The voice of the majordomo suddenly came into his ears.

  “There’s where the Young Miss of the Discerning Moon City staying at, you know that it’s inappropriate for you to look indecently at it, right?”


  Stiffened, Xu Zu quickly moved his head lower, not having the courage to take one more glimpse at it.

  Soon, Xu Zu was brought to the study room of Ruan Chongshan. After the majordomo knocked on the door and announce their arrival, a low and heavy voice was then heard from the room.

  “Come in.”


  After nodding his head at the majordomo, Xu Zu pushed open the door and entered the room.

  Inside the study room, there was a middle-aged man who seemed to be in his early forties sitting solemnly at the table. His face projected an aura of dignity. By looking at the corners of his lips that were slightly sagging, it could be told that the man had an irritable personality. He was just simply sitting behind the table, but his broad shoulders had still manage to give out a strong sense of oppression.

  Xu Zu walked towards the table with great trepidation and kneeled down on one of his knees as he spoke, “Your subordinate has come to meet the City Lord.”


  “Hum,” Ruan Chongshan responded.

  “Have you settled the matter of the Sea Spirit City?” asked Ruan Chongshan.

  A sign of embarrassment was shown on Xu Zu’s face, “It’s your subordinate’s inability as we have failed to settle the matter of the Sea Spirit City.”


  “You trash! You couldn’t even handle such simple things.” The expression on the face of Ruan Chongshan immediately turned darker.

  With a shudder from his body, Xu Zu quickly explained, “It’s not that your subordinate did not put the effort into the matter, it’s just that…… the situation of the Sea Spirit City is much different now.”


  “Oh? Why is it?”


  “Following the instructions given by the City Lord, we had gone to the Sea Spirit City to request for the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast. After staying in the city for several days, the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City still refused to show up. It was until a few days longer that we were allowed to meet him. However, the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City has already been replaced by another person. The City Lord of the Sea Spirit City is no longer Yan Wan, but his son, Yan Hai,” said Xu Zu.

  “Yan Hai?” Ruan Chongshan raised his eyebrows, “Though Yan Wan isn’t really that strong, he is very vicious and cunning. His son too, doesn’t seem to be someone who can make it big, how could he take over the position of the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City in such a short time?”


  It wasn’t a rare thing for the replacement of the City Lords of the seventy-two cities to occur in the Upper Realm. Under the temptation of power and influence, there was no one expert who didn’t want to climb up to the position of the City Lord. There were usually some symptoms shown before things like these happened, but for the Sea Spirit City, it happened so suddenly.

  “Your subordinate has no idea about the details, but it is definitely true that Yan Hai is now ruling the Sea Spirit City.”


  “But what does it have to do with the resources of the Sea Spirit Beasts even if the City Lord has changed?” Ruan Chongshan didn’t really care about who was the City Lord of the Sea Spirit City as he had always turned his nose up at the city. The thing that he cared more about was the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast.

  When the conversation came to this topic, Xu Zu’s face turned even paler.

  “Yan Hai said…… that from now onwards, the Sea Spirit City will not provide any resources of the Sea Spirit Beast to other cities.”


  “What?!” There finally appeared a trace of astonishment on Ruan Chongshan’s face, “He will not provide the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast anymore? Is that guy crazy?”


  Ever since the Sea Spirit Beast was established, supplying the resources of the Sea Spirit Beast to other cities had become the primary factor for the Sea Spirit City to gain a foothold in the Upper Realm. Had the brat who had just succeeded to the post gotten farts in his head? He had actually spoken such an utterance.

  “Your subordinate too, thinks that Yan Hai is too arrogant and ignorant. Hence, before coming back, your subordinate has specially asked a group of people from the Sea Spirit City about this matter, and we have found out that after taking over the Sea Spirit City, Yan Hai has made a rather big movement……”


  Xu Zu told all the information that he had “found” in the Sea Spirit City to Ruan Chongshan without missing any details. As time passed, the expression of Ruan Chongshan became more and more serious.

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  “What you said is true?” Ruan Zhongshan frowned slightly. If he didn’t know that Xu Zu didn’t have the courage to deceive him, he couldn’t believe the news from Sea Spirit City.

  “It’s true! I have already said to that person, asking him to find a way to get the elixir in hand, and within one month, I will collect the medicine.” Xu Zu said.

  Ruan Chongshan didn’t speak, his eyes held careful thoughts.

  The entire being of the Sea Spirit Beast was a treasure trove. This was a well-known fact within the Upper Realm. In the early years, some people had indeed wanted to use the Sea Spirit Beasts to experiment with new things, but it was all very piecemeal. There were many rumors about the Sea Spirit Beasts from thousands of years ago. Among them, there was one saying that the Sea Spirit Beasts’ flesh and bone were used in medicine to achieve magical effects.

  Expect this had just been a rumor for thousands of years. Although many people have tried, in the end, no one was able to get any real results.

  Therefore, the Upper Realm had long abandoned the study of Sea Spirit Beasts. After reaching the strength of condensed spirit inscriptions, their degree of dependence on Sea Spirit Beasts gradually began to fade away. To seventy-two city masters, whether there was still a resource for the Sea Spirit Beasts was inconsequential. If condensing a Spirit Ring was achieved, then the Sea Spirit Beasts no longer held any meaning to them.

  Because of this, regardless if it was His Lord or the top ten masters, they did not care about the resource of the Sea Spirit Beasts. Only the seventy-two cities, in order to strengthen their own powers, would attach so much importance to the Sea Spirit Beasts.

  Seventy-two cities seemed to be on par, but everyone knew there were differences.

  Apart from the city lords’ own strengths, the strengths of their people within the cities and the number of strong people also determine each city’s position within the seventy-two cities.

  Therefore, a very strange phenomenon had appeared among the seventy-two cities. The city owner not only wanted to prevent the emergence of men who were stronger than himself, but he also hoped that the strength of the city residents would be improved.

  One had to take precautions but also take risks, it was a subtle balancing act.

  The need for Sea Spirit Beasts to boost the strength of a powerful person was becoming less of a concern. However, the news from Sea Spirit City had attracted much of Ruan Zhongshan’s attention.

  Based on his current strength, as long as the other party had not reached the level of spiritual inscriptions, that person was not his opponent at all. If the Long Xuan City’s exponents could be more powerful yet still within his control, that would definitely be a good thing.

  “Call the steward to come in.” Ruan Zhongshan suddenly said.

  Xu Zuo was a little startled but did not dare to hesitate. He immediately went out and called the housekeeper in.

  “How long can the reserve of Sea Spirit Beasts we have in the city last?” Ruan Chongshan looked at the housekeeper.

  “It can last for up to a year and a half.”


  Ruan Chongshan nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Xu Zu.

  “I leave it to you to deal with things in Sea Spirit City. It’s best to get in touch with that person within one month.” If the Sea Spirit City can really use the Sea Spirit Beast to make the elixir, then, the sudden toughening attitude of Sea Spirit City could be explained, and …… this elixir would absolutely appeal to the seventy-two cities!

  Although Long Xuan City was stronger than Sea Spirit City, it did not amount to much within the seventy-two cities.

  If there was really that kind of medicine ……

  Ruan Chongshan’s eyes narrowed slightly as he turned predatory towards the elixir.

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  “I will do as you have instructed. Then…… do you want to tell other cities about the news from Sea Spirit City?” Xu Zu looked at Ruan Chongshan hesitantly, because Long Xuan City and the Sea Spirit City were closer in distance, and in light of the insufficient supply of Sea Soul Beast, many cities have relayed the news to Ruan Chongshan, and had asked him to send someone to Sea Spirit City to find out what happened.

  “Tell them half of what we know.” Ruan Zhongshan sneered.

  “Half?” Xu Zu was stunned slightly.

  Ruan Chongshan crossed his arms and rested them on the table, his eyes were shuttered as he said, “Hasn’t Yan Hai uttered conceited nonsense about how he will no longer supply a single drop of Sea Spirit Beast blood? You can pass that piece of news to several of the city lords. The newly appointed City Lord is ignorant and needs to be taught some lessons. ”


  Xu Zu immediately understood the meaning of Ruan Chongshan’s statement.

  Ruan Zhongshan wanted that elixir for himself, but to deliberately create difficulties for Sea Spirit City; he didn’t plan to do it alone.

  “I will do so, right away!” Xu Zu’s face could not help but showed a happy look, the shame of being hurt by Jun Wu Xie made him uncomfortable. Now that Ruan Chongshan had told him only disseminate half of the information obtained, it would absolutely create a huge dissatisfaction between other cities and Sea Spirit City. Until that time, Long Xuan City would not need to lift a finger, Sea Spirit City would be bombarded by the other cities.

  Xu Zu received his orders and immediately retreated from the study.

  Ruan Chongshan sneered as he looked out at the pine and cypress in the yard.

  An ordinary man is guileless, but a talented person would arouse the envy of others. If the medicine really existed, then the new City Lord of the Sea Spirit City can only be blamed for being an ignorant kid as he didn’t know how to to conceal one’s strengths and bide one’s time.

  “My Lord, you are in a good mood?” The steward said as he observed Ruan Zhongshan’s expression diligently.

  “Indeed, it’s good. I have established diplomatic relations with Guan Yue City and received good news from Sea Spirit City. Of course, I’m in a good mood.” Ruan Zhongshan chuckled.

  “It seems that My Lord is confident over the matter in Guan Yue City.”


  Ruan Zhongshan raised an eyebrow but made no comment……

  In Sea Spirit City, after Jun Wu Xie had released the bait, she didn’t bother about these things again. While the people of Long Xuan City went back to spread the news, Jun Wu Xie, Qiao Chu and others supplemented their forces against the Upper Realm.

  The entire Sea Spirit City was in the hands of the Night Regime and the Ghost Army. In addition to training, they were strictly guarding the inside and outside of the Sea Spirit City.

  Jun Wu Xie secretly refined a batch of elixir. Among them, there were not many therapeutic elixirs, but there were a lot of venomous poisons.

  With the growth of strength, the spiritual power in the human body would gradually change from being stored in the veins to being transformed into the internal organs. Although it was not a stronghold that was insurmountable, but the defense of the internal organs was greatly improved. As a result, resistance to toxicity had also increased.

  The poison that Jun Wu Xie refined previously could not take on its full effect on the Gold Spirits of the Upper Realm. It was used on something with Spiritual Inscriptions and those who possessed Spirit Rings, the effects would be less than minimal.

  Although she had established her stronghold in Sea Spirit City, Jun Wu Xie did not dare to relax her vigilance. The medical techniques of her past and present lives had not been abandoned by here as she now was using them to create highly toxic drugs.

  During the time which Jun Wu Xie was refining her medicine, no one was allowed to come near. Now, she possessed Dual Spirit Ring, so the severity of toxicity she could endure was not something that someone else could withstand without succumbing to death. Hence, during this time, even Qiao Chu and the others wisely stayed away.

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  Only Jun Wu Yao could stay in the room while Jun Wu Xie was refining medicine.

  The two stayed in the room without speaking, one focused on refining medicine as the other silently watched, and there was an indescribable harmony.

  Not saying anything but not feeling embarrassed.

  Jun Wu Xie didn’t have to wait too long for Xu Zu to sneak back into the Sea Spirit City. Unlike the last time when he entered the city with great vigor, this time Xu Zu was accompanied by only two men, as they waited till the moon was dark to sneak into Sea Spirit City. They thought they were being very stealthy, but they didn’t realise that whatever they were doing, were clearly seen by the Night Regime members who were guarding the city walls.

  The moment the three of them entered the city, news of their arrival had already reached Jun Wu Xie’s ears.

  Jun Wu Xie was ready to retire for the night, but upon hearing the news, all her drowsiness was driven away and she immediately sent someone to notify Fei Yan to make preparations.

  Qiao Chu and a couple of others hurried to the city’s official residence, uncaring of the deep frost in the night. Qiao Chu was so anxious that he didn’t even dress neatly.

  “He’s here? He’s here? So fast?” Qiao Chu watched Jun Wu Xie with overwhelming eagerness. His glance swept passed and found that Jun Wu Yao, who was beside Jun Wu Xie, was looking at him with a ‘dangerous’ expression. A quiver suddenly shook through his whole body as he hurriedly turned around to reorganize his loose clothes.

  Brother Wu Yao’s attitude of guarding Jun Wu Xie so closely was really …… demented!

  He didn’t reveal anything that shouldn’t be exposed. Why were his eyes so cruel?

  “Long Xuan City is really being impatient. It’s only been half a month, and they have rushed back so quickly. It feels like they returned to their city but then immediately came back?” There was a hint of sleepiness in Fei Yan’s eyes, he had already fallen asleep when Er Qiao that idiot pulled him off his bed, and as a result, he almost lost a shoe.

  “How could they not be? The bait thrown out by Little Xie is just too tempting, and they can’t wait a moment longer.” Fan Zhuo chuckled, the ingenuity of Jun Wu Xie’s news accurately grasped the demands of the Upper Realm; to be able to increase their strength but in a ‘humane’ way was exactly what the seventy-two cities needed.

  “But there hadn’t been any news during this time? I thought our plan had failed.” Qiao Chu arranged his clothes and sat down in the chair earnestly.

  After Xu Zu’s departure, Qiao Chu and the others, although they spent their days very leisurely, they were always on guard, fearing that the news would spread and cause the people of the seventy-two cities to flock to Sea Spirit City.

  But until now, except for the letters sent by several cities to urge for the supply of Sea Spirits Beasts, everything was fine, it was no wonder they overthink things.

  “It’s not a failure, but most of it has been done.” Jun Wu Xie said quietly.

  “What do you mean?” Qiao Chu asked with wide eyes.

  “Long Xuan City must have believed half of the news we put out, that’s why they hid the news about the elixir. If I didn’t guess wrongly, they should have passed on what I said. As for the part they “found out” on their own, they didn’t reveal anything about that.”Jun Wu Xie slowly patted Little Black.

  “The rest depends on Fei Yan. I think they will contact you, at the earliest, tomorrow morning.” Jun Wu Xie looked up at Fei Yan.

  Fei Yan immediately sat upright and straightened his chest, “You can rest assured! Leave it to me.”


  Jun Wu Xie nodded.

  Jun Wu Xie’s prediction was correct. Xu Zu didn’t have much patience. Before daybreak, he had sent someone to find Fei Yan ……

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  The members of the Night Regime who were guarding Fei Yan’s “home” immediately came to notify Fei Yan when they noticed Xu Zu and his peers’ movements, Fei Yan immediately changed his “outfit” and hurried back.

  When Xu Zu and his men were about to smash the door open, Fei Yan, who was dressed as the young soldier, opened the door. He had a piece of clothing draped across his shoulders and looked barely half awake as he rubbed his eyes while opening the door.

  “Hey? Why are you here?” Fei Yan pretended to be surprised at Xu Zu and the others’ arrival.

  “We’ll talk inside.” Xu Zu carefully looked around, and immediately pushed himself into the house.

  They looked around and after they determined that there was no one else in the room, asked Fei Yan, “What I’ve instructed you before, have you done so?”


  “Ah! You mean ……” Fei Yan pretended to suddenly realized as his expression became tense. He lowered his voice and said, “My Lord, rest assured, I have received one medicinal pill. I’ve obtained this pill through a good friend, but he only had one portion of this pill. In order to get it from it, I had to promise that I would bring him along to Long Xuan City. I hope…… That My Lord won’t blame me. I’m too lowly…… I don’t qualify to receive this medicinal pill.”


  Fei Yan said all these in a helpless manner, with a hint of timidity and greed in his eyes.

  Xu Zu looked at Fei Yan in disapproval, a slight disdain for him rose in his heart.

  This kid didn’t look like he had any ability. If it wasn’t because they wanted to obtain the news first, they wouldn’t have favoured such a weakling. But regardless, the medicinal pill is now in their possession.

  “No problem, since you are working for us, we will not ill treat you and your brother. As long as we can determine the effect of this medicinal pill, we will immediately take you to Long Xuan City. Rest assured.” Even though there was so much disdain in his heart, Xu Zuo’s face still bore a look of camaraderie.

  Fei Yan was naturally grateful and thankful. At the urging of Xu Zu, the bottle of medicine that Jun Wuxie gave him in the morning was handed to Xu Zu.

  Xu Zu’s eyes changed a little when he saw the medicine bottle. He took it and opened the cap carefully. The strange smell slowly diffused out of the bottle, although the slight bloody smell was mixed with bitterness of the herbs, it still stood out.

  Even though Xu Zu had just taken a whiff of the medicine, he could feel the spiritual power within his body rise up. His eyes flashed sharply and he immediately closed the lid.

  But the waves of desire in his heart were surging forward.

  This medicine ……

  It’s true!

  He could already feel an impact on his spiritual power just from a light whiff. If he swallowed the whole thing, who knew what amazing changes it would bring!

  Xu Zu’s heart was shocked and joyful, suddenly he glanced to the side where Fei Yan was looking at him with a puzzled look. He immediately sobered up and recovered his usual arrogant demeanour.

  “We’ll send this medicine back first, while you wait here. We won’t treat you badly.” Xu Zu had originally planned to leave after obtaining the medicine. What promise? It was all bullshit. Only the promises between the strong could be fulfilled, but for the weak, the only way was to tolerate things.

  But now, Xu Xu suddenly changed his intention.

  “Sir, you …… won’t you take us away with you?” Fei Yan pretended to be afraid.

  Xu Zu said: “Don’t worry, your good will, Long Xuan City remembers.”


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  “Before when I promised you, that as long as you completed the task I assigned you, you can go to Long Xuan City, but ……” Xu Zu’s eyes narrowed slightly, using the cover of darkness to hide the evil intention in his eyes.

  “Long Xuan City has always been divided into regions. Although, I can bring you and your brother there, I cannot guarantee that you can enter a good area. But if you can complete this task even more fully; by helping us to observe the movements of Sea Spirit City, then to Long Xuan City, you are the ones who contributed a lot. Long Xuan City never ill-treats the people who have merits. At that time, I can appeal to the City Lord to bring you and your friend to a good area. I can even arrange for you both to train with the troops of Long Xuan City, or let you directly become the guards of Long Xuan City. What do you think of this arrangement? ”


  Xu Zu lowered his voice, trying to bewitch his target.

  Xu Zuo fully believed in the authenticity of this medicine. What remained was to go back to Long Xuan City to test the actual effect. Once determined, Ruan Zhongshan will definitely take a shot at Sea Spirit City. When the time came, if they could harmonize their attack from within the guards of Sea Spirit City and outside, it would be a beneficial thing for them.

  Therefore……

  Xu Zu dropped the bait once again, bewitching the ignorant teenager in front of him.

  Fei Yan widened his eyes and looked at Xu Zu, as if confused by the promise in his words, it took him a long while to refocus and respond.

  “You …… what you’re saying…… is it true?”


  “Of course.” Xu Zu’s face remained composed, but a vicious flash of light passed in his eyes.

  After the mission, who would care about the kid’s life?

  Fei Yan’s breathing became quicker. Under Xu Zu’s repeated beguiling, he flushed and said, “Okay! I will do it! I can do anything you need me to!”


  Xu Zu smiled with satisfaction. He didn’t arrange any tasks for Fei Yan, but just made Fei Yan pay more attention to the movements of Sea Spirit City, especially the new workshop.

  Fei Yan responded without hesitation.

  Deep in the night, Xu Zu took his two men and left as quietly as they came, along with their inner expectations and pride.

  What they didn’t know was ……

  “I almost couldn’t hold back twisting the girl’s neck off!”


  In the official residence, Fei Yan rubbed his arms which were shaking uncontrollably. Xu Zu’s self-righteous lie sounded like a lot of nonsense to him, and there was no “technical content”. Compared to the way Jun Wu Xie tricked others, it was simply like mud in the gutter.

  Had it not been for the firm will of Fei Yan, he would have just punched that big mouth when Xu Zu started spouting his nonsense.

  In the hall, no one left as they waited for Fei Yan’s news. Rong Ruo and the others, upon hearing Fei Yan’s narration, burst into laughter.

  Xu Zu’s ability to con others was really too weak, and it was really difficult for Fei Yan to treat himself as an idiot, just so he could accommodate Xu Zu.

  Regarding the Upper Realm’s methods of forcibly taking lands, verbal lies no longer hold any meaning to them. Compared to Fei Yan and the others, who had been struggling within the Three Realms for so many years; in a duel of words, ten Xu Zus could not be compared to one Jun Wu Xie.

  “Okay, go and change your clothes first.” Rong Ruo couldn’t stand looking at an indignant Fei Yan, as he was still wearing the thin clothes during his meeting with Xu Zu, and said subconsciously.

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  Fei Yan was talking with exuberance, but upon hearing Rong Ruo’s sudden words, he stiffened and the whole hall became extremely quiet.

  “Xiao Ruo ……” Fei Yan turned to look at Rong Ruo, his eyes were dull.

  Rong Ruo had just spoke subconsciously, and did not feel that there was anything wrong, but the Fei Yan’s expression made her realize that…… she seemed to have spoken out of turn.

  “Xiao Ruo, are you showing your concern for me?” Fei Yan opened his eyes wide and looked at Rong Ruo. After he showed his true feelings to Rong Ruo, Rong Ruo had always avoided him, the two people who had once been inseparable, were now distanced. Although they were still great companions in life and death, they are no longer as intimate as the time in Cloudy Brook Academy.

  At that time, Rong Ruo and Fei Yan were brought back to the Lower Realm by Yan Bugui. Fei Yan had watched his whole family being massacred and was greatly affected. When he closed his eyes, all he could see was the fiery and bloody scene as if a demon was unleashed from hell. He was so traumatised that he didn’t dare to close his eyes at all. He was also terrified of Yan Bugui.

  It was Rong Ruo, who came to his side at that time, no matter how he resisted and screamed, she stubbornly sat with him in the corner. She did not speak nor make a sound. Two small figures quietly sat in the corner of the room for a whole day and night. At that time, Fei Yan was still very young and had just gone through a traumatic experience, and he didn’t dare to close his eyes. His immature body also could not handle the torment of such loss, and slowly they fell asleep.

  Strangely, that night, he slept very peacefully. Terrible nightmares never came to bother him again as he slept till dawn. When he woke up, he found that he had fallen asleep while sitting in the corner, and he had rested his head on Rong Ruo’s small shoulder. At that time, Rong Ruo had also fallen asleep.

  It was such a silent companionship, but it made Fei Yan’s day more bearable. He was unwilling to go out, he only dared to stay in the room and Rong Ruo accompanied him that way.

  When he was young, he didn’t understand emotions, only dependence. When he grew up, this dependence continued. He and Qiao Chu grew up together in Cloudy Brook Academy, and their relationship was very good, but the best relationship was with Rong Ruo.

  Until……

  At the first awakening of love, the dependence hidden in his heart quietly blossomed and bore fruit.

  Unexpectedly, his recklessness had caused Rong Ruo’s resistance.

  In recent years, they have not been idle due to Jun Wu Xie’s disappearance, their nerves have been stretched at almost every moment, but Fei Yan could still feel that Rong Ruo has distanced herself from him. To outsiders, it might not seem obvious, but to him it was so clear.

  Rong Ruo has not cared for him so thoughtfully for a long time.

  “Ahem.” Rong Ruo noticed her mistake and immediately looked away from Fei Yan.

  Qiao Chu observed the weird atmosphere in the hall and looked at Fei Yan’s happy face for a moment, and then looked at an embarrassed Rong Ruo for a moment.

  Always felt……

  Like there was something wrong.

  However, Hua Yao and Fan Zhuo thought carefully, and discovered the subtle changes between Fei Yan and Rong Ruo early on.

  But, the palm and back of the hand are all meat, and it’s inappropriate for anyone to help them. Besides, there was really no room for them to intervene in such things.

  “Xiao Ruo, I know! You won’t not care about.” Fei Yan opened his arms and gave Rong Ruo a hug!

  Rong Ruo ducked away immediately.

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  Fei Yan hugged air and he looked at Rong Ruo somewhat bitterly.

  Rong Ruo could only look away from him.

  “Oh, shouldn’t we talk about Long Xuan City first.” Fan Zhuo decided to change the topic.

  Thankfully, Fei Yan was thick skinned, after being rejected by Rong Ruo so many times, yet he hadn’t given up.

  Fei Yan swiped the corner of his mouth and sits back earnestly, but his eyes still drifted towards Rong Ruo from time to time.

  “Little Xie, what exactly does your medicine do? You didn’t really give them any panacea?” Qiao Chu asked the question that had been bothering him for several days.

  When Jun Wu Xie gave the medicine to Fei Yan, he was already very curious, but Jun Wu Xie just didn’t explain anything which made Qiao Chu felt stifled for a while.

  If it was for Long Xuan City to believe the rumours released by Jun Wu Xie, and she really gave some sort of incredible elixir, Qiao Chu predicted that he would be very angry. No one in the Three Realms could compare to Jun Wu Xie’s skills in preparing medicines or elixirs. To let the Upper Realm gain some small advantages, he would also not be too pleased.

  How could Jun Wu Xie not follow their train of thought, and she naturally replied, “It’s not a great thing, but the medicine can improve people’s spiritual power in a short time. However this is all in vain. Maybe for a few years, It will appear as if the power is steadily increasing, but it is just forcibly stimulating the human body’s spiritual power. When the spiritual power is exhausted, it will naturally not be maintained.”


  Jun Wu Xie painted her explanation in light strokes, but the power of that medicine could completely turn the user into waste after a few years, but a few years was enough for Jun Wu Xie.

  The bait she threw would continue to be effective as long as the user did not experience failure within the next few years.

  “Then I’ll rest assured.” Qiao Chu exhaled, his expression changed as he slyly asked, “Little Xie, since you released the news, you knew that Long Xuan City will not be able to sit still. Come on, what do you think they will do?”


  There was a treacherous smile in Qiao Chu’s eyes. Since Jun Wu Xie dared to give the medicine to them, there would be absolutely no problem with its effects. They just had to wait for the people in Long Xuan City to fall hook, line and sinker, and made their move.

  It was a matter of how they were going to do so. However, this was something that Qiao Chu could not figure out just yet.

  “Let’s use diplomacy before we resort to violence,” Jun Wu Xie said quietly.

  Once Long Xuan City had determined the authenticity of the elixir, the first reaction would definitely be to not inform the others within the seventy-two cities, but to try to take possession of the elixir. As to how they would go about asking for it, it would depend on the character of Long Xuan City’s City Lord.

  But no matter what decision the other party made, Jun Wu Xie would not mind.

  After chatting for a while, they clamoured for Ye Mei and Ye Sha to cook them a good meal.

  The two persons, who had not stepped into the kitchen for a long time, exchanged a glance and saw helplessness reflected in each other’s eyes.

  The members of the Night Regime were meant to weld swords in both hands, but in front of these few people, they could only put down the butcher’s knives and pick up the spatulas.

  Right at this moment, Ye Sha and Ye Mei are extremely regretful that they showed off their culinary skills in front of these people, as they were remembered as this from that time on.

  No matter how depressed they were, after seeing Jun Wu Yao’s acquiescence, they could only silently head into the kitchen to cook.

  As Ye Gu knew nothing about cooking, he managed to escape by bringing Lord Meh Meh and Blood Rabbit into the backyard to feed them grass.

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  While waiting for the meal to be ready, Fei Yan moved discreetly to Rong Ruo’s side as she was talking to Fan Zhuo. Rong Ruo could only pretend she didn’t notice his presence, and continued to discuss with Fan Zhuo about the possible movements from Long Xuan City.

  It was Fan Zhuo, however, who felt a sharp gaze upon his person. And when he looked up, he saw that Fei Yan was staring at him in an unblinking, unfriendly manner.

  “.……” Fan Zhuo glanced at Rong Ruo, who was still talking to him, and instantly felt that he was getting innocently implicated in something just with his mere presence.

  Among them, only Jun Wu Xie and Rong Ruo were women, but years of life and death situations had long blurred any gender distinction between them. He did not treat Jun Wu Xie and Rong Ruo as women at all. It was simply pure brotherhood!

  But……

  As far as Fei Yan’s reaction was concerned, it was absolutely anger.

  As Rong Ruo ignored him, Fei Yan would stare at himself. Fan Zhuo felt a tingling sensation on his scalp as he turned his head knowingly towards Qiao Chu, who was eating some fruits as he wandered around freely, and said: “Er Qiao, go with me to the backyard, I want to speak with you.”


  Qiao Chu, who was waiting for delicious food, was suddenly shouted at by Fan Zhuo, and he was stunned and blanked out for a bit before returning to himself.

  “Ah? Ok ……” Qiao Chu responded, but his mind was a mess.

  What did Fan Zhuo want with him?

  Fan Zhuo had already stood up, dragging the clueless Qiao Chu to the backyard, with the quick witted Hua Yao following them.

  In the hall, only Jun Wu Yao, Jun Wu Xie, Fei Yan and Rong Ruo were left.

  Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie had not spoken, they just sat there drinking tea, the sense of their presence was almost zero.

  Without Fan Zhuo and the others to use as a shield, Rong Ruo just wanted to avoid Fei Yan’s intense staring. She had no shields left. After being stared at for a long while, Rong Ruo finally returned Fei Yan’s gaze.

  “Stop playing around. Now is not the time to be fooling around.” Rong Ruo’s voice held a trace of helpless.

  “I’m not fooling around.” Fei Yan wrinkled his nose. “Since when did I fool around with you? All that I have said is true, but you just don’t want to believe it.”


  Fei Yan was very depressed. Although he was usually a little sloppy and carefree, but with regards to that matter, his feelings towards Rong Ruo, he never once joked about. But he didn’t know if Rong Ruo intentionally or unintentionally treated his words as a joke.

  Rong Ruo took a deep breath and looked at Fei Yan, who had grown up together with her. Maybe it was because the two of them were brought back by Yan Bugui those years ago, Fei Yan had always cling on to her. Before it wasn’t much, but since that incident, their relationship gradually changed, and it caused Rong Ruo to be vexed.

  “I didn’t have a good rest yesterday. I’m going back to my room, I won’t eat.” Rong Ruo sighed as she stood up, without waiting for Fei Yan’s response, left.

  Fei Yan was left in the hall. As shameless as he was, looking at Rong Ruo’s departing figure, he wasn’t able to hide the desolation within his eyes. He flattened his lips, lowered his head, turned and left for the backyard.

  Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao observed all of it, but said nothing.

  In the backyard, Ye Jie was squatting on the edge of the flowerbed, watching Lord Meh Meh and the Blood Rabbit sunbathing on the grass.

  Because Jun Wu Xie had been very busy, these two silly beasts were taken care of by Ye She and Ye Mei. Today, since the two of them were chased into the kitchen, and Ye Gu was simply too impatient, so he asked Ye Jie to take over.

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  Fan Zhuo and others, who came out to the backyard to avoid the disaster, were sitting on the stone bench in the backyard and mindlessly chatting with each other.

  “Hey!” Fei Yan was in an irritable mood, and as he saw his friends gathered together, he snorted in exasperation.

  Qiao Chu and others immediately turned to look at him.

  At the sight of Fei Yan, they knew that this fella must have gotten snubbed again.

  “I said, Yan Er, why haven’t you made any progress for so many years?” Qiao Chu, with one hand on his chin, looked at Fei Yan with a gloating smile.

  “How would I know? If I know what is wrong, would it still be dragging out till now?” Fei Yan sat on the stone bench in a huff, sticking his long legs up. Compared with the past adolescence, the innocence Fei Yan once had faded, in its place, a chic and elegant appearance.

  “Let me tell you, this is called retribution! Who asked you to create so much mischief in the past?” Qiao Chu raised his eyebrows slightly, not sympathizing with Fei Yan’s predicament.

  When Fei Yan was younger, he had a pretty face, androgynous in fact. He was responsible for collecting information everywhere. Therefore, it was no effort at all for him to disguise himself or change his appearances. At first, in order to find the whereabouts of the map, Fei Yan not only posed as a young, pretty girl, he also mingled around many elegant yet flirty men. Although he was evidently a man, he still made all these other men lust and fall head over heels for him; and they told him everything he wanted to know.

  After Fei Yan had gotten the information they needed, he left them without another word, breaking many hearts in that process.

  Later, after meeting Jun Wu Xie and under her plan, Fei Yan needed to ‘collect’ information less. After returning from Middle Realm, he no longer wore female clothing.

  But……

  Those who had been tricked still held “seeds of fascination” as they waited for Fei Yan infatuatedly till now, even after all those years. But those men did not realise that their object of their affections…… was the wrong gender!

  “Don’t you have anything better to say? If not, just shut up! Is it because I haven’t beat you up in a long time, your skin is itchy?” Fei Yan narrowed his eyes and glared threateningly at Qiao Chu. He was already annoyed, and even if Qiao Chu didn’t help, he was being hatefully gloating.

  Qiao Chu grinned, with Fei Yan’s carefree personality, there weren’t many things that could upset him. Only with Rong Rup, he would swallow his unhappiness, grit his teeth and carry on.

  “That ……” Suddenly Fei Yan words suddenly turned and he looked at them a little awkwardly. “Isn’t it? I was being too ridiculous at that time. Xiao Ruo thinks I’m not reliable, so she keeps ……”


  The glee on Qiao Chu’s face was frozen for a moment. He was just joking. How could this fella take it so seriously?

  “At that time, you were also collecting information. Xiao Ruo wouldn’t not have anything to do with you because of this.” Hua Yao sighed.

  To be honest, they did not expect the matter between Fei Yan and Rong Ruo would become so complicated. From the beginning, the relationship between the two was quite good. How did it get to such an unfavourable stage.

  “Forget it, it’s no use asking you, a group of rough men, I’ll just ask Little Xie.” Fei Yan scratched his head in frustration and anxiety, he really didn’t understand the minds of women, so he wanted to head back and asked Jun Wu Xie for advice.

  “I advise you to forget it.” Fan Zhuo suddenly said.

  Fei Yan’s footsteps halted as he looked at Fan Zhuo in doubt.

  Fan Zhuo said: “Do you think …… what advice can a woman who can marry a wife give you?”


  “.……” Fei Yan was silent.

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  Jun Wu Xie …… could not be used as measure against normal women.

  Fei Yan was at his wit’s end. He could count the number of women he knew with one hand, there were only a few women around him. Even if he wanted to find someone to ask, it was difficult.

  Thinking for a while, Fei Yan’s eyes drifted to the person who was accompanying Lord Meh Meh and Blood Rabbit sunbathing, Ye Jie. Having set his mind, he immediately moved to Ye Jie’s side.

  Ye Jie was squatting at the edge of the flowerbed, the rotund Hell Rodent laying on her shoulder, both her hands had not been idle, each hand was either scratching the belly of Lord Meh Meh, or rubbing the ears of Blood Rabbit.

  “Ye Jie.” Fei Yan said suddenly.

  “Ah?” Ye Jie turned to look at Fei Yan, with a smile on her face, her eyes held some doubt.

  “Master Fei Yan? Is there anything I can do to help?”


  “Oh, I have something to ask you.” Fei Yan said.

  “Please go ahead.” Ye Jie stood up and looked at Fei Yan cutely.

  “Well …… What kind of man do women generally like?” Fei Yan said, his face flushed.

  Ye Jie was stunned.

  “I …… just as an example, what kind of man do you like?” Fei Yan was a little embarrassed. This topic …… was really a bit embarrassing!

  Ye Jie stared at Fei Yan dumbfounded, she could not say a word.

  As Fei Yan felt like he had asked the wrong person about the subject, a voice suddenly floated into Fei Yan’s ears.

  “If you ask Ye Jie this sort of question, aren’t you afraid that Ye Gu will kill you?” Jun Wu Xie walked into the backyard and had just heard Fei Yan’s question, and was a little speechless.

  Ye Jie and Ye Gu were members of Spirit Soul Race. The innate twin souls within one body cannot be separated in this life. With Ye Gu’s temper, he would not have allowed any opposite sex to ‘taint’ Ye Jie, otherwise …… taintin Ye Jie, was the same as tainting Ye Gu……

  Ye Gu would definitely draw his sword and cut the person into eight big pieces.

  Luckily, it was Fei Yan who posed the question. Had it been someone else, Ye Gu would have already rushed out to kill the person.

  “.……” Fei Yan was dumbfounded.

  “Little Xie ……”


  “Are you confused about Xiao Ruo?” Jun Wu Xie looked at Fei Yan helplessly.

  Fei Yan nodded as he looked at Jun Wu Xie expectantly, “Little Xie, can you help me?”


  Jun Wu Xie was very straightforward ……

  “No.”


  “.……” Fei Yan’s face looked like a frost-bitten eggplant.

  “Ah!” Ye Jie suddenly whispered.

  Fei Yan’s body quivered as he was afraid that Ye Gu came out to deal with him. He definitely could not beat Ye Gu!

  Ye Jie looked like she suddenly realized something as she looked at the Fei Yan seriously, “Ye Jie likes men like Rong Ruo.”


  “.……” Fei Yan was stunned.

  What Ye Jie said seemed to be answering his earlier question, but…… the delay in reaction was a bit too long!

  “I also like someone like Xiao Ruo.” Fei Yan muttered, but as soon as the words were spoken, he suddenly realized a problem. He looked at Ye Jie and said, “Oh, Ye Jie, although our Xiao Ruo is good, but you have to understand one thing. Xiao Ruo is a woman. Although she likes to wear men’s clothes, she is a woman, so …… you seem to like the wrong person.”


  If someone else had said that instead of Ye Jie, Fei Yan felt like he could battle the other person for three hundred rounds.

  But Ye Jie just looked at Fei Yan in confusion: “But Master Rong Ruo is not a woman.”


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  As soon as Ye Jie said this, everyone in the backyard froze.

  “Well …… another ignorant young girl who has been fooled by Xiao Ruo’s appearance.” Qiao Chu couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Rong Ruo’s appearance was not of a gentle beauty, she had that extra heroic spirit. If she dressed as a girl, she was very beautiful, but if she dressed as a man, it made it impossible to discern her gender.

  In the Lower Realm, when Rong Ruo presented herself to others in men’s clothing, she had also owed a lot of “romance debts”. It caused her so much trouble that she had to switch back to women’s clothing for a while.

  Fan Zhuo and others also laughed. Ye Jie was pure-hearted as until now, she was unaware of the fact that Rong Ruo was a woman.

  Looking at the smiles on everyone’s face, huge confusion shone on Ye Jie’s face. She didn’t know what she had said wrong. Why did they all laugh?

  Ye Jie looked at Jun Wu Xie anxiously, “Miss, did I …… say something wrong?”


  Jun Wu Xie shook her head lightly, “Xiao Ruo is a woman, but she likes to wear men’s clothing in front of others.”


  Fortunately, Rong Ruo was a woman, otherwise if Ye Gu heard what Ye Jie said, that was it.

  However, instead of dissipating the bewilderment on Ye Jie’s face, her confusion became even deeper. She looked uneasily at the crowd, and lowered her head a little.

  Obviously ……

  She was not wrong.

  Rong Ruo returned to her residence after leaving the city’s official residence. Jun Wu Xie had originally arranged for them to stay in the official residence, but her companions had the foresight and a clear view on things, and they were afraid of disturbing Jun Wu Yao and Jun Wu Xie from spending time together. Thus, they consciously declined Jun Wu Xie’s kindness and each of them picked a residence within Sea Spirit City.

  The residence which Rong Ruo picked was not large, but she chose it because of the quietness.

  In the small courtyard, there was only Rong Ruo, no other servants were around.

  Rong Ruo walked to her room, and sat down in front of the dressing table. The dressing table was empty. There was no rouge gouache, lotions or powder, neither was there any gold and silver jewelry which women loved. The dressing table looked like a brand new one.

  Sitting in front of the dresser, Rong Ruo looked at her reflection in the bronze mirror.

  Cheeks that were fair and clear, exquisite facial features, although it was not as perfect as Jun Wu Xie’s, but there was also have a charming appeal, her forehead lacked a woman’s softness, but there was a sense of brilliance and carefree. When dressed up as a man, at first glance of the person in the mirror, no one could guess that it was a woman in said guise.

  She had long been used to this kind of dressing; satin and silk, long sleeved gowns. For her, it was so strange and rarely useful.

  Rong Ruo sat quietly in front of the dressing table, staring at herself in the mirror for a long time, her eyes were filled with deep troubles, her brows and forehead frowning with sorrow.

  “Ah ……” After a long time, Rong Ruo couldn’t help but sighed. She raised her hand and touched the coldness of the copper mirror with her fingertips. She looked at herself in the mirror, but it felt like she was looking at something on the side.

  “What should I do?” Rong Ruo’s brow frowned slightly, helplessness and perplexity filled her tone.

  Fei Yan’s feelings, how could she not know?

  However, the more serious he was, the more afraid she was.

  She didn’t know how to respond, and did not dare to respond ……

  She could only pretend to not understand, to not comprehend.

  She just hoped that one day, Fei Yan would tire, would detest, or meet other women he admired and then everything would be over.

  “Little sis …… if it were you, everything would easy right ……” Rong Ruo stared at herself in the mirror with a bitter smile ……

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  The three of them traveled as fast as possible from Sea Spirit City to rush back to Long Xuan City within a few days, and took the elixir obtained from Fei Yan to Ruan Chongshan.

  In the official residence of Long Xuan City, Ruan Chongshan was repeatedly checking the elixir that Xu Zu had brought back. It seemed like he wanted to see if there were any problems with the elixir. In the hall, in addition to Xu Zu and his two men, there were a few gray-haired old men. The spiritual power of those old men was very weak; this level of spiritual power in the Upper Realm was so low to the point of mediocrity.

  However, within the Upper Realm, the only identity which didn’t require spiritual power as a support was the position of a healer.

  Like the lower three realms and the middle three realms, the upper three realms are inevitably born and sick, so the needs of the doctor are the same. The doctor does not need strong power but can still get a certain degree of respect and status through his own medical skills.

  The old men standing in the hall were a few of the best Chinese medicine practitioners of Long Xuan City. Ruan Chongshan summoned them to the city’s official residence early in the morning in order to test if the elixir brought by Xu Zu was really effective.

  “This is the elixir of the Sea Spirit City?” Ruan Chongshan’s gaze fell on the little pills in the palm of his hand. From the appearance of it, the elixir was nothing special, but it exuded a faint smell of blood. Although the smell was covered up by the smell of herbs, but with a little attention, it could not be missed.

  “Yes.” Xu Zu stood seriously in front of Ruan Chongshan.

  Ruan Chongshan glanced at Xu Zu and raised his hand to let the housekeeper bring the elixir to the doctors.

  “You guys check and see what these pills are about.”


  The doctors immediately gathered and examined the elixir. For healers who wanted to climb up the ladder, it was much easier than ordinary people. However, the extent of the climb was limited. Even if they were extremely skilled in medicine, they could not compare to Ruan Zhongshan and the likes in terms of spiritual powers; who could conquer one side. The healers still had to rely on the support of other exponents.

  It was rare that Ruan Chongshan would summon them all. A few medical doctors tried their best to think of a way to answer Ruan Chongshan’s queries in order to gain more benefits to himself.

  However……

  Several gray-haired doctors examined the elixir for a long time, but they still couldn’t figure out the mystery of the pills.They could not even distinguish the ingredients in the elixir. At first, they were confident, however they gradually grew paler with anxiety written plainly on their faces.

  Ruan Chongshan did not ignore the reaction of the doctors, he frowned lightly: “What’s wrong?”


  The doctors shuddered and said, “Our apologies My Lord, this elixir is a little bit strange, it is not an ordinary elixir. We …… it is impossible to see what medicine it is made of.”


  Those healers were already sweating when they spoke. At first, they thought about showing off in front of Ruan Chongshan but they were completely destroyed.

  Although their medical skills were not top tier, but it wasn’t to the point where they could not discern even a single medicinal material in the elixir. No matter how rare the elixir was, and although it was impossible to fully grasp the full extent of the formulas, to distinguish at least one or two medical properties should not be that difficult.

  However, the elixir had stumped them, no matter how meticulous they were, they could not find any ingredients within the pills.

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  Only the unknown bloody smell was strong.

  “That’s enough, leave us.” However, Ruan Chongshan did not burst in anger as they had anticipated, he lifted his hand to wave off the group of healers.

  The group of doctors were shaking with fear as they left, thinking that they had not been able to complete the task this time, and they would be scolded. But they did not expect that Ruan Chongshan would be so ‘kind’ today.

  A group of doctors didn’t dare linger around, in a blink of an eye, they ran away.

  The steward once again packed the elixir and placed it in Ruan Chongshan’s hand.

  “It seems that the person whom you obtained this from is quite reliable.” Ruan Chongshan’s face was not displeased, instead it held a smile.

  The group of healers who were called to the residence was to make sure that the elixir was not rubbish. Although those doctors could not be compared to the divine doctor who worked for His Lord, they were also quite capable in Long Xuan City. Even with rare elixirs, although they could not recreate it, it was not difficult to distinguish one or two medicinal properties.

  But upon seeing this elixir, none of those healers could recognize it, to the point of not being able to discern the herbs used in making the elixir.

  On the contrary, with such a situation, it only made Ruan Zhongshan feel relieved.

  It seems like this medicine should not be fake.

  “Yes.” Xu Zu stood earnestly in front of Ruan Chongshan, but his heart felt a little diffident.

  Ruan Chongshan was a weird character, he looked fierce and solemn, but in fact, everyone who had been with him for a long time knew about his suspiciousness and paranoia. The reason why he called those healers to check this elixir, in addition to ensuring that the people in Sea Spirit City did not tamper with the pills, was also a kind of defense against Xu Zu. After all, the Sea Spirit City elixir was so mythical that it was difficult to guarantee that it would not evoke greed in the hearts of others.

  Thinking of this, Xu Zu could not help secretly gulp.

  “I just don’t know if this medicine can really enhance the spiritual power.” Ruan Zhongshan squinted his eyes. In fact, with his current strength, there was not much requirement for this elixir, but if this medicine could be used to improve the standard of soldiers in Long Xuan City, then the status of Long Xuan City among the seventy two cities would be greatly improved.

  With just this, Ruan Chongshan would not easily let go of such an opportunity.

  “I don’t know the whole ……” Xu Zu said cautiously.

  Ruan Chongshan’s eyes slowly fell on Xu Zu’s body, as he thought, “To try and find out if this medicine really works, there is a simple way ……”


  Ruan Zhongshan didn’t finish his words, but how could Xu Zu not know what he meant. Even though he seemed calm on the surface, but Xu Zu’s palms, sticking to his side, had started to sweat involuntarily.

  Who didn’t want an elixir that can improve spiritual power?

  Xu Zu ‘s reaction did not escape Ruan Chongshan ‘s eyes. Ruan Chongshan suddenly crossed one leg over the other as he leaned back, “Xu Zu, this matter with Sea Spirit City, you did it, and you brought back the elixir. Would you like to try the effect of this medicine?”


  Xu Zu was glad, but he did not dare to reveal the slightest. He could suppress his inner excitement and knelt on one knee and said, “It all depends on My Lord.”


  “Okay.” Ruan Zhongshan nodded slightly and said to the steward on the side: “Give him the medicine.”


  According to Xu Zu’s previous description of this medicine, this medicine was only helpful to those around Gold Spirit level, and strong players like Ruan Chongshan who have reached the strength of Spiritual Inscriptions would have no effect.