Chapter 231 : Torture (3)
Qin Yu Yan nodded, satisfied. Bai Yun Xian hurried in retreat to the side as she was relieved from her burden. Qin Yu Yan gestured to another Qing Yun Clan disciple and he walked over to the curled up figure of Mo Qian Yuan who was still upon the floor and pulled his head up by the hair, to let him see Mo Xuan Fei on the wheelchair, motionless in death.
"Your Majesty, your brother is dead. If you do not want to be like him, then tell us what we want to know." Qin Yu Yan said indifferently to Mo Qian Yuan, who had held his mouth longer than she had expected. The poison that he had been forced to take was no ordinary poison. Its potency was not enough to immediately claim his life, but it would have caused untold damage to his internal organs, and brought enough pain to make him want to end his own life.
Even after having gone through all that, Mo Qian Yuan still refused to spill the beans.
This was what really frustrated Qin Yu Yan.
"It seems Your Majesty still does not understand your predicament." Qin Yu Yan said softly, as she gestured for the disciple to lift Mo Qian Yuan up. "Perhaps we have been too lenient, and we need to do more to make you talk. Uncle Jiang, can you do us the honour please?"
Jiang Chen Qing walked over and grabbed the limp right hand of Mo Qian Yuan. He then held the tip of Mo Qian Yuan's little finger and released his spiritual energy.....
"ARGHHHH!!!" A pitiful howl filled the main hall.
Mo Qian Yuan's little finger was crushed bit by bit starting from the tip by Jiang Chen Qing. More blood splattered on the floor and the palace maids and eunuchs shrank back even further into their corner as the horrible scene played out before them.
"Is that pain enough for you?" Qin Yu Yan laughed aloud, the tinkle of her laughter was filled with malice and cruelty.
Mo Qian Yuan had been utterly decimated, the pain had driven deep into heart as he howled in agony. He did not know how much more of this unrelenting torment he would have to take before the end comes.
If only he had listened to Jun Wu Xie..... If he had gone along with what Jun Wu Xie wanted, all these would not have happened.....
"Carry on." Qin Yu Yan laughed as she uttered those words of venom.
Jiang Chen Qing readied himself to continue his torture of Mo Qian Yuan when suddenly, the tightly shut doors of the main hall burst open, hit by a powerful force!
A handsome youth with his clothes splattered with blood rode upon a magnificent black beast charged into the main hall!
"ROAARRR!!" The black beast gave out a earth shattering roar!
After the black beast devoured the Golden Lion, he acquired the ability to roar like the Golden Lion. The roar sounded so much more dominating than its meek meows!
"Who are you!" Jiang Chen Qing threw down the hand of Mo Qian Yuan and straightened up to face the intruders, as he stared at the duo of flower and beast.
"That question, should be from me, and directed at all of you." The cold chilly voice rang out suddenly outside the open doors. The cold expression on her face showed at the door after those words and she stood, her frosty eyes surveying everyone within the main hall, as Jun Wu Yao stood silently behind her, a hint of a curl at the corners of his mouth.
"Who and what kind of people would dare come to the Qi Kingdom to commit such atrocities!?" Jun Wu Xie's eyes fell upon the crumpled form of Mo Qian Yuan on the floor in the middle of the hall and her brow wrinkled intensely as she frowned deeply.
Before you beat a dog, you have to know who its master is..... She had wanted Mo Qian Yuan to learn his lesson from this, but she had underestimated the cruelty of the most revered Qing Yun Clan, worshipped throughout the lands.
"Wu..... Xie....." He barely whispered, his face white with weakness. When he saw Jun Wu Xie appear before the doors, the excruciating agony that tormented him had lifted for that moment and he summoned everything he had left within to move his mouth sporadically to form a slight lift at the ends of his mouth in relief.
'She's here..... finally.....'
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Chapter 232 : Torture (4)
Mo Qian Yuan voice was barely a whisper but the faint sound had burned into her ears when he had looked up at the figure of Jun Wu Xie standing at the entrance to the main hall.
'Wu Xie?'
'If her memory served her correctly, the Eldest Miss of the Jun Family seemed to have been named Jun Wu Xie.'
'But they had sent their men to the Lin Palace, why would Jun Wu Xie be here?'
However, when Qin Yu Yan noticed the fabulously good looking Jun Wu Yao who stood behind Jun Wu Xie, her smile had widened and she could not take her eyes off him.
'What a unbelievably handsome man!'
She had not known that such a attractive man existed in this world.
"I shall teach that mouth of yours some manners! If you choose to seek death, I am only too glad to grant you your wish!" Jiang Chen Qing did not care who she was, and what she looked like. He only knew that whoever dared to mock the Qing Yun Clan like that must die to atone for the unforgivable affront!
Jiang Chen Qing leaped directly at Jun Wu Xie, choosing to ignore Drunk Lotus completely to be beneath his notice. Among the three people and a beast that had suddenly appeared, only the black beast seemed to possess a little ability to battle. They three humans were too young, with the oldest among them to be just over twenty years of age. No matter how prodigious they might be, they were not a match for him!
However, before Jiang Chen Qing could even touch a corner of Jun Wu Xie's robe, a blood coloured streaked flashed to appear right before his eyes.
The dashing youth threw a lightning quick punch at the face of Jiang Chen Qing. His speedy movements had surprised Jiang Chen Qing and he raised his arms hurriedly to block off the blow, and Drunk Lotus' punch hit him squarely on his forearms. A searing pain tore through his arms that shot throughout his entire body with its impact!
In a blink, Jiang Chen Qing had been driven back. The arm that blocked the blow from Drunk Lotus had blood running freely down its length, and its bone broken and sticking out of his flesh, visibly exposed.
'What kind of a monstrous strength was that!?'
Jiang Chen Qing stared at Drunk Lotus, his mouth agape, his mind reeling in shock.
He, a respectably powerful blue spirit user, just had his arm broken by a fledging young youth in his teens, with a single punch? If word of this got around, nobody would have believed it!
Drunk Lotus' domineering attack, had not only shocked Jiang Chen Qing himself, but had made all the others from the Qing Yun Clan stand up in surprise!
They knew very well, the prowess Jiang Chen Qing possessed. Even if the kid had successfully sneaked an attack on him, it was impossible that Jiang Chen Qing would lose so horribly in a single pass!
Drunk Lotus raised his fists up to his chest and his knuckles made a crackling sound as he clenched his fists. The fresh blood that had just smeared his fist dripped from his fingers. He might be extremely arrogant, but there was one common aspect among all contractual ring spirits. They were fiercely protective of their masters. That obnoxious old man dared to attack Jun Wu Xie before his eyes!? He must have lived too long and was getting tired of living!
"Who in the world are you?" Jiang Chen Qing asked as he gripped his blood covered arm and stared at Drunk Lotus. He could not believe the young teenager before him possessed such power!
"You are not fit to know that." Drunk Lotus spurned, with a laugh filled with scorn.
Qin Yu Yan watched from atop the throne with her eyes narrowed after she averted her eyes away from Jun Wu Yao's good looks. Jiang Chen Qing had attained a blue leveled spirit and ordinary people were not a match for him. Moreover, he was skilled in poison as well. Unless the opponent was an indigo spirit user, no one should be able to dominate over Jiang Chen Qing like this.
But the youth was obviously very young, how did a single punch from him reduce an Elder of the Qing Yun Clan to such a state!?
Qin Yu Yan changed her tact and stood up suddenly. She smiled gently at the annoyingly arrogant Drunk Lotus and said: "I ponder for a reason why a respected individual such as you would grace us with your presence here today. Could it be that some sort of a misunderstanding had mistakenly been formed with the Qing Yun Clan? The Qing Yun Clan are currently handling some private matters and I would humbly request for you gracious acquiescence to make way for us to conclude them, and the Qing Yun Clan will not forget the favour shown to us today."
No matter who this youth was, Qin Yu Yan did not want to make an enemy of him. She brought up Qing Yun Clan's name into this to lend her credibility to encourage the youth to accede to her request. As for Mo Qian Yuan and Jun Wu Xie, she will bide her time to decide on their punishments.
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Chapter 233 : Fourth Slap (1)
Qin Yu Yan's guess was that the youth was probably external help that Jun Wu Xie had employed from foreign powers.
But she was thinking what Jun Wu Xie, a mere Young Miss of a miserly Lin Palace, had to offer to those foreign powers? Whatever Jun Wu Xie could offer, the Qing Yun Clan can easily double the offer.
There were no such thing such as unshakable alliances. When people stick to so called loyalty and determination, it was just that the offer was not tempting enough.
Qin Yu Yan strongly believed, that if it was a choice between the Lin Palace and the Qing Yun Clan, any dolt would know to choose the latter.
Drunk Lotus gave a look of disdain as he turned to the pretentious woman before him, clicking his mouth in disgust.
"Are you done with your drivel? If you are done, sit down, shut your trap and await your death! Qing Yun Clan? You're not even fit to carry my shoes!" Using a clan of humans to bait a ring spirit!? Was she of unsound mind?
Qin Yu Yan's face froze in an expression of shock. Nobody had ever rejected the favour of the almighty Qing Yun Clan. Ever. Qin Yu Yan fumed and sputtered, but did not manage to get a word out in her rage.
Qing Yun Clan, these three words had never failed to impress before. This was the first time they were spurned so completely, and it felt just like a big slap on her face!
"Drunk Lotus." Jun Wu Xie called out.
"Here!"
"Cut the chatter, obliterate." Jun Wu Xie frowned. She had neither interest nor the patience for conversation with the Qing Yun Clan. When they had made their move against the Jun Family father and son, they had their fates sealed, and were destined to die.
Why should she listen to people who are dead, and their senseless pratter?
"Yes, Miss!" Drunk Lotus' mouth curled up at the corners when Jun Wu Xie gave her orders. The murder in his eyes shone unbridled and the bloodied figure rushed, a blur of movements, right at Jiang Chen Qing.
"Little Black."
"MEOW... ROARRR!!"
"Fetch him." Jun Wu Xie ordered calmly.
The black beast's mind was linked to her mistress and naturally knew what Jun Wu Xie meant. It could be none other than Mo Qian Yuan who was at death's door!
The black beast zoomed towards the middle of the hall, making a beeline towards Mo Qian Yuan.
Qin Yu Yan could only watch on in amazement as the tide radically changed against her. She did not expect the powerful youth to submit to Jun Wu Xie's instructions so eagerly and Jun Wu Xie had taken her by surprise further when she had not tried to negotiate and went right for the kill immediately!
Her domineering methods were not sparing the Qing Yun Clan the tiniest bit of deference to the reverence of their name!
"Utter brazen insolence! Jun Wu Xie! Do not be too arrogant! You dare show such contempt to the Qing Yun Clan! Everyone! I hereby lay my terms to you. Anyone who takes the heads of Jun Wu Xie and Drunk Lotus in this hall shall have Qing Yun Clan owe them a debt of gratitude, and we will fulfill a request of yours in the future. I will endorse this agreement on behalf of my father here now!" Qin Yu Yan was livid and filled with so much rage that she threw out an irrefusable and tempting offer!
There were only a few Qing Yun Clan disciples present, and the remaining people consisted of more than ten expert exponents who were here by Qing Yun Clan's invitation and have of them had accepted due to their various urgent needs for Qing Yun Clan's assistance. With Qin Yu Yan's commitment and promise, all of them did not hesitate to jump into the fray!
In a flash, more than ten of the invited exponents who had remained seated all this time made their move. All of them possessed at least a blue spirit but one. He was the same and Wen Xin Han, who broke through to the indigo level!
Qin Yu Yan continued to stare at Jun Wu Xie with her jaw tightly clenched. When she had thrown out her offer of the bounty, she had consciously excluded the gorgeous man standing behind Jun Wu Xie.
He had remained silent throughout, and she did not have a clue on his identity. If he knew what was good for him, she would bring him back to the Qing Yun Clan after Jun Wu Xie was taken down. If he was oblivious to his good fortune.....
Qin Yu Yan's eyes gleamed coldly, she had many medicinal urns waiting for him in her backyard!
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Chapter 234 : Fourth Slap (2)
Utter chaos ensued in the main hall of the Imperial Palace the next moment. The palace maids and eunuchs hiding in the corner started screaming shrilly when they found that they had no other space to retreat into.
"Hmm? You are coming at me all at once? Fantastic!" In face of more than ten attackers rushing towards him at once, Drunk Lotus did not back off one bit. The frenzy had instead made his adrenaline start pumping. He downed the rest of the wine in the jar at once, glugging down the fragrant and one of the finest of wine before he threw the jar out to smash against the wall. The intoxicating wine worked through Drunk Lotus' body and his cheeks flushed red as he shouted in satisfaction: "WHOA! Your Lord Drunk Lotus am going to enjoy this massacre!"
"I'll see how long your arrogance lasts! Everyone! Take his head!" Jiang Chen Qing stared darkly at Drunk Lotus with his jaw clenched. He had never been so humiliated throughout the years he had lived. He could not wait to crush his bones and scatter his ashes!
The disciples of the Qing Yun Clan joined forces with the blue spirit users to attack Drunk Lotus. The black beast took the opportunity to slip through the crowd, but was spotted by two blue spirit users who tried to block its path. The massive black beast proved to be too fast for them as it zigzagged it way past without them realising the beast had already gone past them.
[You fools enjoy your bout with Drunk Lotus! I have specific orders!]
The black beast slunk itself low on the ground, having no intention to engage the enemy as he neared his target.
The lone mighty indigo spirit users set his eyes on Jun Wu Xie and roped in three of the blue spirit users and charged at Jun Wu Xie. They could clearly see that this young sapling of a girl was the commander of the group. To kill a snake, you need to strike at its head. As long as they kill the little lass, the youth and the black beast will crumble.
However, they had completely overlooked the tall and handsome man standing behind Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Yao had been smiling all this while. Watching the screaming foursome who leapt at Jun Wu Xie, his eyebrow twitched slightly. Just when the indigo spirit user was about to touch Jun Wu Xie, he wrapped an arm around Jun Wu Xie and his tall frame soared into the air, his movements both elegant and graceful.
"Do not dirty my little darling's dress with your filthy hands." Jun Wu Yao said cheekily with a smile, but the smile did not show within his eyes.
The indigo spirit user leapt in pursuit, his eyes locked on the attractive face of Jun Wu Yao.
Jun Wu Yao flicked his finger slightly and several dark streaks shot lightning quick towards the four pursuers' faces!
Once upon their faces, the black streaks took on a physical form. They were actually black snakes about the width of a finger! The scales on their bodies protruded slightly, and were razor sharp just like blades and they were lined with potent poison. The tiny black snakes slit deep red gashes on the faces of the four pursuers and a dark fog continued to permeate from above them and screams of agony escaped from the four highly respected expert exponents!
The flesh on their faces seared as though a red hot iron bar was pressed against their faces, and the pain was unbearable. They then realised in horror that the pain was spreading throughout their bodies!
"These snakes are poisonous! Protect your bodies with your spiritual energies!" The indigo spirit user reacted under the dire circumstances and immediately released his spiritual energy from his body and an indigo glow enveloped his body. The other three had followed suit.
"That bit of spiritual energy and you want to rid yourselves of my Snakes of Ink?" Jun Wu Yao gave out a low laugh.
The four men had released their spiritual energies and covered their bodies in it to protect themselves from the attacks of the Ink Snakes. But their spiritual energies had no effect on the little creatures, and they were extremely quick and agile. The snakes then slipped under their collars and where they passed, a trail of searing pain followed tearing up the flesh!
Their spiritual energies had not helped them the tiniest bit!
Not only the blue spirit experts, even the mightiest among them, the indigo spirit expert had been helpless against the agony from the Ink Snakes.
The Snakes of Ink were small in size and extremely quick and agile. Before they could catch hold of it, they had slipped under their clothes and in the next moment, the clothes turned a bright shade of red, and they fell to the ground in pain.
The man who had released the Ink Snakes looked on, with Jun Wu Xie in his arms, a wide smile on his face, as he reveled in his own work.
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Chapter 235 : Fourth Slap (3)
Within moments, the four expert exponents fell under the Ink Snakes' furious attack, lying on the ground twitching in convulsions.
Qin Yu Yan who stood before the throne watched in dismay at all that was happening. She could not believe her eyes! That gorgeous specimen of a man had such heaven defying abilities!
He had just wriggled his finger and several of the snakes he released had taken down four highly skilled blue spirit experts and even the mightiest among them, the indigo spirit user, in just mere moments with a single attack!
Where did his overpowering might come from!?
Her adoration quickly turned to fear, and the ever present gentle smile on Qin Yu Yan's face faded as the fear grew.
Jun Wu Yao landed gently with Jun Wu Xie within his arms, and his attention was on Jun Wu Xie as he fussed around her to make sure that not a single drop of blood had stained his little darling, not sparing the convulsing foursome a single glance.
Within the Imperial main hall, Drunk Lotus was totally immersed into the heat of battle, his beautiful eyes were aflame in battle rage, teetering on the edge of madness. His lightning quick punches were too fast to be seen and every single one of them brought renewed agony to his multitude of opponents.
Encasing your body in a spiritual energy shield?
Highly skilled blue spirit experts?
They were felled one after another under Drunk Lotus' ferocious and tyrannical endless flurry of punches and all their feeble attempts at resistance looked like a joke.
A lone punch had blasted a Qing Yun Clan disciple's head open and the blood had soaked through Drunk Lotus' already blood covered once white robes. The heavy stench of blood drove Drunk Lotus deeper into his frenzy and his body emitted a thick murderous aura as his attacks intensified. Jiang Chen Qing who had screamed for Drunk Lotus' head had both his arms broken and had been twisted in grotesque angles as well as his vertebrae. He was lying in a sorry heap as he watched on in horror at the descent of Death onto the mortal realm!
Jiang Chen Qing understood now, how Jun Wu Xie, as a member of the targeted Jun Family, could make her way here to the Imperial Palace.
Judging from Drunk Lotus' prowess, the force dispatched to the Lin Palace had undoubtedly been annihilated!
Jiang Chen Qing never would have imagined, he, who had lived half his life, dominating over most people, would trip up and meet his end in a tiny kingdom like Qi, which had been founded less than a hundred years.
Though, no one would have expected, that such a terrifying youth existed in the miniscule Kingdom of Qi.
With his devastating strength, an indigo spirit exponent was not his match, even the non existent topmost legendary purple spirit might just be able to combat on equal footing with him.
All traces of arrogance and haughty superiority had been obliterated along with his body under Drunk Lotus' punches. He could only lie upon the ground in futility as he saw the others massacred under Drunk Lotus' insane onslaught.
The black beast carried the barely alive Mo Qian Yuan through the chaos upon its back. Mo Qian Yuan had already been tortured to within an inch of his life, and with the black beast's jolting dash through the main hall, his insides had threatened to come out through his mouth when he clenched his jaw tight to last the nightmarish journey.
He had held on with everything he had and more, and he must not give up now.
[He's in rather bad shape, really bad.] The black beast stopped in front of Jun Wu Xie and swished its long furry tail.
It knew it was no doctor, but having tottered behind Jun Wu Xie all this while, from all it had seen had heard, it could see that Mo Qian Yuan had not long to live. The only reason Mo Qian Yuan was still alive was only because the Qing Yun Clan had wanted to know from him the location of the Soul Jade. But his organs had started to fail, the tendons on his limbs were cut, and his veins and arteries blocked. Death was not far away for him.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed when she saw Mo Qian Yuan. She was used to seeing blood, but the sight of the pitiful state Mo Qian Yuan was in made Jun Wu Xie frown unconsciously.
These people were not just ordinarily cruel.
Mo Qian Yuan was almost just an empty shell, and he lived only through the subsistence of medicine fed to force his consciousness. Hanging on in his last breathes, his lips were tightly pressed together. But the glaringly red blood, continued to seep out from the corner of his mouth.
Jun Wu Xie breathed in deeply and looked at Drunk Lotus who was happily engrossed in his killing, and she said chillingly: "Finish it up quick."
She can wait, but Mo Qian Yuan's injuries, could not afford to.