Chapter 1111: "Face Slap - Eleventh Form (12)"
The last thing that Shen Chi thought of just before he died, now resurfaced within Qu Xin Rui's mind. She was so terrified that she was being suffocated, as she watched the blood mist slowly being compressed bit by bit, till it turned into a red bead, no bigger than a rice grain, before suddenly exploding in a wide burst, scattering into a bright powdery rain over the land, to disappear into the earth.....
Death..... could actually be so beautiful.....
Three powerful Purple Spirits, finally reduced into blood coloured dust, to provide nourishment to the earth in the Thousand Beast City.
It all ended in an instant. Before the people of the Thousand Beast City realised what had happened, the battle had reached its end.
Except for the one fallen to the ground with blood spewing forth from her mouth, Qu Xin Rui who was still barely alive, Shen Chi and the other two men had disappeared for good from the face of the earth, and not a single trace of them could be found any longer.
From the crowd, all was quiet. Everyone had been driven into stupefied silence by everything they had witnessed.
Xiong Ba's eyes were wide, as he looked at the man who had claimed himself to be Jun Xie's "personal aide".....
He knew..... that Jun Wu Yao was powerful..... but he had never thought..... that his power reached such an incredulous extent!
The Purple Spirit was the pinnacle of power in all their hearts, a power that they had fought to resist against with their lives but had been unable to change anything. But before this flawlessly good looking man, the Purple Spirit was just a bug he could crush effortlessly..... He had just wriggled a finger, raised a hand, and he had wounded a Purple Spirit enough to incapacitate her, and completely obliterated three other Purple Spirits!
How insanely powerful was that! ?
Everyone did not even dare to imagine!
If not for the still present stench of blood hanging in the air, if not for the sight of Qu Xin Rui still convulsing upon the ground, they might really have thought that they were all still in a dream!
Jun Wu Yao turned himself around, and walked towards Jun Wu Xie. And at the very instant he turned, Ye Sha and Ye Mei suddenly appeared behind Qu Xin Rui, carelessly dragging the fallen Qu Xin Rui up from the pool of blood she had spewed out from herself.
The Qu Xin Rui at that moment, no longer displayed any trace of the earlier arrogance, looking completely unlike the one person who had held the entire Thousand Beast City in oppression for more than a decade.
The clothes on her were soaked with blood and the tongue in her mouth had already rotted to its root, the rot still spreading incessantly, from inside over her entire mouth. Her lips had completely rotted off and her gums a gory rotting mess. As Ye Sha and Ye Mei dragged her along, blood stained teeth fell off one by one from her oral cavity, (Note from Cloud: don't think I can still call it a mouth, hence the clumsy awkward wording used.) in a clinking clatter onto the ground. On her face where her mouth was supposed to be, no more flesh could be seen, and only the white of her bone stained with blood was visible to the entire crowd of people there.....
Qu Xin Rui's mouth, looked as terrifying as if someone had forcibly torn the flesh out from her face.
The excruciating and agonizing pain was driving Qu Xin Rui to almost lose her consciousness, but her attention was not on the pain wracking at her. Her eyes were filled with terror as she stared at the back view of Jun Wu Yao, that graceful and elegant figure, but had been the one who drove her into utter despair, killing all her hope completely.
[The person in the legend!]
[Was actually still alive!]
"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! ! !" She tried to say something, but her tongue that had rotted off rendered her incapable of any speech and the sounds squeezed out from her throat was just gibberish.
However.....
There was no one there who wanted to hear what she had to say.
Jun Wu Yao walked leisurely to come stand beside Jun Wu Xie, the smile still on his face.
"As you wished for, alive." Jun Wu Yao presented, raising his hand slightly, gesturing towards the appalling spectacle that Qu Xin Rui was, his attractive eyes twinkling at Jun Wu Xie.
Chapter 1112: "Face Slap - Eleventh Form (14)"
Qu Xin Rui was dragged to come before Jun Wu Xie as she stared wide eyed, her mouth that could no longer be shut still having pieces of flesh mixed with blood falling from it. The thick stench of blood swirled heavily around her as blood continued to soak up into her clothes, and mud caking up all over her. Her carefully groomed hair was a big mess her eyes with their once coquettish gaze had been replaced by terror and lunacy.
If it was said that Qu Xin Rui was thought to be an aloof and alluring female devil before, she was now looking no different from a dirty beggar who lay in a heap on the ground, or even more wretched looking than them.
Jun Wu Xie's chilly gaze swept over the figure of Qu Xin Rui, cold as steel blades, razor sharp without the slightest bit of sympathy.
"Do you know why I wanted you to live?" Jun Wu Xie's cold voice slowly rang out.
Qu Xin Rui looked at Jun Xie in terror. She had thought that Jun Xie was just the newly ascended little Emperor of the Fire Country but when she understood the identity Jun Wu Yao truly held, she realised that she had erred..... truly and completely erred!
Jun Xie was not someone she could afford to offend in the slightest!
But now, no amount of regret mattered in the least. Her tongue had rotted off, her lips and teeth had been ground away, thick blood filling up her oral cavity. She wanted to plead, wanted to repent, but there was nothing she could do, but only to hang like a dead dog, as she was dragged by Ye Sha and Ye Mei to go before Jun Xie.
"Sometimes, by being alive, a person will suffer a fate worse than death." Jun Wu Xie said, through narrowed eyes. She had initially not intended to inflict torture upon Qu Xin Rui but Qu Xin Rui had repeatedly poked at her inverse scale.
She would not allow Qu Xin Rui to die such an easy death!
"But now, this has saved me a lot of trouble. I don't even need to get anyone to pry open that mouth of yours." Jun Wu Xie said as the corners of her mouth curled up into a chilling smile. She took out an elixir from her Cosmos Sack hanging from her hip and when Jun Wu Yao saw the pill, his eyes flashed a brief moment.
That elixir was not unfamiliar to him. Back in the Qi Kingdom, Jun Wu Xie had used that same pill on Mo Xuan Fei and Bai Yun Xian!
Constantly rotting, constantly putting one in despair..... Within that helpless despair, it was an endless cycle of rinse and repeat, a fate impossible to escape from.
Jun Wu Xie took that elixir, the one that had caused the prince Mo Xuan Fei to turn into a revolting pile of rotting flesh, and threw it into Qu Xin Rui's mouth. Qu Xin Rui had thought to spit it out but Ye Sha had lifted up that chin that was dripping with blood to force the elixir down her throat.
"It has been quite long since I saw you put this elixir to use." Jun Wu Yao said with a smile. The effects of that elixir, he had witnessed it himself before. Even he could not help but be impressed by the tyrannical effects the elixir had!
Causing one's flesh to gradually rot, till it reaches the bone, and just as death came near, the flesh grows back. And without Jun Wu Xie's antidote, that heart splitting and unimaginable agony would repeat in an unending cycle.
You do not die, and you can't live.....
The one true torment under the Heavens was not death. But to be forced to continue living in despair and pain, without a single sliver of hope in one's heart, with no chance of redemption.....
Jun Wu Xie used the simplest and most brutal method, to punish Qu Xin Rui. After she saw Qu Xin Rui swallow down the elixir, Jun Wu Xie suddenly looked up, and turned to look at the stupefied Xiong Ba within the crowd.
"I will now hand her over to you. Lock her up properly, and she will live forever. Do not allow her to die."
Chapter 1113: "Face Slap - Eleventh Form (15)"
Xiong Ba's heart jumped. He had thought Jun Xie would never speak another word to him throughout his entire life.
Jun Xie's words puzzled Xiong Ba and shocked him at the same time. He had witnessed for himself Jun Wu Yao's overwhelming power that had taken down four Purple Spirits in an instant and he was very much aware that Jun Wu Yao's true power went far beyond the tiny bit they had just seen.
At that moment, Xiong Ba's heart was gripped in fear, as he suddenly realised just how incredibly fortunate he had been.
Fortunately.....
Fortunately Qu Xin Rui had gone on to antagonize Jun Xie.
Fortunately they had the same people as enemies with Jun Xie, otherwise, the people who would have fallen into the same fate as Qu Xin Rui might very possibly have been all of them instead.
Deeply moved and filled with regret, Xiong Ba strode with wide steps to come to the bottom of the city's wall. Before everyone's eyes, he fell to his knees with a loud thud right before Jun Xie.
"The benevolence and mercy that Young Master Jun has shown to the Thousand Beast City would not be forgotten by all our people. The Thousand Beast City has committed deeply shameful deeds against Young Master Jun but we have been fortunate that Young Master Jun does not hold the past deed against us and saved our people from the depths of turmoil. I beg that Young Master Jun will accept a deep bow from my humble self!" Xiong Ba immediately kowtowed before Jun Xie, his quick and deeply resolute action immediately drawing out blood to flow down out from his forehead, but he didn't have the slightest intention to stop.
They owed Jun Xie way too much, but have been repeatedly saved by this little youth. Jun Xie's manner of returning a grudge with benevolence made him feel as if countless rattan canes, were whipping them upon their hearts, their conscience being tormented under the agony.
Jun Wu Xie's cold gaze swung onto Xiong Ba kneeling upon the ground. Crowded around Xiong Ba, the citizens of the Thousand Beast City finally recovered their senses, suddenly snapping back awake. Qu Xin Rui had been taken down and incapacitated and her subordinates had been completely obliterated. They were finally freed from the more than a decade old nightmare that they had been plagued with!
In an instant, everyone before the Thousand Beast City's gates were all kneeling down in lines before the wall!
"Thank you Young Master Jun for saving our lives!"
"Thank you Young Master Jun for helping us get out of our predicament!"
"Thank you....."
"....."
The grateful voices rang out one after another, filling the skies above the Thousand Beast City. The people had suffered under the torment brought to them under the tyranny of Qu Xin Rui and they were finally freed. They no longer had to fear Qu Xin Rui's cruel viciousness and they no longer had to be parted from their spouses! And they would no longer be forced to go to the Heaven's End Cliff that meant certain doom for all of them!
They could finally live properly like a human under the sun!
Everyone throughout the Thousand Beast City knew very clearly. If not for Jun Xie's timely appearance in the nick of time, even if all of them were fully determined to fight to the death with them, with their paltry powers, it would not be enough to bring down Qu Xin Rui. What they would finally only be able to achieve in the end, would only be to gain back their lost dignity, at the cost of death and blood as sacrifice!
In the end.....
The Thousand Beast City would have been annihilated by Qu Xin Rui in merciless slaughter.
It was Jun Xie who had saved them, who gave them new hope and a chance to live!
The many voices raised in weeping gratitude, in between intermittent and broken sobbing wails, showed all the accumulated pain and pent up bitterness within their hearts.
With thousands kneeling in obeisance before her, there was not the slightest tinge of glee or expression of glory on her face. She merely frowned slightly, and looked at Jun Wu Yao beside her.
"Bring me to the Heavenly Cloud Chambers."
Jun Wu Yao's eyes flashed fleetingly, but he did not say anything about it, and only hooked his arm around Jun Wu Xie and carried her up before tapping his foot lightly on the ground, to fly off from the city's wall!
Xiong Ba looked up, looking at the direction Jun Xie and Jun Wu Yao had left into, and his heart suddenly jolted in shock.
That was, exactly the direction that the Heavenly Cloud Chambers was in!
Jun Xie's Spirit Beast had been imprisoned there by Qu XIn Rui and locked up together in the basement of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers.....
Chapter 1114: "I Came To Bring You Home (1)"
Within the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, the many favoured men were putting on pretences of affectionate as they awaited their "Mistress'" return, when unexpectedly, the people they saw crashing through the doors of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers were Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao.
"What are you people doing here? The Great Aunt is not here today. If there is something you want to see her about, you can return another day." An alluring looking favoured man said arrogantly as he turned to look at Jun Xie. At the moment his gaze fell upon Jun Wu Yao, his eyes flashed with a momentary shock but it quickly disappeared.
However, his voice had just dropped when his head was separated from his body and blood gushed out immediately, splattering all over the other favoured men around him.
In an instant.
Howls reverberated within the Heavenly Cloud Chambers. When had these bunch of soft favoured men living in luxury been exposed to such a terrifying scene before?
They had enjoyed Qu Xin Rui's backing all these time and even before the Thousand Beast City's Grand Chieftain, they had been smug and highly arrogant. Suddenly seeing themselves being so nonchalantly slaughtered, they were immediately scared out of their wits.
The favoured men who had been so proud and arrogant just a moment before suddenly turned into birds startled by the twang of a bow (Chinese idiom translation), curling up their bodies tightly as they scrambled to hide in a corner, trembling visibly.
Jun Wu Xie was not about to waste her breath of these men without dignity. She went straight up to the top floor of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers and there, she saw the familiar sight of Lord Meh Meh.
Lord Meh Meh was lying upon the snow white fox fur, sleeping peacefully, the Spirit Taming Bone Flute placed just beside it. It did not not care about anything else surrounding it and the only thing that could make it react was only the Spirit Taming Bone Flute.
Many a time, Qu Xin Rui had wanted Qu Wen Hao to use the Spirit Taming Bone Flute to control Lord Meh Meh, but Qu Wen Hao had flatly denied her and totally refused to give in to her for this matter, completely giving up all his rights on the Spirit Taming Bone Flute. But besides him, Lord Meh Meh wouldn't heed anyone else's instructions and without any orders given to it, Lord Meh Meh had only instinctively stuck itself close to the Spirit Taming Bone Flute.
In a state of grogginess, Lord Meh Meh sensed that someone was approaching. It subconsciously opened its eyes and saw the tiny petite figure that had appeared before it.
It tilted its head slightly, and looked calmly at the youth approaching it, but did not do anything else.
"I came to bring you home." Jun Wu Xie bent her body over, stretching a hand out towards Lord Meh Meh.
Lord Meh Meh was filled with confusion as it looked at Jun Wu Xie. This person's aura made it feel highly comforted, as its consciousness that was suppressed by the Spirit Taming Bone Flute continued to be assaulted. There seemed to be a tiny voice within its heart that was telling it that the person before its eyes posed no danger to it, and that it should accept her embrace.
"Meh?" The person before its eyes was strangely familiar but no matter how hard it tried to think, it could not remember who she was. But deep within its sea of memories, there was a fuzzy figure, who was replicated by Jun Wu Xie's figure before its eyes.
"Its consciousness is being suppressed and it cannot recognise you." Jun Wu Yao said gently to Jun Wu Xie, as he observed Lord Meh Meh.
Jun Wu Xie's gaze fell upon the Spirit Taming Bone Flute at the side and she picked it up. Lord Meh Meh immediately stood up, its eyes highly mystified, but did not show the slightest intent to attack.
The voice deep within its heart was continuously telling it that it must not do anything to harm Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie slipped the Spirit Taming Bone Flute behind her back and reached out to carry Lord Meh Meh within her arms. Initially, Lord Meh Meh was rather squirmish as it twisted its body around, but as the all too familiar scent wafted into its nostrils, it slowly calmed the agitation within its heart. It finally wiggled its tail and found itself a comfortable position before snuggling into the embrace.
Chapter 1115: "I Came To Bring You Home (2)"
Jun Wu Yao's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Looks like it has not forgotten you completely. Maybe, within its subconsciousness, it still holds an impression of you. You have not kept it with you in vain." Seeing that even when when its consciousness was being controlled, it was still being so obedient, Jun Wu Yao was feeling rather satisfied.
Jun Wu Xie's head was lowered, as she gently stroked Lord Meh Meh. After a while, Lord Meh Meh actually fell asleep within her arms and a tinge of gentleness flashed within Jun Wu Xie's eyes that even she herself had not been aware of.
That gentleness in her gaze, slowly melted the icy chill away from her eyes.
"Reporting to the Young Miss! We have discovered Qu Ling Yue." Ye Sha suddenly appeared and said. Qu Xin Rui had been handed to Ye Mei to guard alone, and he had followed behind Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao to come investigate the Heavenly Cloud Chambers.
Jun Wu Xie's body suddenly stiffened slightly.
"Where?" She asked in a low voice.
"Within the Heavenly Cloud Chambers' underground dungeon."
"Bring me there." Jun Wu Xie said, her eyes narrowing up.
Inside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers' underground dungeon, the several guards that guarded the place had been disposed off by Ye Sha and blood splattered all over the floor. Under the dim flickering candlelight, it was dark inside the pried open iron door. Jun Wu Xie stood outside the cell, staring into the darkness inside, and no one knew what was going through her mind at that moment.
"Qu Ling Yue is right in there. Her condition..... is rather bad." Ye Sha said hesitantly.
Qu Ling Yue's condition, could not in fact be merely described with a singular word like bad. If it had been anyone else, Ye Sha might not have been so careful with his words. But Qu Ling Yue's predicament was somehow linked to Jun Wu Xie and he really did not dare to be too forthright with his words on the actual situation.
Jun Wu Xie slowly opened her stride to walk towards the dark and dank cell, where the inside of the cell was permeated with the thick stench of blood.
In the moment just as Jun Wu Xie was about to step inside the cell, a hand reached out to hold her back pulling on her arm.
Jun Wu Xie turned her head back calmly, seeing that Jun Wu Yao was staring at her with a strange look in his eyes.
"You can choose not to see her." Jun Wu Yao said, staring straight at Jun Wu Xie. Although she was trying very hard to suppress the emotions within her heart, but he could somehow feel that Qu Ling Yue's predicament had left a wound so deep it went right to the bone right across her heart.
"It had been because of me." Jun Wu Xie said through gritted teeth. If not for Qu Xin Rui's earlier revelation, how would she have known that Qu Ling Yue had developed feeling for the youth she had crossdressed to become? And she wouldn't have possibly known, that the reason Qu Ling Yue had to suffer all of this, was just because the youth she portrayed herself as, had been a little more friendly to Qu Ling Yue that had incited the jealousy of Qu Xin Rui.
The smile at the corners of Jun Wu Yao's lips faded a little and his deep and penetrating eyes stared into Jun Wu Xie's clear ones.
"Even if it wasn't for you, as the daughter of the Grand Chieftain of the Thousand Beast City, the day will come where she will still end up being used to threaten Qu Wen Hao, or else, why had she not been captured together with the others? She had only wanted to leave Qu Wen Hao with a sliver of hope and over the years, Qu Wen Hao's care and concern for his only child had only grown and intensified, inadvertently giving Qu Xin Rui a stronger hold over him."
Whatever that had happened to the Thousand Beast City, Jun Wu Yao was not in the least bit interested. If not for the fact that Jun Wu Xie was here, he wouldn't have appeared here at all. But he had noticed that Jun Wu Xie had developed a certain degree of guilt towards Qu Ling Yue for everything that had happened to the girl.
To a usually cold and indifferent Jun Wu Xie, this was a situation very rarely seen, and Jun Wu Yao did not wish for Jun Wu Xie to be affected by anyone.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes lowered slightly, and she did not refute Jun Wu Yao's words, but merely said softly: "I need to go in and see her."
Chapter 1116: "I Came To Bring You Home (3)"
After saying that, Jun Wu Xie lifted her foot to step inside the dungeon cell!
In the dim and dark cell, a tiny figure huddled wretchedly in a corner. Borrowing from the dim candlelight, Jun Wu Xie got a clear view of the state the figure was in. The figure's fair and smooth skin was exposed and completely uncovered, long chains locked around her four limbs, their clear clinking sounds audible in tandem to her uncontrollable trembling.
Upon that thin slender body, green and purple bruises were visible all over, and her head of beautiful hair that was once the envy of many girls was now matted in knots like dry grass, turning into the only thing that could cover her body.....
Qu Ling Yue, the Young Miss of the Thousand Beast City, a young girl that should have grown up cherished within the palms of the masses, had now turned to be put in such a pitiable state.
Around her, several men in different states of undress had fallen in pools of blood, obviously having been killed by Ye Sha when he had charged in here earlier.
The fact that these men had been here, was telling Jun Wu Xie one thing in no uncertain terms, that till the moment Ye Sha had charged in here, Qu Ling Yue had still be humiliated and helplessly further tainted by these men worse than beasts!
At that moment, Jun Wu Xie felt her stomach start to turn. She could not hold herself back and retched but nothing came out, where she almost dropped Lord Meh Meh onto the ground!
"Don't look!" Jun Wu Yao suddenly pulled Jun Wu Xie into his arms.
The temperature within Jun Wu Xie's body was dropping alarmingly fast, her hands so chillingly cold like they had just been pulled out from ice, and were shaking faintly.
To Jun Wu Xie who was an extreme clean freak, the trauma that struck at her from something like this was more severe than anything else she could imagine!
That day, Qu Xin Rui had merely kissed her once on her face and she had already wished that she could tear her face off, while Qu Ling Yue's situation had been that much more horrifying!
Jun Wu Xie was held tightly within Jun Wu Yao's embrace, her eyes staring widely, the emotions brewing within those eyes unfathomable.
Maybe Jun Wu Yao's actions had startled Qu Ling Yue huddled in the corner and she suddenly let out growl like a wild animal. She had been quiet and unmoving but she was suddenly struggling wildly. She pulled at the chains restraining her and unintelligible wails escaped from her mouth.
Jun Wu Xie suddenly pushed Jun Wu Yao away, and she drew in several deep breaths, fighting to quell the nausea deep within her stomach. She pushed Lord Meh Meh into Jun Wu Yao's arms and turned to take wide strides to come next to Qu Ling Yue!
At that moment, Qu Ling Yue was like she had completely lost her mind, as she struggled violently, wanting to avoid everything. The blood from the dead men around her stained her fair skinned feet blood red. She did not seem to care that all four of her limbs were bound by thick chains, only using every single ounce of her strength to try to break free from everything at this place!
Jun Wu Xie stood before Qu Ling Yue, looking at the now completely different person she had known, and her heart winced up in pain.
"No..... No....." Qu Ling Yue wailing cries resounded throughout the entire dungeon, trying her hardest to hide herself in the corner, her terror filled eyes overflowing with tears.
Her hands and feet had obvious wounds showing on them, the skin under the chains broken and her flesh opened up where the whites of her bones could even be seen in some spots.....
Struggling so violently, and with such severe injuries on her, she did not seem to care. Only the Heavens knew what kind of unspeakable torment she had suffered over that period of time.
"Don't be afraid." Jun Wu Xie tried her best to make her voice sound gentle, as she approached the terrified Qu Ling Yue a little bit by bit.
Chapter 1117: "I Came To Bring You Home (4)"
Qu Ling Yue however was acting like a startled little beast as she curled up into a ball in terror.
Jun Wu Xie suddenly felt as if her throat had turned dry. She did not know where the highly stifling feeling in her chest had come from but she knew that seeing Qu Ling Yue reduced to such a miserable and wretched state stung her eyes greatly.
As she saw Qu Ling Yue hugging both her arms tightly against herself, seated upon the cold hard floor and her head lifted warily as she looked at her, Jun Wu Xie was suddenly finding it harder and harder to breathe. Jun Wu Xie took off her outer robe and ignoring Qu Ling Yue's struggles, she forcibly draped it around Qu Ling Yue's body, covering her up entirely, and hugged Qu Ling Yue's shaking figure tightly.
"I am Jun Xie. I will not hurt you. Do not be afraid." Jun Wu Xie crooned in a soft voice, patiently whispering it repeatedly into Qu Ling Yue's ear to try to comfort her.
Qu Ling Yue's struggles gradually calmed down, but the heavily ravaged body was still trembling uncontrollably.
"Jun..... Jun..... Xie....." Qu Ling Yue tried to repeat those two words with much difficulty.
"Mm." Jun Wu Xie affirmed gently.
"Jun Xie..... Jun Xie....." The terror within Qu Ling Yue's eyes gradually faded away, and her eyes slowly turned to look highly aggrieved, where she had just barely calmed down not for too long, she began to struggle violently once again!
"Save me! Jun Xie..... Save me..... Please save me....." She seemed to be completely oblivious that the person right before her eyes was Jun Xie and continued to struggle in an attempt to escape from there. The chains fastened upon her clinked loudly from her incessant pulling and the wounds were tearing up once more. Blood flowed over the black iron chains and fell to the floor, mixing together with the blood that had not yet congealed!
Jun Wu Xie's brows immediately creased together. If Qu Ling Yue continued to struggle like this, her hands and legs might very soon be maimed!
Jun Wu Xie made a decision quickly on the spot and gathered her spirit powers into her hands, decisively ripping the chains restraining Qu Ling Yue's limbs apart.
Suddenly freed from her restraints, Qu Ling Yue suddenly fell forward. Without the support from the chains holding her up, she fell onto the ground in a wretched heap, but she did not let out a single yelp of pain and just used her hands which were fully covered with blood to drag herself across the stone floor, towards the exit of the dungeon.
That was when Jun Wu Xie saw that the thumb on Qu Ling Yue's right hand had been neatly cut off and the wound had only been carelessly wrapped with bandages and the bandage had already turned black from dirt and dried blood.....
"Save me..... Save me please....." Qu Ling Yue's desperate plea sounded like it had been squeezed forth from deep within her chest and that was the only thought within her confused and traumatised consciousness. She did not care about the pain upon her body but only thought to escape from this cage, to get away from this living hell.....
"Ye Sha." Jun Wu Xie's voice sounded a little raspy.
Ye Sha immediately appeared within the cell.
"Take her away to get some rest, and don't let her continue to resist." Jun Wu Xie said, drawing a deep breath. Qu Ling Yue's awareness was in complete chaos, the torment in the recent period had completely crushed the pure and innocent girl's spirit, making her lose her ability to discern what was going on, left with the last vestige of consciousness just before insanity.
If Qu Ling Yue was left to carry on like this, even if Jun Wu Xie were to personally treat her, it would be still be very difficult for Qu Ling Yue to make a full recovery.
Ye Sha nodded and immediately went forward. His approach made Qu Ling Yue cry even louder as she fought furiously to run away from the man's touch, her mouth repeatedly calling out Jun Xie's name.
Chapter 1118: "I Came To Bring You Home (5)"
Maybe Qu Ling Yue at this point when her mind was on the verge of collapse, she was still thinking..... that Jun Xie would come save her.
Jun Wu Xie's chest felt like a huge rock had been placed upon it, making it hard for her to breathe.
Ye Sha did not dare to handle Qu Ling Yue too roughly but could not allow her to continue to hurt herself. Hence, he had no choice but to knock her unconscious and carried her up. After nodding briefly to Jun Wu Xie, he carried Qu Ling Yue outside.
Within the cell, silence fell. The only sound Jun Wu Xie could hear, was her own breathing.
She had never been a good person herself, and she had dealt with Qu Xin Rui because Qu Xin Rui had been her enemy, not because she sympathised with the Thousand Beast City's predicament.
But when she saw Qu Ling Yue in such a state, her emotions had gone a little out of control.
The evil and ugly side of the world, she had seen quite a lot, but there was just one thing, no matter what, she had never been able to tolerate!
That was when such acts of humiliation, were done onto women.
Past and present life, that had not changed in the slightest.
"She will be happier dead than continuing to live." Jun Wu Yao said, his eyes looking at Jun Wu Xie's countenance.
Qu Ling Yue's situation had been highly obvious. Her conscious mind had already fallen apart and even if Jun Wu Xie had the ability to cure her, with all that she had gone through, it would only make her continue to live in agony. Those inerasable memories, would be with her her entire life, tormenting her endlessly.
Jun Wu Xie's lips stiffened and was silent a moment before she asked:
"Why?"
A strange glint flashed in Jun Wu Yao's eyes.
Jun Wu Xie suddenly raised her head.
"When women are put through such unspeakable torment, why must they only choose death? All of this is not her fault and she is merely a victim. Why is it that a victim is instead made to be the one that cannot continue to live? I will not let her die. She has already gone through all this and she has the right to continue to live. There is just no logic in the entire world that wants a girl who has been unfairly treated to seek death to relieve herself from agony and torment."
Jun Wu Xie still clearly remembered. Before she had joined the organization, while she had still been in that tiny little pet shop, she had at that time, on one morning, witnessed a similar incident. It was a colleague of hers from the pet shop, who had gone home all alone in the middle of the night and was set on by a group of thugs. In the end, that girl had chosen to kill herself with sleeping pills at home.
Jun Wu Xie could not make herself understand it. Why was it when these people were obviously the hapless victims, but they had to suffer treatment harsher than what the culprit was put through. Women must be stronger on their own and no one should be able to decide their fates for them!
"As long as a person still lives, then there is still hope, and there is still a future. Once they are dead, everything is lost." Jun Wu Xie said looking at Jun Wu Yao.
Jun Wu Yao suddenly smiled. He looked at Jun Wu Xie's bright and sparkling eyes and his smile became brighter.
"This is what you have believed all this time? So even when you were so severely injured at that time you had still fought so hard to live." Jun Wu Xie's words made Jun Wu Yao think back to the time when they had met for the first time. The severity of the injuries that Jun Wu Xie had sustained at that time had reduced her to become not much different from a dead person but she still had not been willing to give up on the slightest opportunity that she would live, and had even released him, a dangerous person with an unknown identity.
"As long as one still holds the will to live, there is nothing that they will be unable to get through. I believe..... Qu Ling Yue will get through this." Jun Wu Xie said with her eyes narrowed, with unwavering certainty.
"Little Xie, do you know, under these Heavens, to a girl, chastity is sometimes viewed as being more important than life itself?" Jun Wu Yao asked, with an eyebrow raised. Although he did not care in the slightest about this saying, but it couldn't be denied, that was a belief deeply rooted in the minds of many people.
Chapter 1119: "I Came To Bring You Home (6)"
"You feel the same way?" Jun Wu Xie asked suddenly.
Jun Wu Yao was surprised a moment and he shook his head thereafter.
"That is just an excuse given by the weak. If their will were strong, what difference could one's physical shell went through change? Who would dare despise you? If it is because of people around them, then all the more they shouldn't pay any mind to it. A person's life, should be lived for themselves. If a man would really slight a another person because of such a thing, then that means the man has never truly held his partner within his heart. If he truly loved her, why would he pay any mind to such? Afterall, what the man loved, should be the spirit and soul, on not just the outer shell."
Jun Wu Yao's words, was right up Jun Wu Xie's alley. She had never been one who cared much about what others thought.
Only to live, that was what matters the most!
For the things that happened to Qu Ling Yue, it was still more or less related to her in some way and she could not sit back and do nothing about it.
Jun Wu Xie and Jun Wu Yao then left the dungeon.
Qu Ling Yue was temporarily placed in one of the bedrooms within the Heavenly Cloud Chambers and Ye Sha triggered Qu Ling Yue's sleep acupoint to let her temporarily calm down and not do anything to harm herself any further.
Jun Wu Xie ordered for hot water and a towel to be brought in and she tended to all the wounds on Qu Ling Yue's body.
Lying upon the bed, it was seen Qu Ling Yue had lost a lot of weight and her body was covered in welts and bruises, her ribs clearly visible under the thin skin. The heavy loss of blood and the prolonged torment had greatly weakened her body but the most serious afflictions were the wounds around her four limbs.
Her lips had badly split and she was seriously dehydrated with many blood wounds upon them.
Jun Wu Xie tended to all her wounds patiently bit by bit, her actions gentle and light, but with much precision. Even though she knew that Qu Ling Yue's sleep acupoint had been triggered and she would not feel the pain, she still habitually applied medicine that numbed the pain on the wounds.
Outside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, Xiong Ba and Qing Yu stood outside not daring to approach the place. Ye Mei had handed Qu Xin Rui over to them and Xiong Ba had arranged for people to imprison Qu Xin Rui in the dungeon of the Fiery Blaze Clan Hall. Otherwise, with what Qu Xin Rui had done to the people of the Thousand Beast City, the citizens' hatred for her would be enough for them to tear her into a million pieces.
After having dealt with Qu Xin Rui's matters, Xiong Ba and Qing Yu had immediately hurried themselves to come outside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers as they had seen Jun Xie heading in this direction when he left. But having reached outside the door, they suddenly did not dare to take another step forward.
All because Ye Sha was standing before the doors completely stone faced and his attitude towards them was cold and unwelcoming.
As Xiong Ba and Qing Yu were standing outside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers feeling at a complete loss, Qiao Chu and his companions came rushing in. The five youths encountered Xiong Ba and Qing Yu at the doors of the Heavenly Cloud Chambers and at the very first moment they met, Xiong Ba and Qing Yu immediately hung their heads low guiltily.
The fact that the Thousand Beast City had been rescued from their crisis had been all due to the actions of Jun Xie and his companions. Compared to the betrayal they themselves had done to Jun Xie, they really could not bring themselves to look at Qiao Chu and the others in the eye.
Qiao Chu swept an angry glance over the speechless Xiong Ba and Qing Yu who had their head lowered in shame and snorted derisively. Turning his head away from them, he strode inside the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, unwilling to even say a single word to them at all.
Xiong Ba was bathed in cold sweat. He had lifted his head up before hesitantly trying to say something but stopped himself when he saw the determined backs of the youths, the words right about to come out but stuck within his throat, unable to speak them no matter how hard he tried.
Fan Zhuo was the last one to walk into the Heavenly Cloud Chambers and his foot had just stepped over the Heavenly Cloud Chambers' door threshold when his body paused a slight moment. He turned his head around and stared at Xiong Ba who was looking highly guilt ridden and tormented with worry before he said:
"Little Xie will save your Young Miss."
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Author Bei: If supposedly..... such a thing had happened to erm..... that someone, what would you, Lord Jue do?
Lord Jue: Make those people regret they were ever born and give..... more love, so much love that she would not have any leisurely time to think of anything else. [You dare to even make such a hypothesis, are you seeking death?]
Author Bei: That was just a hypothesis! Note that I said supposedly!
Wu Xie: What was omitted from your sentences?
Author Bei / Lord Jue: Nothing!
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Chapter 1120: "Crumble and Fall (1)"
Xiong Ba was stunned for a moment. He did not say anything but just bent his back and bowed deeply to Fan Zhuo.
When Qiao Chu and the others arrived at the Heavenly Cloud Chambers, Jun Wu Xie was tending to Qu Ling Yue's wounds and when the youths saw the thin and pallid girl lying upon the bed, all of them tacitly did not open their mouths at all so that they would not disturb Jun Wu Xie's treatment of Qu Ling Yue's wounds.
They had all thought what Qu Ling Yue was put through really pained the heart but when they really saw how Qu Ling Yue looked now, they realised that what the girl suffered must have been worse than anyone of them could have imagined.
"I think..... I might not hate Qu Wen Hao that much anymore." Qiao Chu said, rubbing at his nose.
Betrayals were intolerable, but when Qu Wen Hao was forced to witness his own daughter being humiliated in such a manner, he must have completely lost his mind then, and he had only made the only choice a father could have made at that time.
"I hope that she will recover fully." Rong Ruo said with a frown, her eyes filled with sympathy.
For a full day and night, Jun Wu Xie sat at Qu Ling Yue's bedside, her treatment of Qu Ling Yue's wounds never stopping for a moment. It wasn't till evening the next day, when dusk shone through the window, that the unconscious Qu Ling Yue's eyes finally fluttered open.
What met her eyes was no longer the dim and dark cell, but an elegantly decorated room. Within the room, a faint fragrance of herbs hung in the air and the pain upon her body had seemingly faded away.
[Is this a dream?]
Qu Ling Yue blinked, staring at the smooth silk draped over the top of the bed.
"You're awake." A voice tinged with a slight raspiness sounded in Qu Ling Yue's ear from the side.
Qu Ling Yue's heart jumped, struggling a little as she turned her head. Jun Wu Xie's cold countenance appeared within her eyes.
"Jun Xie....." Qu Ling Yue immediately felt her face turn hot.
[Why had Jun Xie appeared beside her bed?]
In a panic, Qu Ling Yue wanted to bury her head under the blanket but when she lifted her hand and tried to pull the covers, a sharp pain suddenly shot through her from her wrist.
She saw very clearly that her two wrists, were wrapped up with rounds and rounds of bandages, the glaring white a huge contrast against the welts and bruises on the rest of her arms, which was like a sudden bolt of thunder, that woke her up rudely from her beautiful sweet dream!
Those long nights of unimaginable horrors and torment, the memories of those unthinkable scenes, surged like the tide into her mind. Her eyes flared wide open, the terrifying memories that drove her into despair, immediately threw her into a cold and freezing lake!
"Argh! ! !"
[That wasn't a dream!]
[That had all been real!]
Qu Ling Yue's emotions fluctuated between the extremes once more and she struggled in a fluster to try sit up, wrapping herself up tightly within the blanket, not willing to give Jun Xie another glance!
"Leave! Just leave!" Like an injured little beast, Qu Ling Yue did not want to see anybody, especially Jun Xie.
She had become like this. So dirty..... So very filthy.....
She did not want Jun Xie to see her in such a miserable state. She would rather that she had died in that cell, then to let her person she treasured so in her heart to see her in her current state.
Jun Wu Xie looked puzzledly at Qu Ling Yue. Initially, Qu Ling Yue's emotions had already recovered to normal but in an instant, she had broken down and crumbled once again, the helpless screams coming out from her, were so pitiful to hear.
Jun Wu Xie's brows creased together as Qu Ling Yue incessant violent struggles had once again split the wounds she had just bandaged up and the blood had seeped through the bandages, showing up as bright red stains.
"Do not look at me..... I beg you..... Do not..... Do not look at me....." Qu Ling Yue begged tearfully as she buried herself within the blanket, her entire body shaking in fear.