Chapter 1231: "To be Slayed (4)"
The path had blood and rain mixed together. Jun Wu Xie's face was cold as ice. Huddled in a corner as they trembled in fear, the soldiers wished fervently for the nightmare to end, but then saw figure of a terrifying demon approaching under the blinding flashes of lightning.
It was clearly just a youth in his teens, but it made the soldiers who experienced war through the battlefield felt chills run through them.
That pair of chilling eyes cut through the rain and swept over the soldiers hiding in the back in fear, and the stiffened lips parted slightly.
"None to be spared."
The instant the voice dropped, a massive black beast suddenly leapt towards those Condor Country's soldiers who were thinking to run for their lives.
Jun Wu Xie's steps did not slow in the slightest as she continued to walk on forward. Howls and wails of anguish and terror erupted behind her, and the thick stench of blood caused her breathing to slow.
Despite the heavy guard placed there, they were still unable to stop the ferocious attack from two Guardian Grade Spirit Beasts!
Those cowardly dogs of the Condor Country who abused their authority and position, were made to face the coming of Death.
When the blood had fully stained the ground, and all the Condor Country's soldiers had been fully annihilated, Jun Wu Xie stepped into the courtyard. Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit then blocked up the entrance from the outside, standing guard over the area.
As she walked further inside the courtyard, Jun Wu Xie detected a distasteful stench. The way forward had numerous Buckwheat Kingdom's soldiers littered all around, their blood spilt onto the ground. As she looked further up the path, she saw a line of blood stained footprints leading further inside!
A continuous series of bestial roars sounded from further inside the courtyard, the sounds of fighting apparent, the thick stench of blood hung heavily over the spacious courtyard.
Jun Wu Xie went further inside with every step she took, and then she suddenly saw a shocking sight within the courtyard.
A young man with highly bulging muscles, his face similarly bulging with thick green veins, had his entire body stuck fully with arrows. A countless number of wounds filled his body and he was currently surrounded by a group of soldiers from the Condor Country, the soldiers constantly waving the swords they held in their hands at him.
That young man merely knelt in his spot, roaring at the soldiers continuously, his eyes completely dull and lifeless, seemingly reacting completely by instinct.
And the reason he was not able to retaliate, and unable to run away, was right in his arms.....
In his arms, was cradled a red hair little child. That child had his black pair of eyes wide open, staring blankly ahead as he was cradled within the young man's arms, not moving an inch, those eyes similarly as dead and lifeless as the young man.
But it was that face, that Jun Wu Xie would never forget.
It was the Buckwheat Kingdom's little Emperor!
The child cradled within the young man's arms, was the missing little Emperor from the Buckwheat Kingdom!
"Damn it all! Where did that one pop out from? Go and release those other poison men quickly!" One of the soldiers of the Condor Kingdom's shouted in frustrated rage. Faced with one of the poison man they have undergone alteration through the poison experiments, they were not a match for him. If not for the fact that he was protecting the little child, they would all already be dead.
Hearing the order, another one of the Condor Country's soldiers immediately turned around, intending to go get reinforcements.
But at the instant that he turned, a small pair of fair white hands suddenly clasped around his head!
'Crick!'
The soldier's head was plucked off by that pair of hands.
Bright red blood sprayed out from the torn open wound. Under that garish bloody scene, all of the Condor Country's soldiers suddenly froze in shock.
They all stared in flabbergasted shock with their mouths agape at the blood drenched little youth.
Jun Wu Xie tossed the head she had torn off nonchalantly to the ground, and raised a foot to stomp onto it, crushing it in a splatter!
"Who..... Who are you?" The Condor Country's soldiers were suddenly highly flustered. The petite little youth before them made them feel a immense hidden chill, the boiling murderous rage emanating from the youth almost causing their breaths to congeal suffocatingly.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed. "The person come to send you on your way."
Chapter 1232: "To be Slayed (5)"
Those soldiers had not even recovered their senses when the Purple Spirit glow flared out from Jun Wu Xie's body.
Once the Purple Spirit manifested, all the eyes of the soldiers almost popped out of their heads.
[A Purple Spirit!]
[That youth is actually a Purple Spirit!]
The pure and utter despair almost crushed all their hearts at that moment. They had not even been able to let out a single sound when the Purple Spirit glow with the figure of Jun Wu Xie morphed into a speeding flash, sweeping through the courtyard with shocking speed!
When the figure of Jun Wu Xie reappeared behind the Condor Country's soldiers, those soldiers suddenly looked like they were frozen stiff in their places.
The Purple Spirit glow slowly subsided from Jun Wu Xie's body, and thereafter the sounds of multiple great sprays rang out!
Heads fell off from the ten over soldiers in that instant, as great sprays of warm blood gushed out at the same time, the blood spray spewing in a shower into the air as they stayed a split second, and fell as a bloody shower, covering over everything.
Under that garishly red shower, Jun Wu Xie slowly walked towards the little Emperor who was cradled within the young man's arms.
That head of red hair, with that pair of red eyes, were so unfamiliar to her. Within those eyes, she could no longer find that innocence she saw in them before.
The young man holding the little Emperor did not move, his body stiffened under the rain of blood as he let out a threatening growl at Jun Wu Xie.
"I will not hurt him." Jun Wu Xie said softly.
She did not know who that young man was, but she recognized that voice.
In that last carriage within the Buckwheat Kingdom's convoy, the roars that had broken out occasionally had been from this man.
The Buckwheat Kingdom's soldiers were all obliterated and this young man had appeared here and served as a protector that shielded the little Emperor.
Jun Wu Xie believed, that the young man was linked in some way to the little Emperor.
The young man's growl grew more and more faint, those dull and lifeless eyes not showing any light. But he slowly released the little Emperor he carried within his arms, his towering and bulky body finally unable to resist Death's enveloping grip any further. The numerous number of arrows lodged deep into his back in countless wounds had already drained him of all his life force. His hands' grip gradually loosened and the towering body fell over onto the ground.....
The little Emperor remained in his spot staring blankly ahead of him, seemingly unaware of all that is happening, remaining still as stone.
Jun Wu Xie hurried forward a step, wanting to check on the young man's injuries. But immediately upon checking, she was greatly shocked by what she discovered. The young man seemed to be incomparably strong, but all the meridians throughout his veins within his body had been thrown into complete chaos and disorder. Under that forced facade of power and strength, his body had been hollowed out and completely spent.
Jun Wu Xie suddenly remembered what Fan Zhuo had said, about the chilling experiments the Twelve Palaces had researched and developed.
If her guess was not wrong, then this young man had been afflicted by that.
But the poison had gone in too deep, right into his bones, and his spirit had been completely sacrificed, making the young man only a empty shell, like a puppet without its own will and consciousness, to surpass and breakthrough the body's limits, draining him out at an highly increased rate, towards complete burnout till the body was spent. The flesh on his body then quickly shrunk and wrinkled up at a speed visible to her eyes, drying up to turn the body to become just skin and bones.
Everything had happened too fast and too suddenly. Jun Wu Xie had not been prepared for such an instance. Although she wanted to save him in her heart, but she was unable to defy the Heavens.
The thin flesh on the young man dried up very quickly, but those eyes suddenly showed a trace of light. His gaze stared unwaveringly upon the back of the little Emperor, like he had thousands and thousand of things to say, but he no longer had the strength, and no longer had the time.
"I will take care of him." When Jun Wu Xie looked into the eyes of the young man, for no good reason, she suddenly thought of Jun Qing, the feelings that only one's closest kin would show, greatly shook her.
The young man showed the very last smile he would ever give in this life, before his eyes slowly closed.
Chapter 1233: "To be Slayed (6)"
The little Emperor stood staring blankly in his spot, like a hollowed out shell of a body without a spirit. Jun Wu Xie's brows creased slightly, and carried the pitiful child within her arms. Although she was petite in size, she had no other choice but to lift the little Emperor in her arms. Carried in Jun Wu Xie's arms, the little Emperor was facing the young man who had just died, that pair of dull and lightless eyes staring unmoving and straight in front of him, unable to focus on a point.
However.....
Two streaks of blood slid down from his eyes as tears, silent and quiet.
Jun Wu Xie was carrying the little Emperor as her eyes swept over the large urns within the courtyard. Within the numerous urns, everyone single one of them had a man soaked in them, looking almost just the same as the young man who had just died.
The was a sin the All Dragons Palace had committed, and a sin of the Emperor of the Condor Country.
Jun Wu Xie's eyes narrowed up, remembering this one more debt of blood in her heart.
With the little Emperor in her arms, Jun Wu Xie walked out from the courtyard. Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit standing guard outside were currently engaged in battle with the Condor Country's soldiers.
Sensing Jun Wu Xie's arrival, the three beasts exploded into a flurry of attack with renewed vigor, crushing all the people before them completely into minced meat.
Those soldiers who had heavily surrounded the courtyard stared in terror at the three terrifying beasts before them, before their eyes were suddenly drawn to the figure of a petite youth walking out from within.
The figure of that youth looked to be thin and slender but he was carrying a red haired child in his arms, his eyes cold as ice, as they burned with a brewing glint of murder.
"Little Black." Jun Wu Xie called out suddenly.
The massive black beast went to her side.
"Bring him back." Jun Wu Xie then gently put the little Emperor upon the massive black beast's back.
Even though he had been turned to become a mindless puppet, Jun Wu Xie still did not want what was to happen next taint the little Emperor's eyes.
Regardless.....
That those eyes saw nothing now.
The black beast glanced once at Jun Wu Xie with the little Emperor upon its back, and speedily leapt away from the place.
The Condor Country's soldiers had wanted to stop them from leaving but Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit stood in their way!
"Who is responsible?" Jun Wu Xie's eyes were narrowed to a slit as she looked at the group of soldiers and asked in a chillingly cold voice.
The soldiers stood looking puzzled as they stared at Jun Wu Xie. They were fearful of the overwhelming might of Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit, but they did not think that the small sized youth before them was anything to fear. However, before they could even try to guess at Jun Wu Xie's identity.....
Around Jun Wu Xie's body, a purple coloured spirit glow suddenly flared out!
Forcibly pushing her spirit power level to the Purple Spirit, was to Jun Wu Xie, who now held the blue spirit, not that much of a strain anymore. But in a situation like this, where she had to use it twice in succession within the same hour, it brought about quite a significant drain upon her powers.
But.....
She really did not care about that at that moment, the only thought in her mind was just to tear the people who brought harm upon the little Emperor into a million pieces.
And that was all!
The soldiers of the Condor Country had never in their dreams thought that the thin and frail looking little youth before their eyes would turn out to hold the power of the Purple Spirit!
They wanted to escape, but they no longer had the opportunity!
At almost the very same moment they turned around, five brilliantly glowing Purple Spirits suddenly appeared!
The five teens looking to be about seventeen or eighteen years olds had purple coloured spirit glows encompassing their bodies and had already blocked them in!
The Condor Country's soldiers absolutely could not believe their own eyes!
The Purple Spirit that only appeared in legends had suddenly appeared before them and there were even six of them at the same time!
And every single one of them was still so young!
The curtains for the massacre then rose up immediately in the next moment.
Qiao Chu and the others had coming chasing behind Jun Wu Xie's footsteps and they did not know what could have happened here to have caused the always calm Jun Wu Xie to decide to make an exception to attack them so openly!
Chapter 1234: "To be Slayed (7)"
But as things were at that moment, they wasn't any time for them to ask. Since Jun Wu Xie had already struck, then regardless of the reason, they would back her up to the end!
Six Purple Spirits had suddenly appeared and together with the two Guardian Grade Spirit Beasts, they sent that contingent of soldiers from the Condor Country right into Hell in an instant!
Blood and death fell, and under the rain that was falling more and more heavily, those evil souls were all being delivered!
When the ground at that place had turned a bright shade of red, when the citizens of the Condor Country's Imperial Capital were shocked awake by the ear splitting thunder, that was the signal of the arrival of the nightmare for those soldiers!
Before the might of the Purple Spirits, the soldiers did not even have time to even call out, before they found that they were already no longer breathing.
After the massacre concluded, Jun Wu Xie dragged the leader of the soldiers up from the ground.
"Who is the one responsible?" Jun Wu Xie asked in a cold tone, her eyes narrowed.
The man was so terrorized his spirit almost jumped up from his body. He had never seen such a terrifying youth. With just six people and two Spirit Beasts, they had already taken out almost a thousand men from the Condor Country's army, all within the blink of an eye!
"Young Master..... Young Master spare my life..... I..... I really do not know..... what you are talking about....." The man said tearfully.
"The Buckwheat Kingdom's Emperor, who was the one who harmed him." Jun Wu Xie asked again.
The man was shocked and immediately said: "It's His Majesty! His Majesty did it! I have nothing to do with it! The Buckwheat Kingdom's Emperor came here that day and the idea suddenly struck His Majesty to make him an experimental subject, and that had....."
That man had not even finished when Jun Wu Xie tore off his neck.
Chilling murderous rage flared from Jun Wu Xie's body. Though that answer, was not surprising to her.
"Good." The corners of her lips curled up into a chilling smile that had not been seen for some time, a smile that sent chills up the spines of Qiao Chu and the others who were coming over to her in approach.
That was a smile, they had seen before.....
And every time they saw that, it signaled that Jun Wu Xie was about to go on a brutal and merciless rampage.
"Little Xie..... Should we leave this place? The Condor Country's Imperial Guards would have received the news and it won't be long before they would reach here. It is still not the right time for us to get into a direct confrontation with them yet." Qiao Chu said cautiously to Jun Wu Xie who still had that chilling smile upon her face, gulping as he said it.
At that moment, he felt that Jun Wu Xie was a highly dangerous person to cross.
Jun Wu Xie retracted the smile upon her face, and nodded slightly.
The two Spirit Beasts reverted back to their tiny adorable forms in an instant, quickly leaving the courtyard behind them at great speed!
The rain turned into a heavy storm, the raindrops beating incessantly upon the piles of bodies lying upon the ground.
Blood mixed with rain flowed away sluggishly, but unable to wash off the sins committed in that place.
The several youths returned under the heavy downpour, silently avoiding the teams of soldiers from the Condor Country searching through the city.
Jun Wu Xie went back to her room immediately, and did not even have the time to change out of her blood soaked clothes.
Within the room, a wretched looking Grand Tutor He was already lying upon the bed semiconscious. The little black cat had at the same time when it was bringing the little Emperor back here, brought the almost unconscious Grand Tutor He back together at the same time from the dark alley.
Grand Tutor He was lying upon the bed, not moving an inch, while the little Emperor with his red hair and maroon eyes sat quietly upon a chair, carrying the little black cat in his arms.
Qiao Chu and the others had returned together with Jun Wu Xie and when they saw the elderly man and a young child in her room, they were all stunned.
"Little Xie, they are....." Qiao Chu began to ask, a little confused. The elderly man was still not that shocking, but that little child's looks was a little too strange for them to take.
Red haired with maroon eyes. No matter which way you looked at it, he did not look like an average child.
"He is the Buckwheat Kingdom's Emperor, and lying upon the bed, is the Grand Tutor of the Buckwheat Kingdom." The little black cat who was cradled within the little Emperor's arms suddenly spoke, as its eyes fell upon Jun Wu Xie's face with her furrowed brows.
Chapter 1235: "To be Slayed (8)"
Jun Wu Xie at that moment, it was thought, wouldn't really be in the mood to explain anything.
"Buckwheat Kingdom..... But this....." Qiao Chu suddenly realized, that these people were linked to the news that he had brought to Jun Wu Xie just earlier that morning.
But he did not know when Jun Wu Xie had gotten herself involved with people from the Buckwheat Kingdom which had made her decide to execute such a large scale massacre because of the little Emperor from the Buckwheat Kingdom.
Although he was in complete agreement in his heart to the bloodthirst Jun Wu Xie had exhibited, he still did not understand the rationale behind it.
"My Mistress came to the Condor Country's Imperial Capital together with them." The little black cat opened his mouth to say. During that leg of the journey, it had not shown itself, but had remained within Jun Wu Xie's body, watching everything that happened. It had not ever thought, that things would turn out like this for them.
Even it came to understanding Jun Wu Xie, no one knew her better than it did, and hence, it could roughly guess what Jun Wu Xie was feeling at that moment.
It finally dawned on Qiao Chu, and as he looked at the state Grand Tutor He and the little Emperor were in, he realized that those two people must be in a very bad situation. He and Hua Yao together with the others then knew well enough to not disturb Jun Wu Xie further, but had then shut the door behind them after quickly saying to just holler for them if they were needed.
Inside the room, Jun Wu Xie did not say a single word, as she proceeded to stabilize Grand Tutor He's condition first.
Although Grand Tutor He's wounds were rather severe, they were not anything beyond what Jun Wu Xie would be able to handle. After a few bottles of premium elixirs down his throat, Grand Tutor He's breathing became a whole lot more regular.
From beginning to end, the little Emperor sat silently upon the chair, so quiet it almost felt like he wasn't there at all.
Lord Meh Meh and the Sacrificial Blood Rabbit carefully slid over to the little Emperor's side. Although the little Emperor's looks had changed a little, but they could still recognize the now red haired little one, was the same little Emperor who had indulged them with much tasty treats.
But within their eyes, there was much confusion and incomprehension. They did not know what was wrong with the little Emperor, did not understand why..... he no longer had that sparkle in his eyes when he looked at them, why he no longer cradled them in his arms to stroke and cuddle them.
He was just merely sitting there quietly. Instead of saying that he was carrying the little black cat, it might rather be said that the little black cat was just sitting upon his lap.
"Meh?" Lord Meh Meh pushed his nose against the little Emperor's little calf, but the little Emperor did not react at all.
The Sacrificial Blood Rabbit nudged the hem of his pants, but it similarly did not get any response.
Without knowing why, the two innocent little beasts became rather depressed. They did not fuss anymore, but just laid themselves down by the little Emperor's feet.
After Jun Wu Xie finished with her treatment for Grand Tutor He, she went on to check on the little Emperor's condition.
Upon that pale little face, she could no longer see the expressions she had come to be familiar with, the face after having been drenched by the rain, still held the two streaks left from the tears of blood he had shed, so faint it almost could no longer be seen.
Jun Wu Xie held up the little Emperor's arm, and carefully took his pulse.
The little Emperor's pulse was very much like the young man's from before, but with a difference!
That young man's body had already been completely hollowed out, almost completely spent.
But within the little Emperor's body, it seemed there were two opposing forces that were constantly clashing against each other!
"Young Miss!" Ye Sha suddenly appeared within the room.
Jun Wu Xie asked through narrowed eyes: "What is it?"
"Your subordinate might have a rather good idea on what is wrong with the body of the Buckwheat Kingdom's little Emperor." Ye Sha said while kneeling with one knee on the floor.
Jun Wu Xie was surprised and immediately turned her gaze upon him.
"You know?"
Ye Sha nodded.
"In fact, such instances had appeared in the Middle Realm before. Your subordinate had heard Young Master Fan mention it before, but what Young Master Fan knows of is not the complete picture."
Chapter 1236: "Scarlet Blood (1)"
This method where one's spirit was sacrificed, to enhance one's powers, had existed within the Middle Realm from a long time ago. And this method if it was to be further segregated, would be split into two types. The first type would be as what Fan Zhuo had mentioned, which was the most direct method, that would turn a person into a mindless puppet, greatly increasing one's strength.
While the other type, was even more terrifying.
That method would raise a person's powers to a completely new height, gaining them powers that could crush a Purple Spirit.
"To gain powers that was able to crush a Purple Spirit, that was not be what an average person was able to shoulder, as that called for more than just breaking through one's limits. It was actually using a person's own life force, where it would be drained highly excessively, to allow them to become an undefeatable entity of pure power. But there was a great limitation to having one's life force depleted so excessively. Once that method was employed, then that person would not live past three days after that." Ye Sha told Jun Wu Xie everything he knew about that. If not for the little Emperor's red hair and scarlet eyes, he wouldn't have been able to determine what had happened to the little Emperor.
And from what he saw, Ye Sha knew that only the second method would turn the little Emperor into such a state.
"Three days' life left, in exchange for incomparable strength, created by a person who lost his entire home and family. His entire family was massacred, and he was severely poisoned. With nothing else worth living for, he had come up with this method where one sacrificed every last ounce of one's life. Almost no one would choose to use such a method, as..... the time was too short, and to prepare one for all the prerequisite conditions, the efforts needed were also highly daunting. After calculating all that that would take, with the exception of those who were willing to give up their lives, no one would choose to put that method to use."
"The method has a name for it, called Scarlet Blood. Anyone who used Scarlet Blood, would not live past three days."
Every word that Ye Sha said, struck at Jun Wu Xie's heart.
Jun Wu Xie turned her eyes to look at the blank faced little Emperor.
Counting the time that had passed, the little Emperor remaining life, was only left with a day and a half? !
That was a result that Jun Wu Xie would never be able to accept!
"I will take up the challenge." Jun Wu Xie said through tightly gritted teeth.
Ye Sha was feeling rather helpless. Although he knew the Young Miss highly valued the little Emperor, but the Scarlet Blood's poison, was not one that anyone would be able to neutralize! Although the Young Miss' skills in Medicine was absolutely peerless, but to unravel the Scarlet Blood, might just be too difficult a task.
"Once Scarlet Blood is introduced into one's body, the drain upon the life force takes effect immediately, and the spirit is constantly being burned up. To save him..... would be highly difficult." Ye Sha said with a silent sigh.
The afflictions to one's body might be easier to treat, but deficiencies in one's spirit was the toughest to counteract. How many people under the Heavens would be able to find a way to repair a person's spirit?
Although such a thing existed, how many held powers like Jun Wu Yao's, who was able to retrieve it?
Jun Wu Xie was unwilling to give up just like that. The young man's death had been like a branding iron, that had seared into her heart. That was the first time she had felt so helpless, where she could do nothing but watch on, as a person breathed his last and died before her eyes.
Such an incident, Jun Wu Xie did not wish for it to happen a second time, and wished even more that it would not happen to the little Emperor.
Even when Ye Sha said there was no hope, Jun Wu Xie still wanted to give it a try, fighting it with all her might!
She took the little Emperor's pulse once again and detected that there were already symptoms of collapse and failure in the body, but they were happening more slowly than she had expected. Based on the rate it was happening, the little Emperor's life should still last seven more days, and not one and a half.
That discovery allowed Jun Wu Xie to catch her breath a moment, but also made her more cautious.
When Ye Sha saw Jun Wu Xie being so determined, there was no more that he could say, but just to stand quietly on one side.
Chapter 1237: "Scarlet Blood (2)"
In her past life, how many people Jun Wu Xie's hands had saved, or given the death sentence, even she herself could no longer remember, and in this life she still refused to be defeated by any assessment made by others.
Calming her heart, Jun Wu Xie discovered that something about the two opposing forces inside the little Emperor's body were slightly abnormal. One of them was highly possible to be the Scarlet Blood that Ye Sha mentioned, which was quickly consuming up the little Emperor's life force, like highly ferocious beasts.
There existed another force inside the little Emperor's body. Compared to the Scarlet Blood, this other force was rather much weaker, that seemed to be in danger of collapse at any moment. But it was this seemingly frail force that was persistently holding back the Scarlet Blood from draining out the little Emperor, a power not from his own body, that slowly neutralized the Scarlet Blood's ferocity bit by bit, sacrificing itself as replacement for the little Emperor's life force, gradually being consumed by the Scarlet Blood.
This strange phenomenon made Jun Wu Xie's heart jumped, because she discovered that the force resisting against the Scarlet Blood gave her a indescribable feeling of familiarity.
That feeling, was what she had experienced when she had just begun to learn the Spirit Healing Technique. The feeling when spirit power surged through the entire body, was the work of a spirit body!
"How could it be a spirit body....." Jun Wu Xie asked with her brows furrowing up together. The little Emperor was merely just eight or nine years old and at that age, it was impossible for one's ring spirit to awaken. But then she had thought back about the rabbit's tail on the little Emperor's behind. The excuse that Grand Tutor He had used at that time was that it was a ring spirit.....
For her to know clearly about that source of power, Jun Wu Xie would have to ask Grand Tutor He about it. At that moment, she could only temporarily use some elixirs to try to protect the little Emperor's life, to further slow down the Scarlet Blood's drain.
The little Emperor did not seem to be aware of anything. When Jun Wu Xie brought the medicine to him, he did not react, and Jun Wu Xie had needed to forcibly feed it into his mouth.
The bitterness of the elixir spread within his mouth, but the little Emperor still did not feel anything.
There was no expression on his face.
Grand Tutor He regained consciousness a few hours later. In the instant he awoke, he immediately sat up in a hurry, looking all around for familiar faces.
However, when he saw the little Emperor sitting on one side, he was overcome in shock.
If not for the features of the face that was so dearly familiar to him, he really wouldn't have believed that the red haired little boy with his scarlet eyes was His Majesty!
"Your Majesty..... Your Majesty....." Grand Tutor He got off the bed and stepped onto the ground, tumbling and stumbling as he tried to run to come before the little Emperor to kneel. He hands trembled as he reached out wanting to hold the little Emperor's hand, but when he saw those clearly unfocused eyes, it immediately caused him to crumble.
"ARGH! !"
The cry of despair rang out within the room, which brought Jun Wu Xie hurrying in when she heard the sound.
She saw Grand Tutor He wailing as he held the little Emperor's legs, filled with sorrow and despair.
"Your old vassal is useless, your old vassal got Your Majesty into this..... Your vassal deserves to die..... Deserves to die....."
When the little Emperor had previously not returned after night had passed, Grand Tutor He's heart had already been filled with terror, and when his eyes saw the current state the little Emperor was in, he felt he had suddenly turned to ice!
Those eyes that looked so lifeless now, were so familiar to him. Back at that time, in order to protect the Buckwheat Kingdom's soldiers, the previous Emperor had volunteered himself for the experiment with the poison, and had turned into that state. Grand Tutor He had never thought, that the same fate, would befall onto the little Emperor as well.
He was still just such a small child. How could the Emperor of the Condor Country bear to deal such an evil and treacherous hand upon him! ?
But no matter how much sorrow and regret Grand Tutor He felt, it did not elicit the slightest response from the little Emperor. He was just like a puppet, sitting there quietly, not making a single noise, and not moving in the slightest.
Chapter 1238: "Scarlet Blood (3)"
Jun Wu Xie looked on in silence at Grand Tutor He's sorrowful wailing.
"Young Master....." Grand Tutor He noticed Jun Wu Xie's presence and with tears running down his face, he did not forget Jun Wu Xie's benevolence for saving their lives. He turned around and kowtowed to Jun Wu Xie in gratitude.
"Thank you Young Master for saving us! Thank you Young Master....."
Such a similar situation, Jun Wu Xie had encountered many times in her previous life and she had thought she would be already numbed by such incidents. But this time, she felt her heart feeling rather suffocated.
Looking at the current state the little Emperor's was in, Jun Wu Xie found it rather laughable. How could that be considered as having saved them?
"Stand up and speak. Your little His Majesty's condition is currently highly critical and I need you to tell me some things truthfully." Jun Wu Xie said as she drew in a deep breath. This was not the time for her to allow her thoughts to go astray.
As a doctor, if she was not able to maintain her calm at all times, and allow herself to be swayed by emotions, that would be highly undesired.
Grand Tutor He was taken aback and he raised his head to look at Jun Wu Xie.
"You..... You mean..... His Majesty..... His Majesty, he..... can..... can still be saved?"
"It's not certain, but we will give it a try." Jun Wu Xie said.
Grand Tutor He's face that was filled with despair suddenly showed a sliver of agitated excitement.
"Young Master, you must save His Majesty! If you can really save His Majesty, you will be the Buckwheat Kingdom's benefactor, and this old man will slog tirelessly for you, to repay your immeasurable benevolence!"
Jun Wu Xie then made Grand Tutor He stand up.
"What do you want to ask..... Everything that I know..... I will tell you..... everything....." Grang Tutor He had already given up, and had never thought that Jun Wu Xie would offer him this sliver of hope to turn things around.
Jun Wu Xie said: "What is the truth about his ring spirit?"
Grand Tutor He was slightly surprised, never expecting that Jun Wu Xie would be asking about this.
"How can a child at the age of eight or nine years old have a ring spirit?" Jun Wu Xie asked as she looked at Grand Tutor He.
Grand Tutor He was shocked and his eyes showed a tinge of sorrow. He lowered his head and with a weak and trembling voice, he said: "The rabbit's tail on His Majesty's behind..... is indeed a ring spirit....."
Jun Wu Xie's brows creased together.
However, Grand Tutor He continued on: "Only..... that ring spirit, does not belong to His Majesty himself, but..... but to his elder brother, who was also the Buckwheat Kingdom's previous Emperor."
Transferring a ring spirit, that was the first time Jun Wu Xie was hearing about it, but she did not doubt the veracity of Grand Tutor He's words. Afterall, when she had checked the little Emperor's condition earlier, she had ascertained that the other spirit force was a ring spirit as well, but just that its presence in there was strange, which did not coincide with the little Emperor's young age.
"A year ago, the throne of the Buckwheat Kingdom was still held by the previous Emperor. He was His Majesty's elder brother....."
The Buckwheat Kingdom at that time, had the little Emperor's elder brother inherit the throne, to become the ruler of the kingdom. The young ruler held great aspirations and magnificent goals. He personally selected his own team of Imperial Guards, and trained together with them, not showing the tiniest sliver of a ruler's loftiness.
In the Buckwheat Kingdom, he was well loved by the people.
But such a young Emperor who was just like the rising sun, suddenly met with a mishap!
A delegation from the Condor Country had then suddenly visited upon the Buckwheat Kingdom, with the Condor Country's Emperor having come personally, which made everyone within the Buckwheat Kingdom think it rather strange. The previous Emperor was careful in his dealings and treated them with politeness. Unexpectedly, the Condor Country's Emperor had then said he knew of a method, that could make a person extremely powerful and that he wanted to use the Imperial Guards of the Buckwheat Kingdom to experiment on it.
In order to prevent the Imperial Guards from falling to harm, the previous Emperor volunteered himself to take their place, and he was set to be consigned to eternal damnation from that moment henceforth!
His body might not have died, but his spirit was destroyed. The previous Emperor's ring spirit did not disappear, but instead, transferred itself to remain within the little Emperor's body.
Chapter 1239: "Scarlet Blood (4)"
Although ring spirits were innately linked with the people they were matched with, but many ring spirits develop close feelings of attachment with their owners and become unwilling to depart, thinking of various ways to remain around their owners. They were linked to their owner's spirit and resides within the owner's body. Although the little Emperor's elder brother's spirit had been destroyed, but the body still remained in this realm. His ring spirit had then thought of a way to move itself into the little Emperor's body, to protect his owner's most beloved little brother.
It then dawned upon Jun Wu Xie, and she finally knew, from where the strange force inside the little Emperor's body had come from.
That was the little Emperor's elder brother's ring spirit and it was using its own spirit power to protect the little Emperor from being harmed by the Sacrlet Blood.
"It's all thanks to it." Jun Wu Xie said softly.
"What?" Grand Tutor He did not understand.
"It saved the little His Majesty's life." Jun Wu Xie was not going to waste the time to wait any longer. Every second longer that the little Emperor lived, the ring spirit was using its own spirit force and life in exchange for it.
That ring spirit wasn't that powerful, and the gradual drain upon it would not allow it to last much longer.
Jun Wu Xie would need to use this small window of time, to find a cure of the little Emperor's condition, or everything would finally come to naught.
Just as Ye Sha had said, the Scarlet Blood's toxicity was highly lethal and if not for that ring spirit resisting it, with the little Emperor's young age, he would not have lasted even one day. Although the Scarlet Blood was within the little Emperor's body at that moment, it had not spread too deep inside as a large part of the toxins had been kept back by the ring spirit, which had delayed the little Emperor's impending death.
If the situation had been like that young man, where the poison had spread throughout his entire body and seeped into the bones, even if Jun Wu Xie wanted to save him, it would require her to have adequate time and the little Emperor would not be able to last that long a period.
But now, things had become somewhat easier. As the poison had not spread into the little Emperor's body entirely, and the ring spirit was currently working to shield the little Emperor's heart meridian, it gave Jun Wu Xie enough time.
Grand Tutor He watched as Jun Wu Xie treated the little Emperor's condition, thousands of words in his heart could only be expressed with a deep bow. He did not dare disrupt Jun Wu Xie's actions in any way, but remained unmoving on one side.
While Jun Wu Xie was providing treatment for the little Emperor, the Condor Country was in a state of upheaval. Someone had actually dared to commit a complete massacre on such a large scale upon the Condor Country's soldiers right within the Condor Country's Imperial Capital itself! That was a direct slap to the Condor Country's Emperor's face, trampling his Imperial authourity into the mud.
In an instant, the guards were all doubled everywhere throughout the Condor Country's Imperial Capital.
For two whole days, Jun Wu Xie did not take a single step out from her room. She had focused all her attention upon the little Emperor.
The little Emperor lay with his eyes closed upon the bed, completely motionless, a very faint white glow shrouding over his entire body. Jun Wu Xie stood by the bed, that attractive face with delicate features showing a tinge of paleness, but that pair of eyes remained just as bright.
That faint white glow very slowly, upon the little Emperor's chest, gradually coalesced into the shape of a little palm sized rabbit. But the figure of the rabbit was very faint and looked like an illusion, the translucent rabbit seemingly formed from a wisp of clear smoke, fleeting and unreal, its almost imaginary shadow looking weak and fragile.
"Rest assured. He will recover." Jun Wu Xie said softly, not certain that the rabbit shaped ring spirit would be able to hear her.
After its owner's spirit had disappeared, it had forcibly transferred itself into the little Emperor's body, and it was now resisting against the Scarlet Blood toxins to protect the little Emperor, which had completely depleted all its strength, and it was not even able to morph into its material form. It looked at the little Emperor and then turned to look at Jun Wu Xie, before its surreal little figure silently dissipated into the air.....
It had done all that it could, on behalf of its Master, to protect the little Emperor.
Chapter 1240: "What it Truly Means to Bully the Weak (1)"
When Jun Wu Xie came out from her room, Grand Tutor He who had been waiting outside for a long time immediately went up to her. His face was filled with anxiety and Qiao Chu with the others all turned to look at her from the side.
"His Majesty, he....." Grand Tutor He began to say as he looked anxiously at Jun Wu Xie, his eyes filled with anticipation and worry.
"His life is no longer in any danger." Jun Wu Xie finally said.
Grand Tutor He's body began to shake uncontrollably, the ecstatic joy in his heart rendered him completely speechless, and he could only bowed continuously before Jun Wu Xie.
However, only the little Emperor's life had been saved. His elder brother's ring spirit had blocked out the lethal poison in the body, but it had not been able to save the little Emperor's spirit. Although Jun Wu Xie had neutralized the toxins within the body, she had not been able to make his spirit recover. That one revelation had made the highly joyous Grand Tutor He fall another time into the deep abyss. As the little Emperor had been saved in time, his spirit had not been completely sacrificed, but the deficiencies in his spirit will cause his intelligence to be far lower than the average person. To put it more accurately, the little Emperor had now been turned into a naive and ignorant little idiot who would not know anything.
When Grand Tutor He heard that news, he had almost fainted away. He forced down the sorrow that wrecked at his heart and pleaded with Jun Wu Xie, to allow him to go into the room to care for the little Emperor still sleeping in the room.
Looking at the hunched over back of Grand Tutor He, the group of youths could only sigh helplessly.
"Before this, I had known that the Condor Country were vicious and merciless, but I had not thought that they would bully the weak to such an blatant extent." There wasn't the slightest sign of a smile on Fei Yan's face as he said that. To be able to inflict such harm upon such a young child like that, just how insanely cruel was this Emperor of the Condor Country?
"What he is banking on, is merely the military might of the Condor Country and the All Dragons Palace. Throughout the Lower Realm, with the lone exception of the Fire Country, which other power would be able to resist them? Or dared to defy the Condor Country's orders? The Buckwheat Kingdom was weak and its population was small. The Condor Country's Emperor had deemed them to be completely helpless against them and had been so overbearing and impudent towards them." Rong Ruo said with a deep frown upon her face. The little Emperor's bitter experience, had even pained them though he was just a stranger to them.
Jun Wu Xie did not say a word, but merely listened to her companions quietly. Although she had not slept for two days, she still did not feel tired, only feeling that there was something brewing within her heart.
"Does being from a small country mean that you have to be trampled by others as they wish?" Qiao Chu spat out through gritted teeth, his fists tightly clenched. They had heard all about the Buckwheat Country's Emperor and his elder brother from Grand Tutor He and all the unimaginable experiences they had been forced to go through, greatly angered the fiery youth.
"Secure in the knowledge he holds the upper hand, the Condor Country used the Buckwheat Kingdom as a warning to all the other countries. What he wants, is merely for all the other rulers of the various countries to fear and submit to him. The Buckwheat Kingdom, to him, was too small to be of much use and was made to become the sacrifice." Fan Zhuo added with a sigh.
"Very well." Jun Wu Xie suddenly spoke up.
The eyes of Qiao Chu and all the other companions immediately turned upon Jun Wu Xie.
"Little Xie..... What were you referring to when you said very well?" Qiao Chu was rather puzzled.
Jun Wu Xie smiled chillingly and said: "Since the Condor Country likes to bully people weaker than them so much, I should adapt to what they fancy," Her eyes narrowed up as she spoke. Bullying the weak right? Then she would really want the Condor Country to properly experience it, to realize what it truly meant by bullying the weak!
"Little Xie, you wouldn't really be thinking....." Fan Zhuo immediately understood what Jun Wu Xie meant, and his eyes widened with surprise.
Jun Wu Xie replied: "So what if I am? This time, I want to play the game differently, and the Condor Country better be able to withstand it!"
Different strokes for different folks. When going against the Condor Country, she wouldn't mind revising and adapting to use a method she had never used before, to let them have a good taste of their very own medicine!